"A New Life's Beginning"
Chapter 2: The Baby Shower or was it a nightmare?
Author's Notes:
Alright here's chapter 2 of the story. Hope you like it! ^_^
After ten minutes of running, Jin had reached the place where he was going to have his interview. After all that running he was furiously sweating and his heart was beating fast. It was the middle of May and it was extremely hot outside that day. He took a minute to calm down and took a piece of paper out of his trouser pocket. Scanning the words furiously, he said out loud, "Yep this is it, Martial China. But I thought this place was shut down?" Then he just realized the one shut down was in San Francisco; Martial after having some money left over, opened a restaurant in Japan.
"Well I better get inside" Jin said walking into the black roofed, red brick restaurant. Once inside, he saw people dressed fancy and waiters and waitresses dressed accordingly in their red button up shirt and black trousers or skirts. They were either serving food or taking orders.
Jin, who was aimlessly staring at his surroundings, quickly realized he was late for his interview. On his way to the reception table, Jin bumped into Hworang, of all people.
"Hey! You could have at least said excus---" Hworang stopped his sentence realizing who had just saw.
"Oh its you again." Jin commented dully.
"Trying to get a job I see? Well you'll have to talk to her over there." Hworang gestured with his hand to the girl with auburn hair and looked about Jin's age standing behind the reception table. She was slim and about average height with blue eyes and red cheeks full of happiness. She wore the restaurant's uniform and had one of the kindest smiles that made Jin do nothing but stare.
Hworang saw Jin staring and said," Goodness Jin, I thought you came here for a job not a girlfriend."
"Oh shut up. You better not mention this to anyone!"
"Or what? Nobody has ever really got a chance to get with her. Her name's Miharu Hirano. I've seen numerous guys come over here and tried to talk to her but guess what? They all failed. So what on earth makes you so special? You loser."
"First of all, I'm not a loser. That's your job. Secondly, how about this, let's make a deal. If I can get her to go out on a date with me, and plus I get the job, you'll have to do as I say for a week." Jin suggested.
Hworang answered cautiously," I think we have a deal. But if I win, not only do I have major bragging rights, you have to do as I say for a week."
Jin nodded and they shook hands to their agreement. While Hworang was leaving, he said one last comment to Jin,"My job's being a loser? Have you taken a good look in the mirror lately?"
Jin just made a fist at him with a small mischievous grin and walked towards Miharu. Hworang went off to serve a table but kept his eye on Jin to make sure he saw what happened.
Jin nervously spoke, "Hello, my name is Jin Kazama and I'm here for a job interview with Martial Law."
Miharu noticed Jin's nervousness and decided to have a little fun with him. She smiled and Jin just blushed while turning his head the other way trying to avoid her. In one of her kindest voices she said," He's been expecting you. I'll tell him you're here."
Just as Miharu turned around Hworang walked pass Jin holding a tray with some dirty dishes on it. As he went by, Hworang whispered," loser" loud enough for him to hear his comment. Jin just glared at him.
When Miharu returned, she saw Jin looking at Hworang. "Hworang, he's one of the silliest people I've ever seen around here. You know him?"
"Do I know him? Of course, we're rivals. We don't speak often I just happen to see him coincidently in the same places as me a lot for some strange reason." Jin replied trying to make conversation out of the time he has before Martial calls him into his office.
"Hworang's silly but he's not that bad of a person to know, in fact we're friends. He makes laugh quite a lot."
Hearing this made Jin assume that their was a competition beginning to form between them. How could he possibly have a chance with her? His determination grew even greater now.
"Hey uhh, would mind me asking you something?"
"No, go ahead."
"Well I was uhhh…..wondering if.." Jin was stuttering and began to look down at his feet nervously." If you would lik---" He sentence was cut short when he saw Martial step outside of his office and gesture for him to come in with a nod.
Jin returned the nod but before he walked into the office, Miharu stopped him at her side. She whispered into his ear, "Good luck!" Jin smiled and walked into the office.
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Meanwhile back at home, Jun was getting ready to open the refrigerator door of their kitchen until she heard the doorbell ring. 'Must be Michelle.' She thought happily. She grabbed an apple and began walking the door and the bell rung a second time.'Geez can't you wait a second. It's not like the sky is falling or anything.' She thought again knowing how impatient Michelle can be at times.
She opened the door and was welcomed by the smiles of both Julia and Michelle holding presents in their hands. Jun returned the welcome with her smile and began to speak," Hi! Glad to see you could come!"
Michelle, trying to sound nice said,"Yeah it's nice to see you too Jun! But I think it would be kind of you to let us. You know it is pretty hot outside."
"Of course I know. Come inside so I can close this door."
They walked inside and Jun sat exhaustedly onto the large soft couch of their large sized living room. Michelle sat to her right side while Julia sat to her left.
Jun was anxious to know what was in those boxes they were holding so she tried to take one from Julia.
Julia quickly moved the box and Jun just laid back onto the couch frowning with her arms crossed against her chest. "Nope sorry. Not Yet." Julia replied," Besides the other guest haven't arrived."
Upstairs in their bedroom, Kazuya could hear them talking downstairs when the doorbell rang again. This meant that the party was going to be starting soon and Jun would most likely call him down there soon. He was dressed in his light blue dress shirt and dark blue pants from his alternate costume of Tekken 4 which he was playing right now on his PS2. He was trying to beat Jin's record in Tekken Force and she shouted halfway upstairs scaring him enough to make him drop the controller.
"Can you come downstairs, the guests are arriving." Jun called.
When he dropped the controller he lost on the game. Seeing this made him furiously angry; he was so close to beating his score. All he did was glare at the TV and mockingly repeated what Jun said unaware of how close she was to their bedroom. Seconds later the doorbell rang again. It was becoming quite annoying to him.
Jun could hear him and tried to contain her anger in front of her guests, "KAZUYA MISHIMA WILL YOU PLEASE COME DOWNSTAIRS!!" Mumbling between her teeth she said," Don't make me come up there!"
Kazuya knew he was in deep trouble whenever she used his full name so he had better gotten downstairs before things would have become worse than what they already were. When he came downstairs, he saw that there were quite a few guests. Julia, Michelle, Paul, Xiaoyu, Ganryu, Steve, and Nina were all downstairs.
Author's Notes:
Well that's it for Chapter 2! Hope you like it, remember REVIEW!!
~~Junnie~~