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The Cost You Pay
By The Eternal
Chapter 4
Seshoumaru walked slowly at the apartment's corridor. He looked around and felt so nasty about it. It smelled like a poor. He wondered why that girl lives in place like this. It looked like trash can. The walls paint already peeled of and covered with nasty words. The wood floor already so decayed and if you walk on it, it will sound creaking. And he could never imagine that he would leave in this place. Everyone could just die, falling down, like that if their walking on these decayed wood floor.
Seshoumaru tried to concentrate on his step. He almost fell into a big hole, which was on the floor.
Oh Great!!
He promised he would destroy this building soon as he get out from this trash. And where was that shit girl lives? He promised to gives her a day to think about it and he promised to pick her at her apartment the other day for dinner and discuss about this thing. If she wanted to marry him, that would be bring so much advantages for him and for her too…
He chuckled in his mind. Yes, he knew he is evil. But that was not his entire fault. But someone did.
"Number 301," he murmured. He stopped his step in front of a wood door which numbered '30~ Something.' The last number had gone. He threw a quick glance to the other door across.
"300," he said to his self. That's meant the room 301 is across it. He sighed and prepared to knock the door.
"Welcome!!" the door suddenly opened even before he knocked it. A woman in red long dress was on the door. She was using a backless gown. Her make-up was so glamour, a bit over maybe but her face was still pretty. Her cute lips were in color of passionate red. Her hair was put up in a simple hair bun but still she let a few hairs tingled down to frame her "perfect" face. It was so perfect.
Something like electricity flow all of his body. He couldn't hold it. The girl was so…. He sighed. He couldn't let go of his eyes from her. Why? He never met a women who could do like this. Just looking at her and you will feel a 'desire'. He never felt this way.
Moron! The woman in front of you is someone who will make a business transaction with you. She will always be the same as the other women. A bitch… Like your father's second wife. A bitch! The one who'll do anything just for money.
Seshoumaru closed his eyes. Yes! A woman would always be like that. No more no less. She did it just for the company… Yeah… that bitch son's company….
Seshoumaru watched her from her head to her feet. She hadn't put her shoes, but already in black stockings. Red and black. Nice combination. The color of passion.
"Oh, I'm so sorry…" she said hastily. "I— I was peeking from the door…I just~ Oh I'm sorry," she said quickly when she saw Seshoumaru was staring at her leg. She smiled nervously at him at opened the door wider from him.
"Please come in. Sorry if the room too small," Kagome said. She ran in to the room and left Seshoumaru at the door.
Seshoumaru sighed. He stepped in quietly. The different between this room and the outside corridor was so different. The room was so neat, clean, small but beautiful. Even though the room wasn't even for a quarter of his house but this was already enough. So nice.
Comfortable sofas were arranged so right. Some photo frames were put on the small table besides the sofas. The warm color from the wallpaper made it more prefects. He threw a glance to the small warm kitchen. It was so cute and arranged so neat.
A feeling was striking him. A warm. This room radiated warm that he never got in all of his life. Warm, feeling of being accepted as a part of family, nice, family. These are things that he thought already gone from his self. But it hadn't.
Kagome wore her high-heeled shoes quickly. Wow, she never expected that he would come to her small apartment. But he was so handsome in his formal suit. His hair still tied up neatly. Kagome sighed. All of was about their covenant, right?
Kagome smiled weakly to her reflection on the mirror. If she could, she wanted to shout to the mirror, "Who are you?!" but she never could. Because there wouldn't be any answers. All she saw now just a normal woman who never go to a date, who loves her own boss, who has a fat cat named Buyo, who lives in the smallest apartment in this big city, who will always say nervous. Who is she? She would never know it. She just an ordinary woman and lived with her problems. She never chose to go different way. And almost 90 % of her decision, except about jobs, turned wrong.
One of the examples, the last boyfriend she got was about three years ago. They broke only because her wrong decision. She decided to put full concentration on her career, but looked at her now. No boyfriend and she still in the secretary position with 'just barely enough' salary.
Kagome walked out her room.
"I'm sorry," Kagome said as she got in front of Seshoumaru. He was looking at her pictures collection. Seshoumaru turned around at stared at her. Suddenly his stare darkened, the same look when she opened the door for him. They were staring each other. Something strange was feeling the room.
Kagome couldn't move. She locked by the stare. The golden eyes…
"Let's go," his masculine voice broke the strange thing that was happening to them. Kagome licked her dry lips quickly. She gulped.
"Oh yeah." Kagome took her small bag. She put a weak smile on her face. "Okay."
"Look out." Kagome said when Seshoumaru almost stepped into a hole again. Seshoumaru snorted.
Shit!
He was losing his concetration to his step because he was thinking that girl's answer. What would she say to him? If she didn't want to marry him, he would have to find another candidate just in three weeks.
"I know," he said coldly to Kagome. Kagome shrugged. That damn girl! He hated that girl. Hated her for making him so strange, making him losing his emotion control and he didn't want to lose that. Shit for this girl!
They continued their step and walked to the exclusive car, which parked near the pavement. He saw many people surround his car with amazing look and kept talking, "Wow!" or "Great!" maybe, "This is Cool!"
"What are they doing?!" he growled to Kagome. Kagome looked up at him and sighed.
" They are amazed by your car," she answered. There were silent between them. Kagome sighed again. "C'mon, People! Let this mister go into his car," she shouted. People looked at Kagome a while then they grumbled when they stepped aside for Seshoumaru and Kagome.
"Sorry," she said slowly. They already sat on the car. "You know that this is not…. a good area. I meant they never see a very…."
"I understand," Seshoumaru cut her sentence. His face was still emotionless. He clenched his jaws tightly.
Kagome watched his handsome face that covered in the shadow. When they already reached the main road, she could see him better. She knew this was wrong. She was in love with Inuyasha. And why could she admire "This Ice Cube" face. Silly.
Kagome snapped her thought away then she started to watch the traffic. Sound of the cars outside the window, colorful traffic lights, building lights, peoples walking on the pavement….
When the traffic light turned green, Kagome sighed. She started wondering what happened between them.
It was so strange. A feeling that she couldn't understand. She only could feel it. It was there, deep inside her body, in her heart.
Kagome sighed. What would she answer? She didn't have any answer or even a question. What would she decide? Marry him or no?
Marry him
No
Marry him
No
Oh, great! It was getting strange and stranger.
"Higurashi, do you want to stay forever at the car?" Seshoumaru asked her. Kagome threw back again to the real world. She gasped.
"Oh yeah," she said quickly, tying to hide her nervous. She took Seshoumaru's hand, which already extended to her. Seshoumaru helped her out from the Black Jaguar car and closed the door.
"George, the keys," Seshoumaru said and threw his car keys to a servant in white and blue suit uniform. George nodded politely.
Kagome stared to the restaurant building. It was so beautiful, big, luxurious, and elegant. The lamps were from crystal and there were Rome's Pillar at the main entrance. Rich men and women walked in and out from that door. All of their appearance showed their class.
Rich men with their 'High Class' women….
Kagome stared to her gown. It was simple but she trusted this was the best gown she could get. She bought it around three months ago, at the black market. This gown was the best gown she saw and she got it with a cheap price. She seldom went out to a party or high-class restaurant. So it would just waste her money if she bought expensive gown or such a thing.
"C'mon," Seshoumaru said. He prepared his hand so Kagome could put her hand around his arm. Kagome nodded. She put her hand around Seshoumaru's hand.
Kagome gasped. She felt something streamed her skin. Like an electricity. She felt eerie, suddenly. She had to hold on. She had to. Even though she would like to collapse to the ground because this strange thing.
Oh no! She did remember this. In the novel they always called this symptom was 'Body Chemical Reaction' and the characters would always do 'making-love' in the end. Then they will be happy married couple.
Kagome gulped.
Yuck~! Why could she imagine those things?
They stepped inside slowly. The inside of the restaurant was more luxury than the outside. Tables were spread everywhere and all of them were full. Everyone was enjoying the situation. Calm and so individual. No one will disturb you if you eat there.
Sound of orchestra music was heard playing in a slow rhythm. So beautiful. Kagome couldn't say anything to express her feeling right now. She couldn't doubt, this was the best restaurant she ever steps as long as her life.
"Sir Hamoto!" said an old man, around fifty maybe. He was wearing a black suit. His black hair well combed and he was looking more handsome and younger than men around his ages.
"Morimoto…," Seshoumaru hissed. That man smiled to him.
"Your table already prepare for you and…." He looked at Kagome with a little disgusted look. "This little miss," he added, full of intonation at his words. Seshoumaru nodded.
"Thank you, Morimoto," Seshoumaru said. That man smiled respectful to Seshoumaru. Morimoto clapped once to call a servant. Another servant approached them and led them to upstairs, where there were tables at the balcony. He led them to a table that near the big window glass.
The servant pulled the chair for Kagome. When they already sat face by face, the servant gave them the menu book.
"Uh?" Kagome eyes widened, a bit confused with the menu. They were written in France language. Kagome put the menu book down and looked at Seshoumaru who was still looking at the menu.
"Have you decided, yet?" he asked behind the big menu book.
"Huh?" Kagome raised her eyebrows. "Oh I…~~"
What he was asking about? Decided what? The menu or the answer?
"The menu," he added, after looking at Kagome's expression.
"Oh…" She nodded her head. "The menu…."
Seshoumaru stared her with a sharp glance. Her nervous strike back. She gulped.
"I~ I haven't decided it. I~ don't understand," She laughed nervously. Her laugh stopped when she saw Seshoumaru's cold face. She coughed. "Oh, could you recommend one?" she asked the servant quickly.
"Same as mine," Seshoumaru said before the servant spelled a word. He wrote it down quickly.
"That's all, Sir?"
"Yes." Then he went away quickly, trying to avoid the couple as quickly as he could.
Now the servant had gone. Now they were together. Would he ask about that now to her?
Her prediction was right. Seshoumaru sighed. He looked at his P.D.A for the clock. He sighed again. Kagome was watching him silently. She was so strained now. This could be a moment where she decided her life would change or no, her decision was right or wrong, or this could be the time where she could change her answer.
"I don't want to waste my time," Seshoumaru said, looking at Kagome. The stared each other. "I only have another three weeks before my birthday and before that time I should have married someone. I need your answer now, Kagome."
"I~ I….~" She couldn't say a thing. She couldn't open her mouth. She couldn't speak. She didn't want to answer it. If she didn't had to answer it, just if it wasn't a must…
But it was. It was a must. She asked for it and she had to answer it too.
The part of the cost she had to pay….
An answer.
"I……~~"
-= End of Chapter 4=-
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