The ride back didn't help to cool his mood down in the least. The second he got onto a straight road, his fingers death-gripped the steering wheel. Whenever he let go there was a tingling of return blood flow.
Oh he tried to honestly calm down and let the quiet and time help. Really, he did. But every time his mind seemed to blank and his anger lessened, it flared with the wonder of what the hell Cameron was thinking!
He tried understanding her...he tried to be patient as possible, knowing she wasn't capable of doing something outside her personality... But that shot to hell every time she pulled something like this!
How long had this gone on?? Far too long already, THAT was for damn sure! How many times had the same argument occurred, with him spewing the same reassurances to calm her down?
'Nine months yesterday.' He sourly realized. 'Nine FUCKING months I've been dating that onna and yet she doesn't seem to get it through her thick head...' His hand tightened a little more on the wheel...the only thing keeping his nails from digging into his palms and hurting him. In matching response, his foot pushed down even harder on the gas pedal and he sped up faster...as if trying to find a way to out-drive his problems.
He had to solve this once and for all damn it! He could NOT let it escalate any more than it already had! He let Cameron get away with too much. Figuring if he let her have her way on certain things that pertained to his life to keep her from getting worked up - like NOW - didn't help. He went along with it, not thinking it that big a deal. If Cameron wanted to spend time with him by themselves instead of with the guys, why should he deny her that?
Brown narrowed. Except he could recall a few times when she got emotional over not wanting to hang out with his friends...saying he had an issue with them being alone. Just what the FUCK was her problem anyway!?
His teeth grit. Oh...but he FULLY intended on finding out! 'Nine in the morning...my entire god damn FAMILY...I can't BELIEVE her!!'
Cameron was not oriental in any means. Her background was mixed, but he didn't care about her nationalities. But when it came to his...he expressed over time that family was important to him, and so was honor. Not to mention avoiding SHAME.
A muscle in his jaw clenched as it tightened even further. 'To go in like that...and raise hell in front of my oya...nee-chan...and the elders...she's got some fucking NERVE!'
Not only had Cameron disgraced herself by losing control of stupid, petty emotions in front of his relatives...but she disgraced him in the process and embarrassed the entire family! Not to mention his SISTER - who took the brunt of her verbal assault when she opened the door!
'I have half a mind to yell at her and make her apologize for all of that...' He sourly mused. 'Because, as it is, I'M going to have to apologize as well for making such a fuss about everything when I should've taken care of it a long time ago! And they KNOW it too.'
His foot pressed even harder on the accelerator.
The mixed amount of speeding up helped him get home in much the same speed as when he went down to Miami. When he choppily parked the car, one hand reached over and yanked his bag from its resting place and all but slammed the car door shut. The dojo loomed in view from behind the house. He had a foreboding notion Cameron was already inside, but told himself she could wait until he at least put his bag inside and tried to find out if Jayden had anything else to add.
"Tadaima." He mumbled, hanging the keys up. Footsteps sounded as he momentarily slipped out of his sandals.
"Inaki! O - ok - okaeri." Jayden flattened against the wall as Inaki jumped the steps with an even, rather pensive look and speared wide eyes to the back of his head. Her ototo often picked on her and got annoyed when she did the same back or embarrassed him...but that was NOTHING compared to the raw anger radiating from those brown depths.
Oh yea...ototo was pissed!
Teeth bit her lip. Did she want to approach him now? It would be wise to let him know Cameron pounded on the door about ten minutes ago and wanted to know if 'that traitor' was back yet. Jayden gave her the message and the girl stormed off to the dojo to wait. She only hoped the stupid twit hadn't taken upon herself any of the weapons in that dojo!
Jayden took a deep breath and steeled herself, though her spine shivered with unease. She HAD to tell Inaki, seeing him angry wasn't an issue. 'No...but the fact that he's practically ENRAGED is.' She retorted, treading down the hall. She got to the open doorway before he returned. Brown met brown before Inaki's eyes closed and he took a deep breath.
When it released and those eyes opened, they were more even and void of emotion...which was scarier than him being the opposite. "Inaki...she returned about ten minutes ago and is waiting for you in the dojo..."
He nodded, but instead of moving, that raven head dropped. Brown was obscured by his bangs as shame ran across his face. "Gomen nasai Jayden...for getting you mixed up in all of this." He evenly muttered.
The fact that he used her first name instead of a family title told Jayden how sincere Inaki was being. "Oi...it's not big deal...really Inaki -"
One of his hands took hers as he gave a grave stare. "It is. I got the entire family involved in something that should've been stopped half a year ago. I embarrassed you all with her comments and I can only wonder what the elders are thinking about me letting Cameron severely criticize their parenting skills."
The elders were a common name both siblings gave to their grand and great grandparents instead of saying all four titles. It was also a sign of respect, mentioning the word elder. It put age and wisdom together.
A soft smile tipped Jayden's mouth. Her free hand moved and rested over Inaki's shoulder as her other gave a reassuring squeeze. "Daijoubu ototo-chan... I don't think they think of you in disgrace. You know they're forgiving."
"I can only hope." He darkly wished, glaring at the wall next to them. He inhaled again before he met his sister's eyes in resolution. "Guess I should go get this over with, ne?"
Both hands squeezed as the smile climbed a teensy bit higher for support. Her brother would NEED it.
"Just remember to keep your head." She gently advised, letting go and stepping out of the way. "She's delicate," Jayden resisted the urge to snort, "and emotional. If you snap at her, she's bound not to last long."
They headed down the hall and he cleared the steps in a graceful, effortless leap. "I'm aware of that..." He replied, heading out the open patio door.
'All TOO aware of that...'
He stopped on the engawa and stared with dread building in his veins. He didn't want to do this. Not again! He was so TIRED of fighting. Cameron hadn't learned at ALL from that last fight not even a MONTH ago.
Fists clenched as he ordered his body to move. 'So much in thinking things would CHANGE.'
With a deep inhale to do as his sister suggested, he tried to empty his mind before slowly heading to the small building. As a hand went for the shoji, he could hear pacing and an irate sigh filling the air.
He licked his lips in apprehension. Fingers tightened on the wood. Gods but he didn't want to get into another fight! But...there was no other way. Not an EASY one anyway...
Clenching his jaw, he readied himself for the onslaught and slid the shoji open. The second it happened, it was like he released a wave of anger. He stood, hand on the shoji, as Cam's eyes narrowed to slits and blazing rage met him. He harshly swallowed and felt a shiver make its way up his spine.
His body wouldn't move and he had no real desire to walk into the dojo and closer to Cameron. That was only punctuated by both feminine hands clenched in shaking fists.
They seemed frozen like that. Cameron near the middle of the room, jarringly silent, with him just out of the doorway.
He thought of escaping. There was that thin whisper that said if he slammed the shoji to slow her down and shock her by running, he could make it back to the house and lock her out and simply not answer the door. But he was NOT a coward! Even if her angry stare unnerved him a little...
Finally, he couldn't take the silence. "I thought you wanted to talk." He muttered, eyes narrowing a degree.
Cameron didn't move. "I can't decide what I want to do first...hit you or scream at you." She spat.
That got a scowl and a little bit of irritation showed. "Well, you know I dislike domestic violence...so if I had to choose, I'd choose door number two."
"THIS IS NOT FUNNY YAMOI!"
No first name even? Yes, definitely the description Jayden gave before he returned.
"Keep your voice down!" He grit, stepping onto the entryway. He took off his sandals and shut the shoji to dull the noise. "I heard you already burst in on my family when they were eating - which I do NOT appreciate by the way! - and got them involved in this!"
"I did nothing of the sort...so how can you say that??" She retorted, arms crossing defensively.
He glared, jaw tight. "You're immersed in an almost Japanese city Cameron! You should know SOME of the culture, even if you're not around my family that much! Don't you know that when you bring up a subject that concerns me, it also concerns my family??"
"I'm not DATING your family." She grit out, nails digging into her arms. "At least I don't THINK so."
A fist clenched at that snide tone, but he forced it loose. She was purposely trying to get his goat...he could see it. She was trying to hurt him. "You know I'm close with my family so don't give me that." He heaved a sigh and resisted the urge to pace. He settled for turning around to tuck his anger away.
"Don't you DARE turn around on me again Yamoi! You did last time and I felt in the wrong on that. I admit I might've overblown it a bit, but this time it is STRICTLY your fault!"
He was silent for a few seconds as he took a quiet breath. "How is it EXACTLY my fault?" He evenly answered.
The quiet, emotionless tone should've tipped Cameron off to tread lightly. A subject over his friends was always touchy. Inaki regarded his friends as deep treasures...anyone he befriended, he was loyal to...almost overly so. But Cameron's red haze didn't let her see all that.
"By betraying me!" She screeched. Her body wanted to go over and hit him, to glare face to face, but she was rooted to the spot. The best she could do was glare at the back of his head and prayed he felt it. "You TOLD me you didn't intend on making a habit of visiting that girl! Then I find out - from your GRANDMOTHER no less! - that you went to a party with her! What happened? Why didn't you at least let me KNOW what you were doing?"
"It didn't concern you."
She sputtered, the red deepening. "D - d - didn't CONCERN me? Are you NUTS?! Of COURSE it concerned me! I'm your GIRLFRIEND, damn it! You going out to parties in different cities without at least TELLING me you're going hurts! And you went with a GIRL - who happens to be a friend? I'm starting to lose faith in that word when it concerns her Yamoi..." There was a pause as Cameron tried to regain her breath. "Did you sleep with her?"
Though he didn't turn around, Inaki's head shot up in surprise and absently sent a wide-eyed stare to the closed shoji paper.
Cameron didn't miss that, and took it for surprise at being caught. "You DID...didn't you?" She slowly asked, eyes widening in shock. There was another tense pause as tears met her eyes.
He didn't respond, still too shocked that she'd make such a crass assumption.
Arms wrapped around her stomach at the disgust she felt. "I...I can't BELIEVE you..." She whispered, eyes squeezing shut. "I already gave you MY body... I thought you wouldn't need anyone else as long as you had me to... But now...you're fucking some unnamed chick you met on a whim in a different city in the south!?" Accusing eyes sent cold daggers to the back of his head. "I can't BELIEVE you!" She screeched, taking a step forward. "How COULD you?! Screwing some girl when you had ME! Was I not enough for you?! Did you just want her because she was cute and shy?"
By now, both fists had clenched to the point of his entire arm shaking as Cameron's words set in. It was a good thing she had his back or she would've seen the depth of the reaction she was getting to her words and emotions. After a pause of her awaiting an answer, he finally let go of the death grip on his jaw. "Are you QUITE finished?" He coldly asked.
Cameron glared. "So you AREN'T denying it!" She took another step. "I should've KNOWN it was too much to ask for you to be faithful! I KNEW it! I was right! You ARE just a total player! You -" She paused when Inaki slowly turned around. There was a shiver that ran down her spine at the uptight way his body was holding itself.
She couldn't see his eyes, but maybe that was a good thing. Cameron quickly looked away to finish what she intended to say before she lost the nerve. "I put up with you for nine months now... Nine MONTHS. Doesn't that mean ANYTHING to you? If you go and have sex with any girl you befriend...maybe - maybe you...shouldn't see her anymore."
Emotionless eyes jerked and looked to Cameron, but she still wouldn't look at him. She couldn't be SERIOUS!
The shock must've been on his face when Cameron looked at him. Her arms stubbornly crossed. "I'm serious! I can't trust you around women it seems! So it'd be best if you never talk to this girl - or even write her - again." They stared at each other, her in challenge and him disbelieving, for what seemed an eternity.
It didn't show, but under the surface, his anger boiled to heights he never though imaginable. This dwarfed what he felt in the last fight. Hell it was worse than he'd ever felt in his entire LIFE. Unable to take it anymore, he crossed the small distance with slow, calculated steps...as if sizing up his prey.
Cameron shifted on her feet a little, showing unease, but didn't look away. She met brown until he was just out of reach and tightened her arms. The decision was in her eyes.
His face was surprisingly dead. There was no anger, no shock...no betrayal or hurt. It was like he felt nothing right now. Given the mass amount of rising anger just a few seconds ago...that was more dangerous than being enraged. His lack of feeling toward Cameron spelled disaster if any words came out of his mouth. But he couldn't bring it in himself to care any longer...
"So...what you're saying is...you're telling me not to have a female friend." Cameron's jaw clenched at his even tone, but her chin rose. "I can't have K as a friend because you don't trust me around her..." Below them, fists started clenching again. "I can't see, talk to, or be near any of the entire female population because you don't trust me around them..." Brown finally looked down, bangs hiding his eyes. There was another tense pause as the two stood frozen.
It was then that he lost it. He didn't care about Jayden's warning anymore...or the fact that Cameron would cry. She'd dishonored him for the last time.
"Today...you've thrown some pretty heavy accusations around...Blitz-san." Cameron's brow ticked at the formal way he pronounced her name. There was a little, stunned look on her face which went unnoticed. "You accused me of sleeping with someone I consider a friend and don't even know that well. I was given invitation and accepted because the girl is a workaholic and I did it so she could have a bit of fun as much as I could've. You don't seem to know how much you tarnish my honor and disgrace me every time I put up with your crap."
The look on Cameron's face intensified...and another shiver came when cold brown locked with her eyes.
"You're a little presumptuous to think you can order me around. I try and try to be patient with you...trying to help you so you're not so jealous of something that has never been an issue between us. Nine months Blitz-san...and I've put up with your tantrums for almost half of that." Brown hardened as he leaned forward. "You've some nerve...coming to my family's home, unannounced and raising hell in front of the elders, my parents, and my sister. I don't care if you take up your shit with me - I can deal with it because I have for months now - but you involved three generations who I kept in the dark because it would shame me in showing that I couldn't keep your damn jealousy under wraps."
A deeper shiver came and Cameron fought to take a step back. The lack of anything in his voice was almost as bad as if he were shouting at her. There was a detached look in those eyes and she felt like a total stranger to this man...one whom she knew rather intimately. Both arms tightened even more in unease as the only barrier between them.
"I won't be so chauvinistic to try and control you in public. I'm no slave driver. But all I've asked - all I've EVER asked - is that you try to understand me...even a LITTLE...and trust me as I trust you on the same terms. I haven't slept with anyone but you, you know. That accusation hurts. You just stabbed a knife through my heart when you said that, you know that? I'm not a player at all. I flirt sometimes and I admit it, but I have never taken it to a different level just to get laid! I'm not like the guys...who are worse than I am with women!"
He leaned back, as if he couldn't stand being near her. The control on his temper was starting to give way. "And now you are practically ORDERING me to stop talking to K just because she's a girl! How can you be so unsupportive and prejudice of your own gender? You flip out if I even glance at a girl for a second! You can't believe ME? I can't believe YOU! I tried and tried to keep my mouth shut and not say a word about the shit you keep pulling...not to any great extent anyway. I've worked to be positive and kind in your presence because you're so fucking emotional over every little bit that concerns us! Maybe if you took a step back from the situation and seen it for what it was worth, you would find how much shame you place on yourself every time you jump to stupid-ass conclusions like this!"
She wanted to yell at him. Her anger was pricked at him defacing her. Even though she defaced him worse, that didn't seem to matter. Her teeth clenched, but she couldn't get words out...not when he looked ready to hurt something. She wasn't stupid enough to warrant something that dangerous. Even if she knew Inaki would never hit her or beat her, though he had the knowledge to, she'd never seen him so angry. He mentioned he tried to keep it from her...and she wondered how much anger had built up over half a year.
He turned around and Cameron startled. Both arms dropped in shock. "Why are you turning around now?" She muttered, trying to get a small, panicked feeling to go away. "With all that you've said to my face...you can't finish saying what you wanted?" She heaved a sigh. "Okay so maybe I DON'T trust you as much as I should've. Can you BLAME me? Do you know how many of your ex-girlfriends still want to go out with you and sleep with you?? Do you know how many looks I get from the general public of those who know your sex reputation who want to sleep with you?! I have to compete with that on a daily damned basis! I'm tired of worrying about when one of those girls is going to offer herself to you and you won't think of me and our relationship!"
"Then maybe we shouldn't be going out."
Cameron's mouth open and closed, but nothing would come out. The silence that followed didn't help the feeling of grim resolution coming from Inaki. Her breathing became a little shallower as adrenaline hit her. Panic grew the more he didn't move or say anything.
A quiet thump hit the floor and he knew Cameron fell to the ground. It was pretty shocking to just blurt that out...but he was too sick of this and the reasons he stayed around Cameron were getting shot to hell. He was drained of trying and going through this...and if she said she put up with him for nine months, it apparently hadn't meant that much to her.
The fact that she didn't really trust him didn't help either. He couldn't stay with someone who didn't trust him even a LITTLE bit. If she was tired of worrying about that...she apparently didn't care that much either.
"Inaki..." Cameron whispered, tears swimming in her eyes.
"Blitz-san...I'm serious. With all the things you just said...you can't possibly take them back. I finally figured out how you feel about me and what your true emotions are. Nine months have just been a waste."
"No! Inaki -"
"Don't speak my name so familiarly Blitz-san...not anymore."
He took a few steps toward the exit and utter fear filled her. "Wait! Please..." He paused, but didn't look at her. "You're...leaving? That's it then? This is the last time we'll ever be together? You're going to turn your back on everything we've shared?"
A deep sigh resounded. Slowly, raven turned as he met her eyes. There was a deep regret and sorrow and it tore at her heart. "I'm tired of fighting with you to try and get you to trust me Blitz-san. That's what I'm turning my back on."
"But - but I can change! I swear! I'm SORRY!"
Another sigh came. "I've heard that excuse too many times Blitz-san. It won't work anymore. You've had so long to change and accept that I wouldn't hurt you...and you never have. Perhaps I was wrong..."
Her head wildly shook as she tried to stand, but found her legs wouldn't hold her. She slumped to the ground and caught herself with her hands. "No! You weren't! I...I just...can't be as outgoing as you are..." Dead eyes stared at the wood boards as tears littered them. "I'm trying...really I am..."
His head tilted a little. Brown looked to the wall in indecision.
Sympathy and emotion for her flared. He could take it all back and tell her that this last fight would be her final chance. He could tell her to change and learn to trust him or he really WOULD leave her. But...she was saying some of the same things as in their last fight. He couldn't listen or he would drown in the emotion he had for her. Even if this meant he would be alone again...something he loathed almost as much as fighting. It was easy to see, given the fact that he was almost always around his family and around his friends a lot. Still, being free of all the guilt and weariness Cameron put him through was worth the loneliness. He'd survive that way better than all of this.
His head turned back, eyes locking on the shoji. Just a few more steps and he'd be out. It would be final. His walking away would make this concrete.
"No." He quietly replied, getting a choked sob in return.
Part of him didn't want to hurt her anymore, not now that it was all going downhill to the end. But just as she hurt him, so too did he hurt her. They could never retract their words. It would never be the way it was in the beginning. Whoever was at fault that first time didn't matter. None of it was relevant anymore really...
He got a few steps, heart clenching painfully at her cries, before her fist weakly pounded on the wood. "Damn you...Yamoi." Cameron sobbed. There was little malice in it. "Why?? Why damn it!"
His hand reached for the door, lightly resting on it. After a bit, another exhausted sigh sounded. "Because none of us are happy Blitz-san..." He whispered. "Not you for not being able to trust me...and not me for you hurting me with your lack of faith. I just can't take it anymore."
"Why did you ask me out then?? Why?!"
He forced his hand to move before he walked over and scooped her up in his arms for an apologetic hug. "As I told you before...I found qualities in you endearing. I liked you and I thought you could be the one."
Resentful eyes glared at his back. "You're ALWAYS looking for the one." Cameron growled, pushing up to her knees. "What's the big deal with that?? Couldn't you just be happy dating people?"
A sad smile greeted the yard, brown inching closed. "I don't know why...but every part of me is searching for that. I have ever since I became interested in girls." A humorless snort sounded. "Perhaps that's why I have such a horrible dating record, ne?" Silence met his badly timed attempt at humor. "I'll let you compose yourself...but it's best you be out of here before long."
This really was it. Cameron couldn't believe it was ending this way! "I...hate you." She tearily hissed, head lightly thumping on the wood.
Yet another stab in the heart. He tucked it away until he was alone. "...I understand."
"How can you be so damned heartless?!" She suddenly cried out, desperate to understand this twist of the man she knew.
He went for his sandals automatically, feeling his body grow cold. "How could you never have faith in me?" He threw out. "Sayonara...Cameron-san."
The shoji was left open and her sobs grew quieter as he trudged to the patio door. It slid open slowly and he shut it the same way...looking up to find Jayden's eyes on him. He took a deep breath and filed some of the anguish away, but his sister saw it before he could. She was always good at reading him.
Jayden mutely stood and stopped in front of her brother. The impulse to embrace and shield him from this mental pain was great, but he didn't want that. She knew he didn't. "Inaki...?"
With bangs covering his face, eyes on the floor, he resisted the urge she created. His sister...he loved her immensely deep down...but he wouldn't bring her into this anymore than he had. Too many times he asked advice for how to deal with his now ex-girlfriend, or gained comfort. It was time to handle it on his own for once.
"Please watch to make sure Blitz-san manages to leave and close the shoji if she doesn't." He calmly requested.
Jayden flinched at the polite name. It was callous in a way. He didn't even call her Cameron-san, which was a little more 'intimate' than her last name. She nodded regardless. "Hai...Inaki." She whispered. Teeth bit her lip as hands twitched to touch him. "Would you...like me to do anything else?"
Black mutely swished. "I'm heading out to my spot...I'll return before sundown." Without touching her or letting her touch him, he left Jayden standing in front of the back door and wordlessly grabbed his board. He hadn't taken his sandals off and knew he would've gotten hell for walking over the dining tatami for that, but that was the last thing on Jayden's mind right now.
"Ittekimasu..." He breathed, slowly clicking the door shut.
Tears slipped down Jayden's face as she turned and watched the screen porch close. "Iterasshai..." She whispered. Her face turned as if in pain. "Oh Inaki..." A hand covered Jayden's mouth as she dropped to the table and silently cried, sharing her brother's pain. Too often had she seen the hurtful look on his face, caused by Cameron. Now that would never happen again...but he was paying for it double right now.
Cameron was an idiot if she couldn't see that Inaki harbored affection toward her. Like their culture, they were taught to reduce the amount of emotion they showed to the general public. He never liked rushing that sort of thing anyway; it always took him a little bit to build the intensity of a relationship.
The girl never saw that...no matter how much she was around the family. One would think Cameron would've picked up on that...or at least ask him some details!
It seemed forever until Jayden's tears stopped, but she hastily cleaned her face, not wanting her family to see her crying. She was too spirited to show that kind of weakness. After a deep inhale, she scooted next to the glass door with the tea she'd been enjoying and watched the shoji door blankly.
Time passed, how much she didn't know, but her tea was gone and the shoji was still open. She watched it almost hawk-like the entire time, so unless Cameron left right after Inaki...she was still there.
The cup was set in the sink as Jayden squared her shoulders and opened the screen. Slowly, she strode to the dojo - trying not to be angry or resentful - and peeked in. Cameron was in a crouch over the floor, head on her knees. No sobbing reached Jayden's ears, but that didn't mean the girl wasn't crying.
Licking her lips nervously, she shrugged off the sandals and took a few steps into the dojo. A quick bow for respect, and then her entire attention rested on the girl. Cameron hadn't moved, even when Jayden stopped directly in front of her. "Blitz-san..." She evenly whispered.
Cameron drug a deep breath before finally looking way up, tear tracks on her face. "Jayden - I mean, Yamoi-san."
Jayden's face softened a minute degree, though she didn't move. "Come Blitz-san...Inaki told me to shut the shoji so nothing comes inside."
Which was the nicest way Jayden could say 'you have to leave now'. Cameron bitterly looked around the dojo one last time, knowing she'd never see this place or Inaki unless in passing. She stood, even though Jayden extended her hand, and looked at the girl. "You hate me, don't you?" Cameron quietly asked, looking into brown.
There was a small flash of protective fire, but Jayden smoothed her face. "No. But you hurt my brother, whom I love very dearly. Sore yurusimasen."
Not asking for a translation, not wanting one, Cameron slowly walked around the woman and headed for the shoji. She put her sandals on, at least polite enough to take them off, and watched Jayden do the same. Just when Jayden started turning for the back door, Cameron stopped and she did as well. "Goodbye Yamoi-san."
Jayden gave a small, polite bow. It wasn't her place to be nasty to this girl, even though she was true in her words. The pain of her brother was a thing that wouldn't go away in her heart and she would never trust Cameron anymore, or be anything but a polite stranger to her. She didn't hate Cameron...as hate was a powerful, undying thing. She wouldn't let it eat at her, but she would never forget or forgive this passing. "Sayonara Blitz-san."
**I am a BEGINNER Japanese learner...so if these are not 100% correct...please let me know if you care to do so. I only have a web page to learn from, a dictionary, and a few months experience to work with.**
Translations: Ne?-right/correct? Sore yurusimasen-I can't forgive that
@~~~~~ Time for the second commentary. Yes this was angst overflow, but that's what I do best besides humor and romance...which will also continue to be in this story as well. ^^ This commentary is for secondary characters - primary being Inaki and Kalie - and their connections to the primary characters. It's going to be lengthy too.
Relating to Kalie:
Samantha Merth-Primary comic relief, as if anyone COULDN'T tell. Perky, outgoing, got a rather strange sense of humor, and is also there for K to talk some sense into her whenever she gets down about herself - as shows in chapters. Also a surrogate big sister, which is sort of explained and will be further in the future. (A lot of Sam's quirks I patterned from my sense of humor. Just like I patterned a lot of K's dating faults after my own...I find my angsty life works for good story material.)
Merths-Mother-Missy Merth, 43; father-Carl, 44; brothers-Kevin, 19 / Casey-18. Surrogate family. The two spend a little time at the Merth residence on holidays - as mentioned. K calls Sam's mother mom and somewhat considers the three siblings hers. She is sort of close to them.
Ella Himmen-K's mother. Age-41. Taught K how to be independent and things related, mostly because she worked a lot to provide and was not home. End result is a friendly relationship, but nothing serious or really close as it could be.
Marcus Himmen-K's father. Divorced K's mother when K was ten. Now lives in Florida two hours north. Nothing will be said about him except details of the past concerning before and a little after the divorce. It will be rather clear that K despises her father.
Tommy-Age 62 / Chester-Age 65 / Roger-Age 72 - Regulars to Coffee Works. Harbors affection for K because of her congeniality and willingness to talk despite busy work time.
Chance-College friend / classmate who might not be mentioned much in further chapters. The sexuality choice was a split decision issue that I went with to add spice to the story.
Hall / Sheryl-High school friends / classmates who might not be mentioned much in further chapters. Hall had a massive crush on K and persuaded her to go out on a single date, but K refused others due to dating issues of an ex. Sheryl still tries to get her brother and friend together.
Relating to Inaki:
Cameron Blitz-Ex girlfriend. Ninth girlfriend to date Inaki since his first at 12. Sixth to have slept with Inaki since he lost his virginity at 15. Generally shy, reserved, introverted, etc. Had hard time trusting Inaki, but always wanted to be with him. Tried to change by having faith and not being so suspicious ONLY. Will not be mentioned in future chapters unless in flashbacks or remembrance.
Jayden Yamoi-Confidant, teaser, slight mother, all around sibling. Age 25. Shared a room with Inaki since he was an infant. Listens to a lot of Inaki's problems and general conversation by sharing same room. Same black hair and brown eyes. Hair length-mid back. Steady boyfriend / possible future husband - Chad. No last name will be given. Age 27. The two have dated for three ongoing years so far. Helps keep family business running by working register, doing light cleaning, and stocking around the store.
Kristine Yamoi-Paternal love, pamperer, raiser. Age 45. Is soft-spoken and not very outgoing, but loves her son very much and always tries her hardest to spoil Inaki because he never lets her. Helps keep family business running by working register, doing light cleaning, and stocking around the store. Might not be mentioned much in further chapters.
Omo Yamoi-Husband, also yet to be mentioned. Age 46. Might not be mentioned much in story. Supports Inaki in a lot of decisions, but will teach him the difference of what his actions might do. Helps keep family business running by doing maintenance, stocking, some cleaning work like Inaki.
Mamorah Yamoi-Business shark, mildly close to Inaki. Grandmother. Age 63. Is congenial and friendly around Inaki. Helps keep family business running by working register or keeping tabs on finances.
Kekoy Yamoi-Next in line to inherit family business. Grandfather. Age 65. Teaches Inaki Kempo and some weapons training. Doing little bit of tutoring with kanji. Helps keep family business running by keeping tabs on finances and orders supplies for store.
Mira Yamoi-Partner-owner of business. Great grandmother. Age 81. Might not be mentioned much in story. Helps keep family business running by deciding what should be sold in store and for how much.
Setumo Yamoi-Partner-owner of business, founder of business. Great grandfather. Age 80. Teaches Inaki Kempo and some weapons training. Helps keep family business running by deciding what should be sold in store and for how much.
Robert-Age 24 / Chass-Age 19 / Kelar-Age 25-Primary comic relief and main friend set to Inaki. They call themselves the musketeers. Sometimes dare each other to do stupid stuff for fun if bored. Chass is the most sensitive of the group and good for advice, Kelar the most female player. Robert's girlfriend - Jolette. Age 24. Chass's girlfriend - Gretta. Age 17. No last names will be given. Girlfriends might not come into picture. Friends might be in future chapters.
The next ten are going to be what everyone will either love or drive them crazy. The first plot is going to go in full swing - the attraction between Inaki and Kalie and what I do to - I mean WITH them. ^^ Next commentary will deal more with things that make up the year 2097 / 2098. Definitely won't be as LONG either. ~~~~~@