Author: Darla - La mosca Tete
Category: AU(Alterne Universe), Romance, Shounen Ai.
Summary: Takuya works in a library, "boring" says Kouji... but Takuya will change his perception of many things...
Notes: Umm... sorry?? Naw, you can only say that if you mean it, but I don't. I'm not sorry, I had many other things going on in my life and I completely forgot about this. It wasn't until I got back my PC when I remembered what I've been doing... and I started with the translation again. I also started to prepare to take the TOEFL (Test of English as Foreing Languaje) and now this fic is part of my practice, so I want you to help me and take note of any mistake (all of them) you can see and tell me about it on your reviews, that is if you can. please??
Ok, I present to you two more chapters.
PART 11: LYING DEMON
KOUJI
There are moments in your life that cause great impact but you can never be ready for them. For example, when someone is about to become an important part in your life, better yet, their about to become the love of your life.
Is that a nice reflection or what? Too bad that that wasn't my case.
I met Takuya four months ago. Almost at the same time I started doing my social service (read they don't pay me) at the library. Back then, I wasn't aware that I had found my soulmate, and even if I had known I don't think that it would have make things different. When we first met, I unconsciously treated him coldly, which didn't make him very happy and he tried to befriend me, more and more each time until he had to resort to (unintentional) violence so I could finally talk back to him.
I can't remember how it happened, nor can I tell the exact moment I fell for him. I only know that it was in that boring place, as normal, uneventful days went by parts of him started to get printed on my mind. It just happened and by the end of the semester I knew perfectly well that my feeling for him were more than friendship and I did everything within my possibilities to remain by his side.
"but you won't help me again... right?" he had the most depressing look on his face so how could I say "no" to that? (easy, I didn't) so I agreed to help him study again on one condition: this time we were going to his house and the song I started humming in my head for the rest of the day went like this 'I'm going to his house! To the divine's house'
That night, the idiot look on my face didn't dissapear until my brother made a comment about how flies went into my mouth and never came back. I was supposed to be helping him with his project about (I really have no idea, my mind was never there) but Koichi wasn't angry because of that, a mocking smile was more than enough to know what he was thinking " So, you asked him out?" involuntary I turned as red as stop sign.
Koichi just laughed and told me we could work on the project the next day, but as you already know I had a tiny problem with that "But I already promised Takuya that I'd help him to study tomorrow."
"So what? Oh wait, I know what you mean, you won't be able to focus on anything but him right? Aw that is so cute."
"No. It's not that, tomorrow we're going to his house."
"hehe, and you plan on finish later uh? maybe staying over and then you..."
"Koichi!!"
Ugh, I didn't want to remember that. It's just so embarrassing, but also necessary so that you could understand what kind of brother I'm stuck with. He is, except for his appearance, completely different from me: cheerful, expressive, gentile, joker (too much) and has a special ability to become everybody's friend; and of course opposite means that my strong points are his weaknesses: he is terrible at school (even worse than Takuya), gets distracted very easily, his room is always messy and has a very loose tongue. Which often leads to troubles and somehow I'm always dragged into them. The last one was what caused the loss of all my friends. sigh But I must admit that once in a while, I blurt things that I never meant to say. Now that probably got you curious about that subject that I... don't want to explain just yet. Just let it pass one more time, I promise I'll clear that up later.
Just for this moment I want to keep criticizing my brother, while I still have some anger left... why? Umm- later, soon I promise.
That guy is a demon with an angel face (of course because it looks like mine). He doesn't just torments me. If what is said about twins, that there is a good one and an evil one, I don't consider myself a saint, but he's definetly not the one with the aureole. In other words, he's a monster. One who enjoys making fun of me as soon as he finds out one of my secrets and the problem is that I always try to keep everything secret. Ah! I know he loves me, in his very own diabolic way, but I'd be better off without this need of his to talk about me like some gossip and as if I had committed the worst of all sins, when the only thing I've done was accidentally breaking my father's tank (and killing a poor fish in the process) and burning his car's stereo (I can't even remember how that happened). And just because of that everyone - specially my father - thinks that he is the angel.
Takuya thought so too. For so long the poor guy believed this lie.
That's another thing that I don't like about Koichi, the effect that he has in people to whom he speaks when I am not with them. After that they act as if they knew something about me that I don't.
When we were going to Takuya's house, the next day, I tried to convince him to tell me what my brother had told him about me (besides from what I heard), and he just told me that it wasn't important and I almost told him that he was lying because I had listened. But that wouldn't work to my favor, so I had to accept that I would never know (I had already asked my brother the night before and his answer was: "Don't play innocent, you were listening to everything behind the door.") I'm still worried though, because what I DID get to listen were all lies, what's with ... my brother talks a lot about you. I never speak my mind out, so why would I tell him about someone I like so he could have more 'material to annoy Kouji with'? thank heavens that Takuya didn't believe him.
Why am I writing all of this? Oh yeah, I was criticizing Koichi, and before that... right, I was excited because I was going to visit Takuya's house.
Umm, Takuya's house is... well, anything unusual, a bit small to my taste, but very cozy and the most amazing thing was how everything was neat and clean, I must admit that I was surprised by that even more when I found he lived alone (I didn't think he was capable of surviving without constant vigilance much less isolated from people). Than afternoon passed to fast, because we went through each subject twice and when we finished the fool offends me saying that I could be a great teacher, I know he meant well, but really, who else would think that I'd take that as a compliment? just him, of course.
and who else but him could believe that books are great gifts? Perhaps if I was older, with nothing better to do with my time, maybe then I'd like it - or if I were Koichi. Did I forget to mention that he loves reading? He's not as obsessed as Takuya, but he read 'Selected Books' in one week (the same week Takuya took his vacations) and returned it to me on Sunday night just as I came back from visiting Tommy.
Have I ever mentioned Tommy? I don't remember, anyway, Tommy is my mother's sister's son which makes him my cousin - and that Sunday he was going to perform in a small theater along with the choir (he plays the flute). Koichi apologized to the brat and excused himself saying that he was very busy and compromised me to be with the boy to give him 'moral support'. So I spent most of the Sunday snoring and at the end of the play I just went and said "Congratulations, that was great." like the big hypocrite I have become.
Because of my brother!
As if that wasn't enough, when arrived home Koichi was waiting for me wearing his best angel suit, 'he's up to something' I thought. He followed me to the kitchen and just sat there with that grin on his face that only inspired me fear "Alright spill! What did you do?"
"Moi?"
"Yeah, you!"
"I haven't done anything, in fact I didn't left the house all day..."
"Really?"
He nodded several times while his smile changed to a wicked one "Someone came."
"Oh."
"In fact, they came here to see you..."
"Right..."
"... this boy, what did he say was his name? Mm..."
"Who?" I said, already tired of his 'games'.
"Konbara something..." 'Takuya' I jumped from my seat at that moment but when I noticed the large smile in my little brother's face I came to this conclusion: 'He's lying.'
"Koichi..."
"What? It's true!!" and for the rest of the night he tried to convince me, but I never did believed him.
End of chapter 11
PART 12: GOOD LESSONS AND BAD DECISIONS
TAKUYA
There are moments in your life when you feel like you're about to make an important decision, like taking a job, choosing your career, going to live in another city...
Well, I've taken many of those important decisions lately, but I don't think I've done this alone. Perhaps the way I think may be silly, but I'm convinced that everything happens for a reason, and everything that's going to happen, will happen.
In fact an individual can't make any decision on their own, most of them have already been decided by the circumstances around them, leading you with an invisible hand through the path which has been drawn specially for that person, in which will learn the lessons they need to take with them.
Quite philosophic right? Ignore what I just said, that speech is the same one I use to put more emotion to moments of triumph or happiness and also, to justify everything that goes wrong, read my mistakes.
Although if I listen for just a moment to the wise words written at the beginning, I'd say that I took one of those decisions during the last week of school. I decided to rest of school immediately. And you know what? it has been one of the best decisions than I have taken in a long time. Ok, it wasn't the most important decision of my life but thanks to that many things occurred, specially that I spent a lot of time away and I got to the point of missing the quiet and reserved boy that is Kouij, so I decided to visit his house in my last day of vacations.
That's when the bad decisions began, along with the lessons:
Lesson #1: Always call before visiting somebody, so you can find out if they'll be there when you arrive and will be waiting for you. That way you can save the time from the trip if they're not available (as it was in Kouji's case.)
Lesson #2: Lies are never good, specially if they are said to you, for example: when I got to Kouji's house, Koichi told me that his brother was there, but was still sleeping.
Lesson #3: Don't believe in everything you're told, because there are people who lie chronically. Default example: Koichi. First he said that his brother was asleep and although it was already midday and I thought it was a little strange, I let it slip; then he said that he was in the shower but I couldn't hear the water running, I let that slip; after that he said that he had left in haste because his father called him, that bothered me because he hadn't even have a little consideration to come to say goodbye or something, then I remembered that it was always me who said goodbye to him and never the other way; and, when he told me that I thought that there wasn't a reason to stay since the one I had come to see had left, but Koichi convinced me that he would come back very soon and that whenever he arrived he would be glad to see me and I fell for that one too; two hours later, I insisted that I had to go and Koichi pulled out his last try to come out with this amazing history about an emergency which really wasn't too bad but just enough to stop him from coming back to the house, that was when I understood that he had been lying all this time and I told him; Koichi just laughed and then he told me the truth, Kouji had left around the 10 in the morning to attend to a recital at a theater across town; I must admit that I was both very impressed about how naive I was and how stupid I was to believe every word he said, instead of getting angry with the one who had lied to me, I stayed just a bit more to have supper with him because he told me that the rest of his family wouldn't be back until very late (I didn't care anymore if he was saying the truth, I'd never decline and invitation for dinner) and I left his house when it started getting dark.
Lesson #4: Attractive boys with gorgeous blue eyes and dark hair are all weird, I had already come to that conclusion long ago, and once again my theory was proved right, lets return to Koichi's example: the guy spent all day (when he wasn't lying) talking about his brother that's how I got to the conclusion that Kouji must be his hero, that didn't stop him from saying bad things about him, though. What mattered apparently, was not to stray from the "Kouji" topic. If he said the truth, thanks to him I know what's his favorite food, his favorite color, favorite instrument, favorite drink, and the reason why he uses that bandana all the time (although I suspect that he might have invented that one); and finally
Lesson #5: Never say the wrong name, since at least one of the twins will not appreciate it. Unfortunately this is a lesson I have problems remembering, but really what do you expect from me? Suddenly there are two Kouji-s in the world and I don't have the right to be confused once in a while? ... Ok, I always say the wrong name, but that is not point! The point is that while Koichi smiles every time I call him Kouji and winks at me saying that I can't get him out of my head (making me blush), Kouji's face turns red with anger and ignores me for the rest of the day, like I found out the following Monday.
Besides, I had spent all Sunday with his brother, why can't he tolerate such a tiny little mistake like saying: "Hi Koichi!", instead of: "Hi Kouji!"
His eyes showed surprise and wich was replaced with anger in a matter of seconds 'Upps' I thought while ran after him trying to get him to talk to me or at least to answer me with signs but he seemed to have glue on his lips, even after I explained to him that I had spent a long time with his brother (wich seemed to make him even more upset) and then I told him that I had missed him a lot and that that was why I had gone to his house, but everything was useless. It wasn't until it was time to leave when I said goodbye to him, this time using the correct name, and he made a "godbye" sign with his hand.
That night I got a call from Koichi who wondered why his brother looked like he wanted to murder him with just the power of his glare, the poor guy had to call me because Kouji, being Kouji did not want to talk to him (which doesn't really make sense, it was me who caused the confusion and it was just one little mistake that's not worth to be so mad about). So I told him what happened at work that day and after that he just laughed "for your own good or I hope that Kouji is not listening right now or he really is going to kill you" and he laughed at me.
"Takuya, you're really naive." I didn't even tried to understand what he meant. After half an hour stuck in the phone, Koichi hanged up saying that the assassin was closing on him.
'... they're all weird.'
End of chapter 12
