Band Guy's Girl. Maybe: thank you for reviewing! yeah, i was fluff. this one is a bit fluffy too...bleh. waiting for yur email!
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k, everybody: here we go! last chappy!
"I promise I'll write, and you can come and see me soon."
Haru hugged Kisa right before he got into the cab.
"Don't take to long."
She said quietly.
"I won't."
He said to her, then waved to everybody.
"Bye. Seeya."
They all waved, and he got into the car and began the trip back to the life he'd made for himself.
'I was here for two days...that isn't very long, but seriously, with this family, it can seem like forever...'
He thought good-naturedly as he stared at the trees out the window. After a while, he leaned his head back and fell asleep.
The light was flashing red. That was the first thing Haru did when he got home. As he pressed the button on his phone, Kairi's voice filled the room.
"Hey, Haru, this is Kairi. I know you're still gone, and that's good! I'm so proud of you! But, uh, there's beeen kind of an accident here, and I need you to call me or come see me or something as soon as you can. Uhm, you'll find me at either the bar where I work, or the coffee shop where we met. I love you. Talk to you soon. Bye."
'Oh god...and accident? She didn't sound desperate, or in trouble, or anything, but still...I'll go now...'
He dumped his bags in his bedroom, grabbed his coat, and headed out the door.
He went to the bar first, and, luckily for him, that was where she was.
"Hey! Haru! You're back!"
She jumped up from the stool, and her bored position of drawing circles on the smooth counter.
"Yeah!"
"So, how'd it go?"
"Uhm, great. I got your message, what's going on?"
"Oh, uh...well..."
She looked a little bit embaressed as she bit her lip.
"What? What happened?"
Haru's mind started racing.
'What! What's going on! What happened? Are you ok? Why don't you want to say anything? How bad is it?'
And countless other worried thoughts passed through his brain.
"Well..."
She paused, then let all of her words out in a rush.
"Some idiot didn't put out his ciggerate and burned down most of my appartment builing, and I got everything out and no one got hurt but the place is pretty trashed, and I need somewhere to stay for awhile."
Haru stared, then let out a relieved laugh.
"Yeah, sure! You can totally stay with me! No problem!"
"You're laughing?"
Kairi stared at him.
"Well, yeah! Jesus christ, Kairi, you really had me worried there! Don't do that!"
"Well, sorry!"
She pretended to be annoyed.
"Yeah, k. So, you're just gonna come over when you get off work? Where's all your stuff?"
"It's all here. Yeah, if I can come over that soon, then that would be great."
"Alright."
He looked around. The place was almost empty.
"Can I uh, get a drink?"
Kairi smiled.
"Sure."
And they continued the evening like that, talking about Haru's visit to his family, and the fire at Kairi's place. Whe she got off work, Kairi followed Haru back to his appartment, and fell asleep in his arms.
"Are we there yet?"
Kisa asked from her seat in the cab.
Haru laughed lightly.
"No, not quite. Almost."
Fifteen minutes later, they were walking up the stairs in his appartment building.
Haru knocked.
"Kairi, we're here!"
She came to the door quickly and opened it for them.
"Kisa, this is my girlfriend Kiari."
Kisa smiled timidly.
"Hi."
"And Kairi, this is my cousin (i really have no idea how they're related) Kisa."
"Hi!"
Kairi held out her hand.
Kisa shook it, then they all went inside to eat.
Haru insisted that they both sit at the bar while he blundered around making food for them.
Kisa stared around her in feigned(lol.sp? never used that word before) awe.
"Geez, Haru, this place is a dump!"
"Me!"
He said indignently(sp?).
"Kairi's the slob, not me!"
"That is not true!"
"Who's clothes are those!"
"I didn't put them there! You're the one who can't do laundry!"
Kisa smiled as they bickered playfully.
'He really likes her...Good. Finally, he took long enough. I hope this works for them...'
After several more minutes of chaos, things settled down, and Haru peacefully left Kisa and Kairi sitting at the bar, since they had both 'ganged up on him' and insisted that he at least clear out a path from the door to the kitchen. From the den, he watched them quickly get into a converstaion and start laughing. He smiled.
'Good...This is good...'
He paused to look around the room.
'...All plastic...It's all still...'
He looked back up at the two girls.
'Well...some things won't change...some things will never change...'
He sighed.
'I still can't risk anything happening...things could still happen...I can't change what I did. I can't make up for it either. No matter what I do, these are shadows that will always follow, and haunt me...'
He finished cleaning in silence, then went back to the girls on sat down, starting to laugh along with them.
'They will always...always...follow...'
ok, thank you all so much for reading and reviewing this story! my first posted one ever! notes on this chapter: soory if it seemed rushed, but it was. like i've said multiple times, the end was sposed to be a couple chapters back, so all of this has kinda been forced for me. and it was too fluffy. but yeah, that's the end! right, so, since this is the last chapter, EVERYBODY REVIEW! k? thanks!