Previously:

Rei finally proposes to Mariah and Freya gives Kai a very bad impression on Nakuru. Rei finds a diamond ring that belongs to his friend but he has second thoughts. Confused by the contradiction, Rei decided to do the right thing and return the ring…

Chapter 10: The Secret Truth

All through a hard day's work, Nakuru had been moody and not up in spirit. After the night of reunion, she had overslept the next morning and had to dress sloppy to work. During noon, her boss found her asleep on her desk and thus scolded her for her disgraceful behavior. She had placed the out going check into the wrong file and she had to go all the way to the other department at the other side of town to collect it back.

Groaning in frustration, Nakuru just remember that today was the day that she had to go over to her parents home to stay over the weekends. It was always during the beginning of July that she had to sleep over back in her old house.

Fiddling with the key in the door, she finally managed to open the door. She threw her handbag on the sofa and slump herself on the bed, dead tired. Getting up she went to take a bathe…

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Freya had just received the call from the bride herself. Mariah was inviting her relatives and friends to her wedding held in two weeks time.

"Remember to wear something nice on my wedding…" Mariah teased.

"Of course, you don't except me to go there wearing nothing would you?" Freya shot back.

"Oh dear, I think our dear Kyoto would die of a heart attack," Mariah giggled.

Laughing along, Freya ended the call and started to think again. She never seemed to be out of ideas or even tired of thinking. She grabbed her cup of soda and sat on the sofa thinking about what she would wear. Thinking about clothes, Freya could make her lies about Nakuru 'real'.

Clothes… that'll be what I'll use…

Since she told Kyoto about Nakuru stealing dresses or wearing the same as her, Freya decided to make a quick stop at a very famous salon for ladies only, Iukia.

There, they provide every thing a woman needs to get dress or for relaxation. The first floor was a salon and massaging. The second was clothes fit for any day, just name it and they'll provide you with it. And the last and final floor was where there's a cute small restaurant and bar… for ladies only. And a line of cashiers, that was the only way out of the building… past the cashiers. The front door was only for entry and the back door, which was fancifully decorated, was the exit.

Being an official actress in Japan, Freya had excess to all these type of high class society. All she had to do was to say a word and the workers would all come running to her aid. After a nice long massage and bubble bath and a hair wash, Freya got down to business. (A/N: Finally… she was taking to much time on making herself look prettier.)

Arriving on the second floor by escalator, Freya didn't even need to do a scan of her surroundings. She just ordered the nearest saleswoman to show her the latest and most expensive dinner dress. The woman immediately called another of the worker to show 'Miss Freya Yuhari' to a seat.

(A/N: It means – Freya youarehairy, lol.)

She was served with freshly brewed tea and was presented by a plain purple dress. It was short, just slightly a palm's length from the panties and it was tied with two ribbons on the spaghetti straps. (A/N: Not ribbons but just two strings tied into a normal ribbon like your shoelace.) There were cross strings from below the arm down to the end all in one row. (A/N: If you don't get it never mind… just imagine Freya holding a very plain and simple skimpy dress.)

"This is nice. I'll take two of these…" Freya said as she whipped out her cash card to the saleswoman.

Bowing the woman quickly scuttled away to debit the card. She returned with a receipt for Freya to sign. Freya just signed hastily and grabbed her all readied and packed plastic bag. She grumbled about the inconvenience and forced herself to the third floor to exit by going down the lift to ground floor.

Smirking she entered her posh car and turned on the engines. She just had this brilliant idea which will tear the good image of a kind hearted girl into a devious devil…

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Nakuru ended the call and continued her light packing. Staying two nights at her parent's house was getting to her. Maybe she should just tell her parents that it was troublesome to stay over, she could just see them for a few hours and then return home. Although she knew that nothing of that sort would work with her mom, she decided to give it a try. Sometimes Nakuru find that her mom was overprotective over her, but come to think of it, it would be quite lonely just living with an old spouse for company.

She started thinking about Mariah becoming a mother some day. It would seriously be funny seeing Mariah trying to stop her little annoying toddlers from stuffing their mouth with toys or even feeding them. Laughing out loud, Nakuru wondered what she should wear on Mariah's wedding. She didn't have all those nice fancy clothes.

As if on queue, the doorbell rang answering her silent wish.

Nakuru found Freya standing on her porch with her red posh parked behind.

"Hi, what brings you here?" she said as she offered the actress in.

"Oh, well, it's about Mariah's wedding," Freya said as she sat on the sofa poised upright and crossed her legs.

"Oh yes. I can't wait!" Nakuru exclaimed.

"Small house you got here," Freya tilted her head slightly up, "And since I took pity on you I've decided to buy you a dress."

She took out a silver box with the word 'Iukia' printed on it. She then opened it and pulled out a dress, dumping it on Nakuru's lap.

"Iukia, whoa… expensive stuff," Nakuru stared at the dress in front of her, handling it with care.

"For you," Freya stood up and exited the apartment.

"Hey, wait up," Nakuru ran to the door with the dress in her hands, "Is this really for me?"

"Take it or leave it."

Freya stated simply and she stepped into her car and drove off without another word.

I was lucky I left fast. If I know her any better she would have returned the dress to me saying some crap about feeling guilty and paying back.

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Mariah sat in the high chair scanning the tray of rings offered to her. Rei couldn't be bothered, he just stood behind her and started to pace around thinking of his golf tournament, if he didn't make it back in time for the live telecast, he was going to kill himself.

"Take a look at this ring, isn't it nice?" Mariah asked as she wore on her finger.

"Uh, yeah, looks great…" Rei mumbled back.

Mariah placed the ring back down and asked the woman for another tray. Rei looked at his watch, 7.35pm; there was still more than an hour to his show. Relaxed he looked around the shop. To him the place was too bright for him. The walls were display shelves of rings, bracelet, necklace, etc. Mostly were gold and it really was going to make him go blind if he were to stay there for two hours.

Looking around, he suddenly spotted a familiar figure looking intensively at one of the show cases. He couldn't really place where he saw that guy before but if only he could just turn around, Rei would see who he was.

He started walking towards the guy and when Mariah saw him she called him over to try on his own ring he turned to face her. The guy looked up at the sound of Mariah calling Rei and looked at them. At that moment, Kyoto saw Rei and Mariah together. He thought of Freya and him together, he knew he couldn't let anyone know he was going to propose to Freya so he quickly pick his chosen ring and left for the cashier.

Rei turned around to find the chair which was occupied a second ago empty. Frowning he walked back to Mariah and tried on the rings…

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"So what you're saying is, Kyoto is…"

"Yes, Kyoto is him."

"Are you really sure?" Tyson asked urgently as he lean over the table.

"Yes, positive." Freya answered curtly as she took a sip of her coffee.

"Then, why is he acting like this?"

"Here." Freya reached over and grabbed a thick folder, than she passed it over to Tyson.

Tyson quickly skim through the folder. From old pictures of Kyoto a few years back until this everyday. All his particulars were listed down, even his parents particulars.

"I don't believe this," Tyson said slowly as he placed the two different photos together.

"Well, you've got to. It's him all right."

"But it can't be… Kyoto can't be… him…"

"Looks like you're depressed," Freya smirked as she lean forwards, "Why not we work together?"

"What are you planning now?" Tyson narrowed his eyes.

After all his years knowing her he knew she was up to something, something bad. He didn't know where this is leading to but he knew he made the wrong decision going over to her house. She didn't want to say it over the phone so he had to rush over. It was something very important she said. Now that he knew what it was he wished he never agreed to come over.

"What I'm planning is something that will definitely benefit you," Freya said slyly as she took back the file and the photos.

Tyson didn't answer he just waited for her to continue.

"If one day, when that day Kyoto remembers. He'll remember…"

"Nakuru…"

"Yes, and he'll might want her," Freya stressed on the word want.

"He doesn't even like her," Tyson smirked as he stood up wanted the leave her horrible presence, "You're so dumb Freya, he never once liked her."

"We'll never know that, we'll never know…"

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Kyoto smiled happily at the thought of Freya and him together at last. It was like a dream come through for him to have such a wonderful wife. He was lying on his bed with one leg bent and his fingers toying with the gold rings. On one was the name Kyoto Daishinn on the other was Freya… Freya Daishinn.

Yes, he was going to make it grand, very grand. He was going to propose to Freya on the stage on Rei's and Mariah's wedding. He wanted everyone to know that his dream has finally come through. But what everyone doesn't know was that his past, didn't want this nightmare to be real.

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Yes, gomen-nasai for the long wait people. Hope it was ok and remember to review ok?

Next Chapter:

It's finally the wedding and will Kyoto really propose to Freya or will something change his plans? Chaos happens before the wedding and complications start when two girls wear the same clothes. How will Kyoto accept it all? Read next chapter for answers…