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Fate

Chapter 2

""Talking
''Thoughts

Who is this woman that you sworn to love for your entire life?
Who is this woman that can light up the fire in your heart?
Who is this woman that you sworn to love for your entire life?
Who is this woman that can wake up to your sleeping face on a serene morning?
Who is this woman that you sworn to love for your entire life?
Did you tell me or what I imagining everything?
Who is this woman that you sworn to love for your entire life?
Who is this woman that you want back even in your next life time?

Flashback

"And that'll be all we can do today, the next meeting is on Tuesday, have a great weekend." The class stood up and bowed as the teacher left the room, and then the art room broke into chatters. Soon, everyone left, leaving Celestia in the room alone to finish her painting. It's a painting of an ocean with a large ship sailing over. After who knows how long, she finally gathered her stuff and turned to leave.

Locking the door behind her, she turned and gasped. Kai is leaning onto a wall in front of the art room. They looked at each other, Kai pushed away from the wall and walked towards her; she matched his steps and backed away until she reached the door. Kai took over her art bag and her books then grabbed her hand and began walking.

"I'll walk you home." Quietly announcing his intentions, Celestia walked along side with him, her face burning, her hand trembling in his hand.

"When do you have your art meetings?" He asked as they walked to her house.

"It's on Tuesday and Friday after school, Thursday at 6:30am." She said timidly.

"We have classes together every last period, right?" She nodded quietly.

Just like that, they walked home slowly, her wondering how he knew where her house is. Aeris walked right beside them, on the other side of the street, looking at them knowingly. Stopping at a red light, she watched as Kai and Celestia turned a corner and disappeared.

End of Flashback

Casino Heaven

Still, even when Kai is sitting in the meeting room with Celle and her agent sitting right across from him, he still hasn't really recovered from the shock of seeing Celle in front of him.

"Miss Ran...." Kai started, wanting to at least get this over with.

"Please, just call me Celle."

"Celle... is that your real name that you're using?" Kai asked unconsciously, his mind still cloudy. How can you find someone that looks exactly like someone else on this Earth?

"Yeah." Celle answered shortly while nodding her head easily, her eyes focused on Kai mainly with a smile on her face.

After that, all the conversation was done between Kai and her agent. She just sat there quietly, leaning back onto the chair lazily, her elbow on an arm of the chair, and her face leaning on her hand. Her eyes focused on Kai intently, not even wavering one bit, a smile on her face.

"Celle, do you have anything else to add?" Finally, as the meeting is tuning down to an end, Kai turned to Celle, and their eyes locked.

He noticed that she has the same deep blue eyes as her, the same ones that could drown someone in them. However, Celle's eyes are filled with a cloud of confusion and a bit of playfulness. Her eyes... her eyes were filled with innocence and shyness. They are two totally different people.

"Nope." Celle said shortly and sat up. Reaching out for the pen, she signed her name onto both contracts without even looking through it. Then she threw down the pen and sat back again, her eyes still fixed on Kai.

Never had he felt so uncomfortable under someone's stare.

Standing up, both sides nodded and said polite words to each other before Celle and her agent headed for the door. Kai closed his eyes the moment they turned their backs on him and slumped down into his chair, his head resting on the top of his chair.

The door clicked shut, the room remained silent.

Kai groaned softly and rubbed the back of his neck, this is more tiring than he thought.

Celle.

That woman's eyes, they're so familiar, yet so new to him.

"Do you need a neck massage?"

Kai snapped open his eyes and turned towards the door way to realize that Celle was in the room the entire time. She didn't leave with her agent. She's standing there, leaning on the door looking at him with a smile on her face. Then she pushed herself away from the door and walked over to him slowly.

Her hips swaying from side to side, her high heels giving her legs even more of a slender look.

She stopped in front of him and leaned down, her hands on the table supporting her weight. The tight top she's wearing revealed more of her flesh than he wanted to see. Her mouth curved into a suggestive smile, and her eyes invited him clearly.

This is not her.

She would never do this, no, cross that out, she wouldn't even wear cloths as revealing as this. She doesn't know the first thing when it comes to flirting, and she definitely doesn't know how to invite a man to join her.

However...

Celle is an expert at this. Everything in her spells it out, from her posture to her cloths, to the look in her eyes, and the smile on her lips. Everything. She knows how to deal with a man, and how to please a man. She definitely played around with men quite a lot to gain this much experience.

Looking up at her, Kai felt his neck pain growing even worse.

Night- Bar

Downing another drink, Kai leaned back onto the sofa and rubbed his temple.

"What's wrong with him?" Jamice whispered behind the glass of alcohol, her eyes looking from left to right.

"Who knows?" Tyson shrugged and looked at Kai strangely as well. Kai is not himself today, his suit jacket off, the top two buttons undone, hair falling in his face as he finished his numerous number of drinks. He never drinks this much on any occasion.

Under his friends' surprised eyes, he pulled out a pack of cigarette, and proceeded to take one out. Aeris, sitting the closest to Kai, reached out and grabbed the cigarette in his hand and threw it onto the ground. "Kai, what are you doing? You promised Celestia that you'd never smoke again."

At the mentioning of that familiar name, Kai stopped and looked down at his hands. In the back of his mind, he always wonders if Celle and Celestia are...

"Kai, are you all right?" Malarin asked, leaning forwards to study Kai's expression. Her eyes showed curiosity and a bit of concern. Out of all of them, she is the oldest, so it's natural for her to automatically 'look after' them.

"I'm fine, just...." Kai ceased his brows, possibilities still running over his mind.

"Just what?" Jamice raised an eyebrow, now everyone's attention is on him.

"It's just..."

"My offer at giving him a massage." Another voice cut in, Kai looked towards the doorway with recognition in his eyes. Celle walked closer to them, earning surprised looks from everyone. She stopped beside Kai and looked at him. "It's a surprise to see you here, Mr. Hiwatari, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?" She said with a smile playing on her lips, which is covered with bright red lipstick.

Kai looked at her then looked at his glass. With a sigh, he stood up and ran his hand through his hair tiredly, making his hair fall into his face. "This is Celle Ran, a singer that signed a half year contract with us to perform for the casino."

"Good evening." Celle paused and glanced at Kai. "Friends of Mr. Hiwatari." Taking in their surprised looks, Celle raised an eyebrow and played a half smile. "What? You can stop starring now; I know I'm very beautiful."

Before everyone's mouth could drop down onto the ground, Malarin stood up quickly. "It's nice to meet you, Miss Ran."

Celle smiled and nodded at her, Ray stood up, capturing Celle's attention. Their eyes locked with each other, somehow Ray saw a familiar person through her eyes, a girl that has disappeared for so long. "Miss Ran, it's a pleasure to meet you. I guess I'll be taking care of your meals from here on."

Celle straightened up, eyes looking at Ray with delight. "You must be Ray Kon! It's a surprise to see you here."

"Hopefully you'll like my style of cooking." Ray said with a polite smile.

"I'm sure I'll enjoy you." She said breezily.

Kai glanced at Celle, then bent down and picked up his suit jacket from the sofa, signaling that he wants to leave. Aeris looked towards Kai and stood up as well. "Kai, I'll drive you."

Then they left in silence, Celle looked after them then smirked. "So he has a girlfriend?"

Aeris's Car

"I'm in a state of shock as well." Aeris said as she just sat in the driver's seat and looked forward at nothingness. Kai sighed and leaned back onto the passenger's seat, he closed his eyes, clearly tired.

"How can two people look exactly like each other and be so totally different?" Aeris continued on, the image of her best friend flowing through her mind.

"Kai, do you think Celle is her? Could she have lost her memories?" Aeris looked over at Kai, he's still not reacting at all. Aeris looked at his mature face and sighed. Pushing her key into the ignition hole, she turned on the lights. "Kai, your seat belt."

No reaction.

Aeris sighed and leaned across, her hair brushing Kai's face, she leaned in closer to attempt to grab the seat belt, her body leaning towards a position of sprawling across Kai. Suddenly, Kai's hand caught her arm; she gasped and flinched back in surprise.

"I'll get it." Kai announced quietly and sat up to do his seat belt.

Aeris moved back with her eyes fixed on Kai, still, after so many year, he still resist another woman's touch and wouldn't want another female coming close to him.

The drive to Kai's apartment was in silence, Aeris glanced over at Kai occasionally, and his expression stayed ever the same, emotionless.

Pulling up in front of his apartment building, Aeris parked the car and turned to face Kai. "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."

Kai nodded and stepped out of the car without a word, his suit jacket in hand. Aeris looked at his back view for a few seconds more before she drove the car away slowly, the image of Celle and Ray together running through her mind.

Bar

"So what do you think?"

Tyson shrugged his shoulders and made a face at the remaining friends. "Who knows? Maybe there really is a twin for everyone on this Earth."

"Maybe, but maybe, there's something else going on here." Jamice said, her brows furrowed, and then she sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "I don't know, but I don't like her, she not like the sweet girl we used to know."

"She's not that sweet girl we used know." Kenny stated quietly then glanced at Malarin beside him. "Can't you do a check up on her?"

Malarin blinked and turned to him slowly, Max cut in before she could reply. "I don't think that's legal."

Malarin glanced at Max then took out her cell phone. "Aeris?"

Everyone looked at her with question on their face.

"Did Kai drive his car back?" Malarin nodded at something Aeris said and smiled. "Okay, I'll pick him up tomorrow then." She then hung up and smiled at everyone. "Even though I cannot search Celle through the company's data base, but I can get to know her through other ways."

Lianna set down her glass and looked at the table top. "Can you really forget your first love? What if someday, someone shows up that looks exactly like her? Is she really her? Is this fate's generosity? Or is this another trap in the mist?"

"Quoting from one of your books to remind us of fate's cruelty?" Tyson asked, looking at Lianna.

"No, I was quoting from my head to reflect on the situation."

Night Street

"So, you're saying that you're very picky when it comes to food." Ray concluded and looked at the singer beside him. They left shortly after Kai and Aeris left. Rather than taking a car, they decided to walk to Celle's hotel.

"I have to be, after all, I have to keep my figure in shape." Celle said with a wink. "So...um, why was everyone starring at me?"

Ray paused and looked down at the ground with a neutral expression and picked up his head to look at her again. "She… you look like a friend of ours."

Celle glanced at him and shoved her hands into the pockets of her pants. "Really? Where is she now?"

"I don't know." Ray said quickly, wanting to skip the subject.

Celle took in all his reactions and smirked, not wanting to drop the topic just yet. Things are just beginning to get interesting. "What happened? You guys lost contact?"

Ray frowned but said nothing, it's not as if he didn't want to answer, the truth is... he really doesn't know. She just disappeared, just vanished from Earth. Instead, he sighed and stopped walking. "Why are you so interested in this subject?"

"Well, I was told that I look exactly like a friend of yours, and." Celle swirled around and faced Ray seriously. "I don't like to be compared to someone else, especially when I happen to look exactly like her, I don't like to be a replacement."

They looked at each other on the half-empty street; Ray sighed and stepped closer to Celle with an unreadable expression on his face. "Celle, you may look exactly like our friend, but I can assure you that we're not trying to place her shadow onto you. We know you are you, and she is she, we won't mix the two of you together, because I know no one would like that feeling."

Celle looked at Ray, his serious eyes filled with sincerity. Celle sighed and stepped forward to embrace Ray tightly, feeling warmth running through her body. "Thank you Ray, thank you."

Next Morning

"Why did you come to pick me up today?" Kai asked shortly after he got into the car.

Malarin smiled and turned to look at Kai. "What's wrong Kai? I'm just worried about you." Malarin paused and her smile deepened. "Little brother."

Kai bristled and glanced at Malarin out of the corner of his eyes. "Don't push your luck; you're only two years older than me." Then Kai turned to look at Malarin. "If you have so much time to worry about me, then transfer that time and worry to Kenny instead."

Malarin sighed and looked at her hands that are folded neatly on her lap. "I fear that he might be to dependant on me that he won't be able to stand by himself in the future."

Kai looked at her profile, she is still the same as before, the same ever since he can remember. He always felt that that she was a precious antique doll that has been fused with human emotions.

"Kenny'll be fine, Malarin."

"Hopefully." Malarin echoed.

Casino Heaven

Kai stepped out of the elevator to find that his secretary is not present, looking at his watch to realize that he's extremely early, due to Malarin's early habits. Never again will he let her pick him up. Opening up the door leading to his own office, a strong scent entered his nose. Looking straight ahead, he saw Celle sitting there with something in her hand.

"What are you...."

"Who is she?" Celle interrupted him, then she held up a picture and showed it to him. "Who is she?"

The picture contained a girl that looks exactly like her, her deep blue eyes sparkling, her long brown hair dancing in the wind. Everything about her is so important to Celle, because they're like mirror reflections. However, the thing that worried Celle the most is a young Kai that is standing behind her, smiling slightly into the camera.

Could this be... the girl that Kai's in love with? Then… just what happened to her?

TBC....

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