Chapter 7

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Rin slammed her hand down on her alarm clock. It was 5:30 She stretched her body then slowly sat up. She wiped the sleep out of her eyes then stood up and went over to her closet. She grabbed a light yellow blouse and black dress pants. She put them on then grabbed some brown dress shoes and white nylon ankle socks.

Once she was dressed, she poured herself a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and ate it with milk. Then she went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth. (AN: She took a shower that night before. Don't go thinking she doesn't bathe.) She curled the bottom of her hair and parted it. She put on a little lipstick, blush, eye shadow, and mascara.

She grabbed her purse and went to start her car. It started perfectly, which caused her to smile. She saw that she would be on time so she stopped at the bank to see if her paycheck from Miroku's coffeehouse came.

"Hello Rin." Kohaku said as she walked in.

She ignored him and went up to a bank teller and asked if it showed she got her paycheck. The teller took a few minutes then told her that it had been put in. She then left still ignoring Kohaku.

Kohaku shook his head and went back to work.

Sesshoumaru got to the 27th floor at 7:00 exactly and walked to his office. He then saw Rin sitting at her desk. She looked up when she heard him, gave a little smile, then she went back to what she was doing. He started to go in his office when he heard her voice.

"You have an appointment with Mr. Wolfe at 8:00. Then you have a lunch date with Ms. Onigo at noon. Your brother would like to talk to you at 6:00." Rin said.

Sesshoumaru gave a nod of his head then shut the door to his office.

Rin frowned when she heard Jaken walk in a few seconds after Sesshoumaru closed his office door.

"There you are. You need to sort through all these. Newest ones to the front, oldest ones to the back."

"Yes, Jaken-sama." Rin said rolling her eyes. She wished she could hurt him.

'What a boring day.' Rin thought, as she packed up to leave. Then she saw Sesshoumaru walk out of his office.

"Good night." Rin said starting to leave.

"Wait." Sesshoumaru said. Rin froze and slowly turned around.

"Yes?"

"Would you go out to dinner with me?"

"Sorry, I can't. I have a previous engagement. I promised my ex sister-in-law I'd have dinner at her house with her boyfriend and her friend and her friend's husband."

"Ex sister-in-law?" Sesshoumaru questioned, a confused look showing up on his normally cold face.

"Yeah." Rin said a pained look coming onto her face. "Her brother once was my husband, but then he cheated on me with another girl. They got married a year after we divorced." Rin felt some tears want to come out but she held them back. 'I don't want to cry in front of a man.' She thought.

Sesshoumaru sensed that she wanted to cry, but she didn't. He was having some feelings he couldn't understand. He wanted to comfort her. He never felt that with any other girl. "I'm sorry." Was all he could think to say.

Rin's eyes flashed with anger then she went back to her cheery old self. "It's all in the past. I can't do anything about it now. Now if you'll excuse me."

She walked to the elevator. Once she was in the elevator, she felt a twang of guilt hit her for lying to Sesshoumaru about having her previous engagement. 'Why am I feeling this way about a man. All of them are the same as Kohaku was. It's best not to get mixed up with them. Best to stay single and all alone for your whole life, then get your heart broken.' She thought.