Know the person you're sleeping with.
Ami looked around in amazement; this restaurant was simply exquisite. There were crystal chandeliers on the ceiling and every time you moved they would sparkle beautifully. The tables were covered in red silk tablecloths, with candles lit on each table. This restaurant must be extremely expensive.
"Ah Greg are you sure we can afford it?" Ami asked still stunned from her surroundings.
"Yes I am sure, and it's my shout." Greg said taking Ami's hand within his own walking her to their table.
"You booked a table? How did you know I would say yes?" Ami said a smile escaping from her face.
"I had hoped you would." Greg said starting to blush while looking down at the drink menu.
Ami just smiled back. This guy was so sweet she had never met anyone quite like him. Then she felt a courage brew within herself as she began to speak.
"Ah remember Greg we are not going to make this night awkward I am having to much fun with you."
Ami placed her hand on Greg's hand and smiled at him, he nodded in agreement.
"You are absolutely right Ami. Shall we order some drinks? " Greg said taking Ami's hand and held it softly resting their hands on the table beside them.
At the same time as Ami and Greg's date, a man was nearing the end of the Krydten Highway, which led to the north of Tokyo.
"Hey man I am almost here, you home yet?" The man said in a tired voice that could show that he had been driving for half a day.
"Um.. yeah I am home where are you?" A voice from the other end said in a depressed tone.
"About ten minutes away I just passed Leo's coffee shop." The man said turning a corner down Mayson Avenue.
"Alright see you soon." The voice said hanging up immediately.
The man in the car looked at his phone seeming confused as he heard the beeping from the other end caused by his best friend hanging up on him.
'I wonder what's up with him?' He thought as he turned into his mate's street.
Darien was in his flat reading over the assignment he had made for his class, yet he didn't get past the first equation all he could think about was Serena. The way it felt when her golden hair brushed against his naked body, how good it felt touching her soft, smooth skin. Suddenly a noise emitted from outside his door. He got up slowly out of his armchair and walked up to the speaker voice.
"Who is it?" He said in a dopey voice, keeping his hand on the button till he had finished speaking.
"It's Andrew silly who else? Now let me in." The voice said sounding impatient. Darien didn't say anything back he just pushed a button near the voice speaker which unlocked his door.
Footsteps could be heard from outside until the door flew open.
"I am here!" Andrew said with a huge grin dropping all of his bags on the floor and collapsing onto Darien's red sofa.
"It is strange you know." Andrew began.
"I have been driving for basically the whole day yet all I want to do now that I have arrived is sit down. I am stuffed." Andrew said relaxing his whole body breathing a deep breath in.
Silence. Darien did not reply to his best friend, he had just picked up the assignment again ignoring all that was around him including his friend Andrew.
"Hello? Earth to Darien….What is with you?" Andrew said sitting up supporting his weight with his hands.
Silence. Andrew became concerned. He had known Darien for basically his whole life. He has been with him through the fantastic highs and the devastating lows. He recognized the way Darien was acting he had seen this before.
"Who is she and what has she done?" He said walking over to Darien.
"I don't want to talk about it." Darien said getting up and walking to his kitchen to open a beer.
"Come on Darien, I am your best friend you tell me everything." Andrew said following Darien into the kitchen helping himself to a beer.
" There is nothing to say, except that all women are liars." Darien said looking out the kitchen window.
"Is this about Ann? You have to let go, I know what she did was wrong and hurt you very much but not all women are like that." Andrew said sounding like a shrink. Darien shook his head, he didn't want to get into the subject of Ann again, it hurt too much.
"Just drop it Andrew I don't want to talk about it." Darien said walking out of the kitchen.
"Oh welcome back." He said walking off to his room closing it once he was in.
"Yes nice welcoming." Andrew said to himself with a sigh. Darien could be so stubborn. When he had made his mind up it was made in stone. Unbreakable.
He decided not to follow Darien, he would find out the reason behind his bad mood eventually there was no point in pushing it out. He walked to one of his bags and took out a folder. Within this folder were pages of paper work, a photo of a café, and people's fax numbers and phone numbers.
"So this is going to be my new business. Cute little place." He said talking to himself again. Andrew then got up and walked to the phone that was located on a small wooden table near the kitchen. He picked it up and rang the first number on the list.
"Syilca Brenden speaking." The voice said professionally.
"This is Andrew Furuhata speaking I believe we have an appointment tomorrow morning about certain paper work."
"Ah yes hello Mr Furuhata, that should be fine come round the café about nine o'clock, all the signing can be done straight away and you should have the coffee shop by the end of the week." The women's voice said in a relieved voice like she was happy to hand over her business.
"Alright I will see you then, goodnight." Andrew said hanging up the phone.
After the phone call Andrew decided to call it a night put the folder away and walked into the guest's room.
When Andrew woke up he noticed that there was quite a lot of light emitting his room. He turned over to look at his bed side clock and it read 8 : 30.
'Oh shit!' He thought as he jumped out of bed and quickly got ready for his meeting with Miss Brenden at 9.
"Hey Ami, finally your awake." Mina said all dressed and putting her shoes on.
"Oh morning Mina. Yes I had a late night I am extremely tired, I think I might skip our psychology early class." Ami said pulling the sheets over her head.
Mina looked stunned. Had she heard right? Did Ami the 'super nerd' actually want to skip class?
"Are you feeling alright sunshine?" Mina said pulling the sheets away from Ami's face.
"You must have had a big night last night." Mina said analyzing Ami's response carefully. By the way she began to blush Mina figured it out.
"Who is he?" She said eyes wide open a huge grin rising to her cheekbones. She felt for her friend. Ami has never had a boyfriend so this was her very first. Ami's first love how exciting Mina thought.
"Um well he um well you see its like this…." Ami said swinging her arms in the air trying to think of an excuse fast that doesn't consist of the four letter word 'Greg.'
"Well?" Mina said leaning closer to Ami the suspense of not knowing this new goss killing her.
"Hi guys." A very drained Serena said walking into their dorm room with the same clothes she had worn the previous day. The two girls eyed her warily.
"Serena have you been out all night?" Ami said expressing shock threw her words. Serena just nodded and walked over to the table in the kitchen where the girls either ate or did homework.
She picked up her psychology book and left the room without speaking to either of her friends.
"Ok now I know something is definitely up!" Mina said picking up her bag.
"I am going to psych class too, are you sure your not coming?" Mina asked turning her head back to look at Ami still showing concern on her face for Serena. She nodded.
"I better, there is no way I could get there on time, and I do not want to disrupt the class." Ami said lying back down.
"That's cool I will just tell them you weren't feeling well." Mina said waving her right hand at Ami before walking out their door. This left Ami all alone to wallow in her misery, to think of the secrets that she had to keep from her friends. She took in a deep breath and sighed loudly before deciding to get out of bed.
She was going to talk to Greg; she wanted to know where they stand before telling Mina the truth about their secret relationship. I mean if it was only a friendly outing last night then Mina wouldn't need to know but if Greg felt the same way that Ami did, which she was pretty sure he did, this was going to be much more then a one night thing.
After having some cereal for breakfast and getting dressed Ami locked up the dorm room and went to see Greg.
"Hello Greg." Ami said smiling at the face that lay before her. He smiled back at her, a smile that reassured her that last night was something special that he would want to do again.
"Come in Ami, I was hoping you would drop by." Greg said offering her a seat before going into the kitchen to turn the kettle on.
"Greg we need to discuss a few things. I need to know what lies ahead for us. I mean I need to know on behalf of Mina as well as myself. She is my friend and if we are planning to continue seeing each other she has to know, because I know she likes you…The same way I do." Ami said moving her hands nervously as she looked at the ground.
"Your right, I kinda guessed she liked me and I feel terribly awful about this she is a wonderful person just not the person for me." Greg said leaning near Ami holding her hand. Ami smiled and closed her eyes. She was going to do this. It was now or never. She must make the first move forward she must be brave.
She leaned closer to Greg and was startled by how quick her lips reached his.
When Greg had seen that Ami had closed her eyes he had been thinking the same thing and leaned over as well. After about ten seconds their lips pulled away. Each of them began to blush, neither of them knew much about this kind of stuff, which made it all a new and fascinating adventure yet a scary one at the same time.
"I like kissing you." Greg said when he opened his eyes, remaining close to Ami's face.
"I like kissing you too." Ami answered feeling a whole new emotion brewing from within her. She wanted to feel his lips upon her own once more. To feel his soft lips brush up against hers, to feel his warm breath on her face and to feel the electricity she felt within herself when his lips contacted hers.
Their stares became so intense. Greg raised his hand to cup Ami's cheek. She closed her eyes on contact and raised her hand to cover his. He moved in closer and kissed her again and again. Little soft innocent kisses on her soft mouth. When they finally pulled apart each one was shaking. This feeling was so incredible, a wanting neither one had ever felt before but it was more then a wanting for the other more of a hunger for the other.
"This is even more wonderful then I could have ever imagined. " Ami said with a smile that lighted her whole face up.
"I know what you mean, I have to tell you the truth Ami I have never felt this way before." Greg said holding Ami's hands within his own. Ami kissed him soft and long on the lips before pulling away again.
"I know what you mean."
Unknown to the two lovebirds was the fact that there was a person watching them. When Ami had come in earlier that morning, she had not closed the door properly.
About ten minutes ago, a person who had wanted to talk to Greg walked up to the door and was about to knock on the door. Though she did not when she heard a woman's voice, so she listened in to hear what they were talking about and to find out what this woman was to Greg.
She was startled to find out that she was practically his girlfriend! When she decided that she had seen enough she dropped what was in her hand and ran off down the hall.
"What was that?" Ami jumped out of Greg's embrace startled by the sudden noise.
"I don't know." Greg said getting up to investigate where the noise had come from. He opened his front door to see a rectangular parcel on the floor outside his dorm room. He opened it intrigued to find out what it was. It was a box of expensive chocolates with a little card attached to the center.
It said:
To Dearest Greg,
We have just known each other for a very short time yet I already have strong feelings for you. Greg I think you are a really nice guy, a guy that I would love to get to know much better. I hope you feel the same way about me because I think we could have something really special.
Love Always Mina xxx
It was Mina. Mina had been the person outside the door looking in on Ami and Greg.
"Oh god." Greg said softly to himself after reading the letter.
'She would have seen me with Ami.' Greg said feeling guilty as he read her letter once more.
'She wasn't meant to find out this way.'
"Greg what is it?" Ami said worried for Greg after he had said 'oh god.'
"It's from Mina." Greg said turning around to show Ami the gift and letter.
"She must have seen us together." Greg said feeling so bad for Mina. Ami's whole face went blue. What has she done? Poor Mina!
"Oh no, this is bad! Oh poor Mina." Ami said looking at the door that Mina would have been near about a minute ago.
After Psychology class Serena had managed to escape Mina's questions and walked to their dorm room after waving good bye to Mina whom seemed to be in a hurry to be somewhere.
Once she unlocked the door she went straight to her closet and pulled something nice out to wear. On the way to her dorm room she had spotted Darien in a lecture hall and decided she was going to speak with him, this time making him listen. She wanted to work things out with him. Things haven't been the same since they stopped talking.
After she was dressed and fixed her hair she ran back out the door as fast as she could to that lecture hall in fear that he would no longer be there.
When she reached the hall Darien was still there marking papers. She opened the door slowly and froze when his eyes met hers. She could feel the tension boil in the room.
"Darien we have to talk." Serena said closing the door behind her. Darien said nothing; he took his glasses off and placed them on the desk with a huge sigh.
"I know, there is something about my past you should know about." He said in a sad tone.
Well there goes another chapter. I am sorry this chapter took longer to update then previous chapters, its just Christmas took up a lot of my time. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I will try and update the next chapter quicker. Well I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas, and I hope all have a wonderful New Year.
Love Ash