Secrets:
Chapter Three:
"Hm? What sort of situation, K-san?" Seguchi spoke into the phone, leaning back in his chair behind his desk and looking out the window. "Oh…one of those…you know as well as I that he…." He paused and listened, about to speak again until he heard K say a certain name. "What…Jacklyn? That's…." The Shacho stopped leaning in his chair and averted his eyes from the window. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, it says it in this letter the girl had."
"A girl….how old is she?" Seguchi drew in a breath at K's answer. "Fifteen?" 'Damn, it could be true…but….' The shacho absentmindedly looked up when he heard the door to his office click open, ready to tell whoever entered to come back some other time.
His words fell silent when the brown hair and cobalt eyes of his visitor caught his eye.
"What's up, Tohma? Staying cooped up in an office all day's no fun, na no da." Ryuu chirped, swinging Kumagoro around as he skipped up to the desk. "You should take a day off, na no da!"
For a moment Tohma only stared silently at Ryuu; regaining his composure, he muttered into the phone for K to hold on for a minute, and then he covered the speaker piece before speaking to Ryuu.
"Ryuu?" He gazed at the man, who now was chewing on the pink plushie. "Did you… have you heard from Jacklyn-chan lately?"
Hearing the name, Ryuu stopped biting Kumagoro and looked up at the blond, his cobalt eyes glinting with surprise. He quickly looked back at the pink plushie in his hands as he thought of the letter he received a few days back; he sighed and looked back at Tohma.
"Yes….why do you want to know?"
The blond took in a deep breath and then exhaled to steady himself; instead of quickly answering the cobalt eyed singer, Tohma breathed into the phone: "Bring her to the studio, K-san."
"Tohma? What's…is Jacklyn here?" Ryuu averted his eyes from Tohma to the phone and then back to Tohma. "….I don't really want to see her, Tohma…."
"Don't worry….it's not her who's coming…." The shacho hung up the phone and stared directly into Ryuu's eyes. "When did Jacklyn contact you?"
"I got a letter a few days ago…but I didn't read it, I…."
"…." 'Now I know why he didn't say anything….' "What did you do with the letter, Ryuu?"
"Threw it out."
The shacho inhaled deeply and leaned back into his chair, eyes closing briefly.
"Tohma, what are….did I do something wrong, na no ka? Should I've told…?"
"You should've read the letter at least, but that's not important. What's important is that certain night you had with Jacklyn is coming back to haunt you…."
"Huh? What d'you mean, Tohma? What ni…." Ryuu paused in thought, bringing Kumagoro up to hide his blush. 'That night? Oh….' "That's the past, na no da. It was only once, why would it haunt me?"
"Because, the girl K-san's bringing to the studio…she's Jacklyn's fifteen year old daughter…." The shacho paused as he saw Ryuu think.
"Daughter? Jacklyn's daughter?"
"Not just Jacklyn's daughter, Ryuu." Tohma looked directly into the singer's eye. "But one claiming to be your daughter as well."
"My…my….daugh…daught…." The singer gaped as the meaning to Tohma's words clicked in his brain. "Daughter?"
A/N: End chapter, I can't think of what else to write.