Chapter 6
The next morning Gabriel sat in his office reading letter of applications by several people that want to candidate for the old job of Nathalie Sancoeur.
"A bachelor degree? Interesting" Gabriel mumbled from reading one of the candidatures, then swiped forwards to the next pages to read the rest of the biography. Gabriel's smartphone on the desk started to vibrate, making Gabriel roll his eyes and pick the smartphone up to see it was a phone call from his former business partner Tomoe Tsurugi, the mother of Kagami Agreste.
"Good evening Mrs. Tsurugi. I apologize for the interruption from yesterday"
"It's alright,"
"I had to check out if that noise had been caused by someone else or by Adrien or Kagami. They have overnight last night in my mansion"
"She's still together with your son?"
"Uh yes," Gabriel responded. "Did she tell you something else?"
"No, she hasn't," Tomoe answered. "I knew she went out with him and I haven't seen her for two years"
"Well, then you probably don't know that your daughter married into the Agreste family,"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Yes, I was caught by surprise too. He didn't even say a word to me, not even, that he was dating her"
"Your son is outta his mind. Why does he do those things without consulting anyone?"
"He acted out of love Mrs. Tsurugi. I do admit, I would have like to have heard something about it too, but he's around, what was his age again? 24….25?"
"Do you think, that him interrupting her wedding to talk to her about his feelings towards he is a well-mannered act?"
"Was she supposed to marry someone else?"
"Yes she was and your son thought he could just interrupt the wedding confessing her, that marrying that man was wrong and that she should follow her instinct instead of what we had organized her"
"Okay, I wasn't aware of that" Gabriel confessed. "What are you thinking about it?"
"I want my daughter to stay away from your son. He's no good for her"
"I don't think she or even my son would do that, even if we're both were against it"
"You don't have to think, you have to DO it!"
"Dear lord…..." Gabriel mumbled unpleased with the question of the woman. "When I see them again, I'll talk with them about it"
"You better be convincing"
"I give my best" Gabriel stated while rolling his eyes, then the woman turned the call off and Gabriel threw his smartphone at the table. "Millions of women and he had to go with a Tsurugi," Gabriel told himself not impressed by the task ordered by his former business partner.
Adrien sat at the reception of a doctor's office working in front of the computer and on the other side of the reception stood a tall, raven-haired man waiting for Adrien to speak to him.
"Next Friday on the 24th we've got three appointments free. 11:10, 14:50 and 16:10" Adrien announced to the patient. "Dr. Norgay will check the healing process of your arm and when necessary fix a few things"
"14:50 would be perfect" The man answered earning a nod from the blonde, which took from his desk an appointment paper and wrote down the chosen date, then handed it out at the man.
"There you go. Thanks for your visit"
"Thank you. Have a nice day" The man wished walking away while Adrien waved at the man.
"See you next time," Adrien said, then went back to his excel file on the computer to continue writing on it. On his desk, he had his smartphone leaned against the wall and noticed it lighting the display on to see a new message. Adrien unlocked the smartphone to reveal the messages to see both were from his wife, then he opened them to read them.
"I'm waiting at the bus station for you. XXX, Kagami,"
Adrien typed down on his smartphone a message to his wife, then checked the message before he hit the send button.
"Only one patient needs to know the next appointment, then I'll be free for the lunch break. See you later my dragon empress," Adrien watched his message get delivered and appear on his chat box with a smirk emoji, followed by two ticks appear over the message.
Adrien placed his smartphone down to continue on his document, then watched his smartphone vibrate and he noticed the message on the screen, which was answered by his wife.
"You silly cat" Kagami responded with a laughing cat emoji, making Adrien smile enamored with the comment and he knocked down on the keys of the keyboard afterward the last patient of the morning routine came out a black-haired woman accompanied by a short woman with blonde hair.
"Hand this out to Mr. Agreste and he will give you the meds and your next appointment. Have a nice day"
Adrien opened the agenda on his computer and took the appointment sheet waiting for the man to approach him and he got up to take the notes from the doctor.
"Alright, so…..one box of vitamin droplets and one box of tablets for sore throat" Adrien read, then got walked to the storeroom next to the reception entering into there and looked around the number of boxes for the medicaments he needs for the patient. Adrien encountered the first one and moved to another shelf looking down at the names noticed in front of the shelf and he took out the second last box from it and before he left he checked on a list, that was attached to the door and took a pen, that also hang there to note down the name of the medicament, that needed to be ordered. Adrien brought the medicine to his desk, then opened another program and copied the information of the patient into a sticker on the screen, then he pressed the print icon to let out a sticker from a small printer-like device, that lied next to the tower of his computer and he removed the two stickers that came out and pasted them on the boxes.
"So Mr. Mérante, the droplets you have to take every day after every main meal. Lunch, Breakfast and Dinner. The lozenges you take four to five times a day. Best after eating," Adrien explained handing the medicine out to the man. "Also drinking a lot helps too. Isn't quite a great feeling you get with the sore throat when you swallow it, but it's still good"
"Thank you Mr. Agreste" The man answered watching Adrien look down for a free date for the man.
"Is Friday good? Or Monday, Tuesday…..?"
"Tuesday would be perfect" Mr. Mérante answered. "Morning if possible"
"Hmm…..I can only suggest you 10:30. How does that sound?"
"Good" The man answered earning a nod from Adrien, which noticed down for the man the date and handed the paper out at the man. "Thank you very much,"
"You're welcome and get well soon"
"Thank you, have a nice day"
"Same to you. Bye" Adrien told the man watching him leave, then he pressed the control+S button to save his data afterward he locked his computer screen by using the control button and the L key. "See you later, pal" Adrien grabbed his smartphone, then took down his coat and walked around the reception to the exit and searched on his smartphone for Kagami's number to phone her. "I'm leaving right now. Have you already decided on, what to eat?"
"Not yet. We could decide it later together. Our lunch break takes 90 minutes, right?"
"Yes, good idea. I'll be there in 10 minutes"
"Great see ya"
"Bye Kagami" Adrien finished the call, then put his smartphone back in his pant's pockets and moved further to a zebra crossing to get to the other side of the road.
In the afternoon after work, Adrien and Kagami sat together out in the garden of the Agreste's mansion looking at Emilie Agrests walk around the garden with a strange woman showing her everything around the corner of the backyard. Adrien looked away at Kagami seeing her observing his mother, then he began to talk with her.
"It's really different now without Nathalie around," Adrien confessed. "She was a bit cold and strict about my education but she was like family to me. Like a second mom"
"I believe it would have been much harder for you if had lost her along with your mother. That would be the worst"
"Oh yes, it would" Adrien agreed. "Thank God this wasn't the case"
"It's really hard to imagine what you had to pass through your entire childhood to not know about your mother's whereabouts and all,"
"Yeah but it's over now. That's what matters most"
"It does"
Gabriel appeared at the exit of the back of the mansion, then stepped on the grass of the garden, then approached the young couple seeing the blonde look up at him.
"Hey father," Adrien greeted.
"Good I've caught you two here. There's a problem and I need to talk to you two about it"
"What happened?" Adrien asked curious then his father went down on the ground to look at the pair.
"Today Mrs. Tsurugi called me and she found out, that you two had gotten married the other week...she told me she wasn't informed about it and felt annoyed that none of you said anything towards her?"
"I know Mr. Agreste" Kagami responded.
"And according to her, you interrupted her wedding to convince her to leave him for you?"
"Father, Kagami was forced to marry someone she didn't love. I just wanted her to figure out, that following that idea of her mother was ridiculous and it would ruin her life. Kagami just came with me, because she was in love with me and she couldn't stay by her mom as she disobeyed her" Adrien explained. "Even if she wouldn't have loved me the same way I did it wouldn't matter cause I know she would do a huge mistake if she kept following her mother's arrangements instead of just following her own path,"
"Adrien is saying the truth, Mr. Agreste. I stood with him, because he was my best friend and I loved him. Your son is one of the only man I have ever loved so much. I couldn't bear losing him again"
"But why haven't you told that your mother? The fashion designer asked.
"My mother doesn't care that much about who I want to have in my life and who not. The only thing that mattered to her was to unite our family with the ones of the Miyamotos. If she didn't she wouldn't have denied Adrien in the first place"
"Father listen to me. I love Kagami over everything in the world. Please you know how hard it is to lose someone you loved that much?"
Gabriel rolled his eyes away to see his wife talking with the new candidate of the job as the family's assistant, then he sighed and nodded.
"Alright...to be honest. I should really look that you have a happy life with someone, even though her somewhat rivalry with you due to what happened in the past,"
"I'm not sure if it works, but could you try to tell her that you have never seen us so happy and that it would be a mistake to separate us?"
"I will see what I can do Miss Tsurugi...erm I mean Mrs. Agreste," Gabriel answered watching Adrien grin at Kagami at the mention of his last name on Kagami's, then Adrien placed his arm around Kagami's to lean his forehead on hers.
"You two will stay for dinner, right?" Gabriel asked watching Kagami nod at Adrien, then Adrien returned her answer to the older man.
"We would love to" Adrien responded smiling then Gabriel patted his son on the shoulder walking back to the manor.
"I wonder how my mother found out about us?" Kagami pondered making Adrien shrug his shoulders.
"Facestargram pictures? Adrien answered opening his account to see over 10'000 likes on a post with several images of his and Kagami's honeymoon, then Adrien clicked one of the pictures, where he stood inside the water with his green swimming pants holding Kagami from under her deck while she had her legs wrapped around him sharing a passionate kiss with him.
"What do the comments say?" Kagami asked then Adrien opened the comment section to see them.
"My favorite bro Nino commented on almost every picture so far I know. Here he commented the following; Wow, that picture should be in the mensuel magazine! Then the second one is from Rose Lavillant. "You two are like Ying and Yang, besides you're both the Yin"
"Okay, I think Rose should research that a little" Kagami chuckled as she read that comment. "Is that Chloe?"
"Oh yes...Oh Adrikins I always thought we two would end up together but to be honest, I wouldn't deserve to have such a caring and gentle boyfriend-husband as Kagami does. I wish you two the best" Adrien read out loud, then widened his eyes at the next comment which was from Kim. "Are you two hands strong enough to carry your girl or do you have down there extra help?"
"Kim really is weird sometimes" Kagami commented, then Adrien swiped to the next image of the two running together on the treadmill starting challenging each other while there was a third person with two smartphones counting the miles they ran on the hill.
"Ah doing that together against you two is real entertainment, right Ondine, Kimchienle?" Adrien read it out loud, earning a nod from Kagami. Adrien swiped to the next picture of them, where the two lied on a beach mattress inside an open Barack with the sight to the ocean both holding up their smoothies at the photographer.
"You two are too cute" Kagami read a comment, that was posted by Mireille Caquet. "Aww Nathaniel thinks we're the cutest couple he knows"
"He ain't wrong,"
"You were a model before, so of course you stereotypically handsome"
"Not only me. You're also very gorgeous, mostly your face. I don't know, but those freckles on your cheek just make me melt of kawai-ness" Adrien confessed making Kagami laugh at his comment.
"Kawai-ness? Are you serious?"
"I couldn't come up with a better sentence right now," Adrien responded then he continued to show his wife their images and up in the bureau of Gabriel he stood in front of the window observing the two together, then he watched Kagami gently kissing him on his son's cheek, making Gabriel sink his head down, knowing his son was happy around her afterward he frowned and took out his smartphone from his pocket to call Mrs. Tsurugi.
"Good evening Mr. Agreste. I hope you're calling for a good motive"
"I've talked with my son and your daughter about it. There's no chance they would leave each other. They're very firmly in love with each other. I can't do anything about this"
"You have to do that Gabriel. I don't want my daughter to be around with this man,"
"Adrien was raised to be an educated young man. His behavior towards other people always is friendly and decent. And women….he treats them equally and with respect. A true gentleman and you know him well too. The only thing he did that back in Japan, was because he believed it was the wrong thing Kagami was doing. He mainly helped her to avoid ruining her life by marrying someone she wasn't in love with,"
"He shouldn't have accompanied her during her trip to Japan, if it wasn't for that this would have never happened"
"What trip are you talking about?"
"The one the two got lost in Russia and had to move along together to reach Japan"
"Oh, the one with the bus issue?" Gabriel mentioned. "Adrien just followed his heart to help her get home. Unlike us he actually did something"
"Are you telling me, I didn't care about my daughter's well-being?" Tomoe asked in an offended tone.
"If you would really, really care about her, you wouldn't mind having her here with my son, wouldn't you?"
"I've got enough of your senses, Gabriel. I really wonder, what I have seen in you before,"
"Been thinking the same, to be honest," Gabriel replied back hearing the woman growl annoyed.
"I still don't want to see my daughter with your son in one roof. If you can't separate them this way you'll have to find another way. Otherwise, I'll tell your wife everything about, what you did to get her back. How does this motivational call sound to you?"
Gabriel gasped at Tomoe blackmailing him with his lies he told Emilie about what happened in the past, then growled.
"You wouldn't do that"
"If I were you I would quickly find out a way to get them away from each other. The time is ticking"
"Don't worry, I'll find a way to deal with it" Gabriel said, then Tomoe turned the call off, making Gabriel angry, which threw his smartphone across the room causing it to break the display. "Damn it!" Gabriel shouted fumed about the conversation, then at the door appeared Emilie, which looked worried at her husband.
"Is everything okay, Gabriel?" The wife asked, then Gabriel looked in shock back at his wife.
"What…..did you hear?"
"I just heard you say something with you'll find a way to deal with it" Emilie responded. "Did something happen at the work?"
"Oh no…...it's just….one of my workers ruined something I had planned and I was just informed about it and it didn't really sound good"
"Oh no"
"But everything is fine. I will check it out tomorrow" Gabriel stated. "First I need to cool down a little,"
"You should reduce your workload a little, you're very stressed lately"
"I will think about it" Gabriel answered. "I would be nice to spend more days with you or our son after all those years"
"Indeed" Emilie answered pecking the man on the cheek. "Come I'll invite you for tea,"
"I think I'll rather take a cool coffee"
"I don't mind" Emilie answered leaving the bureau along with her husband.