Chapter 4…
Walking towards the car Hokuto tried to come up with an excuse that he could say to Chiwa. It had to be something that she could believe he wouldn't want her to know about otherwise she'd realize he wasn't telling the truth. He could tell her the real reason but he wasn't going to do that, because telling her the real reason could only go two ways.
ONE: She would laugh and then tease him about it for the rest of his life.
TWO: She would get angry about why he would even think about something like sex at such a time.
Both were results he didn't like, and so he need a different excuse. His wife had put him in a difficult situation, and even though he prided himself on the fact that he was way better at handling these kind of situations than most men, he didn't like admitting the fact that when these situations concerned his own wife he was a total failure. She had some kind of power over him, he couldn't figure out what that power was but right now he didn't have time to contemplate that thought anyway because he had bigger problems to deal with. Time was running out and he had yet to come up with a reasonable excuse.
Ugh! This is too freaking complicated, he thought. I mean the reason why I wouldn't want her to know about something is because it's too embarrassing, but I need to tell her something believable, and the only thing she would believe is something that I do consider embarrassing, so if I'm bound to get embarrassed today anyways, what is the point of coming up with an excuse, I've got a perfectly good one right here.
But it wasn't just about the embarrassment that he would have to suffer, it was how Chiwa would feel about his actual excuse if he told her. This was his wedding day and he didn't want to get into a fight with her. Which was totally going to be the case if he told her the real reason. If it was the first option she reacted with and laughed in his face, he knew he would get angry, and even if he didn't he knew his hurt pride wouldn't let him enjoy the day as he should. If it was the second option that she reacted with, then they would definitely have a fight. Either way it seemed, he was doomed.
So he decided that since he needed to come up with an excuse, an illness was his safest bet. After all she knew he didn't like being sick, so obviously he wouldn't want to talk about it in front of her and it was the least embarrassing as she had already seen him ill.
A sickness… I can do that, He thought, but it has to be something not too serious, after all I don't want her to freak out. Headache? No that's not serious enough for me to send her out of the room, hell I don't even need a doctor for that. Maybe a cold, yeah that could actually work. Or maybe Stress… she saw how tired I had become once due to stress, so much so that I collapsed, and how I refused to go to the hospital. She would totally believe that. A smile started to form on his lips when suddenly it turned into a frown. Wait I can't use stress as an excuse. If she believes me then she'll start mothering me like the last time and as much as I like being the center of her attention, I don't want her to have to take care of me, especially since I'm not even sick. Great now I'm stuck. Wonderful. He sighed.
Hokuto was in such deep thought that he kept on walking without even noticing his surroundings. Literary. If he had paid attention he would have realized that he was, surrounded by sickness. He had so many options of sickness around him that he could take his pick. But even though he was too busy racking his brain to realize that, he did realized he was running out of time fast. In about 2 other minutes he would be out of time and standing his front of his wife.
As he neared the gates of hell that would take him to his wife, he tried to think of other excesses he could give his wife, but he dismissed them all as soon as he thought of them. This was supposed to be his wedding day, and he had special plans for today and most of his ideas would just interfere with those plans. Great I need to lie to my wife and I can't even come up with one good lie. Ugh, what's happened to me? I used to be able to come with amazing excuses on the spot. God when did I become such a loser who can't even come up with one lie to save his life. With every step he took, Hokuto was becoming increasingly annoyed with himself. It really irked him that as the President of a big company it was part of his job description to be able to handle any troublesome situations, to be able to think on his feet, but now when it really counted he couldn't come up with one reasonable excuse which his wife would accept and which also wouldn't embarrass him or interfere with his plans for today.
Looking up he realized that he had fully run out of time, because he could actually see his wife standing against their car, which meant that with a few more steps he would be standing in front of his wife. And if he wasn't able to come up with an excuse till now, there was fat chance that he would be able to do so in seconds. Giving up, he thought, well now I guess I'll just have to wing it. I just hope that when I open my mouth something believable and not stupid comes out. And if she doesn't immediately jump my throat then I might even have time to think some more. With one finally sigh, he took the last few steps towards his wife.
"You ready to go?" he asked Chiwa.
