Okay, I finally finished chapter 4 :)

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Gumi's POV

It was silent. I was too shock to see what I just saw behind those strands of pink hair. His golden eyes glint as a sign of something dark to me, and that twisted smile on his face made me unable to react. I don't know what kind of face that I'm making right now, am I surprised? That's no question. But I could feel this pressure and myself starting to become terrified whilst my body is shaking. His gaze seems like as if it could see through me, just because of that one thing it already made me down. One thing that I'm sure right now aside from surprised is that I'm scared. I'm scared of this person who sat in front of me.

"What's wrong Gumi? You suddenly became so pale…" his expression was still the same. But his voice turned back to the way he usually talks to me. I'm still in wonder.

"J-just now…w-why are…you smirking like that?" I tried to encourage myself but my words came out in stutter.

"Smirking? I wonder what you mean by that?" is he trying to play dumb with me or what? I can't help but to point it out what I meant.

"T-that…that face!" I said rather loud and pointing my finger at him, "What is…that suppose to mean? Are you upset about something?" I started to clear my nervousness. Yuuma just kept quiet after that, I don't know what he's thinking at the moment.

"Oh? You mean my current state right now? Do you…want to find out more?" the gap in his words was very awkward. I was still left in wonder by him.

As I was still standing there stiffly, he began to move. Slowly he stood up and walked into my direction, because I was afraid of what will he do to me when I saw his expression I tried to escape by heading toward the door and twist the knob to open. But it won't budge before I realized that the door was locked. Since when did he-? Ah! When I was-

BANG!

Both of his arms were slammed on the door, leaving me in between. I dare not to turn around to look at him in the eyes. I was too afraid until the shaking in my hands is visible to be seen. He noticed that I was frightened by him, but that made him enjoy it more. His face make another twist of it, he then slowly bowed at the level of my height and whisper something to my ear.

"Are you…scared?" he said in a teasing voice. I still couldn't look at him and just feign ignorance of what he said to me. But that's my mistake.

"I see…" suddenly he pulled me by my hand and threw me into the bed harshly. I let out a shriek although it was faint, but he heard it.

"W-why are you doing this?!" I shouted with my shaky voice, he didn't change his cold expression.

"You don't need to know that. Actually…you have no right to ask me about it." What did he man by 'you have no right…'? I don't understand at all! What is he thinking?

"I still can't believe that you'd submit to our arranged marriage just like that, I thought you'd go against it so much that you're prepared to die. Well, at least it saved me up from the trouble of unnecessary things." he calmly said that, as if it's not that big of a problem. Now my hands are trembling because of anger.

"So that's how you think of me?" I paused at that question before I faced him up and say, "Using such cunning ways…if you have some grudge against me or something say it to my face now! If you're a man then face it straightforward!"

"…" he's still stood there with that poker face of his, it seems my words didn't affect him a bit. Then I continued to say what's on my mind without shouting it at him.

"…or could it be that you…are afraid and it leads you to use such cowardice ways?" he flinched at what I said and reacted to it. I guess I was right but I have no idea that he'd be so upset when he heard that and suddenly he pushed me down and pinned me by my hands. I can barely move because I was trapped not only my hands, but my legs were also pinned by his. Now I'm like a trapped mouse that's going to be eaten by a cat. Seeing me trembling and struggling for an escape made him smile, a sadistic smile.

"Now who's the coward here?" his husky voice sounded dangerous. I tried hard to get away from him but it's useless, he's overpowering me.

"You…what are you trying to do to me?" I bravely let out my voice whilst struggling to no avail. At least I'm trying here.

"Just see and feel it for yourself." that last smirk was the signal of the beginning of something unexpected.

Yuuma abruptly kissed me. Because it was too sudden I'm in shock while struggled even more. The kiss was too rough and he didn't even let me to take a breath, his tongue slipped into my mouth and played with mine. But still this wasn't what I expect from him. Because I was starting to lack of air to breathe then I became weaker and weaker to struggle, so my only option is a one strike move. I pushed him off as hard as I can and then slapped him. Without I realized, I was already at the verge of crying since tears covered my eyes before it started to flow down on my face. Unexpectedly, Yuuma's expression turned into a surprise one after he looked at me in that kind of state. Nevertheless his facial form went back into the original state as before.

"Heh…interesting. You look really desperate now, but I guess that means I can have some fun a lot more from now on. Too bad I feel bored already." after the sudden change of atmosphere, he just let me go and got off from me before he went into the bathroom. I thought he would be angrier if I did that, but I'm glad of the outcome from my action.

I got up and inhale some air to calm myself first then get a change of clothes. Thinking back of what just happened made me sad, because it was supposed to be a joyful day when it comes to a first night after a wedding ceremony but now it seems like it was just some kind of a scam. The happiness that I felt was only for a moment.

After knowing Yuuma's true color, I feel disappointed. Why? Because I thought that I had found a love that I want, but in the end I fell in love with the wrong person. I really liked when Yuuma was nice, kind and gentle to me and I don't like the Yuuma right now. He's cold, rough and somewhat cunning. So was it all a lie then? That the time we've spent together, the time when I think he started to open up himself to me…was it really all a lie? I don't know anymore, I can't trust him any longer like I used to. I wish this was all a dream…no! I rather wish that I could turn back the time now.

I cried quite long enough that made my eyes swollen, I wiped my tears and just fall asleep to try to forget that awful incident. When I had fallen asleep, Yuuma came out from the bathroom in silent. He had wore his clothes already so he had nothing much to do. But before he got to the bed, he quietly stared at me. Of course, I know nothing of this at all.

Tomorrow morning, back at Yuuma's mansion…

After what happened last night, I haven't spoken a word until I arrived at Yuuma's house. At all cost I tried to avoid having a conversation with him for a while. We both entered the front door and surprisingly greeted by several maids and butlers.

"Welcome back, young master and young mistress!" I never used to be called that so I sweat drop at this, it seems a little overboard.

"Haku, Neru…" Yuuma opened his mouth to call out for his maids. And then two maids came to his direction.

"Yes, master!" both replied in a humble manner and slightly bowed before him.

"…take Gumi to look around the house for her to know better and when you're done, bring her to the guest room." after Yuuma finished his sentences, he went somewhere else and as for me, I'm being accompanied by the two young-looking maids to tour around the house. More like a mansion to me.

When the touring begins, it was all quiet without a single sound except for our footsteps echoing around the place. Finally one of the maids with a topaz colored hair speaks up.

"It's nice to meet you, Gumi-sama. You look younger than I thought, but you have this mature aura emitting from you. Oh, pardon my rudeness I haven't introduce myself yet…my name is Neru." she politely said and it was continued by the other maid with a silver whitish hair.

"My name is Haku. It's a pleasure to meet you, Gumi-sama." she said with a sense of a gentle aura that I could feel around her. How should I put it…I guess it's a little mother-like?

"Please, you need not to call me by –sama! You can just call me Gumi." after I said that frankly, the two stopped walking and they looked at me with this startled face as if I had said something unexpected.

"Oh, no, no, no! We mustn't call you that, it would be rude for us maids to call their mistress by their name only." Haku nervously replied.

"That's true, even though you seem to not like it please bear with it. This is only our humble and selfish request as to show our respect for you, Gumi-sama." just by looking at these maids, I guess I really have to get used to being called that. Otherwise it'll get annoying if I keep opposing.

"Alright then, now shall we continue?" I answered them and we all continued to walk around the huge building.

The three of us walk slowly and taking our time around the house. Whilst touring of course Neru and Haku still doing their jobs by introducing one by one of each place we've passed. Well, commonly the rooms that I'm familiar with are such as the dining room, the house's main hall, bed rooms, and the garden outside, but it's a first time for me to go inside the house's kitchen because when I still lived at my house my mother always prohibited me to go there or even just to take a peek at it. I wonder why? Well…it's not like it's a problem anymore now, anyway we even explored to every nook and cranny of this mansion such as basements that kept old unused or treasured things in it.

After two hours of exploring around the house, finally we have a break. Both the maids were still restless though, instead they served me tea for a breather with a look that showed no exhaustion.

"We've brought you to the guest room just as Yuuma-sama asked us. Please rest yourself and enjoy the tea." Haku put a cup of tea on the small table in front of me and stood next to Neru again.

"Thank you. By the way…why would Yuuma wanted me to be here? Is there something he wants to talk to me?" although it's strange for him to wanted to talk with me especially in the guest room.

"Ah, not exactly. About that we're not sure, he didn't tell us anything in particular. But judging by why he asked us to bring you here, perhaps there'll be a guest that will come by to see you." Neru explained through her guessing, but I think she has a point.

"Is that so? If it is, I wonder who might be the one who wants to see me?" speak of the devil, a butler came in and he said "Gumi-sama, you have visitors." and then two person behind the door came in.

I thought it would be an adult or the elders, but I'd never thought that two young children probably in their 14 came in. Not just that, they both are twins and even though they have different genders but they really resembled each other just like a mirror image. The boy with the blond hair, I'm sure he is Yuuma's cousin whom I saw at the wedding party as the ring boy, and I remembered that his name is Len. But I never thought he has a twin sister.

"Greetings Gumi-sama!" both said in unison.

"I'm sure that you might have remembered me from the wedding party but let me introduce myself properly, I'm Len, Yuuma's little cousin." he said gently with a bow.

"I'm Rin, I'm also Yuuma's little cousin-" she smiled an adorable smile that I could say…adults couldn't resist.

"We both are twins." Again they said in unison. So about twins mostly say things together at the same time were a true story, huh? Now I believe what people say.

"Nice to meet you, you both can just call me Gumi anyway. I'll call you Rin-chan and Len-kun, is that okay?" I replied to them.

"Of course! And I prefer to call you onee-sama because I have always wanted a sister, whether she's older or younger it doesn't matter! Is that alright?" Rin-chan's eyes were glimmering of sparkles like a puppy, she made an innocent and cute face.

"A-ah…that's fine." I uttered nervously.

"Hmph! I don't care of what you call me or whatever, I am more concern of Yuuma-niisama. Why'd he choose a dumb-looking woman like you?" Len sneered and looked away in disgust. I think this boy has started to resent me for no reason.

"Oi, Len! Can't you be nicer? No wonder all the girls in school never want to get close to you, your attitude is just horrible." Rin-chan raised her voice towards her twin who's still looking away.

"I could care less about that! As long as I have Yuuma-niisama, I don't need anyone else." He crossed his arms and pouted. Boy, this two here are hot-blooded.

"Oh? This brother complex again? Sheesh, are you a homo or something?" when Rin-chan asked such a question Len-kun suddenly turned a little red and replied to her.

"A-am not! I just admire Yuuma-niisama so much that I couldn't help but hate it when some useless women get near him such as that woman over there!" Len-kun pointed out his finger at me, I couldn't say a thing nor retort to that because my opponent here is still a child. Be patient Gumi…

And the bickering went for several minutes later until they're completely stopped. The sound that echoed around the room was their panting of out of breath. Both of them tried to take a breath to gain their composure again. Finally when they calmed down and gained back their composure, they took a proper sitting position.

"Anyway let's go to the garden in the back! I'd love to have tea while chatting with onee-sama!" Rin-chan suddenly suggested that and pulling her brother's arm by force.

"O-oi…but I want to see Yuuma-niisama! Hey!" Len-kun kept on bragging and whining for her to let go but she didn't listen to a thing he said. I guess twins can have different personalities too, it's not like they're some kind of clones or something to keep in synch every time.

I smiled a little while watching those two bickering, it must've been nice to have a sibling. I'm a single child so I don't really know how it feels to have one.

The three of us walked toward the garden with much enthusiasm, it feels like we're enjoying a trip or the sort. When we're finally at the garden, all of us sat in the gazebo with Neru and Haku served tea also snacks to add it up. Now that I think about it, I kind of forgot that Neru and Haku were there with us tagging along time ever since Len-kun and Rin-chan came. I feel kind of bad of not mentioning them for quite a while.

Surprisingly Rin-chan was bringing up her own stories without me asking her. She's super willing to tell me like she's really having fun while reminiscing about them. For a girl, she's not that feminine graceful lady-like type, but instead a hyper and cheerful girl. She might be a little tomboyish but still her girly or feminine side hasn't completely altered or vanished. As for Len-kun, he's mostly the tsundere type of guy, he's quite dishonest about almost everything except Yuuma. Well I still have a lot to learn about these two, there might be more surprises out there than I thought.

Anyway, after we chit-chat awhile longer in the garden's gazebo, Len-kun then went to find Yuuma and so Rin-chan and I went back inside to have more personal conversation. It seems Rin-chan really likes to talk, especially when it involves her experiences and girl's stuffs. Both of us went into one of the bed rooms by just randomly entered one. In there we begin our talk once again.

"Onee-sama, I'm so glad that I got to meet you as soon as possible. You're such a nice person." her statement made me blush and I ended up stumbling with my words.

"A-ah…i-is that so? I'm not that nice if I would say so myself, I'm more like…full of myself sometimes and easily get embarrassed about trivial things. I'm that kind of person." I scratched the back of my head out of nervousness.

"Hahaha…but I really think that way. Onee-sama is a good lady and not just that, I think you're interesting." this made me wonder a bit, what did she mean by that?

"By interesting you mean…?" I purposely dragged my words to get the answer out from her and she directly replied it without a second thought.

"By interesting…onee-sama is quite a considerate, passionate, and willful person. Onee-sama is also seemed like a person who holds a lot of pride for a woman, yet you're pretty and sweet too. All those combinations are interesting to me." Rin-chan honestly said. I can't believe this girl complimented me so much, I never even know that someone sees me that way before.

"R-really? Thanks…I guess."

"Now that I think of it, why was it that Len is so obsess over Yuuma-niisama again? Ah that's right!" Rin-chan sudden change of topic stirred some of my interest since it's related to that Yuuma.

"Wasn't it because he always looks up to him especially it's because he excelled the ordinary?"

"Well, there is that too but if I remember it, I think it was around when Yuuma-niisama turned 18. Len admires him as how he can manage things on his own. And because of that he wanted to be like him until he got so obsessive about him."

"It's pretty much looked that way to me too. But unexpectedly that Len-kun is a tsundere type of guy. Quite cute when you saw it carefully." I added some comment about Len-kun, Rin-chan never gets mad even if I did that.

"Yeah, that personality of his made him less sociable and hard to approach. To sum it up, he nearly has no friends at all at school. Kind of an aloof, don't you think?" Rin-chan eagerly explained about her twin right in front of me. Boy, she is so blunt.

We both talked a lot in that room. Whereas we talked about various things but most of it were related to girl's stuffs. Although I'm 4 years older than her but I can relate to it since I'm also a female. Rin-chan talked about her experiences in her school overall, sometimes she slipped some of Len-kun's stories in it. To my surprise, she said the Len-kun might have a crush on someone at the wedding party that he met. From the description that Rin-chan said, I became more surprised because the description is matched with Miku. This tickled me because if it's true, then Len-kun have a crush on someone who is way older than him and she's right about the same age as me, even so her attitude doesn't match up with her age though. I guess they can relate with each other.

When the sky has already darkened out, our talks haven't subsided yet. How typical for females to get this heated up in a conversation even through trivial matters. Finally after hearing so much from Rin-chan, now it's my turn to tell her a part of my stories. But since I just got married to Yuuma, Rin-chan asked about how I met him and such. So I, halfheartedly, told her about those sweet moments that had caught me up at the time. However, it seems like Rin-chan took a notice of how my expression looked like when I talked about it. Her eyebrows started to curved downward as a sign of concern, since I didn't really notice so I kept going with the talk.

"Hey, onee-sama…" Rin-chan cut my conversation and I stopped immediately as to respond to her.

"What is it, Rin-chan?" I asked automatically without any suspicion.

"Have you…uhm…" seems like Rin-chan is hesitating about what she's trying to say, so I encourage her to let it out.

"What? Come on, tell me! It's okay."

"Uhm…you know, about Yuuma-niisama…" she dragged her words again by hesitating, but I still patiently wait for her to continue since I think it must be something important from her.

"About Yuuma-niisama…have you…seen it? The other side of him?" when she asked me that, I was taken by surprise that I don't know what to say about it. More like I'm too surprised that someone else beside me knew something about Yuuma's little secret.

"Eh? Does that mean-"

"Yes, I knew of it. Unfortunately, Len doesn't."

"…"

I went silent afterward because I'm still confused of the topic. Perhaps I should ask as much as I want to know anything about Yuuma, especially about his warped personality.

"So you knew…huh?" I want to make sure if Rin-chan really knew of it, since it can be fatal if what she meant by it was something different.

"Yeah, I saw it when I was around 11 and that scene left a huge impact on my mind that I couldn't forget about it. It's rather a disturbing thing." Rin-chan looked away from me with an unwilling kind of expression that showed up on her face.

"If you don't mind, can I hear it out? About what happened that you saw?" at first Rin-chan doubt to speak it up, but she overtook it and starts talk.

"*sigh* okay…so it was when Len and I visited Yuuma's house for the first time…"

I'll end it here ^_^ sorry for the long wait and thank you for reading it this far! Chapter 5 will be up right next…