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Chapter 3: New home

I cried. Would people believe me if I say I would be happy to drown in food I'm facing right now? Probably not. Not when people around me are too image-conscious and constantly brag about etiquette. I've never been glad to eat in a 5-star restaurant in my whole effing life! Though it might just be me exaggerating things, as usual.

The horrifyingly long traffic was finally over, and Hotaru immediately ordered to drive us towards the nearest restaurant. Who cares if the food costs ten times the normal price? If it meant eating something at the moment, we, or I didn't care. We were too damn hungry to even notice.

I took a look at the dishes. Bouillabaisse, Whole Beef Wellington, Hotaru's high class crab brains and of course my favorite fried shrimp, a dozen of it too. If I wasn't eating right now, I'd have been drooling at the sight of this, as I had earlier.

If I'm going to live on my own starting today, I won't be able to eat something like these for a long while. That would be a shame but I have to mind my living expenses and save up just like normal person.

Once, I tried to eat something called bugger or was it bruger? And it tasted surprisingly good, the patties and bread. I ate about ten of it at the same time only to find myself in the bathroom with an upset stomach and remained there for a very long time. Takoyaki was also good; I can almost taste the delicious taste of squid in my mouth.

"Mikan, stop your drooling again, it's disgusting." Hotaru interrupted.

I immediately reached for the napkin and wiped my mouth.

"I wasn't drooling." I countered.

Hotaru rolled her eyes and continued eating her lunch. I studied the way she ate her crab brains. She ate it gracefully and it was beyond me how she could do that. Normally you'd be messy with yellowish brown spreading on your cheeks; hers didn't and thought she was probably too used to it. At the moment we were eating silently. I had enough manners not to devour my food in front of other people, as I was strictly taught. Despite saying things like wanting to be ordinary, I'm still self-conscious about how I eat; it's not like I can change where I came from anyway.

I finished and gulped my food before speaking.

"So, about the apartment…" I started.

"Already taken care of." Hotaru immediately answered.

"What!? When?"

"When you were too busy brooding in the car." She wiped her mouth with napkin and took something from her case.

"I'll give you a lift but I won't waste my time pulling you over at your job. Just follow the directions on this paper and don't get lost." She gave a warning look, handing a small paper. I looked over it and was confused.

"Geenley's C café? What do I do there?" I questioned, looking even more confused when she smirked.

"Serve customers, what else?" she raised her brow.

"Can't you be specific? Do I serve bruger in a bruger shop or something? Or maybe serve coffee since it does say 'café'?" I questioned again.

Hotaru sighed, seemingly tired of something. Was it something I said?

"Let's go." She stood and motioned for me to follow her. I frowned. Sometimes, I just don't get her.

We drove through some streets I haven't seen before and stopped in front of a nice homely looking house. The wooden fences were painted white and the house wasn't as big as our tree house but otherwise, still nice.

"What are we doing here?" I asked curiously. Were we visiting someone?

"Idiot, it's your apartment." She answered, clearly annoyed.

"It's a house." I stated.

"No. It's an apartment with two beds, a kitchen, a bathroom and a back garden." She gave me a look and I decided not to open my mouth.

"Just go in so I can go and do my work." Hotaru shrugged and waved her hand, motioning for me to go already. She gave me one final calculating look before hopping in her limo and driving wherever she wanted to go.

I looked at the supposedly apartment than house, according to Hotaru. I walked along the pathway towards the house and panicked a bit. Hotaru didn't give me the key, or did she? Shite. What if the door won't open and somebody spotted me and think I was a thief? I stood in front of the front door for a long while, contemplating whether the door would open or not. I snapped out of my thoughts when I saw a girl staring at me from the wooden gate.

I figured standing in the front door would more likely make me look suspicious than opening the door so I did. Thankfully, my worries were in vain and I walked through the door quite nicely, I might say.

I took in the details of the house (I decided to call it a house since Hotaru was probably messing with my head again.), it was plain, white colored walls and had few furnitures, perfect for living alone. I visited the bedroom first and unpacked my belongings, stopped half way and just laid down on the bed, relaxing for a few minutes. The room was tiny compared to my room back home but it helped when I was feeling too alone, meaning I felt alone in the world right now.

Who wouldn't in this situation? The people around me can't understand me and never tried, except for Hotaru of course. My grandpa who I adore so much, can't even sympathize with me. I tried and tried to explain to him, but he just wouldn't listen. And the worst was, I can't do anything about it. I didn't want to run away. I really didn't. I'm human and I can feel human emotions, just why wouldn't they understand? Did they think I was playing around? Maybe. But that's just plain rude and so disrespectful. My world was plain rude and disrespectful, just masked with beautiful dresses, things and words. Especially words. I was often looked down because I wasn't social enough, someone tried to take me down with words when I was in someone's birthday party but I was cleverer and won the unspoken challenge. I closed my eyes to clear the thoughts in my head and determinedly decided to look ahead in my new ordinary life, without my family. I wanted to cry out so much but held it in. I stood and patted my chest lightly. Whew!

I walked to the door and turned left to the kitchen, grabbed the glass when I spotted one and filled it with water then drank. I hadn't even noticed small eyes staring at me. I almost chocked when I saw a small child beside the table, holding an apple. He had grey hair and large brown eyes with a stoic face, much like Hotaru. He was adorable but I was confused as to why there was somebody, much less a child in my house.

I stood there, holding the glass and stared at the boy. The boy broke his eye contact and resumed what he was doing, which happened to be reaching the knife on the table. My eyes widened and I quickly put the glass on the sink and ran to the child, reached the knife before he did, he could have been hurt for Christ sake!

"What are you doing?" I almost shouted. I noticed his blank look and he eyed on the knife in my hands, also noticed the apple in his hands. He was trying to cut the apple? He should've said so.

Temporarily forgetting about how the child got in the house, I reached out towards the apple.

"Give it." I demanded, trying to help him with cutting.

His eyes suddenly shot up to meet mine and scowled, holding the apple close to himself.

I frowned. I tried to pry the apple away from his hand, not aware that I was holding the knife in my right hand.

"What the hell are you doing!" somebody said fiercely.

I was suddenly spun from behind when somebody grabbed my right hand, where the knife was. I saw two angry rubies, staring right into my eyes. My heart skipped a beat and all I could think was how his angry features looked handsome.

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We were three people standing in an awkward silence in my new home. How did it come to this? My eyes involuntarily stared at the guy. He was shirtless and seemed to come out from bath. His raven hair was damp, his mesmerizing crimson eyes were mercilessly breath-taking. God, his body. His body was sculptured and hardened, still wet, with abs that I wanted to run my hands to, his lower body was covered with towel and I immediately flushed.

I think this reveals too much -_-