Another Night
Chapter 3 - How did it come to this?
"Quit checking out other woman!" Yuri half whined, half squealed. I took this as my cue to leave before Nobu could really get a good look. I decided to drop off my resumes some places a bit farther from here before heading back to apartment 707.
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I made my way up to the apartment with sluggish movements. People who were going either up or down gave me weird looks. Once I made it up and into the apartment, I went straight for my bed. I needed to get used to standing on my feet for so long, again, since all I did as my parents house was sit or lay around while they treated me like a baby. Moment later, I recieved a text message.
"I'm so sorry, mama. I should have told you that Shin and Yuri usually comes around here on their days off. -Shin"
It wasn't his fault for forgetting but the warning would have been nice and trouble could be avoided.
"Don't worry about it! Mama isn't angry with it! :) Can you pick up Sachiko at the local day care on 1472th st. in a couple minutes for lunch? It's a ten minute walk from the cafe. -Mama"
After clicking send, I sat up from the bed, grabbed an elastic and tied my hair in a messy bun. I walked out of the room and into the kitchen, getting ready to make rice with fish and sasages for lunch. After getting everything needed out, I put the stove on and walked over to the radio, turning it on to listen to music while waiting for the stove to heat up. The music was a soothing melody yet kind of jumpy. I got up and went to check on the stove, keeping a little dance in my steps.
In fourty-five minutes, everything was cooked and ready on the table. Seconds later, the door opened. I quickly turned around and smile, happy to see Sachiko's beaming face.
"Welcome home!" I walked forward and hugged both my children, blood related and adopted. I took Sachiko out of Shin's arms and brought her to her high chair at the table. Shin followed after, sitting the opposite side of me. After clapping our hands together, saying 'Itadakimasu', we dug in quiety. We started to go into light topics, like how the weather is, how Tokyo is doing. After were done, Shin took all are plates to the sink and came back, a serious look on his face. I knew I couldn't avoid this for long, he had a couple questions, that for for sure.
"When do you plan on telling Nobu?"
"I truly don't know. Sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the nightm having this wild urge to run to him and tell him but when I get to the door, I stop. I think about how it would play out. If he would reject? I wouldn't be surprised if he did since he's with Yuri now."
"But I told you before, he would drop her in seconds for you."
"But he's happy right now, isn't that correct? I don't want to ruin that."
"He would be much happier with you. Everyone thinks that."
"I don't think so." Shin slammed his hand on the table, shocking both Sachiko and myself. I look over to her, seeing tears being welled up in her eyes.
"Aww, baby, don't cry." I shot Shin a scolding look and he instantly looked sad.
"Don't cry, Sachiko, I didn't mean to." She started to break out into little sniffles. I quickly picked her up and brought her to the room for her nap. Ten minutes later I came back out and sat in my seat.
"I really sorry about that, mama, I didn't know it would surprise her.. "
"It's okay, Shin. She was probably going to get cranky soon anyways. Her nap was suppose to be half an hour ago but now she has preschool."
"About that, isn't she too young for that? Why not get a baby sitter?"
"Getting a baby sitter would be expensive. Pay about seven to eleven bucks an hour every day while I can just pay a hundred bucks a month for preschool."
"What about day care? It's cheaper."
"True but I'm hoping she'll learn early if gone to preschool. I want her to be smart and not make the wrong choices like me."
"Oh. Well, back to Nobu.. "
"Why can't you just drop it? I don't want to see him right now, even if it was my intention to see him when I came to Tokyo but I want to wait a year, at least and prepare myself."
"Mama, the longer you wait to tell him, the harder it will be." I knew he was right. I let a few angry tears escape.
"I know that. But I just don't feel ready to deal with it yet. The moment has to be right. Because it'll be the moment where he rejects or accepts me. If he rejects, I'll move the opposite side of Tokyo."
"Don't do that, mama.. "
"There's nothing else to do Shin. I'm not going to follow him around and beg him to take me back."
"You sure have changed." I couldn't help but laugh at his sulking voice.
"I guess that's what motherhood does to you. I just want what's best for her."
"And what if what's best for her is to have her real father around?" I was about to respond when I realised I didn't have an answer for that. What if having her father around is really better for her instead of keeping him away until I'm ready. All I have been was thinking about myself.
"You're probably right Shin. I do need to tell him, soon."
"How soon?"
"Maybe within a month? Just going to settle myself down, get a few stable jobs to support us and I'll be good."
"You don't have to work so hard, I can give you money from our gigs!"
"That's sweet of you, but you keep your money. You earned it."
"But.."
"No 'buts'. Now, any more question?"
"Yes. When do you plan on seeing the others? Nana?"
"Oh Shin, I want to see Nana so bad. I want to hug her so tight, tell her everything is fine. But, what if it comes to a shock to her? She thinks I'm dead. And you said she's slowly starting to recover now."
"That's true..but I think that she would have the same reaction as me. Can't believe you're alive after all this time but so happy at the same time. Such an overwhelming feeling."
"If so.. than I should text her right now."
"Really?!"
"Yes." I smiled and took my phone out of my pocket. I flipped it open, found Nana's number and stared at it for awhile.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know what ot say?" I smile while he dropped his head onto the table.
"Tell her.. uhh, how about starting with a hello?"
"Ehh, good idea!" I quickly punched in a 'Hello, Nana.' and sent it off.
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"Nana's your phone is ringing."
"Quiet baldy, I'm trying to enjoy my smoke. Plus it's the ring tone for a text message. I'm sure it isn't important. Check who it's from for me, will ya?" Yasu sweat dropped but picked up the cell phone anyways. He held it on for a minute. Two minutes. Three minutes. And dropped it.
"Hey! The phone costed me a lot!"
"The message.. "
"Eh? Who's it from? If it's broken, you're buying me a new one."
"Nana."
"What do you want?"
"No, it's from Nana - Hachi." Nana, froze in her spot, her ciggarett dropping from her fingers and onto the floor. Yasu quikly went over to stomp it out before anything caught on fire.
Like a lifeless doll, Nana got up and went to pick her phone up off the floor. Sure enough, the little screen said "Hachi" In bright bold letters. Many emotions ran through her, prickling her mind with shaky fingers, she flipped open her phone and read the message.
"Hello, Nana. -Hachi"
A hysterical giggle escaped Nana's lips. Did someone find Hachi's phone and decided to play some sick joke on her? Was it Takumi? Did that bastard want to start something with her, again? If so, she was so damn prepared for a battle. With quick experienced fingers, Nana punched in every swear word she knew in english, japanese and some french before ending it with "Ugly Takumi" before sending it off. Proud of herself, she went to light another smoke and wait for the response.
It was five minutes later when she got another text messaage. Hah, the bastard responded! Flipping open her phone, she started to read the new message, a wide grin on her face.
"Eh, Takumi? No, Nana, it's me, Hachi!
Nobu is with me right now. He told me it's best to tell you I'm alive and well asap!
I moved back to room 707 two days ago and met Shin on Friday.
I miss you alot, Nana. I'll be here most of the time or out finding a job.
-Love Hachi."
Nana dropped her second smoke, causing Yasu to rush over again to put it out. He took the cell phone from Nana's hands and quickly looked over the message before looking back at his friend. Her eyes were wide with her mouth open slightly.
"Nana? Do you think it's a trick? Takumi could be trying to pull something?" Something flashed through her eyes before Yasu could identify it. Her face turned hard and cold, her voice icy.
"It probably is. Or Maybe he's finally allowing Nana to see me but not alone just in case I take her away."
"What do you plan to do?"
"I'm going to go there, by myself."
"What if it's dangerous? You'll need someone to protect you."
"Baldy, I may be a woman but I'm a woman who can kick ass. I'll go alone, just tell everyone I went out for fresh air. And don't especially tell Nobu about Hachi. We can't let him have hopes if Takumi plans on taking her away again." And with that, Nana, got a couple of her things together in a bag before setting out for room 707.
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"Oh Shin, maybe it was a bad idea. She hasn't responded yet and she thought I was Takumi! Do you think she thinks I'm Takumi?"
"Don't be silly, mama. Nana is smarter than that. She's probably on her way right now, excited as a kid in a candy store!" A second later there was loud banging on the door.
"Takumi you bastard! I know you have Hachi in there with you! Let her go!"
"As you were saying?" They both sweat dropped but Shin made the move to get up and answer the door. He warned Nana that he was opening the door and not to punch him. After he did, she had the darkest look set on her face. She stomped in, her eyes searching blindly for the tall black haired male. When her eyes settled on Hachi, everything else faded away. Her anger, madness, hurt, everything. Unknown tears escaped down her cheeks with quick intakes of breathe.
"Hachi? Is it really you? Where's Takumi?"
"It's me, Nana. And Takumi is probably on tour, recording music or screwing around with some hussy." Nana couldn't even crack a smile at Hachi's pathetic try at joking. All she could do was shake and let her tears
escape some more. Hachi got up, walking over to Nana and tightly ebraced her. Nana then broke out crying, wrapping her arms around Hachi, crushing themselves more into the hug. Hachi couldn't hold on any longer and started crying along with her friend. They both fell to the floor nd continued to cry. Nobu decided to give them much needed privacy and sneaked away to check up on Sachiko.
"Stupid, stupid Hachi!" Hachi allowed Nana to put her down, knowing she didn't really mean it een though she deserved to be called every bad thing in the world. After ten minutes, they settled down into light hiccups.
"Nana, how are you now?"
"Stupid! How are you?!" Hachi couldn't help but laugh lightly. She picked themselves off the floor and went to sit on the mini sofa. After they calmed down, Hachi told what happened from the time she went into the delievery room till now, leaving Sachiko out as much as she can. Nana seemed shocked by everything.
"But.. I was so sure Takumi had locked you away somewhere so we couldn't see you when you were pregnant. I was so sure!"
"Nana, your mind is wild as usual." Hachi let out a light laugh but shook her head. "He wouldn't do such a thing. He would have let me see you guys sooner or later. I just needed to hide out for awhile."
"Why? You don't want Takumi fathering your child anymore?! I'm pretty sure Nobu will do it!" Stars appeared in her eyes, stars of hope. Hachi shook her head.
"That's part of it. I don't need him anymore and I'm pretty sure Nobu will do it. Because.. "
"Because?" Hachi sighed.
"Because Nobu is the father." Shin said, sppearing behind the two woman with a sleeping Sachiko in his arms. Hachi's eyes widend and shifted over to Nana. Her expression was exactly the same as her's.
"But.. she has blonde hair.. " Nobu rolled his eyes.
"Duh, what color hair were you expecting, black?"
"Well, yeah.. So the child really is Nobu's.. but, you guys said you always wore a condom?"
"We forgot the time the condom broke." Hachi blushed a scarlet red. Nana was still staring at Sachiko. She reached out and ran her fingers through the silky golden locks, to make sure they were real.
"Does Nobu know?"
"No. If he did than he would either be here or far away, wanting nothing to do with me."
"But Hachi.. don't tell anyone but the months we thought thought you were missing, Nobu told me that if the child was his, if there wasa one percent chance it was his, he would drop everything, music, Yuri, his life,
everything just for you. He told me he prayed every night for Sachiko to be his and not Takumi's, he would get a proper job and support you both. He wants to be here, Hachi, he wants to be with you. You have to tell him!"
"Stop!" Hachi had tears running down her cheeks away, her breathing hard. "Please.. he's happy now.. why ruin it?"
"Didn't you just hear a word I said? He WANTS to be here with YOU! He doesn't care about anything else!"
"But it'll be so selfish of me! To take away his freedom! He's the opposite of selfish, to drop everything just for me, to tend to my needs and wants. I don't want to be such an ugly person. Nana.. I don't want to be that kind of person."
"Hachi.. "
"But I can't help it! I want to call him up so much and tell him about Sachiko, I want to embrace him in bed and have more children! I want all of him, Nana! But I just can't do something like that to him!" Hachi started to burst out crying, unable to hold her emotions back. Nana was quick to hug and comfort her as Nobu brought Sachiko back to the room so she wouldn't wake up.
Why did things have to turn out this way?
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A/N: Another chapter done! Sorry this one took so long, school is keeping me super busy. All the pure class students should know what I'm talking about! Also, I'm sorry if I'm rushing things, I didn't intend for this story to be long but it might be. Maybe ten chapters at the most. But thanks for reading! This chapter is not checked over because I'm lazy and tired right now, sorry.