Perviously on Her Reality:

Mimori has accepted Cougar's request to go on a date with him. Meanwhile, Ryuhou tries to ask Mimori her reasoning on accepting Cougar's request knowing that she has feelings for him. Would she be able to answer all his questions? Or has she a changed of heart due to the heart breaking incident? Read and Find out.

Her Reality – Chapter Eight

'Lost'

"Mimori…" he whispered by her lips. "Did I lose you already?"

Shock had entered through the Kiryu heiress facial features, not realizing that Ryuhou was that close to her.

Meanwhile…

Someone in the ballroom party started asking questions about a certain person that she had been looking for some time now.

"Excuse me…" said the short blue-haired female stopping a couple from the dance. "Have you seen Ryuhou Ryu?" she asked, hoping this couple know the answer to her question.

"No, we're sorry…" they said as walking away from the blue-haired girl.

"Excuse me, have you seen Ryuhou Ryu?" asked the blue-haired female as she stopped another couple from dancing.

"No, we haven't…" they answered, also, walking away from Sherrice.

"But…where could he be?" thought young Sherrice Adjani as she kept searching for Ryuhou through the ballroom party.

(Back at Ryuhou and Mimori…)

Both, Mimori and Ryuhou were still at entrance side of the ballroom. Mimori was having problems of how to get away from the one that was with close to her at this time.

But, Ryuhou, on the other hand gets closer to her, but not close enough to feel each others warmth or breath.

Only from being shocked, has the raven-haired female not realized that the man standing in front of her has locked lips with her. Everyone around didn't noticed what was happening between the Ryu heir and the Kiryu heiress, since they were in the back of the room, and that it was a party; everyone was having too much fun to even care or realized what was happening.

As she finally came to realization, she actually felt like melting by the person who is actually kissing her. She wanted to stay there in his arms feeling his warmth from his touch. But…she also came to realized that what she was doing was wrong.

"This…is…" thought Mimori, breaking the kiss.

Ryuhou was surprised that the women he loved had broken the kiss. "Is something wrong?" he asked.

"Ryuhou…" she said by his lips. "I…can't…"

"You can't what?" asked Ryuhou, a little confused.

"I…just…can't…we…I mean…" she continued to say, stepping away from Ryuhou. "I'm sorry, Ryuhou." she said, as she ran away from him and from the party.

Ryuhou was left standing there, shocked. He knew what she was trying to say, but he never realized that he actually did…lose her.

His surroundings were filled with excitement from crowd noise around him, but to the man…the ballroom turned into a room with no light. It back nothing but the color black…the start of eating him away. All he saw was her figure, running away from him…and not even bothering to look back.

"Mimori…" he whispered, still standing there.

Mimori had arrived to her dorm, breathing hard from the running she had to do to first arrive at her room. She went directly to her bedroom, putting her flower on top of a brown desk that stood by the entrance door. She, then, started to change her party clothes to her pajamas.

Then, she went to her bed and laid on it, wrapping herself with the covers. Even though just as a couple of minutes passed, she started crying.

"This is what I get…I've lost someone important to me due to a request…" she thought as she kept crying. " …that I accepted…" with that last thought she continued to cry.

(Back at the party…)

Ryuhou was still in the same spot where Mimori left him. The young man still had a million thoughts coming to his mind, but the one action he wanted to do to himself right now was to beat himself up for losing the most important people in his life.

Just as he was about to move from his standing spot, someone called to him.

"Ryuhou!" yelled a feminine voice from behind him.

He turned around to just to see it was blue-haired female; Sherrice.

She breathing hard, since she had ran to just to catch up to him. "I finally found…you…" she said, still trying to catch her breath. "Where were you? I was looking for you since you said that you were coming back, but you never did. What took you?" she asked, her voice almost impatient for an answer.

Ryuhou didn't answer. He did say something to her, but wasn't an answer to her questions.

"Sherrice, go and enjoy your party…" said Ryuhou in a monotone voice. "I will be going back to my dorm for the rest of the night." He said in a formal tone that he hardly ever used when talking to Sherrice. He turned and started to walk toward an exit.

"Wait!" she exclaimed getting in front of Ryuhou. "Why are you going back?" she asked, looking in his eyes.

"I just need sometime to myself…" he said while as he passed by her. "Enjoy your time at this party. Goodbye." With those final words to his colleague, he left.

"What happened to him?" she asked herself internally.

Sherrice went to the entrance of the ballroom to follow after Ryuhou, but she knew better than to disobey his order. She went back to the party with thoughts of what caused him to change his attitude.

Everyone spend the rest of the night partying around with different kinds of music from jazzy to romantic to party types of music.

It was 8:00am and everyone was in their dorm sleeping. Since they just had crazy party yesterday night, with all that screaming and dancing they had done, of course they would be tired.

But, one person was up and ready to go to work. Though, she's been having second thoughts of not going to work since of the event that took place yesterday night. How she regretfully hated what took place the night before.

Just as she took a few steps after entering the ballroom party, she had to accept Cougar's request to go out with him. Then, from that, to facing the one person she had wanted to avoid, but couldn't in the end. And no much she wanted to be with him, but she couldn't either, since she is now going to be going out with someone else.

Much to her luck, yesterday evening was indeed dreadful.

She changed her mind about not going to work and got her things. She, then, started walking towards entrance door until…she heard her phone ringing. She stopped and started walking towards the phone and picked it up.

"Hello?" she says in her content tone.

"Hey, Ms. Minori!" said a man in a exciting voice.

"It's Mimori!" she corrects him, though not sounding angry at him.

"Yes, yes…" Cougar's says before he continues. "Ms. Mimori, since you have accepted my invitation to go out with me, what don't have the date today?" asked the eager man.

Mimori sighed. This is not what she had expected. She needed time to recover, yet, those who are around her aren't going to do that little favor for her.

"Sure, at what time and where shall I meet you?" she answered while having seconds thoughts in her mind about this 'date'.

"Okay, we will meet in front of Holy around six tonight…" he answered, getting more excited as he spoke. "I shall pick you up there and take somewhere for the rest of the night!" he said.

"Then six in the evening it is." she said, not showing that she wasn't too thrill with this 'date', but she thought that she should give Cougar another chance.

"Well, I'll see ya tonight then!" Mimori heard the click of the receiver as Cougar hung up.

Mimori hung up as well, starting to walk again towards the entrance door of 'her dorm.

"I just hope that I did the right thing…" she thought closing the door behind her.

Mimori was at her work, doing research in medicine for the new diseases that were going through the 'Lost Ground'. But, then someone from her team called her, and she stopped what she was doing and left her post.

"Yes, did you call me?" Mimori asked looking at the doctor who called her.

"Yeah, I did…" the doctor responded. "There is someone outside that asked for you…" The doctor pointed outside.

"Oh…okay. Thank you" said Mimori as she walked outside of her office, towards the person who called her.

As she got outside of the office, the one person who was waiting for her was no other than…Sherrice.

"Sherrice?" said Mimori in surprise.

Sherrice looked up, arms crossed.

"Is there something you need from me?" asked Mimori in a content voice.

"Yeah…" said Sherrice in an angry tone. "I just wanted to come and say that Ryuhou will be mine…"

Mimori was taken aback by Sherrice's forwardness.

"Also, that…" said Sherrice turning herself around. "…you better stop giving Ryuhou such a hard time! You have someone else that you are going to go out with anyways! SO, leave Ryuhou to me! On second thought, why don't you go back Princess, where you belong!" Sherrice said, turning to look at Mimori over her shoulder. "You should take Ryuhou's advice for once and go back to the mainland!" With that, Sherrice left.

This was another thing Mimori didn't expect for her to happen; getting yelled someone who is crazed for the one she loves.

Mimori went back to her post, finishing what she needed to finish so that she could get ready for tonight.

"This isn't just my day…hope tonight can make it up for it…" thought the Kiryu heiress as she continued on her work.

To be continued….

Author's Comments: Ok, I'm sure you guys are saying that this chapter wasn't as great as the others, sorry...but I needed this chapter to be less of "OMG!" chapter for there are more stuff to come for this story. Well, see you in the next chapter!

An announcement: The first chapter of Her opposite-self will be up soon, so look for it when it's published over the net!

Later!

Jemi Rose