Anna got back home and rushed to her room, not bothering to notice Yoh's questionable face. She turned on her computer once more this day and skimmed through music files, looking for her favorite songs. She settled on Sting's Desert Rose. Anna sat in front of the screen, looking into one dot. She only woke up from her thoughtfulness, when somebody knocked on her door. Anna sighed.
"Come in" she said coldly. Yoh appeared in the door way. He walked in and slid the door behind him. Anna didn't react to his entrance, instead, she only asked him.
"What do you want?" Yoh walked closer to her.
"I wanted to ask you how the things are going." Anna leaned back in her chair and turned to face Yoh. The brunette guy smiled to her kindly, trying to snap on at least one warmer sense in her face, but it in vain.
"Why do you care?" Yoh rubbed the back of his head, pretending that he was thinking hard.
"Hmmm, let's see: first, you are living with me, second, you are my fiancé, and third, you are" the guy smiled to her sheepishly. Anna turned her gaze to the window, hardly holding back the laugh she longed to give out. Yoh, however, noticed her eyes turning slightly warmer.
"Oh come on, Anna. Smile" he said, drilling her with his cute grin. Anna couldn't help it anymore: her lips curled into a beautiful, but yet slight smile. The blonde wasn't looking to Yoh's eyes, but she could have sworn she saw a smirk in them.
"Ok. I'm smiling. Is that good enough for you?" she asked coldly, so unsuitable to her smile, that faded away from her rosy lips the instance she breathed out a word. Yoh felt disappointed, but then he remembered that he actually did make her smile, so that was moving forward, right? Right.
"Anna-chan, that's wonderful" Anna's eyes turned into narrow cattish form.
"Don't you ever call me that again"
"Gomen, Anna-san, it had just slipped away from me" Yoh said, smiling guilty.
"And cut "san" as well. At least when we're not in public" she said, standing up and walking to the window. The couple stood in silence for some time. It seemed that they are so close, but also so far away from each other, like winter and summer. And Yoh was warm summer breeze that melted Anna's winter bit ice.
Slowly and carefully, Yoh walked closer to Anna and hugged her around the waist. Anna froze in his embrace.
"What in the world do you thing you're doing?" she asked harshly.
"Don't. Please. I like your presence" Yoh sank his face into Anna's hair, inhaling his full lungs of intoxicating scent of her. Anna didn't know what to do or what to say: she was caught completely off-guard in this situation. But moments passed and Anna let herself to relax into those wiry arms of her fiancé. After all, he was her fiancé.
"Yoh. Tell me, this is going to be a long part. Will you come back…the same Yoh Asakura?" Yoh blinked to her strange question.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, we still would be engaged, right?" Yoh's hug tightened.
"Of course. Nothing would change that. I love you, Anna" the girl froze once again in Yoh's arm. She turned around, but let Yoh's arm stay on her waist. She put her arms on his shoulders, looking deeply in to his eyes.
"Do you?" Yoh kissed her forehead gently.
"Of course I do. I wouldn't be saying that, if I didn't" Anna inhaled deeply, feeling how her emotions becoming stormy, how her body's becoming stirred and her lust breaking through. She let out a painful sight, lowering her head.
"I cannot answer you the same way. I'm sorry" Yoh stroke his hand through her silky hair, putting some drops of locks behind her ear.
"You don't have to. I'd still love the same even if you wouldn't feel a thing for me" Anna barely held her tears back: no one ever said such things to her… and no one ever felt something like love to her either.
"Yoh, I…"she didn't finish, because Yoh swung in and kissed her softly. At first, Anna's mind hesitated, preventing her from an answer, like saying that this is wrong, but Anna's lust for the kiss won this time. She answered to Yoh's kiss, making it deeper and more passionate. Jeez, what the fuck are you doing Anna! This isn't how you're supposed to act. On the other hand, he is your future husband… Anna's thoughts were contradictionary about the thing that was now going on, while Yoh just couldn't believe in his luck. Wow, she's so sweet, yet I feel like tasting a poison. Oh well, I'll worry about it later.
They kept kissing for some time, until Anna broke off, placing her finger on Yoh's lips.
"You've got to much good for today" Yoh laughed as he stole another kiss from her fingers.
"Hai. I'll be going. Promised that I'll go to the club with the guys tonight. Wanna go?" Anna smiled ironically.
"As if they want me to go. In either case I won't" Yoh smiled sheepishly, inside feeling as if his heart was inside the balloon and it flew higher and higher. He kissed Anna lightly once again and left her room, smiling for goodbye. Anna sighed and fell on her bed and stared to the ceiling for a while, thoughts flying through her head. I've just kissed with Yoh. Wow, that wasn't my part of a day plan. Oh well, that didn't feel so bad. But yet something tried to stop me from kissing him. A memory of her dream crept in her mind. Anna closed her eyes tight and tried not to think of it. That has nothing to do with that stupid dream! Dreams stay dreams. The end! Anna stood up and walked to the window: she saw as a black car pulled up and Yoh with Hao left the house and sat into it. The evening was already throwing it's shadows everywhere so neither could see Anna staring at them. The blonde studied the features of each, as they walked to the car and sat into it. Anna sighed. They are so similar, yet so different. Yoh's such a boyish, naïve cutie and Hao…he is more matured and looks hot and sexy. Oh heck, why the hell am I even comparing them? They're complete different peaces, yet they are twins. Humph, this world is strange, when you think of it. Anna felt drowsiness cover her eyes and mind. Slowly she walked to the wardrobe, undressed herself andwithout a bother to put a night-gown on; she slid under the covers, falling asleep instantly.
Anna's sleep wasn't meant to last. After two ours of peaceful sleep, the same dream began to run like an old movie. The same hill, the same cold world and the same feeling, this time cutting deeper. Anna sat up, the cold sweat standing out on her forehead and chest. The blonde was panting heavily, a sudden wave of fear going up her spine. She looked around, the room being dark and empty: Anna shuddered, a childish fear of dark coming back to her for a moment. The blonde felt a complete loneliness and vulnerable ness as she wrapped herself into white cover and walked to the table where the jug of water and two glasses were. She, then, opened the table's drawer and took two small sleeping pills. She poured herself a glass of water, put the pills into her mouth and drank whole glass in one gulp. Then she came back to bed, wrapping herself tighter with the cover and closing her eyes. The last thought that went through her mind before the pills started to work, was if she'll ever be able be free from this tormenting time of the sleep…