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My Most Painful Memory
Ch. 7
The next time Shiori came to, she found herself in a large elaborately decorated room. She was on a king size four poster bed, veiled in black. It was see through, so when she looked out, she saw a boy about her age sitting next to a window in a dark purple robe. "Excuse me?"
Akito shifted his head but didn't look directly at her. "Yes?"
"Where exactly am I?" She began to get up, the bruises on her legs were starting to fade, but she pulled her robe tighter around her so they wouldn't be visible.
"You're in my room. You passed out in the car, and for some reason the guest room was ready. It should be done in about an hour, though."
"Oh…" Shiori walked over behind him to look out the window as well. "I must have forgotten."
Akito turned to look at her now, seeing as she was so close.
"Oh, forgive me!" Shiori kneeled down beside him, so that he didn't have to look up at her. "You must be Akito, right?" She smiled kindly. Her reaction now was quite different from that in the car.
"I am. And you are Shiori." He was a little dumbfounded by her sudden change in behavior toward him. First fear, and now kindness… "Tell me, how did you find your way to Shigure's house."
"Shigure? My dog?" Shiori was now confused.
Akito smirked a bit, and turned to look out the window once more. "That's right… Never mind for now."
"You have a beautiful home," Shiori's gaze followed his out the window.
However, Akito was no longer acknowledging her at this point.
She sat there silently with him for a long while, until a knock came at the door. "The guest room is ready, we've already moved all of her things there."
Akito began to rise to his feet and walked toward the door, "come along. The room is just across the hallway." A mischievous smirk came to his face, but he hid it.
"Yes, sir." The moment she said that Akito froze. What was with her? Fear, Kindness, respect… She was going through all of these, what next?
He cleared his throat, and she came beside him. He led her into her room and told her that that was where she would be staying. "Get dressed, I'm going to show you around, so you know where you can and cannot go in my home."
She bowed in compliance.
He left, to his own room, to get dressed.
'She is rather beautiful… And she seems so familiar to me.' Akito said as he slipped his robe off of his shoulders. 'But her eyes are dull. How come?'