AN: "Blank" – means English
Chapter 7:The Confession (and a real one at that…)
"What really went on between the two of you, Tanaka-san?" I asked the red-haired girl.
"Why do you want to know?" she suddenly asked.
Why would I want to know? He had been my student. The two of them almost became like little brothers to me. How could I resist the urge that my "little brother" finally stepped into the world of females and maturity???
"I was his babysitter, Tanaka-san. I also have the right to know." I gave her that answer. Everything is summed up as that…
She looked down at the cup of tea I managed to make without any help from Mai.
"He always talked about you. He said you were so cool. He wanted to be like you before, he would always say. But he noticed he wanted to be someone more, too." She said.
"It was after I said that he should get a different life, different from his other brother, am I right?" I asked her
"Yeah." She replied, "But he said it boosted him up like fuel and made him attain for something better in his life. He always mentioned that it was what made him different from his twin." She finished, managing a chuckle.
Just how close did he get with this girl?
"How close were we?" she asked herself, "The truth is, I don't know…"
"Is it that you don't know or is it that you are not sure?" I asked her again.
"Ha! We have been joking about getting married to so I don't know." She said with a smile, until she dropped her head and started to cry softly…
"How come you are telling this all to me and not when Noll asked you?" I inquired still.
"I don't know. Hehe, maybe because I'm shy, hehehe…" she tried to make herself seem happy
Just like what Mai would do…
"If these things sort themselves out, would you like to know Gene's family?" I asked her.
She deserves the right to have the privilege of getting introduced to the 'Davis'es, and they have the right to know about her, too.
"I don't know… I'll think about it."
"It's ok. I don't want to rush you. Sleep, you'll need the energy." I told her and she dragged herself to the guest room. Once she closed the door, I situated myself outside. I sat and mulled memories in my head. For some unknown reason, I got asleep.
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"I want to have that huge PK energy too, Lin-nee-chan!" the sapphire-eyed little boy of eight said as he tugged continuously on my sleeve… on my starched and ironedsleeve…
"It is up to what your abilities' limit. You know very well that your best is at being medium." I answered the boy, a boy in which I was about 9 years older.
However, the more I told him of his limits, the more his eyes sparkled of triumph.
"I want to be just like Noll here!" the boy said as he rested an arm around his brother's shoulders.
"You should just accept that all you could be is a medium..." his brother mumbled.
"What did you say, eh, Dr. Oliver?" he said as he started to wrestle his brother with the arm he had placed around his brother's shoulders.
"Stop it Gene!" the younger one yelled at him.
I shook my head. Boys are boys…
"Hey, Kids! Why don't you eat your sandwiches here?" a nineteen year old Madoka said from a distance down the patio.
We were in the garden. The 'Davis'es asked that we always play and train with the boy protégés here in the garden. Perhaps, because the garden is visible from the balcony on the second floor of the mansion. Anyway, Madoka came in from the cobblestone path with a basket of sandwiches and a blanket that she carried in her other free arm.
I shook my head again. Girls will always be Girls…
Suddenly, the kids aged in front of me. Fifteen…
"Noll, Want me to race you to Madoka?" Gene said, with the hint of triumph in his face.
"Running is for cowards…" Noll answered.
"It's a strategy, Noll." Gene replied.
"Whatever…" Noll said as he started towards Madoka.
Suddenly I found myself repeating the same things I said before.
"Wait, Gene." I found myself form the words.
It was like watching a movie from your own eyes…
"What is it, Lin-nee-chan?"
It is as if I'm talking to the older version of the boys I once baby-sitted for SPR.
"I know why you want to be like Noll, but you are a different person."
"Not exactly, were almost alike!"
"No! You are a unique person of your own. You have a unique personality, unique abilities and your own fears and aspirations. Even if the two of you are inseparable when it comes to your physical attributes, your uniqueness will always set the two of you apart. It would give each a separate personality. By doing that, no one will mistake the two of you ever again."
"Is that true?"
"It's true! That is the very reason why you must stand unique."
…
And the scene played on.
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(Mai's POV)
"What's you're problem!" I yelled. I was back from the man hole I fell into in our third case. I have been hanging for like ten minutes now and the girl was still clinging on my feet! (sweat drop)
We have been doing this for a while now… When will everybody know this… ?
Hot tears trailed down my cheeks. I wish Naru would pull me from this dream…
'He won't', answered the girl.
"Eyaaaaahh!"
And the ladder broke once more.