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CHAPTER THREE
New York. 11:15 am.
It had been more than eight long years since she left Tokyo. And Tokiya. It took her two years to recover from the incident, another two years of moving on and four years with a new relationship.
Fuuko was sitting on a wooden bench in a park just across the hospital she's working. The park was a little bit too busy with children running wildly all over the place. Students were having their early lunch at some shady place in the park and people were passing by from everywhere. She glanced at her watch and found out that she had been a little bit earlier than her usual break time. She looked up again and bored her eyes around the park. He will be here after more minutes, she thought.
She had spent half of her years in New York studying and took up nursing while trying to recover and move on from her past experience. She's now a licensed nurse and a very successful one too.
She was happy she decided to run away, though she felt missing them sometimes, her friends, family and Tokiya. But now that she has fully recovered from everything in the past, she felt proud of herself for not losing her sanity and be able to go on with her life.
A warm gentle wind blew over her face, which made her take a deep breath and enjoy the feeling of freshness. Her long purple hair, freed from its usual style with the nurse's cap, was vibrant and flew to where the wind blows it.
She closed her eyes as she felt the mild wind touching her dainty nose, and passed across her face. She imagined herself sunbathing in one of the beaches in Tokyo on a warm summer, though it wasn't really as hot as what she was imagining. And her nurse's uniform wasn't appropriate for the place she was thinking either.
Summer was almost ending and soon another season will come about. The warm atmosphere was slowly starting to diminish and soon fall will take its place, then winter after that.
Fuuko looked above her and covered her eyes from the afflictive rays of the sun. The weather was moderate but the sun was still painful to stare at. (Reader: Of course the sun's painful to stare at! Who would dare stare at the sun? Are you psychotic? ME: errr…yea I realized that too..but i just want to add another sentence that's all hit by a shoe 0.0)
Spending her vacant times on the park had been her habit since she and her boyfriend got together. She had established another perfect relationship with another man, and she had never been happier with someone as she was with him, not even with Tokiya. She had completely closed the history book of Tokiya and her. And had opened a new one with his current love interest. With Raiha...him and him alone.
Fuuko was cut out from her thoughts when a sudden darkness blinded her. Something or someone had blocked her vision and she need not put a midget effort to guess who it was.
"Have you noticed that you have been doing this to me for the last three years and that it has been my habit of asking you this question over and over again?" she smiled in anticipation.
The man behind her chortled. "Yes, but not this." He took his hands off her but her eyes remained close and presented her something.
She sniffed it, as though being cautious, but she knows its not something she wouldn't like. Raiha had always been thoughtful enough not to give something she disfavored. He knows what she wants and knows how to make it special. She sniffed again, liking the scent. It was a very sweet smell of…lilac and lavender? Was it?
She opened her eyes and gasped, her fingers covering her mouth. It was lavender and lilac indeed, not in a bouquet, but was arranged to form a flower bear. The size was as big as a walking-talking doll but its uniqueness and the delicate handwork spend on it was incomparable. She was already teary-eyed when she lifted her face to see his.
The indigo-haired man gazed down at her, his indigo locks covered her face as he leaned down and touched his lips with hers for a sweet quick smack. Then he shifted place and positioned himself beside her, and secured her with his left arm.
Fuuko giggled at their contact and put her head on his left shoulder. She held the bear closer to her, and making sure it wouldn't get ruined at the same time. The thought of him beside her was enough to complete her day. They sat there silently for awhile, feeling each other's closeness.
"Aren't we too old for these stuffs?" she smiled to no one in particular 'cause she wasn't facing him. She was watching the kids running from here to there with their parents calling them for lunch.
"You are still a baby, my baby," then Raiha chuckled and she beamed. "So, are you really going back to Japan tomorrow?" he asked.
"Yes, Ganko said she and mom misses me so much. I called them the other day and both of them were crying like babies. I guess eight years was long enough, and I have to admit I am missing them so much as well. Aren't you coming with me?" she returned.
Raiha shrugged. "I want to but I can't get any time to request a vacation leave and leave my patients behind," giving Fuuko a slight smile. "I knew I should have been a nurse aid than a doctor," he grinned.
"I can't imagine you being a nurse aid, you don't even like carrying a single light-weighed chair to a patient's room," Fuuko laughed and Raiha chortled.
"I'll go after you once I get a chance, alright? And I promise you that."
Fuuko took another glimpse at the flower bear. She barely noticed the writings on the red ribbon around the flower bear's neck. She stared at it harder. There was something written on the lace.
'Fuuko Kirisawa…Will you marry me?' it says.
She gasped for the second time. Her eyes almost popped out from its sockets and her heart beat faster than the racing cars in Initial D (uhh..its an anime about race cars). Her lips trembled, both in complete surprise and tremendous excitement. That flower bear was a big surprise, but this one's huge enough to engulf the whole City of Tokyo!
She felt Raiha left her and moved somewhere below. She blinked and turned her chin around, and her eyes burst out all the tears that were threatening to flow down since earlier.
The wind blew silently, as though trying not to disturb the romantic moment they're sharing.
There was Raiha, alright, with his usual doctor's white coat and neatly tied-up hair (err..he tied it up earlier while Fuuko was examining the red ribbon), but in a position Fuuko have been longing for him to be.
He was on his knee, kneeling like the perfect Romeo and took Fuuko's one hand. His fingers found the object they searched and took it from the pocket of his slacks. He showed it at Fuuko whose eyes have been widened eversince she read the note on the flower bear's neck. He saw her cried, but he knows what kind of cry that was, and its making him feel good inside. Seeing her as happy as this was what he always waited since last month, every effort he spent for this day was worth it.
He had been planning this for a month, making sure all would turn out perfect and unusual, not the engagement-after-a-romantic-dinner type or the under-the-moonlight type either. He wants Fuuko to remember this as one of her best memories so he decided to make it unique for both of them. Instead of a romantic candle-lit dinner, he proposed in the place they always see each other, in the time of the day when they always met, and not under the moonlight but under the bright sunlight of the late summer. And just as what he aforethought, Fuuko didn't even guessed what was coming for the both of them today.
Raiha lifted his engagement ring for her. (A/N: anou…would u kindly just imagine the ring as beautiful as your most-liked engagement ring to have? And for the males, imagine the ring you would want ur future fiancee to have alright? Coz I'm not good at describing jewelries nor dresses, gomen!)
Her eyes gleamed at the sight of it. Just the look at it, she knows it's not just an ordinary engagement ring. This one probably cost a lot and she felt awkward to touch it, like it was the most fragile thing in the world. She felt her jaw somewhat dropped and she made no attempt of pushing it back to its normal location. She can't, she was stunned on her seat like a kid seeing the latest set of Barbie dolls.
Raiha smiled, amused at her face. This was better than what he had expected and he can't help but be proud of what he had done. But on the meantime, he better proceed to the next procedure or Fuuko would drool over the ring forever.
"Fuuko Kirisawa," he slightly squeezed her hand in case she hadn't recovered from the drooling yet. Fuuko looked back at him, with eyes full of tears and cheeks flushed crimson. "Will you marry me?"
The ring which was already placed on the distal end of one of her left fingers was immediately pushed its way into that awaiting finger as Fuuko forced herself towards her fiancé and enveloped him with her most passionate embrace. Tears flung out from her eyes as she repeatedly shouted "yes" behind his nape.
Raiha hugged her back, feeling as happy as her.
They both heard the clapping of hands and the cheering of the people around them. They blinked.
"Omigosh this is so romantic!" Fuuko heard a lady exclaimed.
"Congratulations!" all people cheered.
Fuuko's flushed face turned to a darker shade of red. And she leaned over Raiha as he moved them both upward. He smiled brightly and waved at the people. Fuuko, though embarrassed, bowed at the cheerers and even tiptoed, crushing her lips with his on a hungry kiss. Raiha was surprised but returned it with the hunger and desire as heavy as hers, and received more cheers from the audience.
Tokiya was all in the past. Raiha is my present..and soon, my future.
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"All passengers please fastened your seatbelts, we are about to take off in five minutes," the sound of the stewardess' voice echoed throughout the plane and everyone started fastening their seatbelts.
The plane took off and had a steady flight towards where it's going to be. Fuuko gazed at the outside window, admiring the orange-ness of the sight. Sunset was always beautiful, but it's more captivating when it's this close. She sighed. She's going back to Japan now, she wondered what awaits her there.
"Hey Miss, aren't you going to fastened your seatbelt?" a little girl tugged her shirt and asked her. She barely noticed that the child was there, or that she had company.
"Oh," she faced her and immediately fastened her seatbelt. "There you go," she smiled at the child who beamed at her in return.
She's a very cute child with pinkish cheek and long topaz hair tied on a high ponytail. But what caught Fuuko's attention were her deep light blue eyes. Kinda reminded her of something. Tokiya?…Oh yea, Tokiya and my revenge…
A/N: Yosh! Another chapter done. Did you like it?-hit by a shoe- No? Why?
-Because the chapter's just about Raiha and Fuuko, Tokiya was out of the picture!!-pokes author hard on the head-
A/N: Gomen…-sheepish smile- it's a part of the plot. I assure you the next chappies gonna be Tokiya/Fuuko exclusive! So please review!!! Huhuhuhuh please, I wouldn't know what you think about this if you wont review. Is it still worth continuing? I allowed anonymous reviews so go and click the magic button!!
