Hey my wonderful readers, no matter how much sugar and candy and cookies I may offer you guys won't change that I've been seriously MIA these past three months. I can blame it on school and blah, blah, blah, but I know, and you all know, that is cuz of my lazy procrastinating self.
To all those who still reviewed, faved, fanned, and stayed around for those story alerts, thank you!
I made some minor changes to chapter 5 and just a question, who likes my chapter titles? ^U^
My Own Happy Ending
Chapter 6: A Step Forward, A Key
Ren awoke to the beeping of his alarm at 5 a.m., before the sun was even out. The events of the past night rushed back to him and he quietly got up and crept down the hall. He peeked into the open doorway of the guest room and let out a sigh of relief at the discernable lump underneath the blankets.
He walked back towards the bathroom and after showering, and his morning business, he replaced his brown contacts. With only a towel wrapped around him, he exited the bathroom, once more making his way toward his bedroom. He heard noise in the kitchen, and moved to investigate. He smiled as he watched Kyoko with a messy bed head making coffee for the two of them. He receded into the hallway and changed clothes.
"Good morning, Kyoko-chan." Ren smirked as she gave a slight jump and turned around to return the greeting.
"Good morning Co-Re…Tsuruga-san," she blushed as she thought of an appropriate way to address him. Corn was informal, and most likely not how he wanted to be addressed, considering how much his look had changed, to forget his past. She didn't know him well enough to address him as Ren-san or Ren-kun either, and with his star status, imagining all the rumors that would cause him more problems and stress stemming from her just made her shudder. So she settled with Tsuruga-san; it was unpresumptuous -of their relationship-, formal and respectful.
"Ren-kun. Call me Ren-kun if I call you Kyoko-chan," he tried asking her.
"It would be very presumptuous of me, I think. If that's what you insist upon, then address me as Mogami-san," Kyoko replied smartly.
"Please, Kyoko-chan," Ren plead with her with the most adorably heart-wrenching puppy dog look on his face.
"That's unfair…Ren-kun," but only between the two of us, she grumbled, defeated.
He smirked, relishing in his microscopic victory as she turned to grab his coffee.
"By the way, I was meaning to ask you, how did I get in these clothes? And why is there a significantly smaller amount then where I started?" Her face began to burn in embarrassment in reaction to Ren's face turning bright red.
"I swear I didn't see anything!" he exclaimed, hoping to save himself from her wrath.
"Oh god, no," she moaned, slapping her hands to cover her face.
"Hey, you are beautiful, okay?" he stated as her tried to get her hands off her face.
"You just said you didn't look! And its not even worth trying to convince me to believe that garbage," she said, grumbling the last part, her mood becoming dark.
He grabbed both her hands pulling them behind her and moving close, forcing her to look up at his face.
"Don't you dare believe a word of the crap that came out of that idiot's mouth, Kyoko. You know he's a liar, right? That means all the things he's told you were lies as well."
Her eyes grew wide at the seriousness of his tone and the fact that he used her first name without honorifics to address her. Also, at the sense he made, but that was logic she chose not to accept.
Her gaze burned into him, Ren, uncomprehending of what message they were trying to convey.
His grip loosened, Kyoko moved back, recreating the distance between them, the tension snapping and finally, dissipating. Ren glanced behind Kyoko, at the digital clock on the stove. It read, 6:30.
"Crap, I'm going to be late!" Ren exclaimed. He walked, more like leapt, toward his shoes placed near the door, and hopped, slipping them on while grabbing moving back towards the living room to retrieve his script and notes off the table. He turned to hear tinkling laughter erupting from Kyoko. She was bent over, clutching her stomach with her face beet red. Her laughter like bells to Ren, came in peals, he stared shocked and froze. He straightened himself, beginning to chuckle as well, as he properly slipped on his shoes. Ren walked back to the kitchen, placed the script down and grabbed his keys from the hook near the door.
He walked back towards Kyoko, still smiling as he noticed she was regaining her breath with a grin splitting her face as well. He slipped a key off the ring and placed it in her hand.
"This is my key to the apartment. It's in case you need to go out today, okay. Please, just stay here, so that I know your safe. Please, Kyoko-chan," he asked as he clasped her closed hands with his own, lowering himself to her height to eye level. "Please just…don't leave."
Kyoko's expression turned conflicted, but agreed, causing him to envelope her in a bear hug. She blushed, sending him off with a push toward the door and a, "I agreed, now get out, before you're late!"
"I'm off," Ren waved with a smile and departed.
"Be safe," Kyoko called, "Ren-kun," she whispered after, clenching his key in her hand.
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To be continued, I don't know when, but im aiming for somewhere between the next two weeks. If I don't update this story, then it'll definitely be my other fanfic, Being Seen.
Kays bye guys!
Review, it makes me happy! Even if it's to smack me down for being missing for the past three months!
And if you don't want to think of something to say, please copy and paste this as your review, just so I know that my readers are still reading!
Dear mangaEATER-chan,
I am so ready to chop off your little curly head for not posting a chapter in so long! But If I did that, who would post chapter 7!? Don't take so long this time!
Love,
Your beautiful, faithful fan and reviewer!
PS: I really do like your creative chapter titles for this story! (as said in your opening author's note which I know almost no one reads!)
I know this one is short, I needed it posted cuz my battery's about to die! Sorry, I can always try and make it longer next time! Anyways, catch any mistakes, review or PM me, I didn't get a chance to edit.
Until next time!
Love,
mE-chan! 3