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The afternoon breeze was coming in from the open glass door. Outside you could the sunset from the sea. The kitchen and breakfast parlor is connected. Their wall was colored with crimson red. The counter that surrounds the kitchen and divides the kitchen and parlor was made from greyish green marble. The table of the breakfast parlor was a light colored round table made out of bamboo wood with five chairs with designs that complements the table's design.
The front door was open silently revealing a raven haired man wearing a white polo with two buttons untied on the top. He was also wearing a loose grey pants and a shiny black shoes to go with it.
"Hey Polka dots, did you cleaned up the house like I told you to?" Natsume asked while changing his shoes into his slipper.
"…"
"Polka dots?" Natsume wandered since no one answered.
'Where is she?
Natsume went towards the kitchen to get a drink from the fridge. Suddenly a silhouette walk passed in the kitchen door revealing a chestnut brown haired girl.
"Hey Natsume!" Mikan smiled cheerfully.
"You don't have to shout you know. I am just here." Natsume replied coolly.
Natsume looked at his 'wife' who was has her hair in a bun that tied up by a chopstick. She was wearing an army green spaghetti shirt with a khaki colored short. She also wearing a black simple flip flops.
"I was just happy to see you here already." Mikan replied still smiling making Natsume blushed.
"What are you doing anyway? I was looking for you." Natsume said trying to hide his blush by covering his face with his bangs.
"Really?! You were looking for me?" Mikan asked. She was surprised that Natsume was looking for her since they were always arguing since she moved in to his house.
"Of course, I was worried where you might be…"
"I am so glad that you cared." Mikan smiled happily.
"…since who knows what might happen to my house if you left without locking the door"
Mikan's face fell.
"Or you might even let some stranger in with open arms and my house would be robbed." Natsume continued his sentence sarcastically.
"Come on Natsume, I am not that stupid." Mikan fumingly replied.
Natsume just smirked.
It was their daily routine. He would insult her till she is mad that is how they would greet each other whenever Natsume arrived. It was some kind of greeting for them that normal people wouldn't understand.
"How was your grandfather?" Natsume inquired. "You visited him today, right?
"He is fine but he did scold me into visiting him again. He said 'Mikan dear, you must quit visiting me. The reason you got married earlier was so you and Natsume could get along together fine before I leave you in this world.'" Mikan said trying to mimic her grandfather.
Natsume chuckled.
"I could understand how he feels after living with you in two weeks. You sure are a handful. It feels like marrying child instead of an adult."
"I just really miss him. You could never know it would be the last time I would see his face, the face that took care of me since my parents died. But I know he is happy that I visited him even though he said the contrary." Mikan said sadly but was trying to cheer herself up.
Natsume noticed this and thought of something that could change the subject.
"So you finally finished dislocating my house. Huh?" Natsume commented on what Mikan did to his house.
His walls that used to all white was now all colored with warm and welcoming colors. His kitchen was colored in red to suit the function of the room. She even bought a cabinet to display the plates my mom gave to us on our wedding. The table was always decorated with a pot of different kinds of flower she gets from the garden she made just recently in my backyard. His house was starting to become a home.
"I didn't dislocated you house. I just add more life to it. Okay?' Mikan pouted. "I thought you are a major in architecture, right? Then how come your house was such a plain boring white. I mean the structure and angles are perfect but there is something missing in this house aside from color and more accessories."
"I don't want any more junks that I don't use in my house." Natsume complained. "The things you added on my house are burdens when it comes to cleaning up the place. There would be things one must need to be careful since it is fragile or expensive."
"Don't you ever have things that you value? And I meant sentimental value."
"Nope"
"But I thought everybody is supposed to have one."
"Well you might have thought wrong and if you were right then I am not everybody."
Mikan just smiled.
"What is so funny?"
"You have rice in your face." Mikan picked up the grain of rice from Nasume's face. "You know I thought that you are mature but you still get food in your face like a child."
Natsume blushed.
"Well… you… I…" Natsume tried to explain but it seems like that he wasn't able to thus making him blush more.
"Natsume you really are cute when you loose your cool." Mikan chuckled.
"I do not!" Natsume pouted.
"I can't believe the very mature Natsume is now pouting like a child." Mikan was already laughing at this time teased Natsume.
"Do not!"
Natsume was already slamming his fist on the table but was still pouting cutely.
"Do to"
"Do not"
"Natsume you are really cute." Mikan stood up and pecked a kiss on Natsume's cheek.
Then everything suddenly turned silent.
'What did I just do? How on earth did I manage myself to be in this situation? I was just making fun of him last minute and the next minute I know, I was now kissing his cheek. Even thought it was just on the cheek, it was my first one aside from grandfather.' Mikan was now screaming inside of her mind.
Meanwhile in the thought of the person beside her was…
'What is happening? The idiot just kissed me. As usual, I am sure that she didn't even know what she just did. How come I am feeling this wonderful sensation? Why am I blushing?'
Suddenly the phone rang breaking the silence in the atmosphere.
"I'll get it!" Mikan answered cheerfully trying to hide her blush from the awkward moment that just happens a while ago.
'That was very awkward. I don't know what I will do to break that tension. It sure has been a long time since I lost my cool to anybody even my family wouldn't see me being flustered like that.' Natsume thought deeply.
"Yes, this is her. Who is this?" Mikan asked the person from the other line.
"Hu-uh…Huh?" Mikan's eyes suddenly turned wide. "Okay… thank you…"
"Huh? Polka? What's wrong? You don't look so good." Natsume asked worriedly.
"Natsume… Can I go to sleep early in my room? Just leave the dishes in the sink. I will just clean them up tomorrow." Mikan's eyes were covered by her bangs and her aura suddenly shows from cheerfulness to a gloomy one.
'Something's not right.' Natsume thought.
"Wait!" Natsume grabbed Mikan's wrist before she was able to escape from his grasps.
Before Natsume could utter another word, he was surprised to find Mikan crying. Tears were overwhelming out of her eyes. Her body was trembling so hard that Natsume was having a hard time holding her. He made Mikan's eyes face him and their eyes locked into a deep gaze.
"What is wrong?" Natsume asked softly wanting to comfort her but have no idea how.
"G-g-grandfather…" Mikan whispered softly trembling even further.
Natsume could take it anymore and hugged Mikan's petite body. Her body was starting to calm down already. Her eyes were already covered with dried tears.
"What happen to him?" Natsume asked not letting go of her as if his life depended on it.
"He…he left…already." Mikan cried once again.
Natsume's eyes grew wide. 'Impossible! He was just fine a few hours ago. How could he just die?'
"He… even scolded me this afternoon on how I shouldn't visit him that often." Mikan snuggled into Natsume's chest.
"Everything is going to be fine. I promise…" Natsume assured Mikan.
'Besides I am here and I won't leave you.' Natsume thought silently.
to be continued...
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