yes yes, i know its been a while...

"Wait, what?" Michiru said confused. All of sudden, the weekend came, Haruka steps to Michiru in their bed room and tells her of a wedding. "In America? Who's wedding is it?" Haruka answers by saying her cousin name Techi. 'Techi, who the hell is Techi?' Michiru thought. "You never mention this women before. That's....a little odd."

"Well, you can go with me or not with me, but Hotaru is coming nonetheless."

Michiru listened to the tone that Haruka used on her. It was a different tone; a tone that didn't give Michiru an option whether or not Hotaru was going. She tilted her head at Haruka. Not only did she leave early in the mornings but she came home often, late at night. What was she doing? Michiru thought about her practicing on the circuit but for some reason, she dismissed it. Haruka was hiding something and wedding might actually shed some light onto it.

"We haven't had sex in three months." Michiru pointed out. It was true; they hadn't had sex in over three months. Michiru was sure it was longer than that but she made it easier by saying only three months. Oh maybe to her, it felt longer-it felt like five months to her, almost half a year.

Haruka walked over to the bed and sat down; Michiru wasn't having sex... but Haruka still was. At Tenoh's meetings, her father would often bring in both male and female strippers to calm the danger of each meeting's potential. And though Haruka never had sex with strippers, there were other girls. Haruka looked at Michiru and felt that Michiru, herself was lying about not having sex in three months-more like not having sex with Haruka in three months. There were times Haruka came home that she could swear that she smelt someone else's perfume. A scent that smelt familiar, all too well.

"Well then," Haruka said, "would you like to have sex?"

"I would like to know whats going on first. I'm confused on why you never mention this Techi and why Hotaru much go with you nonetheless."

Haruka was starting to get irritated; there was so much that was hidden that unlocking the door would bring too much damage...

'I will open that door no matter then,' Michiru thought.

"Hotaru is apart of the Tomoe which is apart of the Tenoh family. We adopted her when her father passed away. Remember, Setsuna was with us-" Setuna, that's who Haruka smelt some of those nights she came home late. She stood up from the bed and turned her back on Michiru.

"What-what's wrong?"

Haruka pulled back the comforter and sheets of the bed. She threw them on the floor.

"What the hell, Haruka!"

"Nonetheless, Michiru, Hotaru is apart of the family; she is a Tenoh." Haruka looked at the bed to see if her eyes could get any glimpse of juices on the bed. Michiru knew what she was doing but asked anyway.

"What are you looking for?"

"...Nothing. So you're coming to the wedding or not?"

"Yeah, sure; it's not like we can't afford to fly there, stay there, and fly back." Michiru walked out the room throwing the idea of sex with Haruka out of her head-nope, that wasn't going to happen.

HAWAII, USA

It took 16 hours, 16 hours to fly from Japan to America and how tired Michiru was. Flying closer and closer to America, Michiru had the feeling that she should turn back and take Hotaru with her, but of course, she couldn't.

They took a taxi to the mansion where the other Tenoh family would be waitting for their arrival. They pulled up in the oval driveway, and a butler quickly rushed out the house and took their luggage inside. As Haruka's family came to greet Haruka and meet Michiru, Michiru herself looked around for Techi-the woman that put her there in Hawaii. Finally, through all the hugs and kisses, Michiru was up front and face to face with Techi.

"Hello."

"Hi." Michiru smiled. "Nice to meet you. Haruka never spoke of you. Didn't know you existed." It surprised Michiru that her tone was rude; its wasn't new to her, Michiru was rude to Techi but Michiru's rudeness is more graceful and beautiful than most. She could pull it off with charm, most can't.

Techi grinned at Michiru and sensed the tension for being dragged down here; well, she didn't have to come but of course, Michiru saw Hotaru as her daughter and it was summed up by Techi the reason why Michiru was there.

"Let's go for a walk, shall we?"

Michiru looked around and saw that Haruka was occupied by the family. "Yes, let us."

****

Techi took Michiru to the back out door swimming pool; the smiled spread across Michiru's face when she saw the calmness of the water. She walked to the edge and closed her eyes. Out in the distance, she could hear Hotaru slowly speaking to a boy of the Tenoh family-a very feminine boy. Michiru giggled on the inside, a little gay boy, it was cute. She would often question Hotaru's sexuality since she was at that age but felt that Hotaru didn't really have much sexual desire. She never spoke of any crushes she had, except for her best friend that became no longer her best friend because of an incident. An incident, Hotaru didn't say what it was.

Michiru could hear liquid pouring into two glasses.

"Wine?" Techi asked.

Michiru opened her eyes and walked to Techi. She took the glass and looked at it.

"I didn't poison it," Techi sat down on the lawn pool chairs. "for one, it is not you who I want to poison."

Michiru sat down on the edge of the pool after she took off her shoes and socks. The water felt nice and she wished that she would have brought her bathing suit but-

"You like to swim?" Techi asked again. Michiru noticed that Techi was wearing a sundress and had black sun classes on the top of her head. She was slim, soft and glittered in the sun. She was handsome.

"Yes."

Michiru listen-kind of has Techi spoke about being on the middle and high school swim team. How she won so many medals and ribbons. She was good enough to try out for the Olympics and she did, but didn't make it. She shrugged, saying she didn't want it bad enough. Michiru felt Techi was trying to impress her and then she realized Techi was trying to charm her. Michiru taught back-" 'we haven't had sex in three months' " It was true; she hadn't, not even with Setsuna. She thought about it. Techi was getting married; she's apart of the Tenoh family. Michiru wants to find out what the Tenoh family is hiding or at least, what Haruka is hiding, besides, Michiru noticed how Techi never met Haruka's eyes at the entrance.

Michiru got out the water and walked to Techi, swaying her hips. She kneeled down to be level with her. "You're flirting with me."

"No shit, baka, hmm, Michiru, right?"

Michiru nodded her head.

"No shit, Michiru."

this was kind of nice. lol