Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt...
Author's Notes: I want to say thank you to all those who reviewed. I hope you like the story so far. I hope you'd continue reading and that you'll give reviews. Hahahahaha! (Reviews are sort of inspirations! I appreciate all of them!)
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CHAPTER 3: I A M STILL HERE…
I thought you'd come around when I ignored you
So, I thought you'd have the decency to change
Mai and John continued with their plan for the past few days. The two of them were the only one who knows of their plan. They kept their plan as a secret even to Ayako, Bou-san and Madoka. They pretended to be very sweet to each other in front of everybody.
'I thought this was going to work out. But it seems as though it's not. What's going to happen now?' Mai thought, as she was busy preparing everyone's tea.
Suddenly, a voice came from behind her, which startled her and she spilled the tea all over the place.
"Aaahh!" she screamed.
"Ouch! Mai-chan, it's just me." John said.
Mai opened her eyes and looked at the young priest in front of her who was now soaking wet because of the tea.
"Ah! John-kun! Gomen nasai." Mai said in panic.
"It's okay, Mai-chan." John said and held her hand.
Then, everyone else from outside who heard her scream rushed into the kitchen immediately.
"It's okay, Mai-chan." John said and held her hand.
"What happened?" Naru asked while looking at the young priest and his assistant who were holding hands.
"Why are you soaking wet?" Madoka asked.
"Hahahahaha! You two look like a wet sponge!" Bou-san and Ayako said in chorus and laughed.
"Nothing's funny you two. Mai-san you should be careful next time so you won't hurt anyone." Masako said, took out her handkerchief and gave it to John.
"It's okay, Hara-san. Mai didn't mean it. It's my fault for startling her. And thank you for the handkerchief." John said to the girl and smiled.
"John, you can give her back her handkerchief. You can use mine instead." Mai said as she smiled sweetly to John and handed him the handkerchief she has. John instantly gets what she meant and stretched out her hand to Masako to hand her the piece of cloth back.
"There's no need for that, Mai-san. I gave the handkerchief to John-kun first." Masako said losing her calm a bit.
"But Masako-chan, your boyfriend seems to be getting jealous. Besides, John and I as you and the others are usually seeing nowadays, are in mutual understanding of our feelings for each other. And I must say, I'm one jealous girl!" Mai said and smiled annoyingly to Masako.
"Hmph, fine!" Masako said looking very irritated and took the handkerchief then walked out of the kitchen.
"Well, that was quiet a show there." Ayako said.
"Hmph, I'm not really the kind of girl who just let anyone steal the guy I like." Mai said and held John's hand tighter.
"Ahem, as much as I don't want to ruin your moment, I must remind you all to get back to your works. Mai, tea and clean up the mess you made." Naru said coldly and left the kitchen as well.
Everyone left the kitchen except for Mai and John. They remained staring at each other and then smiled.
"John!" Mai said and hugged the priest tightly.
"Do you think it worked?" the priest asked.
"Of course it did! Didn't you see that look on her face? It was one in a million! How I wish I took a picture of it though." Mai said and laughed.
"Well, I should go out there in the living room now. So, you could prepare the tea in peace." John said and left the kitchen after helping her clean up the mess.
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But I guess you didn't take that warning
'Cause I'm not about to look at your face again
When Mai was left alone in the kitchen, she felt the sadness enveloped her.
'He didn't even care. He didn't even seem jealous when he saw John holding my hand or when I said John and I already have a mutual understanding. He clearly doesn't care. So I'll have to pretend not to care anymore too. Maybe that we'll get him to notice.' Mai thought.
She then went inside Naru's office to give him his tea.
"Mai, next time I don't want you to cause any riot here. You and John can take your sweet stuff anywhere else but not here." Her narcissistic boss said coldly.
"Hai, Naru." she answered back meekly.
But inside, she can't help but smile. And as she went out of her boss' office…
Can't you see that you lie to yourself?
You can't see the world through a mirror
It wont be too late when the smoke clears
'Cause I… I am still here…
'Somehow… He did notice, I guess…' she thought and smiled to herself.
"Good work, John-kun…" she whispered.
"And… Naru… I am still here, I'll wait a little more…" she added saying even more softly afraid that someone might hear.