The Wedding Planner's Romance
By. Yuuna Miyako
PAIRING**E x T
GENRE** Romance, AU
SUMMARY** Tomoyo Daidouji is an ever cheerful wedding planner but she isn't married herself. What will happen if her handsome, enigmatic childhood friend, Eriol Hiiragizawa suddenly asks her to plan his own wedding for him?
AUTHORS NOTE**Chapter 1!~ Thanks much for all your reviews, it really meant a lot to me. If you guys are wondering why I haven't continued my other chaptered stories, the main reason was the lost of my data when my computer crashed months back. I kinda got discouraged from writing after that, so I'm 'slowly' picking myself up. This chapter is kinda long and uncovers a little more to things.
Hope you guys do enjoy this chapter though!~ Read and review?
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Chapter 1. That Jigsaw Game**
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"Sakura, don't you think it's ridiculous?" Tomoyo asked the golden haired beauty that sat in front of her during a lunch break in a famous coffee shop across the street.
Sakura Kinemoto just watched and listened to her best friend and boss rant about her 'childhood friend's fiancé'. A couple of days have passed since the Londoner visited their office and ever since then, Tomoyo was a little distracted and even fidgety about the whole arranged marriage thing. It disturbed Tomoyo so much that she made a major mistake the day before, in the verge of switching different wedding plans, but luckily Sakura managed quickly fix everything into place before those ceremonies were executed.
Sakura met Tomoyo during their middle school years and simply clicked because of their similarities and differences. Sakura never met Eriol until college, since the young man was sent to Europe for middle school and high school to give him proper heir training. But through all the years of friendship, Sakura never thought she'll ever see a new face of Tomoyo since this day.
Tomoyo in her usual self is calm, composed and always cheerful but now her defenses dropped and openly expressed her curiosity, worry and platonic jealousy.
"I'm not going to plan his wedding if I don't even know who the bride is." Tomoyo stated firmly, "Who knows if she's some kind of person that's just after his money?"
"But Tomoyo, what if he really loves this woman?" Sakura asked, "Because by the sound of your story, Hiiragizawa-kun is probably serious about his decision. Will you stop him from being happy?"
Tomoyo sighed, "It's not like that it's just—"
"Then, the only good reason that you're objecting is because you don't know who he is engaged to?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"Nothing more?"
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked with her eyebrow up in suspicion.
"Your reason is to shallow," Sakura pointed out, "We handle cases like these didn't we? Sometimes we only meet one side of the party until the wedding date."
"Yeah but—this is different. He's my childhood friend, and he has no intentions of telling me!"
Sakura sighed, "It'll probably more convincing if you have a deeper reason—sisterly worry or maybe even harbor secret feelings for him—"
Tomoyo felt something got stuck in her throat exactly when Sakura said that. Luckily she managed to grab the glass of water that was in front of her and gulped it down.
"That's impossible."
"Really…"
Sakura took a quick sip of her strawberry milkshake. There was really no point to this. Tomoyo is really dense as a rock when it came to love and romance no matter how much weddings she planned time and time again. Tomoyo is one woman who personally never experienced love. Work and the independence was the center of Tomoyo's lifestyle and love was totally out of the picture—well, until now.
So no matter how much Sakura pressed the issue, Tomoyo won't definitely budge about her decision until she knows who Hiiragizawa-kun's mystery lady is.
"Did you even directly ask him who is he getting married to?"
Tomoyo paused as she thought for a little while. Silence drifted between the friends as Tomoyo took the cup of tea in front of her and drew it closer to her pink lips.
Suddenly she stopped.
"To come to think about it—I haven't."
Sakura rolled her eyes and emitted a long sigh.
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"If you really want to know, you should ask him in person Tomoyo-chan."
Tomoyo recalled the last piece of advice Sakura stated after their lunch break. Now the day is dawning to an end, the lilac haired beauty stood up from her seat and gathered the folders that lay in her desk. She then headed to a shelf filled with these, and started arranging them back to order.
"What if he really loves this woman?"
Tomoyo stopped halfway as she pondered on that thought. She knew Hi-kun ever since she was born and she always wished success and happiness for his life. But why now she felt hesitant even though he plainly said to her he wanted to marry someone that will most likely give him happiness? She wasn't acting like a professional wedding planner—and she was most certainly not acting like a friend.
"I feel like a jealous girlfriend." Tomoyo concluded out loud.
Tomoyo blinked, and it just dawned on her on what she said.
It's not good to tread in these kinds of thoughts, she warned herself. Besides, the guy is already engaged and they have a good and healthy platonic relationship for goodness sake. Tomoyo was deeply engrossed in her thoughts that when a shrilly ring came from her purse, she jumped because of surprise.
Quickly she obtained her cell phone, she eyed the caller ID.
Speak of the devil…
"Moshi moshi, Hi-kun?"
"Tomoyo, you're still at the office?" A deep familiar baritone filled her ears.
"Yes, what's the matter?"
"Nothing," Eriol paused for a while, "I was wondering if you're available for dinner tonight. Nakuru has been bothering me to take you in the manor for days now."
Tomoyo's amethyst eyes widened—she just found her opportunity to ask him about his fiancé.
"Yeah sure, I'm done anyway—"
Then she heard a car honking outside the building, catching her attention.
"Hi-kun, wait a minute, someone's honking outside." She said in a whisper, her heart pounding a little, "Who knows if it's a rapist?"
A warm chuckle escapes in the other line. Tomoyo carefully took a quick peek, and then a soft smile spread in her face. It was Eriol in his black Jaguar, waving a pale hand under the moonlight.
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"Who are you engaged to?" Tomoyo bluntly asked as Eriol kept his sapphire colored eyes straight at the road before them.
"A daughter of my parent's acquaintance," Eriol replied, "I'm not so sure if you met her already, but maybe, at least once."
"Oh." Strike one for her.
Silence engulfed them, but Tomoyo detested the silence so she decided to try again.
"I want to know her—you know—it is also her wedding." Tomoyo said slowly, "What will happen if she doesn't like the theme, or the design?"
"It doesn't really matter," Eriol grinned at her, "Besides, whatever you choose she'll like. You're one of Tokyo's best wedding planners, or maybe, you lost confidence?"
"It's not like that," Tomoyo bit her lip, "It's just—nevermind." Strike two.
Another silence.
"Actually, our engagement is confidential," Eriol spoke up, "We're both heirs to huge companies and we don't want scandals. So to protect the family and the businesses, we decided to keep our identities secret to other people outside until the day of the wedding."
So she really won't know? Tomoyo clenched her fists as she thought carefully what she was going to do next.
"How about a game?"
Playing a game is one of the ways they settle decisions. Ever since both Eriol and Tomoyo were young, they loved playing games together. They played games as simple as tic-tac-toe to a game that consists of seven different languages. Each of them had a good amount of wit and cleverness, devising games to uncover up secrets, dares or promises. Both already either lost or won—and Tomoyo was determined to win this game.
"Hmm, good idea." Eriol nodded, "Before I met her, my mom parents put together a jigsaw puzzle for me to solve. So every hour we meet for the wedding plans, I'll give you a piece and you put them together. So, shall we play a fair game?"
"Sure I'm on it, besides, this is tradition and I'm never backing out."
Eriol's eyes twinkled, "That's the spirit. Make it the secret driving point for you to plan the wedding."
"Deal. Let's meet up tomorrow, let's get the planning on the go."
Eriol softly pressed the breaks of the car just in front of the Hiiragizawa Manor.
"But before that, let's enjoy Nakuru's dinner."
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まったね?
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**Next Chapter excerpts
"The wedding theme is the backbone to everything."