Thank you so much for the reviews! Moving on, the story starts to explain how Anon's situation is on the other hand, before he gets into this 'textmate' thing and how it all began for him... wehehehehe. Read on, and don't forget to review at the end!! xD
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Circumstances of a Love Story
CHAPTER TWO
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That night, Mikan lay on her bed reading her textbooks. There was going to be a huge test tomorrow, and she bungled it all because of a silly little whim of hers. Cursing to what was already done, she decided to leave it behind and face her problem.
"Oh now I'm screwed!" she ruffled her hair annoyingly, "I should have stayed home…" whining as she discovered the test coverage; it was nearly half a book. She rolled herself up into a ball moping and stayed like that when her cellphone rang its kiddy tune.
Bling bling bling—bling bling bling…
Immediately, Mikan flew from bed, staring at her cellphone vibrating on her desk.
"It's that Anon…" she whispered then snatched it from her place.
There was a message. An anonymous number…
She clicked the message open and sure enough, it was Anon the anonymous.
"Hi there! It's me from the internet! Nice to meet you, I'm Anon! Male, good-looking, 17, and desirable. Who are you?"
Mikan arched a brow at the statement, "It sounds like a hold-up…" she was having second-thoughts of replying but finally decided to be kind and not keep the anonymous man waiting.
"I'm Kanmik." She grinned at the name she thought about, "I'm seventeen, wouldn't say I'm not that good looking but I'm still a girl. Let's chat. What do you want to talk about?"
How assaulting it read… well, he started it.
She was fair enough to begin the topic.
After a while, her cellphone beeped before she could go back studying.
"Anything and nothing! Hope you're not doing anything important right now?" Anon said.
She thought about it before replying. "Not really...just lying in bed, flipping through the pages of a book. We're not having any big 50-pages test tomorrow covering everything from Aardvarks to Zoology, so it's okay. Let's chat and waste time."
Mikan waited for a while before receiving a message. This time, it was a picture message of a happy clown.
"Great! Okay let's have some fun while you're lying in bed. ;)"
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Shin Tamada blinked back at the message screen of his superior's cellphone, amazed at what he was reading.
"Not really. We're not having any big 50-pages test tomorrow covering everything from Aardvarks to Zoology, so it's okay. Let's chat and waste time."
"Sarcastic, but simply put. I like that." he thought, "Kanmik huh…Sounds like the brand name of a canned milk. But maybe Natsume will like her."
He grinned as he pocketed his celphone. Natsume would love someone just like her. If he won't, well… there were millions of girls out there, he could do the same. And if for some reason he gets sick of Kanmik, that can easily be taken care of.
Money can always buy everything, even if it was the truth.
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"Natsume, you're looking like a sick dog." Shin said as he sat down beside the moody man, "What's pulling you down?"
The 19 year old boy grunted as he turned away, "Don't bother me."
Shin ignored him, "Had a fight with your elders again? Or with your life?" he suggested joyously, "I know it's hard to be the perfect guy for everyone to fall for, but that's life. Sometimes you just have to accept what fate has it for you…"
Natsume shifted from the soft plush cushion of the sofa to look at the bright full moon outside the floor to ceiling glass windows of his room.
"Just have to accept it huh…" the irony of it stabbed at him as he listened to this friend of his without really listening at all.
"Being the son of a banker whose corporation is known internationally worldwide can get to anyone. But sometimes the responsibilities are just not worth the rewards, isn't it…"
"If it had you in it." He thought listless. The bugger will annoy him till the end of the world if it meant getting his attention…which he rarely gets. Natsume had enough of everything else, and Shin was one of them.
"…so I want you to have a good time with your cellphone and enjoy life when you can." He finished, handing him the cellphone.
"Just put it on the table." Natsume ordered him.
"What?" there was disappointment in his voice, "But you should at least make use of it. Not everyone---"
"I said, just leave it!" he received Natsume's angry reply, silencing him in a second.
"Alright. Be happy." Shin grinned sarcastically at him before going away, contented.
Natsume was left alone in the gloom of the room with only moonlight giving illumination. But he felt most comfortable in it. The darkness was his only consolation when it comes to facing his circumstances.
"Damn it…" he muttered more to himself. Life was getting more and more pressuring for him. Not that he had anything that was literally pushing him around to move… but his circumstances were just that. If he doesn't do anything to improve and go with the flow, life will trample him mercilessly, leaving his pieces to be picked off by others.
It was getting sickening sometimes… He tried not to mind it but like his shadow, it was an inevitable part of him that followed him around wherever he goes.
"I bet everyone would've envied me." He was thinking when the cellphone vibrated its persistent tune. Natsume ignored it and moved lower in the sofa when the phone fell from its place and continued to ring and ring.
Cursing low to himself, he made the big effort to rise from his resting and grab the annoying thing before it explodes beyond his control.
"This is the one who's changing my life…" he thought drunkenly, thinking of someone else.
He flipped open the phone, clicked open the message and stared.
"From 'Kanmik' huh… whose dumb foreigner found its way in my cellphone this time…" Natsume was thinking as he read.
The message next read glaringly in the dim room:
Anon, I admit it.
I know you'll figure it out anyway, but I have to tell you that we have a huuuge test tomorrow, so sorry if I couldn't have fun with you in bed like you said we will---
Natsume arched a brow at the last, bemused. Intrigued by the message, he read on.
You don't know how this disappoints me! It's even more than when I miss eating Howalons for a day...! But well, had to go…for the sake of world peace, I must pore over my book to save myself and everyone else, including my mom. Bear with me if you're bear enough.
'Kanmik'
Natsume let the phone down in slow motion, his mind reeling at what he just read.
A prank call? But then what's with 'Anon'? It was a startling mockery of what he considered this text message: anonymous. Either that or this Kanmik was fooling around looking for trouble in the wrong place.
A business proposal? Nope…If you call having fun in bed was business. The thought made him smirk at what could possibly caused that.
So that leaves the queer yet vaguely interesting Kanmik… the name faintly reminded him of stale dairy products, stale candy bars and stale wine.
He decided to look for other clues---maybe that Shin sabotaged his celphone and hauled this anonymity.
As he was browsing over the inbox, he brushed over Narumi's text. He was his teacher who was more loving and clingy to him than necessary. You could say he was one of his overly enthusiastic fans that didn't help much in making his life any better.
"How's my pudgy-wudgy darling? Still looking gorgeously desirable in your dark raven hair, steely crimson eyes and supple lips hn? I Narumi shall vow to be with you forever so you don't have to stay in the dark. All you have to do is meet me after school, okay? And then…I'll help you with your trouble. –wink-
Natsume read it, getting the same nauseated feeling again that he could barely contain. Without thinking about it, he immediately went to the 'delete all messages' icon and clicked it empty. The inbox and all clues about Kanmik went down the memory eraser…
Natsume soon realized this and cursed himself for being downright careless.
Now what.
He looked at the message again, deciding whether to abandon his seeking and go back brooding by himself when another message beeped on.
It was Kanmik's number…
"I'm SERIOUS. I really am going to study." It read.
"Huh, like I'd try to stop you." He muttered low to himself, smiling as he clicked on the letters and formed back a text message. For a moment he hesitated in clicking the 'send' button, then thought "What the hell. I won't lose anything." Pushed it, then awaited his fate.
From the 'sent items' folder appeared his number to Kanmik's.
It read:
"Fine by me, go ahead and study. I was thinking about going tomorrow at the town square though… I intended to wait for someone there by that potted tree in the center around sunset … But I guess that someone will never come. –sigh— hope you pass your test. Bye."
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Author notes: What will happen? Will Natsume the Anon push through with the meeting? What will be Mikan's reaction if it does? Hrmm. Seems like there's more to this mystery than anyone can bungle, so tune in and... please please review:D