Time for Meiko to reveal her trump card! Will she succeed or will Miku and Kaito's relationship deepen? This will be a short chapter before the Epilogue.

"So that's how it is…" Teto tilted her head and nibbled on her French bread. Kaito had just explained everything from the moment they had met first and Miku was sitting in the corner, blushing.

"I better return home now. Miku, I am glad that I got to meet you again. I hope that we will see each other again soon." Kaito said, kissing her cheek.

"Y-yes… be careful." Miku blushed as he kissed her and then planted a kiss on his forehead.

Kaito excused himself with a bow and then began walking home, where Meiko was waiting for him. She knew that this was something that she usually never would think to ever do, but for Kaito…

As he entered the house, the twins playfully hugged Kaito. He shook them off and told them to sleep – he was quite sleepy already. Slowly, he went to their bedroom and saw Meiko sitting on her bed. She smiled as he entered the room.

"Welcome home, Kaito." Meiko said with a soft voice. She thought that he liked that. However, he didn't really care.

"Hello Meiko. And good night – I am so sleepy now." he yawned and jumped into his bed.

Meiko walked to his bed and then did something really strange – she began unbuttoning her shirt right in front of Kaito. He glared at her and then yelled out a 'what are you doing?' She didn't stop though, but Kaito quickly did it instead, looking at her with serious eyes. Meiko was a little frightened that this wouldn't work. She tried to get nearer Kaito, but he stopped her again and then stood up.

"What is it Kaito?"

"Meiko, why are you doing this?"

"So you don't know?" Meiko seemed hurt by his words. "I have loved you since we first met and then that girl comes! She manages to seduce you in a matter of seconds, while I have tried for years!" Her eyes started to become teary.

"Meiko…" Kaito walked to her, wiping her tears. "Love isn't that easy. It seems like I will have to leave then… I only bring sadness to you. Be happy for me."

"N-no…" Meiko cried as Kaito left the room.

He walked to the twins and gave them the money he had gotten earlier today. He told them that he was going to sleep in another place tonight and would not come back for a while.

"Take care of Meiko, okay? I don't want her to be sad because of me."

The twins nodded and took the money. He had to be at another place now. And he had to do something important. Meiko had stopped sobbing. She had lost completely… to a stranger.

Miku and Teto ended the night by singing another 50 songs on their karaoke machine. Someone knocked on the door and Miku assumed it was Kaito. She went to open it and indeed saw Kaito… who looked really messed up. He smiled and gave Miku a kiss on her cheek as he entered the house. She blushed and closed the door after him.

"K-kaito? What are you doing here so late?" Miku asked.

"Well… a lot of things happened." Kaito smiled, taking out something from his pocket.

"Will you marry me Miku?" he knelt in front of her, holding out the ring.

Teto had just beat Miku's highscore on the leek-swinging-game and saw the spectacular scene. She hid and began filming everything with her mobile phone. It would be fun to show Miku afterwards!

Miku stared at Kaito and gulped. She loved him, he loved her. That was a fact that no one could deny. But this felt too sudden.

"K-kaito… why so sudden?" Miku closed her eyes. "B-but yes… I will."

Kaito smiled as he put the ring on her finger. She was red in the face and smiled. Teto muffled her giggles with her mouth as she pushed the 'Stop'-button. Then, she popped up and shouted to the love-birds to come up. They happily wet up to Teto who showed them the scene again. Miku blushed when Kaito gave her the ring and all of them laughed at Miku's face.

Teto left the couple in the room and let them talk for a small time. She thought that it was just like a fairytale – the prince and the princess marries each other and then live happily forever! And love at first sight too! She was a little jealous of Miku for getting engaged before her.

"M-mother. Kaito Shion proposed to me today." Miku said in the phone. Kaito sat next to her and played with her hair. He had left Meiko and the twins for Miku. Well, he didn't want Meiko to suffer anymore.

"Is that so? What company does his parents own?" her mother asked.
"No… he hasn't got any parents…" Miku whispered, sadness filling her voice.

"Miku, do you love him? Does he love you?" her mother sighed. She wanted her daughter to marry a rich and well educated man. But she also knew that Miku was stubborn.

"Yes."

"Then I allow you to marry each other. But wait for us!" her mother said. Miku was just about to thank her when her mother spoke again.

"Miku, darling? How did you meet him?"

"Eh… in the forest… we… Teto…" Miku didn't know what to answer.

"Teto took you to the forest where he met you?"

"Y-yes. But I insisted – it wasn't her fault!"

"I didn't blame her. Teto is a good maid, isn't she? Like a part of our family. She wants you to be happy." her mother said.

"T-thank you mother! Please say hello to father too!" Miku said as Kaito curiously tried to hear what her mother said.

"Yes, darling. We will be back at home in two days."

Her mother sighed as she closed her mobile phone and turned to her husband. The sun was really strong.

"Oh dear… our daughter has found her man." she said.

"It was time for us to loosen our protective grips around her anyway." Miku's father laughed and then turned back to his pile of papers.

Next will be the epilogue! I chose to end this earlier – I didn't want to drag out the story too much and Meiko has already done too much. I don't want her to go too far. xD My Spring Break ends really soon, so I don't really have the time to write so much now either.