Well, I'm kind of depressed. But I've been trying really hard to write the next chapter. It might be edited later on and if I edit I'll post a chapter of me rambling about it or something... I just don't know. What do you think? What should I do with the next chapter? Anyways, leave a comment and vote for it~ I'm new to this. So I need all the reviews I can get. :) Oh, and if you want to call me something. Just call me Ren. ^.^ Oh and if you want me to read your story then ask. :)
My boss pased in front of me, back and forth. His suit was fitted just for him. "You've hardly made any sales this month, and we're thinking of letting you go." He mutters. I stand up. He can't be serious. I need this job, I have a son I have to take care of.
"Please, Nakahara-san, I need this job." I look down at my feet. How am I going to support Kai without a job? Go back to Maid Latte? I know I'm always welcomed back there, but I feel like I'm too old for that kind-of job. And then our funds will be still too-tight for us to really do anything. It'd be worst than it is now.
"I know, Ayuzawa… But, in order to keep it, you're going to need to do something for me." He sat down next to me and placed his hand on my knee.
I gulped and stared at him and felt his hand slide up my thigh. I wanted to beat the living crap out of him. "You think you can do what I want?" He whispered, with his mouth next to my neck. His voice was laced with a creepy tone surrounding it. I quickly pushed him away.
"NO!" I yelled and kicked him. "Don't touch me, discugsting pervert!" I ran out. I don't need a job where a boss sexually harasses me. Why would Nakahara-san do this? I really didn't think he was that type of boss.
I sigh and walk down the street, looking for "now hiring" signs in windows.
"Ayuzawa-san!" I heard a familiar voice calling my name.
I turned around to see Aoi waving to me. "Hey." I waited for him to catch up to me.
"How's Kai?" He asked, his navy blue hair is cut to frame his face. Even though Aoi doesn't cross-dress, he still makes himself look good.
"He's good. You should come over to visit sometime." I suggest.
Aoi smiles, he's really handsome for a kid. I don't see why all the girls ignore him. Sure he used to cross-dress, and sure that might make him seem weird or gay. But just he's femine-like doesn't make him any less than a guy. "I'd love that." Aoi likes to make outfits for Kai. He once tried dressing up him up like a doll. But I made sure Aoi understood that Kai is a boy and that he shouldn't do that. So now he makes Kai baby-boy outfits. And Kai looks really cute in them.
I walk to my mom's, she's inside her house cooking. And my dad is cleaning in the living room and Kai is still at school. How should I tell my mom that I got fired? I don't think I can tell my mom about what my boss tried to do to me. "Hello." I closed the front door.
"You're earlier than usual, was there a meeting or something?" She asks.
"Uh…Yeah. They told me to take the rest of the day off." I don't need my mom worrying about me. She'd probably go out of her way to prusade me to move back in. I'm old enough, and I can take care of myself and Kai.
"That's good. Kai will be happy, he's been wanting to spend more time with you." She's super-happy about me getting off early.
I'm glad she's happy, because I'm terrified. Maybe I should contact the Usui's sooner than I had planned?
"Misaki, everything alright?" My dad asked, strolling into the hallway.
I nodded. "I'm fine." I guess I'll just look for a job tomorrow.
There was no place hiring, no matter how hard I looked. What am I going to do if I can't even take care of my own son? We might even get evicted if I don't pay for this month's rent. And we won't have any money for food. I put my head in my hands. Dammit Usui, why did you have to leave me alone? Why couldn't you stay? I guess I'll just go to the Usui's and beg for money, explaining to them about my situation. I check the time, Kai pretty much still has a full day of school and I don't pick him up until 2 hours after that. So I have lot's of time, I guess I can go now.
The Usui's live in a big house, almost as big as a mansion. Is this the house Usui grew up in? He was so lucky. I make my way through the front gate and towards the house. As soon as I knocked on the door, a woman well past the middle-age stage answered the door.
"Hello." I smiled at her. She had her graying brown hair tied up into a bun on the top of her head. And her wrinkles were hardly noticable unless you were up as close as I was. "Do you know a Usui Takumi?" I couldn't help but look down when I said his name. Saying it outloud, to someone with the same surname as him felt so embarrassing.
"No." The woman bluntly said.
I looked up, tears starting to swell in my eyes. "Oh… Um. I'm sorry." I turn and start walking away. I should've known it was the wrong people. I bet his family are long-gone as well as he is.
"Excuse me, Miss." Someone called for me, back from the house as I was half-way to the gate.
"I told you that I'm sorry. I didn't mean to intrude." I spun around.
"We raised Takumi… Are you Ayuzawa-san?" She asked.
I nodded. "Yeah. How'd you know?" I wrapped my arms around myself.
"Usui didn't have a lot of friends, he was quite the introvert. You're the first pretty girl to come to ask for him. So I assumed you were her." She smiled at me. "Did Usui tell you to meet him back here?" His mom seemed nice to me, despite the fact at first she lied to me.
"Um…" I didn't know what to say. I guess I should ask. "…Can I have his number?" I feel like I'm bothering her asking for this.
"I'm sorry, but we can't give you it." She wore sadden expression, but her eyes watched me warily.
"Please. I need to talk to him." I look away. They probably think I'm some crazy-obsessed ex girlfriend.
"Why?" It was Usui's Takumi's voice. I haven't heard it for at least Five years, but I know his voice anywhere.
I didn't want to turn around, to look at him. What if it isn't him? I don't want to be disappointed.
"Everything alright, Ayuzawa?" It's defiantly his voice.
I look over to the direction of the voice – towards the house – and I see his blonde hai still in the same style. His green eyes watching me, they were the same emerald green Kai had. I suddenly felt like there was a lump in my throat. They look so much alike, I didn't even realize it. They have the same facial shape, the same nose, the same mouth, the same eyes – I can't help but smile to myself.
"Everything's fine, I just wanted to talk to you." I allow my eyes to meet his. He can't know about our son just by my eyes can he?
His eyes look lonely. "Mom, can you give us a few minutes alone?" Usui asked, his hands tucked into his pocket carelesly.
"Okay, sure." The woman, his nonetheless adoptive mother, went inside.
Usui looks at me, his stance is so calm and carefree. "Why are you here?" He wasn't going to beat around the bush, is he?
"W-would you like to come over and hang out sometime?" I feel embarressed. I know he'll turn me down, but it's worth asking, isn't it?
"I guess." He leans back in the air. "What's your address?"
I blush and tell him. Hopefully he'll come. "Come over tonight." I suggest.
Hopefully my mom can keep Kai then. I'll have to clean up, hide stuff, because he can't know about Kai until I'm ready to tell him. And for that, I'll need the curage. I smile at myself, I'm really not that same girl. I wonder if he'll still love me.
"Sure." He smiles at me, a hint of a sparkle in his eyes. "What time?"
"Whenever…" I look down to his hands. A gold band is wrapped around his index finger on his left hand. He's married, and I feel another lump in my throat. I look at his face again and try to keep my best poker face. He can't know I'm hurt by seeing that. "See ya later." I wave bye and leave. He probably won't come now. He's probably is just saying he'll come, but never will show.
I call my mom when I get home, and ask her to keep Kai a bit longer. Then I begin to clean up. I hide all the pictures of Kai andof us as a family in his room. Some of his toys, and books, I stuff in there as well. Hopefully Usui won't ask why I have a two bedroom apartment. Kai certainly has a lot of stuff lying around.
I begin to make rice porridge, I'm much better at cooking now than I was in High School. I know I'm not as good as Usui though. He's brilliant in the kitchen, no he's brilliant at everything he does. It has me kind-of jealous. I just want to be better than him at something.
Usui shows up when the sun is setting, and I let him in. I'm surprised he actually came, I thought he was going to blow me off. I'm embarrassed by the place I live, he's probably used to more upper-class stuff… And here I live in a run-down apartment. He's lucky he lives to luxuriously.
"You live alone?" He picks up a mystery book I finished reading the other day.
No. "Y-yeah." I'm being forced to lie, hopefully he won't see through it.
"So I assume you didn't look for me just to eat dinner?" He sets the book down and makes his way to the table, which is across the room.
"You're married now?" I'm hoping he won't notice I'm changing the subject.
"Yeah." He didn't say anything else, nor did he try to tease me.
I shouldn't pry him open for anything else. But I want to know about her… His wife. Is she beautiful? How long have they been married? Do they have children together?
"Is Ayuzawa jealous?" His sly teasing voice sneaks into my thoughts.
"N-no!" I push him away and blush. "I'm defiantly not jealous, you perverted alien!"
He smirks when I call him his old nickname. No one else calls him that probably.
My phone rings, and I excuse myself to answer it. I would've ignored it, but it was from my mom and it could be important.
"Hello?" I hold the phone to my ear.
"Kai is missing." Were the only audiable words I could understand from my sobbing mother.