Chapter 6
Shortly before midnight, mum and dad were very surprised to see me come home so late.
"What's wrong? It's the middle of the night." Mum said as she opened the door.
"Without even so much as a phone call. I thought you were going to bring your fiancé?" dad said.
"Yeah well, things change." I said and put my suitcase on the floor, in the doorway. "We had a fight. We both need to clear our heads, so I decided to come home."
Mum took me into the kitchen and I heard her put the kettle on. "These things happen." She said and gave me a cup of tea.
"What was the fight about?" dad asked.
"It doesn't matter." I said with a sigh.
"You look tired. You should go to bed, your room is ready for you." Dad said.
"Thanks. I'm sorry to come by so late."
"What are you talking about? This is your home too. You can come home anytime you like." Mum said.
"How long you in Japan for? Are you going back to London?" Dad asked.
"I don't know." I said. That's when I realised. I had no idea what was happening in my life. I was constantly moved from one place to another, never knowing what was going to happen. I trusted Eisuke, but he never tells me anything, all he tells me is to just do as he says. I trust him, but he clearly doesn't trust me enough to talk to me about things. We were engaged, this was supposed to be a partnership. He's had plenty of time to tell me what's happening, all I've done since we got back here is do as he says.
"Freya, are you ok?" mum asked.
I wiped a few tears away from my eyes "I'm fine. I'm going to go to bed." I said and went upstairs. For the first time in years, I went to sleep in my own bed.
The next morning, I woke up to my cell phone ringing. Who could be ringing me this time of morning? It was still early. I sleepily reached over and answered it.
"Hello?
"Whoa, you sound really sleepy."
I shot up in bed "Ota? Is that you?"
"Can you tell me why I'm being followed too?" he said.
"What? What are you talking about?"
"It's really annoying. Tell Eisuke to take care of it."
"I don't know what you're talking about." I said.
"He hasn't told you anything about it?"
"No, he hasn't told me anything."
"Why am I not surprised? Well, just tell him and he'll understand." He said.
"Tell him yourself besides, I'm not with him at the moment." I said.
"Why? And if it was that easy, I wouldn't be calling you right now. Don't forget." He said with annoyance and hung up.
"Hey, wait."
I sighed and put my phone back down. Great, now I was wide awake. I wanted a lie in. I wondered what Eisuke was doing right now? And Why was he having Ota followed? Was someone targeting Eisuke? That would explain everything that's happened. And if both Eisuke and Ota were being followed, did that mean I was being followed too?
I was fed up of just sitting around, waiting for something to happen. I needed to help Eisuke one way or another. I got up and got dressed. When I went downstairs, mum had already made breakfast.
"Hey Freya." Lucy said beaming.
"Lucy? Lucy!" I squealed and ran towards the kitchen table, running into a chair and falling over.
"Freya, what are you doing?" she said and helped me to stand. I jumped to my feet and hugged her. Lucy was my sister.
"How are you?" I asked.
"I'm fine, doing better then you, Obviously. Mum and dad told me you were back in Japan. Why didn't you ring me?"
"Sorry, things have been crazy busy." I said.
We sat down and ate breakfast before going upstairs to my room.
"So, tell me everything." She said.
I explained the whole situation to her.
"Wow. So something bad?"
I could always tell Lucy anything and I needed to get my doubts off my chest. "I think someone is targeting either me or Eisuke."
"Why? Did Dad screw up again?"
"No. It has nothing to do with Dad. Eisuke sometimes gets involved in dodgy things and I think something's happened in England, and that's why he's dragged me back here."
"What kind of dodgy things?"
"I don't know. He never tells me anything." I said.
"So what are you going to do?"
"Isn't obvious? I'm going to find out what's happening and do something about it." I said.
"How?" she asked.
I smiled at her "Well, since you're here, you could help me. We were always good at sneaking into Dad's office. We could do the same to Eisuke's." I said.
"Freya, if someone is targeting you guys, tell dad. He can get some of his soldiers to protect you. And do you really think you should be sneaking around your fiancés office."
"How else am I supposed to find out what's going on? He never lets me do anything, he just treats me like a helpless animal. I bet if I wasn't blind, he wouldn't treat me like this."
"Oh stop. I'm sure that's not it."
"Are you going to help me nor not?" I asked.
"Fine, I'll help you. When do you want to do this?"
"Now. Let's go back to the hotel." I said.
We stood up and headed downstairs, we said goodbye to mum and dad.
"You're leaving now?" mum asked.
"Where are you going?" Dad said.
"Back to the hotel." I said.
I opened the front door and walked right into someone. "Oh sorry, excuse me." I said and tried to move past them but they didn't move.
"Freya, it's me."
"Eisuke?! Wh-what are you doing here?"
Eisuke then seemed to notice my family "Please excuse me for coming so early in the morning. I'd been meaning to come at the time we agreed upon before but… I'm Eisuke Ichinomiya, Freya's fiancé."
"We've met before. It's a pleasure to meet you." Dad said.
"Yes, it's nice to see you again." Eisuke said.
"I heard you two fought. Did our daughter do something to upset you?" Mum said.
"Mum?!"
"She can be very stubborn and jump to conclusions easily."
"Mum, knock it off." I hissed.
I heard Eisuke chuckle "No, it's my fault for making her feel anxious."
Did he really think that? He would normally never put himself in a lower position then me, so did he feel bad and that's why he came to get me?
"She was just about to go back to the hotel." Dad said.
"I see. I had good timing then. I am sorry for intruding so early in the morning but something urgent has come up. But I'd love to come back and spend more time getting to know you." Eisuke said.
"Of course. We're so happy that Freya's found such a fine man. It beat her last boyfriend." Mum said.
"Mum!"
"Just look after her." dad said.
"I promise you that she's safe with me." Eisuke said.
Lucy decided to stay at the house, we said our goodbye and me and Eisuke left together. We walked outside, and I looked around in shock. I saw many figures stood around the house.
"Um… Eisuke. Are there people standing around my parent's house?" I asked.
"You all are relieved. Good work." Eisuke said.
"Thank you, sir." One of men said before they all walked away.
"Eisuke, who were they?" I asked.
"Bodyguards."
"Bodyguards? But why?"
"We can talk later." He said and took me to a limo. The coldness and the anger from before was gone, he was being quite sweet and protective. I couldn't believe that he sent bodyguards to my house and judging by what Ota had said, the situation must be serious.