I will be doing shoutouts and hugs from Ikuto in the nex chapter, because not ONE of the people told me who they wanted their shoutout from! So, people who long reveiwed, IF YOU DONT TELL ME I WILL MAKE TADASE GIVE YOU A SHOUT OUT AND HE WILL HUG YOU INSTEAD OF IKUTO!!!!!
Anyway, to add impact, start listening to "Fearless" at: 'We walked out to the parking lot.'
And, then, one last thing: this chapter might be a little intense. I LOVE this one, it's possibly the best one I've written so far. x)
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Chapter Five
"If you fight him,
I'm not going to marry you!"
He paused.
A couple hours later, we went out to the mall, just to window shop. We were both bored, and so that's a good way to pass time. Everything about the wedding was ready; I just had to go to my dress fitting, then it would be three days until the wedding.
We heard the rain patter on the roof of the mall. It was about three o'clock. We went into a store, and someone greeted us. "Hello! Please feel free to look at our merchandise!"
I waved uncomfortably as Ikuto just smiled and led me along, putting his hand on the small of my back. We walked along the store, looking at every other thing.
"Hey, Amu, try this on." Ikuto said, passing me a dress.
"Eh?! Why?!" I said, staring at the short, strapless dress.
"Because, three reasons." He said, walking over to me. "One: You just shaved your legs this morning." I blushed, and he walked behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist. "Two, you're smoking hot…" I felt hot… on my face. "And, three… you're so freaking cute I can't stand it!" He kissed the top of my head.
I laughed, then went into the changing room. He followed. He stayed out of the changing room while I put on the pink and red dress. It came up about eight inches above my knee. I came out of the dressing room wrapping a sweater around me, and pulled him in by his shirt collar.
"What?" He asked, smiling. But instead, I shut the door and kissed him, wrapping my arms around his neck. "Woa. What's this all of a sudden?" He pulled away, and a smirk was on his face.
"I love you." I said, my eyes closed, and stole another kiss.
"Hold on." He said, "Can I see that dress?"
I don't know why, but something came over me when I had that dress on. "Yep," I said, smiling flirtatiously. I removed the long sweater, and his eyes nearly fell out of his head, they were so wide. The dress showed my legs, and it made my breasts look bigger.
"Wow." He said. Then he leaned in for another kiss. Then another. And soon, we were making out in a store changing room. "I," He started after a kiss, "Am definitely buying you that dress."
I smiled. "Good."
We walked out of the store after buying the dress. He handed me the bag. "Huh?" I asked.
"Go change into this." He told me, a playful smile on his lips.
"O-okay…" I said, blushing. I went to the bathroom and changed into the dress.
I came out, and he kissed me again. Something about this dress… made everything magical.
We walked around the mall, the rain still pounding on the roof.
"Ikuto-kun… that person's staring at me." I told him. There was a young man, about twenty-five, staring at me.
Ikuto glared at him, then reached down and kissed me again. I looked up, and the twenty-five-year-old glared at him.
He came over and said, "Want to take this outside?"
Ikuto asked, "There's nothing to take outside."
"The way you're glaring at me? Um, yeah." The guy said.
"So this is about glaring?" Ikuto asked, pulling me to his side by my shoulder.
"And," The guy got a smirk. "I want that pretty girlfriend of yours."
"First of all, I'm not his girlfriend--"
"Good!"
"I'm his fiancé. And second of all, there is no way in hell I would love anybody but him. So keep dreaming." I said.
He was taken aback. "Well," He said, "I still want that fight." A smirk pulled at his lips.
"Okay, let's go." Ikuto says.
"Ikuto-kun…" I said, and pulled him to me. "Ditch this loser. He's nothing but a low life."
"Amu, don't worry, I'm not going to let him hit me once." He started to walk away, and then I said,
"If you fight him, I'm not going to marry you!"
He paused. And in three seconds he turned around and said, "I won't fight; I'll just dodge."
"Ikuto!" I said as he turned away from me again. I took off the ring-- so beautiful with a pink diamond next to a blue sapphire, then tiny diamonds trailing away from those. "Turn around right now, or else I'm leaving without the ring!" I was crying. I didn't notice until I heard my voice shake.
He turned around and took the ring; I thought this meant, 'Okay.'. But he said, "Why does this mean so deeply to you?" as he slipped it back on my finger. His eyes were teary and held hurt.
"Because I don't believe in fighting for anything--unless it's life-or-death." I told him.
He stared deep into my eyes, both our eyes holding hurt. And then he put his hand at the small of my back and headed me to the other exit, leaving the other guy alone and waiting for us.
I heard the guy yell as he saw us leaving, "Just think about what you're doing to Tadase by marrying that jerk!"
I stopped walking, my hurt growing more.
"Come on." Ikuto whispered in my ear. He nibbled it. "Let's get out of here."
"Hold on a second…" I said, "stay here." I walked over to the guy and his buddies that I hadn't noticed earlier. They all made a 'oo' sound and chuckled dark chuckles, and I guess they wanted me to come back. I didn't have a sweater on; it was with Ikuto. So was my purse and clothes in the bag; I was still wearing the dress, with the red on top, slowly fading to a pink at the bottom.
"You came back for me, didn't you, princess?" He asked. He wanted me to slap him, and if I did, he'd feel like he won.
"I just want to make something clear." I said. "I couldn't care less what Tadase's feeling about this; he needs to let me go, get over me, and realize it's never going to happen! And, I couldn't care less what the hell you have to do with him. So leave me and Ikuto alone or else I swear I will kick your asses myself. And it will be so hard, you'll go crying to your mommies, with a pacifier in your mouth. So shut up and get the hell out of here!"
By now a crowd had formed around us, understanding every word I had said.
But then bad news came-- the security. Someone must have thought it was not a verbal fight.
"Hey!" The security man said, "What are you two doing!?"
"Sorry, sir," I said, "He was giving me trouble, and I had to tell him something important. There was no action going on. Just talking."
He stared at me for a second, looking me up and down. Thank God I had the dress on. "Alright, go ahead and leave." he said, the rain getting heavier on the roof.
"Thanks." I said, and went back to Ikuto, who just stood in shock at the whole thing.
"Um." He mumbled out.
I kissed him. "C'mon. Let's get out of here."
We walked out to the parking lot.
The streetlight shined, giving the road a glowing look, because of the light bouncing off the rain. Ikuto put my sweater on me, but I took it off, and led him under the streetlight. A smile played on his lips.
"Want to dance?" He asked, the raindrops bouncing next to us off the gleaming black pavement.
I smiled. "Of course."
He put his hands around my waist, and I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, having to go up on my tip-toes a little bit. We swayed back and forth with no music, just the gentle rhythm of the raindrops pounding like bouncy needles around us.
The rain fell on his face and slipped off, and how the light was gleaming above him, it was a perfect sight. He was so handsome. He gave me the same stare I gave him as we rocked back and forth. And we kept our eyes locked when he dipped me, the rain trickling down my neck.
I laughed, and stared into his beautiful midnight eyes. He leaned down and kissed me, in the rain, in the middle of the parking lot, under a streetlight. Rain trickled down both our cheeks, got stuck in our eyelashes like a fly in a spider web, and both our hair--blue and pink--drenched with rain water, dripping, adding to the rain.
We stopped kissing, and I swear that was the best kiss I've ever had. This dress was truly magical-- it made things happen.
We laughed out loud, just staring at each other, both of our eyes gleaming. He picked me up bridal-style, like always, and he walked the ten feet to his car. He put me in his car, then got on his side. And we drove off, after the best kiss in my life, after the best moment in my life-- so far.