Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait just had a big writer's block that I can't over come very easily but anyway here is the next chapter dedicated to my big sister I know that your birthday had already past but take this as my belated gift for you.

RECAP:

At Kazuki's grave Shuuichi knelt down in front of it as he laid the flowers he had brought for his best friend…

"I'm sorry, if I didn't tell her my feelings you would still be alive, it's all my fault and I know you haven't forgiven me yet that's why I'm promising you this… 'I, Shuuichi Minamino, would forget my feelings toward Botan Furuya forever.'"

Shuuichi made that promise and he had fulfill it by saying goodbye to Botan saying that he needs to take care of their family business back in L.A. which is true but he never added the other reason that he was also going there to help himself forget her and his happy because she never asked about the night before Kazuki died and that is why he ended up in L.A. to forget, to take care of their family business for short moving on. What a pathetic story, he knows because that what it is a pathetic story about a pathetic love that made him loose his best friend and a brother as well…

END OF FLASHBACK

Shuuichi suddenly sat upright sweat falling from his head and t-shirt soak in his sweat, he didn't even realize that he had fallen asleep and that he was not having a flashback of memory but a nightmare.

Chapter Seven: Another Piece From The Past

Shuuichi woke up as the sunlight crept into his room. He had a hard time falling back to sleep last night as he had that nightmare but hopefully he manage to fall asleep without a nightmare. He started to do his everyday routine as always then he went to the twins room to bath them before feeding them and bringing them to his neighbor so he can pick Botan up as early as possible.

Shuuichi was now driving away from his neighbor's house after dropping the twins there. He was now driving towards Botan's house to pick her up.

Botan Furuya's Resident…

Botan was already awake, she had decided to pack her bags and help Shuuichi with the twins saying that it's a challenge for her. She wants to prove to herself and also to Shuuichi that she had already moved on.

Botan was on her kitchen cooking her famous blueberry pancakes; her bags are already beside her front door waiting for Shuuichi to come when suddenly her doorbell rung…

'Can it be Shuuichi already?' Botan asked herself as she close the fire from her stove and went toward the door.

Botan look at the wall clock on her living room it said that it was only 6:30 in the morning. After looking at the clock she proceeded to open the door only to be face to face with Shuuichi.

"Hi, I hope I'm not too early." Shuuichi said as Botan opened the door wider to let him in

"No you're not that early." Botan said closing the door "Do you want some breakfast? I mean if you haven't eaten yet." She added as she proceed to the kitchen followed by Shuuichi who was looking around her house it still the same as before nothing had change for the past ten years he had been away from her and how he missed this place.

"Sure I would want some pancakes." Shuuichi said as he saw her putting her apron again and started to cook some pancakes

"Okay then sit over there and wait for a little while." Botan replied pointing toward her dinner table that is big enough for 4 people

"Is that you famous blueberry pancakes you're cooking?" Shuuichi can't help but to ask. He had tasted her pancakes before and it really the most delicious pancakes he had ever tasted and he was sure so eager to taste it again.

"In fact it is, the very same one that you and Kazuki fight about years ago before he died." Botan said as she remembers the old days.

FLASHBACK

Shuuichi and Kazuki were sitting on Botan's dinning table while looking at her as she cooks her famous blueberry pancakes. Shuuichi and Kazuki had asked her over and over again about her secret ingredients but she insist that there is none and that's the reason why both of them are sitting on her dinning table not to far from her kitchen to observe her cook her pancake.

"You two stop staring." Botan said as she saw the two of them staring at her

"We're not staring." Shuuichi said with a look of hurt because Botan had accused him and Kazuki (but it was and act of hurt)

"Yeah we're not staring at you in fact we're staring at the way you make your pancakes." Kazuki admitted

"Not that topic again." Botan said, as she knows were the topic will be going "I told you before that there is no secret ingredients. There are no secret ingredients before, not now and not ever."

"We know but we wanted to make sure." Kazuki said grinning at her as she saw her getting irritated

"If you won't stop that Kazuki I won't give you any pancakes." Botan said and went back to cooking again

"How about me?" Shuuichi said after watching Kazuki and Botan bickering

"You can have all the pancakes you want for being such a good boy." Botan said sweetly with a smile making Shuuichi's heart jump a bit (But she doesn't know that)

"That's not fare." Kazuki pipe up

"Then if you want to have every pancakes you want, you better stop irritating me." Botan said looking at his direction before going back to her cooking

After waiting for Botan to finish cooking. The three of them are sited on her dinning table pancakes are ready to eat. Kazuki and Shuuichi are eating very fast as they always do and when there's a piece of pancake left they started to argue ending up eating nothing because Botan would stop the fight by feeding the pancake to her neighbor's dog Spike.

END OF FLASHBACK

As she remembers that memory, she didn't saw Shuuichi flinch at the mention of his ex-best friend name. But the mood on the kitchen change though.

Well here is the chapter short but with a cliffy I guess. Anyway hope you like it and don't forget to Review so I will know if you like it. LOL!