"I… Oh my gosh, yes! YES!" I exclaimed, leaping into his arms, with tears of joy. A small applause filled the room, and he placed the ring on my finger before kissing me like when we first did. I hugged him tightly.
The day after Christmas, I got up and Kyo was allowed to sleep in my room… but the door had to be cracked open. I got stuff ready and my grandfather from Florida came in and poked me.
"Mornin' Sweetie." He said. I laughed.
"Morning." I said, having some cereal.
"What's that boy's last name there?" He asked.
"Sohma. S-o-h-m-a." I said.
"I see." He said. I admired the ring on my finger. He walked away and Kyo walked out, scratching his stomach under his t-shirt. His bed hair was simply adorable and he smiled and kissed me when he came out.
"Your friends are coming today, right?" He asked. I nodded.
"Dress warm; we're going to meet them on snowmobile." I said. I had showed them what they were earlier, but he never had the chance to ride them so when I told him about it, he got excited and rushed off to get dressed. I gave him a winter jacket of my dad's and then put on my own, walking out and giving him a helmet, before I put mine on and hopped onto the sled. He hopped on behind me since he didn't know how to drive it. I drove around to heat it up, before I had to go inside to get the phone. Kristine, along with Clarissa was dropped off at April's house, so April, Clarissa and Kristine would be driving up together. I said I would meet them at white lake.
When they met up with us, I drove them there from the side of the road and then turned into the road and sped through with them right behind me. We got there and I pointed to have them park in the driveway, while I brought Kyo with me and we parked the sled in back. I got off and put my helmet on the sled, and Kyo followed suit. I walked up to them and hugged them, then they hugged Kyo. I led them inside.
I took of my jacket, and I hung up everyone's things, then I took off my gloves.
"OH MY GOD WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR FINGER!" April exclaimed. I looked at my finger and smiled. I showed them my hand.
"It's my Christmas present." I said. I smiled.
"Oh my god." Clarissa said, giving me a hug. "Congratulations."
"Congratulations!" April exclaimed, giving me a tackle hug. Then she turned to Kyo.
"You are a worthy adversary of her affections. I will undoubtedly take off my hat and bow to you in defeat." April said. She mimed it. "But I shall not continue to try."
"Are you sure that he likes me?" Kyo asked as I went over a few things. It was the day after we returned from the states. So today is January 6th.
"Of course. He said he liked you." I said. I kissed him. "When should we start planning?"
"I… don't know exactly. When do you want to get married?" He said, blushing a little. "That sounds weird."
"Yeah." I agreed, chuckling a little. "I want to be married on a Wednesday, because it's just something of a fetish of mine. We could have it during… April?"
"Three months away?" He questioned. I shrugged.
"Not many people in my family have been married or anything in April." I said. "Summer would be to hot, and a lot of people including my parents and aunt and uncle have gotten married in the summer. The winter is just too cold for weddings, May is overdone, June is my birthday, and March is still a little snowy."
"Oh… I see." He said. "I don't really care then. We'll need time to prepare and stuff. I mean… It's January."
"Yeah I know, so then.. if April's bad… how about August? September? October? November? January? March? "
"Woah, woah, woah. Don't get too ahead of yourself. I'll deal with August through October."
"All right." I agreed. I went through the things on my table. I went through my bills and stuff, and then that got my thinking.
"Ky… Kyo?" I asked. He looked up from the fruit basket.
"Yeah?" He questioned.
"I was wondering, you know… If um..." I stuttered. He walked over and sat down next to me.
"What's up?" He asked. I watched his eye brows raise slightly.
"Well, I know you don't necessarily care for your apartment, because it's so small and stuff. So… if you'd like, you can um… move in… here. I mean, you spend most of your time here anyways, not that it's a bad thing, I'm just saying that you might as well just live here anyways since we're, you know, getting married." I said; my speaking pace tripling. "Sorry… it's a dumb idea, you'd rather be at your own apartment, and it would be weird if the guy moved in with the girl, right? I don't know what I'm saying so I'll just be quiet now."
Kyo looked at me for a moment before he smiled. He slid his hand around mine and continued smiling, his eyes showing reassurance.
"If you want me to move in with you, I will." He said. "It's only natural anyway. We'd have to move in together sometime."
"I… I guess you're right." I said, and a knock came to the door. I pecked his cheek and went over to the door, opening it to see Tsukiko, Hojo and Kosuke.
"Hey." I said. "What's up? Come on in." I moved out of the way, and gestured inside with my hand. Tsukiko took one look at my hand and grabbed it, looked at it, and flipped it over before gasping and jumping back.
"What's wro- oh? Yeah… heh heh. Sorry for not telling you guys yet."
"Saying what?" Hojo asked. I showed him my ring, wiggling my fingers to give it effect. "Oh. Congratulations?"
"Thanks." Kosuke looked at my ring and smiled. "Who is the lucky guy?"
"Well actually, he's sitting at the kitchen table." I said, shutting the door behind them and leading them in, taking my bills and putting them on the counter. They sat down and looked at Kyo.
"Ah it's that boy!" Tsukiko said. "From the night club!"
"Night club? Heh. What you doing at a night club, boy?" Kosuke asked.
"Night club? He comes into the restaurant everyday and holds her up on her work." Hojo accused.
"Ok um… he's in a band… as the singer. He does a gig there every week. He comes into the restaurant every day to see me." I said.
Well after, it turns that they came up to welcome me back to Japan. I took it gratefully.
Soon, January went by quickly, and once the weather was warm enough, we called up Kazuo, Nodoka, Kenzi and Hiroshi (who weren't really all that surprised we got engaged so early in the relationship) and we all met up at my place.
"Okay, Kyo, you will take your clothes and your things in the bathroom, Nodoka and Kazuo will do the living room, Hiroshi and I will handle the kitchen."
"What about me?" Kenzi asked.
"You can… start spraying the place." I said. "Then vacuum the rooms when they're done being evacuated."
"Oh… okay." Kenzi said, satisfied.
We got to work, quickly putting the boxes for each designated room into each car. When the kitchen was finished, thanks to the glorious and careful handiwork of Hiroshi and yours truly, Hiroshi went to help Kazuo and Nodoka, while I helped out Kyo. Kenzi got to work making the whole room wonderful smelling and all that good stuff.
Finally we finished, and after Kyo dropped off his apartment keys, we all drove off to my place. We stopped outside the building.
"We have our work cut out for us, I see." I said. Kyo laughed and got out.
"You go ahead and unlock everything; I'll start bringing in boxes." Kyo said.
"I'll call out Hojo and his younger brother on my way in." I said. I rushed inside and when I reached inside, Hojo and a man that looked a few years older than me stood up. I smiled.
"The black car, blue car, and dark green SUV out there with the trunks open and its filled with boxes. The green SUV has kitchen stuff so watch out." I said, gesturing out. "Just follow the guys in if you don't remember the way to my place."
"Oh, um.. Andrea." Hojo called. I turned looked over. "This is um... this is my brother Rei."
"Hey." Rei said, bowing before holding out his hand. He had a demanding, yet innocent presence about him. It was quite adorable for someone that looked like him. I bowed then took his hand and shook it.
"Hi. Nice to meet you, Rei. My names Andrea." I said.
"Nice to meet you too." He agreed. I smiled at him, and he returned it, before I let go of his hand and walked off to my apartment.
"Where does this go?" Kenzi asked.
"Over there. The K stands for Kitchen."
"Hey, where should I put this?" Rei asked.
"In the living room… like what is says on the box." I said. He nervously laughed.
"Y-yes, yes. Of c-course." He stuttered, and went off. I looked at him and shook my head.
"What?" Kyo asked.
"He asks me the stupidest questions." I said.
"Who?"
"Rei." I whispered.
"Oh. How are we going to set up all of these things? Like… where my clothes going to go." Kyo asked.
"We'll handle it later." I smiled.
-Kyo and Rei POV-
I watched her. So beautiful. I never thought there was ever such a thing. It astounds me to no limits. Andrea.
The girl that I will marry… I, Kyo, will have her hand in marriage to be my wife.
The girl that I want to ask out. I, Rei, will ask her out.
-Andrea POV-
After a while, we all finished and Kazuo went out and grabbed everyone subs. He returned and we hung out around the place. It seemed to be approved by everyone, even though all of the boxes didn't help space matters.
"So what's with the sudden moving?" Rei asked.
"Hm? Oh! Rei's a little out of the blue so he didn't know." I said, smiling. Rei looked at me confused. I held out my hand to show him the ring, and Kyo came over to put his arms around me. Rei's face tinted red and he starred at the ring.
"Kyo and I are engaged." I said. His face fell before he smiled again.
"Congratulations. When did this happen?" He asked. I grinned.
"Christmas." I said. "Best Christmas present EVER given to me…" I grinned at him.
"Maybe that one bike from when I turned ten was better… it had frilly streamers." I joked. He blushed as he kissed me. I felt a stinging icy glare coming in our direction, but when I looked around, everyone was fine. "That bike had bad brakes anyway."
"SO… have you set a date yet?" Hiroshi asked from his place on the floor. I blushed a little and leaned against the counter behind me.
"Not yet. We haven't talked much about it really…" I said.
"I GOT DIBS ON BEST MAN!" Kenzi shouted.
"I choose the best man. So screw you." Kyo said plainly. I smiled. I jumped up onto the counter and sat on it.
"Do you have an idea of who's going to be who? And about when the date should be? Like winter or summer?" Kazuo asked, sipping tea.
"Well we'll definitely have to have the wedding in America." I said. "My family isn't exactly the richest, and we'd be missing out on a lot of people if we had it in Japan. So all we have to do is save up money for the people here in Japan that we want to be in our wedding and stuff like that, so it's just easier on everyone."
"Yeah… I'd never imagine getting married in America." Kyo said.
"I'd never imagine even going to America." Hiroshi said. I smiled.
"My family is real nice. You guys just have to brush up a little on your English. For me?" I said. They all sighed with pink faces. I smiled. "Glad you'd see it my way boys."
I looked at Kyo as he held my hand. He smiled. I pecked him on the cheek.
"Of course, we'll need Kazuma." I said.
"Yeah then I'll have to invite my family." Kyo said, scowling. Then his phone went off.
Kyo's POV
"Hello?" I asked.
"Kyo. It's Shigure."
"Yeah? What do you want?"
"You didn't go to the banquet. Akito is quite upset with you."
"I don't give a rat's ass about him. He doesn't control us."
"Not anymore."
"SO? What would it matter now anyways? I have my own wife now."
"Wife?"
"LIFE. LIFE. LIFE."
"Kyo…"
"SHUT UP. I'm not married… yet." I said, walking.
"Yet?" Shigure asked. "Kyo, what aren't you telling me?"
"That I asked a girl to marry me. What else." He said. There was an odd laughter on the other end.
"Oh ho ho… when shall I inform everyone of the wedding?"
"I guess you can do it whenever. But if I get harassed by Akito then I won't hesitate to kick his ass." I said. She walked over to me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"Ah I get it. So who's the lucky girl? Do I know her?"
"I don't know. She's one of the waitresses over at that Namiregawa restaurant. The one from America." He said.
"Ah! Lovely girl! Yuki introduced us." I tensed. "Apparently she and Yuki go to the same school. He's the school council president. She's the American exchange, but she doesn't see Yuki all that much."
"Well I see." I said. "But… We haven't set much of a date or anything. So tell that damn Yuki that he shouldn't expect to be in the bridal party."
"I didn't expect to in the first place." Yuki said.
"DAMMIT! What are you doing on the phone?"
"I couldn't help but hear you on this line… so I just put it on speaker and started talking." Yuki said.
"Fine. I'll put my phone on speaker." I said. I grabbed her and took her into the living room and we sat down on the couch with the phone in between us. "There. Now she's here."
"HELLOOOOOO DEAR FLOWER! Sorry if Kyo is a bit of a handful. Those Martial Arts lessons never taught him to calm down his attitude." That bastard said.
"Oh, it's all right. I tame him." She joked. I looked at her.
"Well, I'm glad that at least someone is able to. He's quite the firecracker of a boy. He and Yuki are always fighting."
"Shut up Shigure." I snapped.
"Oh, I see. Well he seems to get in quite the bit of arguments with his friends here, so I think I'd be able to handle it." She said, smiling. I looked at her a little surprised.
"Ah you deserve the gold medal!"
"No, no… please. I don't think it's that big a deal."
"Modest."
"You don't know me all that well then I see." She smiled brightly. For some reason… I couldn't help but not be upset anymore. Just by watching her be happy, it calmed me down.
"I'd be happy if we could all get together then. My family wouldn't be able to attend because of flying fees but I'd be able to go. I'd love to meet everyone." She said.
"All right! Kyo knows the way to my house so then I'll set it up and invite everyone to there." Shigure said. "Oh Yuki! We're about to hang up."
"Nice… speaking with you Ms. Koenig." Yuki said. She smiled.
"Bye! See you all then!" She said. With that she hung up.
"Um…" I began.
"Shigure is a nice guy. You just have to mingle in his mind a while before you know how to respond to things." She said. I smiled.
"Hard to say that since I've known him for forever." I said. She gave a small giggle. "Let's… get to work."
-Andrea's POV-
Everyone else set up all of the things in the kitchen and living room. Kyo handled the bathroom, and I did the bedroom. I looked over at the closet, then at his clothes. I called out, "Kyo, what side of the closet do you want your things?"
"The right side." He replied, putting his deodorant and sprays and such where he needed them. He put his things in the shower and looked around. "Your shower is very… feminine smelling."
"I was the only one living here." I said. I put his shirts and jackets in the closet with his jackets against the wall, then sweaters, then dressy shirts, then long sleeves, then t-shirts. I put his pants in the small dresser with mine, and then put his socks, tanks, and boxers in the separate drawer unit I bought a few days ago.
When everything was finished and everyone left, Kyo and I ordered out. We hung out on the couch watching television, and then we went to bed. Kyo went in and starred at the bed. I walked in and went into the closet, grabbing a pair of pajamas and going into the bathroom to change. Came out and saw Kyo starring at the bed still. I looked at him.
"Change into pajamas or go in boxers… get in." I said, slightly irritated. I got in and he followed suit. I lay down and faced him, smiling. He smiled back.
"This is really different." I said. "Even though we've slept next to each other times before… this is actually the first official one."
"Yeah..." He said. His face was really red as he looked at me, lying sideways. I looked into his before we draw closer and our lips brushed each other's. He pressed harder, becoming gentle yet firm. Then he pressed further, and his tongue slid in. Then he calmed down and looked at me as he barely broke further apart than just separating. I smiled and rested on his chest as he wrapped his arms around me. I calmed down in pace with his breathing and soon we fell asleep.
