((this is my 3rd time writing this so lets hope it goes through, the past few times my computer ate it at the upload stage. This might be slightly out of order, but the while pierce isn't meant to be in order, just drips and drabs of Naru's thoughts on various things. I am still working on New Adventures, I'm just waiting for the person who helps me make sure I stay on point and that it makes sense to tell me if the chapter makes sense. I hope it won't be long.. Thank you for all the kind reviews, i'm just humbled that people enjoy what I write. I hope you all like this as well. Thank you. This one is fairly short but I wanted to get it out so you had something while I'm working on the larger stuff. Keep in mind that during these Naru is roughly 17=18 years old. btw))

She wants me to take a "case" her friend suggested. She wants me to take a case her friend suggested in the park. She wants me to take a case her friend suggested in the park, in the middle of winter. She wants me to take a case her friend suggested in the park in the middle of winter where people are being soaked with water from above. ::sigh:: She had the nerve to ask me to take this case, after she came in fourteen minutes late, presumably because she was discussing said case with her friend.

"No. It's not a case Mai. Now, I need tea." She huffs off angrily. I can't help but smirk. Mai doesn't realize it but when she's mad she really swings her hips. I could watch her go all day when she does that. She's using her sugary sweet voice now. My least favorite. I'd prefer to hear her true sweet voice. The one she uses when she's talking to a true client. Someone who's being haunted through no fault of their own. I wish she would wrap her arms around me and pull me close. I wonder if her lip gloss tastes like strawberries of if it only smells like it.

'Snap out of it Oliver! You're not here to moon over some pretty young thing. THERE I GO AGAIN!' I leaned back and groaned to myself. The source of my inner turmoil is bending over the kitchen counter, leaning on her elbows. 'I wonder if she knows that her skirt rides up and barely covers her when she does that.. I wish I could tell her that I'm just as twisted up inside as she is right now. I have to hold it in though. I don't have the luxury of just being myself. I'm not my own man at the moment.

I wonder if she'd be nicer to me if she knew my secret. Now I can't help but smirk. She'd probably just be in love with Gene.

JESUS! I have got to pay more attention. One minute I'm wondering where the hell Gene's body is and the next Mai' bending over to serve me my tea. She's wearing her school uniform with those incredibly sexy thigh highs. I will say this, Japanese school girl uniforms are a teen age boys wet dream. Seeing as I only have wet dreams about Mai I'm grateful for the visual, but I'm starting to be so distracted at work that I find I have to seclude myself in my office after tea time. Or after when she gets files for me, or delivers the mail... I have the strangest desire to bend Mai over my desk and run my hands up

::Jingle::Oh thank the gods, the door..Of course, why would it be someone I'd actually like to see

I swear I just can't win today. First Mai has this goofy idea for a case now Masako Hara is here. I can't wait to find Gene's body so I can be done with her. She comes across as the perfect Japanese young lady. A picture of feminine beauty and propriety, little does everyone know she's really a shark. It's really actually quite un-lady like. While I don't know if she'd have preferred Gene over me I know he'd have disliked her. Sometimes I wonder if he's doing this to be on purpose for a laugh. He did enjoy being amused at my expense on more than one occasion.

"I'd really like to find a way to work this out, You can understand, can't you Naru?" She is going to play THAT card. I look at Mai's face and wish that things were different because I know this is going to hurt her. I hope that she'll get over the slightly quickly like she usually does, but I also know that I can't always depend on that to save me from her. One day I'll have gone too far. Not that I care. I mean she's just my employee. I mean I like her, as a person.

That's only normal because I her to be my office assistant. You wouldn't hire someone you hated, it would be terrible to be stuck working with some you completely hated. Besides, how anyone could ever hate Mai is beyond me. She's so warm, and loving and she's got the most amazingly expressive eyes..

UGH I have got to get back to London. I need to focus on the issue at hand!

I'm being blackmailed into taking the case, in the park, during the winter where Mai and I have a chance of being soaked while we pretend to be a couple to draw out the spirit's ire. Not to mention that Mai probably thinks I'm involved Masako in some romantic way.

I told Mai to call the irregulars and went to look up the park on the web to see if there was any recent, unexplained deaths..This day was going to be an exercise in futility.

((I'LL WRITE PT2 OF THE PARK SOON I PROMISE. I GOTTA RUN OUT FOR A FAMILY DINNER. SORRY!))