Good night, good night everyone! At the moment it is... 11:21 p.m. ... Okay, okay, welcome again... Today it was a wonderful day... so I had ideas. Anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 17: You are my only Angel

"AAAAHHHH!" What's this?" Benkei wailed while spitting all the drink Hikaru gave him, panting heavily. "Vodka! It's vodka, not coke, water, fruit juice or hot chocolate! It's alcohol! Alcohol!" Hikaru explained tiredly almost laughing while drinking from her beer. A special beer, with milk, Schweppes and... cocoa? Anyway, just something Hikaru invented at the moment and Angel prepared for her. Angel chuckled at those two while cleaning some wine glasses from the other side of the counter.

"Oh, Angel, tell me... How old you are?" Hikaru asked while squinting a little because of dizziness, without looking at Angel however. "Twenty-two." the bartender simply answered without looking at Hikaru, continuing cleaning the glasses, because she asks this every time she comes there.

"Oh... I am sixteen." The bartender sighed as seeing how many glasses he had to clean, but continued the conversation with her. "You look pretty mature for sixteen. And you drink..." Hikaru chuckled as taking a sip of her beer. "Not really." she replied, "Sometimes I take one milligram of morphine or 0,5, but I'm good." Then she thought. "... and hot." she completed while placing her elbow on the counter and curving her lips a little, staring at the glass of beer with interest. Angel didn't say anything however.

"So..." he finally rescued his words, "Why are you here tonight?" he asked. Hikaru chuckled childishly and pointed her index finger at Angel. "I am here to celebrate... that I am hot... and that my friend, Kyoya, left me two months ago..."

Angel raised an eyebrow. "Two months ago?" he asked confusedly. "And he left you?" Hikaru nodded with a big grin on her face. "You were together?" Angel continued questioning. Hikaru shook her head while pouring some vodka in Benkei's glass. Benkei made some teary eyes, but Hikaru growled to him, scaring him, then turned back to Angel, placing her elbows on the counter.

"Anyway... A weird and long story..." Hikaru tried to continue, but Angel moved his attention to someone who was sitting a couple of chairs away from her. She didn't really care who he or she was, so Hikaru didn't look at that person, just continued drinking while Angel poured a colorless drink to that person.

"So..." Then she moved her attention to Benkei. "Did you like vodka?" she asked teasingly. Benkei shook his head violently, making Hikaru pout, but patted his back. "Yep, I know... Poor Benkei."

"BU-BU-BU-BULL!" Benkei shouted. "You and Kyoya were together?"

Hikaru sneered in disgust and continued the work with her beer. "No." she simply answered as her face adopted a serious but sad expression. "It's just... about him, not about me. Seems like he really feels angry about me... You know, the event with Madoka... He didn't like that I used his Leone, so everything between us is over. Yeah. He chose Leone besides me. And he made the right pick."

Benkei noticed that Hikaru's euphoria started to fade as she crossed her arms and sighed heavily. Benkei also could notice that a tear formed at her right eye, but she forced a smile. "He used to be... eccentric. He liked to say make it up instead of make it out. I kinda liked this. And... he used to drink gin instead of whisky. It was his favorite alcoholic drink. And he is the first who gave me beer with milk, cocoa and Schweppes. Wanna try?"

Benkei nodded. "It's better than vodka." he complained while Hikaru smirked and called Angel's name. He walked towards her from the other part of the counter, letting her whisper something at his ear. Then he nodded.

After a while, Angel was back with a glass of 'beer' which he passed to Benkei. After he took a sip of the beer, he pouted. "I don't know what to say. I think it's the first time when I don't like something that Kyoya likes."

Hikaru burst into laughter at hearing that. She snatched the glass from Benkei's hand and drank it up. "Then I guess I can drink it for you..." They both laughed at that while Hikaru let the glass down on the counter.

'Okay, okay... Someone please wake me up from this nightmare. I am spending my time with Benkei when I would have preferred Kyoya instead of him? Ah, c'mon... This cannot suck worse anymore!'

"I... am going to the restroom. I'm coming in a moment." Hikaru invented something with a weak voice as she stood up from the chair. Benkei nodded as his gaze followed Hikaru walking away.

As Hikaru entered ladies' toilet, she looked at herself in the mirror and fumbled for something in her pockets. "Ah, c'mon, where are you... I need just some makeup, where are..." But her voice faded away as she touched something familiar. "You're still here?"

Then she revealed his necklace from her pocket. "Ah... I'm so sorry... Why you keep refusing to forgive me?" Then a tear feel from her right eye. "I hate you. Since you did this to me... I am weak. And I am drinking beer with Benkei. Don't you take pity on me?"

She took her cell and typed a number, but hesitated when to press the 'Call' button on her screen. She bit her lips and tapped her right foot on the floor. Should I call him? He was so cold with me all this time and I miss him so much... I am so afraid... But I wanna see him again; I wanna hear his voice, even if he will frostily ask me if I called him just for this...

"You know what? I don't care!" she suddenly blurted and pressed it. After she realized what she had done, she started to regret it. Her hand shivered as someone answered the phone. She slowly approached it to her ear and listened carefully. It was something like a girly voice, but she didn't recognize anyone. On the background there was noise.

"Yes?" the voice saluted kinda shyly. Hikaru's lips shivered. "I a-am... l-looking f-for... K-Kyoya... i-is h-he t-there?" Hikaru stammered as her heart started to beat madly and the rest of her body joined the shivering session.

"Oh, him... Not now at the moment. But do you have anything important to tell him?" the same voice asked cheerfully. "No. Thanks anyway." Hikaru said as she dropped the cell and knelled on the floor. She was still gaping and her eyes were still poor, almost crying.

"So you finally found your special one, right?"

Then she burst into crying. "What did I do? Did I kill anyone in my previous life? I just wanna hear those three words out of your mouth... Is it too much? I will never forgive you because you make me cry for you! Do you have idea how is to feel the pain of rejection? Do you have idea...? Do you have idea how I feel right now? And it's my entire fault! I loved my pride more than you! And since that... I started to feel the aftermaths of being selfish! I am so selfish... I wanna see you again! I am so selfish! I would give everything just to be close to you! If I'd come at you because of desperation would you listen to me? If I'd will you to come back to me, would you listen to me? Would you appear here, from nowhere?"

But she didn't have time to shed too many tears until she heard someone knocking at the door. "Busy right now." she said, but without looking at the door. "No... It's just... I heard a cry coming from here. You okay?" the voice behind the door asked, letting Hikaru in trouble. It was definitely a boy's voice, but it wasn't very familiar. It wasn't Benkei's anyway.

"Who are you?" she asked viciously, but carefully. "Oh, just a friend. Just a normal boy. Do you need some help? Well, actually, I don't dare to enter ladies' toilet... So..."

Hikaru stood up and brushed her tears, sniffing. "No, I'm okay." That's the only response she could have. Then she thanked and opened the door. "I-'m oka-"

But something cut her. Her eyes widened as her body started to shiver again, her knees started to weaken, her face went pale. "K-K-Kyoya?" she mumbled as she started to blink quickly.

"Hikaru?" he asked, this time with a determined voice, squinting to check if it's real. At seeing that, Hikaru adopted her usual bored and cold expression. "Yeah... What a coincidence." she remarked with boredom and monotony while trying to refrain herself from facing him too much. She tried to keep her gaze darting at the floor, but he brought her chin up.

"Look at me! What are you doing here?"

"Oh, so you decided to pair up with the bartender? Even if he's six years older than you?" Kyoya asked on an upset and angry tone, frowning to Hikaru, who sneered. "Oh, yeah... Look at you. You two are so close that she can answer your cell phone?" she retorted.

Kyoya raised an eyebrow. He didn't understand what she was talking about. Hikaru read what his face wanted to say however. "Don't pretend you don't know..." she reproved sharply. "Look, Hikaru..." Then he realized. "Oh my God... I'll kill Paige!" Hikaru sneered for the second time. "Paige? Is she American? You have no shame. Ah, c'mon... Tell me! What girls will you meet next time? Renee? Monique? Sophia? Maybe Yvette?"

"Oh, really? You're dating a guy called 'Angel' and you are reproving me that I accidentally met a girl at the counter?" Kyoya argued with her. Hikaru growled but didn't say anything, because Kyoya went first: "And I also can enumerate some stupid names! Oh, guess what... Angel has a guy who's helping him. He's called Marshall. He's waiting for you to sleep with him. And there's another bar some streets away from here... The bartender is called Raphael and his help is called, guess what, he's called just Enrique! Girls melt at hearing those names, so you can go there if you won't miss your precious Angel! I really thought you are special. I thought you are different. I thought you are that someone who will prove me that there's someone in this world who thinks normally and who'll tell me that I don't mislead myself... when I hope that there's someone like me in this world. But you aren't different. You are just a silly girl who dates any good-looking boy."

(I forgot to mention that they were outside, where it was kinda dark, just some street lamps were lighting. They were arguing in the front of the bar, a few yards away from there. The street was empty, no people could be seen.)

If you'd know the truth... You'd shut up. Forever. shesaid in her mind. She could swear tears were forming at her eyes. And how much she wanted to let those tears flow... but he never let her cry. He always forced her to keep the pain for herself. To hold it back. She never had the power to shed real tears in front of him. He also was the embodiment of selfishness. But she couldn't hold back this time. A tear finally ran down on her cheek, then two, then more.

Kyoya weakened at that. He clenched his fist but tried to hide it. "You're crying?" he asked softly. "Because of... me?" Hikaru shut her eyes tight to prevent tears from falling until she started to sob while crying. "I'm so sorry... You have no idea... I'm so sorry, Kyoya. Could you ever forgive me? I'm so sorry..."

Then she hugged him and blubbered even more. "I'm so sorry..." Kyoya didn't reject her however. Even if he treated her with coldness all this time. He tried to forget her, that's why he rejected her those two months after the battle. It was kinda hard to stop smiling, calling and paying attention to her small joys and to her problems, but he tried.

Kyoya gently patted her back and nuzzled his cheek into her cheek. "C'mon... Breathe... Yeah... Breathe..." he encouraged her.

But... as he tried to settle the problems with her, his voice weakened until it completely died. Kyoya started to catch goose bumps. Fear overwhelmed him as he saw something Hikaru wasn't able to see. He snatched Hikaru by her wrist. "Hikaru... We have to run." he whispered.

So, so... What do you think? I know, I know, some phrases or sentences don't make sense because is eleven p.m. now and I am very tired but I thought I won't have time to post, but anyway. *yawns* Anyway, hope you understood anything *yawns again* And... *yawns* do not... *yawns* copy Kyoya's behavior. *yawns* I don't wanna be responsible for your possible death. *yawns*