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Chapter 14

After the dream-like birthday dinner, Ren decided not to sleep in the same bed with Kyoko anymore. He didn't trust that he could control himself anymore. He decided to play it safe before he would do something more than he already have. After Kyoko's breathing became even and he made sure that she's fast asleep, he put pillows on his side of the bed to look like he was still there sleeping and he went to the living to sleep on the couch. It was already the third day after his birthday, so far, Kyoko hadn't seen through he's pillow disguise.

Ren was having lunch with everyone on set of his drama, when his phone rang. He looked at the caller ID, it was Kyoko. His stomach tightened into a knot as fear and worry rose from within him because Kyoko obviously doesn't call him. Unless something happened that made her… "Hello, Kyoko?" He asked worriedly.

"Ren, Oh my god, Re-, I mean Tsuruga-san!" Kyoko exclaimed. He couldn't seem to know if she's exclaiming of concern or joy.

"Kyoko, what happened? Tell me." He demanded loudly and was in alert position, ready to jump up and ran to wherever she was if she was hurt or in any kind of danger. Ren was earning curious glances from the people around. They hadn't seen Ren so worried like that. Ren never talked to his phone so loudly like that before too. "Are you hurt? In danger? Where are you?"

"What? No, no, no… It's not like that. It's about the baby." Kyoko assured him.

"What happened to him? Is he hurt?" Ren again asked worriedly.

"NO, nothing like that at all. We're fine." Kyoko replied on the other end. He sighed in relief as he slumped on the chair. Yashiro and the people around their table were looking at him curiously. He didn't seem to notice it though. "But Tsuruga-san, thebabyjustspokehisfirstword." And she continued babbling on.

"Wait! Kyoko, speak slowly." There was a second of silence on the other end.

"Sorry." She finally said shyly. He could tell she was blushing wherever she was. "Tsuruga-san, the baby just spoke his first word." Ren was surprised. "And guess what he said?" She asked excitedly.

"What?" Ren replied automatically.

"He said 'da'!" She exclaimed. "And he continued to 'da-da'! It means dad! He called you, Tsuruga-san! I mean it is technically you, right? Am I wrong? I'm sorry."

"No, you're right." Ren said quickly with a heavenly smile. Yashiro, who was watching him had an evil grin and the confused people around them were, well, confused and some females blushed and melted under his smile.

"And oh, I caught parts of it on my camera phone. Do you want to see it? I can send it to you."

"Yes! Send it to me."

"Okay, I have to hang up now, so I can send it to you. Bye, Tsuruga-san." He told her goodbye too and hanged up. He pushed his food away and started to stand up. Yashiro noticed this and acted immediately.

"Wait, Ren! You haven't even touched your food." Yashiro said trying to stop him from leaving without eating yet.

"I'm not hungry." Ren replied as he stood up.

"I'm going to tell her. I'll call her right now." Yashiro quickly put on his gloves and got his phone from his pocket.

"She's busy right now." He replied and was already a few feet away from Yashiro.

"It's ringing." Ren stopped. "Hello? Kyo-" In a blink of an eye, Ren flew to Yashiro's side and snatched the phone away from his hand. He glared at his manager and Yashiro flinched.

"It's Ren, Yashiro was just being curious." Ren said calmly. "Send it to me, okay? See you later." He shut Yashiro's phone and handed it back to him. He took his plate and walked gracefully to his dressing room. Yashiro was left standing alone by the table. He looked around and found shocked faces. Nobody had seen Tsuruga Ren act like that. Oh boy, I hope this doesn't reach the front page. Yashiro thought.

After watching the video Kyoko sent to him, Ren immediately told Yashiro to call and order a video camera from a store. Yashiro, the reliable manager, immediately did what he told him. Yashiro told him that they would have to pick it up after their filming for his drama. That night, he gave Kyoko the video camera to use, since he was so busy and spend little time with the baby, so he couldn't use it to video tape the baby. He also bought dozens of tapes which earned him a disapproving look from Kyoko.

The next day was the famous 'Vain' Day and the love me girls were expected to be working hard for their missing emotion. Kyoko had to show up in LME because the president might target her again because it was her third 'Vain' Day in LME already and she hadn't recovered her missing emotions and she still hates 'Vain' day because she had bad memories of it. She made chocolates of course and gave everyone she knew and worked with.

While Ren had a busy day as usual, full of filming and interviews. The last thing he had for the day was an appearance in a talk show.

"We are lucky to be joined by our guest tonight, the famous Tsuruga Ren." The audience applauded, shrieked and screamed.

The female host and Ren greeted each other as they sat down. "So Tsuruga-san, how does it feel to be Japan's sexiest man again for three years in a row now?"

"Well, happy, I guess." He smiled and there were happy sighs from the audience and heart-shaped eyes.

"And how does Japan's sexiest man spend his Valentine's Day?"

"Working." He let out a laughed.

"Oh come on, Tsuruga-san. No secret date tonight?" The female host asked. Ren again let out a laugh.

"I'm quite busy for dates these days." There was an 'awww' sound coming from the audience but half of the audience yelled a happy 'yays' for the famous star was still available.

"But not busy for phone calls, right?"

"What do you mean, Fumiko-san?" He smiled his bright fake smile.

"Tsuruga-san, I heard that you're talking to a girl on your phone during breaks on the filming of your drama. And you sounded worried too, I hear." She giggled.

"Aahh that was a friend and it was one time. She just shared happy news that she couldn't wait to tell me later." He answered with a fake smile again.

"Hhmmm, is that really? I heard that your manager tried to rat you out to her when you didn't eat your food and you stopped him immediately." The female host said slyly. Ren only laughed. "Come on, Tsuruga-san, tell us already."

"There's nothing to tell really, Fumiko-san."

"Then why were you afraid of her knowing you didn't eat, Tsuruga-san?"

"Well, she's a very good friend, and good friends care for each other, right Fumiko-san?" The female host nodded. "That's why she cares about my eating habits because I sometimes forget to eat when I'm so absorbed with my busy schedule." Ren answered smoothly with a smile, obviously fake.

"Can you tell us who this friend is, Tsuruga-san?"

"That would be inappropriate, Fumiko-san." His fake smile got brighter. "I'd like to keep my private life private."

The host changed topic when she felt Ren wouldn't give in. She asked him, how he would treat his date on Valentine's Day if he has one.

"It depends on the girl. Every girl is different and likes different stuff." He answered vaguely. The host was getting annoyed; she couldn't get anything out of him.

"How would you treat your dream girl in a Valentine's day night?" The host persisted.

"Well, I guess I'll treat her to a date fit for a princess." He smiled his heavenly smile. All the female melted under its brightness, including the host. The crew had to snap her out to get the show into a commercial break. Ren sighed in relief and excitedly thought of going home to his lovely family.

When Ren arrived at home, he was greeted with his lovely fake wife. They had a beautiful dinner and his dessert was the delicious wine jelly made just for him.

Time passed by quickly and Kyoko's high school graduation was approaching already. The time that passed was crazy because of the development of the baby. The baby grew fast and was getting loud and annoying. They had a hard time catching up to him. He spoke words over and over again, like 'da-da-da-da-da-da-da…' and so loudly too. But when Baby Ren finally spoke the word 'ma-ma' Kyoko got teary eyed. She kissed him all over his face. Ren caught it on the video camera because it was one of his days when he got home early.

They had regular visits to the doctor and the baby was beginning to recognize things. Every single minute they would spend with the baby, they would film it with their video camera because he was developing so quickly. Baby Ren was beginning to show new emotions and he would look at them when they call out his name. They shopped again for new toys, new clothes, a high chair for him to sit in and baby foods. He was learning to roll around and started to crawl. They never left him unattended because he moves a lot. He started wanting to get attention, especially from Kyoko, who spends a lot of time with him.

Baby Ren liked sounds; especially the jingling of the keys and stuff, and it was so much fun to play with him. They started talking to him and he liked different colors and stuff. They started feeding him on the high chair with baby solid foods. It was difficult because he would talk and move a lot and he learned how to blow raspberries and later on he sometimes reached out and tried to grab the spoon from Kyoko. One night, Ren fed him because Kyoko had a late filming and it was a mess when Kyoko got home. It was like two babies had played in her kitchen while she was away. Ren had a lot of food all over him, on his hair, face, clothes, so was with the baby. But instead of getting angry, she rolled around laughing at the funny scene and priceless look of Ren

Baby Ren also starting to show stranger anxiety and would cry when Kyoko hand him over to the ladies at the daycare. He would look at Kyoko with a crying face and reached out to her. It was a problem but after a while Baby Ren got used to the ladies at the daycare. They also started reading him bedtime stories. Kyoko would read and Ren would watch the baby and prevent him from rolling too much and everything. But the baby would try to grab the book from Kyoko. They would show him the picture and he would always try to touch it and grab it. He wouldn't always sit or lie down and listen quietly, he would talk with his own too and roll around and crawl. After he was exhausted, he would fall asleep and then everything was quite and peaceful again.

It was tough but at the same time, so much fun. Laughter and giggles echoed in their home. Kyoko sometimes make Ren bentos now. Yashiro ratted him out because Ren was either so busy with his schedule or busy watching videos of Kyoko and the baby on his phone inside his dressing room. But, of course, in Kyoko's mind she only thought that Ren was missing and watching only the baby and not her.

But one morning, Kyoko was the one who woke up first and Ren's pillow disguise was busted. Kyoko was worried on where he went. She searched the bathroom, the closet, in the drawers of the closet, under the bed and every corner of their bedroom. He wasn't there. But when she went to the living room, she found him sleeping on the couch. She stood there frozen in front of him. Ren's phone vibrated and woke him up. He slowly opened his eyes and lazily sat up. He rubbed his eyes and was about to stand up when he noticed Kyoko. His body froze but his head slowly looked up to her face.

"Oh. Good morning, Mogami-san." He pretended to look around. "I must have sleep walked and end up here." There goes his lame excuse again. But Kyoko's mind was already on over drive in thinking up reasons why he stopped sharing bed with her.

I'm so shameless. How could I didn't see or notice that Tsuruga-san couldn't stand sleeping next to me anymore? She thought to herself. Maybe I'm taking up so much space on his bed already and he doesn't have much space left for him to sleep anymore. How could I abuse his kindness like this? He must hate me now. She continued blaming herself. She really was the reason why Ren stopped sleeping on the same bed as her, but it was for a totally different reason. Her body went into automatic. No matter how much Ren tried to explain to her why he was sleeping on the couch she wasn't listening. She continued doing her usual stuff in the morning and in her usual speed. He surrendered after a while and decided to prepare himself too before he got late for work.

For the first time since they were living together, Ren was nervous about going home. He didn't have a solid excuse for sleeping on the couch and he most definitely didn't want to tell her the real reason. He thought if he told her the real reason, she would ran away from him and would never go near him again. But he didn't know what to say to her if she was angry at him. He slowly slip the key in and opened the door. He took his time removing his shoes off. It was already late and he hoped that she was already asleep. But when he came into the living room he froze.

Kyoko was sitting on the couch, curled into a ball and with a dark, depressing aura around her. Wha-what the hell did I do this time? He shouted in his head.

Oh no! Ren! What the hell did you do to her? *choking Ren* LOL (like I could do that? He's a giant, I'm an elf) ^_^ Guesses anyone? I'm spicing it up a little, just a little, to make it more interesting. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING, REVIEWING, ALERTING, FAV-ING, AND EVERYTHING. Love you, guys! ^.^