Chapter three:

I try to act as normal as I can though Hikaru keeps giving me looks all day. I find it all comes to a breaking point when we are in the limo heading home with the window up.

"Ok Kaoru." Hikaru speaks up since the driver currently cannot hear us. "What has been bothering you all day?" He demands looking at me to try to demand the truth.

My eyes dart away as my heart pounds in my chest hoping that I won't have to tell him the truth. "Hikaru. I am fine."

"You're lying to me!" Hikaru hisses leaning practically over me while I want to shrink down to nothing. "Tell. Me. What. Is. Going. On." He is so demanding that I feel like some servant who just got into big trouble with an employer.

I can't even look at him. I am feeling anxiety and terror at being cornered like this. I feel like everything is happening so fast as I just got the offer from the Fallen Angels and now this. "I was just thinking about the fact that our parents want me to figure myself out. They've been pressuring me to figure out what I want to do." I can feel Hikaru stare at me for a good long few more moments then he slumps back into his seat.

"Yeah whatever." Hikaru grumbles looking out his window as he pouts in his seat.

I straighten and turn away from him to look out my own window. I want to apologize to him and just explain that the truth is too much for me to reveal to him. I just can't let him know about our family's dark secret that I have tried so hard to keep from him.

Hikaru barely talks to me the rest of the night and while he is changing I check my phone at getting a text.

I frown at what I read from mother.

Go out for a few hours tonight. Get some extra cash. I don't care who you have to charm to get the biggest amount you can. We scheduled a special photoshoot tomorrow so you will be missing school and will get a chance to sleep in to be ready for it.

I sigh and just send 'K' in response. I know that it is just an acceptance response and she lets me get away from responding this way as long as I do what she tells me… Well I can get away with it if it is over text… I wait until I think that Hikaru is asleep by pretending to go to bed as normal though our backs are facing each other. I sneak out going to the secret room to change into more slutty clothes that make me feel so gross. I am just glad that Hikaru will sleep through tonight as I heard his breathing quiet as he fell asleep. I just hope that he will have good dreams tonight while I am out doing what I have to as told by mother. I leave and am taken to the same spot where I walk along the part of the city that it is the easiest to get prostitutes. I spot a well dressed man tossing a beer bottle into a garbage while hitting on two ladies who don't seem interested by an alley. I approach as the ladies leave with the man calling them back. I press against him causing him to turn to me and I can smell a distinctly expensive cologne on him. I flutter my eyes at him in an offer to take those ladies place.

The man puts an arm around me which I just force myself to let him do it. "And where did you come from?" He questions looking over my body.

I want to run away and get his hands off of me. I don't want to be doing this. I just have to. I have to as it is my duty in my family. "Just from wandering around. Looking for a good time if you are."

"Sure am." The man confirms with a perverted smile that makes bile want to shoot up into my throat. "Just let me call someone. I know a place to go to." He moves away pulling out his phone to make a call.

"So this is what you've been doing!"

I jump and spin around with wide eyes to see Hikaru standing behind me. I open my mouth to try to explain as terror shoot through me at being found out. My worst fear has been realized and I am starting to feel panic rise in my chest.

"No. I don't want to hear your excuses. I followed you in the spare limo then on foot. You are not lying to me again." Hikaru hisses at me then shoves me backwards closer towards the man. "Go and be filthy with that man. I don't care about you anymore. Don't even bother sharing a bed with me anymore. I don't need your filth getting on me." His eyes are narrowed in rage and I just want to curl up and die right then and there. "You're a fucking disgrace!" He looks up as the man clears his throat.

I am frozen to my spot staring wide eyed at Hikaru as it feels like the world is falling apart around me like this has to be some kind of bad dream.

"Is there an issue?" The man questions with a harsh tone towards Hikaru.

"No. I didn't mean to intrude on your good time." Hikaru spits out as if saying those words disgust him. He turns away with his back to the two of us. "I bet he'll be a good lay. He seems to have done this plenty of times." He leaves with that and I can only stare after him.

"Go home kid! The night isn't a place for you!" The man calls to Hikaru before slinking an arm around me causing me to look down finally snapping out of my terror freeze. "I have my driver coming up. Shall we go? I'll make your night better." He promises to me and I just nod softly then follow him keeping my head down.

I feel like there is no longer a point to stay with my family any longer. I know that Hikaru hates me now and I don't truly have a proper place there. I am just a body to be used for some extra change compared to what our parents make, what Hikaru will eventually be making himself, so I suppose the answer that has eluded me has been made for me. I wonder if I can be useful elsewhere since I probably should rid my family of my being in their lives. I am nudged towards a limo which I climb into. I find the man climbing in next to me. I turn to him as the driver heads to the driver seat only to start driving.

The man removes his blazer revealing a short sleeved button up shirt instead of a long sleeved one. His arms are littered with tattoos that I can't help looking at as I start to wonder just who I just got into a car with.