"Helloooo. Earth to Gyutaroooo!"
Why wasn't he listening to her. He was just sitting there playing guitar on the floor like she didnt even exist, "Asshole! Are you still mad about work? Ok fine! I'm sorry all right!? Didn't think you'd be this petty about it!" but he keeeps ignoring her, srtumming along to a tune she didn't know. Well fine, fuck you then I'm ignoring you too!" she crosses her arms, right as the front door opens, he puts the guitar down to go greet his sister. "Daki! Daki please tell me what's wrong with your brother!" Marin shouts but Daki doesnt listen either. "What have you been doing all day?"
He pauses before slowly replying, "playing and sleeping..."
Daki bites her lip, "let me see your arms." he scoffs, but she curses at him and yanks his sleeves up. "What the fuck?" MArin says, "what're you checking him for?" but daki doesnt answer, "hmph."
"See? I'm fine. Happy?" his sister scoofs dropping both his arms, then give him a side-stare, "not lift up your pant legs. His eyes widen ever so slightly, before narrowing, "they're skinnies so unless youy want me to drop trough here-"
"Then drop trough, I dont fucking care Gyutaro just do it!" He grumbles but takes his pants off and drops them to his ankles, she inspects his legs but doesnt find what shes's looking for. "Satisfied? Or are you a proctologist too?" he grumbles putting his pants back on. Its quiet for a minute, they both stand glaring at each other before she says something that really sent him riling, "take your shoes off, instaly his face drops... wand when marin says drops it drop-drops into something akin to aghastness. "No." he says coldly. And turns back to his room, "so you'll drop your fucking pants but not your socks huh? Junkie?"
Junkie?
She whips her head arund at him, "You're fucking using?! Have you lost your fucking mind, GYUtaro!? Is this because of the event job?! What's wrong with you?" but he ignores marin completely and addresses his sister, "fuck you! I'm not fucking using!"
"Yes you are!" his sister claps back, "this is exactly how mom would act when she used!"
"I'm not mom! he screams, "Im' not fucking using and im not fucking showing you my fucking feet, Ume so fuck off!" she screams at hte top of his lungs and slams his door shut. She stands there fuming cracking her knuckles as if contemplating whether she should kick his ass oor not. Her face was red with rage the fury of the Goddess in side hier but then something unexpected happne,s her eyes well and she begins to cry, angry sob more like, leaning agains the counter for support,at first she was silent as the tears fell before her body wracked with uncontrollable sobs, hyperventialting agains the coutner in their kitchen and she slumps to the floor.
"Daki..." marin puts a hand on her should but her hand went through, huh? She tried again and again her hand couldnt touch her, "what the fuck is this? Am I dead or dreaming?" this was exactly like in those films she watched were a loved one dies and doesnt know it, only she does not recall such a thing ever occurring, not even close. last she remembers was arguing with gyutaro about being approached by guys at their event attandee job they worked together.
"Oh no...!" she runs to his room and slams open his door only to see him with his shoes and socks off strumming along on his guitar with a forlorn pensive look on his face. It was strange seeing daki cry but even stranger was seeing gyutaro sitting there in his room playing guitar while she sobbed and doing absolutely nothing to comfort her. "Gyu... what the fuck..?" she calls hesitantly, but he doesnt seem to notice her, the fear was palpable now that she may very well be dead or atleast in some alternate universe where she doesnt exist or something. When she looks at his feet there are little green and purple pockmarks, signs of clear drug usage. She covers her mouth as her eyes well up, "What're you doing?! You said you'd never use! Why are you doing this?!"
Still he says nothing but his eyebrows lift ever so slightly as if he's trying to hold back emotion. Can he hear her?
He obviously cant see her but can he feel her presence. She kneels beside him, "Gyu, please this isnt you, don't do this." suddenly he slams his guitar down, frustrated, and hangs his head in his hands, "fuck, it's happening again, I'm thinknig about her..."
What...? Is he talknig about me?
He gets up and digs into his closet for medical supplies to dab and clean his feet with, probably to hide the injections before saying good enough and throwing his socks and shoes back on. he stands poised to exit out the fron todoor, but when he heard daki's sobs he shakes his head and turns to exits out his window instead,closig it gently, he walks hands in his jean pockets and a leather jacket on to to her house next door. Or what was supposed to be her place, she saw a car in teh driveway that definitely wasnt hers. Now at the front door of her house (she thinks) he makes the gesture to bang but holds it, looking conflicted again.
He puts his hands down and takes a few steps back looknig up at the windows and gather some pebbles to throw instead at the seconds story... her bedroom window in other words.
What the fuck is going on? she couldnt help but wonder. The latch unlocks and someone slides the window up and peeks their head through, somebody who was DEFINITELY not Marin.
"open the door." Gyutaro commands coldly, "Why are you withdrawing again?"
Marin's face turns sheet white at that. "Do i look like im withdrawal fucknig genius" he opens his arms up wide in exasperated fashion. She eyes him for a few more seconds before slamming her window shut. He moves back towards the front door where the sound of locks and clicks is heard and she inevitably opens it, "What do you want Gyutaro?" this woman asks.
"That's fucknig rude, not even gonna let me in?"
She cosniders what he says but ultimately doesn budge signalling he wasnt coming in. He lets out a sigh at that and asks instead, "Are you busy?"
She responds to that with silence as well. He shifts his feet uncomfrotably eyes downcast and asks something else, "Wanna watch a movie or something?"
Marin couldnt believe it, was he... asking her out? It sure sounded like it but why? How can he cheat on her like this? How? She wailed loudly at teh two of them pounding at his chest and head only for her fists to go through, "No! no! no! fuck you! i can tbe dead like this I can't be! wake up! wake me up! somebody!" she cries. please wake me up!"
she falls to her hands and knees but the duo in fron tof her pay no mind. Oh my god, i might be dead, oh my god... oh my god, please now, i hope it's a dfream please be dreaming.
She watches as the woman lets him inside and says what were you thinknig, "Daki says the new Castlevania is pretty good."
"fine she replies, put on netflix as he plops down in her couch. The room arrangement is compeltely diferent from marin's it seems she hasnt lived here oin a very long time because Gyutaro doesnt at all seem incumbered by the change.
Before they begin she offers him drinks of which he replies, "you gotta ask?" Marin knew she should leave before she witnessed something she didnt wanna see, she could just feel it, feel that things were gonna hurt if she didnt leave but she had to see what her boyfriend was doing with this woman this new... neighbor next door...
Of course this woman brings back alcholic beverages and sits upsettingly close to him on the couch handing him his drink which he downs fairly quickly, lucily (or unluckily) she seemed prepeared because she hands him a second drink right after.
Fuck! Fuck! She was so worried she was practically sick with guilt.
Castlevania plays and they barely got 10 minutes in before she makes a move to grab his hand, making marin's stomarch lurch at the sight. He pulls away eyes still focused on the Tv however she doesnt let it go and reaches for his neck to pull his face towards her, at this point he stands up waving her off telling her to stop.
"then why are you here?!" she shouts, he rubs his hair anxiously clearly not wanting ti say, she knew the gesture, she was able to read when gyutaro was able to lie or seriously withhold the truth and that was a tell-tale sign. "My sister's upset at me, I just needed to get out for a bit." he says clearly witholding valuable information.
"Thenget out, Gyutaro. Go to a movie theatre or better yet go to your ex-girlfriends friends"
Ex girlfriend? Excuse me bitch?!
"You know i cant do that." he says a bit aggressive but also fragule. "Look cant you just watch the show and kep your fucking hands to yourself for once?" he chastizes.
"You're the one who keeps coming to me though! What am i supposed to think?! You're hot and then cold to me all the time, i dont know what you want unless you say whats on your mind."
MArin's had this conversation a thousand times before, but still she was more than a little vexxed this bitch knew him like that. If she woke up from this horrible nightmare she was gonna beat the shit out of him... AND her if she turnes out to be real and not a figment.
"He... committed suicide." gyutaro says finally, her downcast looking especially depressed. Instantly her face softens and asks, "Today?"
"Today."
"he leave a note."
"Yes... the police contacted me this morning."
then it goes quiet.
She figdgets awkwardly while he facepalms again before he breaks the silence with a bitter laugh, "It's so fuckin..." he lifts his head to look at her, "Its so fucked because you know the instant I forgave the asshole he goes and does... this. What am I supposed to do now?" he asks her although he could've been asking himself marin wasnt sure.
In response th e wamsn only plops down and presses play to Castlevania, Gyutaro watches her for a while as if testing to see if it was safe before sitting down next to her and watching th show in silence. They stayed like that for a while almost the entire night actually because they completed castlevania nocturne that night.
Gyutaro stands up to leave thanking the woman for allowing him to stay but before his hand reaches the door knob she hugs him from behind. "Please stay" she says making Marin wanna punch her lights out again in jealousy. "No." he replies and pries her arms off him, "You've stayed before! Please just don't leave, I'm scared you ownt come back!"
Marin turns to her boyfriends his face in a deep griamce as he contemplates this. He was torn clearly, sure this woman's words didnt affect him did they?
"You know I care about you, you know that." at this he rolls his eyes, "Oh, please... no you dont. You care about the me that'sin front of you, now, not the potential me."
Potential me? Was he alluding to what she always said about him?
"You're just like every fucking body else here. You're not special to me at all, you look like her and you're nice but you'll only ever be 1/100th of what she is, go it?" he said most ferociously, "But I love-'
"NO! NO YOU DONT!" he screams now desperate to keep her from speaking, "You like the end result you see... you like the work SHE put into me, work you'd never put in. Because I assure you had we met under the same circumstances I met her under you NEVER wouldve given me the time of day. She was special you're fucking nothing!" he cries almost desperately, "Marins special" he whimpers more like chokes as if he had to bite back a sob from escaping, "Every time you say this shit I wanna beat the shit out of you, and I dont mean that as a joke, like i actually want to kill you and leave your body here to rot for the police to find. It's testament to how much better she is than you because if she were here saying the exact same thing I n-never..." he stops himself looking like he was about to throw up again.
"you're a finish line whore, you want a fixer-upper that some other woman took the time to fix up, but you don't wanna do it yourself, that's why you like me. You're liek the neighborhood who neever saw me as anything before she invested in me and now they pretend they believed all along that I could be somebody. I'm only somebody because of her. You only like me because of her, Alicia!"
Alicia so that's her name? Now that Marin got a proper look she did look somewhat similar, dyed blonde hair (although her roots were trash), similar physique (she was chunkier but had large boobs at least), dark brown eyes and a round Marin's height, but she didnt sound of act like her as far as she could see.
Alicia was cring now. So Gyutaro swung open the door and left not even bothering to close it.
Marin ran after him as he jumped in HER car. MArin's car, and turned the key driving to some unknown place, muttering things to himself that were basically unintelligble.
Once he found a suitable place (and empty parking lot) he went to work and dug through the glvoe compartment for a case, a needle and some other white substnace, "NO!" she screamed trying to grab his hands but he kept moving, assembling the needly and cooking the substance in a sppon before waiting for it to cool, "Gyutaro STOP!" he paused. his eyes suddenly searching the car as if confused. "marin..?" he called.
"she gasped, "Yes, yes it's me! stop! please stop what you're doing." his eyes searched again before settling strangely right on her, he cocked his head to the side slighhtly almost as if he could see her, before she heard a vibrant knock on the car door. Apparenty and employee saw him and told him to "get out of here with that shit." not wanting any drug usage at a walmart parcking lot afterhours. He rolled his eyes and drove off again, this time to a really shady area.
"What the hell is this place?" she asked rhetorically but only received a euphoric gasp in response as she whipped her head around and saw Gyutaro had injected himself in the foot with whatever drug he was using. "Gyu..." she cried...
"why are you doing this?"
He takes a few minutes, his eyes a bit drowsy, half-lidded as the high takes him and walks into a building where she follows, looked like a strip club, but he by passes all teh half naked dancers and makes a beeline straight for a VIP room where he encounter s bouncer, "Let me fucking through" he says when the man puts a hand to his chest.
"It's ok," sais another female voice, also scantily cladd but more covered than the girls downstairs, "he's mine"
the bouncher lowers his hands an gyutaro saunters forward.
The conversation was hostile, he was yelling at her that he needed more drugs and that the shit she sold him was weak as fuck. She countered that it was what he paid for and if he wanted higher quality shit he'd have to pay higher quality price. Atleast he rubs his eyebrows then scrateches his head. "My advice, handsome-"
"Dont call me that-"
"Sorry." she throws her haands up, "My advice, go home, be with your sister. Get clean, don't ever come back here, Gyutaro. Try to fill the void with somethin gother than this, you've sruvived for dfar to llong to end your life." even the stripper was speaking sense.
"I knwo you miss her, I'vee seen men like you come in here a thousand times by now, but trust me, it''l get better, time doesn heal all wounds but the scars are better than the bleeding."
Gyutaro took her words with more belief than his neighbors atleast, probaly because they were cut from the same cloth. Even when he met Marin he was skeptical about her knowledge on things, seeing this sage-stripper talking to him now she can kinda understand why he only listened to people jjust as fucked as he wsa.
"If I go back home, I'm gonna fuck my neighbor and I can't do that." he admits almost ashamed.
"Gyutaro, Marin would want to yuo to move on with somebody else. She dies over a year ago!"
Wha... so she did... die? A year... marin shook her face dumbfounded at this new information, suddenly it all made sense his behavior his... substance abuse, he was griving her death in the same way she grieved Gojo's! "Gyu.." she turned to him knowing he couldnt hear or see. So he does feel like he's cheating if he moves on with the neighbor that looks suspiciously NOT- at all like her. (no really she was blonde and that's it)
"My adavice, fuck your neighbor, see if you feel something from it, and if you do Rregard it as a GOOD thing not a bad one. Trust me she'll undertsnad, afterall yo told me she went throught he same with her bf too right?"
"yes." he says dismally, "And i never took her seriously when she cried about him, but going through this i just... feel... like i'll never get over this." he cjokes again only this time it was followed by actual tears, it made her so sad to see him like this, " dont think i'll ever get over her death... nobpdy comes close, nobdoy." he emphasized. and teh stripper hugs him gently, he reurned the hug if only to extrapolate wheatever comfort it provided. "Go home." she repeats to him, "You still have you your sister, and I know it isnt the same as it was, but take solarce that it can be the two of you again." but the just makes him snifle and moan even loudly in her armpit.
They dont say antyhnig mor as he cries getting it aout of his system but before he leaves he tells her, "the drunk driver who hit her just killed himself today."
She doesnt address that and instead asks, "What does your sister say?"
"That I should fuck our neighbor too." he admits wwanton. "Have her haunches ever been wrong?"
"Plent yo ftimes.'"
"I mean when they actaully matter..." she scooffs with a rolling of the eyes, "Not ever" he admits sincerely. "Then you have her answer and mine as well." she shoos him awayclosing the door behind her, Gyutaro steps to leave but stops turning towards the bouncer and hands him some cash to give to the stripper he just talked to. "IfI find you you pocketed it, i will fuck you up" he wants in prectiable gyutaro fashion. He always had to pay his debts, whatever debt it maybe in his mind.
He gets back in the car and drives home parking the car in his driveway. They lights in his out are all out impylnig daki finalyl when to sleep. He looks over his should to the next door neighbors house whose lamplight was still on downstairs, "Jesus, she's likea fucking whore I swear" he whines, "leaving a fucking red light on for me like I'm her patron, ugh" he groans rubbing his forehead. but then he pulls back after hearing the juinlg of the bracelts MArins gifted him and his siter with both their names on it. He reaches back into the glove compartment but this time wayyy back inside passed where the compartment back is and pulls something out.
Marin peers over to see what it was, it was the locket she gave him when they were in the shed after runnnig for their lives, the oval shaped locket with him and her on the roller coaster on one side and he with his sister on his back on the other. he drops the chain in his lap looking like he wanted to cry again and some tears escape but he wipes them quickly, "I miss you." he shipsers, "I tried to be be better than what I was before..." he clenches his jaw, "When i heard they caught the guy who hit and ran,I wanted nothing more to kill him as payment for taking yours., but i didnt, because your life is so much more than his." he sniffles, "but now im at a complete loss... i feel ike i did kill him in the end because he hung himself the very next day after i visited telling him i forgave him... what the fuck..." he laughs bitterly. "I know you never believed the cosmos were agaisnt me, i know you always felt as though it was all self-fulling prophecies that i commited on myself, but how do you explain this one?"
He shook his head placing the locket back inside the place he found it before looking over at the neighbors house again. "That bitch next door is nothing but a cheap imitaion, cheaper really, like two cents i thorw on the fucking groundnot worth teh efoort to pick up but... i do feel something when we watch movies together, not as much as these fucking drugs but..."
he sighs, "Iknwo what i should do, and i knwo you'd hate me if you saw me now but... i still need a sign from you that if i go next door you'll forgive me." his eyes watered again, "please... just... anything... anything at all."
she was crying too feeling she immense pain at the reality, she hugged him tightly from behind her arms draped over his shoulders and her chin on the top of his head. She knew if she actually embraced him that she would fall through so she hovered there hoping he could still feel her somehow. That it was ok to move on so he wouldnt end up dead like his mother trying to substitute her love with something fake and deadly.
And to her surprisre he lifted his hands and laid them on his collar, as if he was imagining her olding him too. She could say for certain he felt her presnece but his hands undoubtedly remained on top of whereher forearms were and they didnt move for a long time.
Finally she let go and his arms dropped almost immediately when she did. his shoulder slump again before he takes a deep breath nad opens her car door, hands in his pockets and races to his neighborhouse. He didnt even knock because the door was left unlock as if she knew he'd be stopping by.
"Fucking idiot." he mutters entering her home before closing and locking the door behind him.
Marin fell to her knees on the street crying in loud chaotic sobs that alsothough she was upset he was with someone else, she was happy in knowing she did the right thing by leting him love again again instead of being petty and selfish and letting him wither out of jealousy.
She didnt follow him, she couldnt, afraid of what she'd see... but she did see the lamp light in the second story window go out too before a voice called out to her,
"-in"
"-rin"
"Hey, wake up!" Gyutaro shook as she burst to a sitting postion with tears treaming down her face, "What's wrong?" he asked as if he ad just seen a ghost or some other horrific sight he couldnt explain. "I..hu.." she laughed nervously, wiping her face with her forarm. "I... dont... was i dreaming?"
"Y-yeah MAr, you were, but you were wailing like someone was killing you!" he spoke half-frightened himself but also gently as if to comfot, even patting and rubbing her back gently. She looked around and realiozed she was at his house, in his bedroom sleeping in his bed. "So...I'm not invincible?" she asked him in all seriousness, his eyes widened that much more not sure how to rspond in any other way than no. She sighed a breath of realif, "Thank god" she plopped into his his chest snuggling up to him tightly, "What's wrong? Was it a nightmare?"
"Yeah but I cant remeber what it was."
He rubs her back and plays with her hair his heart beat slowly retuning back to normal. "Uhm... I want to apologize for ealier, I shouldnt have gotten so jealous."
"No... no... you were right to be. If I was in the same situation I would be too... I'm sorry, but brushing your feelings off." well he wasnt expecting this, she could tell, he was expecting atleast a bit of justification for her decision to yell at him for being petty. But seeing as she apologized he felt no need to continue talking, content with the silence.
"I think i finally understand why your mom turned to a drug addict. I know why your mom acted the way she did." she eyes him, "I think there mightve been a man she loved in her life who died or somethinng"
Gyutatro didnt even give her words any thought, "Of course there was, probably my father" he says nonchalant, "Huh? So then you knew all this time?" he looked up tot the ceiling, "I mean... mom wasnt always bad you know, My earlierst memeories of her were good ones, she was happy and smiling atleast, wasnt till around Ume was born that she fucking ihated me, probably because I remind her of my dad becuse i certainly didnt have moms looks, Ume does though."
"So you think she loved your father?"
"How should i know? All i know is that if i look anything like him he was ugly as sin and probably a big piece of shit."
MArin thought about it, she could see why he would assume this, but perhaps the opposite was true, maybe he wasn't ugly or hidieaeous and wasnt an asshole, maybe he was a good person and when he died and gyutaro was born his mother felt like...
"I don't think so"
...she felt like she was curse put on his father, like how gyutaro sees himself as a curse on Marin and always tried to push her away. one that passed down to her son and thats why she behaved the way she did and coped the way she coped. "Well whatever" gyutaro dismissed clearly over it, "I dont... quite hate her, she was a shithead mom but she kept us alive, better than our dads so..."he shrugged.
"You wann awatch siomething since we're both up?"
She pulled her face from his gut, "You eamn since i woke you? she corrected, "Sure Like what?"
"uh... Daki says Castlevanis is supposed to be good" mari nblinked and then laughed loudly at that. making him slightly uneased. "No...no it's fine it's just funny you said that because i was thinking the same thing... let's go watch it at my place."
Again he gave her a weird look as if not understanding why his room wasnt good enough but eventually shrugged and through off the covers putting his shoes and pants on. she did the same and after they headed over her place, getting the tv on, making a fow drinks and pressing play, she immediately jumped into his chest and made out with him passionately, more passionately than she ever had before. They eneded up tearing each other's clothes off and making love right there on her living room couch and floor. And after he finished panting heavily collapsing on her chest he asked ,"where did that come from all of a sudeden?"
"Alicia." she sings almost callously. He lifts his head at her eyes furrowed, "Alicia? you mean that girl who asked to be a part of the band?" she looke dat him stupidly, "Why are you looking at me like that he says sitting up, putting his boxers back on, "you remember right? That moron kensei kept spouting how she looked and acted like you and that she played keyboard and wanted to be part of the band."
"Oh... ho ho... oh yeahhh." she laughed most suspiciusly even Gyutaro seemed concerned, "Uh'm Gyu when was the next time you were meeting her again?"
Marin opens the door. "Oh hiiiii, Alicia!" she smiles brightly, "Hey!" she smiles too, com eon in, she invites her into the Shabana's hiome with Gyutaro, Iguro and Kensei right behind her, "so let's do a few practice keys to see if you can harmony with us ok?"
"Uh sure, Marin."
"Mrs. Shabana."
"Eh?" Everyopne else's confusion echoed Alciia's when Marin said Shabana instead, inlcuding her own boyfriend. "Oh I didnt knwo you were married."
"Not yet but I will be, bitch" Marin smiles sweetle at her cofnusing everyone in the room, the guys all look to Gyutaro but he shrugs not understanding what's wrong himself.
"Daki!" Marin calls upstairs in another strange twist, the young shabana siblnig comes back down with a particular vexed look on her face, what? I'm busy, bitch" she says, "btu Marin waves her down, "Oh it won't take too long,"
Daki's face deadpans before fully coming down the staira nd eyeing the guys like they were stupid. "You all can wait outside," Marin instructs, "btu not you Alicia." the girl was poised to leave too but stopps at her name. The guys were still confused but obeyed and now it was just teh 3 girls in the house, "Daki what do you think of Alcia? Isn't she a dol? She even looks like me too."
"I-I guess..." she says hesitant not getting whats going on, so Marin walks over and whispersinto Daki's ear, her eyes barely widen at what she hears but she regard Marin's words with a nodding of her head, "I'm fine iwht it."
"Good." Marin claps her hands, Daki went upstairs while Marin explained what was gonna happen, "Ok, so as far as your keyboard playing oes, you're in, Alicia." the girls blinks a bit surprised but still subdued since MArin had more to say, "However inthe shaban house we have a custom, a right of passage you see, gotta make sure you aint bitch made." Daki comes down right on time with the vaselline, "so we're gonna duke it out here and now." Marin replies casually applying vaselline to her arms. "Come again alicia states now a bit apprehensive. "We're gonna fight. If Daki deems you good enough you're in the band."
"Ms Kitagawa-"
"Shabana-" she corrects.
"shaban... i dont fight"
"Yeah well neither did I bitch." she says and socks her squar ein the face. The hit seends her reeling almost gasping for air before she realized she in fight or flight mode. Marin keeps the hits coming shouting at her to fight back, even shoving her out of the the front door as Daki laughs hysterically, "Coem on, Alicia you can do better than that!" Daki laughs much to the hoorr of the guys now jst finding out what the hell is happenenging. "BNack off Kensei!" Daki yells, "You too Gyu!" Marin concords, "this is a personal matter" the girls say in unison. The guys (specifically Iguro) looked like they wantedt to interject but eventually fear won out as theuy didnt want to deal with th headache afterwards so they let the fight continue as Marin basically pummeled their new band memeber as she attempted to bite and scratch hr back.
The fight lasted only a few minutes before the girl had to be pulle doff one another and separated.
Gyutaro was beside himself in rage at Marin after the fact saying shehad gone competely fucking mental only for her to dismiss him. He got so mad he kicked her out his house and she had to sleep in her own bed for a change, but she was fine with that becaus ethat night she called Alicia sometime around midnight and surprisingly she answered with curses threatening her with another with anothe rifht blablablabbla... but marin's smile only grew.
"You'rein." she said shutting the other fake-blond up, "Wha" sha sked dumbly, "You're in you passed teh shit-test... but Alicia, before you accept I want you to make me a promise?"
The girl didnt respons beut her phone wasnt disconnected so marin knew she was listening. "I want you to know that I love Gyu, ok? But... he's a stupid, fickle little boy who focuses on all the wrong things ok?" Still there's no rsponse, "Look I knwo you're... infatuated with him... I wont ask why but just know that I know." not eh silence felt more uncofmrotable than previously, " But I"m not angry... actually I want you to promise that if anything happens to me that you'll be there for him... and not like how his sister is, but like BE there for him ok?"
"whya?" she asks finally, "Because you don't klnow it but they've lived an extremely harrowing and eclectic lifestyle up till meeting me, I had to test you to make sre you wouldne back out just because things got a bit hard for you, understand?"
"No she said admittedly earning achuckle form marin, "Well either way im asking you to take care of him should anything happen to me... as a woman, not as a friend" she thinks a lit bit before adding, "but to be cleare this is ONLY if i die, if i so much as see you looking at him i will gut you like a fucking fish shabana style, understand? Say yes that you do" She does.
"good." then I'll see you on Friday. she says and hangs up.