Fan Fiction

Stay With Me For Better or For Worse (Completed)

by biniBningPunkista

Chapter 1

Something Different Everyday

Waking up in my pad with a woman in my arm wasn’t new, but it still surprises me every time I see the woman beside me isn’t a random person I asked out on the bar or on some party. This woman who’s beside me, her naked body covered with only a flimsy blanket, was my best friend Inoue Mao. I say WAS because we were only “Best Friends” until three years ago when we started dating. As I look at her now, my stomach still goes on a summersault especially when she smiles. With messed up hair, no makeup and eyes closed, she’s still as beautiful as ever. I couldn’t help but smile at myself by how things got up to this point. Three years back I swore I had said the worst confession ever, but she took it. Hook, bait and sinker… because that’s just the way she understands me.

Mao stirred and opened her eyes to look at me.

“Hey there hot shot. What’s keeping you awake early this morning?” She asked with a bright smile.

God, if she only knew how her smile makes my day. I drew in a deep breath while taking in her features, I stared at her for a few moments marveling on how lucky I am to have her.

“What’s wrong? Is there something on my face? What’s with that look Toma?” she asked worriedly this time, touching her face and creasing her forehead.

“No… no… nothing’s wrong. Everything’s all right. You look beautiful as you always do Mao.” I held her face and gave her a kiss, feeling her smile beneath my lips.

“Oh God!!! I forgot something…” She suddenly sat right up exposing her chest and making me all kinky early in the morning.

“This is such a good sight…” I grinned at her looking on her bare chest and her face then raising my eye brows up and down, “you want to keep forgetting what you just forgot and let’s do what I just remember doing last night?” I slyly grinned at her as I grabbed her waist and laid her down to bed.

“Toma! Last night was good…” I looked at her with a raised an eyebrow as her voice trailed off, “Ok! It was great… and I would so love to do it again, but it’s just not the right time. It’s 8 o’clock and I have tons of things to do. The gallery arrangement, Aoi’s ramp rehearsal, the invitations and… I totally zoned out on that! Also I have to pick up some gifts for Juri’s bachelorette party tomorrow night.” She said sounding really frustrated at her busy schedule. As a best friend, I would have kicked her out of my pad as soon as I can so she could finish everything up that’s on her schedule, but as a boy friend? I want to complain and let her lay down here in bed with me instead of going out to do something else. Yes… I could sound whiney, but I want her to stay badly. Stay in bed with me and do what all lovers are good at. But what can I do? I’m the best friend slash boy friend now.

Heaving a deep sigh, I got up of the bed, swiftly picked her up bare naked and all while she trashed and kicked around squealing at me to put her down. I carried her to the bathroom holding her firmly on my shoulder then gently set her down on the tub. I opened the shower for her to shut up and stop her complaining, then joined her and smiled while instantly dumping shampoo on her head and whispered to her hear, “Happy Anniversary Inoue just in case you forgot.”

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“What the fuck? She forgot your Anniversary? YOUR THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY?!?” Erika shouted on the phone which was really hurting my ear. I could hear people talking on the back ground and stuff banging, clanging and sizzling. She’s in the kitchen again talking on that earpiece of hers. Why did Mao even get our best friend an earpiece? She shouldn’t talk on the phone while cooking. What if that earpiece just suddenly falls off onto one of her dishes? People could sue her because of mal practice on food.

I was in the middle of my contemplating with Erika’s earpiece when she suddenly barked out, “BAKA!!! That’s not the stew! Don’t put it there! You’re fired. If you don’t get that right you’re fired!!!”

Wow… our level headed Erika is getting hysterical. What’s wrong with this picture?

“I’m fired?” I asked her cautiously just in case she goes ballistic on my too.

“Not you, baka. It’s our new staff. She gets everything wrong and it reminds me of me when I was new, which pisses me off. Today we are going to cater on Shota’s Family for his cousin’s wedding and it’s just making me nervous. You know about impressing your relatives’ right? The stress is just building up on me especially… Enough about that, Toma… we are talking about you and your forgotten Anniversary! I’m going to punch Mao again for doing this to you!”

“She didn’t exactly forget Erika, she was just too spaced out because of her busy schedule.” I told her on Mao’s defense.

“That’s exactly what we call FORGETTING. You’re a busy person too! Why did you get to remember and she didn’t?” She replied indignantly while I on the other hand, looked around in my pad with only my boxers on and a cordless phone on my hand. Yes… indeed. I’m such a busy person.

“I don’t have any idea…?” I answered her reluctantly.

“What are you talking about? She’s your girl friend Toma! Not mine! Well technically she’s my girl friend too… but it’s not the same like yours! Aaargh… why do I have to fix my best friends relationship when I was so against about it in the first place? I got to go Toma... Why the hell is the Teriyaki half cooked!?!” Erika bellowed on my ear before I got to click off the phone. Cringing to myself due to Erika’s very loud voice, I began to stare at the phone in my hand wondering if I did something wrong in past life. I’ve been around Erika and Mao for so long but I still couldn’t understand what’s going inside their heads which drives me nuts.

The whole taking-a-bath-together-scenario earlier was not how I expected it to be. As soon as I whispered it to her she asked me to repeat it again because she didn’t exactly really hear it in the first place. Her head was full of shampoo and the shower was just so loud that I had to give up and get out of the shower as soon as I can. When she got out of the bathroom she quickly scurried around the pad, gave me swift kiss and an envelope for the gallery invitation before she left.

So, here I am, all alone in my apartment, on my day off and looking out of the window with a sparrow picking on my windowsill. Yes… I am indeed a busy man.

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I was walking around the central park and looked exactly at the place where I confessed to Mao. I stood up on that same spot remembering my declaration of love for her. What would have happened then if I didn’t decide to do it?

Slowly I closed my eyes and inhaled the city air around me for effects. Doing this makes my mind clear. It helps me think less of the stress that is screwing up my almost sane life. Slowly I stretched my arm upward to relieve the strained muscle of my shoulders and neck… WHAM! Something hit me square on the head which almost made me fall flat on my face.

What the fuck was that?!

I quickly opened my eyes to look around, right then a small boy came running towards me and gave me something.

“Mister, I swear it wasn’t me. I promise it wasn’t me!!! But that lady…” the boy kept pointing with his arms stretched out at the direction behind him, “…that lady who went running away threw my ball at you. She borrowed my volley ball and asked me to give this to you after she does something. I didn’t know she was going to throw my ball AT YOU.” The boy looked terrified as I took the note and massaged the back of my head.

It said “Gotcha! Toda’s @ 12. See you… Omedetou to us! Happy Anniversary.” There was a caricature drawing of a boy and girl kissing below the note. I laughed at myself while the boy gave me a strange look and inched further away from me.

With Mao as a girl friend, I would never know what’s coming next at me. Every day is always something different. It’s crazy… but I like it.

~To be continued~

This is purely a fan-fiction.

Words from me: Hopefully you guys would like this new view for a sequel. It was hard putting words here since it’s going to be a point of view of a man. Honestly… it was challenging. How would it feel to be a man with a crazy unpredictable girl friend? That’s the question that I keep asking myself while I keep on typing my story.