| Fan Fiction |
by biniBningPunkista
First, I’m unemployed… and second I don’t have a girl friend to go home to. How did these things happen so quickly in just two weeks?
Simple.
My father blacklisted my name on every company in Japan and I kissed Rainie Yang.
God… what a mess I am in right now. It’s been approximately ten days that I’ve last seen Mao at Sapporo where I chased after her to get her back to Tokyo. The memories are swirling in my head one by one, mocking me for the love of god. For the past few days I didn’t know how to keep my sanity, if it wasn’t for Erika keeping me grounded I would probably on the headlines of the Tokyo newspaper, “Headline news: A Tycoon’s son jumps off a building.”
Two weeks ago, after the day that my father sent his “People” to my apartment, my childhood friend thought it would be nice to visit me at home and finally meet my girl friend. Unfortunately Rainie was a minute late and missed Mao on her way out.
I’ve never really understood the mind of the female species even though my best friends are both women. One minute they’re talking about shoes then the next minute they’re being all emotional. They’re thoughts are so scattered that they lay it all out in the open. Women are so alike, just like Rainie and Mao they’re both spoiled and impulsive. I have no idea why Rainie suddenly thought it would be amusing to ask me to kiss her which was also very unlike me to agree with such an idea. It was stupid in the first place but I still did end up kissing her. I could remember it clearly in my head.
Rainie walking up to me…
“Can you kiss me?” Rainie asked as I was clearing up the table so not to spoil the food that wasn’t even touched the night before.
“Eh?” I looked at her thinking if she was insane.
“I came here with the intention of actually meeting your ‘Girl Friend’ but unfortunately I just missed her. So I’m just asking if you could kiss me.” She answered indignantly as if it was the most normal thing to ask a guy. By this time I thought she was really insane.
“What came into that head of yours this time Nee…? I thought you’re actually letting me go.”
“Who said I was letting you go? Besides I really want to know what I have been missing by not kissing you all these time. Come on TOMA-To kun….! It’s not like I’m asking you to sleep with me. It’s just a kiss. This is a “do or die” for me. I JUST HAVE TO DO IT or die insane thinking how would it feel to kiss you.” She answered in mandarin this time, when she badly wants things her way she unconsciously slips into her native tongue.
God… why does this sound so familiar? This sounds so like Mao but in a Chinese version. What’s happening with the women now? They’re getting more and more aggressive by the minute.
“Look Rainie you’re my childhood friend, I may have harbored a little crush on you when we were still in pre-school but that’s just that. I still do like you…” I was cut mid sentence when Rainie suddenly closed on the gap between us and threw her arms around my neck and kiss me on the lips.
I was caught off guard that I stood there feeling the electricity shoot through me as her lips touched mine…
What the fuck?!?
I looked at Rainie whose eyes where tightly shut while kissing me. After a few moments of being frozen in place, reluctantly my lips responded to hers as my eyes gently closed not really understanding what I was doing. Then suddenly an image of Mao came into my head that I came to realize too late this was wrong. Utterly wrong! My eyes flew open while my mind was in alarm. I used all my will power to grab Rainie’s shoulders and release her grip from me. Holding her at an arm’s length, her eyes half closed and lips still puckered, I stared at her.
It would be a lie if I said I didn’t feel anything in that kiss. There was something there and it was confusing. I’m not that kind of person who’s indecisive, I have actually pictured my future with Mao and only her… but this whole thing, brought things out of perspective.
Shit.
“You still liking me is a reason enough for me to kiss you like that.” Rainie said softly.
“This is wrong.” I muttered to myself rather than her.
“But you kissed me back.” she smiled triumphantly.
“You… why are women so cunning?” I accused her but she just looked deviously at me.
“I don’t know. Nature probably? So why exactly did you kiss me back? You really like me don’t you?”
“It was just hormones.” I told her flatly, trying to deny that there was anything with that kiss.
“Want to make sure?” She asked grinning widely at me.
“No. I’d rather not.”
“Toma… why can’t you just ditch her? Try someone new. Try me. You’ve been with her for three years, you can’t seriously think of marrying her do you?”
I just stood there looking at her silently. Even though I didn’t say it, the answer must have been written all over my face.
“Oh my god… you are thinking of marrying her!” she exclaimed her hands flying to her mouth looking shocked with the realization that I was actually planning to marry Inoue Mao.
“But… I thought…” her voice trailed off as her eyes wondered around looking confused, then she looked at me seriously.
“Your mom had arranged the marriage between us Toma when we were younger.”
“She has no custody of me now Rainie. I’ve left her house when I was of legal age.”
“But she still hasn’t disowned you. You’re still in her book.”
“That doesn’t mean she has control over me.”
“She still has Toma.”
“How?”
“How do you think you got your job? Your apartment? Your money? If you think this was all you, you’re dead wrong. Although… there are some parts that your mother can’t control. Like you. And your large bank account that she can’t lay a hand on.” Rainie walked carefully by the window to look outside while nodding at herself thoughtfully.
“It may look that way to you and to other people but your mother… arranged things. I got called from Taiwan to come here and see you. Everything… is already planned except for the agents from your father who were sent here for you. That throws things out of balance.”
All of these things sounded crazier than the black mailing my father’s agents told me. It was all unbelievable that I thought I’m losing grip on reality. I never thought that my family was this hideous, but now it all starts to sink in.
What the fuck is going on??? This whole situation sounds like a badly written soap opera!
My hands went to my temple to massage the sudden migraine that was pounding on my head, thinking all of this is just a nightmare, a really bizarre nightmare that I just fell into and have no way out. Just like Alice in Wonderland, I just have to find a rabbit to follow. That’s all I need.
I shook my head trying to control my emotions as I looked at Rainie differently this time. My hand fell to my sides and it was shaking.
“Are you… in this too the whole time?” I asked with my jaw clenched.
“No. I just learned all of this when I came back to Tokyo. You were eventually going to find out about this.” She glanced at me briefly then quickly looked away.
“I’m sorry Toma, but I still want you to have a choice… although I really really want you to choose me.” This time she held my gaze as she walked nearer towards me to hold my hand.
I felt her sincerity.
“Is there any way I could avoid… my mother?”
“That would be meeting your father.”
“Souka.”
Rainie held my hand tightly this time.
“Toma… I really do like you. You don’t have to worry much now. We could arrange things.”
“I’ve felt that a long time ago Rainie. I just can’t return those feelings to you anymore. I have Mao.”
Rainie’s face looked crushed, she looked like she was about to cry but she held it. Instead she raised her head up, nodded stiffly at me as my mind wandered off.
A kiss should not be such a big deal. It was just a kiss.
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I should have been smart enough to avoid that kiss, so that the circumstances would not have turned out like this. Now it’s too late, everything has fallen off of my hands. That day when Rainie and I kissed then another mind shattering news was thrown at me, I wasn’t aware that Mao went back to retrieve something she forgot at home, and that was how she saw me kissing someone else, inside the apartment. Mao instantly had the conclusion of me cheating on her.
I was used to her not contacting me or coming home in two days straight because she had often done this to be able to concentrate on her work. After three days of no contact from Mao I started to get worried, even Eirka had no idea where she was, that’s when I suddenly received a phone call from Tamaki sempai who was Mao’s manager informing me that she was in Okinawa, doing a photo shoot for Aoi’s designs. I flew immediately to Okinawa after the phone call.
Tamaki sempai knew the reason why Mao left without informing me that she was going at the other side of the country based on Aoi’s narration to him. Mao even warned him not to contact me at all cost. Apparently he got worried because Mao has been slacking off with work and she had not produced or worked on a painting for the past three days which was supposed to be her first priority. When I got to Okinawa to clear things to her, I met Tamaki sempai instead by the beach near the hotel they were staying at. He started apologizing for giving me so much trouble because it so happened that news came to Mao that I was going to Okinawa for her and as soon as she learned about this she instantly took the first flight back to Tokyo to evade me. It was so crazy of her to go through such lengths just to avoid me. We could have resolved this quickly and painlessly only if she would talk to me and answer my phone calls. This was one her attributes that frustrates me so much. When something off happens between us she would either run or hide. It was so immature and yet I find it kind of cute. I’m just probably a pathetic person for tolerating such a thing.
I flew back to Tokyo and tried to find her once again, but to no avail. I was considering on calling Mao in her ancestral home back in Sapporo, but that would be too much. Mao would not consider going back home to her conservative overbearing parents. I left that idea alone and looked for other search sites where I could look for her. Erika helped me throughout all of these; she also swore she would bite off Mao’s head for over reacting and for making our lives a living hell. Unfortunately I had to come back to work, I’ve been putting it off too much just to look for Mao.
When I got to the office, Juri looked at me nervously and handed me a memo. I was dumbfounded to find out I actually had no job to return too. Then Harada Natsuki’s voice ringed in my head, “Our proposal is that you bring yourself to China and see that man, who is your father or there would be no job in Japan and probably in the face of the earth that would accept you in their business.”
This was all my father’s doing.
After two weeks of being Moaless and jobless… I was really about to blow my fuse off when a phone call got me charging up.
I was lying on top of the dinner table thinking of any options that I could do about my job, places where I could look for Mao… then the cell phone sitting beside me rang, I looked lazily at the caller ID and it said “Inoue’s”. I scramble to my feet to make sure this was a real phone call and I wasn’t just hallucinating.
“Mosh-mosh?” I asked nervously, not sure who would be on the other end of the line.
“Toma? Is this Ikuta Toma?” A lady answered back in a whisper.
“Er… yes. This is Ikuta Toma.?”
I heard a sigh of relief on the other line.
“Toma, listen carefully. This is Mao’s Okasa… Mao is here in Sapporo, I think it’s time you come and get her.”
“Mao is in Sapporo?!?” I asked incredulously my voice ringing on all the four corners of the room.
“Shouting is not necessary young man.” Mrs. Inoue said with an edgy sound on her voice and she was still whispering.
“Gome ne… but why is she there? I’ve been looking for her all over…” my voice trailed off and realized what Mao has been thinking.
Of course she would think that the last place I would be looking for her is her ancestral home.
I slapped my palm to my forehead for not even considering Sapporo.
“You don’t have to say that as if it was impossible, but yes. Mao has been here for the past few weeks. It’s not that we don’t want her here, it’s just that she’s been acting all miserable ever since she stepped foot into the house. She doesn’t want to eat, look at paintings or even go outside of the house. Mao has been locking herself up in her room. I do not know what happen in Tokyo that made her this upset but I figured it has something to do with you since she doesn’t want us to tell her friends where she is and she specifically asked not to receive any calls from you. Our daughter is a mess, and I don’t know how to fix her. I was hoping you can come here and… talk to her.”
There was a long silence before Mrs. Inoue resumed talking.
“I’m not used to seeing my daughter like this. As much I hate her being as outspoken and too liberated, I would still prefer the latter than her being like this. Come as soon as you can.” It was an order, not a request. That wasn’t really necessary though, since I have already set my mind to go to Sapporo the minute Mao’s mother said she was there.
“Hai, I’m coming there right now.” I clicked my phone off and took my jacket off the counter table where I’ve left it yesterday.
A kiss does make so much difference after all. Mao having this reaction for such a thing… It has never occurred to me that her jealousy could really go overboard but what I couldn’t understand more is the way I’m feeling right now. To be honest, I don’t know how to explain it…
~To be continued~
This is purely a fan-fiction.
Words from me: Ghaaaaaaaaaad… this fan-fic is dragging me on. Gome ne minna san… T_T there’s just not much inspiration for me lately. Also, I have a lot of words in my head I just don’t know how to lay it all out. *Damn* im getting as much frustrated as toma. Not a good sign.
oh btw... please do check my other fan-fic out if you have time. arigatou minna san!
http://www.winglin.net/fanfic/biniBningPunk5/