Wednesday, February 22, 2012
New links
Here are the links for the updates. To see what happens between Ryuusuke, Hannah, and Mamoru, click on parts 4 and 5!
New chapter part 5
Here is part 5 of the new chapter. Let's see what will happen with Ryuusuke and Hannah next. Oh and look out for Mamoru!
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Glancing down, Hannah noticed the little flashing light signaling that she has a message. For some unknown reason her hand had a slight tremble as she reached for the phone. You’re being silly, she thought. There is no reason to be nervous. It isn’t like it is an official date. Just a chance for us to talk about how he is willing to betray his best friend by kissing me….okay, that train of thought is not helping my nerves at all!
Inhaling deeply in an effort to calm herself down, Hannah quickly opened the message to see what Ryuusuke had to say.
[Great! Glad you’re free. Maybe we can continue from where we left off
Tonight. Joking. ;P We’ll just talk tomorrow. Let’s meet at the station
at 12:00. Is it okay? Can’t wait to see you again. Until tomorrow. Baby. ^_-]
If she was a cartoon character, Hannah was sure steam would be rising off her face right now. Would every conversation with Ryuusuke be this embarrassing?
She quickly sent a reply confirming the meeting time and to lightly scold him for being a pervert. Placing the phone down, Hannah looked up at her friends and let a huge smile cross her face. “Who wants to go to karaoke to celebrate my pseudo date tomorrow?”
“Oh oh me!” Mika was practically bouncing in her seat.
Sam rolled her eyes but there was an amused look in her eyes. “You always want to go to. But,” she continued before Mika could attempt to defend herself. “It sounds fun. Let’s go.”
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“Yeah girls! Sing it!”
They left the restaurant about an hour ago and went straight to karaoke to release all the tension of the past two weeks. Although it has been rough, things were starting to look up.
At the moment Mika and Sam were in the middle of singing a cheesy romantic duet while Hannah played the ‘adoring audience.’ But she was pulled out of the fantasy by a subtle vibration in her pocket.
Huh? She thought. Who could that be? Ryuusuke? But why would he be mailing me now?
Digging through her pocket, she finally managed to pull out her phone. As soon as she glanced at the email address, Hannah felt herself pale in shock and slight fear.
Mamoru! Why us he mailing me? Don’t tell me Ryuusuke told him about what happened. If he did, he’ll pay when I see him tomorrow!
Apprehensive, Hannah quickly opened the message; she wanted to get the pain over as soon as possible.
[Long time no see! ^^ How are you? Thank you for your hard work. How
was work today? What are you doing? What will you do tomorrow?]
Happiness and dread filled Hannah all at once. She was glad Mamoru actually mailed her for no reason at all and was making a slight effort to strengthen their relationship. A little attention is all she ever wanted from him.
But she knew that this new Mamoru wouldn’t last. As soon as she tells him about Ryuusuke, she was positive he’ll shut down. He never liked it when Hannah mentioned other men around him. However, she had to tell him; not telling him would only make things worse. Mamoru deserved to know the truth immediately instead of having his friends stab him in the back. For all the pain that he has caused her, he wasn’t a bad person.
{Yes, it has been awhile. I am fine. How are you? You must be busy.
My work was okay. How was yours? Now I am at karaoke with Mika
and Sam. How about you? Oh… tomorrow Ryuusuke and I will have
lunch together. What will you do tomorrow?}
Her thumb hovered over the send button. Should I send this? I don’t want to hurt him. But…. With a slight shake of her head, Hannah pressed send. I’m sorry Mamoru. But I can’t lie to you anymore.
She moved to slide her phone back into her pocket when she felt it buzz to life once again. A wave of nausea swept through her. Mamoru never replied that quickly unless he was excited or upset about something. And she was pretty sure that this wasn’t a message sent out of excitement.
[You’re meet Ryuusuke tomorrow? Oh. When did you decide to date?]
The nausea increased until Hannah was sure she was going to throw up. Although they were not dating, she had always been loyal to Mamoru, even when he didn’t deserve it. She never thought that she’d be able to let go of him. But now that she has started to distance herself, the idea that she could hurt Mamoru made her ill.
{We’re not dating. We are just meeting to talk. He… he wants me to
be his girlfriend. I haven’t said yes or no yet.}
Hannah was certain Mamoru wouldn’t rely to that message, but once again she was wrong about him. This time she wished that she was right.
{Ryuusuke….. he is a good person. He’d be good for you. I think you could
be happy with Ryuusuke.]
Hot, almost scalding tears filled her eyes. Slipping out of the karaoke room, Hannah flopped down onto the bench in the hallway and let the tears fall.
“All that talk about you finally fighting for me was bullshit,” she sobbed to herself. “I thought you had changed; that you really loved me. But I guess not if you are going to hand me to your best friend. And I was going to tell him no.” Slowly she wrapped her arms around herself and tucked her chin to her chest to comfort herself. “I hate you Mamoru,” she whispered through the sobs. “I hate you so much.”
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
New chapter part 4
I am on a roll now! I have written an update for the new chapter. Nothing too crazy this time but some important decisions were made in this update. Please read and enjoy.
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Hannah snatched her phone back. “Really?! You guys find that sarcastic answer hot?”
“Yup,” they answered simultaneously. The two smirked and high-fived each other. “Gotta love a man who will offer to be your bad boy,” Mika added.
“Well, I don’t think it’s funny,” Hannah grumbled as she typed up a response.
{I know what a kiss is! Why did you kiss me? Wait!
You and Mamoru talked about me? Why?}
Sam rolled her eyes as Hannah was sending the message. “Yeah, sure you don’t,” she said with a snort. “I bet that if Mamoru sent you that message, you’d think it was hot.”
A chill went through Hannah freezing her on the spot. Would I be okay with it if Mamoru sent that message? How would I react if it was from him instead of Ryuusuke?
The soft trill of her cell phone pulled Hannah back into the moment. Flipping open the phone, she read the message and felt her face heat up with embarrassment.
[Out of all the things in that message, you bring up the part
about Mamoru? I am really starting to think I’ll never have a
chance against him. T^T Are you free tomorrow? Maybe
we can have lunch and talk about tonight and us?]
“He wants to have lunch tomorrow to talk about everything,” she said after re-reading the message a couple of times. Looking up at her friends, she threw them a helpless look. “What should I do?”
“Go!” Sam said instantly. “Don’t hesitate. Say yes!”
“But what about Mamoru?”
“Hannah, what has Mamoru done that deserves such loyalty,” Mika asked with an oddly serious expression on her face. “Because in my opinion all he has done is play with your emotions, made false promises, and caused you to cry multiple times. There was a time when I was cheering for you’d make a cute couple. But now I think it’d be better if you have a little contact with him a possible. All he is going to do is hurt you again and again.”
The table went silent as everyone considered Mika’s words. Honestly, Hannah agreed with everything the other woman said; it was nothing that she hadn’t told herself in the past. So why couldn’t she forget Mamoru? Why couldn’t she let go? Maybe she needed a distraction..
“Well,” Hannah said finally. “Herbivores haven’t been working out so well for me. Maybe it is time to try a carnivore.”
“Right! That’s what We’ve been saying!”
Ignoring Mika’s comment, Hannah quickly typed a response to Ryuusuke’s message.
{You were the one to bring him up. ;P Yes, I am free tomorrow.
Sure, let’s meet. Where should we meet? What time is good?}
“You’d better be glad I’m such a good friend,” Mika teased when Hannah flipped her phone shut.
“Huh? Why’s that?”
“Because if I wasn't, I’d totally try to steal Ryuusuke from you.”
“Umm Mika? You’re the one that gave me the speech that encouraged me to accept Ryuusuke’s invitation. That was the perfect chance to steal him away.”
“Hence why you should be glad I am such a good friend.”
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Chapter links tab
To make it easier for everyone, I made a side bar tool with the chapter links. Whenever I update the story, I'll add the links to the side bar. That way you won't have to search around for the update or the past links.
New chapter links
For those of you who don't want any spoilers, here are the links to the updates. Please read and comment. ^^
New chapter part 1: http://brishousetsu.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-chapter-part-1.html
New chapter part 2: http://brishousetsu.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-chapter-part-2.html
New chapter part 3: http://brishousetsu.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-chapter-part-3.html
New chapter part 3
And here is the last part of the update. Hopefully I will have the next part written soon. What do you think is going to happen? You'll just have to wait to find out.
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“So why not drop him and go after this new guy,” Sam asked. “It seems like he is interested in you. And he’s much cuter in my opinion.”
“Honestly, I am a little shocked that he even knows my name,” Hannah replied. “Like Mika said, we didn’t really talk to him that much.” She paused then started to blush. “Actually until now I could have sworn he was gay.”
“Oh god,” Sam moaned and buried her face in her hands, sending Mika into another laughing fit. “Do I even want to know why you thought he was gay?”
“Because we saw him kissing a couple of guys. We haven’t figured out if he is gay, bi, or a host that serves male clients.”
The table fell silent. Sam looked back and forth between the two women in disbelief then threw her hands up in the air. “Really?! Why can’t you find a normal guy to crush on?!”
“Wait, wait! I’m not crushing on Ryuusuke,” Hannah protested..
“Nope but it looks like he is crushing on you.” Sam closed her eyes and started rubbing her temples. “At the moment your romantic interests are a former bartender who is dumber than a box of rocks and a possibly bi male host. You’d have been better off going after a student. It’d be dangerous but less headache inducing.”
“Okay, okay,” Mika interjected. “Enough bashing to poor girl. Let’s get back to the original question: what are you going to do?”
Hannah sat there in silence for a few minutes then suddenly snapped her fingers. “Got it. Mika, you have Ryuusuke’s email right? Can I have it to send him a message?”
“That’s right I do! Damn, if I knew he could be a carn I would have mailed him more often.” She passed her phone over to the other girl. “So what are you going to say?”
After quickly typing up and sending the mail, Hannah threw a devilish grin to her friends. “I decided to test his English skills by sending him a message that said ‘What the hell was that?’”
“Again: and you wonder why you’re still single?” Sam threw out.
“Yeah yeah, I know . Turning down men who throw themselves at you is a stupid thing to do,” Hannah said as she rolled her eyes. “But I suspect he was drunk and probably won’t reply until tomorrow. And by that point he won’t remember what…..wow that was fast!”
Hannah was interrupted by her phone signaling it received a message. Slightly nervous, Hannah slipped it open, read the message, and promptly threw the phone down onto the table. “That’s it. I hate men.”
Mika and Sam shared a look and then lunged forward to pick up the discarded phone. What could he have said that would cause that kind of reaction?
[I think in English it is called a ‘kiss’. I can show it to you again if you want. ;P
Haha. Mamoru always said you were so innocent but I never believed him.
Guess he was right. It is kind of hot. Maybe I’ll be your ‘bad boy. ^_-]
“Umm Hannah,” Mika asked as she looked up from the email. “If you don’t want Ryuusuke, can I take him? Because with mails like this he can be ‘my bad boy’ any day.”
“If you don’t take him, I’ll hit you,” Sam added. “It would be so stupid, and you’d deserve the box of rocks you’d get.”
New chapter part 2
I hope you enjoyed part 1. Part 2 is here and is waiting to be read! Please enjoy~
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Mika lost it. Tears ran down her cheeks as her face slowly turned red from laughing so hard. Sam just stared at her co-worker in disbelief.
“Really?!” She said as she glared at the woman sitting across from her. “You were just kissed by a friend of the guy you liked for over a year. The same guy whose current goal is to get you to fall back in love with him in the next 3 months, and all you can comment on is his English ability!”
The longer Sam talked, the higher her voice got until it had a hysterical quality to it.
A reddish hue stained Hannah’s cheeks.
“Well,” she began as her cheek continued to redden. “I almost said ‘now we know he is not a complete herbivore’, but the English comment slipped out first.”
Apparently two of them were going to die tonight because Sam looked like she was going to stab Hannah with one of her chopsticks while Mika was hunched over muttering “I can’t breathe” in between laughing fits.
“You two are crazy,” Sam muttered with a shake of her head.
“But you love us anyways,” Mika chirped cheerfully. She turned to Hannah and a devious grin slipped onto her face. “So what did he whisper to you,” she asked as she propped by her head on her hand. “With how shocked you looked, it must have been hot.”
Hannah shook her head. “Not so much hot as unexpected. He asked me to choose him over Mamoru because he is ‘better for me.’”
The stunned look on the other women’s faces was becoming the theme of the night.
“Wow,” Mika finally said. “Didn’t know he had it in him.” Out of all the guys there, I think he is the one we had the least contact with.”
“I know right!”
“So what are you going to do?” Sam interrupted before the two friends could get way of track. “Are you going to take him up on the offer?”
“I don’t know.” Resting her head on her folded arms, Hannah let her eyes slip shut. “I’m not sure what I feel about either guy at the moment.
There is Mamoru, the first guy I’ve been seriously interested in. For awhile I had fantasies of us being happy in a long-term relationship. But I know now that fantasies are all they’ll ever be. So I tried to move on. “
“Makes sense.”
“But after his recent confession and self-imposed challenge, I don’t know what to think. I want to believe that he really does love me and that the last year and a half haven’t been a waste. But..” Hannah sighed and sat back up. “I don’t know if I can trust him.”
Mika nodded in agreement. “Yeah. He doesn’t have the greatest track record when it comes to sticking to his word.”
“I also am afraid it is temporary,” Hannah added. “He is interested in me now, but the minute he gets me, there is the chance he’ll lose interested. I mean that is true for all relationships, but I am almost expecting him to do it.”
New chapter part 1
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
So i have updated my story, but unfortunately it is part of a different chapter; just following the inspiration. Good news is that a new character is introduced, and a new twist is added to the story. Please enjoy!
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Suddenly Ryuusuke grabbed Hannah’s wrist and pulled her into a kiss.
A thousand thoughts ran through her head all at once.
[Ryuusuke just stole my first kiss! I didn’t even know he could be so bold….Mamoru is going to kill us. I know he said that since we are not a couple, he’s alright with me seeing other people, but I am sure he didn’t mean his best friend! Although Ryuusuke is the one who kissed me. But I am not pulling away. Wait! This is my first kiss! Shouldn’t I be focusing on it instead of worry about Mamoru?]
After what felt like hours but was actually only seconds, Ryuusuke pulled back. There was a flash of disappointment in his eyes, but he quickly hid it behind a smirk.
Leaning forward so his lips were near her ear, he softly whispered in English: “Forget about Mamoru. I am better for you.”
Hannah’s eyes widened and her entire body was frozen with shock. [What the hell…] she thought. [When did Ryuusuke even show any interest in me?]
Her mouth opened and closed several times but she was unable to get any words out, causing Ryuusuke’s smirk to widen. Tilting his head to the side he placed a small kiss to her cheek. “Think about it,” he yelled over his shoulder as he walked out of the restaurant.
Hannah could feel her friends’ eyes on her back. Slowly she forced herself to turn around and face them. Sam’s jaw was almost touching the table with how low it had dropped. And although she managed to keep her mouth closed, Mika wasn’t much better. She looked like she didn’t know whether to laugh or shake her head in pity. She quickly settled on ordering another round of drinks for the three of them.
Sliding into her seat, Hannah silently accepted the drink placed in front of her and just stared at it for a few minutes. Finally, she looked up at Mika and said “I didn’t know he could speak English so well.”
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