Mistakes Carry Heavy Burdens
Chapter 4 (LAST)
She was enveloped by complete darkness. She saw different visions in her mind of memories and visions of the future.
“Akane…”
“Hmm..?” as she opened her eyes, blinking couple of times. Then she saw Airi with a child beside her
“Mamaaaaaaa!!! Wake upp~” The mysterious child was calling her mama and jumped on the bed to hug her.
“..Huh?? Who is this Airi..?”
“Pffttt.. Are you fully awake Akane? It’s Yuna...”
“EH?? Mama you don’t remember Yuna?” The child began to crossing her arms in dissatisfaction.
“Yuna? Who?”
“That’s the name we gave our daughter….”
Airi looked at her with disappointed clearly shown in her facial expression.
Is this my future? So this is our daughter? Churi’s eyes began to stare at the latter, then she realized that how Yuna’s eyes resembled to her own. But the way she pouted and sulked was same as her lover’s.
But the first thing she noticed was her pale skin , it was like Rena’s , Yuna’s height was the combination of Akane and Rena’s, but her habits and facial expressions came from Airi. Soon everything around her was blurry and black out...“Hey Churi?? Are you alright?”
Finally Airi’s sentence pulled out her from daydreaming.
“H-Huh….?”
“Are you hurt somewhere? You’re acting weird,” Airi furrowed her brows, took a seat beside her.
“U-Ugh… W-Where is she…?”
“Who?”
“T-The baby… where is… she?”
“You sure acting weird. She is right beside you, silly,” Airi said, pointing to the incubator beside her bed, “The doctor did say you lost quite a bit of blood…”
“Is she alright?”
“She was a month early, but they said she’s alright…”
“Thank God…” Churi let out a deep sigh.
“What should we name her? Rina? Sakura?....” Airi began to list all the possible names she could think of.
“Yuna.”
“Huh?”
“I think we should name her, Yuna...”
Airi’s lips pulled a smile, “As long as you want that name, I’ll be fine with it.”
Their moment was interrupted by someone knocking on the door, soon a couple of heads pop-up from it.
“Churii~ Congratulations..!” It was Jurina who brought a bouquet full of roses and baby’s breath.
“Jurina…”
The next one come up was none other than Rena. She walked closer to the incubator instead. Smile drew on her face “She looks so much like you..Congratulations Airi...”
“Thank you, Jurina… Rena…”
3 Years Later…“Come on Mom! Hurry up we will lateeee~”
There was this little girl who pulled Akane’s hand.
“Slowly, Yuna or else, you’ll fall over…”
“Moou~ I want to see Rara-chan. We won’t be late if we hurry…!”
“Airi, honey, go ahead, see if Jurina and Rena are home..?”
Airi knocked on the front door to Jurina and Rena’s house. Fingers crossed that the Matsuis will be at home, since Airi didn’t have time to tell the Matsui over their sudden visit. Airi released a ball of relief after hearing footstep behind the door.
“Airin.. Is that you…?”
“Yes, open the door first and then we’ll talk.”
After sounds of locks being unlocked were heard, Jurina peeked through the hole of the open door.
“Who is it, honey?” This time Rena appear from the kitchen still wearing her cooking apron.
“Ah, hello Rena.. Jurina… Umm.. Can we come--”
Someone behind Rena cut Airi off before she finished talking and rushing toward Airi, or...not
“Yunaaa-chaaaann~!”
“Raraaa-chaaaannn~!”
“Considering Rara just did that, sure… Come in~”
Jurina and Rena ushered Akane and Airi in, with Rara and Yuna skipping behind them.
Once they had gotten into the living room, the four adults sat on the sofas, whilst their daughters sat playing with a dollhouse.
“Our daughter surely love playing together,” Jurina was the one who talk first
“Yuna is always whining to come over, it always gives me a headache..” Akane use this chance to massage her temple.
“True that,” Rena then said, “Rara always asks if Yuna’s coming over….”
“Maybe because they are the only child, so that’s why they love when playing together” Airi said as take a sip from her cup and continue “Speaking about Rara, she looks so much like Jurina.”
“And Yuna looks a bit like you, Rena,” Akane commented.
“Only the pale-skin, but I really think that the way Yuna talk and behave is like mini Airin’s in the room.”
“Totally true!” Jurina giggled.
After quite a long talk, it was dark outside.
“Yuna, let’s go home,” Akane said, tugging at her daughter’s shirt, “Come on.”
“But… mom…!”
“Your mom is right Yuna, we can come again some other time” Airi squated down to ruffle her daughter’s hair.
“Mom, don’t let Yuna-chan go homeeee~” Rara wailed at Rena.
“They need to go home, dear. Next time we will be the one who goes and sees Yuna, it’s just that your dad’s going to be busy with work.”
“Promise?” Rara showed her pinky finger.
“It’s a promise.”
The Furukawa family bid farewell to Matsuis, before separating Rara-chan gave a kiss at Yuna’s cheek. Both of parents giggled, it was too much cute for them to handle.
“What’d you think, Airin? Is it like your ‘usual’ anime?”
“N-N-No…! W-What… m-makes y-you think...t-that..?” Airi stuttered.
They laughed for the last time, and called it a day.
After playing a lot the whole day made both Yuna and Rara sleep earlier than usual. Rena lovingly stare at her daughter, until someone wrapped her waist and pulled her into embrace.
“Nee Rena-chan~.. Do you happen still love Akane?”
“No..”
“You know what, suddenly I remember the day when I proposed to you, and you said yes. There was joy and doubt in my heart.”
“Doubt?”
“Yeah.. Like I was the replacement.. I hoped… like someday you will love me eventually…”
There, the topic that Rena hate the most. She was a bad actress afterall. Yes, at first she just used Jurina as a tool to forget about Akane. That’s why she didn’t have second thoughts about Jurina’s proposal. But she was wrong…
Rena broke from the embrace facing the latter’s body, snake her arm up Jurina’s neck.
“You’re not her replacement.. Never been..”
“....”
“I know, I seemed like that before…. But I’ve changed.. Your love changed me.. I don’t know since when that the one I was looking for you, miss you when you’re not around..” Rena began to closing their gap and pressed her lips against Jurina’s
“I miss your kisses..” She look at Jurina’s eyes, and cupped her cheek with her right hand, “And I miss your warmth”
Jurina smiled, “I love you, Rena-chan.. Always will…”
“I love you too, Jurina.. Don’t ever say that again, I love you too much, to let you go…”
As they were sharing kisses again, again.. And again…
“I… love… Yuna-chan…” The two of them, heard Rara murmuring in her sleep.
Meanwhile, at the Furukawa household...
“Aaaahhh I’m tired..!” Airi said while jumping into bed, “Thank god, I’m going to get a good night’s sleep…”
“Why?” Akane said, from the ensuite bathroom of their new home.
During the three years after Yuna’s birth, Airi was working hard. Hard enough that she earned herself a promotion to a member of the executive board at her office. The new pay was high enough to buy a new house that fit all three of them.
“So… Jurina’s the CEO of the company you work at now, right…?” Akane asked, whilst walking into the bedroom.
“Yeah… but I was promoted before she succeeded her father in owning the company.”
Airi leaned her back against the headboard. Churi noticed there was a lot going on inside Airi’s head.
“What’s wrong?” She asked as Churi joined her to bed.
“I was thinking that... I couldn’t give you a big house like Jurina did to Rena… I can’t give you nice, expensive things either…”
“Airi…”
Airi looked down, playing with her own fingers “I..I’m sorry, Akane..”
“Hey..” Akane lift her chin facing her “Let me tell you a story.. There was a happy couple. But the girl was raped by someone..”
She looked down, take a deep breath before continue
“She decided to hide it from her girlfriend. Because she didn’t want her lover to leave her…”
Churi stopped for a while, her lips trembling, her eyes watery..
“Akane…”
“But like always in the story, she’ll find out about lie. The worst part of it was she knew from someone else. She felt pain when she knew that the father to her girlfriend’s child was someone she trusted.”
“Stop it..!” Airi held her hand.
“You know what, she is amazing. Although her girlfriend was pregnant with someone else’s child. She was willing to marry her.. She was willing to become the father of the child…”
“......”
Akane turned her gaze to her loved one
“I never asked you to give me a big house, expensive jewelry, nice dresses, or anything like that…”
“... Akane...--”
“All I wanted, was your love… I never deserved someone like you and yet… God gave me someone who was as kind, as selfless and as willing to love me…”
Tears began flowing from Churi’s eyes
“Shhhhh..” Without further ado Airi pulled her closer “I-I’m s-sorry, please d-dont c-cry...”
“I-I…. I never knew you expected me to expect a lot from you…”
“A-Akane…”
“Kiss me.”
“H-huh?”
“J-just hurry up, Kiss me. I-I’ll forgive you, if you do.”
“Alright, as you wish, my queen,” Airi said, pulling Akane and pressing her lips against the girl’s. Soon the kiss escalated quickly, Akane hungrily ate Airi’s lips. She then found herself on the top of Airi and she started taking off Airi’s clothes.
“W-Wait! I thought we are having a KISS, not t-this…!” Airi abruptly stopped Akane’s movement.
“I can’t help it,” Akane said whilst winking at her.
“I’m tired and I have to wake up early tomorrow”
“That is what you get, when making me feel sad,” Akane crossing her arms and puckered her lips
Airi couldn’t resist, yet she knew she had several meetings to attend the next day, “Akane… I know you’re sad, but I’ll shower you with apology gifts when I can.”
“Don’t you love me?”
“You know exactly my answer is..”
“... but…”
“Don’t think about it… Just know that I love you, Takayanagi Akane…. No, Furukawa Akane.”
“Y-You sure know how to flatter me”
Akane smacked at Airi’s shoulder, Akane blushed, her eyes looking at anything in the room but Airi’s orbs. Little that Akane knew is that her simple gesture is lit something inside Airi.
“Airi?”
Airi pulled her closer in rough way, kissing her like there is no tomorrow. Churi’s eyes widened, but soon their lips were moving in sync. Airi took the top position, her hands roaming around the slender figure of her wife.
“A-Airi S-Stop! Did you say that you’re tired?”
“Screw that!. Let me have you…for tonight...” Airi whispered in her husky voice.
“T-A-K-E ME A-I-R-I~” She began to take off her clothes, one by one..
And Furukawa Airi and Furukawa Akane were having another sleepless night...
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