So this is the 2nd Part. The story is kinda slow so please bear with me (intended to make this story quite long)
I'm trying to show part by part Sae's story in detail, from the past to present back to back so at some point it will be quite confusing.
Will keep include other pairing as the story goes, but i can't guarantee which pair.
Sorry for all the grammar error.
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Right now, here I am with my daily routine. As someone who already has a quite high position and admired by many people in one of the most well known company in quite a young age, I’m always felt everything is perfect. Many people praised all the achievement I had. Graduated with an outstanding result, got a straight job in a place that many people dream of, a bright career, and a satisfied salary. Not trying to be cocky, my appearance is not bad. Many of my friends saying my life is unfair because I have everything, without flaw and just perfect. Everytime I heard that words, a bitter smile is the only thing that I can give them all. Yes I can have everything, yet I lost something that I really treasure with my heart and soul. With all of this, I’m still someone who lost. The girl that I really love for all my life, I can’t even dreaming of her again because she already gone so far. With everything I have, I can’t even give her something to keep our story that we already built so hard. She that I really love, she that I always hope, don’t even said a single word when I started to walk away from her, all of it because of love
“Hey boss what are you starring at so seriously at this hour? It’s already 10 pm. You should go home. No one is around anymore, not even your secretary.” My most dear friend Yuko just wake me from my deep thoughts while banging my door non stop. I don’t realise that I’ve been starring at my monitor for so long.
“What the hell Yuko stop startled me like that, I’m almost got a heart attack here. And what are you doing at this hour in this place? I though you already go home since 6 pm. What brings you here?” I’m started babling things to her. That’s my habits everytime someone shocked me to death and the prime suspect is mostly her.
“I’m just being a good friend to you. Your housemate asked me about you since you always called if you got home late. She was worried because she can’t reach your phone. When I asked your secretary, she said you still in the office doing some papers. So here I am being a good friend trying to drag you out from this boring place to get home” Yuko and her always perfect story telling.
For your information, she is Oshima Yuko. My very very dear best friend since my university days. She was one of my classmate since first semester until we graduated together and somehow by an odd good luck got landed in the same company. She is now one of my trusted staff in my department. Even though I’m her boss, but I never really acted bossy to her. In fact, I consider all my staff and team as a close friend. It makes me more easy to communicate with them at our work and making us more comfortable while working together.
About my housemate, she kinda like a girlfriend of me to some people. Her name is Kuramochi Asuka or people like to call her Mochi. I know her since I’m working in this company. Ever since we working together, we kinda got close to the point I’m too comfortable with her like she is one of my family. She will always acted like my girlfriend, ask my well being from time to time. But if some people who don’t really know us, must be thinking that we are a real couple. Because she will always clingy to me and I’m always pamper her like a lover do. But we know that we are nothing more than that. She is just like how Yuko to me.
“My phone just broke and I’m forget to tell her. Sorry if you have to go out this late searching me. Did you come alone?”
“No I’m with Haruna. She said she miss her cousin since she don’t meet you for more than a month and want to ask you for a late dinner. She’s waiting us downstair, she said she afraid of the ghost in this tall building at this hour” Yuko just giggling imagining scared Haruna with her pouty lips.
“What? That silly girl and her never ending weird imaginations. It’s her fault that she don’t want to came at our grandma’s birthday last week. I told her I will pick her up at her agency but she refused said she already had a plan with you. What a bad granddaugher, abandoning her grandma’s birthday for a small squirrel” I said while trying to get ready to go and fix all my paper then put it in my bag.
“Hey she already call your family before and apologized about that. It’s just she don’t want to let me alone all sick and can’t do anything. It’s you who is a bad friend. Can’t come to see me even for a second. Just showing your face in video call is not enough. I need you to bring me some burger or pizza to make me feel better.” Said Yuko while pretending to cry like a baby.
“Okay i’m sorry about that too but I was away doing some bussines. Heck, I’m handling some your case since you on leave and make me came late to my grandma’s birthday party. You should be glad I’m not coming visited you, since I’m gonna bring some balloon to cheer you up”
Yuko face suddenly got pale and her eyes went wide at a mention of ‘balloon’. That kid and her-not-so-cool-phobia afraid of balloon. I’m smiling victoriously at her since I know I got her this time.
“Fine fine you win. Let’s go if you already finished. Don’t want to let Haruna waiting for too long. She still have a schedule early tomorrow”
“Okay let’s go buddy”
Then we just rushing to elevator and after saying goodbye to the security we go straight to Yuko’s car where Haruna is waiting. I see from afar that my lovely cousin already got out from the car and ready to wait for me to hug her.
“Hello my Sae. How are you? I kinda miss you after not meet you for more than a month. You looks….. different” said Haruna after hugging me for a while then examine my face, touching my nose then pulling it playfully.
“Hello too my pretty cousin. I’m fine. I miss you too. Well it’s just I have to work extra since last week someone been away leaving me all alone finishing her work” I put my puppy face to Haruna while side glance at Yuko who just arrive at our place. Haruna got my hint.
“Let me punish that someone. Who is she? Can you tell me? I will hurt her really bad for making my cousin working too hard”Haruna said while glaring at Yuko and ready to air-punching her.
“Heh?? What did I do wrong? Did I miss something? I just got here and you want to punch me? Why Haruna??? It must be because of you Sae, right?” Then Yuko started to punch my stomach slowly. Me and Haruna only can laugh at her.
After fooling around a bit, we talked about where we want to have a late dinner. Then I got to my car and drove to the place we already promised. After 15 minutes we already arrived at that place and after ordering our foods, I borrow Yuko’s phone to call Asuka.
“Hello Yuko. Where are you? Did you already meet Sae? How is she? Is she okay?” Mochi just bombarded me with worry voice.
“Hey it’s me Sae using Yuko’s phone. I’m sorry I don’t call you before. My phone is broke and I forget to tell you that I’m going to work late because I got lost in reading my papers. I’m sorry I make you worried. Not gonna happen again. Okay?”I’m straight to explaining my condition to her since I can heard her voice is tremble like she going to cry anytime soon.
“Oh my god Sae you got me worried like hell. I thought you are wasted somewhere and can’t find your way home. You always do that everytime you don’t go home since……”
Suddenly I cut her talk “Stop that Mochi. I already told you that I wouldn’t do that again. And don’t bring that topic again. I’ve learned my lesson and already promised to you that. Just don’t talk about that again” My voice show my displeasure since she about to talk about the thing I don’t really want to hear.
I hear a sigh “Okay I’m sorry. Just worried about you. Not gonna bring that up again. Sorry. By the way, where are you know?”
“Me, Yuko, and Haruna just having a late dinner around our apartment. Haruna said she miss me and want to have dinner together. So maybe I’m going to get home around past 12. You want something? I will bring it for you. Or you can just sleep it’s already late, you have to work early tomorrow. Don’t wait for me.”
“Nah I will wait for you. Bring me whatever you eat since I don’t have my dinner yet. I was about to asked you to try a new restaurant in the city. I was so excited to bring you there since I heard the place is really good. But I couldn’t reach you” I can imagining she must be pouting.
Suddenly I feel really bad for making her worried and make her crushing her hope for having a dinner with me “ Aww I’m really sorry. Let’s go to that place tomorrow. My treat”
“Don’t make promise if you can’t fulfill it. You just going to crush people if you failed to made that promise come true. Right now you said you will, but you never know what tomorrow will brings.”
That words. The words that hit me really hard even after all this time. Her words that make me realise that I was hurting her all this time. Promise, the thing that make her started to slip out off my hand. My only and true love……
“Sae??? Hello? Are you still there?” Mochi keep calling my name since I’m not responding to her for more than 30 secs.
“Oh Mochi yeah i’m still here. Just spacing out a little thinking about something. I will going home fast and bring you the food. Okay just wait for me. I’m hanging up now. Bye” I’m ended the call abruptly and give the phone back to Yuko.
Yuko and Haruna who just watching Sae all this time just don’t know what to say. Luckily the food got served and they ate while talking about some random things. Yuko and Haruna who really know Sae, feels like crying inside looking at how mess her best friend and her cousin condition right now is. They know her story. They know how much it crushed Sae to pieces that nothing can fix it. Sae just good at masking her hurts, appeared to be always cheerful and positive in front of people. Sae is just not the same Sae that everyone knows since the love of her love gone. She is still the lovely Sae, but people can saw she is forcing it. Not like she is fake now, it’s just different. People always worried about her, because after that thing Sae started to got drunk and lost for some days without info. Drinking is something that Sae never do before all of that happened. Not after she finally got in a car accident not long ago that she stopped her drinking habit because she don’t want to make her close people worried about her. She always felt it’s burdensome to have someone worry about you everytime. She hate to look like she is weak. Since everyone is always on her case, she can’t really forget her because everyone is going to ask her about it over and over again. She know they do it because they care for her and want to help her to heal, but no. It’s just keep coming back to her and it makes her always restless. It’s true that love can change people, it could be for the better or for the worst.
For this case and for this time, love change Sae for the worst.
Thank you for reading it. Any advice is welcomed
Topic: Love will change you - part 5 (Saeyuki, Kojiyuu) 11/08/2016 (Read 4760 times)