Internal Affairs
Chapter 7 - A Pregnant Woman's Advice
no lemon in this chapter, I need to link my story together... anyway,
some coming up in the next, i think. I needed to give Kaoru a part
after i rudely ignored her at the other chapter.
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Woman's Advice
was a cowardly fool. And cowardly fools don’t
have the privilege of crying.
around
and around her head, while waiting for the cab around the corner after
she ran
out of Aoshi’s house. Stupid. She was stupid. She thought she could
hide what
was between her and Aoshi, but it only served to make everything worse.
And now
she her here, at the corner, tapping her foot with her overnight bag on
the
sidewalk, waiting for a cursed cab to arrive so she could bawl her eyes
out in
the comfort of her own home. It didn’t help that HE didn’t run out
after her.
Who was she kidding? It was the Ice Block, after all.
stopped right
where she was, making her jump back in alarm. Who the
hell?! As she readied herself to give the driver that was
interrupting her self-humiliation a shouting of a lifetime, the
passenger
window rolled down, stopping her dead in her tracks.
Open-mouthed in shock, Misao goggled at the unexpectedness of it all.
It’s
not healthy to make a pregnant woman run that hard, you know? Bad for
the
baby…” The pretty woman smiled at her from the driver’s seat, and
opened the
door locks.
demented? There’s no telling bulge anywhere and her
curves are all in the right places!!! Mental…
for?
Kenshin to reach us here? He’s not at all going to be happy, you know…”
made Misao
unlock her feet and get in the car. She was still rendered speechless
by the
insanity and the strangeness and the… feeling tears fill her eyes
again, she
screwed them shut and thought that if they found her body drifting in
the river
next morning, she deserved it. What the
hell was she thinking getting into a pseudo-pregnant strange lady’s
car? Or
better yet, in the car of the wife of Aoshi’s enraged partner who could
be
possibly touched in the head?
Kaoru
Kamiya-Himura by the way, and you are?”
again. In
a quavering voice that she hated the minute she heard it come out of
her own
mouth, she muttered, “Misao Makimachi.” Then she yelled, because it WAS
difficult to stay silent when nearly missing a ten-wheeler by an inch.
KILL
“Oh get
used to it, I always drive like this, PMS or not… I’m still alive
though, that
should count for something!” She said with an impish wink to a now
thoroughly scared
witless Misao. She pulled into parallel parking with the finesse of a
charging
rhino and scraped the mags of the wheels on the curb. The s mad made
Misao
wince, which made Kaoru laugh all the more harder.
give my life over to a psycho?!
a cup of
tea. Then you have to promise to answer me truthfully, alright? I may
be able
to help you.” Compassionate blue eyes looked at the stiff passenger
beside her.
Who are you?
this?” Misao
asked, not moving from her seat. Why are
you torturing me???
generally
race out of Aoshi’s home with a traveling bag and eyes bright with
tears. They
don’t even reach the front step, come to that.” She said with startling
frankness.
her with
disbelieving eyes. “Oh come on, Mrs. Himura. That’s just bullshit,
pardon my
French.”
“It’s
Kaoru.” She snapped. “And I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that last
part.
Now get out of the car or I’ll regret ever trying to help you out in
the first
place!” She whipped her head around and marched out of the car.
more
slowly. “But why?” She asked again, maybe a little too desperately
since Kaoru
now had a vise-like grip on her arm and was nearly dragging her to the
door of
the small tea parlor that looked strangely familiar.
at the
girl she was trying to convince and broke into a bright smile.
best of me when I’m pregnant! “Hmm…
I already told you. But if you’re looking for a better reason, try
this. Aoshi
Shinomori is my cousin.”
for the
third time that day, studied the pretty woman across her who not just
happened
to be the wife of the big boss in their company, she also was the
relative of
the guy she was banging.
Misao-girl, not only did you piss off one of the
scariest men in your company, his wife also happens to be a
self-proclaimed
suicidal driver who has delusional fantasies about being pregnant, and
just for
kicks, happens to want you to experience the pleasure of her company so
she
could have a friendly chat with you. Not to mention, she’s your lover’s
cousin! You’ve now entered the ninth
region of hell…
And come to think, while you look at your absolute worst, she comes
across like
she just stepped out of a Ralph Lauren ad…
and this
time by her own vanity, Misao trained her aqua eyes to the blue
concerned ones
across the table giving her time to gather her scattered thoughts.
not
leading you to the stake, for heaven’s sake, you’ve barely said two
words! And
what have you got to lose? I’m assuming virginity is a moot point now…”
Kaoru
let her statement trace off delicately, trying to see if her
lost-cause-of-the-moment would rise to the bait.
growled,
clenching her fists on the table cloth.
to think
I was mistaken for a minute here… I mean, you’re sooo different from
all those
icy bitches that my dear silent cousin used to date.” Kaoru emphasized
her
statement with a loud bang on their table with her hand and a stomp of
her foot,
causing many of the tea shop’s patrons to look their way in surprise.
reflex, a million
thoughts going haywire in her already overdosed emotional complex. “I-
ah… Icy
bitches?”
said… Ice
bitches for the Ice block. You don’t know much about Aoshi, do you?”
closest
back then, but even so when we were kids, he was always the strong
silent type…
But I owe him one, you know? He introduced me to the love of my life!”
Kaoru
added a hugely bright smile to her statement which reinforced Misao’s
thought
of her being totally whacko.
dramatically and
raised her hand so they would be served. “You don’t even know that,
huh? But
let’s hear your side of the story first cause I’m pretty sure my
lovelife
wouldn’t matter a single bit to you right now, would it?”
started
warming up to the strange, noisy woman across her. Her affection and
compassion
seemed genuine, for all that she looked like a GAP model for casual
Sundays. So
slowly, word per word, the whole story started trickling out.
tissues,
3 pastries and 5 cups of black tea later, Kaoru was laughing her head
off. It
was so obvious to her that her cousin finally found his match--- albeit
a
little strangely.
her
displeasure. “What the hell are you laughing at?!”
the rest
of the world being blind.” Came the sarcastic quip.
snapped
the china cup in her fingers.
really
go to anger management or something… I thought I was bad but
evidently--- not!
Oof, that hurt… are you ok, baby no. 4?” Kaoru’s mood changed from all
out
laughter to cooing over her ‘pregnancy’.
for
tact, blurted out loud “You’re really pregnant???”
think,
this is all an act? Besides, after having gone through the hell and
heaven of
it three times, I know! I don’t need a doctor to tell me that---
although my
husband did!” Kaoru’s mood rose again to hysterically giggly.
ALREADY?!”
Misao couldn’t believe it. How could she ever retain her figure?
simply
with a sweet smile.
are you?”
figure?”
Misao asked enviously, after seeing Kaoru’s shapely body.
martial
art style perfected in my family.”
the first
time you got pregnant?”
married
before then, before you ask.”
young? I know
Mr. Himura is edging close to forty, I read it in the company profile,
even if
he doesn’t look it.”
age
doesn’t show? I do too!!! But th82178217;s not the point. The point is,
aren’t you
also kinda young for Aoshi?” Kaoru decided to toss the ball back to
Misao’s
court.
started
rolling the ends of their tablecloth between her fingertips.
Kaoru
asked a little too saccharinely, causing Misao to flare up again.
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with
Misao, just rolled her eyes. “Oh real witty. That’s going to be a
classic, I
bet. So what are you going to do about it?”
at her
apartment, where she went directly to her computer and started typing.
Just how
Aoshi will react to this on Monday, well, it will tell her for sure
what he
really feels. Otherwise, she might as well have performed thelatelationship
suicide of the year. Whatever. Her Jiya always told her, matters of the
heart
are above anything else.
on her
answering machine.
affairs were simple were just plain stupid.
gave in
and bawled her already red eyes out on her desk.