Title: For you I give
Author: crying heron
Genre: dark romance, angst
Rating: ehmmm…forget about this!! I don’t know how to rate
Warning: undefined
Pairing: Aoi (the Gazette) x OC x Die (dir en grey)
Chapter: 3
Disclaimer: don’t own them
Chapter 3:”oni”
He asked me not to work anymore so I fulfill his request and gave my resign letter to my boss. I start to stay at home waiting for him patiently.
He wouldn’t let me go out to the market to buy groceries instead he bought it. I cooked him everyday from breakfast to dinner. I feel like I’m the luckiest woman in the world.
I felt boring after 2 weeks without doing anything inside the apartment so I asked him to let me work again. He frowned at me when he heard my request.
“Work? What for? You don’t need that!”
“I’m getting boring lately”
He cuddled me and kissed my cheek
“I will find it one for you okay?”
“Really??”
I kissed his cheek and cuddled back into his strong hand.
The next day he called me and asked me to go to the florist near his office. I went there at lunch, I saw him standing in front the florist store. He looked and smiled at me when I step out from the taxi.
“It’s easy to find right?” he asked me
“Yes!! I gave the driver the address” I answered him
Both of us walked with full of harmonize into the florist store. As we walked everyone stare at us. I giggled at their stares and cuddled deep into his arm.
He opened the florist door for me and held my hand as he closed the door back. We walk toward a woman whose arranging a flower into a beautiful bucket.
“Auntie” he greet the woman politely
“ah…Shiroyama san. You’re here already. So, is this your girlfriend who will work with me?” the woman looked at me and smiled cheerfully.
“Yes. She’s soon to be Mrs. Shiroyama and work for you” he tightened his hug on me, his words made me blushed.
“Konnichiwa, Inoue Akihi desu. Yoroshiku ne” I bowed half to the older woman
“Konnichiwa Inoue san. Atashi Miyamoto Hiroshi desu. Yoroshiku ne” she bowed back to me with her gentle smile still smiling to us.
On the very next day I started to work with aunt Miyamoto, I helped her arranging flower for customers. I helped the customers chose their flowers and try to give advices for wrappings and stuff like that. I really love my new job. Aoi as usual always pick me up after his work, I always gave him flowers that I already asked from aunt Miyamoto.
One day there’s one customer came to the florist store, he asked me to help him chose flowers for his sick grandmother. I pick white lilies for him with a little touch of pink wrappers for the bucket. He never complained with what I chose so I guess he like the flowers and wrappers and the bucket. I never realized that he staring at me as I worked for his flowers. Finished the final touch I gave him the bucket and tell him how much it cost. He took out his wallet and gave me the money.
“I’m sorry sir, do you have small amount?” I asked him while I looked into the cashier cash money. We don’t have the change for his money.
“You can take the change” he took the bucket and walk out the store.
I still look at his back when he almost opened the florist door; I took another glance to the money that he gave me. This is too much for the change I said to myself so I took out my purse and run after him before he was far enough for me to catch.
He almost reached his car where there’s 2 men standing outside the car.
“I’m sorry sir” I wailed at him hoping that he can hear my voice
The men that standing right beside him talked to him and he gestured his chin toward me. The man that bought the flower stopped his steps and looked at my direction.
I try to run as fast as I can afraid to waste his time.
“I’m sorry, this is your change” I opened my purse and took out the money that I’ve prepared for him
He still looked confused at me
“The money that you gave is too big. We can’t accept it” I try to explained to him as I took his hand and put the money into his palm
He grimaced at me and looked into the money on his palm
“Have a nice day. I hope your grandma will get well soon. Konnichiwa” I bowed to him half and smiled at him
“Thanks” the only word that he gave to me
He go inside the car and look at the flowers that he just bought, suddenly he took out one lily out from the bucket and open the door again.
“Here, this is for you” he gave me the flower and I took it from him. We exchange smiles and he walk back to his car again. Not long after that the car left the parking lot. I looked into the white lily and smell the fragrance.
I walked back into the florist store and bowed sorry to aunt Miyamoto because I left the store without her permission. Aunt Miyamoto understands with what I said and we started to work again.
Latter that day Aoi pick me up, he look a little tense at that time. I thought it because of his work. So I don’t bother him while we drive to our apartment. As he parked his car in the basement he just walk like that without opening my door like usual. Confused surrounding me, I looked at him and try to read his expression but his face was flat. He locked the car and walked away from the car to the elevator like there’s no one with him. I still don’t get it why he acted like that so I just ignore his attitude and follow him to the elevator. As we arrived right into the front door of our apartment he waited for me, he open the door and pushed me into the apartment and locked the door and he slapped my face once.
“You bitch!!” he screamed at me
Still shocked with his action I couldn’t react as he spoke out that word to me. I touch my left cheek that feels like burning. I can feel blood come out from the side of my lips.
“What’s wrong Aoi? What did I do?”
“You still don’t understand?”
He opened his belt and started to hit me with it. I screamed in pain pleading to him to stop.
“I’m sorry Aoi, I’m sorry if I do something wrong”
But my words like vanished into the air he don’t listen to my scream instead he scream out all the bad words to me.
I don’t remember what he do to me that night. My mind wanders to another place; my home backyard where I usually spent my time with my mother and father. I still remember the smell of our rose garden where my mother always asked me to help her watering it. I also can see our Siberian husky dog “rusty” running around the garden as I helped with the watering. I still remember the feeling when I touched and caressed his fur.
“Do you hear me??” he grabs my cloth as he talked to me
I felt numb and my eye sight is blurring, I can’t see him perfectly all I can see is the dim light of our living room light.
“Answer me!!!” he yelled at me again.
I try to blink my eyes so I can see him but the more I blink it the more the image blurring and suddenly it faded to blackness.
I dreamed about my childhood life where I usually play happily with my mother, father and rusty. In my dream I saw my grandma; she’s the best grandma that every grand daughter wished to have. I remember I said to her once that I feel jealous with my friend because I don’t have brother or sister that’s why I feel so lonely and on the very next day she gave me rusty. She said to me that rusty will be my new brother and I have to took care of him as my mother took care of me.
Grandma likes to hugged me and caress my hair every time she came to our house.
I don’t want to wake from this dream; I want to stay in here forever.
But I feel like someone caressing my cheek and I could hear slightly someone talking to me but I can’t figure it who?
I force my eyes to open but it felt so heavy for me.
“Akihi…honey…wake up please…I’m so sorry”
I try to open my eyes again try to get out from my beautiful dream because I know this is the voice of the man that I love so much.
I was blinded by the light and try to blink my eyes again. I know I’m only gazing out through the room I try harder to adjust my eyes with the light so I can see his face.
“Honey…oh thanks god you’re awake” he kissed my fore head and start to hug me
I try to collect my mind and consciousness, I felt hurt in every part of my body.
“It hurts” my weak voice whisper to his ear as he hugged me
“I’m so sorry pie” he releases his hug and look at me in the eyes
I look into his gentle eyes and smiled at him
“I’m the one who say sorry. It’s my mistake. I’m sorry Aoi. I’m sorry” I answered him weakly as tears flows down from the side of my eyes falling down through my cheeks.
“Ssshhh….” He stopped my mouth with his index finger and started to kiss my lips gently.
… to be continue…