{Fic} I Do
Chapter Five: Bad Day for Little Kame
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“Wow, you’re good at cooking. It’s delicious,” Jin compliment Kame’s dish.
“Really? I’ve never cooked for someone else before, except for my mom and my dad,” Kame said happily.
“Well, now you have to cook for ‘someone else’ or you might get diarrhea if you let this ‘someone else’ cook for you,” Jin said teasingly.
Kame laughed. “Ok, I will but be sure to clean the plates after we were done eating,” he said.
“But I don’t do chores,” Jin informed the latter.
“Eh? How will we divide our chores, if you don’t do any of them?” Kame asked. It can’t be that he’s the only one who’s going to clean the whole unit.
“Uhmm… why not I just help you?”
“Hmm… good idea. Then, you need to help me on doing the chores. No excuses. After all, you are the one who suggest the idea,”
“Don’t worry. I won’t excuse myself from doing chores. But you have to cook delicious foods to give me energy from helping you,”
Kame smiled. “Ok, I will,”
After a while, Jin and Kame had already finished eating. Now, it’s time for Jin to help Kame.
“You have to clean the plates first with water, to remove the rice or any thing that is still sticking on the plate,” Kame started to teach Jin how to wash the plates. The latter just nodded on everything he has to say.
“Second, you put a little soap on the sp-,” Kame was cut off by the sudden ring from Jin’s phone.
Jin got his phone from his pocket and looked at the caller, Yamapi.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I have to answer the call, ok?” Jin excused himself out from the kitchen and went to the balcony.
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“Why did you call?” Jin asked.
“Is that how you greet your best friend? You know, you really need to learn how to say ‘hi’ or ‘hello’,” Yamapi said.
“Whatever, so why did you call?”
“Why are you in such a hurry? Are you with a girl, right now?”
“What? I’m not with a girl, right now.” “Because I’m with a boy, you idiot” Jin said to himself.
“Oh, I thought you are. Well, you’re really in a big hurry,”
“Because I’m washing the dishes,”
“WHAT?? You, washing the dishes?? You know how to wash dishes? I thought you don’t do household chores?”
“Well, I don’t but I have to,”
“What did your mom do to you, just to make you wash the dishes?”
“Nothing. And it’s not mom, it’s the son of my mom’s best friend,”
“WHAT?? THE SON OF YOUR WHAT??”
“The son of my mom’s best friend,”
“Again, WHAT??”
“What, what? Stop saying what, it makes me confused,”
“Ok, dude. Is there something wrong with you?”
“Nothing,”
“Then, how can someone’s son make you clean the dishes and your own mother can’t?”
“Well, mom told me to be nice to him and he’s nice to me. So can’t just be rude to him and not help him do the chores. And he is great in cooking, as long as I help him, he will cook delicious foods for me,”
“Dude, I just have two things to say to you,”
“What?”
“First, ARE YOU INSANE? And second, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!”
“Are you finished?”
“Yeah,”
“Ok, good because I have something to tell to you also,”
“What is it?”
“WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SHOUTING?”
“I’m not shouting, I’m just expressing my surprise emotion,”
“Oh, is that so,”
“Yes. Hmm… now, where were we? Oh, yes… I still don’t understand why you let a guy make you wash the dishes,”
Jin had never told his best friend about this because, everything was too sudden for him that he hadn’t had time to tell Yamapi about his and Kame’s mom's stupid arrangement marriage for them.
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Meanwhile, Kame was waiting for Jin but it’s been fifteen minutes and still no sign of the older man. He, then, decided to check what the latter was doing. He found Jin at the balcony, still talking on the phone. He came near towards to balcony, to try and talk to Jin. He thinks that Jin might had forgotten that he still needs to help him from cleaning the dishes. As he draw nearer, he hears Jin saying something about their arrange marriage.
“Yeah, but both of us disagree from our parents’ plan,” Jin said.
“But does it necessary for you live with him?” Yamapi asked.
“Mom said that it will be good if both of us live together. So, that we could be friends and living together will not be a big adjustment to us when we are already married,”
“Looks, like your going to be a husband soon” Yamapi teased.
“Shut up! I won’t be his husband. And like what I’ve told you, we don’t agree with our parents’ plan. So there will be no any marriage ceremony for us,”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes, really,”
“But what if one of you falls in love with the other? What if YOU fall in love with him?”
“HELL NO WAY, I’m going to fall in love with that guy. Stop asking stupid questions. I like girls and you know that!” Jin said defensively. Not knowing that the ‘guy’ he was talking about was behind him.
Kame felt a little pain. No, it’s not that he already had affection towards the older man. It’s just that, the way Jin said that statement, especially the first sentence made him feel that the older man is disgusted at him. He decided to go back to the kitchen and wash the dishes. It’s far better than hearing something that might made him hurt more.
“Ok, chill~ I’m just telling some consequences that you might encounter along your stay with that fiancé of yours,”
“Then don’t talk to me about those consequences of yours ever again,”
“Fine, I won’t. Well, anyway I want you to come with me this Friday night,”
“Where?”
“Of course, to a club. Duh?”
“Oh, so we are going to a club,”
“Yeah, I want to see some sexy girls. It’s boring here in my apartment,”
“Why not go on your own?”
“It will be more fun if you come. Since, when did you not come with me to go clubbing, huh? And besides, I want the two of us to have some adventure this Friday,”
“And others mistakenly think that I’m the pervert one?”
“Oh, come on. Never mind what that others think. As long as you are having fun. So, this Friday?”
“Yeah, I’ll come. I’ll just have to inform Kazuya,”
“Oh, you’re already acting like a husband to him,” Yamapi teased.
“Shut up!! I just don’t want my mom to know that I didn’t inform Kazuya about it. What if mom come over or called him? I can’t make any cover up if she found out that I leave Kazuya alone without even informing him,”
“Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Ok, bye,”
“Bye”
Jin walked out the balcony and was about to go to the kitchen, when he saw Kame coming out the said room.
“Have you finished washing the dishes?” Jin asked.
“Yeah,” Kame said nonchalantly. He walk passed the older man and went to the living room to watch television.
“Stupid, Pi from making me talked to him for so long,” Jin cursed Pi under his breath as he followed the young man to the living room. Feeling a little bit guilty, Jin tried to apologize to Kame but the latter responded coldly.
“I’m sorry, I’m really sorry,” Jin apologized again.
“It’s ok,” Kame said plainly.
“I’m really, truly sorry,” Jin apologized again.
“Jin, I said it’s ok. So, you don’t have to apologize to me again and again. Just next time, be sure to help me and not leave me alone, ok?” Kame said, trying to make Jin stop from apologizing repeatedly.
“Ok,” Jin said. Kame stood up and about to leave the room when Jin asked him, “Where are you going?”
“I’m going to take a shower,” Kame answered.
“Ah, ok” Jin said.
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Kame is still felt a little hurt, he tired to shove it away but he really can’t forget what Jin had said about him, “HELL NO WAY, I’m going to fall in love with that guy.”
“Could this day get any worse?” Kame asked himself. He, then, remembered that he and Jin will sleep together tonight. “Oh, great. Now, I’m going to sleep with him again,” He was a little frustrated about almost everything that had happened to him the entire day. Especially, the conversation that he had overheard this evening. That really made a great impact to him.
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“Well, I can see in your eyes that you’re very troubled. May I asked why?” Reiko said.
Kame only sighed. He doesn’t really like the thought of having a guy to be his fiancé and the fact that they’ll going to live in one place is the worst. But he is slowly accepting it, no matter how ridiculous it is.
Reiko inclined her head and said, as if she read Kame’s thoughts, “Kazu, I thought you already accept the fact that you’re going to be Jin’s fiancé?”
“I am,” Kame answered.
“Then, what are you being troubled for?” Reiko asked.
“Well, you see…,” Kame said softly. He bit his bottom lip as he feels a little embarrassed to continue his sentence.
“What, Kazu? I can’t hear you,” Reiko asked as she placed her ear near Kazu’s lips.
“You see, I’m not used to share a bed with someone,” Kame whispered shyly as his pale cheeks became very red. Upon hearing this, Reiko laughed so loud. She can’t bear what her best friend had said. She’s almost like crying from laughing so hard.
“Mou~ Reiko, that’s not funny,” Kame whined.
“Yes, it is,” Reiko said as she gasped for some air and then, continue on laughing again.
Kame pouted and said, “Are you finished laughing?”
“Just… just a moment,” Reiko said and placed her left hand on Kame’s shoulder and the other one in her stomach. After a minute, she wiped her tears and said, “Oh, Kazu. You almost kill me from laughing”.
“So, this is what I get from my BEST friend. Laughing at my worries and not even helping me,” Kame said as he was annoyed at Reiko.
“Gomen, but you can’t blame me about it. I mean, I never thought that you’re gonna be troubled about such a thing,” Reiko said.
“Well, so~~rry about that,” Kame said starting to get mad at Reiko.
“Kazu, think about it, what do you think is the purpose of the guest room?” Reiko asked.
“For the guest to sleep,” Kame answered.
“And,” Reiko said.
“And?” Kame doesn’t get what Reiko was talking about. Guest room is for guest, so what’s the connection between his problem and the guest room?
“It’s for…,” Reiko said as she gives Kame a hint, which the latter don’t really understand.
“Ok, Reiko. I don’t really get you. Just please, tell it to me,” Kame said as he gave up on Reiko’s ridiculous guessing game.
“And it’s for Jin,” Reiko said.
“What?” Kame asked curiously.
“Don’t you get it? The guest room is not really meant for a guest. It’s for Jin, you two have separate rooms. Well, when there are other people it is considered as a guest room but when it’s just the two of you then, its Jin’s room. Now, do you get it?” Reiko explained.
“Ahh… I now get it,” Kame said in relieved.
“See, that’s how I love you,” Reiko placed her arm around Kame’s neck. “I do everything for my best friend,” Reiko said happily. Kame smiled at her.
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“Oh, yeah! The guest room is not really a guest room, it’s Jin’s room. Now, I don’t have to sleep with him,” Kame said to himself.
Suddenly, the door in the bed room opened. It was Jin yawning, feeling tired and sleepy.
“What are you doing here?” Kame asked.
“To sleep? Duh?” Jin flopped his body to the bed.
“Nu-uh! This is not where you are going to sleep,”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
“This is my room,”
“What do you mean ‘my room’? Isn’t it supposed to be ‘our room’?”
“Nope, your room is the other bed room,”
“Isn’t that the guest room that you are talking about?”
“Well, Reiko said that it’s not really a guest room. It’s a room for you. You know, since we are not really a couple. She just told it was a guest room so that our mothers will not question about it,”
“Oh, I see,”
“Now, you get it. So, what are you waiting for? Go to your room, now,” Kame commanded.
“Ok, fine. I will later. I just need to relax my body,” Jin said as he snuggle his body to the bed.
“What relax? Do it to your own room,”
“…”
“Jin,”
“…”
“Oi, Jin.” Kame tried to shake the other’s body but nothing happened. He then, finally gave up after calling and shaking Jin for umpteenth time. “Tsk!” It’s seems like the latter is very hard to wake up.
“Tomorrow, I’ll definitely kick you out of the bed if you try sleeping here again,” He warned the latter, who seems to be in a deep slumber. He had already forgotten about, the conversation and everything he was worrying about awhile ago. And that is a big thanks to Jin, hope that Kame realized that. By then, closed the bedside lamp and went to slumber.
Little did Kame know that Jin was still awake. He was just pretending that he is.
“Oh, yeah? Then, let see about that”, he said to himself and gave a devious smirked. “Night, night Kazu-chan~,” he whispered before he went to sleep.
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