I Will Win You Back(Completed)

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Day 3

Karma blinked in surprise when he opened the door to see Gakushū wearing casual clothes(God damn he looked handsome in whatever he wore) standing on his porch, holding a bundle or red roses. "Here" he gave them to Karma.

"W-wow Gakushū I--" he smelled the roses. "Thanks" his heart fluttered as he looked lovingly at the strawberry haired man.

"Those aren't for you" Gakushū sent him crashing back to earth.

"Ahh" Karma dully said, placing the roses in a nearby vase. Gakushū stifled a laugh. "They're for your dear mother, where is she?"

"Oh so you couldn't have me and I'm now grovelling at my feet begging to have you back, you decide to move in on my mother as revenge?" Karma asked darkly.

Gakushū frowned. "No, Karma. I'm not sick enough to do that" Plus he's gay. "I visit her regularly, to check how she's doing. She likes red roses remember? Whenever I come here, I bring her roses"

"Oh" Karma felt embarrassed. He gazed longingly at the red roses, remembering when Gakushū came to his house and gave him a white rose.(Author: I'll give a shout-out to whoever comments first which chapter it was on IWMYM that Gakushū came to give him the white rose)

"Besides, I thought you liked white roses, like me" Gakushū pulled out a single white rose from his pocket, it was crumpled, but Karma took it still.

He realized it was an origami rose, but Karma loved it nonetheless. "Did you make it yourself?"

"Yea" Gakushū answered somewhat, shyly?

"It's beautiful" Karma praised, before calling for a maid and handing it to her, telling her to put it in his room. "Yes sir" the maid obeyed with a nod of her head.

"Anyway, as I was asking before where is Natsuki-san" Gakushū asked again. "In the garden" Karma said. "I'll take you to her"

"No thanks, I can manage on my own" Gakushū was quick to decline and walked pass Karma. But just as he was passing he said to the red head "Your bento was nice, I enjoyed my lunch yesterday"

That alone was enough for Karma to start hearing fireworks. Karma smiled brightly at Gakushū, but the man had his back turned so he couldn't see him.

Karma wanted to punch the air in joy, but he stopped to maintain at least some dignity. "Calm down, this is only day three! Don't get your hopes up yet" he reminded himself. But that doesn't mean he can't be happy can't he?

He felt like a teenager again. That man, does he know he still has Karma wrapped around his fingers? And more so than ever now.

Meanwhile, with Gakushū. The strawberry approached the woman planting more rose bushes in the garden.

"How are you, Natsuki-san?" The woman who could have been his mother-in-law.

The woman stopped, before standing up and turned to face the man who almost became her son-in-law. "Oh, Gakushū-kun!" She hugged the man tightly. "I'm doing better for myself, but what about you dear?" She pulled away from their hug, and ran her fingers down his jaw in a motherly way.

"How have you been? I heard you went on a date with Karma the other day, and yesterday he made you lunch" she led them to a gazebo where a table was already set with lemonade and sandwiches.

"It's difficult Natsuki-san, I can't look at him and not feel angry. Sometimes I'm happy to be with him, but other times I just want to punch his face and demand answers" Gakushū drank his lemonade.

Natsuki looked at the hurt young man before her. He still loved Karma, that was a given. But he's also angry and still hurting. "You kids really are idiots" she sighed.

"Pardon?" Gakushū looked at her.

Natsuki smiled instead. "Nothing dear, so tell me. When you saw Karma again for the first time after two years what did you do?"

"I punched him"

"My brat deserved it though"

"And things got emotional, I cried" Gakushū shrugged. "And Karma made a bet with me that in thirty days he'll have made me fallen inlove with him again, and if he fails he'll leave me alone. So yea, we're restarting the countdown, this is day three by the wa-"

Natsuki choked on her lemonade at the news. "My brat did what?!"

Angrily facing the house, she screamed. "KARMAAAAAA!!!!!"