Wedding in Japan

Part 8

Chapter 8
On the fourth day of their trip, Adrien sat along with Kagami in the cabin during the ride that has been slowing down a little to stop at the upcoming train station. 
Kagami held a Russian book on her hands, which she was reading for herself while Adrien has a magazine on his hands with a couple of sudokus to solve.
"After Mariinsk there are two stations and the second one is the main station, should I look for an airport around it?" Adrien suggested making Kagami shake her head.
"I have already done it and again zero flights to Tokyo" The Japanese woman replied and leaned her head back on her seat. Adrien watched the blue-haired woman with a sad face, then placed his hand over her shoulder.
"We still got the Vladivostok airport, we're for sure lucky enough to get there at least one flight, even if it ends up being for one passenger"
"You were willing to skip the flight just for me to get first back home?"
"It's your wedding after all. I'm just a guest" Adrien acknowledged making Kagami nod.
"But I wouldn't like to have my best friend away on the most important day of my life"
"Right, ...." Adrien said a little hesitant. "You....probably wouldn't like me to feel hurt when you get married either, right?"
"How do you mean hurt?" Kagami asked raising her right eyebrow up and move her head away from the textile of the seat. "Because the wedding is arranged?" Kagami asked the blonde which looked away from her, frightened of his crush starting to pick up hints of his available interest in her. "I know it's hard, but that's how our parents have wanted it" Kagami announced earning a nod from him.
"You know I just wish you to be happy, but I can't see it happening that way," Adrien said, then Kagami leaned back on her chair thinking about his words. A few new persons passed through the cabin looking for a seat and one of them wore over his back a guitar case and looked at the two young adults sitting beside the other.
"Is that seat free?" The guy asked and Adrien looked up along with Kagami to see a man in grey jeans, a white shirt with the image of a tortilla and over the shirt he wore a brown Alcantara jacket with a few symbols sewed on it.
"Sure" Adrien responded at the guy, then widened his eyes as he actually discovered the face of the man. "Is that you, Luka?" The blonde asked earning a nod from raven-haired man. "Awesome, great to see you again" Adrien mentioned giving the man his hand to shake. "What brings you to Russia?"
"I was giving a beneficial concert here in a French bar last day and I'm heading to China and I'm still trying to figure out what station I have to leave in the next few days" Luka explained. "You remember Marinette, right?"
"Yeah, she left France because of her parent's divorce her mom took her with her to China I have heard" Adrien responded. "What happened next?"
"She was back at some point in the summer vacation and she was with my sister and sometimes I was around and I got interested in her and...... today we're going out with each other, "
"That's good"
"And I knew you two would have got together at some point!" Luka announced making Kagami look bewildered at the raven-haired guy, then at Adrien which opened his mouth in shock.
"Uh no, she's with someone else and she's engaged" Adrien mentioned avoiding eye contact with the Japanese woman.
"Oh uh....sorry" Luka apologized sitting on the bench of the train.
"Uh is that a friend of yours?" Kagami whispered into the blonde's ear.
"That's Juleka's older brother Luka, the guitarist of the band that performed once during that music festival at our school the last time we were together before you left France"
"Okay" Kagami responded with a nod at the blonde, then her smartphone rang and she picked it up to see, it was from her mother. "Look it's my mother, I'll be out there at the corridor," Kagami said walking out of the cabin leaving the two Frenchman alone.
"Uh did I miss something important?" Luka Couffaine questioned the blonde, which shrugged his shoulders.
"I had shortly found out Kagami was going to marry someone else and I was invited to her wedding and per coincidence, I've encountered her in the same plane I was going with. We had from St. Petersburg another flight but we missed it and there wasn't any other airport with free spots to travel back to Japan, besides Vladivostok eventually"
"Weren't you two in love with the other back a few years back at school or was I wrong?"
" Yes that was right" Adrien replied. "I believe everyone else knew that beside me and Kagami, well I think she knew it too, but she was waiting for me to say it first.....I confessed it all on the last day of her days in Paris and she reciprocated it, but she already was inside the train when I had the courage to say it"
"But you did it and that's what matters"
"Yes but what about now?" The blonde asked. "Her parents want her to marry a guy, she probably doesn't know that long and she doesn't want to fight her parents because of that arranged betrothal and is afraid about the reaction of her parents if she would deny it"
"She would never get a happy life if she has to follow her parent's words" Luka warned.
"Yes but she doesn't listen to me, she just assured me it would be okay and that she would be alright."
"Technically as long as she doesn't have the intention to avoid the wedding, we can't do anything to help her"
"I know, "
"Why exactly do you want to come to her wedding?" Luka asked. "Can you take it to see her getting married to someone else, even though you're in love with her, if still?, " The raven-haired man questioned his friend, which sighed.
"I never stopped loving her. Even after not having talked to her for about six years. She still was present in my heart....I had promised her I would meet her right away when I could finally get out of my house and find a new place to live...bad is after Kagami left I still had her contact and we chatted with each other once in a while, until I lost all phone numbers including hers.... we were not able to talk to each other and of course I never got the opportunity to win her back"
"Win her back?" Luka asked glancing at Adrien bewildered.
"Well, I mean awake her interest in me as she had it before when we were still in Paris when younger" Adrien explained. "Nino suggested me to use this opportunity in this ride to chat with Kagami about our interests and our past, and eventually she will start to fall in love with me again," Adrien mentioned making Luka chuckle.
"That's the weirdest plan I have ever heard but this gives me an idea. I'll help you two out as long as I'm here with you"
"Really?" The blonde asked widening his eyes. "You think that you can help us fall in love....or well her..?"
"Yeah and I don't know, what time exactly you two plan to dinner, but make sure tomorrow you invite her to dinner with you and when the timing is perfect....theres gonna be a beautiful surprise for you two, that will help you two get closer. But most importantly, you need to let the real you out, be as charming as you were around her in the past, you sure can do that, right"? Luka asked placing his hand over his shoulder looking at him, waiting for the confirmation. Adrien nodded and Luka held his fist up for the blonde to hit him with his own first, soon Kagami was back and stopped by the two and sat down next to Adrien.
" Well, I don't recall a day my mother was actually worried about me besides this week" Kagami mentioned looking at Adrien.
"Well, you're in s foreign place traveling all the way back home by yourself. I think it's understandable to a mother to be worried" The blonde Frenchman added making the Japanese woman nod.
"If you weren't here with me it wouldn't be as bearable as it is," Kagami told the blonde, which gleamed at her comment.
"I believe that this trip will pass so fast that we won't notice it" Luka explained making the two friends laugh.