HE'S MINE

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It was the first ever time that Sanzu has come this close to me, I wanted to understand if I felt the same disgust or the feeling of something going wrong when Sanzu touched me because that's what I used to feel Mikey like something was not right. Honestly, it felt so different from Sanzu, I felt safe. He gently kissed my cheek and I closed my eyes shut, I don't know what his next move was but we were interrupted by a loud banging at his door. He quickly got up and I lifted my body awkwardly. Stealing my eyes from him, we both quickly started to mend our clothes.

"Who's that?" sanzu asked, rubbing his face in his hands and calming himself.

"Madam is waiting for you to eat lunch." a servant voiced fr the outside of the door. sanzu and I shared a glance and waited for a second.

"We will eat here," Sanzu mumbled, but I interrupted quickly.

"No! We are coming," I stated hastily and eyed Sanzu, reassuring them that I'll be fine.

"You sure?" he questioned, demanding eye contact but I couldn't look in his eyes and not think about what we were doing just a minute ago.

"Yeah!" I said, clearing my throat and looking down.

"Okay!" his tone sounded confused, he walked ahead while I followed him downstairs, where they had a dining table which I don't judge them but it was for twenty people while they were only four.

We sat down together while Mrs. Akashi took the seat opposite side of the table.

"We haven't been introduced properly." She said after clearing her throat and giving the fakest smile ever.

"Hi, I'm Y/n!" I murmured and smiled. Sanzu didn't bother much about what was going on, he filled my plate first and then began filling his plate.

"I'm his---," She continued but intervened.

"Stepmother, I know." It wasn't shade or something, I casually stated.

"You can call us friends." She shrugged her shoulders and gave a sly smile, to which Sanzu coughed as if something has stuck in his throat, more like choking on her lies. She glared at him and then turned her attention back at me, the same fake smile reappeared.

"So what about your ex Y/n?" she questioned and the food in my mouth got messed up. Does she know about me and Mikey?

I took a second to respond back, "we broke up." obviously we did, isn't it obvious? I mean we told her we are dating so doesn't she get a clue that I'm not with my ex anymore? That's why he is called an ex right?

Sanzu's phone rang and he attended it quickly, excusing and getting up to stand a little far from us.

"Oh no no no!" Mrs. Akashi falsely dropped her lips in sadness and shook her head, I wondered what happened, "I was scared Sanzu is your rebound and now I feel like, he really is." she shook her head and lowered her eyes as if she was feeling bad for him.

"That's not true, he isn't a rebound." I was highly offended by the way she put in words, firstly, I wasn't that kind of girl and secondly, Sanzu was important more than Mikey could have ever been.

"One doesn't know, but this is how it works. You'll feel like you truly love him but your mind knows that you just want to love someone else so that you can easily move on from your ex." She cunningly stated and kept eating like a fox. All this time I thought Shinichiro would win an Oscar for the most cunning person, but here Mrs. Akashi was, trying hard to defeat him.

"I know you might not like my statements, but trust me this is how everyone will think too. You just want to hold on to something that can give you an excuse to move on from your ex, you want to fill in the place he hadn't emptied, but the day you realized your ex has changed or he is a better man now, you'll start to grow feeling for him again and that time, poor Sanzu will be left with a broke heart." She shook her head and took a sip through her wine glass as she cared about him. But I can say that she has confused me, what if that was the case? I mean, how did j start liking Sanzu so much, and that too all of a sudden? It all happened when Mikey began treating me badly, I wanted to be loved, I wanted someone to treat me right, but if that's what it was, I definitely would have known it, these feelings that I have for him were not just a rebound thing, I really felt he was special to me.