i think i can love you | miyamura x oc

Megumi's intuition - [ch. 46]

"Megumi, are you all ready?" Her mother called from downstairs, taking car keys out of her purse. "Okaasan, I finished packing my bags an hour ago. I was waiting for you this whole time." Megumi chuckled, emerging from the large food cupboard with a box of pocky, which was enormous. "Oh, that's great then. You can get in the car and I'll be with you in just a second." Ai smiled at Megumi as Megumi left, hugging her brothers and father before leaving.

"Why can't any of us take her to the airport?" Touma groaned slurping his slushy. "You can't keep secrets, any of you. I think that's a good reason on it's own," Ai sighed, putting her shoes in. "Megumi needs to focus on her graduation. I don't want me or any of you to ruin this for her." Ai gave a quick kiss to her husband, Makoto, then left shortly. "Okaasan sure does have a point." Toshiro pushed up his glasses. "Your mother always has a point. I may be the boss of the publishing company, but she's the boss of the house." Their father shrugged and then made his way upstairs. "Well, it can't be helped." Kiyoshi smiled, like usual, while taking a sip of his coffee.

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The beginning or the car ride between Megumi and her mother was silent. They had both realised that they haven't had a genuine conversation in such a long time. "How have you been doing, Megumi?" Ai smiled but kept her eyes on the road. "Normal. Although I wonder what the family has in store for me after I graduate. I better get prepared for that one." Megumi sighed and rested her elbow at the bottom of the windows, putting her hand to her chin. "I'm really sorry, honey. Me and your father didn't want any of this to happen. But for now, everything is fine. Just like you said, normal." Ai felt very guilty for having to lie to Megumi, but it was for the best. "So, do you have anyone special in mind who you intend to get married to?" Ai spoke without thinking. Megumi went red from embarrassment because of Ai's question.

"Okaasan, why would you ask something like that?" Megumi was beyond embarrassed, and the fact that her own mother asked that made her even more uncomfortable. Megumi and her mother never really talked about her love life or anything like that, in fact, Megumi talked to no one in her family about it.

"I-I mean... I'm in love. It has been like this between me and him for a long time, and it's not going anywhere. I just want him to say something to me already," Megumi gave a sad smile and looked down as Ai gave her daughter a comforting look. "I look really pathetic waiting for him, don't I? But if I get to be the one who stands by his side in the end, then I will not hesitate to say that all this waiting, all this anticipation and agony, it was all worth it." Megumi sighed, expressing more emotion to her mother than she ever did before. Ai suddenly pulled over, and hugged her daughter tight. "I'm so happy you're talking to me, Megumi. I'm so happy." Megumi's mother cried onto her, and Megumi hugged her back. "I will always be talking to you. But I'm afraid if you have been talking to me." Megumi broke the hug and raised her eyebrows as Ai looked at her in curiousity.

"You think I don't know?" Megumi chuckled. Ai gasped and almost froze completely when she realised that Megumi might've actually known that Akito was her brother, not her cousin. "K-know what?" Ai stuttered, trying not to break under the pressure. "About Akito. I know he's my little brother." Megumi smiled like it was no big deal, but Ai felt a huge wave of guilt overcome her. "I can't apologise enough, Megumi. I'm so, so sorry. I love you so much, and I always want what's best for you, and I hope you know that." Ai was trying her hardest to redeem herself as Megumi smiled at her. "It's not an issue, okaasan. I understand. I'm too used to change to even be surprised anymore." Megumi grinned at her mother softly as tears formed in Ai's eyes. "I'm sorry that you're used to it."

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"I got it, okaasan. I'll carry my bags from here." Megumi thanked her mother and hugged her before hopping onto the escalator. "Oh, I forgot, Megumi!" Ai called after her daughter as Megumi turned back to face her mother, slowly cascading upwards. "Who were you talking about when you said you were in love?" Ai said, genuinely curious. Megumi simply put a finger to her lip along with a mischievous smile. "Shh." Was all Megumi said before reaching the second floor of the airport and walking away. "Ah, I can't decide if that girl is a pain or not." Ai sighed with a smile.

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When Megumi came back to Japan, her and Miyamura exchanged numbers again to get in contact with each other more often. In his room, Miyamura was pacing around with his phone in hand, staring at Megumi's contact. "C'mon, dude. Just text her!" Ishikawa groaned, sitting in Miyamura's desk chair as he paced. "I know, but what do I say? Megumi's a really complicated person, you know?" Miyamura sighed anxiously as Ishikawa snatched the phone from him. "Trust me on this, I give good girl advice. I have grown to understand the female culture." Ishikawa chuckled as Miyamura began reaching for his phone. "Oh! I got it! Text her this." Ishikawa showed Miyamura a sentence that he had typed in, but not yet sent. Miyamura turned red from embarrassment and took his phone back. "No way I'm texting that to Megumi!" Miyamura deleted the whole text and kept the phone out of reach from Ishikawa. "Just trust me!" Ishikawa groaned, taking the phone once again while Miyamura stared at the screen in anticipation of what he was going to text Megumi.

Meanwhile, Megumi was waiting for her private jet to land at the airport, which wouldn't be for another hour. Then, she got a text from Miyamura. Megumi instantly unlocked her phone to see what he had sent.

Miyamura: Hey.

Megumi was indeed quite confused, since Miyamura wouldn't usually text her just to say "hey".

"Ishikawa, I think you need to know," Miyamura looked at the text that Ishikawa had sent for him and sighed. "In our relationship, she's the dominant one and I'm the doormat. And I like it like that! So when I- I mean, when you pretend to be me and act all weird like that, she'll notice something's up!" Miyamura panicked, staring at the text Ishikawa just sent for him. "Chill, dude. Leave Takeshita wanting more. I'm surprised you don't know about this stuff. You're a girl magnet after all." Ishikawa opened a random packet of chips and ate one. "That's the opposite of what I'm saying!" Miyamura groaned as he suddenly say the 'typing...' icon from Megumi. "God, she's replying." Miyamura's threw his phone onto his bed, and Ishikawa rushed to pick it up.

Megumi: You're Ishikawa, aren't you? Miyamura isn't dominant at all.

Ishikawa sighed. "She found me out. And all I said was 'hey'!" Ishikawa gave Miyamura the phone as he read the text. "I don't know if I should be insulted, or..." Miyamura gave a chuckle, then all the sudden, Megumi called Miyamura, and his phone began ringing. "She's calling! Ishikawa, get out!" Miyamura kicked Ishikawa out of his room as fast as lightning. Then, Miyamura answered the call (not a FaceTime).

Miyamura: "Megumi-."
Megumi: "Miyamura, I know you might think I'm insulting you when I say that you're not dominant. And it's true. But I love you for it."

Megumi then ended the call right then and there, leaving Miyamura as red as a tomato. "Can I come in now?" Ishikawa groaned and knocked from outside of his room, but Miyamura didn't respond. He was both frozen and speechless.
From the other side on the line, Megumi was sitting in the first class lounge and the airport, digging her bright red face into a pillow, occasionally peeking her eyes out to glance at her phone.

[a/n: this book is probably going to be around fifty chapters I'm guessing?]