SHOOTING STARS, h. rindou

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CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
a duet

Y/N’s POV

"Why is his number still in your contacts?" Emma suddenly asked as she held my phone towards me. She's currently sitting across the counter of the kitchen while I'm cooking for our breakfast.

Just earlier, Emma apologized because she was so busy at work last night the reason why she didn't picked up the call because her phone is in silent mode. I already said that it was fine but she still insisted and even got back my car, she just arrived now from retrieving my car.

She still didn't know about who helped me get a ride and instead I said that I booked a cab even though I didn't. I had no choice but to lie about last night or she'll definitely tease me about it, and it will certainly ruin my morning that is already ruined.

"Which one?"

"This!" She said and clicked a familiar number with no name, "It's Mr. Haitani's number, right?"

I was stunned, I didn't knew that his number is still saved in my phone contacts. I remember that I changed my number the past years, but then I remembered that someone saved it.

"Oh, yeah. Might be, Aunt Sayura saved all of our business partner's number. And I don't know why he's number is unnamed." I shrugged as I continued to cook the scrambled egg. "How did you know that it's his phone number?" I asked, a brow arched.

"I also have his number, in fact, all of your business partners too. I'm just good at memorization." She boasted as I rolled my eyes, jokingly. She then got off from the high stool and went to Miyuki who's busy watching some kiddie cartoons in the television. And now, they're both watching the TV like little kids, waiting for their mother to finish cook their breakfast.

Meanwhile cooking, my mind drifted to nowhere, thinking of what are the upcoming happenings in my life will be and how these will going to affect my stable life?

Meeting someone from your past who gave you a great impact before will also give you the same amount of impact they gave you before, and much terrifying? It could possibly ruin you again.

He's in here again, and I know to myself that I will not be able to hide from him anymore. Why am I even hiding when he's the one who did such a disgusting thing? I'm hiding because I know the things he's capable of. We don't know, he has plans on hitting on me again and he's probably thinking that he can fool me again. And I will not let him do it again.

But, why do it feels so wrong? I tried to hate him like how much I despised him before, but, why do I feel like strange? Like, there's a part of me saying, should I talk to him about what happened in the past? Should I try to reach out for him again? Can we be friends again? Can we start it again? And if we do, does the past will affect us? Will it be a better choice? Am I going to regret it or not?

Things and other thoughts, tangled and wrangled in my head like a big crowd of many people with so many demurral, asking the heavens with such unanswerable questions. But we all know, that we can find the answer of those questions, within us.

But how?

Can you find the answer by searching on your own or do you need someone to sort things out?

It's difficult... What if I just listened to him before... Would it take this far like what's happening now?

I flipped the pan onto the white plate, adding some of my favorite spice to add more flavour for this batch of scrambled eggs. Emma's food is now ready meanwhile Miyuki already started eating in her food bowl. She didn't eat with us in the table like yesterday and instead, she eat her food, infront of the television. Great, just great.