Chapter 13 : The Things They Didn't Know or Notice

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(Upon arriving at the apartment...)


Kaoru : (opens the door) Tadaima.

Koichi : Kaoru!

Kaoru :(startled) O, oniisan! You're back already.

Koichi : Just where did you go, huh? I was worried about you!

Kaoru : Eh?

Koichi : I called you and you wouldn't answer your phone. I also called home but no one's answering so I hurried back.

Kaoru : Ah...! I left my cellphone in my room.  Gomen.

Koichi : What a clumsy-! Anyway, where did you go off to? Don't you know that it's bad for your health? You're not that well and the temperature's dropping- (suddenly stops) (sees Ukiyo)

Ukiyo: (comes in and bows) Ojamashimasu... [Sorry for the intrusion.]

Koichi : O...o. Matsubara-kun... (calms down) I didn't know you we're there. (glares at Kaoru) You didn't tell me he's here.

Ukiyo : Sumimasen. I got out of work early so I decided to drop by to check her condition... then we just decided to go out and buy something for her birthday.

Koichi : Wha-

Kaoru : Oniisan.

Koichi : (looksat her)

Kaoru: Omae wa saiaku. [You're the worst.]

Koichi : Eh?

Kaoru : You didn't even greet me this morning. You forgot too, didn't you?

Koichi : (backs off) Of course not.

Kaoru: Usotsuki. [What a liar.]

Koichi : I just wanted to surprise you... so I pretended not to remember. But I really did. H-hora!

Kaoru : Huh? (goes inside and sees the cake packaging on the table) Ah! Cake?

Koichi : I told you I didn't forget. (still looks guilty)

Kaoru :(delighted) Uwa! I guess you didn't!

Koichi : *sigh

Kaoru : Arigatou~!

Koichi : Maa, maa. (invites Ukiyo) Come in.

Ukiyo : (goes inside)

Koichi : So you bought food?

Ukiyo : Uh, she decided to buy something to cook.

Koichi : You're cooking, Kaoru?

Kaoru : Not much... but I want to be the one to prepare something for the celebration. You'll help me, right?

Koichi : I'll do my best. (chuckles)


(Ukiyo waits at the living room and looks over some books at the bookshelf. He hears the siblings argue about cooking.)


Ukiyo :(chuckles) (looks back at the shelf and sees a familiar sketch book)(he takes it a opens it) Areee... I remember this...


> flashback <


Kaoru : Ah, yabe, yabe! (hurriedly running towards the building)

Ukiyo : (sees her) Kaoru! Ooi!

Kaoru : (notices him) Geh! What are you doing here?

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