Meet My Rich Husband (Sekaiichi Romantica Fanfic)

Chapter 10 - Pocket Novels

Author's Note: I'm just gonna repeat this, okay? I'm short on time so I can't edit in detail, so if you see some minor mistakes like misspellings or wrong punctuation's, just ignore it or comment it below so I could edit in the future if I have the time. I love you! *haha

"You're always staying behind, waiting for me to leave. Why?"

Senpai was too close.

I could smell the scent of his fabric conditioner from his uniform.

"I was reading books, I can't concentrate at home so I try to finish it here."

I almost stuttered as I answered him.

Don't panic, Ritsu. Don't panic.

"I decided to borrow again a book I already finished reading. I saw a name under mine and I took some of the others book read before, and all of them, you borrowed. Are you stalking me?"

Don't panic.

Even though he doesn't show his emotions, I know that he's testing me.

"No. No, I'm not senpai! I just, really love...the books you read."

"What year are you?"

"Second year."

"Ritsu Oda, I'm ******** Saga. Nice to finally meet my stalker."

...

"Shit, SHIT! I had that weird dream again. That's the memory I forgot when I was in second year middle school, but I couldn't remember senpai's name. Only his last name."

"Onodera-kun, breakfast!"

Yokozawa is still here.

Masamune went back afterwards because of work.

"So, you and Masamune are okay?" He initiated a conversation.

I don't really want to talk to him, I know that he doesn't like me.

Obviously, duh.

"I met Masamune when we were freshmen at Uni, he was all over the place, trying to cope with his 'break up' at that time. It wasn't really a break up because his lover left him without saying a word and he found out from a classmate in high school that his lover was engage. Me, being the charitable person that I am, helped him. That was the first time we had sex too."

"I don't want to hear this."

Shit, I was thinking out lout.

I didn't mean to actually say it.

I saw him laugh.

"After that, he acted normal around me, but his depression came back and I was ready to console him through sex."

I don't need to hear this.

I've never been the jealous type, I'm not gonna start now.

"And one day, his young lover came back. Masamune tried talking to that person but actually, that person already forgot about Masamune. The funny thing to that, he approached them while his ex lover was with the fiancee."

"At that time, he was practically ready to kill himself. For four years that I was with him, he never actually looked at me properly. He was still in love with his lover, and me being there was just convenient for him."

I wanted to swallow the spoon and kill myself.

I wanted to cry, realizing how sad Masamune was when he was in Uni.

But, I don't understand why I feel his pain.

I've never been hurt like that.

Right?

...

The only class I had for today was canceled, so I have the whole day free.

"Oh? Onodera-san, are you going home? You don't have class?"

"Hello, Yoshino-kun. You can call me Ritsu. Yeah, I don't have classes for today. Do you want me to accompany you or something else that you need?"

His face lit up when I volunteered.

I smiled as a reply.

"That would be great, Ritsu! I really need another pair of hands for today. Let's go to where I work for a bit."

Yoshino was working at Marukawa?

What a coincidence!

"You work here too?"

"You work here, Ristu-san?"

Yushiyuki-san was just about to exit the building when we came inside.

He looked happy to see Yoshino even though he had his usual stoic face.

"I was just about to come get you! Oh, you're here too Onodera-kun! Are you seeing sensei today?"

Yoshino looked confused, he was looking at both of eyes with prying eyes.

"You two know each other?"

...

I decided to come by at the Lit department to visit the editor of sensei's novels.

I was only editing his pocket ones, but those were weekly editions so I don't have the easy end of the load.

"Good morning, Onodera-kun. Takafumi-san is at Isaka's office."

Takafumi? Is that the editor?

I opened the office door, and Isaka was sitting at his usual place and a familiar back was facing me.

"Oh, here's Onodera-kun! Good thing you two are already acquainted."

He turned around, and I probably gulped way too loud.

"We are more than acquainted Isaka-san."

Yokozawa.

...

I don't even know what to expect anymore.

I have these dilemma's piling up like workload, and I still haven't resolved my problem with Masamune.

"You just have to clean the edges or the out of place lines anywhere the paper, paste the backgrounds, I already partnered the ones that go together and that's about it."

"So, Yushiyuki-san. You knew about me working at Marukawa, and that Yokozawa was staying next door, that's why you let Yoshino-kun stay here? Because it was convenient with three of us working together at the same company?"

"Yoshino didn't know, my sister was staying here before but she's working abroad now. She was looking for a tenant and I thought that letting him being neighbors with you isn't so bad."

Yoshino Chiaki is the mangaka of the popular shoujo manga being serialized at the moment.

He was using a female pen name so even I was fooled.

"Yokozawa is not living here. A friend asked him for a favor to babysit his 'place', this set up is just temporarily."

The other assistants were out with a cold because last week, one of them was sick but still came to work, and infected everyone else. Now, that person is still not here so I have to help and even his editor, Yushiyuki-san is helping.

"It doesn't matter. I doubt Yokozawa-san is willing to help Yoshino anyway."

Yokozawa.

I really hate that guy.

He didn't say a word about him being Akihiko Usami's new editor.

He knew about me being the editor for sensei's pocket novels, he just couldn't let the joke end early huh.

"Why did you accept the editorial position of the pocket novels?"

"Why wouldn't I accept it? Something the problem?"

"Oh hell no, you haven't read his pocket novels yet? You better start now, or else you can't edit them when they come."

I never realized that I actually never heard sensei having pocket novels.

I heard Yoshino laughing, what is there to laugh about huh?