Say "I Love You" - Kimi Ni Todoke

5

A week has passed since then. Shota had been as busy as always and Sawako was flooded with work and was unable to even look at the sunlight as she had spent all of her time indoors; she had spent all of her time stuck in her apartment. At times, she had wondered around her apartment building asking the front desk for numerous accessories and stationary. She had become quite friendly with all of them and often visited the café in the building when they had lunch or dinner. Although, most of the time she found her mind wondering about how Shota was and if he was thinking about her. Of course he was but she didn't know. She had given him her number but every time she looked down at her phone, there were no messages or calls and this made her wonder if he ever even thought about contacting her in any way. 'He must be busy. I know that he isn't the type of person who would just throw away someone's contact, even if he hated them with all of his being. But then again, it would help if he could remember what happened. I can't blame him for not remembering though. I almost couldn't remember myself. Now that I do remember, though it hurts, I have to let him remember on his own. If I force him to remember, then I know that something bad is bound to happen. I guess that I'm just going to have to wait. I can be patient right? Can I?' What Shota needed to remember could wait until the time was right. However, it pained her heart that he couldn't recognise her as he did once upon a time.

On the other side of town, Shota was swamped with work as he was soon to succeed his father in the business. Seeing as how his father had always handled things, it never occurred to him that this much work was needed in order to keep the business afloat. That wasn't the worst of it though. He had longed to contacted Sawako in the hopes that he would be able to meet her once again but seeing as how the work kept on piling on top of his work desk, he saw no opportunity to do so. Luckily for him however, his father allowed him to take the next week off from work if he was able to complete half the workload that was placed upon his shoulders. Of course, Shota agreed to these terms and immediately went back to work with the goal of finishing half in order to be able to meet with Sawako the next week, which was only a few days away.

Sunday eventually rolled around and Shota had finally finished half of the workload exactly three days later. He was overjoyed by this fact and immediately sent a text to Sawako asking if she would like to meet up soon. To his surprise, she messages back instantly and agreed. She suggested that they meet at a small café called 'Olive Chicken', as it was within walking distance and was one of the few places that she could visit. The owner of the café was an old friend of the family and Sawako had known her for ages and often called her Auntie. This auntie knew about how Sawako's family was framed and knew all there was to know about the incident. This put both her and her family in the watchful eyes of the Kazehaya corporation which threated to murder everyone that the auntie knew before her very eyes. This forced her to keep her mouth shut but she promised Sawako that she would immediately reveal the truth about the matter as soon as she had safely gotten her family out of harm's way and out of South Korea.

The two ended the call with a simple goodbye and began to get ready for their meeting which was in an hours' time from that particular moment. Neither wanted to dress up too much as they felt that the other would misunderstand. Of course, both had feelings for each other since they were very young, but it seemed that only Sawako could remember their memories from earlier days.

After an hour, both were running late and ran towards their meeting place before being trapped behind a wall of paparazzi and fans. They had once again interfered with their plans. Sawako immediately sent a message to Shota saying to meet her at one of the smallest sushi bars in Seoul. Although it had taken him an awfully long time to make sure that none of the crowd followed him secretly, he eventually made it to the front of their meeting place. The shop was relatively small but not as tiny as Sawako had described on the phone. The outside was decorated with red lanterns and an array of different fairy lights, accompanied with gold streamers. As he entered, he noticed that there was a certain American feel to the bar. Different sized booths decorated the room and were covered in leather seats. This particular sushi bar seemed to be more extravagant than any that Shota had ever visited. However, he couldn't wrap his head around the idea of how the business ended up being so successful. The location of the restaurant was in a small alley that almost no one went down and the shop itself didn't seem to have any customers other than two other people.

Looking around to find the one he was looking for, he finally laid his eyes upon her magnificent beauty. Her hair was slightly curly in a half-up, half-down hairstyle and was accompanied with different flower arrangements in her hair. She was dressed in a tight black dress that cling to every curve on her body making a prominent blush spread across the man's face.

Sawako turned her head to see Shota staring at her with his eyes wide open, a blush on his face and him trying to stop himself from drooling. She gracefully rose from her seat in the booth and glided towards him and spoke in a sickeningly sweet voice that no one could resist,

"Hi Shota. It's good to see you again."