The Rising Truth

Tragedy part 1

The Angst has arrived. This is prologue. I'm so ready to write this. I can feel it running through my veins.

"You started a nasty fight, didn't you?" Marianne said calmly. If I didn't know better, I would've said that she enjoyed it.

"Yeah...." I dropped a sugar cube into my tea and stirred. After the whole debacle at the reunion, I moved into my own apartment. My parents and I are still on good terms but I just needed to get away from home. However, since a lot of times I'm too tired from training to cook, I drop my Marianne's house a couple times a week to for meals and sometimes company.

"How are you and Yuzuru?" Marianne asked.

"We're both well." I smiled. Yuzuru will be in Japan again soon for Fantasy on Ice. We were together for the training camp but Yuzuru had to return to Toronto soon after. Now, I'm either participating in ice shows or preparing for the Olympic season.

"So, have you guys done anything special?" Marianne gave that mischevious smile like she had known all along, which she probably does.

"No-No. What? What are you talking about?" I stuttered out

"Hahaha" She threw her head back and laughed. "You know."

"Heh," I smiled a little bit. "Sota joked, saying that we were going to go to hell for not waiting until marriage. It's been okay. I've been learning and exploring more than anything else. Better than our first time at Worlds. It was so bad." I looked down in shame for a moment.

"Yeah, I know about Worlds. The hotel staff kept calling Brian and Mihoko about noise complaints because of you two." She said with a deadpanned expression.

My face started burning with embarrassment about that night.It was my first time and I was absolutely inexperienced and Yuzuru was so touch starved that he went in. I was sore for the whole day. I need to move onto a new topic before Marianne starts pressuring to spill more things.

"How has Katsuro been?" I grinned at the baby that crawling around my chair. I had grown somewhat attached to him and it seemed Yuzuru had done the same. Whenever he's in Nagoya with me, he'd asked if we could see him and then proceed to spend the whole day playing with him. Encouraging him to crawl, feeding him, rolling on the floor with him. He'd be a great father one day.

When that thought first came to my mind, I became insecure since I could never give him a child. There was simply no way. But he understood my fear and comforted me and said that adoption was fine and if we couldn't, he was willing to work as a full-time babysitter for Katsuro. Now, I don't feel so insecure about it anymore.

Our communication is better and I have it in me to just speak straightforwardly now. Though we still somewhat have the nasty habit of expecting the other to read our minds. We've been going strong though and I'm proud of us for that.

"How has the family been?" I haven't talked to anyone one who was at the party and I think they disowned me, though I never did get the letter.

Marianne's face turned sour, " They're throwing a fit. Chie, front what I heard, hasn't left the house since the reunion. Same with Nori."

"Should I be worried?"

"I don't know. But be alert."

"Okay"