I Love You Again and Again

Chapter 4

Saira blushed at how rush and flustered she reacted, and at the same time she felt happy that the one who she is staying with is Tadame.
Saira looked around as she was searching for her mother, but she did not ask about her. Tadame noticed Saira as she was looking around for someone.
▫️Tadame: "Are you looking for someone?"
Saira flinched.
▫️Saira: " Ah! No, I was just looking around."
▫️Nani: "Ah! Saira-Chan if you are looking for Kohana-Chan, she is not here yet. She has a shooting today so she will come later on." Said sitting down while getting her makeup and hair fixed.
▫️Saira: " I know, I was just looking around..." Saira looked at her watch as she was worried about the arrival of the guests and reporters.
▫️Saira: " Nani-San, I think I have to go now. I  came here to congratulate you on your wedding. May your marriage bring great joy, love, and passion in your life. I wish you have a wonderful marriage and a happy life ahead." Then Saira gave Nani her gift. " Here, it's not much, and I don't know what to give on a wedding occasion, but hope you like it."
Nani was touched by Saira's short congratulate speech. Nani received Saira's gift with a very exciting twinkling happy face and teary eyes.
▫️Nani: " Oh~ you did not have to~ just you coming here is enough, that only makes me so happy!" Said with teary eyes. The makeup artist bagged Nani to not cry because she had to fix her makeup for the 2nd time. (She cried and had a teary eye when Tadame came early to help her with the wedding final check-up.)
▫️Nani: " Can I open it now?!" Asked Nani excitedly.
▫️Saira: " Yes sure, but don't anticipate anything..."
▫️Nani: " Uwaaaaaaaah," said Nani loudly as she was so touched.
▫️Nani: " It's family matching shirts!!! Oh, and there is family matching pajamas!!! So cuuute!!! Thank you Saira-Chan!! It's so me!! You are so sensible Saira-Chan!!"
▫️Saira: " Yes, I thought so, glad you liked it. By the way, I chose a unisex shirt and pajamas for your future baby. Since I obviously don't know what's their gender."
Nani nodded her head and started to show it off to everyone. She did not stop there, she also called her husband to be who is in another room to show it off to him. Saira smiled faintly at how excited Nani was.
▫️Saira: " Then, I have to go now." said Saira while bowing politely.
Nani asked Saira to stay longer but Saira told her that she had to go back and review for her final exam. Nani understood and wished Saira good luck and hugged her as Saira was going. Tadame offered Saira to drive her back home. However, Saira refused as she did not want to let Tadame go back and forth since Saira's apartment was a little bit far from the wedding hall. Saira gave her farewell to Tadame, but Tadame stopped Saira as she wanted her contact number.
▫️Tadame: " Saira-Chan, please wait, let's exchange our contact number."
▫️Saira: "Ah! Sure."
▫️Tadame: " You are coming tomorrow, right? I'll come and pick you up from school and drive you back to your home so that you can pick up your things. This way you don't have to trouble yourself and drag your bags around."
▫️Saira: "Oh! You don't have to, I can come by myself."
▫️Tadame: " What are you saying Saira-Chan, you can count on me sometimes you know! After all, we will be living together. If you need help you can tell me or ask anyone from the family, you don't have to do everything alone. You can depend on us from now on."  Saira did not know how to describe this feeling. No one has ever told her that before. She felt touched at Tadame's words. Saira nodded her head and thanked Tadame. Tadame smiled faintly.
▫️Tadame: " Give me a call when you arrive home."
▫️Saira: "Yes, I will."
▫️Tadame: " And be careful on your way home~"
▫️Saira: "Mmm, I will."
Tadame looked at Saira as she went on her way out of the hall at the back door. Nani showed up behind Tadame, "I think it was a good idea to have you take care of her." Said Nani. " Yes, so do I.," said Tadame.
▫️Nani: " Please, kindly look after her." said Nani while bowing to Tadame.
▫️Tadame: "Please don't worry, I'll do my best." Said Tadame while bowing back to Nani.
After that Kohana appeared.
▫️SM: "Aaah~ Sorry Nani-Chan! The shooting took longer than I expected!" Said while trying to take her breath. Kohana noticed Tadame and bowed politely.
▫️SM: "You must be Tadame-San, right?! Nani-Chan told me a lot about you. I'm so sorry to have bothered you and please kindly look after Saira-Chan."
Tadame bowed back to Kohana. Nani pulled Kohana from her arm.
▫️Nani: " Drop all that! I already did it for you! Just go inside and wear your bride maid dress. Miss supermodel!"
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As Saira was on her way back home, her father called her. Saira looked at the phone screen for a while before picking up. Saira did not feel like picking up because she has a hint of why her father called her, but at the same time, she had to pick up because she did not want to worry her father since she did not pick up the last time he called.
▫️SF: "Saira?! Are you alright? I called you so many times this morning but you didn't pick up."
▫️Saira: ".... Ah, I was preparing myself for Nani-San's wedding, and put my phone on silent. Is there something?" said with a normal voice but at the same time distance.
▫️SF: "Is that so? I see. I wanted to tell you that I'm getting married today. And wanted to confirm if you wanted me to..."
Saira did not let her father complete his sentence and interrupted him.
▫️Saira: " Yes, I know, congratulations may you live your new loving life happily. And no, I'm not going there so you don't need to prepare anything."
▫️SF: " But I heard you're going to be under someone's care after your exams, so I thought maybe you would come and spend some time here. And you can go back, at the beginning of the school term."
▫️Saira: ".... No need, I want to get used to staying with them. I don't want things to be awkward while staying there."
▫️SF: "But..."
▫️Saira: "I need to cross the road, talk to you later. Congratulations on your wedding once again." as soon as she finished saying that, Saira hanged up the call.
[USA]
▫️Ren: " How is it?! Is she coming?!"
Masahiro looked blankly at the phone for a while then put his phone in his pocket.
▫️SF: ".... No..."
Ren walked closer to Masahiro and caressed his hands to comfort him.
▫️Ren: "It's ok, give her some time. All you need to do is to work even harder to get closer to her, right?!"
▫️SF: " (Nodded his head), Thank you, Ren." said with a caring voice.
Oliver knocked on the door and came into the room after Masahiro's permission.
▫️Oliver: "What took you so long, old love birds?! Everything is ready now."
▫️Ren: " What do you mean old!!" Ren walked closer to Oliver and punished him playfully on his stomach.

[Tokyo]
When Saira was talking to her father, Saira was already on the bus on her way back home. She just made an excuse because she couldn't find any more excuses if the conversation kept on. Saira wasn't feeling ready to meet her father's new family. She also felt even more lonely when she knew that her father is getting married. She was already lonely, to begin with. When she was young she worked hard at school to draw her parent's attention and to get compliments from them. However, they were always busy. When Saira arrives home from school, her parents would be at work. When she wakes up, her parents would be at work. When she waits for them they would come back the next morning exhausted, so they go right away to sleep and tell her to tell them once they are free and sometimes they won't come back home. Saira tried to get her parent's attention but they are never there. Saira stopped once she realized that it's useless to get attention from someone who is never there.
As Saira was walking home, remembering all the lonely days, suddenly, Saira's eyes spotted Katashi standing under her apartment building. Saira thought that she is dreaming so she rubbed her eyes. And when she opened her eyes, she saw Katashi walking towards her.
▫️Katashi: " You finally here, I called you so many times but you never picked up, so I came instead."
▫️Saira: "... Katashi-Senpai( = senior) ... What are you doing here? How did you come here?!" said while trying to realize what's happening.
▫️Katashi: " I took your address from sensei, and I came to give back this bracelet. It's a limited edition from B brand, right?! It's pretty expensive so I thought it's dear to you."
▫️Saira: ".... Katashi -Senpai... You know a lot about jewelry?!"
▫️Katashi: " Well my father is..., I mean I saw it in magazines."
▫️Saira: " Oh, I see."
Katashi's father is a famous jewelry brand owner of the brand (Crystal Pure jewelry) Taiyo Kobayashi. Katashi did not want to tell Saira about that because he was afraid that Saira would change her treatment of him as other people did. The people who know about Katashi always stick to him trying to kiss up to him and gain his favor, especially girls. They would fake their personality just to be near him. Despite that, he had some close sincere friends.
▫️Saira: " Why don't you come in and have some tea or something, I want to thank you for bringing this back to me."
▫️Katashi: " No need. Tomorrow, is the last exam, right? Do your best."
▫️Saira: " Oh... Yes... I will..." said with a disappointing face. Saira was in a gloomy mood but when she saw Katashi she forgot everything and her mood brightened up. She wanted to thank Katashi for that and wanted to stay a little bit longer with him, however, when Katashi turned her down, she felt disappointed. Katashi saw how disappointed and gloomy Saira was, so he decided to take her offer. He was afraid that Saira would not do well on tomorrow's exam.
▫️Katashi: "... ok maybe a little bit. 5 minutes"
▫️Saira: "Mmm! only for 5 minutes!" Saira's mood brightened up again.
Katashi smiled faintly at how Saira's mood changed so quickly.
On the elevator, Katashi praised Saira for changing to be healthy. Saira was happy and pleased. It put her in a really good mood and made her day. When they arrived Saira opened the door by using the keypad locks and invited Katashi in.
▫️Saira: " Please come in."
▫️Katashi: " Sorry for intruding you. (Ojama shimasu~)"
As Katashi was entering, he looked around the house.
▫️Saira: " please sit down comfortably, what do you want to drink?"
▫️Katashi: " Any cold drink will do."
▫️Saira: "ok~"
Saira prepared Oolong cold tea and cut some apple, and served it to Katashi.
▫️Katashi: "Thank you...(took a sip)...by the way, it's so quiet here."
▫️Saira: " Yes, it's because I live alone."  Katashi was surprised to hear that and almost spotted out the tea from his mouth.
▫️Katashi: " What?! Why did you not tell me?! I wouldn't have come if your parents weren't here!"
▫️Saira: " Oh, I thought you knew."
▫️Katashi: "There is no way I would have known!"
▫️Saira: "... Yes, you are right...  (bowed politely) I apologize if I made you uncomfortable." said with a sorry voice.
▫️Katashi: " No, you don't have to act like that, it's just... It's better not invite a guy into your house alone, it's improper."
It's not that Saira did not know, it's just that she couldn't think at the moment and was just excited and happy to have been able to see Katashi. She did not mean anything else.
▫️Saira: "Well... I never invited anyone beside you senpai, you are my first guest."
▫️Katashi: "... What?! You mean... You never invited your friends over?"
Saira stayed silent for a second then looked away and changed the subject. She did not want to show her weakness and make Katashi feel pity for her.
▫️Saira: "...I apologize once again if I made you uncomfortable."
▫️Katashi: "You have apologized once, you don't have to apologize again. Anyway, I have to go now. Wish you the best on tomorrow's exam."
Katashi left after drinking the tea in one shot. Saira bowed politely and sent him at the door.
After Katashi left Saira sighed. " Saira what are you doing! no, what have you done!" said Saira to herself. She was embarrassed and worried about what Katashi would think of her after that.
"Strange girl..." Said Katashi with a faint smile after leaving the apartment.