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Chapter 18 - Obsession

" Gen what in the world are you doing here?! I thought we were supposed to be on break..like you wanted." As gen gets out of his car he can't help but to notice my upsetting expression under my mask " I'm sorry." he gets closer opening his arms to embrace me " I realize it was stupid of me to go off on you for having another man's name come out of your mouth when you have absolutely no feelings towards him." I flinch at his words but shake my head to hide what I did "You don't need to apologize. I understand you were just jealous and needed some time to realize that." He then proceeds to pick me up bridal style to his car " Wha- What are you doing?!" Gen laughs setting me down in the passenger seat " Taking you to where you wanna go of course." He shuts the door before walking to the other side of the car " Where are you headed anyway? That dress looks to expensive for a walk or cafe." I chuckle a bit "Well that is because I'm going to the harlem. I needed to feel free for a bit. In other words I wanted to get away from my thoughts for a night." All he does is nod before driving off. When we get there he doesn't glance at me one bit " Is something wrong?" He shakes his head and took my hand into his " Let's make the best out of this night. If im not getting in the way that is.." I smile while patting his hand " Your not in the way infact this night is going to be better now that I have someone to hang out with." He let's a sigh of relief out as if he was expecting me to say otherwise about him tagging along. As we walk inside I immediately notice tons of people on the dance floor but also crowded near the bar too " I'll go get our drinks after I use the bathroom." I nod while taking my seat in a corner Observing the club. A little later I find myself still in the corner alone, gen was no where to be seen which made me very upset. " So we meet again darling." I look towards the tall guy approaching me thinking nothing of it " Hm? Listen you don't know me. so run along to the other side." The man chuckles while slowing sliding down next to me on the booth " Ya don't remember me, huh? I'm the guy that attacked you. This would be the third time we've talked, right?" I zone out thinking of me being helpless both times every single time we bumped into each other which makes me tighten my fist " Aw c'mon don't be like that. Don't ya miss me?" This time he wraps his arm around my waist "Back off!" I shove him away from me before getting up to get gen from the bathroom " Looks like it's back to the hospital for you." when I hear the man say that I immediately run as fast as I can in my heals to the mens bathroom " Gen!" My eyes widen when I see gen on the floor with blood running down his head. " Gen!! Oh my god!" I grab paper towels and quickly wet them to dab on gen's wound " Hm." I look up seeing the guy with crossed arms leaning against the wall " Why are you coming after me!?" The man just laughs as if what I said was a joke " You still don't get it do you? chikashi and I were once friends..everything was perfect! Until you showed up, I had liked you as well as chikashi. Although, I had no idea he was in love with you..He knew I wanted to get closer so he offered to help me out which never really worked out because he eventually ditched me for you, he forgot all about me and to this day doesn't remember who I am. Which is why I'm not only torturing him by hurting you but, also hurting you for taking him away from me. " I sensed hatred from him yet he was also desperate for love. " He isn't going to be hurt by you torturing me..he has a fiance. They are very happy with each other so by all means just stop." He walks over to me getting a grip of my shoulder and picking me up which makes me grunt with pain " Well then I guess I'll have to test that now." With a quick blink of an eye it was all pitch black..nothing was moving,no one was there. It seemed like a long time..being in this plain darkness " Wake up." I suddenly froze to hearing someone's voice as it calls over and over not to mention louder. " Ugh" I finally open my eyes to see the man in front of my face while I was in the same alleyway we've met the first time." Please..just let me go this isn't worth what happened in the past! Plus I've kind of got work tomorrow so can we rehearse this another time." The mans hand tightens but he suddenly calms when he see's a shadow running up towards the alleyway " Gen?" The man rolls his eyes and puts a knife to my throat " How did you know I was here. I was expecting chikashi." Gen looks worried not knowing what to do "...he got ahold of me ... Chikashi got a text from you and I had already woken up after that fall I had..He said if you mean business with him it shouldn't concern hana." I felt shocked..chikashi would normally be my protector but now he is going to be a married man. " See I told you..none of this is worth it.." The man takes the knife away from my throat then slowly removing his hand away from my arm " Well fine it's not like I actually wanted to hurt you anyway." I turned around to look at him weirdly "what...you literally knocked that one out, hurt me several times and tried to take advantage of me.." He chuckles " My name is akimitsu, I was doing all of this to get chikashi's attention since I forgot to leave out im gay now..but I guess it didn't work..ah I guess you really mean nothing to chikashi. Even if you weren't madly in love and were friends don't you think he'd still come over." Gen hurriedly runs over to me "So is she free to go.." Akimitsu nods his head " Wait..but you tried to take advantage of me!" He looks at me in a weird way before remembering "Oh yeah I forgot about that I was to busy thinking of something else.. That was an accident. I'm sorry that it went to far there." I'm shocked that he'd apologize but know why. " Your only apologising because chikashi whooped your butt." He nervously smiles and nods along. I roll my eyes walking away with gen " Next time just go straight to him will ya" With that me and gen get in the car and leave for my parents house so i can finish packing before getting rest for tomorrow.