CHAPTER 28: CONTROVERSIAL PICTURES
The Secret
Jae walked out of the store and moved to the bookshelves that contained fictional books. After placing the books according to the author, the man glanced around the bookshop and stared at the counter. The woman who was wearing the glasses, was kept staring at the book in front of her. Jae smiled seeing her. It’s been three days since she came back, but still she was in the same state. Recently, Hara san always in a deep thought. He did not know what bothering her most. Walking to her, Jae knocked the table when he reached the counter.
“ Hara-san....” But still, the woman kept staring and looking so blank. But ever stop sighing. Chuckle softly, the man pinched her soft cheek hard and goggled her round eyes.
“ Itai!!!! Maki cried softly. Immediately, her hands touched her cheeks which started to become reddened. Jae laughed as he saw that his method works.
“ Jae!!!What’s was that for!!” Her brown eyes widened, as she rubbed the cheeks.
“Well, Hara-san, recently, you kept daydreaming. I called you a few times, but still you are in your world, so I can’t help to wake up you from your dream,” Maki pouted hearing his reasons. The man sure know how to dig his own grave around her. Pushing her glasses on her nose, she stared at the book in front of her. She had to admit, what her colleague said was true after all. Since the last day she met with Sho, and the truth of her pregnancy, made her thought a lot. Maki sighed again.
“ Care to share with me about your problem?” asked Jae while he sat next to her at the counter. Maki just shook her head, while looking back at the man. Sharing the problem made it only worst. It was not she did not trust Jae that much, it was just too complicated to solve it. Suddenly, a couple of customers came and looked around the bookshop.
“Wow! Cute girls!” Jae whistled under his breath. Maki’s eyes shifted on her to the customers that just came in. Indeed, it was true, that the girls who just came in were cute. The man, who sat next to her, immediately, went to the girls. Maki was just smiling, looking at Jae’s behaviour. Well, the man was kind easily melt especially with cute that types of woman.
“If you love me...you will not giving yourself to him. And not...not...bearing his child.... This pregnancy itself shows that you do love him! Isn’t that correct Maki?”
Sho’s words rang in her mind as her mind replay back the moment with him few days ago. Scratching her not itchy hair, Maki sighed again. She never thought about that, about giving herself to the man, would consider as loving him. What Sho said made her thought about it, deeply this time. The sacred night where she shared with her father’s baby was a mistake; that what she thought so before this. Or was she really love him? That she even gave herself to him that day? Migrain started forming as she thought harder.
“Hey Hara-san....check this one out!!! This picture just looked like our apartment right?” Jae’s voice startled her from the thought.
“ What place?” Maki asked as she looked at the thing that Jae put on the table.
“ This place! The place where Sakurai Sho and Horikita Maki kiss! Doesn’t that look like our apartment. Seriously!! It looked same!!” Instantly, Maki snatched the magazine, and her breath short and sharp as she saw it. The headlines of the magazine made her migraine became worst than ever.
Sho Sakurai and Horikita Maki’s kiss!!! The reunion of two lovers!!
“ This is the greatest news of all you know!!! It looks like they are getting serious. I thought they just friends, “ Jae added up as he pinpoint his finger toward the pictures.
Maki’s vision started to become blurry as she looked at the picture. The picture where the two of them walked hand by hand and also the main picture, where Sho kissed her. Panic was all over her. The reporters followed Sho after all!! Suddenly, something hit on her mind. Her pregnancy. Frantically, Maki’s tried to search any pictures that reveal her with a round belly. That time, she took of her coat. Though hers was still small, but it could be seen enough.Oh god...don’t let anything reveal about it. Maki prayed hard in her heart.
Finally, after scanning and reading through the article, in detail after a few times, nothing reveal about it. Exhaling her breath, she shook her head softly. Maki never knew that it would happen like this. A thought came into her mind.It is not she would face the problem, but the man in the picture. Sho kun.... whispered his name. What are you going to do? Maki sighed as her finger brushed the man’s picture in the magazine.
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Yamapi was just arrived at the studio when his manager called him once again. Groaning softly, he gave a glare to him when he mouthed and said I’m here already! So, stop calling me!! He knew too well that he was being watched out by his manager due to his controversial pictures three days ago. Pictures where Keiko and him in the bar. Well, basically, their pictures were always in the magazine, and he did manage to avoid all the questions whether it were from his manager, company or reporters. But, maybe the picture was too intimate, made it difficult for him to explain. So, now, he was stuck at the corner. Yamapi groaned as he remembered the meeting when he had with his manager. A hot kind of meeting where they slashed their tongue between each other. Thank god, he did not have any mood to fight about it and made it longer.
“Very nice Yamapi, after being missing for whole day, now you gave me another headache for this one,” his manager nagged at him. Yamapi snorted, knew too well of his manager’s crankiness over his suddenly disappearance when he went to Maki’s hometown. He did not need to explain to him, since it was his choice after all.
“ I said I’m sorry already okay...I was totally...”
“ what? Forgot? Excuse me Yamaa Tomohisa, it was not you had been in this business for two days?” his manager complained as he sat in front of him. His eyes stared at Yamapi upon his lack of responsibilities in his works. Yamapi re
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