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It had been 4 days since Tsukasa left to go abroad. He was going to an award show for celebrities such as himself in the US.
Nene wasn’t able to make it because she had lots of performances in the week that he was away.
Despite telling him that her part did infact have an understudy so she could leave for a week to be with him, Tsukasa always said Nene should put her job first.
That was what kept her up at night. She couldn’t decide what she thought Tsukasa was implying. Did he not want her there?
Or maybe he just wanted Nene to do her performances so she could improve as an actress.
Or… maybe Tsukasa puts his own job first, and then Nene. Maybe that’s why he didn’t want her to come with him. Their relationship is a secret… Tsukasa might not have wanted the public to know, incase it ruins his job.
The awards lasted for 3 days. Tsukasa was staying for 7.
Maybe he wanted some time away from me…
Nene sighed and looked out the window of their apartment. She reached for the TV remote and turned on the award show Tsukasa was in.
She spotted him in the audience, sitting at a table with a few of his fellow actors and actresses. He was smiling, and that made Nene smile.
She smiled more when he was called up to receive the title of ‘Best Actor of the Year’.
But within that smile was a feeling of emptiness.
Why didn’t he want me to be with him…
Nene grabbed her phone and clicked on the pinned contact at the top of her list.
‘Tsukasa ❤️ ’
Scrolling through previous messages, she saw that the last time her boyfriend had messaged her was the day he flew over.
I’m at the airport and I already miss you! Im drinking some grapefruit juice, to remind me of my sweet girlfriend! xx
He sent a selfie of him holding up a bottle of half empty grapefruit juice.
I’m boarding the plane now, I’ll message you when I land. Love you 💕
She got another message a few hours later, when he had arrived in the US.
Just arrived in America! It’s really hot over here, but the people are super nice. I’ve already signed 2 autographs! Hope you’re doing okay ❤️❤️
That was the last message he sent her. She decided on sending him a message.
I was watching the award ceremony. Congrats, im really proud of you. ❤️
Nene didn’t expect a reply just yet, she could still see him on the screen.
It was around 11pm, so she decided to go to sleep.
Well.. that didn’t work out.
As soon as her head hit the pillow, all sorts of thoughts began to fly around in her head.
What if he doesn’t love me anymore?
Maybe she was being dramatic, he was probably busy. But she had sent him so many messages, to which he only read them and left them.
Even a day ago, Emu had sent her a picture of her conversation with Tsukasa.
Tsukasa-kun accidentally spoke english to me!
Did he not want to talk to her anymore? Tears started to well up in her eyes. She looked back on all the messages she and Tsukasa had exchanged. They were so loving.. but now he just leaves her on read.
Nene noticed he reacted to her most recent message with ‘ 💗 ’
So he didn’t have the time to reply to her..
She felt so lonely, and didn’t know what to do. Whenever she felt this low, she would talk to Tsukasa about it, and he would always cuddle and kiss her until she felt better. But Nene couldn’t do that right now, because the problem was about him, and he was on the other side of the world.
She didn’t want to talk to Emu about it, because she would end up feeling bad because she was having regular conversations with Tsukasa. Knowing Emu, she would want to send little bits of their conversations, but would feel bad about doing that and Nene didn’t want Emu to feel bad.
Nene also didn’t want to talk to Rui about it, because she didn’t want to bother him when he was probably busy doing something at this hour. She also didn’t want to make it come across as if she was complaining about her boyfriend to her boyfriend’s best friend.
So she was left alone with her own thoughts.
She rolled to the other side of the bed, where Tsukasa usually slept. It made her feel safer, but it wasn’t warm and comforting like it used to be.
It was stone cold.
Nene didn’t even know what time she got to sleep that night.. probably around 2.
This sort of thing went on for the next few days.
It had been 7 days since Tsukasa left to go abroad, and now he was coming home in 10 minutes.
I’ll be there in 10. Can’t wait to see you xx
Nene stared at the message. Did he really want to see her?
She decided that Tsukasa would probably be tired once he got home after a long flight, so she made him a cup of coffee which she put on the counter, and laid out some fresh clothes for him, as well as a towel if he wanted to take a shower.
She sat at the counter for a few minutes, scrolling through social media.
Nene was nervous to see Tsukasa again, what if he didn’t want to talk to her? But at the same time, she was really excited.
A few minutes later, the sound of keys in the door was heard. Nene snapped her head up to see Tsukasa walking in through the door.
“Nene!” He exclaimed and ran over to her, picking her up and hugging her.
She laughed slightly and hugged him back, inhaling his scent.
“You smell of sweat…” She said softly.
“Im not surprised, that plane was really hot” He put her down back on the stool.
“I made you some coffee.. but since you’re so hot, do you still want it?” Nene asked, holding the coffee.
“Sure, since you made it” He winked at her and drank it in one go.
Tsukasa then took her hand and kissed her softly. It made Nene happy, since she hadn’t kissed him in a whole week. She wrapped her hands around him and kissed him back, before pulling away. Tsukasa left a kiss on her forehead.
Nene looked at the ground, blushing and frowning. She really wanted to ask him why he didn’t talk to her throughout the trip, but she didn’t want to seem clingy.
Before she knew it, she started to cry again.
“Nene..? What’s up?” He sat next to her and rubbed her back slowly, carefully bringing her into a hug, where she sobbed quietly into his shoulder.
“A-ah.. um… why didn’t you contact me?”
Tsukasa stared at her for a second before looking a bit sad.
“Im so sorry… I didn’t…” He sighs. “Listen, I was really busy during the ceremony as you know, but the other times.. I was busy with something else.”
Nene nodded, then spoke again.
“You were texting Emu though..”
Tsukasa nodded.
“She was helping me. As were my friends in the US”
“What were they helping you with?” Nene asked curiously
“This..”
Tsukasa kissed her forehead again, and then dropped to one knee, smirking at her.
“Can you guess now?”
Nene was shocked. Her mouth hung open and she watched him in silence.
“I…”
He pulled out a box from his pocket and opened it. Inside was a ring with lots of diamonds on it.
“Will you marry me?”
He smiled, but after the lack of response he started to look a bit nervous.
Nene took a moment, before tearing up again and nodding furiously.
“Yes! Please! I’d love to marry you”
Tsukasa ran up to her and hugged her tightly, then threw her (gently) onto the couch and cuddled with her there.
“I love you” Tsukasa said, smiling.
“I love you too” Nene kissed his cheek and smiled back at him.
“Now, I want to show you some things i got in America!”