enthralled • shouto t./momo y.

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"we're near," shouto spoke as he faced the woman standing beside her. she didn't say anything nor just nod. "still ignoring me huh.."

momo bit her bottom lip. she doesn't know why she's doing this. she's very forgiving and all but why can't she just speak? she could open her mouth but no words are formed.

she's very moody, and she couldn't control it.

"really? are we not talking because i just said something?" shouto is annoyed, he knew what she was sulking about and he already apologized, yet here they are.

"you're going to break a fuse, so i suggest you stop."

"finally! you finally spoke!" he tsked, looking at her who had her eyes closed. she's collecting her thoughts, thinking of happy thoughts so that she wouldn't snap at him at any moment.

"i already apologized didn't i? was what i said that hurtful to you?" he continued to yell as the yacht stopped at the dock.

momo kept her mouth shut, stopping herself from snapping. she just slipped her feet onto her slippers and quickly walked out of the yacht.

and the man was following her from behind. still ranting about how she's still ignoring him.

she stopped walking when he heard him stop. she didn't wanna turn her head to see him, she didn't wanna see him.

he then spoke and it seemed that his boss just called. he had a calm voice when talking but when he finished, he threw his phone in anger. "why now!?"

shouto took a deep breath and after that, momo continued to walk.

"where are you going?" he asked in a calm voice. "is saying that you have no business in knowing what i'm about to do, so much of a big deal to you?"

"it's true anyways! you're not my mother, you're not my lover, you're not ny wife! yet why are you acting like one?!"

and that made her stop. her heart broke to a million pieces.

so all his sweet talks to her was nothing?

"you're just a childhood friend! you left me!" he was just blinded by rage and had no control of what he was saying.

"so you're saying all of what happened between us in that mansion was nothing?" she faced him, tears falling from her eyes.

and that scene made him stop. his anger was stopped, and his heart stopped as well upon seeing his loved one cry in front of him.

"all this time, i thought you loved me! i gave you my first night because i liked you! i loved you! and now you're saying it's all nothing?"

"i didn't leave you! i told you that i got into an accident! why can't you understand that?!"

"now that you cleared what our relationship was, why do you need to know where i'm going? is it your business?"

"so what if i'm going somewhere? we're just childhood friends and i left you, remember?!"

"you don't control and will never control my life! even if i am your mother, your lover, your wife, you don't control other lives!"

"you just don't! it's stupid if you think so!" she yelled.

silence mixed in along with the tension. the sea hitting the cement was the only thing they hear.

her tears kept spilling and her heart kept hurting. when she was about to yell once again, a phone rang and it was his.

when he answered the phone, she then ran. she ran away as fast as she could. when she thought she ran away far enough, she hid and cried her heart out.

"should we get her boss?" one of shouto's guards asked him but he shook his head.

"just get inside the car and drive to the headquarters." he said and walked towards the car.

he looked outside the window as they left the dock. i'm sorry, i hope i can make it up to you soon.

"hello? is someone there?" a voice echoed and momo wiped her tears. a flashlight then shone upon her and a man quickly kneeled in front of her and asked her what's wrong.

"c-can i borrow your phone? i need to call someone." she asked and showed a small smile. the man nodded and let her use his phone. she dialed a number  but got dizzy. as soon as she pressed the dial button, she fainted.

"what's up with her?" he catched her and answered the call.

she seemed to have dialed her parents, he talked to the other line and asked where the location is so that he could bring her home.

after the call, he carried her bridal style towards his car. he gently sat her on the shotgun seat of his car and wiped her face with a facial tissue.

"pretty."

he then sat on the driver's seat and drove to the exact location her parents sent him.

he was shocked when he entered a mansion. looked like she was a rich girl, but what was she doing in a dock? and why was she crying?

in front of the big doors of the mansion was a woman and a man. the woman was covering her mouth as she cried, and the man was looking worried.

they all sat inside the girl's room as she laid asleep on the queen sized bed of her room.

"thank you, for bringing her home." her mother smiled at him and so did her father.

"she had been missing, we didn't know if she just took a vacation without anyone knowing or if she was kidnapped."

"we even thought she was dead, but then you called and here we are." her father smiled in relief and wiped his tears.

"she's our unica hija, we would die if we find out she was dead."

"well i'm glad that you three reunited now, i better get going." he stood up from his seat and then walked towards the door.

"wait! what's your name hijo?"

"yosetsu awase."

"tell us whatever we can do to help you, awase-kun."

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