My Sweet Roomies Re-Written (Reimako Ikagami/Mitsuka Ibuki Route)

Chapter 27 - Crossed Paths

Reimako's manner has changed since that day.

As i'm walking idly down the hallway.

"Oh..."

"R-Reimako."

Even before i could speak she ran away from me again, she's been avoiding me ever since that day, i always want to explain myself to her but she wouldn't even give me a chance to talk to her.

I don't understand why and it seems that there's nothing i can do.

(I can't just leave things between us like this, though.)

I follow Reimako into the living room.

"R-Reimako, wait."

"Can we talk for a moment?"

She just stood there in silence averting my gaze

"If i hurt you somehow, i want to apologize for it..."

She hesitates for a moment.

Then her expression so weak that she looks as if she might cry.

"I-i'm sorry..."

She murmurs and then leaves the living room.

There's nothing i can do to stop her.

(She seems hurt...I've never seen her like that before.)

I stand there frozen in the spot, overcome with shock.

The day continues like this, then one day.

I slump on my bed and contimplates.

(What on earth could be the matter...)

(Could it be that she misunderstood something, is it about that time with Miyoko, why would that bother her, or it's something else, well base on what she said yesterday it might be but, why?)

In my room thinking about Reimako.

Just then

*Blgh!!*

"What in the world?"

"Mina!!!"

"Y-Yomiko! Did you just kick open the door?!" 

 Yomiko suddenly burst into my room kicking my room door that's now is embedded in my room wall, she looks angry and really furious.

"W-What's wrong?" (she's gonna kill me...)

"Whaddya mean what wrong ?!!"

"What did you do to Reimako!!!" she said as she rushed towards me grab me in the collar of my shirt and lifts me slightly up my bed.

(S-she's gonna kill me...)

Of course, she'd know the way Reimako is avoiding me with an unhappy look on her face.

As i hesitate not knowing how to reply to her Yomiko keeps pressing on.

"If you don't tell me you'll be sorry!"

"W-Well...i, uh..."

"Talk!!!" she demands while gripping my collar tighter.

"Y-You're c-choking me.." i squealed.

As she let's go and lightly thrown me into my bed, ready for her anger i prepared myself.

"I-I honestly don't know..."

"Don't give me that!"

"That's the truth i'd like to know myself..."

"She said that all men are the same, i don't know what she meant by that..." i continued.

Just then Yomiko's expression suddenly changes.

"Yomiko?, you know something, do you?"

Yomiko's surprised looks confirmed my question, then she looks at me with slightly downcast eyes.

"Rei, said that...she said that all men are the same?"

"Yeah..."

"I see..."

For a moment Yomiko looks down with a sad expression drawn on her face.

"Tell me, Yomiko i know you knew something."

She seems to hesitate for a moment but then...

"Yes i do..."

"I understand why she's acting like that and why she's been unhappy now..."

Then a pointed look in her eyes as she suddenly looks towards me.

"It's because you're here."

"W-what? i-i don't understand?!" (B-because i'm here?! what's that suppose to mean?)

"W-What do you mean?"

"Tell me, Yomiko." i pleaded.

Yomiko averted my gaze looks downtrodden with a troubled expression in her face.

"What if i do. Can you do something to help her?"

"I will , i help her, i'll do everything in my power to help her!"

"If i hurt Reimako i want to formally apologize to her!"

"I want to know what's troubling her!"

With everything that had happened, my mind was a mess, but i know one thing for certain though...I wanted to help Reimako.

A long silence fell between the two of us.

(Is it something that i'm not supposed to know.)

Then...

"If Yomiko can bring herself to tell you then, shall i?"

All of the sudden Ms.Mikahara enters the room.

"Ms.Mikahara..." Yomiko and i said in unison.

"Sorry...the door...the door? Anyway, i heard everything you were saying."

"Can you tell me, Ms.Mikahara?"

"I guess you have the right to know, you're a member of the Famille' after all..."

I stare at Ms.Mikahara with a look of desperation.

Tegemi looks at me with a serious expression.

"But i might say that...knowing might not help at all you know..."

"Even if i tell you, Mina, what makes you think you can do something to help Rei?"

(....This is that serious huh...she might be right.)

It might be something that i can do nothing about.

(But...)

"I still want to know..."

"I want to help Reimako." I stare at her with an earnest expression.

She pause for a moment thinking.

"Alright, i tell you what it is that's troubling, Rei..."