InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Cafe In Manahatta ❯ Part Eighteen ( Chapter 18 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: lil6ter 
The coffee was hot. Steaming hot as I poured it into his cup. It warmed my hands through the pristine white china. I set it down on his tray, smelling it and closing my eyes. His lips would touch the crisp edge of this cup. The coffee would pour into his mouth and warm it. He would bite into the scone that I have prepared for him with love, care, and extra everything. I set this one aside from the rest. He has been coming to my little caf� every Saturday and Sunday since it opened. He sits in the same place, drinks the same coffee, eats the same scones. He is my beautiful constant, and one day, I will build up the courage I need to go over there and talk to him and stop loving him from afar.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Psychological / Drama / Shoujo | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.18.2009 | Updated On: 06.19.2009 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.7K | Visits: 458 | Status: Completed
The coffee was hot. Steaming hot as I poured it into his cup. It warmed my hands through the pristine white china. I set it down on his tray, smelling it and closing my eyes. His lips would touch the crisp edge of this cup. The coffee would pour into his mouth and warm it. He would bite into the scone that I have prepared for him with love, care, and extra everything. I set this one aside from the rest. He has been coming to my little caf� every Saturday and Sunday since it opened. He sits in the same place, drinks the same coffee, eats the same scones. He is my beautiful constant, and one day, I will build up the courage I need to go over there and talk to him and stop loving him from afar.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Psychological / Drama / Shoujo | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.18.2009 | Updated On: 06.19.2009 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.7K | Visits: 458 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: I love the only Inuyasha related thing I own. My cute little chibi inu key-chain which lives out its happy life on my iPod making fashion statements everywhere (Ha! Take that Parris Hilton! You want something hot? Then look at my iPod cuz it's so cute and knows how to accessorize.)
The Café In Manahatta
By: lil6ter
Part Eighteen
I stood under the hot water and let it burn. It burned everything away. The fear. The insanity. The pain. Everything, and it felt good. It felt…relaxing. I felt like when I burnt, things would get better.
The phoenix. I was reminded of it, in a weird way. Everyone knows its story, and if you didn't, well…then you have definitely never read a Harry Potter book. Me? I read them…but I knew of the phoenix from before JK.
“Kikyo?”
Kagome had dragged me back up here and threw me into the shower, just like I had thrown her in that one time. This shower was just as scorching as hers was. I was sure of it. I liked the scorching though. I welcomed it.
“Kikyo…is everything alright? You've been in there for an hour.”
An hour…somehow I wasn't surprised. My fingers were pruned, and I had just been standing under the water for God only knows how long. Apparently, an hour according to Kagome.
“I'm fine,” I called out to her, finally summoning the energy needed to turn off the water.
I could tell that the lack of water flowing from the showerhead was suddenly a very good thing for her to hear. I wrapped the towel around my body and slowly left the bathroom. The steam around me swirled up around me like a heavy fog, almost concealing me as I emerged from the hot bathroom. I was returning from my heaven to the world of pain I had escaped from for that brief hour.
Kagome's eyebrows jumped to her hairline.
“What is it?”
“You look like a lobster.”
“You're not eating me with butter sauce.”
She laughed, and I could see that she was slightly relieved.
“I would never dream of it. Then I wouldn't have a sister left, would I?”
“I guess not,” I replied as I walked to my room and put on clean PJ's.
“So,” Kagome started when I emerged from my room. “What happened?”
“I would rather not talk about it.”
“Kikyo…it isn't like you to just…do that. I…talked it over with Inuyasha, and he agrees. I'm staying home with you tomorrow. I think that you may be sick.”
“I'm not sick, and you should go into work.”
She snorted at that. “You had Hot chocolate all over the floor, and you were sleeping in it. That is not the Kikyo I know. Please…don't shut me out. Tell me what is wrong if you aren't sick.”
I was silent and bit my lip. I crawled onto bed and lay down with my head on my lover, and my arm over the crown of my head.
“I don't know,” I finally whispered. “When I was…when I was with Bob…when I was first dating him, I never did anything that was foolish, did I?”
“Define foolish,” she replied crawling onto the bed and laying down on her side, her arm propping her up so that she could look at me.
“It was raining yesterday…and I asked him if I could throw his clothes into a dryer.”
I didn't look at Kagome. I didn't want to see her expression.
“And…what did he say?”
“Actually, I'll make that a coffee to go,” I imitated.
“Oh…Kikyo.”
“I messed up.”
“We can fix it.”
“I turned him away.”
“We can get him back.”
“Kagome…I asked the man to take off everything. He is gone.”
She was silent, and I was thankful. I just wanted to lie there and think. I knew that I couldn't tell her about the images. She worried about me enough as it was.
“I think…” she began slowly, “that this wasn't really a bad thing. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I think that it shows that you are ready again, and that it a good thing.”
I gave her my skeptical yeah, right, look.
“It is! Ok…so you struck out with this guy, but you know what? Screw him. You have grown, and you are ready to get back out there, and you know what? I think that asking him to do that shows that you are beyond ready.”
I chuckled humorously.
“I mean it! You might not think so right now, but this guy is the best thing that has happened to you in a long time because he has brought you out of your shell, and you know what? I think that if he comes back again, that it was all meant to be, and that he is yours for the taking.”
I smiled at the thought, and my stomach growled. It made sense I guess. I hadn't eaten all day.
“Well…at least someone agrees with me,” Kagome teased as she rolled off of the bed. “Come on sleepy head. Let's get you some food and some internet websites. We are gonna get you to date again.”
I laughed. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad after all.
I was only fooling myself.
A/N: Ok…to clear things up…I am NOT moving the story from this site (well…thinking about it for IK…since I am starting to think that it is more Kikyo then I originally planed and less IK then I had wanted…) BUT, the website link that I gave yesterday was for if you wanna see how many chapters I have done as of right now, and if you wanna find café recipes. So far I have one for scones and one for muffins up, but if you want a specific one, let me know and I will add it to there!
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR NOT GIVING UP ON ME!
Also, let me know if I have not done an AR for you! I think that I am caught up…but my guess is that I let someone slip through the cracks, and I did NOT want for that to happen.
Thank you also to Goofy_Goober for editing this chapter! She is a great author, so go and check her out (on MM. FF name is mmlissa88).
Thank you for the reviews, and look for a new chapter tomorrow (I wrote two last night :D)!