getting to know each other.

<yet another post by me and chris...>
VOTE FOR JACK!!!
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"Meh" he said trying not to speak, "Wanna double date sometime?"
"umm, wouldn't that be a bit.. wierd?" he said, trying to visualise
it... but it was one of those images most people don't want...
"It'll be a laugh wont it?", Chris said "As long as we leave our
GunBlades back, Melissa doesn't like fighting"
"haha,i suppose..." Jack admitted...
"Anywho, ill speak with you later , i'm erm...a bit busy at the mo"
finished Chris turning the nanos off...
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Chris rolled over to see Kanako lying there, her beauty astonishing,
he smiled and threw his head down on the pillows.
"you know, i think we could both do with some coffee. I'm beginning
to get a hangover too.." she said, rolling onto her back.
"I'll go and make some, ill be back shortly".
"you stay, i'll make it. yours is obviously worse than mine." she
said, beginning to get up.
"Nah, baby, you stay there, let me go and make it" he said ,
clinging on to her not allowing her to get up.
She rolled over onto him. "no, you stay." she said, trying to pin
him down, but her small frame making it rather difficult. In the
end she gave in, and let him go.
"Thank you" he said smiling, getting up and going to make coffee.
As he left, she lay back on the bed, and began thinking. "If this
is happiness, why did i follow Jack everywhere?" She stretched, and
undid her hair, letting it fall loose, which meant it fell to about
shoulder height, a few strands would have fallen in front of her
face, if she wasn't lying down.
Chris went to the kitchen for once, he didn't do stuff in there very
often. He stood next to the coffee perculator, waited for it to do
its magic, and then filled two cups with coffee. During the time it
took chris to get back to the bedroom, Kanako had spread out, and
was now taking up most of the bed, "sorry!" she said, moving over to
one side, and sat up, taking the cup from Chris. She took a sip
from the elixer.
"i haven't had a good coffee in weeks." she said, and drank a bit
more.
"Unless you make it properly, it doesn't taste right does it?" Chris
said, smiling.
"course not, i don't trust coffee made by anyone i don't know."
"Do you know me?" Chris asked.
"i should hope so." she said, looking up at him.
"Me too" he said.
Kanako had memorised most of Chris' files, so the way she knew
people was different in some ways to everyone else.
"I doubt you know me as well as some people, but at least you know
me"
"maybe..." she said, and thought, "but you'll never know..."
"I'm just wondering whether i know you or not" he said, with a small
hint of sarcasm.
"you want to know me better?" she asked, looking at him
"Would i ever" said Chris Charmingly.
she laughed softly, "well," she began, trying to think of a way to
tell her story...
"umm, where to start?" she said, "I moved to England when i was
about 7, before that, i'd been living in Japan." she began.
"how'd you meet Jack?" Chris asked politely.
"it was a business thing... my mother worked with his father..." she
said, "and it got... complicated between them."
Chris raised his eyebrow.
"What about your father?"
"umm, he died... in an earthquake, i was so young i don't remember
him."
"Oh, im sorry" Said Chris, sympathetically.
"don't be, i don't remember him... all i had were pictures." she
said, sitting back against the wall
"No, my fault, i shouldn't have bought it up."
"What about Jacks mother anyway?"
"I don't know what happened to her... i never asked." she said. "I
didn't want to..." she said.
"Maybe i should ask him sometime, but somehow i'm doubting he'd be
open with me"
"i don't know, he tells me alot..." She said. "and he's your friend,
no harm in asking." she said, and drank some more coffee.
"maybe he'd tell me, but i don't pry"
"its up to you." she said, and curled up, holding the coffee cup
close to her.
"Meh, i'll leave it for now, I have more important things on my
mind" said Chris as he turned and rest his eyes upon Kanako.
She smiled at him, and drank the last of her coffee, placing the cup
on the bedside table.
"Another?"
"no thanks, i'm ok now." she said, and smiled.
"You sure?"
"yeah, one is enough for me."
"Ok, anyway, what did happen to you when you moved to England" asked
Chris
"well, i lived basically on my own... my mum was working alot, Jack
looked after me most of the time..."
"A good carer i hope"
"yeah, he was good to me. he was the first person i met in england
that could speak a bit of japanese, he helped me to speak english
better." She said, reminiscing.
"Hehe, im glad", "Anything else?"
"well, other than that, i basically went through college, and joined
the JMC, and trained as a psychiatrist." she said. "I'd always
wondered what made people do the things they do..."
"Why'd you join the JMC, i'd always liked flying when i was
younger ,thats why i joined"
"It was a way to travel... i thought if i went through space, i'd
meet all kinds of strange people."
"Different way of thinking" Chris said.
"yeah. everyones different."
"Indeed, many in more ways than others"
"Meh, im sorry i was so horrible when we first met"
"don't worry about it," she said. "its strange how you can find
people that aren't as different to yourself as you think." she said,
looking at Chris.
"I don't know, would you consider myself different to you?"
"well, they do say opposites attract." She said, "but everyone
shares something." she thought out loud, looking at chris again, and
pulling the quilt over her.
"What d'you mean?" Chris asked
"everyone shares something with someone else, no matter how
different they are." She said, trying to clarify. "it may be
something as simple as a friend." she added.
"Yes, we share one friend at least, amongst other things" Chris
said, thinking.
"hmm, yeah." she said, and curled up. "whats the time?" she asked.
"Erm...half past one in the afternoon" said Chris looking at the
clock on his wall
"Kanako, can i ask you a question?"
She looked at him, "hmm?"
"How come after you gave up on Jack you came after me all of a
sudden, why me?"
She smiled. "i don't know... i could feel something about you...
something i didn't get with anyone else." she said. "instinct i
guess..."
"not even with Jack?"
"i used to... but after that talk..." she paused for a second. "i
lost it, i think it was because he didn't feel the same way... but
he'd only just realised."
"He didn't realise at all"
"i don't really want to think about it.." she said.
"Ok" said Chris smiling at her.
She sighed, and sat up on the bed. "are you hungry? i could go for
some lunch."
"I could cook if you like?"
"you can cook?" she said, surprised.
"Yes, quite well actually" he laughed, "Don't worry, I'm not bad"
She smiled. "i look forward to it, but before that, i think i need
to get dressed."
"Ok, What you fancy?"
"whatever you can cook, i'm not fussy about food." She said, and got
up. "give me 20 minutes." and walked off to the shower.
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