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Chapter eight - Kenji
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I've spoken to Kenji every single day for the last three weeks, it's usually while he's chilling out before getting ready for a gig and while I'm heading to bed, which would make me feel like a little old lady if I wasn't completely stressed out with assignments. He even ordered pizza and ice cream to be delivered when I was convinced I'd messed up my Business Law assignment and couldn't get hold of my lecturer to discuss it. Obviously it didn't solve the problem, but it was nicer to sit there sobbing into junk food than it would have been without it.Conversely I am yet to hear from Dane since his sister interrupted us at the party. I've called and text him a bunch of times, but apart from a text telling me he's really busy with uni and work at the moment but will see me soon, I've not heard anything from him. He couldn't even visit last weekend because he had family unexpectedly visiting so his parents made him stay at home.Part of me is annoyed that he hasn't made an effort, espec
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I stare at my phone, willing it to ring, even checking I haven't somehow broken it or switched it to do not disturb somehow but everything seems to be as it should be. So why hasn't she called? "Ken, hurry up, we're heading to the bar." Harrison calls from the door of the dressing room. It's nearly 4am and Jenny and I had a phone date an hour ago, but she didn't answer when I tried. "Kenji Ikeda, get your butt out here and take your sister drinking." Akira shouts, then almost a second later she's barging into my room and snatching my phone from my hand. "She's probably still asleep, she'll ring when she wakes up. Come on." "Ok, ok, fine." As soon as I stand up she passes my phone back, dragging me by the arm out of my room to cheers of "finally" from everyone else. I turn the volume and vibrate up full, keeping it in my pocket the entire night, pulling it out every so often to see if I've missed her call, but nothing and I can't help worrying. We haven't missed a call once in thre
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"So, Kenji, you've been in the news recently when it was discovered you were in a relationship, anything you can tell us about the lucky lady?" Jonathan Ross' voice comes through the phone of the girls in front of me and without seeing it, I know that the show is showing a picture of him at the airport with his sister and her best friend."Ah, yeah, well, that's actually my sister Akira. Hi Kira." Kenji waves at the camera before turning back to the screen. "And the girl beside her is her best friend and actually Jamie's little sister, Charlotte. Neither of which I am dating.""Bet he's shagged Jamie's sister though." One of the girls comments and they both giggle."Ok, well, does that mean you're single then?" As though I'm watching it again, I can see Kenji laugh, his cheeks turning a little red and Jonathan spots it immediately. "There is someone, come on, tell us all about her.""Right, well, I can't really, it's still really early days, but what I can tell you is she's special. S
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"Come on in, quickly." Jenny opens her front door, pulling me through and closing it behind her. She's gotten very good at doing that without being seen from outside which is weirdly impressive to me.Ever since I declared my interest in her on the Jonathan Ross show, I've been followed even more than usual, so I've upped the disguise to avoid being spotted when I come to visit her. I'm lucky it's cold enough for woolly hats and scarves so I blend right in."Fish and chips, I definitely want proper greasy fish and chips tonight. I might even get gravy too. Oooo or curry sauce." The voice in the hallway has her stopping on the spot, her eyes wide with panic and this I'm less impressed by. She's still keeping me secret from her friends, even the couple I accidentally met before. The voices get quieter as they go the opposite way and once we hear a door shut, she relaxes, tugging me along to her room and locking the door behind us."Hi." She finally smiles at me, breathing a sigh of reli
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"Oh Jenny, I'm so disappointed, I thought he was just a one night stand. I was so proud." Luke grins as he dodges Cleo who is trying to shut him up. "I've renounced my manwhore ways, but I thought I had converted you, I was going to share tips and live vicariously through you.""Vicariously?" I grin at him, surprisingly relieved that Kenji meeting my friends went better than anticipated. "Did I not use that right?" He stops and Cleo manages to grab him, slapping her hand over his mouth."No, no, you actually did. I'm just surprised you used it at all." I catch the pillow he launches in my direction, then another and somehow a third between the two and toss them back, hitting him in the side of the head. "Don't mess with me, I'm happy and I've got mad ninja skills.""You do seem happy." Elsie walks into the kitchen and grabs a banana. She's very slowly coming around to us all and we make an extra effort to include her whenever she ventures out without Billy by her side."More importa
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I wake up with a dead arm, my fingertips tingling but feeling foreign on my arm which is acting like it's doubled in size overnight and Jenny's housemate is singing loudly again as he walks past her room while his girlfriend tries hard to make him be quiet. I'm not sure why she still tries, I've only slept here a dozen or so nights and even I can tell it doesn't work, in fact, it might just make it a little bit worse. "I hate him so much." Jenny moans, curling into me further and releasing the pressure on my arm which is then swamped with the prickle of pins and needles as it comes back to life. "It's five in the morning... On a Saturday. It's like he has to punish those of us who aren't masochistic enough to voluntarily get up that early." "Shh he's gone now, go back to sleep." I whisper, stroking her hair with my normal, tingle free hand, loving the feel of her snuggled into my chest. It's been so good the last few weeks, we've hung out with her friends quite a bit and even her si
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I'm trying not to show everyone how stressed I am, but I'm so close to losing it and having a meltdown in the middle of class. I was stupid to take so much time off especially after everything thats been going on since I met Kenji. I've missed so much and now trying to catch up it feels like there aren't enough hours in the day. I lied to everyone, my tutor didn't recommend trying to catch up, she thinks that's an impossible tasks, so she suggested I drop out now and repeat the year next year. She tried reassuring me that loads of people do it. But I'm not loads of people, I'm me, and I don't give up. Besides, once I'm caught up, the stress will be over and I'll be able to spend a few weeks of the summer wherever Kenji happens to be, which will also mean getting to explore another part of the world. So it's all going to work out, if I could stop daydreaming about exploring the world that is.I've deliberately not looked at his itinerary, otherwise I know I'll start thinking about and
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I've been trying to get hold of Jenny for hours but her phone keeps going to answerphone and I can't pretend I'm not starting to panic. I've got two weeks left over here but I'm seriously considering what the repercussions would be if I skipped the rest of the tour and got on the next plane home.Keeping my phone in my hand, I drag myself to the pre-gig meeting and sit through it without really hearing a thing.A plane rumbles overhead and it's almost like a sign, or at least that's how I'm taking it and as soon as the meeting finishes, I grab my passport and hide it in my jacket pocket. "Oi, what's got you looking so serious?" Harrison kicks my foot with his in the car, jolting me so I'm not sure if I've clicked on the right flight."Nothing " I grumble, going back and reselecting one that I should be able to make if we finish on time, but then with encores?Just as I'm about to pay for the ticket, my phone starts ringing and my entire body goes into panic as I see it's Jenny's sist
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I sit on my bed staring at my phone, I'm not sure what time it is or how long I've been sitting here, but I just can't bring myself to move. Texts come through, making my phone buzz in my hand but it's like my brain's shut off because I can't fathom quite what they say. Well, at least that part of my brain isn't working, there's another part that is more than active. The part that's going wild about the fact that Kenji actually thought I'd slept with those men. I never doubted him, even with the photos, but he didn't even question it, I can't shake that look in his eyes from my mind. He didn't trust me and without trust, how can we say we're in love? It feels like I've been in a sort of bubble since getting together with Kenji, there's been so much drama, one way or another, maybe that's why it feels like we've fallen for each other so quickly. But what do we really know about one another? Why do we like each other? Aside from physical attraction? Do we even have anything in common?
