Ran's Phone~

The following Sunday morning I was facing a big dilemma, although I wanted to reach the goal I set for myself, which was making my boyfriend moan as a means of revenge, I found myself hesitating to even ask him out on a date.

All the things that I experienced during Friday evening, were still fresh in my memory, the cold look, murderous aura, two gunshots, and most importantly Ran's warning. Shivers went down my spine just recalling the events. Despite my previous strong resolve it also made me question whether breaking things off cleanly now would have been a more satisfying development.

"It sure sounds more healthy." It was more reasonable in fact than waiting around for my heart to be broken as the tale foretold. However part of me didn't want to let go of this relationship just yet, actually, a piece of me refused to believe anything was wrong for that matter, even if my logical mind was showing me signs of how I already lost all the remaining trust in this guy. Was I settling into that ' I can change him' mentality?

"I wish I could tell what he's thinking, so I could set my mind at ease." I looked up the love points stats, but everything seemed to have remained the same in fact. Sighting, I shifted my body to the side, glancing at the bed-stand, finding future Ran's smartphone laying there.

"Let's try at least one combination." I pepped myself up, knowing too many errors could possibly block the phone if done enough times.

I sat up on the bed and took a hold of the future device, slid my finger thru the touch screen, making a number pad appear with a four-number combination. Suddenly I felt more confident than ever, in getting this right.

"So I'm a male, who is obsessed over a girl that I haven't seen in 12 years, that everyone else can't recall, and my life revolves around the fact... what kind of password could I possibly use?" Considering he thought of us being married, something like an anniversary could have been a possibility. The thing is, we had no such thing, so I needed to think about another solution.

"The day we met?" Would he really recall the exact day when he met a troublesome toddler? I doubt it unless he really was scared shitless back then.

"Doubtful," I told myself.

"How about my birthday? That's easy to remember." I nodded and quickly typed in the number combination, my mouth opened in shock when I was redirected to the home screen.

"It worked!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, excited at the ordeal, finding myself to be a genius to have figured it out so easily. Additionally I even proceeded with a little celebratory dance.

"Future Ran, I hope you won't mind if I snoop around." I decided to take a look inside his contact first, was he truly telling the truth when admitting he didn't see anyone for over a decade?

I found indeed some female names on the list, but none of the messages implied any romantic relationships going on behind the scenes, in fact, everything sounded business-related, and women who tried their luck in pursuing this guy were blocked.

"Talk about the sheer dedication... Well, he got what he wanted in the end." I believed in myself that I wouldn't dare to drag someone into an unknown world without taking any possible responsibility.

"Who knows maybe my older self wanted to be married asap?" Then again considering my way of thinking I would probably appreciate having a spouse that is more modern in their way of thought. Ancient China didn't seem like an ideal place to find your marriage partner at.

I kept on scrolling and that's when I noticed something interesting.

"My lovely wife?" I read, astonished, then why did he let himself get dragged along by future Michi? I glanced at the number next.

"Wait this number combination looks oddly familiar." I tried to look it up inside my own phone and quickly realized.

"Shit... this is my current number... what is going on?" Confused I read the exchanged text, but I found out pretty quickly it was a one-sided conversation. It was implied he was trying to reach me.

"Wait wait... did this guy get my phone number so he could do this and make himself believe he was sending me texts?" Maybe it was his special way of coping. I scrolled up all the way to the top and found out this phone must have been relatively new, because the oldest message was from 2016.

"Although it's one year of messages there are still so many of them... as if this fella was sending at least a couple of them every day." My heart started to pound fast, and I was suddenly dedicated to reading it all, but was it truly an okay thing to do? After all, I was spying on his most vulnerable side.

"No one will ever know... and they were supposedly sent to me so..." I tried to find any possible excuse to keep going and started to skim thru them.

"Poor guy... he had so many mental breakdowns." I was unable to sit still, anticipating the next part, feeling like I was in the middle of a good novel. The whole experience felt so surreal, mostly because I couldn't imagine the current Ran behaving the same.

So besides constant cries for my comeback, there were also so many sweet messages that were at times wishing me good mornings, or good nights. Or Ran's various wishes to have me by his side, so we could create a family together.

There were even voice messages which I took my time to listen to. Before I knew there were an endless amount of tears streaming down my face.

"Why is that guy so dumb, he should have just moved on," I whispered to myself but soon got caught by surprise because his yandere side arrived out of nowhere.

The messages in question threatened me not to marry anyone else, besides him or he would kill the guy on the spot, but only one thing was bothering me when reading it.

"What if the future Michi had a wife? Would you kill her as well?" Asking the important questions over here.

A few messages in and I stumbled upon a picture of Ran with nothing on besides a pair of boxes, followed by this gem.

"All yours for the taking~" That guy was down so bad, at this particular moment I started to pray for my future self's sanity that had to deal with the fella. I mean this unstable guy had so much emotional baggage, making me totally see him trying to baby trap his future wife just so she could not leave him. I shuddered at the amount of red flags I was seeing.

A few seconds later and I realized the next following photo was actually a nude, although Ran's face was cropped out, the braids and tattoos were a dead giveaway.

I stared at it in disbelief and then exited the messaging app and admitted to myself.

"It's enough snooping for the day." I quickly hid the smartphone in one of the drawers, feeling embarrassed to have seen it. But then was taken off guard when my phone started to ring, making me jump up.

Startled and feeling like I was caught red-handed, I gulped and in the heat of the moment, forgot to even read the display.

"Yes?" I asked carefully, somehow expecting it to be Ran.

"Michi." I heard my name being spoken, and sighed in relief, realizing how much stress this interaction gave me, but it was Tetta.

"Did something happen?"

"No, no of course not!" With the unusual tone in my voice, he could probably tell something was amiss, but most likely chose to ignore it.

"Want to hang out at my house today?" And once again doubtful questions started to arrive in my head, was truly asking me because he wanted to see me or he was using the fact to please me?

"Sure, want me to come over now or later?" Recalling my previous resolve I was now a woman on a mission, but my question was met by a long pause until he finally admitted.

"Now." It brought forward a smile to my lips.

"Oh~ Are you already missing me so much? It's only been one day since we last saw each other tho." He didn't appreciate my teasing.

"If you don't want to-" I interrupted him.

"I'm coming, so don't you dare call it off now." I quickly arranged an outfit that would be more to Kisaki's taste. So I pulled out a cute blue dress and matched it with other stuff that I owned.

This time I settled for a white coat, and arrived at his domain in record time on my motorcycle. He opened the door, while I quickly proclaimed.

"I'm speed, were you surprised?" He mostly looked shocked.

"What is there something on my face?" I asked and then recalled the stitches I received yesterday.

"Oh this... just a gunshot wound, but it's already been patched up... I received some stitches."

"Gun? Stitches?" He didn't seem to be happy about the news.

"What kind of danger are you getting yourself into when I'm not around. Also, why are you smiling so stupidly when you got hurt?"

"Well my hubby is worried about me, of course, I'm happy." He put me into a hug, which I totally didn't expect him to do.

"Have you been crying?" And this question sure did take me by surprise.

"You can tell?" I said basically admitting it was the case.

"Is there something you want to do?" I put some thought behind the answer, yes maybe I should have tried to distract my thought.

"Let's see a movie!" I suggested as he nodded his head and let me choose, who would have thought that during the movie I would actually witness a gun scene, so I paused it.

"Tetta... would you ever try to shoot me?"

"No, the hell did that come from?" Great how does one recover from this.

"You see... I had a nightmare that you were the one that shot me."

"So that's why you never mention it to me? About getting hurt?" I reluctantly nodded my head.

"But even if you forgot about me? Would you still stand by that answer?" He seemed to be deep in thought.

"Considering how annoying you are at times... Maybe." I crossed my arms and pouted, but it looked like he knew himself quite well for that matter.

"You better apologize for this insolence."That's when the system came and asked me of either two things.

'Would you rather take off your sweater or punch Tetta Kisaki?' But this guy must have taken it the wrong way because he was blushing.

"Why are you suddenly undressing?" I just stayed silent and continued the movie. Once we finished, we decided to just be in each other's presence and read some books. But my mind was only thinking about the best opportunity to launch an attack. Yet the system came in my way once more when Kisaki spread himself on the bed like butter.

'Would you rather smash Tetta Kisaki's head with a pillow or pull up his shirt and blow some air on his stomach like people usually do on babies?' What was Venus even planning at this point, but the second option seemed somehow funnier, so I proceeded.

"What the hell Michi!" He yelled, most likely wondering what kind of weird alien he let inside his own house.

"Revenge!" I proudly declared and laughed like a maniac, he abruptly put his book away.

"You started it." He grabbed my wrist and pulled it, causing my face to land on the pillow, before I could register what was taking place, I heard my dress zipper being pulled and some air was blown into my back.

"What the heck was that?" I asked, being brought to tears by my uncontrollable laughter.

"Stop moving and let me zip your goddamn dress back up." I shifted my body to face him.

"What if I don't need the dress altogether." And then proceeded to wink at him like one of those bad boys in media, I was the one whose head was smashed with the pillow.

I took it as a cue to be dramatic.

"No a tragedy has befallen me, my hubby doesn't appreciate me anymore. Such an unjust world." His comeback was rather unexpected.

"If you want a kiss just say so and stop being so dramatic."

"I can't let you predict my every move." I opened up my arms, but once he was trapped in my grip after he gave me a quick kiss, I went for the spot that his future self recommended and actually heard him moan like I wanted to.

"That's what I been waiting for!" I expressed, but it looked like the guy in front of me was traumatized.

"You better never speak of it to anybody." I then fumbled with my fingers shyly.

"Even to the girls?"

"Especially not around them." I gave him the side eye.

"It has nothing to do with her, just give me a break!" I even closed my eyes and exaggerated my expression further.

"Are you messing with me at this point?" I opened up my eyes again.

"Getting more clever are we." I spent the rest of the day in his house and when I returned, Kazutora asked me.

"So did you break up with him?"

"Nope," I responded, getting a clueless look from my brother, I guess at this point he was questioning my sanity.