Home,one last time.

Fast.
That is the sum of life from after the wedding onward.

The party was fun and alive with a free spirit roaming around of joy,poking everyone near it to be merry and jovial,myself included even grumpy as I usually am.

Well,maybe not as usually.

Recent times have brought out a different side to me I thought I killed after the incident but....
Not so much now.

I think I feel like I want to try more again.

Oiha and I have fully come to a truce now that we have one more day before Uncle Goji and Kaoru come back from the honeymoon.
My parents head home tomorrow so they are staying at the apartment with us.

She can not still take a quiet house well and I can only get used to really being close to my parents again so fast,so we have gotten to have a bit of a...
Truce is still really the only word that fits.

"How is it there?At her house."
"Like nothing that either of us would have ever known and it is likely low scale compared to your boyfriends home,Wouldn't you think?"

Oiha did ask before what his home is like and I never really answered because we were working on the wedding,decorating and learning to get past two years of hate and misunderstanding.

No matter what many will say it is not usually a one minute trial but a journey.

"Honestly have no idea,he hasn't taken me there yet.I know his dad hates me so much but I still thought by now I could have gone there.I guess the sickness is more the reason why."

Oiha nods,careful to use her hair as a shield which I note but try to let pass.

Now that we are done packing my things and covering the furniture so the movers make less of a mess(These guys are more busy looking at Oiha and she can not hide her disdain about it so they respond as careful as bulls).

Dad and Mom are making reservations at a restaurant to be a farewell meal before heading home,strange even to both Oiha and I how they get along fine when they are not together for longer than a week but I do not miss how sad even that makes her feel.

I don't really know what to do to help ease that pain for her,we really talked about our parents one night after Uncle Goji and Kaoru left.

Who would have thought that of everyone I have become close to lately she and I would  have the most in common?

"Has the judge decided by the way?"

I still,secretly wonder if this is even the right move to make but I can hope.

Oh how Oiha lights up when I ask her that,I can truly see how boys flock to her but I think maybe after the last few weeks it is less on her mind except for one in particular.

"It has been approved!He will be released as long as you keep to your word and he to his that a public apology on both ends is complete and that he takes up some kind of activity to better the neighborhood we grew up in.Have you talked to...."
"Yes,he is a bit...unsure about it given what happened Oiha.But,Shin said he would talk to him and privately feel it out so I can not promise anything."
"'Shin'?Oh onto short names so soon....naughty girl..."

I narrow my eyes and she scampers off,she is more relaxed now that the movers are out of here and headed to the new house.

New house.

Most of my life has been here.
Most of my memories since my parents left and before.
Here.
All of it and now it is really hitting me.

My job is still remaining but now with the site for the program is more than successful also my work and writing is growing in interest enough where I can actually start to monetize my stories on a site of my own that I am working on.

I have offers now to write for fiction sites,even speak to up and coming authors about research and assisting them by being a youthful advocate.

Though I wonder if this is at all about my potential or talent or is if this is only due to being a socially awkward butterfly dating a sword prince.

My eyes look out the window seeing how they gawked over Oiha but wait still ever patiently for me.
So many cameras and smartphones ready to snap away at me,hoping to catch something scandalous like when I kissed Kenshin at the fair(more than once).

It was all over the internet in a hour and I had to find out after Oiha left with Kaoru that Uncle Goji saw the pictures.

I cannot express with all the words I know how awkward that was,even now it makes me shiver in the gross feeling of it.
Nor when after every date we would have it would be on TV screens as we would pass a store together.

I adore Kenshin.
More and more but i can not learn to love or crave the camera.
Still in heart i am just a quiet,non social media loving,writer girl.

Last box of my most valuable and precious things are in my hands now,I see that Oiha is in the cab waiting for me trying to hide herself from them,the leering ones.

Feet are out the door now and every camera,phone and eye turns to me and blindingly so much that way it is hard for me to even get to the cab without person after person getting so close to me,even hitting my head with the cameras themselves but I restrain the urge to do or say anything lest I make a mistake I can not take back before the eyes of the public.

THREE HOURS LATER.

Oiha has gone back by herself,Mom is waiting for Dad to get back from the restroom,both of them have the "One last thing to ask."expression on their faces.

I beat them to it soon as the meal is taken away.

"Yes.I want to still stay here.My life and friends,shocking to say out loud,are here.
I am falling for Kenshin,I feel it in my heart if I leave now I will never get any of this back,No i do not mean in that young dumb puppy love way...This I feel could be my endgame.Is that okay?"

My parents look at me so serious and then laugh so hard like I told the most comical thing in the world and I am at a utter loss.

"We are not blind Yukiyuki there is no way you are coming with us,or leaving that boy, we know that you are still not really comfortable with our lives now and you would be miserable away from here even though a visit soon would not be a bother."

My mom says,eyes smirking but not masking the sadness still there either.

"Still it is most likely the best thing for you now.Though our doors are always open but that is not what we were going to ask you."

My dad says,he is fighting a smirk and a bit of pain.
They are so alike and different all at once.

My face says the words more effectively.
What??

"We just wanted to know if you wanted desert."

They laugh and laugh so hard.
So sweet but it also makes me so sad that better as things are now,that happy family feeling for me may never be the same again that we once had.

Still.
Together though.
Forever.

That will be us once I get myself out of my past,
For good.