1AN: This is actually a prequel to my fic, "The Light of My Life" (Rewrite) which I have as M-rated because of sexual references. This will primarily focus on Kei with some other characters here and there. Thank you for checking out this story.
When The Light's Turned Off
Chapter One – The Bride and Groom
I'm glad that she beat me. It wasn't even something small. We were both in the same group during the end of high school and I think it was a mix between people wanting for her to succeed and for people loving her that she took the number one spot in student popularity. I mean, I'm glad that she did. It gave her the strength to accept my proposal and if she hadn't, we might not be picking out the final few details for our wedding.
Because I had to work, Hikari flew to America to see me and we found a small but elegant party store that sold things for all kinds of events. I promised Hikari that the reception would be like a festival. As long as she's happy then I'm happy. I look among the glassware before finding a set of two pint glasses. Sure, this isn't appropriate for our wedding but I have to use it to tease her with.
"Hey, what about this?" I ask her as I hold the box, one of the pint glasses has the number one on it and the other the number two. I laugh a little, it's fun to get her motivated and fired up because she's adorable like that. I wonder if she realizes that this is for someone's birthday who just reached the drinking age. "This one is mine and this one can be yours, number two," I tell her and she looks at me with her cute frown.
"I have beaten you once and I will so again, Takishima," she says and I lean closer to her. It's good to play with her now and again.
"Don't forget that in two weeks, you'll be a Takishima too," I whisper and she blushes. She's adorable no matter what emotion she takes. She grabs my hand and I feel that rush of excitement that I always have when the two of us are together. She comes and hugs me and I wrap my arms around her.
"Kei," she breathes into my chest and I feel myself get a little heated. I love it when she says my name. She's acknowledged that she's going to become my wife. "We're not getting those," she tells me and I grin.
"I wasn't serious," I tell her as I put the glasses down and stroke the back of her head. I can't believe that in two weeks we'll be a married couple. The wedding is of course going to be huge, arranged by the Takishima family with no cost to us but at least we get to design the reception and we managed to get the Hanazono family to help with that. Hikari's father has been really generous towards the two of us.
"Good," she tells me before looking up at me with a grin. "I'm excited to be your wife, Kei.." she says and I nod. She tells me that she's excited but she doesn't know the joy that I have in being her future-husband, not to the extent that I do have.
"You have no idea how amazing I feel that I will be your husband," I tell her as I kiss her forehead. I have never loved anyone more than I love her and I have never loved her more. We can be together now, competing and building a life together. She's the most important person in my life by far. "It's going to be okay. I'll protect you," I grin and she hums, pressing her cheek into my chest and I hold her again.
How am I even lucky enough to have her, to hold her?
If there is ever any supreme being up there, thank you for gifting me Hikari's love. I don't know what I've done to deserve so much of it but I am eternally grateful for her.
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His chest is so warm. Kei's chest is so warm and I've always thought so. Despite his sarcasm and teasing of me, he's the gentlest and kindest person that I know. I'm glad that I won against him but that meant that I felt that I could marry him. You have no idea how amazing that feels. I wonder if he knows how happy I am that I get to be his wife.
I'm a little scared of the amount that the Takishima family is paying for our wedding ceremony. Kei tells me that it's fine but can it really be okay? They're even paying for most of the reception because their family is a lot lot higher up socially than mine. I sigh. My family has always shown me love so class doesn't matter.
I know that he's joking with me with the glasses and part of me likes that, I like that he feels able to play around with me, it's a side of Kei Takishima that most people will never get a chance to see. I know how special I am to him and I just hope he knows how special he is to me. I never want to be with someone else the way that I am with him. He is my first and as someone who used to be shy to say his name, that is very important to me. I'm also his first in that particular way, we have never even dated someone else. I know that this is like a fairytale to me.
"Kei," I whisper as I grab his arm and he hums, tilting his head to the side. He's worried about me and although that makes me worry about him a little, I want to say this. "I don't want us to fall for anyone else." He looks at me surprised before tucking some of my hair behind my ear and kisses me softly and passionately.
"Don't worry about that," he tells me in his sweet way, "I could never fall in love with anyone else. I can never even say to someone that I love them in that way as a joke, those words belong to you." I see him smile and I want to go back to the hotel room. I know he has to work later today but I can't help but want to be with him.
"I want to go," I tell him and he nods. We didn't manage to find anything here anyway.
He nods before wrapping an arm around my shoulders, "Are you okay? Feeling okay?" he asks me and I nod.
"I just want to be with you away from everyone else," I grin and he grins back before we make our way to the hotel room. His arms are the best home that I could ever hope for. "Kei," I say and he tilts his head in that adorable fashion as he listens to me. "I love you."
"I love you too," he tells me and I smile happily before letting my head rest against him again and he holds me closer to him. He has made my life better in ways that I don't think I'll ever be able to explain to him and I'm glad that when we get married, we can still compete with one another, we can still have contests but we'll be together in marriage so even if one of us wins, we'll still be there together. I laugh as he grins to me. I know that we're happy. I want this happiness to last forever.
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Although Hikari wanted all of the SA to be part of the wedding group, I managed to talk her into having them at our table but having two groomsmen. I grin to my brother, he's still a kid but I wanted him to be beside me. Yes, I care about Ryuu, Tadashi, and Jun like brothers but Sui is my real brother. I care about him too. I also have the co-founder of the Takishima fan group or whatever the name is as one of my best men. I mean, when I told Aoi my wish, he was thrilled.
Although I know that she wanted four bridesmaids – and I was totally fine with that – she instead picked two because she thought it would make the wedding look more even. I told her whatever she wanted was fine but she eventually picked Sakura as the second bridesmaid and Akira as her maid of honor.
Akira and I have had many small discussions over things that we have different opinions on but she's still one of my good friends and I hope that I'm one of hers. Still, Aoi puts a hand to my shoulder as I stand with my suit on and I shift a little. I'm nervous because this is what I've dreamed of for so long.
"It's going to be okay, Master Kei," Aoi tells me and I nod. I've told him repeatedly to just call me by my first name but that doesn't seem to work.
I pause as I hear the wedding song and I take a deep breath in. That's when I see her, she's absolutely gorgeous and I want to kiss her and hold her right now but there are the different steps to getting married. I'll have to wait until we have the rings on one another's fingers before I kiss her in front of all these people.
She looks at me and her eyes light up as the cutest smile appears on her face. I haven't felt happier than right now. I am going to be marrying the love of my life, can anyone ask for more than that?
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I wasn't really nervous before, just excited and eager to become his wife but I got nervous as soon as the music played and my dad took my arm to walk me down the aisle. He was happy for me. Atsushi and Mom have also been really happy for me. I think they trust Kei to take care of me. I look up as I see him at the end of the aisle and suddenly the nerves all leave me.
He's adorable and I'm so lucky to be marrying him. I love him and I've always been a little bit of a dunce at love but he's waited for me for such a long time. I can't believe that I get to marry with him and for the two of us to always be together. Nobody can joke about breaking up with him because that would mean divorce and I would never want to divorce him even with his sarcasm.
I see how happy he is and I feel excited that I was able to bring that happiness out of him. I feel at peace as I close my eyes and stand before the person who is officiating the ceremony. I grin as I look at my future-husband. It's no longer months or weeks, it's minutes. In less than an hour I will be Hikari Takishima. I feel honored to be in the same family as Satoru and Midori and Sui. I hope that Kei feels the same about my family.
I look into his gorgeous eyes, feeling myself falling into them. I get to look into those eyes day after day after day. I grin as I feel the hot May weather on my body and we both turn to look at the man who will marry us. I can't believe I'm able to marry my best friend. My soulmate. My Kei.
End of Chapter One
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