A/N: This is a one-shot fic. My first story here.

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Such a very unfortunate situation welcomed Rayne Nightwood as she went back to her apartment after her first day in work.

Fierce flame ignited, engulfing such establishments.

"I can't believe this is happening," Rayne sighed as she saw her newly rented-apartment being eating by flames,

She thought of being independent, live on her own, having a decent job with high standard salary far away from her home, away from her beloved family and friends, but it's not that she wanted to stay away from them but because her hometown doesn't offer a decent job she has been dreaming of. She wanted to become rich after all. And it is also a good opportunity to widen her world and experience to live independently.

Yes, she wanted to start a new, she found a decent job with the help of a friend and now her officemate named Mich who also helped her find an apartment. She met Mich during the time when she was attending review classes in her upcoming board exam about two years ago.

She graduated with a bachelor degree two years ago in a prestigious university. She was just a simple woman with a rather simple lifestyle.

She remembered when she was just in her earlier years in college, when their batch was assigned to conduct a research about teenage addiction about virtual games. During their research, she met this annoying guy, full of himself and somehow she developed a crush on him, just slight okay. But honestly, aside from his poor moral character, her crush was the hottest and smartest guy she ever met, she could remember one time when she ALMOST confessed her feelings to him. But she had heard that he was dating the prettiest girl in her batch. So maybe she's fortunate, she hadn't confessed her feelings to him or else it's rather embarrassing on her side if she get dumped by her first confession.

Fate really is being horrible to her.

"Wait, why am I thinking of this things, of all times!" she thought" my apartment is on FIRE, for God's sake! what am I thinking!"

Snap!

Sirens could be seen in the vicinity, many people were rushing and panicking as well as her, what would she do now? Her newly apartment was gone and she didn't know what to do, she was just new in this city, maybe she could call Mich and ask for help, but before she could call her for help, her phone rang.

"Hello! Mich?" the call was from her friend.

"My god Rayne, I heard that there was a fire around the street you're currently residing."

"Yes, and unluckily my apartment was one of the victims of this fire"

"What! Are you okay, did you hurt yourself?" Mich asked in an anxious tone

"No, I'm okay, apparently when I got here it's already on fire, the whole building was burning"

"Okay, I'm going to pick you up there, you can stay in our house for the meantime, wait for me, alright!"

"Um, Okay"

Few minutes later her friend arrived, shocked.

"Mich, I really don't know what to do without you, thank a lot, you're always helping me" Rayne said

"You're very welcome", Mich replied with an angelic smile

"Mich is such an angel. She is five years older than me, she told me before that she had a weak body so she was left behind by her batchmates, as they graduated college, there she is in the hospital for treatment. She always help me, she even told me before to stay at her house when I first came here but I don't want to abuse her kindness so I rented my own apartment and now it's burned", she thought

"Mich, is it really okay for me to stay at your home for a while?"

"Of course, I always told you that you are much very welcome to stay in my house"

"But how about your family, is it okay for them?"

"I already told my brother that you will stay at home and he already agreed and besides it's only me and my brother living in our house, so it's very much better having you in our place, the more the merrier right!"

She replied with a smile

"And by the way, my brother also loved to watch animes just like you. He is also same as your age, you two would probably get along well." Mich said.

"Oh really, I would love to meet him", she said. Well, they might get along, given the fact that ever since high school she just loved to watch anime series.

After a few minutes they arrived at Mich's home. Their house is pretty simple but she liked the ambiance of the surroundings. Might be better to live here for the meantime. She smiled.

Door opens…

"Welcome home sis!", a voice was heard, it was a familiar voice, it felt like she had heard that annoying and familiar voice before, yes, annoying voice of that jerk(her crush rather) she met in her earlier years in college, Oh my god!, is this some kind a cliché romance shoujo manga moments?!

"Oh, we're home and by the way this is my friend I told you before", Mich said happily.

"Relax, okay calm down. Act naturally!" she told herself repeatedly before looking at the guy.

"Ni..Nice to meet you!", she said forcing herself to smile.

Pause…

Their eyes met, cold gush of wind seems to pass in a perfect timing

Awkward silence

"Oh, it's you", they both said

Silence…

"Ahem, you know each other?" luckily for the both them that Mich broke the ice or their awkward fateful encounter rather.

"Yeah, sort of", he told awkwardly

"About five years ago, if I remember correctly, right?" she said gathering all her strength to act naturally and composed.

Oh god! For all the billions of people, why did this guy turn to be her friend's brother? Clark Edwards, now she thought of it, "Edwards" was Mich' surname too, but to Rayne, she never in a million light years thought that they would be somehow related. But hey, no one can blame her, Mich is an angel and Clark Edwards was clearly an incarnation of satan, he would always piss her off, telling her random insults but ironically Rayne Nightwood develop a crush on Clark Edwards despite all that. Yeah, call her a hypocrite.

To think that she's gonna be with him under the same roof, the guy whom she almost confessed her feelings with, about five years ago! She's very unlucky, indeed. She didn't deserve these disasters happening in her life. "Oh God help me!"

Wait a second! She could just search for some other place to stay…yes, that's it, find another place to stay. Anywhere is fine except here. But before she could even open her mouth, her friend spoke,

"Oh, let's go inside first, you must be tired for all this happenings" Mich said cheerfully

Clark only stared at Rayne as his sister drag her inside their house. He manage to curve a smile.

His sister doesn't have many friends because of her sickly body so he's very happy seeing her sister hyper and cheerful with a friend. And unfortunate, his sister's friend is the girl whom he met during his college years, the girl who saw his childish, jerkish and arrogant personality. It's so embarrassing, but now at the age of twenty-four he is mature already. But still, it's awkward. She was the first girl she had feelings for but unfortunately, he thought the girl didn't feel the same. He could feel it before because whenever he approached her, she's always scowling and seems irritated.

Sometimes he thought one time that maybe she also can't express her real feelings like him, so she always also acted irritated and pissed off. And then he tried to test her, but how? He just only agreed to one of the countless invitations to him by one of Rayne's very clingy classmate to come watch to a movie with her, and with that seeing him with another girl maybe and maybe Rayne would be jealous even just a little bit. After the said date he watched and observed Rayne, if she showed any sign of jealousy, he would definitely confess his feelings to Rayne but unfortunately maybe he's just so being poorly wishful, Rayne's aura and mood never changed so he was certain she just hated him and his arrogant self. That's why he never confessed his feelings to her. Okay, call him a coward but that time he was just afraid of rejection.

He sighs.

Is this another one of fate's torture to him?! Well whatever it is, he'll face it.

"Okay, relax! Act naturally, stay composed!" he told himself

"Feel at home and by the way my brother is a very good cook!" Mich suddenly blurted cheerfully

"Oh, is that so?" she replied

"Yes, and you will really love it!" Mich said

Rayne replied with a smile. "So he is a good cook" she thought. Well unlike her who can't even cook a proper meal. God knows how many times she attempted to cook properly but though the food she cooked seems decent but the taste are all like crap. That's why her mother never let her cook because even heavens didn't know what seems wrong to her cooking.

"So let's go to the kitchen, you haven't eaten dinner right" Mich said dragging her again.

"Wait! what about her escape plan? I mean her plan on finding another place to stay.

Screw that, for now she would stay here for the night. Let's just think about it tomorrow. Maybe, the fate is planning to redeem to all the miseries it brought to her life by letting her meet her crush again, clearly she still have feelings for him or maybe it's another ploy of fate to torture her again. But whatever it is. She'll face it. She's already grown-up anyway. Fate be damned!

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