If I Could Tell You

Chapter 2

The two of them starred at each other in shock, it was Die that recovered first. "I didn't know that you worked as a servant and could still act like a bitch." Die mocked Shinya's behavior from before.

Shinya bit his tongue and bowed his head, he could not say anything back.

"... I'm sorry." He could only mutter an apology.

Die looked at him and then waved his hand. "Whatever, you can leave now." He didn't want to argue today.

Shinya bowed and exited the room. After he closed the door, he exhaled loudly. He thought his heart was going to jump out from his throat. Working for him... was this a smart choice?

He made his way downstairs miserably, but this was too good of a job to pass up.

However, soon Shinya found out that aside from Die, he had someone else to worry about. The maid- Miho. Shinya didn't know what was wrong her, but it seemed as if she was constantly out to get him. It seemed like she had decided that she hated him the second they met.

Then small accidents seemed to have compiled up. When Shinya was washing dishes, he would discover a cut on himself. Only then did he notice the knife that was bured within the dishes. He frowned and took out the knife quietly, from then on, he's learned to be more careful when he washed dishes.

Then Miho would tell him to go and tend to the garden, only to have her 'accidentally' pout a bucket of cold water all over him.

These things piled up over the weeks, and Shinya almost convinced himself that it was a normal routine for his every day life. Almost....

But the maid was not about to stop there.

"Did you see my wallet?" Die yelled from upstairs. The three of them paused and looked at each other.

"Die-sama!" Miho spoke up immediately. "I saw Shinya take something to his bedroom, it could be your wallet."

Die looked over at Shinya, whom paled and shook his head quickly. "No! I didn't take it! I really didn't! Die-sama, please believe me!" Shinya pleaded.

Die didn't say anything and just looked at him.

"Die-sama, you should check! If he didn't take it, his daughter could have, I mean, come on, to have a little girl like that arou..."

"Be quiet!" Die ordered and turned around. "Forget I asked, go do your work."

The three of them looked at each other again, Miho gave a triumphant look to Shinya and walked off. Toshiya patted Shinya shoulder and went off to his work as well.

Shinya trotted to his bedroom and dropped onto his bed tiredly. He covered his face and rubbed at his face. Nanako pouted and opened the drawer to want to find some tissue for him. Then she noticed a foreign object. She took it out and flipped through it, in there were numerous cards.

"Daddy, what is this?"

Shinya dropped his hand and looked at her. His eyes widened when he saw the wallet in her hands. He grabbed it and looked at her. "Where did you find it?"

"In the drawer." She pointed to the open drawer.

Shinya gasped and gripped onto the wallet tightly, he debated whether he should return it to Die or not... if he returned it, then Die would definitely be angry... but if he didn't return it...

In the end, his conscious won, and he made his way out again. When he saw Die, Miho was with him. He grimaced mentally, why did she always hang around him? Were the facial products in Die's room his? Were they sleeping together.

"Die-sama..." Shinya called out uncertainly.

Die turned and looked at him, Shinya bowed his head and extended the wallet to him.

"Die-sama, I'm sorry, here's your wallet. But I swear I didn't take it! I don't know how it ended up in my room. Please believe me."

Die didn't say anything, he just took the wallet over and looked inside it.

"See, Die-sama! I told you he took it! You should fire him." She leaned onto Die and looked at Shinya with mocking eyes.

Shinya bit his lips and bowed to Die deeply. "I'm sorry." He turned and walked back to his room quickly. Once again, he'll be fired.

This time, where would he go?

When he started throwing things into a bag, Die walked in after him and looked at him strangely. "What are you doing?"

Shinya turned around and looked at him.

"Are you leaving?"

Shinya still didn't say anything, he didn't know what to say.

"I didn't fire you or anything. I'm just confused. The wallet... is in the same state as I left it... and besides, I don't think you were the one that took it. I believe you."

Shinya looked at him and swollowed whatever that was blocking his throat. "W... why do you believe me and not her?"

"Because..." Die looked around, he sounded annoyed. "I don't think you'd do something low like this." Then he bristled and added on. "But I know someone that would...."

"Thank you." Shinya bowed deeply.

Never in his life had someone told him that they believed him. And yet this man... whom did not even know him well could say that so easily.

Everything was normal for 2 weeks, or should he call those 2 weeks the calm before the storm?

Toshiya was out to buy more grocery for the house, Shinya was in the kitchen cleaning as usual. Nanako poked her head out into the living room and looked around. She's always wondered what this huge room looked like.

The room was grand and beautifull decorated, Nanako wandered around aimlessly until a glass figurine caught her attention. Nanako's eyes were wide as she stood on her tiptoes to touch it.

"What are you doing?" The maid's shrilling voice came ringing.

Nanako gasped and quickly turned around, her finger brushed the figurine and without another second of hesitation, it fell from the stand to the floor and shattered into pieces.

Shinya came out of Die's room as he heard a shattering sound. He prepared for the worst. In the living room, Miho and Nanako were both looking at the broken figurine in shock.

"Anou... what happened?"

"What happened?" Miho's voice raised three octaves. "Look what she did!" She pointed at the broken shards.

"No daddy! I didn't mean to do it! I don't know what happened." Nanako's voice showed signs of tears soon. She took a step towards Shinya, but Miho grabbed her hair and pulled her to a stop. Shinya gasped and pulled her hand away quickly, he bent down and hugged the little girl.

"How could you pull her hair like that!"

"How dare you yell at me! The dirty little girl broke Die-sama's favorite figurine!"

Shinya didn't know what to say, he looked at his daughter's scared face and patted her head. "It's okay honey, I believe you."

"So what if you believe her? Die-sama will not! You will get fired this time!"

"Why do you have to be so rude?"

Miho's eyes widened as she looked at the young boy with disbelief. "What horrible manners! Speaking to your senior like that! You need to learn more manners!" She raised up a hand and slapped Shinya across the face.

Shinya didn't move, he was frozen in shock. He could not believe that she just slapped him.

"What's all this shouting about?" Die's annoyed voice rang out from above.

"Ah, Die-sama!" She quickly runs up the steps to grab onto his arm. "Look what the little brat did!" She pointed at the broken shards.

Die looked at the shards, and then looked at Shinya and Nanako. He then sighed impatiently and pulled his arm out of her grasp. "Toshiya!"

"He's out."

"Then just clean it up."

"But!" Miho quickly grabbed onto Die's arm again. "But... that was your favorite figurine!"

Die looked at the woman then looked at Shinya, whom was looking at him with sad eyes. Die could clearly see the unshed tears in his eyes, he frowned and pulled his arm out again.

"I said clean it up!"

"Die-sama! You should at least do something about it! His daughter did break your favorite figurine!"

"It's not anymore!" He slammed the door to his office shut.

Miho froze in her spot for a moment then walked angrily to Shinya. "You!" She pointed at Shinya with a nasty finger. "You will not get away with this!" She spat out and then walked into the kitchen.

Shinya looked after her and then looked up at the stairs where Die had disappeared into his office. He thought he was going to be kicked out for sure.

"Daddy, I'm sorry."

"It's okay sweetie. Go play in your room, okay? Daddy will clean up here."

She nodded and left the room quickly. Shinya stood up and adjusted his uniform, then grabbed a broom and dust pan to the living room again. He knelt down on the floor and gingerly picked up the broken shards. The once breautiful figurine was lifeless... literally.

"Shinya, what are you doing?"

"Ah, you're back." Shinya looked up to see Toshiya walking towards him.

"What is that?"

"Iie, it's nothing... well... it was Die-sama's favorite figurine..."

"Favorite... what?"

"You know, the figurine of the girl dancing..."

"That is BROKEN?!" Toshiya's hands shook.

".... yeah...." Toshiya visibly paled. "What's wrong?"

"Oh God, hell is going to break loose... Saori-sama's going to kill someone..."

"Who's..."

"Oh God..." He muttered and walked past Shinya in a daze.

Shinya looked after him with confusion, then shrugged and went back to his work.

This day couldn't get any worse...

And that statement was proved to be wrong later at dinner.

Shinya carried the tray with a glass full of wine on it. Die was already eating, Toshiya and Miho stood beside him to assist him with anything he might need. Shinya walked up to him carefully, but suddenly, he felt something block his way, his foot did not lift high enough and everything tumbled over. Including the wine his hands. Everything fell onto the floor, only the wine landed on Die's shirt.

Shinya quickly got up and bowed to Die, Toshiya had already pressed a clean handkerchief to the wine on Die's shirt. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"What would sorry do?" Miho criticized.

"But something tripped me." Shinya objected.

Miho gave an ugly laugh and looked down at him. "Something tripped you? You must be joking, right? The floor is so polished there's barely a particle of dust!"

"But..."

"Shut up! You're just making excuses." She then looked at Die. "Isn't that right, Die-sama?"

Die sighed and looked at his plate.

"I'm sorry, Die-sama. I'll go and bring you another glass and I will clean up the mess."

"No. Leave it. Miho, clean the mess. Toshiya, clean the table, Shinya go clean yourself up and do your work." Die then threw down his napkin and got up to leave.

"Ah, Die-sama! Let me tend to you!" Miho quickly took after Die.

Shinya obeyed the orders given, he took a quick shower and changed his uniform. Then he went out to the dining room again and got onto his knees to clean the mess. He knew that Miho would never ever clean up this mess.

It was late into the night when Shinya returned to his bedroom again. Nanako was sitting on the bed and she looked up at him when he entered.

"Ah, I thought you'd be asleep."

"No daddy, I waited for you to read a bedtime story for me."

Shinya smiled and sat down beside her, no matter how long the day was, Nanako would already be able to bring at least a bit of light. He only had her left in his world.

Truthfully, the day was quite a normal day, and the next morning, he'd have to get up early to do work again.

However, the next day, when Shinya woke up, the living room was quite messy, and there were bags thrown everywhere. Shinya looked at it with surprise, and noticed Miho and Toshiya walking towards him.

"Is something wrong?" Shinya motioned towards the packages.

"No, it's just that..."

"Shut up and follow us." Miho snapped and headed up the stairs to Die's room. In front of Die's door, she turned and looked at the two men. "You're not allowed to go into his room! Wait outside." Miho huffed out at Shinya and Toshiya. Then, she pulled down her shirt a bit more to make sure that her cleavage was visible.

Thenshe pushed the door open and stepped in without hesitation. Toshiya and Shinya shared a look.

Inside the room, a soft hissing sound of shower could be heard. Upon the bed, a female was sleeping. Miho drew in a deep breath and stomped over immediately.

"You!" Miho shrieked, the woman on the bed groaned and shifted. "How dare you sleep on Die-sama's bed!?" With more groaning, the woman opened her eyes and looked at her with confusion. "Get up you slut! How dare a prostitute sleep on Die-sama's bed!" Miho grabbed the woman's long hair and pulled on it.

The woman gasped in shock as she was dragged out of bed harshly, and by her hair as well. They struggled and finally the woman landed on the ground with a thud, alerting the two males outside.

When Toshiya and Shinya entered, they saw a shaking Miho and a naked woman. Shinya quickly averted his eyes while Toshiya's eyes widened.

"Sao..." Toshiya started off.

"You!" Miho screetched and pointed at the uncovered woman. "You! You little bitch! Why are you so shamless to sleep naked!"

The woman rolled her eyes and ran a hand through her longhair not bothering with modesty. "Well, you know after you have sex, you usually fall asleep naked."

Miho let out a scream and slapped the woman across the face.

"Saori-sama!" Toshiya could not believe his eyes.

Saori-sama? Shinya peered at her curiously.

"Get dressed!" Miho ordered.

"I don't want to." Saori said with challenge and looked back at Miho.

"Saori-sama, please calm down. Miho is new and she..."

Saori put up a hand to silence Toshiya. "Who the hell are you? So what if I want to go around naked?"

"I am the lead maid of this house!" Miho straightened like a peacock.

"Oh, so just a lowly servant."

"You!" Miho raised up a hand again, but it was grabbed before anything could happen. Her face softened immediately at the man's face. "Die-sama."

Die stood beside Saori with his bathrobe and a towel in his other hand. "What are you doing?"

"Die-sama, this bitch is so shameless. This bitch is so rude. This bitch is..."

"This 'bitch'..." Die paused. "Is my girlfriend."

That was a bomb dropped into the room. A long silence prevailed. Then Die dropped his towel on Saori. "Put something on."

Saori looked at Miho then slowly wrapped the towel around her body coyly, and draped herself over Die. "Die-chan, who is this?" Saori raised an eyebrow at Miho.

"A maid that's not working here as of this moment." Die answered non-chalantely.

"What? You can't fire me!"

"Get out!"

Miho looked at DIe, hoping that he'd take pity on her. Yet he was only helping Saori tighten the towel around her. She threw a dirty look to Saori before turning to walk out. She bumped into Toshiya and brushed by a still dazed Shinya.

"Mou~~~~ Die-chan!!!" Saori complained while pulling at his bathrobe. "What kind of people do you hire?"

Die patted her cheek and shien winced in exaggeration. "That hurts!"

"Ah, I'm sorry." Die played along and placed a kiss on her cheek.

Saori clung onto his neck so they were in an embrace. From over Die's shoulder, her eyes met Shinya's eyes, whom looked dazed and surreal. Saori raised a smile and waved at him. Maybe... Die could hire some decent people after all.

After the scene in the bedroom, Shinya would peer at Saori curiously. She was now walking back and forth in the living room with a long dress. She was about his height, and had dark hair.

She wandered around the living room, picking up things here and there. Shinya looked beside him at Toshiya, whom looked quite... nervous, but somewhat happy that she's here.

Then she looked around and her eyes landed on the spot where the figurine was. Shinya gulped and looked at Toshiya, whom paled as well.

"... what happened to the figurine here?"

"Anou... Saori-sama... that... was broken..." Toshiya said slowly.

Saori turned around and looked at him. "Who broke it?"

Toshiya and Shinya shared a look, neither of them knew what to say. It was at this moment that Miho came out from her room with bags in hand. Saori glanced at her and then turned to her.

"You broke the figurine, didn't you?"

"What? No! His daughter broke it!" Miho pointed at Shinya.

Saori turned to look at him, he met her gaze. It was the second time that they've looked at each other. Shinya wavered under her gaze.

To his surprise, she just turned around and slapped Miho across the face. No one said anything, who could say anything?

"You..."

"Liar! You broke it, didn't you?" Saori demanded.

"I did not!" Miho protested and took a step back.

"Why don't you speak the truth?" Saori pushed her back, Miho stumbled over her bags and nearly fell.

"Saori-sama..." Toshiya started.

"What? You can't anything anymore because you can only pick on those that are younger than you? What? Say something! Bitch back!" Saori challenged.

Miho looked at her with wide eyes, her anger rose as well. "What about you? You think you can just come in here and throw a fit!"

"Of course I can! I'm Die's girlfriend. What are you? His servant? Not anymore!"

"Look at you! You're probably his girlfriend because you're good in bed, and have no brains."

Saori snorted and crossed her arms. "So what? At least I'm good in bed, I have something. What about you? You have nothing."

Miho hissed and lunged forward to grab at her face. Toshiya quickly stepped in and grabbed her wrists. "Miho, you shouldn't hurt her."

Saori cracked her knuckles and looked at her. "Hold her tight Toshiya, I want to relieve some anger." She raised up a hand, Miho paled quickly.

"Saori!" Die's warning voice stopped the scene.

Toshiya dropped his hands and stepped aside, Saori looked up at him and settled back.

"Die-sama!" Miho turned to him with hope.

"Why are you still here? I thought I fired you." Die said coldly and walked down the stairs.

"But, Die-sama..."

"Leave! Which part don't you understand?" Saori yelled.

Miho looked at her then looked at Die, and then she picked up her bags and huffed. However, before she made any moves to leave, she turned and spat at Saori, whom flinched back and the gross content landed on the floor. Saori looked at her with disbelief.

"Bitch." Miho muttered and walked away.

Saori took in a sharp breath and was about to go after her when Die grabbed her arm and pulled her back. Miho slammed the door behind her and the room returned to silence.

"Die!" Saori turned to him and complained.

Die only patted her hair but said nothing. Saori closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. She then turned to face the other two men. Shinya took a step back at the pissed off look on her face.

"Breakfast! I want breakfast!" She barked those orders.

TBC...

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