L a t t e M a c c h i a t o
Hikari Yagami works as a journalist and a photographer for a magazine called euphoria Lust.
After being shipped off to Odaiba for next month's issue, her editor forces her to do a project she's unwilling to do!
Unfortunately, she makes matters worse as she blankly chooses the guy she spilled coffee on as her project's mannequin.
One problem … her so called 'project' is to date and dump/get dumped a guy in 10 days.
And the person she spilled coffee on and chose to be the mannequin of this project is no other than Takeru Takaishi.
That's right girls, the Takeru Takaishi.
The richest and most gorgeous entrepreneur and playboy of Paris, France.
How the hell is she supposed to do that?!
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M o n d a y, J u l y 2 1, 2 0 0 8. 23:34Disclaimer belongs to Digimon, a bit like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and thinly to the Shopaholic book series and Waltz Alone in her version of Shopaholic with a Li Syaoran and Sakura Kinomoto from Card Captor Sakura canon called In the Shoes of a Shopaholic. Ah… since I started off anew, I might as well go back to my mind of simplicity back when I started out. Thanks to all my reviewers with the encouragements, love them all! To one user, thank you for noticing the fact that I could change my penname and information, but I couldn't possibly take myself off of a hundreds of users who had already signed me as their 'Favourite Author' or 'Alert Author' because of my past stories that I have written which is now not enlisted for a very long time. Then to the second user- yes, I do swear a lot in Latte Macchiato, but this is the reason of Rated T, for language. Where was I in the story?
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Hikari, this is Sonya! : D
After our last call a few minutes ago got me giggling with oh la la euphoria. (Which means happiness, by the way.) You, choosing Paris's richest and hottest looking entrepreneur and meeting him within the first day of your job is a God blessed and God given miracle! Let me remind you, he's a worldwide player, and he's known for taking an interest in dropping a girl after a few days (or nights to be specific, wink, wink; D) with her. Remember to keep Takeru Takaishi in line as soon as you start to unfold my (as how you politely pointed out) plan on him.
Kisses!
Sonya 3
I reread the stupid email over and hurriedly pulled out my iPhone, when I began text messaging Sonya just as Takeru slid onto the leather seat in front of me with my mug of latte macchiato and his pumpkin scone in hand. "Wait a sec." I excused myself as I turned to press in the letters.
"Are you telling your manager that you've met me, Takeru Takaishi?" The gorgeous hunk of blonde teased rather cockily, as he pulled on his hood and leant in towards my face.
I blushed as I continued pressing in the buttons, trying to ignore his husky smell of cologne that smelled like coffee and cigarettes…
Cigarettes?!
I snapped out of my moment of embarrassment as I snapped back to reality, "You smoke?!" I accused, covering the text on my iPhone as I press my palm on it, so that Takeru couldn't see what I was typing in. "It's bad for you!"
"I'm of age." Takeru muttered, as he lazily leant back, "Seriously, of all the girls I date, you're the first one that seems ridiculously unhappy that I smoke. All of the girls who I like love the fact that I have a smoky aroma." He scoffed and childishly crossed his arms, "this isn't fair."
Amused at his sudden ignorance as an immature adult, I raised an eyebrow, "Who says I'm part of the girls you're dating?"
"Since I said so. At this point. You amuse me." The blonde sniffed.
"You're such a brat." I muttered, taking a sip of coffee. I looked down at her iPhone and finally pressed in 'SEND'. Now all I had to do was to wait for Sonya to reply back. "I'm heading home." I stood up, and slid out of the seats, before almost knocking off my balance as Takeru's sturdy arm shot out and grabbed my wrist, halting me at the moment as she turned down to look at him. "What now?"
"You spilled coffee on me." Takeru pointed out.
"I said I was sorry!" I defended, yanking my arm away.
"That's not enough." The boy childishly insisted again, "You owe me dinner."
"No." I responded instantly, turning to Takeru, forgetting the fact that he was my mannequin for the next assignment for euphoria Lust, "I'll just buy you new clothes for the clothes I ruined and we'll be over."
"But I don't want new clothes. I can just wash this off if I extra bleach it more enough." Takeru commented, before staring at me with huge puppy dog eyes, "Please?"
I blinked, unable to loose contact with such beautiful ocean blue eyes… "Err…"
"Yes!" Takeru cheered, disregarding the fact that I haven't said 'yes' but 'err…', before gently pushing closer towards the door, "I'll call you where we'll meet." He pulled back. One hand hung loosely in his jacket pocket as the other arm reached into pocket to get his cellphone as it started ringing.
"You don't know my cellphone number." I insisted, raising an eyebrow as I glanced at his suspicious hidden hand in the pocket.
Takeru gave an innocent grin "Sure I do." His hand pulled out from his pocket and slipped a familiar iPhone into my cardigan pocket. I would've punched him in anxiety and shock if my arms weren't around my laptop protectively. "Surprised, right?" Looking at his cellphone he pulled out, he screened for the Caller I.D. and pressed in a few buttons. He probably saved it. Damn.
Then, he lifted it in front of my face as I continued fuming, and then I heard a snapshot.
"Oh my God!" I shouted, "Did you just take a picture of me?"
The whole café stopped chatting as they faced Takeru and I.
The tall blonde raised a curious eyebrow, "Relax," he drawled, "It's for a picture for Caller I.D. Hikari Yagami, right?" He continued to press in a few buttons, and then looked up at me as if to analyze me, "Still, I think you're just as beautiful when you're angry." He snapped his phone shut and pocketed it, before smirking and pushed open the glass doors, "I'll call you when I'm free! You owe me dinner!" He disappeared as the blurred glass doors closed behind him, leaving me gapping.
"What are you looking at?!" I snapped at the customers in English, totally scaring them back to their coffee cups.
"Shit, shit, shit." I murmured as I carried my laptop out the door, "This has absolutely been the worse day ever. First I got flown off to my original hometown where I haven't been in nor contacted for 3 years, then I spill coffee on a hot guy. Then Sonya tells me about the latest assignment and I stupidly chose the guy out of my convenience who just happens to be Paris's hottest entrepreneur whose known as a heartbreaker! Now he stole my phone while he distracted me with his gorgeous blue eyes, and then made me lose face to the customers of Starbucks!" I groaned.
I kicked the door open and grimaced as I heard an employee shout, "OI! RESPECT THE PLACE!" in a horribly accented English.
As soon as I reached the subway station, I fished around for tokens in my wallet in my left cardigan pocket, before purchasing a JR subway line ticket. At least Sonya had given me a suite in a luxurious hotel she booked in Odaiba.
After throwing my laptop at my Queen sized bed as soon as I reached my suite, I picked up my iPhone after it started to chime with 3 incoming text messages.
TO: KARI YAGAMI (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
FROM: TAI YAGAMI (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
SUBJECT: WTF. U COULDVE TOLD ME!!
U'R IN ODAIBA, JPN RITE NOW? OMG. Y DIDN'T U TELL ME IN DA 1ST PLACE? MUMS GONNA FREAK. :O
I gave a thin smile as I read the simple lined text message from my older brother in which I haven't talked to for a very long time. Even reading this short message makes me feel at home as I screened down for the next text message.
TO: ODAIBA BABE (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
FROM: SONYA (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
SUBJECT: Re: SHIT.
Relax, darling. Everything's gonna b smooches w/ ur talents in literature & art. & pleez, enough w/ da swearing. (nd u spelld 'entrepreneur' wrong.) ;D
TO: SONYA DA BOSS (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
FROM: HIKARI YAGAMI (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
SUBJECT: SHIT.
SHIT SHIT SHIT. KILL ME NOW SONYA. IVE JUST REALIZED DAT I HAVE 2 HOOK UP & BREAK UP W/ PARIS'S HOTTEST ENTREPREUNER W/IN 10 DAYS. FUCK!! X.X
I giggled as I read Sonya's personal idea of comfort. Her personal idea of comfort is sweet-name me with darlings and smooches. I almost dropped the cellphone when I read the last message.
TO: LATTE MACCHIATO (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
FROM: TEEKS (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
SUBJECT: BLANK
Yo latte macchiato! Dun freak out wen u c 'teeks' its takeru. :D u remember dat u o me dinner. tomorrow at 8 pm. mikasa restaurant. Go google mikasa da sushi place. I'm 2 lazy. XD. Ttyl.
I frowned. "You mean never." I closed the phone and threw it on the bed. Before pausing, and picking it up again as I decided to reply all my messages. I frowned at the nickname Sonya and Takeru gave me when they messaged me. Considering all the contacts I know, so far each one has downloaded an application that allows the user to nickname the phone number. I gave Taichi (or known as Tai) the nickname Tai-Tai Yagami, and Sonya 'Sonya da Boss'. I left my name as 'Hikari Yagami.' I thought for a moment as I tried to give a name to 'Teeks'.
TO: TAI-TAI YAGAMI (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
FROM: HIKARI YAGAMI
SUBJECT: Re: WTF. U COULD'VE TOLD ME!!
chillax Tai. ;D u should b happy dat ur lil sis is finally back from nyc instead of freekin out cuz I never calld u. u act lika gurl sometimes. :O & ya tai, I called u a gurl. gasp. I'll b in Odaiba 4 a short wile tho. Prob only 4 i duno, 10 days? (I cringed when I remembered my assignment the instant I typed '10 days') C u l8er bro. I'll contact u, mum & dad soon.
Then I moved on to Sonya's message.
TO: SONYA DA BOSS
FROM: HIKARI YAGAMI
SUBJECT: Re: Re: SHIT.
Wat da hell do u mean 'relax'?! omfg!! I'm still totally freekin out! This is tk we're talking bout! TK. (I had no idea how I got the name 'T.K.' in the blink of an eye, but it popped in my head as another familiar picture of a good looking blonde named as 'Takeru' popped in my mind) & stopit w/ da nickname 'odaiba babe'!! its pissing me off! XP
I scowled when I reread Takeru's message.
TO: TK
FROM: HIKARI YAGAMI
SUBJECT: Re: BLANK
Look here. 1st of all. DUN CALL ME LATTE MACCHIATO. I SED I WAS SORRY. 2nd of all- u duno where I live. I can easily not com 2morrow. 3rd of all- if u wanna go on a date w/ a girl: EFFING GOOGLE MIKASA URSELF!
I gave satisfied smile when I pressed send and laid on my bed with my arms and legs spread out. Pushing up my laptop onto my stomach, I went onto MSN to 'properly' communicate with Sonya about the next project. Waiting to login, I halted when I read a bubble that popped out, asking me whether or not if I wanted to accept an invitation from an email nicknamed as 'Teeks'. I groaned, how the hell did he find my email address now?!
Accepting it since I thought I would give him a good spamming, I was stunned when Sonya (who was online) added me into a conversation.
Kari – Japanesque has entered the conversation.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: OMG HIKARI. UR DA BEST.
Kari – Japanesque says: OMG SONYA. KILL ME NOW. XP
Sonya.beautiqueen says: LOL Hika. u'll live. Its just 10 days w/ da hottest guy on earth.
Kari – Japanesque says: and I have to record down every single thing dat happens 2 us?
Kari – Japanesque says: …
Kari – Japanesque says: NOT KEWL.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: come 2 think bout it. I actually have his email.
I almost virtually strangled Sonya as I groaned.
Kari – Japanesque says: omfg Sonya. Were u da 1 dat gave him my msn?!
Sonya.beautiqueen says: …
Kari – Japanesque says: o no u didn't!
Sonya.beautiqueen says: o yes I did?
Kari – Japanesque says: hey boss. I think u should lemme handle dis issue BY MYSELF.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: I decline. :P 'sides, takeru & I r good buds.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: o yea. Who da hell's tk? (I just read ur text message)
Kari – Japanesque says: ur mom.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: o pleez. Dat's such a lame insult.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') has entered the conversation.
Kari – Japanesque says: SONYA.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: lmao.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: takeru! Long time no chat!
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: Sonya!!
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: latte macchiato? O.O
Kari – Japanesque says: Shut up
Sonya.beautiqueen says: Hika's 'latte macchiato'?
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: lol. Apparently so.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: why? O.o
Kari – Japanesque says: DON'T TK
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: t.k. t.k. t.k. I read ur textmessage & I like my new nickname. XD
Kari – Japanesque says: good. Now fuck off.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: lets keep this convo g rated.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: seriously tho. y is hika 'latte macchiato'?
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: yea kari. Y?
Kari – Japanesque says: cuz.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: she spilled latte macchiato all over me 2day.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: …
Sonya.beautiqueen says: OMFG. REALLY?!
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: lol?
Sonya.beautiqueen says: DIS IS SO EFFING FUNNY. I'M TELLIN SORA.
Kari – Japanesque says: -.-
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') says: poor latte. Want me to fill u up w/ cream?
Sonya.beautiqueen says: …
Kari – Japanesque says: …
Sonya.beautiqueen says: that sounded undeniably wrong.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAISUKE says: ….yea. dat smutty phrase wasn't me.
Sonya.beautiqueen says: such lies.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAISUKE says: so I heard latte's a total chick. I even saw her pics on google.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAISUKE says: stalker much, daisuke?
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAISUKE says: its davis!
Sonya.beautiqueen says: I believe my fave employee has fainted w/ ur stupidity daisuke Motomiya!
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAVIS says: its davis!
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAVIS says: …
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAVIS says: OMG. SONYA? WHEN DID U GO ONLINE?
Kari – Japanesque has left the conversation.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAVIS says: aww.. its no fun w/ latte macchiato.
Teeks & t.k. (stolen off by 'iknowwho') – IF U READ SOMETHING STUPID IT WAS DAVIS has left the conversation.
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD has entered the conversation.
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD says: SONYA!
Sonya.beautiqueen says: o god.
Sonya.beautiqueen has left the conversation.
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD says: am I de only one in the convo again? O.o
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD says: …
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD says: aw
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD says: shucks
Teeks' msn but w/ a better looking face using it- me. Davis. XD has left the conversation.
I flopped on my bed as soon as I logged off. Tomorrow was going to be a long day.
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The msn that called Hikari 'Latte' is Daisuke Motomiya, and the msn that called Hikari 'Latte Macchiato' is Takeru Takaishi. Do not get confused!