To Remember You

Chapter 4
Paintings

Len's POV

I stared at my ceiling that night, just thinking quietly to myself. My hand flew to my face and I groaned. This was all my fault. I've successfully erased my own girlfriend's memory of me and not even when I was sober enough to comprehend what had just happened. She deserves much better, but...even when she unconscious, she still loves me. Why the hell did I not fight more against Meiko and that stupid alcohol? Christ, the more I think about it, the more I felt like screaming. This sucked. There was no better way to describe it. The best way to describe how I felt was shit. I sat up and turned on the light. There's no way I could sleep tonight. That's when I heard someone knock on my door and I opened it to see a mop of blonde hair and wide blue eyes. Rin.

"Can I help you?" I asked.

"Um...I couldn't get to sleep because of all the times I fainted," she told me, a bit nervous. I smiled. She was so cute. "And you're really nice and I saw your light on so..."

"Do you want me to stay up with you?" I asked. She nodded shyly and I patted her head. "Alright then. What do you want to do?" She blushed and clasped her hands together.

"Uh, I was wondering if we could go to the gameroom," she said. I nodded and she went ahead so I could turn off the light in my room. Honestly? I was a sucker for saving energy and to save the earth. It gets to me how people could just blow off the earth like it was some eternal supplier for us. What idiots. I walked to the gameroom to see Rin on the floor with my laptop on her lap. She was playing Mother 3.

"Do you like this game?" I asked, taking a seat next to her. She nodded and I watched as she retrieved the Egg of Light.

"You know, Maou refused to tell me something," she said, staring at the screen. "He wrote about me not remembering you and that he had 'another chance'." Now she faced me. "Were you someone important to me?"

"Go slow or else she'll get hurt."

"I guess you could say that," I answered. I pointed to the screen. "Watch out, you're going to get yourself into a random battle." She put the game on pause and look at me dead in the eyes.

"Len, who are you to me?" she asked. I looked down and refused to meet her eyes.

"I can't tell you yet, but I promise I will," I answered. "If I do, you'll get another headache."

"How do you know that?" she asked.

"We think that every time you get a headache, you're remembering something," I told her. "And if you remember too much, your brain goes into a state of shock to where it shuts down and you faint."

"Then...what can you tell me?" she asked.

"I can tell you my name is Len Kagamine," I answered. She pouted and I chuckled.

"That's not funny," she said. "I don't like to forget things."

"I can see that," I answered. "Well, I guess I can try telling you one thing, but it's going to hurt." She nodded and I took in a deep breath. "I saved you." She frowned, but it was obvious that she didn't have a headache.

"Then why aren't I remembering anything like that?" she asked. I chuckled and handed her laptop.

"Lucas needs you now," I told her. She looked at the keyboard and then back at me. "I promise, if it'll make you feel better. I promise to help you regain your memory. Okay?" She nodded and stuck out her pinky. I made a pink promise with her and the rest of that night passed quickly. When she fell asleep, I carried her back to her room and tucked her in. I'm glad she didn't cut her hair. I liked it like that.

"Len..." she mumbled in her sleep. "Promise...I'll keep forever..." I smiled and left the room, gently closing the door. The things this girl did to me. I sighed, running my hand through my hair.

"I'm sorry, Rin," I mumbled to myself. I heard the door open and saw Rin step out to look at me.

"There's one more thing I would like to ask you..."

Miki's POV

The next day, I had my stuff all packed up and decided to go to Rin's place. Ever since she had her hemorrhage, I've been visiting there virtually every day. I really couldn't help it. I even had the keys because I visited the place so often. I let myself in the front door and saw Miku cleaning the TV with a duster.

"Hey Miku," I chirped. "How's are the love birds doing?"

"Alright," she said. "But if it was really up to me, I would rather had Rin forget about that no good Kagamine!" My eyes widened and I backed up a bit. "Gumi and Mikuo want her to remember, though. It pisses me off."

"Oh-kay," I said, a bit unsure. "Er...well, I'm gonna go upstairs." I ran up the two flights of stairs and finally entered the gameroom. Tamako saw me and smiled. "Hey Tamako, what's up?" She put her finger to her lip and beckoned for me to follow her down the hall. We got to Rin's room and I looked at her questioningly. She carefully opened the door and in the bed I saw them sleeping together so peacefully. Rin was happily snugged up against Len's chest and he had his arms around her with his chin on her head. I quietly closed the door and smiled.

"Even though she doesn't remember, she asked him to sleep with her," Tamako said, in a whisper.

"Really?" I asked. She nodded.

"I was going to the bathroom and overheard them," she continued. "She said she'd probably remember more if she slept with him. You know this isn't the first time?" I looked at her for a minute. "They slept together the night before Maou, Sen, and Retsu came over. I would have woken Rin up, but I saw Len was with her, so I didn't." We walked back to the game room.

"Speaking of Sen and Retsu, where are they?" I asked.

"Oh, they went back to Sapphiro this morning," Tamako said, as I took a seat on the couch. "They said something about Sen's mother having a baby and Retsu's dad came home from America."

"Oh," I said. "Well, we need to get packing to."

"We already finished," Jun said. "Oh crap!" On the screen flashed "game over" and I laughed. "Hey! It's not funny!" I rolled my eyes and waved him off. Hmm...I wonder if the love birds have woken up yet?

"WHAT THE HELL?"

Rin's POV

"WHAT THE HELL?" I heard someone yell. I groaned and just buried myself against Len. I could tell Len was awake too because he groaned with me. Jeez, who in the world yells at people like that? Who ever you are, let us sleep! We didn't get much sleep last night because we were playing video games! Well...I guess that was partly our fault, but still. Len really was nice and I guess I wasn't imagining it. Yesterday, I had a dream where I won a singing contest, but I was really nervous. I don't remember why I fainted or what I heard before I fainted, but I definitely knew it wasn't normal fainting. Anyway, back to the dream. When the judges were announcing the results, Len was there and he distracted me, so I wasn't nervous. And...uh...I think I kissed him...

"Who is it?" I whispered into Len's chest. His arms tightened a bit around me.

"I think it's Maou," he answered. I sighed into his chest and opened my left eye to check. Yup. That's definitely Maou. And he's angry.

"Can you call Miki?" I asked. "She'll kick him out like nobody's business." He covered my exposed ear and yelled for Miki.

"Miki, can you get this guy outta here?" he asked. "We're trying to sleep."

"Sure, but you know it's like the afternoon already, right?" she asked. I heard her push Maou into the hallway and him yelling.

"Yeah, we didn't get a lot of sleep last night," Len answered, moving his hand from my ear. Miki giggled.

"Well, I doubt you two will stay sleeping for any longer," Miki answered. I blushed a bit, but my face was buried in Len's chest so no one could see. She gently closed the door and I sighed again.

"She's right, you know?" Len whispered to me. "We can't stay here forever." I wish we could.

"But, it's so peaceful," I whined, quietly. He chuckled and sat up, making me sit up myself. "Thanks for staying here with me..." He smiled and patted my head.

"It's fine," he responded. "But the 'I'm afraid of monsters' thing won't work forever." I blushed as he got out of bed and fixed his hair back into its high ponytail. "I'll see you downstairs." He exited the room and I fell back onto my pillow. The dream I had flooded to the front of my mind and I blushed as I thought of the part where my lips met Len's. Am I in love with him? Was that what he was trying to keep from me? Nah, a guy like him probably things of me as his little sister or something. I mean we look so much alike, I wouldn't be surprised if he was my long lost twin brother. Wouldn't that make him Neru's twin brother too? That's what you call a full house. My fingers traveled to my lips as I kept thinking about the kiss. I quickly took my pillow, covered my face, and shrieked silently to it. My head started to hurt when I thought about kissing Len. I shrieked and rolled off my bed. My door swung open and someone picked me up. This was worse than normal! Who ever it was, I screamed in their chest and held my ears.

"Make it stop!" I screamed.

"Rin, calm down," a soothing voice murmured. I removed my left hand from my left hand and grasped the person's shirt. "It's okay, calm down." I looked up and saw Len looking down at me. "Don't think I didn't hear you scream when my room's next door."

"It hurts..." I told him. "It hurts so much..." He laid me down on the bed, but I refused to let go of him. "Don't leave me." Why do I always feel safe around him? Why can't I remember him? I want to remember someone I...someone I'm falling for. I sound like some love sick bitch. Len kept me on his lap as and murmured a song to me as my headache faded. I've never heard this song before, but I know it was sad.

"How do you feel now?" he asked. I found myself resting my head on his chest again.

"Better..." I murmured. There was no longer any doubt in my mind that he was someone important to me. I crawled out of his lap and turned to face him. "Len, you're an important person to me, aren't you?" His eyes covered his bangs as he crawled over to me. I noticed a smirk planted on his face.

"Why don't you tell me?" he said. Then he kissed me.