A/N: Hello. If ever you're reading this and you know I haven't finished The Express and Define yet, don't worry, that's coming next. For my readers in that story, I will tell you my (hopefully) reasonable reason for being absent for a long time. But like I always promised, I won't abandon any of my stories. Anyhow...I wrote a new fic with an offer of my sincere apology.
If this gets enough attention, I plan to make this a multi-chapter story. Don't be afraid, I'm on vacation now, and for those who've seen me update in vacations -you know I always update almost everyday :D
Ok, I hope this is as good as I imagined it to be.

CHAPTER I

Asuka

Lili stayed still on the ground. The only part of my body that wasn't touching hers was my face. I had meant to run away as fast as possible. The way things turned out tonight is going to change everything. The moment I move from this position above her will commence that change. I'm supposed to be on my feet now, getting as far away from her. But I can't help but to look at her. What with the flush on her face, and the awe in her eyes. She looked both scared and embarrassed. Kind of like what I'm feeling right now.

"Asuka!" The sound of my own name reaches my ears. I push up myself from the ground and look at her one last time. Her eyes locked with mine, and then a deeper shade of red came across her face.

"Asuka!" The yell came again. I looked at my back, and I saw Xiaoyu running for dear life. Alisa and Leo were far ahead of her by now. Sebastian stood at the other side of the car, asking his mistress if she was ok.

I scrambled to find ground on my feet, and then I started to run away too. I ran so fast, my hair was flying everywhere, and I swear, I didn't even know which directions I was taking. I turned left, right, right, left, straight, left, and some more turns that I don't want to try to memorize anymore.

Then I felt a hard hold on my forearm. It took me a moment to halt.

"Asuka, you dumbhead, why did you use the right door? I told you we were going to jump out of the left door!" Xiaoyu said, her voice coming low and out of air.

"You fell head on to Lili, I was so scared for my life, and I couldn't stop running." Leo appeared, coming down from the forest ahead us.

"Asuka, are you alright? It took you a long time to run away." Alisa came close to me, deliberately placing her hand on my shoulder.

I wanted to tell them something along the lines of "I'm going to kill the three of you tonight, and no one will ever know" but I found myself unable to speak. My heart is beating crazy, and I suddenly felt so tired after stopping the run. I raised my hand, intending to hit Xiaoyu in the head, but it fell right back to my side. I sat down on the grass and said "I hope you three have a plan on how I'll survive tomorrow."

*Sour Grape*

Ok, so I might have jump to the climax because I'm really impatient with telling stories in a chronological way. But, come on, stories are better told when the start is actually the middle, and your middle is actually your start, wait. Am I even making sense?

Well, who cares? I know I don't.

Anyways, I'll just do the storytelling now.

The start of the story is actually set two years ago. (Yeah, I'm the evil narrator who dares to skip two years' worth of events and jump at the climax just to spoil you all) You see, two years ago. An old man who looked like a human rabbit (though some say he isn't, no one can change my mind about that.) went to my Daddy's (Did I just say that? Man, Lili is really rubbing into me) dojo and beat up everyone in sight. I came home from school, and I heard that my old man was sent to the hospital, so I went there and he told me everything.

I promised myself I would make that rabbit pay, and luck was on my side. I had a righteous policeman help me find where he is, and I have to thank him in a way. I discovered the Iron Fist Tournament was where the rabbit is, and I chased him there, and I beat him up. And I beat other people up, which was really great because at home, I mostly just stop fights, not engage in them.

My first tournament was a blast. (Except for the fact that this weird guy, who actually turned out to be Jin my devil relative of somewhat fell into my chest) I was sure I was going to come back.

And then I met her.

Emilie De Rochefort.

She strode down to the stage in a catwalk that I thought only girls in modeling could do correctly. She wiped her hair, long and silky as she said something I don't remember anymore. A princess. That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw her, and that's before I even knew she was actually rich.

The fight ensued, and (coughing) as expected, I won.

But for the next days that came, I started regretting to have ever won that battle.

I was chased relentlessly like a wanted criminal. She did everything to rattle the peace out of me. Who would pay a bunch of artist wannabe's just to piss off their rival? The girl was unexplainably attached to me from then on.

And come two years later.

Here I am, at the last year of my High School. I haven't been visited by the princess, thank God. However, I have to admit that I'm actually looking forward to her return.

Senior year is a bore. Classes are longer and the subjects are beginning to become more obscure for the lazy student to try to understand.

Love life is drained to zero. I had two boyfriends last year, who I broke up with because they were beginning to get too clingy. Also, most of the times, they get to develop this fear of me and are just as happy to cut the relationship.

Honestly, I've just got off a new relationship last week. I had a lot of expectations about that last boyfriend of mine. He was a black belt Karateka from another dojo, and we've been close since middle school since we always see each other in contests and programs. I had a crush on him for a while, and then he confessed to me, and we ended up dating for 4 months. Maybe the relationship would've gone longer if we didn't chance see this group of kids being bullied by some thugs on one of our dates.

I couldn't help not to help the kids, and he backed me up, which was good. We fought the thugs together, but soon, I was left fighting alone. He was kicked down to the ground, and I dragged him out of the way and continued to beat up the others because I was mad that they did that to him.

Why can't good things happen to good people?

He ended up ignoring me the next day, and it took him two weeks to get the guts to show his face again.

I was walking down the pathway connecting the baseball field and the gym in a public sports park. He was waiting for me at the door of the gym. He smiled while attempting to walk closer to me.

I asked him what he was doing there, and he told me that he wanted to say sorry about ignoring me for a long time.

I rolled my eyes. I gave him a smirk and then I approached him with my feet thumping loudly on the ground. He squished his eyes shot and backed away until his back hit the wall of the gym.

"Oh, I see" I said, sounding like I realized something important.

"What do you see, Asuka – san?" He asked, hardly able to face me.

"I've diagnosed you to be suffering from Asuka Phobia. Don't worry, because a lot people seem to be having them these days, it's somehow contagious in a way. But fortunately for you, there is a cure that has been well tested and verified to work on all cases."

"A cure? What is it?" He asked, enthused.

I formed my hand into a tight fist and rubbed my knuckles with my other hand. I heard him swallow. I placed my palm above my knuckles and then I pushed it down. The sound of knuckles crackling together was as garish as I wanted.

"Stay away from me" I said, putting a last crack on my pinky finger.

The guy looked terrified. He took a run from the side of the gym and never looked back at me. He tripped on a rock not too far away and began to curse while he tried to run again, but he couldn't. He ended up walking all wobbly and weak.

As I looked at him, I felt a very upsetting feeling in me.

I can't believe I dated someone like that. Again.

The thing is, no one ever worked out for me. The guys are all either scared or insecure of me. Even girls are the same.

The guys think I'm hot, and they'll date me. When they realize they can't get into my pants, they get mad. I lose my temper, and they run scared.

The girls think I'm a bitch? Someone who's out to flirt with any guy because they believe I can. Unfortunately, it's hard to flirt when you know that 99.99% of the men are more attracted to your assets than you.

But none of this is about to matter in a few days. The Iron Fist Tournament is set to start by the end of this month, and I am excited. Well, that's before I knew that the tournament this year will be the craziest.

So, my school life continues, and I had no dates to go to anymore, yadda, yadda.

The Iron Fist Tournament starts, and I'm back at the so-called Tekken Center. This is backstage knowledge, but Tekken Center is a place where all Tekken participants can come and stay and entertain themselves while waiting for their fights.

The residence is free, and you can stay here until the end of the tournament, or only until you're still in the tournament. When a participant reaches the quota of lost, of course, it means you're not fighting anymore so you have to move out.

I always abuse the rights of the participant in the Tekken Center. I take up a room for two people but never actually let anyone stay with me there –The room next to me also happens to be empty every time, so I guess no one is actually interested in staying at the residence. I eat the breakfast-lunch-and-dinner buffet from opening to close (as long as I don't have a fight to attend). I happen to be one of the very few people who sojourns here at the center for the entire season of the tournament.

Once in a while, some participants who don't stay here, still comes to enjoy the food and the many entertainment provided. There's a theater room, an indoor and outdoor pool, a library (with an alarmingly open data about every other participant in the tournament), table tennis, volleyball, basketball, and my favorite, the Tekken Park.

The Tekken Park is a big outdoor hanging place complete with mini-stores, landscaping, fountains, ponds, mini-bridges and benches with futuristic themes like the street lamps that floats and glows blue.

Most of my time is spent in enjoying some burger at a bench near a fountain or a pond. I would prefer to be alone, but Xiaoyu and Alisa doesn't seem to understand that.

"Hey, there she is" Xiaoyu said, pointing her hand on a street lamp at the other side of a big glowing-in-blue fountain.

I ignored whoever it is she wants me to look at. For today, I was relaxing with my eyes closed and my head resting on the back support of the metallic bench. I won another fight this morning, but the victory strained me to the point where I want to sleep now and not fight until next week.

"I would like to believe that she is hiding, but she seems oblivious that we can clearly see her." I heard Alisa say.

My curiosity takes the better of me. I open my eyes and take a peek at their target. Some twenty footsteps away, Lili was unsuccessfully hiding behind the thin black street lamp. She was looking at our direction, but customarily it was me she was looking at.

"Hmm, are we not going to talk about this?" Xiaoyu sprouted.

"What?" I asked her, as if I didn't know what she was talking about.

Once upon a crazy time, a Chinese girl told a Japanese girl that a Monegasque girl has a crush on her. The Japanese girl told her she was good at jokes. The Chinese said "thanks" but realized what that meant and got mad at the Japanese. A Russian Android came along and since she and the Chinese girl were close, she sided with the Chinese, and the Japanese was left to listen to their teamwork in proving that the Chinese girl was right.

"She's stopped looking. I think she's going to come here." Alisa said, holding out a pair of big binoculars (To which heaven knows why she would need because she can do ultra-zoom with her eyes).

Nonetheless, she was right. Lili walked from her side to ours and stood in front of me.

"Hello, Kazama" She said, her smile ingenious as ever.

"Yo" I said. I then went back to closing my eyes and relaxing in the bench.

"Lili, why are you here?" I heard Xiaoyu ask.

"Am I not allowed to be here? I'm a participant too you know."

Xiaoyu laughs. "Well, of course we all know that. Kind of like how everybody knows you have it hard for our Osakan Peace Mediator here" I opened my eyes when I heard my alias name. I saw how Xiaoyu poked Lili in the arm with her elbow and do a fast wink while giving me a look.

"Clearly you're delusional. A high stature girl like me could never be even close to being fond of a mediocre girl coming from Japan's well known ruthless and haphazard place." Lili said the words without a pause, a stammer or a laugh. That's a dead serious speech if you ask me. And ouch, am I really so basic?

"I can sense a disturbing flow of waves from your body as you speak, Lili." Alisa came forward to Lili, suddenly holding her wrist. "Simply said, I know that you are lying."

Lili's face turned scared. She looked humiliated and tried to get out of Alisa's grasp.

"I don't like her." Lili said firmly.

"You're lying. I can feel it." Alisa said more firmly.

I don't know who I'm going to believe in this situation. First off, I never knew Alisa had a lying detector installed in her robotic body. Second, it's just impossible for this rich brat to actually like me. I mean, it's not that I'm degrading myself, but…I'm a girl, I mean I do act boyish but I can never come out as a boy, thanks to these racks. Emilie De Rochefort, is a rich, fastidious, mischievous and (hesitant to agree) beautiful girl. She could have anyone she wants. She's correct when she said that it's delirious she'd go for someone who's not in the same level as her. I'd imagine if I was her, I would date all the rich guys in my neighborhood, and maybe even get a chance with celebrities. Her choices and chances are as wide and varied as the sky. It's just impossible.

"I don't like her."

"You're lying."

Well, that exchange of words went on for some minutes and Xiaoyu was just looking back and forth from each girl. I didn't realize I was doing the same, and then we were both cheering for someone to win the argument already.

"I don't like her. I don't. I don't. I don't!" Lili tried pulling her hand away.

"You do, you do, you do! I can feel it!" Alisa's grasp was getting tighter by the look of how crumpled the sleeve of Lili's dress was becoming.

"Ouch, can you let me go now?"

"Not unless you admit it."

"I have a fight in like a minute, and I can't do this anymore." Lili pointed her hand on the limousine that was waiting for her at the entrance of the park.

"Hey there, everyone" Leo suddenly appeared from behind me.

"Leo, tell us, do you think Lili has a crush on Asuka?" Xiaoyu asked swiftly.

"Huh?" Leo muttered, obviously out of surprise.

"Oh, no, not her too" Lili sighed. "Kazama, stop sitting around there and make them stop."

"I'm not doing anything"

"Exactly." Lili adjusted her eyes, making them stare full sharp and intent on me. "Don't even think about believing them."

"I wouldn't dare." I answered her sarcastically.

"I can feel the heat rising here" Xiaoyu cuts in. She makes a gesture of fanning herself.

I growled as I rolled my eyes. She saw it, and stopped doing her fan-miming.

"Let her go. She's not going to give me a break again if you keep doing this. You don't know what she does when she wants to get revenge on me." I cross my hands on my chest, trying to look annoyed, although I would like to piss Lili more. It's very rare that I'm the one making her look like a goof like this.

Alisa follows me and removes her clutch on Lili's wrist. The princess gave me a hard stare before huffing and leaving the area. That was enough of a sign that I'm going to have another visit after this tournament.

"Why do you think she has a crush on Asuka?" Leo asked Xiaoyu. A little too loud for my liking.

"Leo, don't listen to her –them (I saw Alisa approach the German from behind). They're just looking for a way to waste the time while waiting for their fights."

"No, Leo, don't listen to Asuka. The girl is the incarnation of density. It's so obvious that Lili is into her, right? I mean, she's always following Asuka, even in Japan. I saw them along with Panda when I was coming late for school. "

"We were fighting just before you came rodeo style on us. Have you accepted now that you actually threw Lili's limousine?"

Xiaoyu looked guilty for a moment, but she jumped to ignoring what I said and continued her bombast. "And then Lili came back again a year after that. Alisa told me she saw them on the street."

"It's true." Alisa came forward excitedly. "I saw the whole thing happen. Asuka came to stop these group of guys from fighting but the trouble just got bigger. Then Lili appeared in her limousine announcing something in a megaphone. The guys made peace in a jiff and Asuka was visibly confused. She went over to Lili, and it turned out that Lili paid the guys to act, all because she wanted Asuka to fight her."

"See!" Xiaoyu shouted with her hands rocking Leo on the shoulders. "Who pays a bunch of people to get the attention of one person?"

"Apparently, you forgot that Lili is way richer than all of us. Whatever she paid those guys were only pennies of her allowance. Not too much to give if it means bugging me."

"Then aren't you curious why she's so fixated in annoying you?" Leo asked me.

"Well it's because –"I actually don't know what to answer her. "Whoa, I just realized I never thought of that before."

"Hah!" Alisa and Xiaoyu exclaimed together. "There's a hole you can't put a lid on!"

"Asuka, Asuka. It will be better if you give more credit to me." Xiaoyu sat on the bench next to me. "I've had a crush on this one person (I know it's Jin) for a long, long, long (just say darn) time now. I'm an expert when it comes to extracting the symptoms of a crush-forlorn girl. And, it is, with my eager eyes on Lili, and Alisa's backup, that I confidently conclude: Emilie De Rochefort, your so called Princess, has it hard on you." Xiaoyu pointed two indexes on me.

"My princess? That's a sweet way to put it." I said with a hefty laugh.

Xiaoyu looked upset, her thoughts were sidelined by me again. Alisa was sharing the same expression, and Leo was left to watch the three of us.

The tall German made a move of making her hand to a fist and saying with utmost energy "Let's put a stop on this argument by proving it tonight."

Our heads moved in unison to look at her. I looked speechless and awed. The other two were in glee.

"Oooh, I know how we can do that!" Alisa said in a matter of seconds.

"You've tried every reason and example on me. Not even a book of your observations will make me believe it." I sighed, when I saw them move closely to each other far away from me. They whispered on each other's ears and giggled and looked at me and then they whispered again.

I was beginning to feel like going back to my room and sleeping on them, but they got back at me before I could move away from the bench.

"Asuka. We've come up with the best scheme to prove that we're right." Xiaoyu tackled my arms, making sure I wouldn't leave them before they could finish saying their intents. "If we can't make you believe that Lili has a crush on you. Then, how about if Lili says it herself?" She said in a nifty voice.

"Yeah, go at it. She wouldn't say it a while ago even when Alisa was close to cutting her hand off."

"Well, that's because she knew you were there." Xiaoyu wiggled her eyebrows. "But, if perhaps, she didn't know you were listening –"

"And she was only with someone she trusted, she wouldn't be so afraid of admitting it, wouldn't she?" Alisa continued off for Xiaoyu.

"And how exactly can you make a situation like that?" I asked, but by the next second, I wished I never even wondered.

*Sour Grape*

Outside of the Mishima Dojo stage, the parking lot is located at the rear. Xiaoyu, Alisa, Leo and me, were going around with flashlights on our hands to find the only white limousine parked there. Unfortunately (for them) and fortunately (for me), the limo was nowhere to be found.

"Well, tough luck. Guess it's a sign you were all wrong from the start." I turned off my flashlight and started going back to the entrance of the parking area. It took me by surprise that the three were quick to give up as well.

We made our way to the gate of the entrance when we saw a light coming. We moved to the side, and saw that the incoming car was none other than the white Limo. We watched it enter the Parking area. It made a hard right and then it settled for a slot at the very end.

"Now, this is a sign." Xiaoyu stated quietly. "Let's go" She said as she walked first.

I heaved, I really thought (prayed) we wouldn't get through the plan.

Sebastian, Lili's faithful and all around butler came down from the limo and walked a few steps away. He took out a phone from the inside of his jacket and proceeded to speak to someone. We got close to the left of the Limo, when I realized that he was talking to Lili. He said her name and spoke continuously in their own language.

I was still trying to get the conversation when Leo discovered that the door at the back of the Limo was open.

"Is this not enough of a sign yet, huh Asuka?" Xiaoyu had to praise herself loudly, causing Sebastian to look at his back. We got to hide behind the car before he could see us, and then I could hear Lili's voice from the other line of the phone.

"I'm coming out now." I wasn't the only one who heard that, so before Sebastian could move back to the driver's door, we went inside the open door at the back. There were bags and heavy suitcases at the back of the limo, but we thought it was good because it would help us hide ourselves.

"Wait a minute." Xiaoyu took out a piece of paper from her pocket and took a quick run to the front seat of the Limo. She slid the paper on the crack between the frame and window.

Now, inside the Limo, we shoved the bags away and positioned ourselves sitting next to each other. We then took one bag each and placed it above us, but we left some open spaces to let air in, or else we might die from suffocation there.

We waited for at least five minutes before we heard Lili's voice. She was speaking in her native tongue again. She opened the back door of the Limo, and we thought we were going to die.

"Oh, it's cramped." She said.

We sighed within ourselves. We survived, she didn't notice us inside.

"I'm sitting at the front Sebastian." She yelled before closing the door.

When Sebastian closed his door and started the engines, we heard the click of the locks on the door.

This is bad. We're under automatic lock inside the car. If things get wrong, there's no way we can escape. We'd have to hide until the car stops and then wish we can get out without being caught.

The limo starts moving. Lili started to speak along with it.

"I know your secret."

"What did you say Miss Lili?"

"Look at this Sebastian, it was stuck in the window sill."

I couldn't get the best view of the front because of the bag on top of me and the black wall separating the drivers area from the limo's back. There's a small rectangular opening at the top of the wall, and you can see the people at the front by looking at rearview mirror placed on the top middle part.

"What secret could they probably know?" the sound of paper crumpling was audible even from the back. The sound of a window opening and closing can also be heard. I'm thinking that she threw the paper away.
If we weren't hiding, I wanted to tell Xiaoyu that I knew it, this plan wouldn't work at all.

"I have way too many secrets to even have a clue on what that paper is talking about." Lili said with a laugh at the end.

"Hmm" Sebastian mused. "If the person placed it there while you're here at the tournament, then it must be something connected to joining Tekken. Wouldn't it be not, Miss Lili.?"

"Like what? The fact that I'm escaping my father every year to join this tournament? That's not something worth blackmailing me for. My father could get mad at me and I'd still come back. Daddy always forgives me anyways."

Yeah, Xiaoyu, take that! Face it, you are wrong. I really want to be able to talk right now.

However; I saw Sebastian smile from the rearview mirror. He eyed Lili and gave her a trifling laugh. "What about the reason why you keep coming back every year, Miss?"

Lili's eyes went wide. She cracked an amused laugh back at him. "Asuka Kazama"

Ok, now, I feel like Xiaoyu is the one saying "Take that".

"That lousy pauper from Japan. She thinks she's all great, heroic and perfect."

Or maybe not.

"But you like her, don't you miss Lili?"

And there it is again.

"Like is such a strong word Sebastian. It's more like I'm entertained with her. She's too easy to annoy, and she has tendencies to be gullible, and she's just so fun to tease."

I guess I'm still winning this.

"Who am I kidding, huh?"

Say what?

I heard Sebastian laugh. This time it was a real laugh. . "I thought you'd keep up your act until the end of the night "

No, no.

"But you would go along with me right? Like how you always help me out to hone my acting skills."

Yes. That's right, change the topic.

"Of course I would, Ms. Lili. It's enjoying for me as well."

Yeah, go on, talk about her future in becoming the next Academy award winner.

"Ah, but it would be nice if that was true! If Asuka Kazama was just but an eyesore that I can play with."

Is she still acting or is true now?

"You fall in love too easily, Miss."

Woah, no way.

"I do, I know that, but at least, unlike others, I don't let my feelings control me. Half of the time I'm in love, I don't really act in love."

Is this actually happening? Am I not just sleeping at my room having this dream?

"Yes, but you can forget to lower down your stalking tendencies Miss."

She had actually stalked me?

"Sebastian, you were the one who taught me how to stalk people. "

And the old butler is the one who taught her?

"I was trained to do so, Miss. After all, I always need to keep an eye on you."

Amaterasu!

"Well, it looks like it's backfiring on me, whoever wrote that is going to come out sometime….who cares anyways, unless I admit my secrets no one would know it right?"

No. Someone will know it if you keep talking until the end of this ride.

"Unless I admit that I'm escaping my dad every year to join Tekken, they wouldn't know."

Stop right there.

"The same goes for Asuka. Unless I admit it, no one will know that I actually like that cocky buffoon."

No way.

I don't even know how to say this.

Emilie de Rochefort, the princess. The rich brat. The girl who always told me that I'm her rival. She likes me. She really likes me, and she even stalks me?

What the hell did the world do to her?

Before I could stop myself, I heard a loud gasp escape from my mouth.

All four of us ended up gasping in chorus, and above those loud gasps, Xiaoyu's voice echoed "I was right!"

My head went dizzy. Lili looked at the back of the car, and we tried hiding ourselves better.

"Sebastian, is there someone at the back?"

"No, Miss. Just your stuff. I took them out from the Tekken center like you asked me too."

Lili calmed down and sat back on her seat at the front. "Yes. My co-fighters, Xiaoyu and Alisa are starting to get tabs on me. They kept insisting I admit that I like "The Osakan Peace Mediator". If that continues, I don't know how long my façade would last. It's better if I stay out of the center and move in a hotel from now on."

Damn. Don't give out too much information anymore! Xiaoyu is already shaking with happiness next to me.

"And we pay so big to have you get the room next to Asuka's."

Sebastian, you're doing a good job in frying your mistress.

"Kyaa, I just knew I was right!" Xiaoyu went again, and Lili looked back once more. This time, she didn't let it come across as some natural sound.

"Miss Lili, please don't turn the car that way" Sebastian reprimanded while we felt the limo going in fast drives from left to right. The bags were falling above us and in every side. We couldn't help but let out some small hard-suppressed yelps when the edges of her luggage's would hit us in parts of our body.

The car stops abruptly and the four of us fall head first on the floor of the limo. The sound of our bodies hitting the carpet finish was enough to make Lili panic. She told Sebastian to get out of the car and open the other door. I don't know what door she was talking about.

"Guys…..right door…go out" I heard Xiaoyu's voice come in and out. I couldn't hear everything, but from what I got, I took that I should use the right door.

The two doors on both sides of the Limo opens. Because the back of the limo was shut dark with the luggage above us, the light coming from the outdoor lampshades almost blinded me. I crawled my way out of the baggage and reached the footstep of the Limo. I tried standing up, but a bag hits me in the back and then I started to fall.

I was expecting a hard, grainy texture in the ground. My hands scratched the pavement, but my body didn't. I shake my head, and realize the horror of what was really happening.

I had in fact fell on top of Lili. In the most compromising position you could ever imagine.

My chest was on her face.

"Why does this keep happening to me?" I said out loud before I raised my head. I was supposed to run.

But you know what happened next.

Is it good? bad? I'd like to hear your comments
also, for those curious minds.
The title "Sour Grape"
Is a psychology term for a human defense mechanism. It is the denial of the desirability of something after one believes that it cannot be reached or acquired.
for example, you really wanted to become a doctor, but you realized you can't be one because you don't have the money to study it, and so, you end up acting you never actually liked the thought of being a doctor. And you would continue that thought until you go to the point where you really don't want to be a doctor anymore.
Well, let's see how that title plays out in the story.