Chapter 1: Losing Faith

Disclaimer: I don't own Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai Ren at all...*grumble* Wish I did *grumble*

I can't remember if Satone is in the same school as the others! I'm just going to put her in the school (just in case) in a class that is one grade higher then Rikka and Yuuta.

Weather:- December 12th, snow everywhere. The wind is gentle...

Satone Shichimiya sat at her desk with her right hand propping her head up. Education was getting more and more boring every day. She had been thinking for near enough 2 days now. Whenever she saw Yuuta now-a-days her heart would no longer flutter...In fact Yuuta seemed like an ordinary friend of her's. Sure,
she had once wanted to be around him...Helping him in anyway that she could...Including the black haired girl...Takanashi...

Satone nearly tensed up. "Rikka..." She whispered barely above an ordinary whisper. That was the one who made her heart hit her throat. Rikka had Chuunibyou,sure, but that didn't change who she was...Not by a long shot. Satone had always kept Rikka in her head. The more and more that she thought about her, the further and further away Yuuta's image in her head disappeared...More and more until...

"Shichimiya!" The teacher shouted, startling the pink haired girl half to death. "Gah!" She squealed as the teacher glared at her. "You're very lucky that its time for you to go home! If I catch you day-dreaming again, I'll have to send a report to your parents! Do you want that?" Satone shook her head several times. "I'm sorry! It won't happen again!" The teacher nodded after 2 minutes, then returned to the front of the classroom.

[After Education Outside The Gates]

Satone walked towards the gate's with her head turned to the floor. 'If I really do like her...Doesn't that...It can't...But what if it is? That would...Make me a...lesbian wouldn't it? I don't know! Nyaaa!'

She shouted in her mind, not looking where she was going and bumped into another person.

Satone immediately stopped in her tracks. "I'm sorry! I'm ever so sorry!" She bowed multiple times.

"Sophia?"

Satone froze. There was only one person who called her that...It wasn't Sanae or Shinka...It was only one girl...Out of the entire group.
"Shichimiya? Are you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost" She heard Yuuta's voice as she rose her head to meet his gaze.

She nodded slowly. "Yeah, I'm alright" Yuuta tilted his head to the right slightly. "You don't look well, you should go home. We wouldn't want you to catch a cold right Rikka?" He looked to his girlfriend who nodded.

Satone couldn't look at Rikka. Even though her gaze was getting more and more heated every single second that she stood there. She bowed one more time.
"I've got to get...Moving, I'll see you two tomorrow!" Satone began to race away from the two.

"Stop right there Sophia"

Yet again Satone froze. Damn that girl for having the ability to make her freeze on the spot!

"Yuuta. I'll be right behind you. Stomach reserves depleting" Yuuta sighed. "You want me to cook your dinner again?"
Rikka smiled and nodded. "Yes" Yuuta groaned as he walked past Satone and towards the flat which he was in charge of...Mind you, it was a very big head-ache to organize and keep in order just to be sane...But Finances AND cooking on top? Satone didn't know how Yuuta did it.

"Right then. Look at me Sophia"

Sanae and Shinka were on their way to the gate's at the same time...By pure chance. "Look, there's Shichimiya!" Shinka stated and both her and Sanae hid behind a nearby bush.

"Sophia looks like she's scared...But of what I wonder?" Sanae whispered and Shinka nodded. "That's what I'd like to know"
Satone couldn't move. She wanted to turn to Rikka and make it clear what she had been thinking...

Yet she was petrified of being rejected. She couldn't tell Yuuta either. Yuuta and Rikka made a very good pair...There was no room for her...Not at all.
"I...Can't..." Satone whispered which got Shinka's other-worldly senses going. "That's odd..." She whispered as Sanae glanced at her.

"What do you mean?"

Shinka narrowed her eyes at Satone. "There's something wrong with her...But what..." Sanae nodded and turned her gaze back to her master and Satone.
Rikka sighed which made Satone feel very weak...In the same way that you would feel weak if your parents sighed, When they were trying to get the truth out of you...In short? Rikka didn't believe that Satone could look at her.

Rikka took several steps towards her. "I just said to you that I want you to look at me. Now Sophia! Turn and make your presence known!" It was Satone's turn to sigh as she lowered her head.

Sanae had been watching her master. Shinka had been watching Satone. When she got a firm picture in her head. 'No way...'
She thought carefully as she saw Satone's posture:- The pink haired girl had her head turned to the ground, her fists were clenched, she had sweat coming down her forehead...She even looked like she was tensed up. 'My god...She...She couldn't be...But she is...Does she have a, crush, on Rikka!?'

Rikka began to get rather annoyed by now. She had been trying to get her patience levels up or she called it:- Increasing her Stamina for battle.
She walked up to Satone and put a hand on her shoulder. Satone tensed up even further which both Shinka/Sanae and Rikka could all tell.

"What's the matter? You're normally full of energy Sophia...What's happened?"
Sanae began to connect the dots. "Don't tell me..." Sanae whispered. Shinka nodded. "Yeah...Shichimiya it would seem...Loves Rikka..."
Shinka whispered back which made Sanae widen her eyes in shock.

When Satone didn't answer, Rikka forced the pink haired girl to turn around. "Look. I don't have anything again-"
Before Rikka could finish her sentence, all three of them saw not just un-ease in her eyes, there was pain (which Shinka almost understood), endless amounts of sadness...But beyond that? Tears.

Sanae glanced at Shinka. "My god..." Shinka nodded. Rikka looked the pink haired girl up and down. Her gaze returning to Satone's eyes again. "You're not alright are you?" Satone shook her head several times. "N...No..." Her words even had pain in them...This was so unreal that Sanae and Shinka had to rub their eyes to make sure they were in reality.

Rikka tilted her head to the right. "What has..." Satone took in a deep rattled breath. "Its not something..." Rikka looked around for a moment, every student had left the school grounds by now. "Who is it?"

Satone turned her gaze to the floor once more. "Y...Y..."

That was the final piece of evidence that Shinka Nibutani needed, it was now so clear in her head...It was almost like writing black and white letters on a piece of paper.

That was real. This was fact. This was precisely what had been bothering Satone for days...

Rikka placed her left hand on Satone's right shoulder again. "Who?" She whispered as Satone turned her gaze onto Rikka's. Rikka immediately let go of Satone's shoulder.

The black haired girl didn't know much about emotions but...This was an emotion that she had shown Yuuta once...and only once.
Satone shook her head as her entire body shook. She spun around. "Hey! I didn't say turn around Sophia!"

Satone shook with her tears so much that Shinka thought Satone would collapse into a pit of despair...Right then...Right there.
Satone glanced back at Rikka. "The person who did this to me..." She whispered. "Was you" Satone whispered again.

The pink haired girl, before the black haired girl could react, raced off at high speed towards her parent's house who had only just got back to Japan.
Satone had lost the flat both because of no-money but because of not keeping the flat in good condition.

Rikka nearly screamed at the top of her lungs, but managed to keep it beneath a scream. "Sophia!"

[Satone's parent's house]
Mike Shichimiya and Akita Shichimiya were sitting down discussing their daughter. "You know...I don't think that Satone really wants a boyfriend" Mike started while Akita nodded. "Yeah...I reckon she..." They both nodded at one another. "Our daughter loves girls...Its something we've got to live with" Akita whispered.

"I am not going to throw her onto the street just because of that!" Mike nodded again. "Thing is...When do we ask her if its true?"
Mike looked down and then back to his wife. "We should ask her after dinner...Perhaps we might get an answer then?" Akita smiled. "Yeah that soun-" She was cut off by the door closing gently. Mike stood up. "That must be her now"

Akita looked at him. "I'll go get the dinner started" Mike smiled. "Thank you Akita" Akita smiled back as she got up and headed for the kitchen. "You're welcome Mike"

Before Mike could welcome his daughter back, she had bullet-ed up the stairs and straight to her room. He looked to where she had raced to. "Satone?" He looked to where she had come threw then to the stairs...He saw...Tears. "Akita?"

Akita put the dinner onto simmer, then walked to where her husband was.
"Mike?" Mike nodded at the stairs. "Satone's been crying" Akita looked at him. "I'll go and try to calm her down" Mike nodded a few times. "I'll keep an eye on the dinner"

[Satone's bedroom]

Within minutes of getting into her room, Satone threw herself onto the bed. She put her head into her pillow and began to cry...As though there would be no tomorrow...Or even nothing more to live for.

Satone's mother Akita had come into the room very quietly. She closed the door behind her gently. "Satone? Honey?" Satone couldn't stop crying.
She had told Rikka precisely what had been bothering her...Yet she felt...Almost stupid for telling her.

The main thing that worried Satone was...She didn't know how to cope with tomorrow at school...Especially considering what had happened at the gate's.

There's chapter 1. Chapter 2 is on its way :-)