The Date: Changing in their Lives Part 1: The Beginning
Prologue
The sun rises over the towers of the city and beams of blazing sunlight streak through the buildings.
In one such building, a tasseled hair figure reluctantly pushes pale blue and purple sheets off them. This reveals a still in deep sleep mumbling girl.
Just as she tries to fall back to sleep, her cell phone goes off, causing her to start and fall off the bed.
She gets up, distangling herself from the covers, grumbling about 'death by cell phones' and answers it.
"Hello?"
"Hey Kags! Hurry up and come down to my house 'kay, bye."
Click……….
Kagome looks wide-eyed at the phone and whines.
Sighing, she walks to her closet and picks her outfit for the day.
A red and gold trimmed white tank-top with a dragon on the front, black Capri pants with silver trimming, white ankle socks, and lastly silver and red Nikes. She goes over to her dresser grabbing her bath material and heads for the bathroom.
Turning the nozzle and letting the tub fill with hot water, Kagome looks at herself in the mirror across from her.
Pale skin, glassy, red, puffy eyes, deep shadows and lines around her mouth greet her sight.
'My God, I look a mess!' Shaking her head, she walks over to the tub and stops the water. Shedding off her clothes, she goes over the events of last night in her mind.
Tears well up and she closes her eyes tight, pushing the memories back to a corner in her mind.
She sinks into the water, letting the steam and heat overtake the tension and soreness from her muscles, soothing them away.
Leaning back against the tub, she takes a deep breath and relaxes. After a full 30 minutes of cleansing, including washing her hair, body, and just relaxing, she walks out of the bathroom. She sets down her bathing supplies and puts her dirty clothes in the hamper next to bathroom door. Turning on the radio to one of her favorite stations 94.1, she turns to her dresser.
Grabbing her brush and comb she begins the frustrating task of doing something to her hair. Drying her hair, she contemplates what she's going to do to her wild mane, coming to a choice of the style. Brushing and combing her hair was only part of the battle. After 4 minutes of just gathering all her hair up, she twists it into a messy bun and ties it up. Dressing in her chosen outfit, she then applies clear lip-gloss, pale red eye shadow, foundation and pearl-peach body spray mist.
After fixing herself up and being satisfied on her appearance, she looks at the clock and screams.
It is now 7:39 a.m.
Seething, she snatches her cell phone off her bed and dials the number of her victim.
"Hello?"..."Hello?"………"Heeelllloooooo?"
"SANGOOOOO!!!" Kagome hollered into the phone.
"Hey Kags, you on your way?" asked Sango, oblivious to her friends fury.
Kagome just sighed and rubbed her temples.
"Do you know what time it is, Sango?"
"Yeah, it's 7:43 now."
Kagome looked up and saw she was right. Sighing again, she replied.
"Yeah I'm on my way."
"Okay, oh Kags can you get a jug of Sunny-D on your way, thanks pay ya back bye!!"
Click……….
Kagome closed her phone and grabbed her purse and car keys.
Walking towards the door to leave, she looks back at her apartment.
Being satisfied that it was clean enough, she steps out closing the door and locking it. Going down the flight of steps, she gets to the parking lot.
Unlocking her 2002 SUV fully loaded, she gets in and starts it up. Pulling out of the parking lot and getting on the street, she calls Sango again. After telling she was on her way, she drives on listening to one of her favorite songs, Hinder: Lips of an Angel.
Pulling into a lot of a store, she gets out and enters the store.
"Good morning." Chirped a young boy behind the counter.
"Good morning." Kagome replies back, brightly.
Heading towards the back, she looks for the object in mind. After acquiring it, she heads back to the counter.
"That will be $2.39." said the boy.
Going into her pocket, she pulls out a wade of $1 bills.
Counting out the exact change, she hands him the money.
"Would you like a bag to carry that in ma'am?" asked the boy.
"Oh, yes please."
Grabbing the bagged item, she smiles at the boy and heads out the door.
Driving out, she makes a couple of turns and in 5-10 minutes she pulls into a drive-way. Locking her car, she walks up the steps and knocks on the door, stepping back from the door, grinning.
The door flings open to reveal a woman in a baby-blue T-shirt, black sweats, and her hair pulled in a high ponytail.
"Hey you made it! Good I just finished making breakfast."
Kagome and Sango made their way into her kitchen. A bowl of grits, a plate of bacon and toast were set out on the table and aroma made Kagome's mouth water. Sango giggled seeing this. Grabbing the orange juice, she steered Kagome towards the food.
"Go ahead 'Gome, there's more than enough."
After breakfast they made their way towards the living room.
"So Sango, what's the urgent thing you had me wake up for this early in the morning? Spill it now!"
Sango was silent for a moment and Kagome became concerned for friend. Finally Sango looked up.
"Kagome……………."
A moment of silence…
"HE PROPOSED TO ME!!!!"
"OMG, Sango!!"
Screams were heard from the house, startling some birds from their resting place.
Kagome was speechless, but then she had known all along it would happen.
Sango had been dating Miroku Shizo for two years now. Kagome had introduced them one night while at a dance. Ever since, Miroku had been pursuing her. Kagome smiled as the memory came to her.
Flashback
"No Kago, I don't want to!" a horrified Sango shrieked.
"To late Sango, I've already reserved seats." A smiling Kagome said, beaming with triumph at the success of her plan.
Kagome had had it with her friend not going out and having the time of her life. So she took it into her own hands to make it happen.
She had called the local, popular dance club The Shikon no Tama and reserved a couple of seats. Finally convincing her friend to go along with her, they got dressed.
Kagome wore a deep-blue dress that stopped at her knees. It had purple and green sakura blossoms on it. Silver was stitched in the hem. Black high-heels completed the outfit. Sango bore a deep-red dress that stopped at her lower thighs. It had black and lavender sakura blossoms on it. Gold was stitched at its hems. Red high-heels finished off her outfit.
Well to say the date went well was an absolute lie.
When they first spied Miroku, he was at the bar hitting on every woman in sight. And when he finally caught sight of the two women at the door he tried to hit on them also. He walked up to them and Kagome introduced them. What he did next was absolutely his worst mistake yet.
He fondled Sango.
Bad choice to make, very bad!
Sango blushed and threw him 10 feet away. To which Kagome stared in horror.
After recovering, Miroku stayed wary of her from that night on, but didn't give up. He asked countless times to go out with him, but she merely turned him down time. Finally, feeling guilty, she relented. Because after seeing him very depressed, so depressed that when a prostitute had tried to lure him to her, he had cursed up a storm. They saw he had lost weight dangerously and was looking sickly and pale.
She surprisingly went and asked him out! He looked skeptical, but had said yes. Ever since that day they went out every other night, every night if possible.
Once she told Kagome, and she never, "Kags, he's the one. I finally found my Prince, my confidence." And Kagome never forgot the sparkle in her friend's eye, as she said it.
End Flashback
Kagome hugged her friend and whispered, "Finally!" Sango cried as Kagome went on. "You're finally going to be happy, you're dream's going to come true."
They talked about this occurrence in her life. Sango said they hadn't planned a date, but they wanted it to be either in the spring or summer. Kagome watched as her friend blossomed more in front of her.
'Life couldn't get any better than this.' She sighed, smiling.
What she didn't know was that she would be the next to change. Her life taking an unexpected and challenging turn.
One that would change others' worlds.