Hello! This is my (not-so) new story! I hope you enjoy and I think that I'm only going to post the first three chapters then if you would be so kind as to tell me if you want the rest in short intervals or all at once. All together there are 12 chapters. Anyway, please enjoy!
Satoshi Hiwatari woke up to the sun shining brightly into his apartment. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the clock on his bedside table.
"It's already eleven. I can't go to school now." he said stretching. He put on his glasses out of habit but not because he needed them. He yawned and grabbed a book and sat down in the main room. "I guess I'll just read for the rest of the day." he thought with a sigh and he started reading.
"Should we go check on him? Make sure he's not sick or anything?" Riku asked her red haired boyfriend as the walked out of school hand-in-hand. Risa was following them but wasn't talking.
"I don't know." Daisuke replied.
"Maybe you should just go since your his best friend." Riku suggested.
"Yeah you're right, I'll just go and check on him." Daisuke agreed but then he frowned not wanting to leave his girlfriend.
"I'll go check on him." Risa finally spoke up after seeing her beloved older twin sister and her boyfriend frown, "That way you two can stay together and we'll still know that Hiwatari's not dead." Riku was about to argue but her mouth was suddenly busy as Daisuke kissed her lips gently.
"Thanks Risa," Daisuke said after his kiss with Riku was over. He pulled his girlfriend off to the park yelling over his shoulder "Say hi to Hiwatari for us!"
"I will!" she yelled back as she started walking toward Satoshi's apartment. She had just made it to the door and was about to knock when she froze suddenly. "I'm going to be alone with Hiwatari... in is apartment" she thought nervously. She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
Satoshi was putting a kettle on the stove when he heard someone knock on his door. "It must be Niwa" he thought and smiled at how his best fiend used to be his archenemy.
"Coming!" he yelled as he walked over to the door and unlocked all the locks and opened the door.
"H-hi, Hiwatari..." Said a small delicate voice. Satoshi looked up not to see Daisuke but the younger Harada twin, Risa.
"Oh, um, hello Harada." he said "Can I help you with something?"
"Uh, well, actually, I just came to make sure you were okay and not sick." she replied blushing and looking down. Satoshi looked at her in surprise. "How sweet and... cute. Why did she come all the way over here when she has my cell phone number?" he thought eyeing the girl with the chocolate eyes.
"Would you like to come in for tea?" he asked shyly but he kept his calm and cool mask on.
"Oh, u-uh, yes thank you" she said blushing and walking into the main room. "I made her blush." he thought as he internally smiled.
"I'll be right back with some tea." he said as Risa took a seat by the table. She didn't respond and this confused Satoshi for she was usually very chaty. He shrugged and walked into his small kitchen.
"Just don't look at him for too long and then you won't blush and then he won't think that you find him to be cute... and sexy... and sweet...and cool... and smart. Hey do you like him? W-what? Of course not! Every girl thinks that of Hiwatari." Risa was sitting in a chair arguing with herself about whether or not she liked Satoshi "I-I don't like him really! You sure? I mean, if you like him, this would be the perfect time to make your move... I know I know but the keyword there is 'if' and that if is denied because I only like him as a friend! Oh really? Then why is your heart beating so fast? Hmmm? Why is that? I-I-I don't know I'm sure any girl would be having the same reaction to being alone with Hiwatari in his apartment. But that makes you wonder fif he thinks of you as just another girl, doesn't it? Well..."
Satoshi comes back into the room and sees Risa sitting there in the exact same position as she had been before.
"Harada I got the tea." he said as he sat down across from her. He was surprised when he didn't get a response. "Why didn't she respond? And... is she blushing?" he thought.
"Hey Harada." No response. "Harada?" No response. "Maybe if I say her first name..." "Risa?" he said quietly. He was shocked at the sudden butterflies that fluttered in his stomach and the way her name tasted sweet as he said it. He noticed a warmth growing on his cheeks as he blushed at these feelings.
Risa looked up when she heard a quiet, sweet voice call her by name.
"Risa?" the sweet voice said again louder this time. This snapped her out of her trance like state and she looked at the only person who could have said it.
"Sa-eh-Hiwatari? D-did you call my first name?" she asked her eyes wide.
"Um... yes but only because you weren't responding... I called you several times." he said and Risa could have sworn that she saw the remains of a blush on his cheeks.
"Oh I-I'm sorry. I was thinking." she says as she looks down at her tea.
"Oh I see" he said. "Don't ask it. But I want to know!" "What were you thinking about?" he asked timidly.
"Oh um nothing really in particular." she said as she blushed a bright red as she thought of what she had been thinking.
"You can tell me, we're friends right?" he said. "She was blushing pretty deeply... what had she been thinking? And why did I get a sudden bitter taste in my mouth as I said the word 'friends'?" he wondered.
"O-of course we're friends but, uh, you really wouldn't be interested in what I was thinking." she said as she smiled fakely.
"I think I would be interested. It has to be more interesting than that book" he said nodding towards the book lying on the chair.
"I don't want to tell you okay!" she snapped. As soon as she did so she regretted it deeply. She looked at the face that Satoshi wore now. It was a face that a puppy that had just been kicked wore. She jumped up and gathered her coat and left.
Satoshi didn't know what to do now. He didn't know why his heart felt tight and sad. And he didn't know why it hurt him so much when Risa snapped at him. "I told you not to ask..." his alter ego once again telling him that he should have just stayed quiet. "I know what I should have done but... why did it hurt me so much? I don't usually care about stuff like that... do I... do I love her?" he asked himself as he stared down at his reflection in is tea.
"Risa! How was Hiwatari? Why are you home so early?" Riku asked Risa as she walked in the door.
"Miss Harada... are you okay?" Daisuke asked as soon as he saw her face.
"H-hiwarai was fine but... I... I..." she couldn't finish her sentence as she fell forward sobbing. Riku was there holding her younger sister as she cried.
"Sh, sh, it's okay Risa. Why don't you tell us what happened?" Riku encouraged trying desperately to stop her sisters crying.
"He... was... s-so... s-s-sweet... and h-he... just... asked me w-w-what I had been thinking about and I-I-I..." She started but burst out crying again. Riku tried to comfort her sister.
"What did you do?" Daisuke asked gently.
"I... snapped at him!" she crying more. "A-an-and n-now he hates me!"
"He doesn't hate you! Hiwatari wouldn't hate someone for snapping at him." Riku said with a a small smile on her face.
"You d-didn't see his face" she said her crying slowing. Riku walked Risa upstairs and told her to lay down a little bit and she would be back soon. Riku ran back downstairs to her boyfriend.
"What do you think this means?" Riku asks as she hugs Daisuke. "It's not like Hiwatari to take anything like that to heart."
"Let's go visit him and talk" Daisuke said as he took Riku's hand and lead her out the door.
Satoshi was sitting in a chair trying to read but Risa's big brown eyes kept coming into his mind and everytime it did his stomach would flutter and then he would remember the look they got when she had yelled at him and his heart would tighten. He suddenly heard a knock on his door. He walked over a bit glum and opened the door.
"Hi Hiwatari!" Riku and Daisuke said at the same time.
"Oh, Hi Niwa, hi Harada. Please come in." he said gloomily. Riku and Daisuke exchanged a quick look as they stepped inside.
"Um, we wanted to see if your okay... but you seem kind of sick" Riku said slowly.
"I do?" Satoshi asked his eye widening.
"Yeah you seem glum." Daisuke said.
"Why so glum?" Riku asked afterward.
Satoshi sighed "To be honest... I really don't know"
And there is chapter one!