Ignorance of a sin

By Cat

Chapter one

"I'm going out and I'll be back by about midnight!" I called as I calmly walked down the stairs, to receive no answer from my fellow team mates and friends. I poked my head into the living room to see; Lee reading the latest BeyBlade magazine, Kevin playing on the playstation 2 I do not own any playstation or game console I mention, let alone the games and Gary engrossed in his food. I sigh and repeat myself to no answer. "I said that I'm going out tonight and I'll be back about midnight."

I sigh a second time and walk to the front door, I put my hand into my older brother's jacket pocket and pull out a pocket knife. I slip the knife into my shoulder bag, close it and then put my coat on. "Just in case. . ." I assure myself quietly before opening the door. I put a hand up and wave to myself silently. "Bye Mariah, bye lil' sis', bye Mari." I say loudly to myself before walking out the front door. They wouldn't say it, so I have to do it for them. That's men for you.

I've learnt to ignore them over time, just as they've ignored me, but sometimes, like now, it is just too much to handle, I an understand Gary; because he is always eating food and he accepts absolutley no interruptions, not even if it was an earth quake, but my own brother and best friend . . . it is just unacceptable.

A car drives into the driveway and parks, Rei steps out and hugs me. "Hey Rei." I say to him in greeting.

"Are you ready?" He asks me and opens the door politely, like the gentleman he most certainly was. He, unlike me, wasn't dressed up; he was wearing his usual white robe over a blue t-shirt and blue track pants. I was wearing a red singlet top under my black leather jacket and a pair of black flares, tied up at the waist, which covered a pair of knee-high, black, leather boots. My pink hair, who could possibly forget, was tied back into two plaited pig-tails, with pink ribbons, not like cat's ears tonight. A black plaited belt hung around my waist and the ends hung down to about my knees.

"Yeah, where are we going?" I say as I get in the passenger seat.

Rei closes the door and walks around to the driver side door. "Well there is this place I know. . ." He gets in and closes the door. "You do look beautiful tonight." He leaned over and kisses my cheek gently. "Well actually you look beautiful every night." He whispers into my ear. He then starts the car and we drive off down the small suburban road.

We drive to an extremely posh, expensive, fancy restaurant and walk in. "Isn't this the place that charges a whole tournaments winnings for just a glass of water?" I ask and Rei smirks at me and leads me to a waiter who takes us to a table at back.

We both sit down and a waiter takes our orders. After dinner we stare into each other's eyes and Rei leans closer. He puts his hand on my leg; suddenly my watch starts to beep in an almost silent pattern. "I've got to be getting back." I apologise.

"I'll pay the bill." He says and calls the waiter.

Ten minutes later we were driving back to the White Tiger HQ and I was feeling a little guilty of ending our date early, well, early for him at least. I guess that he was expecting a little more than we were able to get in. I would have liked that too but my brother still thinks highly of Rei and would expect him to behave.

We arrive home a little before schedule and decide to stay in his car. We, once again, look into each other's eyes lovingly and after a few minutes started to lean closer to pull each other into a gentle kiss. . .

TO BE COTINUED . . .

Angel: Ooh! I wonder what is going to happen.

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