Disc: Standard applied
Thought/Past
Present.
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-Bad Girl, Bad Boy-
1
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"Ah, Kurosaki's here!"
The guy with orange hair was oblivious to the girls staring and giggling at him. One of the girls, an auburn haired one, almost even forgot to breathe as she staring at the attractive young man. She was Orihime Inoue, twenty years old. A beautiful girl with big gray eyes and long soft hair. Her hands were clenching a glass of beer tightly. Her eyes were never leaving the handsome man.
It had been two years since their high school graduation and today their former class was having a gathering, a reunion and a farewell party for one of their former classmate who was going to study abroad.
"I heard that Kurosaki-kun is going to Keio University right?" a girl who sat next to her, hissed at the mention of the famous university. Orihime could only nod, "Now that he grows his hair longer, he looks even more handsome, doesn't he?"
Again she could only nod in agreement.
That was true after all. He was so handsome. It wasn't only his hair for her though. He had always been oh so handsome in her eyes ever since the first time they met. She drank her beer slowly. She already had a boyfriend. Right after she graduated from high school she found herself a boyfriend, but yet, she wanted him. She still wanted him.
"Is he still dating her?"
She could hear the girls around here talking about him. She pretended like she didn't care but she listened carefully.
"Her, who?"
"Reina Tachibana! The girl from group three!"
"Eh... that scary girl... Even though she isn't here I can't imagine what she'll do to me if she know I am trying to approach Kurosaki..."
Orihime knew it wouldn't be good for her when the girls were looking at her with that big toothy grin plastered on their face.
"Orihime-chan... Do us a favor, please..."
They were pleading. They knew very well their friend was really weak against a plea.
She pouted, "Why me?"
"You were kind of close to him back then, right? We knew you both were going home together so very often."
She was surprised, "That's not true!"
Well that was true, but not like what they were thinking!
"But you always wanted to talk with him, right?"
Why me?
She had never been that close to him. That wasn't entirely true. They had talked several times but they had never been that close. He had a girlfriend after all. But the one about her always wanted to talk to him, that one was true.
She sighed.
"A.. Ano,"
The orange haired man looked at the stammering girl who stood behind him. His expression didn't change though she had tried so hard to smile at him. It was like he waited her to finish what she had wanted to say. The girl mentally knocked her own head. Baka, I disturb him! She wanted to back off and back to her seat but the girls were sending her a warning look as if telling her to go on.
"Err.. Kurosaki-kun, long time no see..." she was shy and nervous, "Mm, how are you?"
The guy who sat next to the orange head chuckled and stood up, "Hahaha, please sit down, Inoue-san, I'll go that way..." He offered his seat to the blushing girl.
"No, you don't have to!"
Her former classmate just laughed, "it's okay... It's okay..."
She sighed as the guy leaving. She sat down onto the seat shyly. The scowling man next to her was still looking at her intently. Her heart was racing. She was so close to him. After all of this time, oh... This wouldn't be good. He would be able to hear her heartbeats. Oh, no... She hissed when she realized there were two girls who she recognized as Reina's best friends glaring at her. What have I done? Orihime kept her head low.
"Long time no see."
She looked up and met a pair of brown eyes of the smiling man. Ichigo Kurosaki was smiling at her. His now longer hair fell softly covering almost half of his slightly more mature face but he could see that he was really smiling at her. He was really handsome, especially when he was smiling like that.
She smiled, "Yes, long time..."
She missed him so much. She had always wanted to see him.
Three years in her high school she had always had a crush on him. Three years. But she never had a chance, or enough courage, to tell hi, about her feeling. During their third year in high school that innocent crush slowly had become love. Yet, she hadn't found the courage to tell him. Seh realized she would never be able to confess to him.
Until that fateful day. That day was one of those rainy days and she had a chance for finally getting closer to the man she had always loved.
She was walking under the drizzling rain. Smiling and humming happily. She didn't bring an umbrella, not that she had one. She loved rain. She loved to feel the rain on her fair skin. Oh, how she loved rainy days. She loves walking in the park in rainy days like this. She was the only one out there and she loved that.
She was dancing and humming some random tune.
She was happiest at time like this.
"I... Inoue?"
She stopped dead in track. She knew this low baritone tone very well. Oh, this couldn't be true. Slowly she spun around to see Ichigo Kurosaki, her classmate who was also her secret love, standing there with a deep frown on his handsome face. His right hand was deep in his jeans pocket and his left was holding a big transparent umbrella.
She felt so embarrassed. Her face became red like tomatoes when she saw the boy was actually holding his laugh. Well, she never saw him laughing. She decided that day that she might actually like his laugh.
"What are you doing? It's raining!" He sounded confused but he was still smiling, "You'll get sick, you know."
She shook her head quickly, "Uh, ah... no... I won't get sick... I never get sick."
He laughed again, "You were dancing?" She could only nod, he sounded amused. "Come here, this umbrella is big enough for us two."
She couldn't believe this.
Under the same umbrella with her beloved Kurosaki-kun. This couldn't be true...
She had never been that happy in her life until that day.
Orihime Inoue had never fallen sick before. She had walked under the rain without an umbrella many times before and she had never fallen sick because of that. But that day, somehow, she felt unwell.
She put her palm on her forehead. Yes, she could feel it, she had some fever. She sighed. She laid her head on her desk, using both of her hands as the pillow. Today was raining again and as usual, she didn't bring any umbrella.
She was so dizzy.
She closed her eyes only to snapped it open again when she felt something hit her head softly. She woke up and turned beet red when she saw it was actually Ichigo. He was tapping her head with a carton of orange juice. Sh rubbed her head when she saw the orange head put the juice on her table . She looked him questioninq.
"Orange juice for you." He was scowling, "You're not feeling well, right?"
She never had a chance to say a thank you because he already walked away. He watched his back as he walked toward the door. Suddenly he stopped and turned to see her.
"You go home with me today."
"Eh?"
"You don't bring umbrealla right?"
Actually she could say she'd go home with Tatsuki or one of her girl friends but she just nodded. He smiled before he walked leaving the classroom.
It had been a habit since then. In rainy days she would go home with him. they didn't talk much but she kind of enjoying the comfortable silence between them. She had never been that close to Ichigo until now and she was really happy. It was unavoidable, her feeling had become stronger and deeper.
Until one day after the final test, Reina and her friends called her to see them after school.
The girl named Reina was beautiful. One of the most popular girls in the school. Orihime, despite many boys (and some girls) adore her, had never had any idea that she was popular. But this girl, Reina Tachibana, knew it very well.
Reina had a long curly light brown hair. Her eyes were big and brown. She had a sexy mole beneath her lips and she wore many top branded items that even its name was alien to Orihime's innocent ears.
"Inoue-san," her voice was stern, definitely unfriendly, so were her eyes, "Ichigo-kun is my boyfriend. Please don't get too close with him."
She didn't knew about this.
"Do you know how was my feeling when I knew you were approaching my boyfriend?"
She had never approached him. She never had the courage. If only she knew he had a girlfriend, she wouldn't...
"Stay away from him!"
And she did.
She avoided him since then. Ichigo had tried to talk to her few times but she was getting good at excuses.
Sometime, she saw him and Reina in the corridor and it hurt her so much. But it had been her own choice to leave him. She could never tell him about her feeling and she could do nothing. She lost her chance,
He was someone else's.
"Psst, Hime!"
The girls were giving her that scary look. the signed her to do like what they told her. Right, they wanted to know whether Ichigo still dating Reina or not. She wanted to know too actually. She was thinking about how to ask him when one of the girl she recognized as Reina's friends was asking him.
"Reina's in Paris now, right Kurosaki-kun?" the girl with short jet black hair smiled at him, "How's your relationship with reina? Reina loves to travel overseas, it must be hard for you right? You'll miss her a lot..."
"You can't have sex with her that often, right?" the other girl with long manicured nails teased him, "But the make up sex should be really great then..."
"It's none of your business." he answered coldly as he drank his beer.
Orihime bit her lower lip and forced a smile.
So that was it.
She gave a code to her waiting friends, 'They're still dating...'
The girls looked shocked and disappointed at the same time. They never really like Ichigo back then, they always thought that he was a kind of scary punk. But now after they saw how he had been changed, they had actually hoped that they could get their way with the strawberry.
Orihime drank her beed slowly.
She was also shocked and disappointed.
Of course she couldn't say it though.
"Hey, Inoue-san do you have a boyfriend?"
It was those girls again. Reina's friends. Orihime could feel Ichigo's eyes on her. they were waiting for her to answer the question. Somehow she found it was difficult for her to answer that with Ichigo sat beside her.
"We heard you have a boyfriend, a senior in your university... Is that right?"
She didn't dare to look at his face. She had a feeling he was still looking at her.
Suddenly she felt sick.
She stood up.
"I need to go to the rest room..."
She could hear these girls giggling when she left the table.
They were right. She has her boyfriend and Ichigo had Reina. this wasn't right. She shouldn't feel like this. In the end, it'd only break her. Ichigo has someone he loved already.
Orihime washed her hands.
She looked at her face on the mirror. She looked horrible. She knew she shouldn't have drunk tonight.
She let out a heavy sigh before she decide that it was about time to go back to the party. Maybe she'd go back to sit down with her girl friends. That'd be the safest way. She didn't need to talk with Ichigo anymore tonight.
When she left the rest room, Ichigo was standing there outside the room, leaning on the wall. He looked at her with his arms folded on his chest.
"Are you drunk?"
"Eh?"
"Are you feeling unwell?"
"Uh, yeah..."
"Do you want to go out after this?"
This caught her off guard.
What was it... again?
"After this how if we go out? Just two of us."
author's note:
This will be a mini-series, there will be only 3 chapters (And lemon too -tentative-).
I have done this fanfic so, don't worry that this will distract me from my other projects.
Well, so... How about a review and make this lonely girl happy?
Recchinon