Chapter 2
Silver-Haired Boy
Kagome rushed into her room, slamming the door behind her.
She hit her bed like a rock burring her face into the crisp newly clean pillow.
"How could this happen, it was going so well," she cried.
"Kagome, darling are you okay?" came the familiar voice of her mother.
"Fine, Mom," she called back in a croaky voice.
"Hun, what's going on, open the door."
"I said I'm fine."
Kagome's mother knew better.
Standing on her toes she grabbed the key from the top of the door and unlocked it.
She slowly walked walked towards Kagome's weeping body.
She gently combed Kagome's silky hair as she sat down on the foot of the bed.
"Oh, mom," Kagome cried as she flung her arms around her mother's neck, weeping onto her shoulder.
"Kagome, what on earth?" Her mother whispered, "Why are you crying dear?"
Kagome sat up wiping her swollen red eyes. She looked down and then back up at her mother.
"After two years...why...why did it have to end so suddenly," then she began to ball again.
"Tell me what is bothering you darling."
"It's Miroku."
"What about Miroku."
"Last night when he took me to the park we both decided it would be better for us to just be friends."
"Oh, sweetheart I'm so sorry come here," her mother said holding Kagome's head in her lap, "what made you two break up?"
"He couldn't resist the temptation to flirt with other girls. I know he loved me dearly but it's just his personality to be a bit perverted," explained Kagome.
"Yeah, I'm not really sure why you stayed with him so long."
"Because he was cute," Kagome smiled.
"That was all? You stayed with a pervert because he was cute?" her mother laughed.
"No, we truly did love each other." Kagome said dreamily looking at the ceiling.
"If you say so."
Kagome smiled.
"I knew I could cheer you up." Kagome's mother chuckled.
"Thanks mom."
"Dinners in the oven hun, will you be down soon?" Her mother asked as she exited the room.
"Yeah, I'm coming."
Kagome fixed her bed hair and wiped her tear stained face.
As she turned the corner to go down stairs she heard something outside her window.
Tilting her head she walked towards the sound.
Outside she could see the body with silvery hair again.
He was bouncing atop the tree.
He had two dog ears as white as his hair they twitched up and down listening.
Then suddenly he faced Kagome.
He stared at her with is large luminous amber eyes.
She smiled nervously then quickly turned and retreated towards the door.
Her heart was pounding but she not why.
When dinner had finally arrived Kagome just played with her food.
"Well" her mother her started, " you start collage next week, there's only a few days left of summer."
"I know" Kagome replied.
"Are you excited?"
"I guess so"
"Yeah, I really got that feeling" Her mother said crossing her arms.
Kagome smiled and opened her mouth about to say something but then closed it again.
"What?" Her mother asked suspiciously.
"Nothing."
"What is it c'mon you can tell me."
"Okay, as I was leaving my room for dinner I heard something outside."
"What was it?" asked her mother intrigued.
"I went to the window and I saw...Sango." Kagome lied not wanting to tell her mother about the silver haired boy.
"That's it Sango, what was she doing here."
"She just came by to ask if I wanted to do anything before summer was over."
"Oh," Her mother said disappointed.
Kagome smiled then sighed and took a bite.
Later that night Kagome began to think of summers long ago.
"Sango, I caught one" Kagome cried
"So did I" Sango screamed back.
The two girls were enjoying a warm summer day catching tadpoles in a nearby pond.
"Your's is so big" Kagome remarked.
"Yeah, but yours doesn't have a big wart on it like mine." Sango said staring at a large hideous bump entreating from the torso of the baby frog.
Kagome looked at Sango's disgusted face and laughed.
A smile crept onto Sango's face as she watched Kagome laugh her way to a mud puddle which she undoubtedly fell into.
Kagome laughed at the memory of how clumsy and young she was back then and how she believed boys had cooties.
Now she wished that she still thought boys had cooties so she didn't have to like them so much.
She sighed and closed her eyes as she drifted off to sleep.
