Ten and Counting chapter 2

Dear Diary

Shizuku panicked as she rummaged through her belongings in search of her diary. She mentally cursed as the possibility of leaving it on her desk became less remote as time passed. Her mother had encouraged her to keep a diary to keep notes and reminders as well as an outlet to express her feelings when necessary. The pages of her diary contained choreography steps, reminders for assignments as well as upcoming school events. However, recently, her pages contained sensitive and personal information pertaining to a certain brown haired boy.

She relaxed and continued walking the streets back to her house. The possibility of Hyoudou picking up her diary and flicking through the pages was nearly zero. Firstly, because they weren't in the same class and secondly, he wasn't the type to snoop through someone's belongings without permission. Things would change between the both of them if he knew what she had written in those pages.

Her cheeks were tinted pink as she slapped her cheeks and shook her head. "It's just a silly crush anyway. I mean, it's only natural to develop feelings for someone who you've spent almost your entire life with, right" she mentally asked herself. She couldn't believe how fast her heart was palpitating when his lips brushed against the shell of her ear during their Latin dance. As he spun her around and took a side step, he closed the distance between their faces and her spine tingled as she felt his lips brush against the outer shell of her ear. He paid no attention to it but she turned away quickly to hide the heat that was rising to her cheeks.

"I'm pretty sure if I go to school early tomorrow, I would be able to grab the diary before anyone else has a read through it!" she consoled herself and unlocked the gate.

" Shizuku."

A familiar voice rang through her ears as she spun around and found Hyoudou standing a few metres away her. She furrowed her eyebrows and folded her arms.

" Kiyoharu, what brings you to my place at this time of the afternoon? We don't have practice today, remember?" she chided him.

He snorted and fished her diary out of his satchel much to her horror. The look on her face was alamost comical that Hyoudou stifled a chuckle that threatened to escape his lips. "I just wanted to drop your notebook at your house since you left it on your desk. I was waiting for you outside class but apparently, you left slightly earlier without telling me," he snorted.

"Um…thanks a heap, Kiyoharu," she coughed and tried to snatch the diary back from him but to no avail as her dancing partner did a little pirouette and kept it out of her reach. She glared at him as his curious expression was replaced with a look of amusement. It was the first time that he saw her react this violently when it came to a book and frankly, he found it quite entertaining.

"Why are you so adamant on getting it back?" he pressed her much to her annoyance. She composed herself and folded her arms. "Doesn't it make sense for someone to be frantic when another person is in possession of something private?"

Silence hung in the air as the two students engaged in a staring match, neither one willing to make the next move, until finally, Hyoudou let out a sigh and tossed the diary back into her open arms. She caught it gingerly and quickly stuffed it into her bag, heaving a sigh of relief as the brown-haired boy seemed to be walking in the opposite direction. " Thanks Kiyoharu! I'll see you at practice tomorrow alright?" she called out after him.

He paused before turning back to face her. "We are mirrors and echoes of one another in so many ways that you are like a brother and a best friend rolled into one. Yet in truth we are sexual soul mates, an innate connection, the strongest bond there can be. You are the only one that can reach inside of me with such ease, stoking my passions, extinguishing storms. Just by knowing you I become my true self, gaining the strength and confidence I need to let my true colours shine through so brightly" he recited calmly.

With each passing word, Shizuku's face became redder and redder until she tried to slap his face in retaliation. He calmly caught her arm and leaned forward, his hot breath against her face. " I didn't know that you had a knack for poetry."

She pulled her arm away from his grasp and rolled her eyes " And I didn't know that you had the gall to go through someone's diary. Honestly, have you no shame?" she chided him.

He gave a small shrug and stuffed his hands into his pockets. " I had to find out if the owner's name was written on any of the pages so don't blame me. But anyhow, sexual soul mates huh? Where did that come from?" he mused as Shizuku felt like burying her head beneath the ground in embarrassment. Normally, trivial matters such as this wouldn't even be worthy of his attention but how often did he get a girl penning a passionate for him? Well, he hoped that it was meant for him and not for Tatara but judging by her visage, it was safe to say that he was right.

" Just go home already, Kiyoharu. I just had an epiphany and decided to just write a story for laughs. It doesn't mean anything so there isn't any benefit in using it for blackmail or whatever it is that you're hoping to achieve," she replied wearily.

Hyoudou watched her unlock the door to her house as she kicked off her shoes and arrange them on the rack. He finally got up to leave as he shot her a final glance before waving his hand dismissively. " You're right, I apologise for thinking that you wrote about me- after all, you described me as a forbidden fantasy," he couldn't help but let a chuckle escape from his lips as Shizuku screamed in frustration and slammed the door in his face as she recalled scrawling that sentence on the last page of her diary.

" Dear diary, is it wrong to be in love with a prick?" she scribbled furiously onto one of the pages of the diary before tossing it on to her bed. She made a mental note to never bring her diary with her to school ever again.

A/N I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! This fandom is small but I'm trying to hopefully inspire more people to join the club. Please leave a review and comments are appreciated. If you have any ideas that you would like to chuck out, feel free to let me know!