When
they had settled, Shin gave Mizuki the basket back, and the girl
started to take out the food from it.
While she was doing this
Shin was just looking at her
'How much does my brother and this
boy eat? There is food here for at least five people'.
While
Mizuki was preparing the food she was humming a lovely melody, Shin
could not remember what song it was, but at that moment it was one of
the most beautiful things he had ever heard.
He was just sitting
there looking at her trying to catch everything so that he could
remember this moment for the rest of his life. Mizuki felt his
staring and up looked at him.
"Is there something on my face?"
She asked him while using her hand to brush away the ting that was on
her face.
Her question drove him out of his dreaming thoughts; he
saw her hand travelling all over her face while trying to remove
something that was not there.
He took a hold of her hand to
stop her movements.
"No, you do not have anything on your face"
'but I wish you had me on you face' he added quietly to himself.
Even if he did not want to let her hand go, he had to.
'Shin,
you must remember the person next to you are a boy, and besides he
does not feel anything for you.
He idealises your brother, not
you'.
As these thoughts came to Shin's mind it almost felt as
if his heart would burst.
He moved a little away from Mizuki, and
said the first ting that came to his mind "Well, can I see what you
have brought with you?"
Mizuki who had been looking at Shin the
whole time could see the inner battle he was having with himself, but
the girl thought it probably had nothing to do with her anyway, so it
was not her place to ask him about it.
As she let her eyes
fall from him and to the food again, she took out a pair of
chopsticks and handed them to him.
He took the chopsticks from
her while being careful not to come in contact with her fingers, even
if that was the ting he wanted to do the most.
Mizuki was
starting to get a little embarrassed when he waited for her to tell
him what she had made.
"To be honest I do not have any idea
what this is; my memory when it comes to things like this is one of
the worst you can find in the world.
At school when I'm
ordering my dinner I usually just ask for the same thing that the
person in front of me ordered or Sano tells me what I should order".
Shin just looked at her in amusement, 'is it possible for
someone to have such bad memory when it comes to food'.
He
started to laugh a little, 'Well when it comes to Mizuki everything
is possible'.
"What is so funny?" Mizuki asked him.
"Nothing, it's just so typical for you to be so whimsical".
"I am not whimsical, and besides you do not know me enough to
call me that" The girl shouted angrily back.
This made Shin's
laughter die out 'but I wish I did'.
He though a bit
depressed.
"I'm sorry, I should not have called you that."
"Apology accepted, but do not call me by mean names again...
Now let's forget about it so that we can start eating before
the food gets cold. "
In stead of answering Shin bent down and
started to eat.
'Mizuki was right, the food does not look like
it has been made by a master chef, but the taste more then makes up
for it'.
When he told Mizuki his thoughts, Mizuki became very
happy.
Someone had complemented her cooking; she felt like a
housewife who had just made dinner for her husband.
She looked at
Shin as he was eating, 'I wonder how it would be like to be married
to Shin?'
She felt butterfly's in her stomach, and she could
feel herself blushing. she hid her face with her hair and bent down
and started eating too.
Some
time later, they were both stuffed and just sat there looking at the
beautiful weather and enjoyed the comfort they gave each other.
Mizuki broke the silence by asking Shin about his high jumping.
As
time went by they talked about many different things, even if they
sat like that for hours none of them wanted it to end.
Shin was
just sitting there loving the moment; he glanced at Mizuki as she was
talking.
His eyes fell on her hair, there was something moving.
Something little and black, it could only mean one thing; there
was a bug in Mizuki's hair.
"Hold still." he said before he
bent closer so that they was almost face to face, as he let his hand
land on her hair Mizuki started to think he was going to kiss her.
Almost against her will her eyes closed and she waited for the
kiss. When Shin had removed the spider he looked at Mizuki's face
again. What he saw was one of the most erotic things he has ever
seen, there sat the person of his dreams with his eyes closed and
beautiful lips who was waiting to be kissed.
He leaned a little
closer, took a deep breath and bent down slowly until their lips
connected.
"Sano Shin, where are you?" a voice had
broken in just as their lips connected.
Shin pulled away from
Mizuki as fast as he could, and stood up trying to find out where the
voice that had broken the most perfect moment of his life, came from.
Even if he was angry he answered the voice, "I'm over here,
under the big sakura tree".
A few seconds later they could see
a guy around their age running towards them.
Mizuki who was
trying to make her blush disappear looked up at the person coming
toward them.
She had no idea who it was, but it seemed like Shin
knew him.
"Where the hell have you been Shin, I have been
looking all over for you, the coach became furious when you just
disappeared like that." Shin's anger began to disappear, and he
started to think of something he could tell Hisuki as an excuse for
his behaviour 'should I tell the truth? That I just wanted to
talk a little with Mizuki, but when I finally met him again I missed
him so much that I did not want to go again'.
He shook his
head a little; there was no way he could say that. Luckily for him he
did not have to answer the question, Hisuki had finally seen that
Shin was not alone.
"Hello, and who are you?" his friend
asked Mizuki while he was looking at the girl while giving her his
most sexy smile, while letting his eyes travel all over Mizuki's
body.
Shin felt jealousy strike him; he did not like the way
Hisuki was looking at Mizuki at all.
He stood up and asked Hisuki
why he was there, even if he already knew the answer to the question,
the only reason to why he had asked the question was so that Hisuki
would look at him and not Mizuki.
His plan did not work, Hisuki
was still looking at Mizuki, he was almost drooling.
Even if
Hisuki was acting the way he was, Mizuki was just sitting there with
a smile on her face and let her eyes go from Hisuki to Shin to Hisuki
again as if she wanted to ask Shin who this was.
Shin was
starting to become more and more angry as time went by. "Nice to
meet you, what's your name?" Hisuki asked the girl.
Since
Shin at this point was a bit pissed off he just told Hisuki with an
angry voice
"He is not anybody important! He is just a
stranger!"
After those words he just took a hold of Hisukis arm
and dragged him out of the park and away from Mizuki.
'There is
no way I'm going to let Hisuki see Mizuki ever again. Why did he
just smile at Hisuki? Mizuki should not do that, Hisuki is a playboy,
and there is no way Mizuki was going to be on Hisukis list of
victims.'
"Hey!
Let go of my arm!" Shin stopped and looked down, his fingers was
holding tight around the other boy's arm.
'When had he taken
Hisukis arm?' He just looked at it a little while trying to
remember, in the end he just gave up and let the hand go. Hisuki was
looking at him angrily 'Why were you so rude to the poor girl?
Didn't you see how sad she became of your words, how can you say
something hurtful like that?"
Shin did not know what to answer,
so he just started to walk again in a fast tempo.
He had not
wanted to hurt Mizuki, it had just happened because he was jealous of
the other boy and wanted to take him as far away form Mizuki as he
could.
"Hey Shin!" the other boy yelled angrily.
Shin
stopped up again, turned around and said to Hisuki in an
icing
voice.
"Mizuki is not a girl, and you will never meet him ever
again".
With those words he started walking again, while he was
cursing Hisuki for interrupting them, and for the hash words he had
spoken about Mizuki.
Mizuki
was still sitting under the sakura tree.
She had a sad look on
her face, to be honest she was almost at the brink of tears.
'Why
had Shin acted that way when the other person came, had she said or
done something to make Shin mad at her?'
She could not remember
doing anything wrong at all, and Shin who had been so nice to her
that day, he even said her cooking was good.
She felt so stupid,
she even thought he had kiss her while she had closed her eyes, but
now thet seemed impossible. Instead he told his friend that she was
nobody, as if she was not even worth talking about.
Even if she
did not want to, she cold feel her tears starting to roll down her
chin.
If anyone could had seen her they would see a girl sitting
under å beautiful sakura tree while crying like her heart was
broken.
After what felt like an hour Mizuki had stopped
crying, she used her sweater to dry away the wetness from her face,
even if she knew her eyes would be red. She packed the rest of the
food in the basket again, and stood up.
The weather was getting
colder and it was starting to get darker.
She felt like the
weather mirrored her anguish and emptiness inside.
She bent down
and grabbed the basket in her arms before starting the walk back to
the dorm. At one point it started to rain, but Mizuki did not care.
She only thought of what she could have done wrong to Shin.
Back in the dorm Sano was sitting on his bed, he was worried.
Today had been the first time in almost a week the coach let them
go early.
He had gone back to the dorm as fast as he could, he
felt bad for letting Mizuki be by herself all the time so he wanted
to spend sometime with her.
He opened the door to their room and
started to greet Mizuki, but she was nowhere to be found, after that
he looked all over school for the girl.
Even Nakatsu did not know
where she could be.
Now it had gone many hours and Mizuki was
still missing.
If she was not back within a hour he would go out
looking for her.
He rose from the bed and started to walk
back and forth inside the room.
When he finally heard the door
opening, he turned fast around while getting ready to yell at the
girl.
But as his eyes fell on the girl he felt his words stop in
his troth.
Mizuki was soaking wet, and as he looked more closely
at her, he could see that her eyes were red.
And worse, the look
in them was glazed and blank.
She looked like her mind was far
away.
Sano became more and more worried as he watched the girl.
It was almost as she did not know he was there.
He walked to
where the girl was standing, trying to make her aware of him.
She
did not make any sounds until he asked her with a careful voice what
was wrong.
She looked surprised up, she had
not known Sano was already there. With a fake smile she said "Nothing
is wrong, what makes you say that?"
"Well you are soaking
wet" he told her.
Mizuki let her eyes fall on her clots, she
was surprised.
"It looks like I need a shower" she told him
before walking past him into the bathroom and locking the door.
Even
if Sano wanted to stop her, he knew that she needed some time for
herself.
After a warm shower and a lot of thinking, Mizuki
entered the main room again.
Sano who had been sitting on his bed
looked up as she came into the room again.
Mizuki did not look
him in the eyes when he asked her again if something had happened,
she just told him that everything was fine while she was climbing
into her bed, she lay down and said good night.
That night
Mizuki had a nightmare, but she stayed in bed without waking up. It
was one of those dreams that just gives you an overall bad and
sickening feeling, without actually showing anything concrete.
When
the morning came she could not remember what the dream had been
about, but she felt a bit sick as Sano woke her up.
She did not
tell him and acted as if nothing was wrong.
As the school day
went on she felt worse and worse, she could often feel Sano's eyes
on her but she acted as if she did not see his eyes.
While she
and Sano was walking from their History class to English,
Mizuki felt worse and worse for every passing second.
She started
to see white dots and the only thing she could get out was "Sano I
don't feel so go..." before she felt her feet give away and she
was falling.
Had it not been for Sano's arms, she would have
had an uncomfortable close encounter with the floor.
'There is
something familiar with this', was her last thoughts before the
whole world went black.
