This chapter is still setting. Soon, things are going to get good, just not now.
Friday, January 16
Rin woke up the sound of the alarm clock on her cell phone. Groining, she turned and reached out to find the abomination that any other time she would be lost without. After successfully finding the phone and turning off the alarm, Rin set to complete her next task: untangle herself from her comforter and sheets. It was a daily routine she had grown accustomed to and wasn't sure what life would be like without it. Finally, after escaping the suddenly evil clutches of her polyester and down blanket, she picked out her outfit from her limited choices of uniform compliant clothes.
"Well, I wore a light blue polo with navy pants yesterday, so today, I'll go for the white polo with khaki pants. Since the polo is practically see through I'll wear a black cami underneath it." she said to herself, picking up each item before heading down the hall and into the bathroom for a quick shower.
Rin finished her shower and quickly put her clothes on, except for the polo. She dried her hair and put on her usual make up. When she finished, she left the bathroom, shirt in hand, and went downstairs for breakfast.
"Hey mom." she said as she walked in the kitchen and her mom whizzed past her already packing for her trip.
"Hey hun. Have you seen my coat?"
"Um, is it hanging up in the closet?" She asked her mother who immediately went to the closet and found it. "Well, well, I guess it does pay for you to constantly hound me about putting my coat in there." Rin said when her mother walked back in the kitchen.
"I guess so. Have you seen your father? Honestly, we're leaving for our anniversary and he's probably upstairs still sleeping. I woke him up before I came down here…" Rin had stopped listening to her mother when she started to repeat herself. She had gotten up and poured herself some cereal before she interrupted her mom. "…and why would he suggest even going if he's not going to wake up. I'll tell you he-"
"Mom, what time are you even planning on leaving anyway?"
"Twelve thirty. Why?"
"Its only quarter after seven."
"Yeah, and?" her mother asked while running through the house, looking for anything she may have missed.
"Never mind." Rin said in between bites of cereal. "Uh, mom, are you sure you're going to need all that?" she asked as her mother put what looked like whatever she could find into her suitcase.
"You never know, but I'm going to be prepared if the need comes."
"Uh huh. Oh, look at the time, I still need to put my shoes on and other stuff." Rin said using it as an excuse to get out of the kitchen.
"Okay. Oh yeah, your father and I are going to be gone before you get home later."
"I know." Rin yelled from her spot in the family room.
"I left money for you somewhere."
"Okay." she yelled again before getting off the couch and going back so she could talk to her mother without yelling through the house.
"You can invite the girls over too."
"One step ahead of you." she said turning around and going upstairs to get her book bag.
"The boys can come over too, they just have to leave by eleven o'clock each night." her mother yelled up the stairs.
"Okay." Rin yelled back.
In her room, Rin picked up her book bag from the foot of her bed and picked out a zip up sweater from her closet. She couldn't help but get the feeling that she was being watched by someone. She slowly turned around to look out her window. From what she could see, no one was outside and most definitely no one was looking in her window. Laughing at herself, Rin picked up her book bag and looked out her window. Outside in her neighbor's tree, she saw a rope hanging from one of the branches. Immediately, her mind went back to the song that had freaked her out so much yesterday.
Tie me up with sheets
And hang me from your tree
I'll stay out here all night
It doesn't even matter.
"Okay, I'm being ridiculous, the rope is from their tire swing, which broke a few weeks ago. But still." Rin shook her head to get out all her bad thoughts. "I've got to go now."
Rin ran down the stairs and rushed to her mom. "Bye, I've got to go. Love you, tell dad I said bye. Have fun." she ran out of her house and straight to her car. She opened the back door and threw her things on the backseat. She quickly shut the door and got in the driver's seat. She started her car and pulled out of the drive way. At a stop sign, she called Kagome to let her know to be ready in five minutes. When she got to Kagome's house, she honked the horn and Kagome ran outside and did the same thing Rin had, just on the other side of the car.
"So, how was your night?" Kagome asked as Rin backed out of the drive way.
"Oh, you know. Its always the same the night before my parents leave to celebrate something. The only difference is I'm not going so I wasn't pulled into all the craziness."
"I feel bad for your dad. Every year he has to go through that. Sometimes I wonder how my mom and your mom are sisters."
"Man, we have some messed up family members." Rin said as she turned into the school's parking lot.
"Big time." Kagome said. "Hey, there's a spot."
Rin quickly turned turned her steering wheel and pulled into the spot. She and Kagome both got out of the car and got their things from the backseat before saying anything.
"Ready?" Kagome asked as she started walking.
"Uh, yeah." Rin said, suddenly feeling uneasy at Kagome's simple question.
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The school day went by uneventful and boring. All Rin wanted to do was go home and spend her weekend with her friends doing the things that their parents considered true wastes of time. Finally, the last bell of the day rang and Rin went to her locker to get what she needed over the weekend, not that she'd be doing any homework though. Homework was strictly for homeroom and lunch.
Rin picked up her book bag and went to find Sesshomaru before getting Kagome. As usual, she found him leaning against the lockers waiting for Inuyasha and Kagome to finish up their goodbyes, not like they weren't going to see each other in a few hours anyway.
"I guess this means we have about twenty minutes before we can leave." Rin said as she walked up to Sesshomaru.
"At the very least." he answered wrapping his arm around Rin.
"Alright, hurry up you hooligans, I have some very important matters to attend to." Rin said after a few minutes passed.
"Fine, fine, we're done." Inuyasha said rolling his eyes.
"Sorry about her, she's excited about tonight is all. Her parent's always tell her they know she's not going to do what she doesn't want to do but yet, they still don't trust her. Finally, they trust her with staying alive for the weekend with just her friends."
"Well, I guess I can see why your in such a hurry." Inuyasha said to Rin.
"Uh huh, can we go now?" Rin asked Kagome who nodded. "Great!" she said and grabbed Sesshomaru's hand.
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Outside, Rin and Sesshomaru were saying their goodbyes as Inuyasha and Kagome waited in the cars.
"Come on Rin, you have important matters to attend to!" Kagome yelled while practically laying on the horn of Rin's car.
"Sess, let's go! Some of us need to get home and prepare for tonight's festivities." Inuyasha yelled while hanging out of the car's window.
Rin giggled. "You think they'd give us some time after we waited for them in the school."
"You'd think that, wouldn't you." Sesshomaru said with a smirk.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later." Rin said pecking Sesshomaru on the cheek.
"Bye." Sesshomaru said as he walked toward his car about three spots down.
"Rin got in her car and backed out of her parking spot thankful that her marvelous cousin, Kagome, had started it before and she could just get in and leave." Kagome narrated as Rin did what she said.
"You're such a dweeb." Rin said and she started the drive to Kagome's house.
"True, true." Kagome said nodding her head. "All I have to do is bring my bag in, get changed, and grab my other bag with all my stuff for the weekend." Kagome said as Rin pulled into her driveway.
"That's actually very responsible of you." Rin joked as Kagome got her stuff from the back seat.
"Its not something I'm proud of so don't tell anyone." Kagome said seriously before laughing about her own joke. She ran in her house and came out almost as soon as she went in.
She threw her new bag in the back seat and jumped into the front seat. "And we're off!" she yelled while pointing to the sky.
"And you've lost it." Rin said with the same enthusiasm. "You've cracked, there's no hope for your sanity."
"Yep, and you're stuck with me and two other equally as crazy girls along with a few other chaps for three days.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Rin asked herself as she drove to her house.
Ten minutes later, Rin and Kagome were in Rin's bedroom. Kagome was on the bed trying to find pattern in the ceiling as Rin was digging through her closet looking for anything that they could possibly do later.;
"Hey, Kag, help me get this game."
"I'm in the middle of something." Kagome complained but got up to help anyway. "Which one?"
"The one on the bottom. Here, hold the games on top so they won't fall."
Kagome reached up to hold the games as Rin pulled out the bottom one.
"I almost got it." Rin said more to herself than Kagome. "Got it!" she said when it was off the shelf and in her hands.
"Fantastic." Kagome said letting go of the other games. "Let's go downstairs, everyone should be here soon she said walking out of the closet with the intention of going to the living room.
"Sounds good." Rin said as she hurried after Kagome.
Soon, Sango and Ayame were walking through the doorway with movies and junk food in their arms.
"You guys should go to my car and get the rest of our stuff out." Ayame said tilting her head in the direction of her car. "Its unlocked." she said as she went to the kitchen to empty her arms of the food she brought.
"Because they can't take second trips out." Rin whispered to Kagome with mock annoyance.
The girls came back in the house with sleeping bags, pillows, and oversized purses. They found Sango and Ayame on the couch flipping through the channels.
"That'll be fifteen hundred dollars." Rin said with her hand out.
"Uh, hold on a sec." Ayame said as she and Sango turned toward each other to put what was in their pockets together.
"How about thirteen dollars and a Slim Jim?" Sango asked with the money and snack held out.
"You can keep your money." Kagome said. "But we will take the Slim Jim."
"Well then, if that's what you want." Sango said shrugging.
"It is." Rin said taking the food item. "Come Kag, lets cut it before the guys come and take it."
"They'll eat anything processed." Kagome said running into the kitchen to get a knife.
"So, we still got thirteen dollars." Ayame said looking at the money in Sango's hand.
Sango got a devilish smirk on her face. "To to convenient store!" she shouted turning to run out the door.
"Rin, Kag, we're going to blow our money on more junk!" Ayame yelled into the kitchen causing the two in there to run out with half a Slim Jim in a hand.
"We're coming too." Kagome said before she and Rin ran past Sango and Ayame and out the front door soon followed out by the two girls.
"Ayame's driving!" Sango yelled jumping into the back seat or Ayame's car.
"Fine by me." she yelled back getting into her car and starting it up.
"I'm sitting with Sango!" Rin yelled forcing Kagome to sit in the front.
"Whatever, people in the front have control of the radio." Kagome said getting in the car and immediately plugging her iPod into Ayame's converter.
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In the store, the girls scattered and with the evenly divided thirteen dollars. Each was equipped with three dollars and twenty-five cents to spend how ever she wanted and high expectations. Ten minutes later, each had paid and were on their way back to Rin's house.
"I bet the guys are already on the couch watching TV." Sango said as Ayame turned onto the street Rin's house was on.
"And they're eating our food," Ayame added, "why did we leave it all on the coffee table?"
"Obviously, you wanted to pay us that Slim Jim so bad, you forgot all about it." Rin said shrugging.
Sure enough, in Rin's driveway, was Sesshomaru's car. Ayame parked alongside it and got out. As predicted, all the guys were on the couch, feet propped up on something, each eating from a different bag.
"This is going to be a long weekend." Rin said to herself as Kagome, Sango, and Ayame each made a spot for themselves either on the couch or on their boyfriend and started to fight with them for the right to hold the bag.
Rin sat down on the arm of the couch by Sesshomaru. He looked at her and smirked. "Ready?" he asked.
Rin's eyes got wide with shock. "Uh, yeah." she answered the same way she had when Kagome asked her that question.
There's chapter 2, let me know what you think.
And I promise, its going to start getting good within the next two chapters.