Author's Note: Hi everybody, we meet again on this chapter 2 of my story. First of all, I have to say thanks to all reviewers. Your words really make me keep going. Well, as I said, I will post it on 28 of May/2011. Anyone notice that I post it later than what I told in the bulletin, please understand that the time zones of us are different. According to my own time zone in Vietnam, it is still 28 of May. However, if it said that I posted it late, let's say that my internet has problem. Well, there will be something interesting in this chapter, I hope you will like it. Today, I have joined the European Food Festival in Trang Thi so I couldn't update the second chapter of mine until near midnight. Anyway, enough with my lame excuse. ENJOY THE CHAPTER.
Never See, Never Know
Chapter 2: The First Kiss
The market of Kagutsuchi surely was a very populous one. People were everywhere, sold, bought things. Old men sat at the sidewalk, playing some kind of chess. Children were chasing others cheerfully. The noises of market were the sign of very busy lives here. A very lively town ever since the incident of the Black Beast destroys the world. Its tremendous power called seithr was extremely harmful toward people's health if they received a vast amount of it. But this new world, a place completely separated everyone from that dangerous atmosphere. People could live without the fear of it, they started over from the number zero and the result of that endless effort was a high, huge city inside an enormous hierarchical city.
Noel and Caelica together walking in the market hand-in-hand, looking around to find stuffs they needed to buy. The girl looked around this place, she had been to this place many times before but to look at it in the point of view of a little girl with little eyes again is something very interesting and exciting. Everything seemed to be bigger, sounds became louder, she could felt the existence of lives, excitement traveled through every vein of hers as she lives her young, childish life once again that many people desperately wished for it. The two walked across a jewelry shop, with a fat, mustached man stood behind the bar, two hands holding a luxury necklace.
"Beautiful miss, would you like to buy this very lovely? I'm sure that you will look really gorgeous with it, Men will all run after you." He gave her a friendly wink, all the woman did was to smile inwardly and continued her walk with the girl.
"FRESH FISH! FRESH FISH! WHO WANT TO BUY FRESH FISH!" A muscular guy with a white head band and loose sleeveless shirt had his two hands in the air, lifted a big, live fish struggling in his tight grip and yelled out loud to get people's attention. Meanwhile on other side of the market, at a flower stall, a tall and handsome man was carefully examined the flowers with the suggestion of the shop owner before deciding to buy a bouquet.
"Noel, hurry up. We have to return to the church right after we finish buying clothes for you. I don't really believe in those immature boys." Caelica said, speeded up as Noel stopped rolling her eyes around the place and quickly keep up with the woman.
"Here we are." They finally arrived in front of a cloth shop, its outlook is seemed quite small and simple with an old rusty board written "Girls' Wonderland" hung outside. As the two entered the house, a lightless, silent scene welcomed them with some whistling breezes flew inside.
"Hello, anybody here." The lady said, waiting for a respond. A deep, bizarre silence immediately reigned the place as soon as she finished her sentence. This place was filled with dark, mysterious feeling that was unexplainable. The two headed further into the house, taken back as the door shut loudly behind them by the blow of the wind. An unknowingly nervous feeling creped into the two as they notice a pair of yellow eyes blinking in the dark and made its way toward them.
"WHO ARE YOU?" Caelica quickly shielded the girl and made a spell that sparked that place, revealed a thin, tall man who was wearing a tuxedo style clothes. The guy pulled a string next to him, the house was lightened with light bulbs.
"Oh, the changes of wind. Two fair ladies come to my old shop, what a nice honor you are giving me. So what do you want to buy?" He bowed down politely, his hands put down his hat and placed it on his chest. Caelica scanned her eyes around the house full of clothes for girls.
"I want buy some normal clothes for this little girl. I hope you have some that fit her size." The man eyes widened as he looked at the girl stood next to the woman, he inspected her from head to toe which made Noel felt a little bit uncomfortable. Somehow, the scary yellow eyes made her thought that she actually saw that somewhere before, and that voice … she must have heard it from someone she knew but looked again at his eyes, those were no longer yellow and frightening like earlier and instead of that, it were a normal, friendly green eyes. The girl sighed in relief, thought that she might have over thought a little bit.
"Give me some minutes, I will come out right away." The man opened the door behind him revealed a room full of clothes inside with various sizes, he entered it and disappeared for a while.
"Noel, stay here and try your clothes. I have to buy some food for the dinner, I will come back soon, just don't go anywhere and wait for me." Caelica said as Noel nodded with a small, cute smile on her face.
Several minutes later
"Here we go!" The man came out of the room, two hands held a big bunch of clothes that even cover his upper body. He walked imbalanced and ended up slip upon his feet, made the entire clothes on his hands fell down on the girl, completely buried her under it.
"Opps." He got himself up, rubbed his head painfully as he approached the stack of dress on the floor, head turned everywhere to find the girl
"Little girl, where are you?" He called.
"Umm … umm… I'm here." A small, delicate hand rose from the bunch of cloth, waving for help. The guy hurriedly came and pulled her out of there.
"So sorry, so sorry! Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." Noel replied, parted the dirt on her white dress.
"Where do you live?" An unexpected question came out from him as he once again inspected he with more and more concern, made her felt a little bit uneasy toward both his attitude and actions. Why did he grow some kind for interest in where she lived?
"Why do you care about that?" She asked.
"Well, I just want to know, that's all. Nothing big." He said, gave her an orange dress to try.
"I live in a church." She went to the change room, undressed and tried the new one he gave.
"Where is that church?"
"It's inside the northeast forest, that place is quite beautiful but there aren't many people there."
"Oh, I see." The girl came out.
"Wow, you look very lovely with it. All of the dresses here are all the same size with it, you can pick whatever you want, I guess I will give you those for free."
"Really?"
"Yes, choose whatever you like." The girl ran toward the clothed stack.
"Thank you very much!"
"No problem." An evil grin ran across his face, while Noel was concentrating on picking clothes, the man came nearer and nearer toward her, eyes fixed on her as if he want to eat her alive. Just when his hand was few centimeters from her…
"Noel, I'm back. Do you finish with your stuffs?" A familiar voice came out, the shopkeeper immediately returned back to his usual stance.
"Aunt Caelica, I've finished getting clothes for myself. Let's go home." The woman smiled, turned to the man.
"How much are those?" He shook his head
"Oh, they are for free."
"Then..." she put some money on the table.
"I will still pay for it, get it or not is up to you." She said and left the place with the girl went behind.
Looked the two, a leer formed on his lip.
"Interesting, interesting." The house once again, sank into the pitch black darkness.
"Boys, I'm home. How is …" Before the woman could finish her sentence, a big pillow actually landed on her face.
"Opps, sorry aunt." Jin said, sweatdropped as he recognized who he had thrown the pillow at.
"Uhhh ohhhh, told you so…" Ragna said, shook his head disappointingly.
"AHHHHHH!" The boy screamed as he saw the deadly look on Caelica face, two hands of hers reached out.
Dinner time.
"Awwww MAN! I'm so hungry!" Jin groaned as he silently sat at the corner of his room, rubbed his stomach again, and tried to forget the hunger. The woman had forbid him to eat the dinner and order him not to get out of the room till the rest of the day. Hearing his siblings praying before the meal, he felt angry and jealous. Suddenly, he heard his door cracked open.
"Jin, are you there?" A soft, gentle voice came out. He turned toward the door, only to find Noel stood there, with a meat dish and bread on her hand.
"You should eat something or else you will feel very tired." She said, put the food next to him and sat beside him.
"Why, why did you do all these?" He began to eat bread.
"Because I don't think that punish you this way is necessary at all, Kids are all energetic so things like this happened all the time." Jin inwardly felt glad because he had someone who was on his side this time and understood him.
"By the way, why don't you eat your meat dish?" Noel asked as she noticed the boy pushed it away.
"I … I don't like meat dish. I …" He looked at it as if the dish contained a killing poison.
"Ok, I have to go back to my room, see you later." The girl stood up, waved goodbye.
"Can you stay here and play with me for a while? I feel a little bit lonely." He pleaded with a cute puppy eye, tried to persuade her.
"Oh, ok. So what do want to play with me?" The girl returned, sat next to him.
"Let's play Truth or Dare" Noel was surprised by his choice of game, but maybe it wouldn't harm playing for a few minutes.
"Ok, so whose turn first?" Jin asked.
"My turn to ask first." Noel said.
"Truth or Dare, Jin."
"Dare." He said without needing any second of thinking.
"Will you eat this meat dish for me?" She said, a big disgusting expression came across his face.
"Awwww man! But … but… arrghhh, all right I will do that." He said, shut his eyes tightly as he used the folk to stab at the meat before putting it in front of his mouth and with a deep breath, gained all of his courage, he put the whole thing into his mouth, hardly little by little swallow it.
"Yuck! You are so evil, Noel!" He said, coughed wildly due to eating too unwillingly.
"You sure have a big mouth to swallow all the food you had stored in your mouth." The girl giggled, hand put on her lips.
"Haaa… now it's my turn to ask you? Truth or Dare?"
"Truth." She said confidently
"Who do love the most in this world?" He asked.
"I love… but wait! Why do you ask that?"
"You don't have any restriction for type of question so it is all legal. Now, can you answer that, or you will get the punishment." He grinned devilishly.
"I .. I … but…" The grin on the boy's face grew wider.
"So it's clear that you can't answer that?" The girl blushed.
"Ok, fine. What is the punishment anyway?."
"Kiss me … on the cheek"
"WHAT! I … CAN"T DO THAT. WE ARE …" A deep, crimson blush creep on her two cheeks.
"We are what?" He asked, eye brows raised teasingly.
"We are … still small."
"Just on the cheek is fine." The girl sighed in defeat.
"Ok, fine. I will." Jin quickly shut his eyes tight, waiting for the kiss on his cheek.
"I wonder how his lips tasted? It's so soft and .. maybe his future self also have it. Maybe this is my only chance to … do it." She blushed madly again made her looked like a ripe tomato.
"What are you doing? Just do it already." Jin said, eyes still shut.
"I can't resist that…. No way. He is my major, I'm just his subordinate… I can't. But … this is the past, he is not my superior now …"
Jin started to get impatient. As he opened his eyes irritatingly, something soft and wet pressed against his lips, a smooth, light hand put on his cheek. His eyes widened as he realized that they were actually kissing each other… but on the lips. Her lips is so good, he could feel it thought the contact. However, they are kid. No way, it can't be. Aunt Caelica will scold him to no end. This must be stop!
"Ummm…" He gently pushed her aside, avoid making her hurt. As the two parted, he panted heavily, his heart bumped hard against his chest. This sensation still remain on his memory, carved every detail of the kiss into his mind while the girl blushed wildly as she noticed what she had done.
"I'm so … sorry. I … I will leave the room. Right now… Bye Jin" She said, stood up and quickly ran toward the door.
"WAIT!" The girl stopped.
"Thanks for the talk, I appreciate you care." Noel turned, smiled happily.
"Goodnight Jin." She waved
"Yeah goodnight." He replied, waved back as the door slowly closed before him.
That night, Jin couldn't sleep. He rolled from this side of the bed to the other side. His mind was too busy thinking of the incident happened earlier. He got the kiss from her! He touch his won lips, still sensed the taste of her lips remain there, told him that it was real.
"Noel Vermillion ... Thanks." He said before sinking into a nice sleep that he hadn't had for a long time.
A/N: Well, this one is a little bit short. i will make it longer in the next piece of my work. Please review and let me know your feeling toward this chapter.
Thank you reader and reviewer very much (I hope that people will give more reviews to my "The True Heart" also)
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