MC (Monsterlife and Chiby): Hi! Sorry it took so long for us to update. Thanks to everyone who had reviewed the first chapter! This chapter was written by Chiby Angel-chan and edited by Monsterlife. Happy reading! :)
Note: This story is still in Ran's POV, remember?
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Chapter 2
"CURSE YOU OTOHATA!!" I shouted out indignantly at the top of one's lungs, startling some birds around me. I still stood uprightly here--on the school roof, to wreak my anger.
Once that jerk's face appeared in my mind, I instantly yelled the same words again. That stupid Rei Otohata…damn, he never failed to flown me into a rage. If only I had the dominance to control this college…I would have killed him!
Wait. Did I mention his name? Man, my head could possibly explode just by remembering his name. I hate him!
As I was about to scream again, someone suddenly covered my eyes from behind. "Guess who?"
Much to that guy's surprise, I automatically jerked and punched him without even knowing who he was. "DON'T TOUCH ME!"
"Ouch!" The guy fell on the ground and hissed in pain, caressing his swelling cheeks. "What did you do that for, Ran-pyon?"
Hearing how he called me, I shook my head to bring my conscious back and peered at the guy piercingly. I enlarged my eyes in surprise when I finally noticed who he was. I quickly approached him and called his name, "Tatsukichi!"
I kneeled down and apologized ashamedly, realizing how stupid I was to punch my old buddy like that without reason. Instead of blaming me, he merely giggled, making me confused. "That's Ran-pyon who I'd always recognized all this time. It's so like you to rough up every guy who dares to touch you."
I couldn't bear my laughter at this. Then we laughed together. This guy, Tatsuki Kuroi was one of my best friends since we were young. He was such a stupid yet funny guy, who had always amused me whenever we met. We were separated one year ago since I entered this St. Joseph College. I never thought that I could see him again.
"At any rate, what are you doing here, Tatsukichi? What about your job? Shouldn't you work at your ramen restaurant now?" I asked in astonishment. I cocked a brow when Tatsuki smirked freakishly at me, showing me a mysterious look. "You know this uniform, right, Ran-pyon?"
I stared at him pointedly and to my surprise, Tatsuki was wearing St. Joseph College uniform! "Don't tell me that you have…entered this college?"
"Precisely." Tatsuki smiled widely, winking an eye at me. "But it wasn't easy to convince my parents, you know. I had to promise to study hard so that my effort and money I spent to go to this college wouldn't be meaningless."
I laughed in all of a sudden, surprising the spiky-haired guy a bit. "Gag! A monkey boy like you is actually intending to study hard?! Ha-ha! Impossible!"
I stopped laughing as Tatsuki shot me a death glare. I nodded in apology and let him continue his explanation. This time he seemed to be more serious that even a talkative person like me wasn't able to speak again.
"I had tried my best for all of this, Ran." Tatsuki muttered in a low voice. "That's because…I wanted to see you."
I blinked confusedly. "What?"
"I wanted to see you again." He repeated. "I-I missed you so much, Ran-pyon."
My eyes grew wider at this. So he forced his parents to see me? He made a promise which was hard to fulfill just because he missed me?
Noticing my perplexing look, Tatsuki bowed his head and said, "A-am I wrong?"
After a while, I lifted my face to see his face. Once more, his nervous look made me laugh. It seemed like Tatsuki was going to reprimand me before I uttered, "Silly! That's not Tatsukichi who I'd always known! Take it easy you idiot, that stupid painful look doesn't suit you at all!"
"R-Ran-pyon…" The swarthy Machida guy slightly blushed at this. I kept laughing until my stomach got sick.
I jokingly punched his chest as I said, "I'm so happy that you came for me, Tatsukichi!"
Tatsuki looked surprised for a while but then, he sounded off a soft chuckle and grinned at me.
"Revenge? What for?" The certain spiky-haired guy asked me in a hint of curiosity.
"This college has a very annoying jerk." I explained with so much distaste, though I knew that I would lie to Tatsuki a bit. "His name is Rei Otohata. He's getting on my nerves! And you know what? He had just mortified me yesterday!"
Tatsuki popped a vein when he heard that. "What?! For real?!"
I nodded. "Yup! That's why I need your help! Will you lend me a hand to avenge that bastard, Tatsukichi?"
Tatsuki immediately agreed and stated that he would do anything to help me. I smiled in satisfaction, thinking how delicious it will be to destroy that stupid Otohata with this best partner of mine.
After two minutes of preparation, we were finally ready to do our plan. This plan was very simple but enough to destroy that Ice Prince's image. We simply put a banana peel near his room. Opportunely his room was right in front of a fish pool so the moment he stepped on the banana peel, he would fell down and automatically splashed down the pool.
In the end I would take some pictures of him when he fell down and of course, I would sell the photos. All people sure wanted to have them and those pictures of him would be surely sold well. I got two advantages at the same time: I would manage to punish Otohata and I would be rich too. What a perfect plan, I thought.
Now we were currently waiting for our target to trap into our plan. We hid in bushes while keeping our eyes open. And finally, we saw that cold bastard walking towards his room.
"Here goes, Ran-pyon!" Tatsuki whispered to me.
I gritted my teeth nervously, wishing my effort with Tatsuki would work. Gee, what took you so long? Come on, step on that peel! What are you waiting for, Mr.Otohata?
I watched his feet were going to reach the banana peel. And when I clenched my fists harder, I froze as I saw another figure suddenly came closer to the banana peel. And that person was going to replace Otohata to fall into our trap accidentally.
That was Aya Hoshino!
Inconsiderately, I hurriedly came out of the bushes and speedily headed to the two of them. "LOOK OUT!"
The couple turned to me and much to their surprise, I fell down because of the banana peel and splashed down the fish pool.
Rei and Aya sweat dropped. I coughed and looked back at them who were setting flustered looks on their faces.
"What the heck were you doing, Kotobuki?" Rei calmly questioned, arching a brow in confusion.
Tatsuki was yelling at me but I wasn't able to answer him since I had frozen in vexation and embarrassment. No way. I trapped in my own snare right in Hoshino and Otohata's eyes?
Hoshino hesitantly spoke to me, "K-Kotobuki-san…"
Before I could open my mouth to say something, a well-known irritating shout was suddenly heard and I could guess who that person was. "Ms. KOTOBUKI!!"
Powerless, I feebly replied the woman. "Yes, Ms. Hebert…"
It was already time for me to do the most annoying activity in my life—studying with the totally cold jerk, namely Rei Otohata as usual. Crap, I could predict what would happen after this. First, I entered the library and saw him smirking arrogantly at me. Then he asked me sarcastically why I was late, though he obviously knew what the reason was.
Ms. Hebert had just lectured me for the umpteenth. She was insanely mad at me since she thought that I had purposely disturbed the couple and swam on the fish pool. Was she crazy? No matter how naughty I was, I was still normal and I already knew which pool I should use to swim in. But she was just so…ugh, whatever. That was unnecessary.
Next the Ice Prince would continuously insult me and told me how lame I was. I would have to spend two hours in hell now. Damn it! I was the one who planned to take vengeance on him, but why did it end divertingly?
I slowly reached the knob and silently came in to the library. I swallowed hard, getting ready to front the war. My heart skipped a beat as I saw him sitting in the corner from afar.
Gulp. Be strong, Ran! You can do it!
As I was about to call him, I stopped pacing when I heard him talking. Who was he talking to? I swiftly hid behind a bookshelf and set my ears, listening to his face to face talks with a person, who was apparently that girlfriend of his again, Aya Hoshino.
I heard the chocolate brown-haired guy murmured to his girlfriend, "What's wrong with you, Aya? Did I do anything wrong?"
"No, this is not your fault, Rei-kun." The dark-haired angel weakly muttered. She looked very sad. "I…I just can't…I-I still love you, but…"
What? What does she mean? I inwardly questioned. I instantly moved closer so I could understand what they were talking about properly.
Rei spoke again, "Then why did you say that you want to break up with me all of a sudden?"
Becoming shock, I gasped at this unexpected conversation.
"I...I...I'm sorry." Aya muttered before running off.
"Run after her, you fool!" I said before thinking. Rei looked at me in suprise and I felt teensy, bitsy of guilt.
"Kotobuki." he said in suprise and I couldn't help but notice that his hands are closed into fist and for the first time in my life I could see him showing an emotion: Sadness.
"She still loves you." I said but his eyes darken and I almost wanted to shut my mouth, "Run after her Otohata! She might have a good reason why she dumps you."
Maybe that was a little bit harsh.
"It's none of your business, Kotobuki." He said and I blood boil in anger when I saw him sat down in the chair and did nothing but stare into space.
"You're cold as ice, Otohata!" I told him and before he could reply, I already ran outside to look for Aya.
cryptidwonka: Miyu is speaking to herself. And -"You peeping tom." HE said angrily, "Figures, people like you who don't know what they want would stoop so low to invade people's privacy." The one speaking is Rei.
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