A/N: Dum dum da da raaaa! Chapter three! Man, writing (or typing) makes me feel so better! School has been bothering me to no end. Projects to projects, quiz and test, it never stops! RAWR! :0 Sometimes I wish my school would burn to little flakes. Any who. Since nobody actually reads these (XD), go on my lovelies! Read until you cannot read no more. Or until this chapter ends and you have to wait until the next. . .Poor you. XD
Summary: .:.AU.:. Hikari felt best when helping others, so the blue haired girl volunteered to assist in a foster home. What attracted her attention was a silent teen. Question is, why is she so intrigued by him? More over, can she help him?
Extra note: Thoughts will be written in italics. The text message (you'll see) will be in bold. If anything, if you see some text smushed together, blame the format!
Disclaimer: Every time I put this down, a part of my soul dies. Way to go you evil label, way to go.
Please refer back to chapter one for any assistance on names, ages, pairings, and etc.
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Chapter 3: The Carnival, Part 1
The ride to Sonō town was silent, usually, Hikari would always be muttering to herself on different things from her life all the way to the shoes she wore. She could tell she was getting close to the city from the scent of honey even though she was still in Hakutai city, her legs got swore from the bike ride so she decided to take a quick break to keep the purple haired lad from waiting. All the while he was silent which made the blue hair nervous, she had a feeling this was getting no where. He didn't talk to her, no; he didn't look like he even wanted to engage a conversation at all. As Hikari took one last gulp of water from a nearby fountain she hopped back on her bicycle, "Sorry for that. C'mon, we only have to go through a forest and-"
"Hikari?"
At the moment she felt like disappearing, her blue eyes widened as her slender legs began to tremble. That one voice that called out to her was not Shinji, sadly enough for her. When she tilted her head, it was the same blond that confessed to her: Jun. He dropped down the shopping bags, the amber eyed slowly approached her. As a result, Hikari slowly backed away, she couldn't escape from her own problems but more than anything I don't want to solve them now! Her heart was about to stop when that hand of his was soon reaching her face, why did this had to happen now? Her eyes shut closed, waiting for any thing to happen, in a few seconds as she finally opened her eyes, Hikari witnessed Shinji right by her side, griping tightly on Jun's wrist. One of his amber eyes twitched to the pain; soon, a little crack was heard. A crack but not as in broken.
"Leave." Those frightening purple eyes glared into the gentle amber ones.
Jun gulped, when his wrist was released he scrambled quickly into the condominium with his shopping bags without taking another look to Hikari who on the sidelines was completely and utterly stunned by the whole scene.
Shinji stared at the blue eyed with no touch of rage or hatefulness. Just a while ago, he was actually really scary. But he—defended me.
Shinji got back on the bicycle, clearly not amused of being in this town any longer, and without much longer they were passing the forest with ease. Then, the scent of honey surrounded the area. The sweet, sweet aroma was wonderful. Just as how nice the town is so is the scenery, Hikari parked her bike right on the wall of her house.
"Home sweet home, come in, Shinji."
The door made a small creak as it breached open, both stepped inside and Hikari rushed to her room. The lad gazed around the living room where he took the farthest end of the sofa, grabbing the remote control and turning on the television.
As for Hikari, she walked into her walk in closet, trouble deciding on the clothes she could wear. No, not a date or anything! It's just Shinji, but, might as well dress nice!
Through every rejected outfit she just threw them in a pile behind her but she finally found her outfit, she twirled herself in a pink dress with a white corset, on her wrist were white cuff links. In one of her cabinets were accessories, she found a pink neckband with a beautiful white flower. She grabbed her pink platform boots and slipped those on, with one last twirl, Hikari was truly satisfied on her appearance. She sprayed on light perfume of lavender. One finger curled her blue locks and she found it decent letting it down, with everything checked, the blue orbed grabbed her white purse and headed down stairs.
Somewhat annoyed that Shinji was paying more attention to the television than her, on the last step downstairs, she made sure her boot made a loud thump to direct his attention to her. This in fact actually worked.
"Let's go. We have to get there around the afternoon so we have time to spare. Hope you like walking."
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The walk to their location was an enjoyable one, Hikari was actually able to talk to him, even if was only a two-worded answer, albeit, she was frightened at times because he gave her look that told her to keep it shut for a while. Which she did, but in the end, she continued on rambling. It only took a while for the teen to get slightly use to her, mostly since he never spoke to anyone besides Gen. It was odd to him, mostly every volunteer worker that tried to cooperate with him he would do the following: Angering them, fooling them, or at least driving the individual insane. Only this time he wanted to spend his time with his blue eyed girl, none the less, he wasn't as frustrated when around her.
It was—odd.
Shinji was deep in thought he didn't notice Hikari calling out his name.
"Shinji!"
He blinked twice before looking at her with a perplexed expression.
"Good to know you finally paid attention," she laughed and continued on, "Shinji, since I want to make this day special, let me spoil you. Alrighty?"
No reply.
"I'll take that as a 'sure'. Oh yeah, I never heard you say my name. C'mon, say it, please?"
She asked countless times but it seemed Shinji found amusing to ignore her request, it turned boring quickly when she gave up then brought upon a new subject to talk about. Even though he barely answered, Hikari was satisfied he was even listening to her in the first place. The nice conversation was ruined when her cell phone started to ring. She flipped the blue phone, placing it near her ear. "Hello? Oh, hey Haru! I know I'm sorry. How's Shuu? Oh, let me speak to him!"
The other teen stared at the city, it was close by. Maybe another seven minutes and they would arrive.
"Nice talking to you too! Alright, Haru, I'll call you later. No, no! It's just that I'm taking Shinji to the carnival. W-what? I do not! Anyway, yeah, I know, I'll text him in a while. Alright? Later."
Hikari took a deep sigh as she put her phone away, now that that was done, she continued on speaking. In no time did they reach the city and it was already sun down, which makes it the perfect time to enter the carnival. Though the blue haired girl wanted to wait until later when it's darker so one can truly see the carnival lights. Which reminded her, just how long was she able to stay with him? Once again she took out her cell phone, at the same moment she received a text message but ignored it for the while as she clicked on the buttons.
"Gen? It's Hikari. Um, well. Hold on, he's right here." She tapped on Shinji shoulder; he received it and walked to one of the benches near the water fountains.
She looked around, Hikari always had something with this city and her mother would always enter this special type of contest since it was the only contest hall around the area. Not only that but it was pleasing to be in this city, just like Sonō. If she had to pick another place to live it would certainly be here, it is a little pricy though that doesn't bug her. She looked at Shinji who is still talking to Gen.
I wonder why he's in the foster home, did something happen to his parents? I wish I could ask but that would be so rude.
Hikari kept staring, at times she would giggle when the droplets of water hit his face and he to wipe them off with his sleeve.
I wonder why some couldn't stand him, he's not that bad. If he were a little talkative I bet he could be likeable.
Shinji nodded and closed the phone.
He's scary but he has a kind of heart. If he weren't with me I wouldn't know what I would've done with Jun.
The teen walked towards her while Hikari was lost in her own little world.
I wonder if I can manage to get Shinji to smile, I bet he would look even nicer and friendlier if he did. I wonder what it would sound like if he said my name.
"Here."
Hikari finally got out of lala land and took the phone, she smiled at him which was the same reaction as ever: apathetic.
"What did Gen say?"
"Nothing that's important."
"Did he tell you at what time I have to bring you back?"
"Today at whatever time."
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Currently, it was roughly around seven before they entered the carnival; it was hard to get passed through anything since everyone in town is attending the event. There was a slight envy to all the couples that passed by, everyone looked so happy but that didn't mean Hikari wasn't. To be here with someone other than her regular friends was a new experience also something to look forward to. It came to mind that she never read the text message she received, probably the company issuing a bill to her of the sort.
She went to a nearby stand; they sold foods and it looked very delicious: candy apples, cotton candy, roasted nuts and exotic drinks. "Shinji, want anything?"
"Shinji has a strange habit of not eating in front of someone."
Before he was able to refuse, she bought two large banana and strawberry smoothies and a large bag of cotton candy, she guided him to one of the seating area where she sipped her drink merrily.
"C'mon, it's cotton candy. It won't bite."
He just stared at the piece of sugar, as if waiting for something to crawl out of it.
"Excuse me, I'll be back. Bathroom rush!" Hikari rushed through the crowd and Shinji just watched her go, he noticed that her phone somehow fell out of her purse. Shinji picked it up and plopped a portion of the cotton candy in his mouth. It wasn't all that bad, sweet, but not bad.
1 MISSED MESSAGE.
He knew it was wrong to look upon on someone private matters but at the moment he didn't care. He noticed the pictures were filled with all her friends. Especially that same blond and some girl with brunette hair. He closed the application and went back to main menu where the inbox was. It was filled with messages, he took note the blond lad was named 'Jun.' Shinji went to the missed messages category and found it was from the same guy.
I need an answer. Please answer my question! Don't ignore me.
Please, Hikari, won't you be my girlfriend?
6:28 PM. Fri Sept 26, 2008.
From: Jun.
Shinji gazed at the screen, he looked around and it didn't seem Hikari wasn't coming back from the restroom yet.
And again, he directed his attention back towards the screen.
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A/N: Yay, cliffy-ish! I actually updated quicker than last time! Thank you for your reviews! It certainly made me happy. Sorry that I had to divide this, I just don't want to rush this story! But since the the slightly good parts are coming, I'll try to update next week and make'em longer. There might be two or three parts. . . Dammit, you know what I wish? Junjou Romantica to air. T0T Review! :D
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