Chapter 5

We all looked at Butch.

"What?" he said as he took a seat.

"Kaoru was just telling us about how she…" Brick started but I stepped on his foot cutting him off, "OW!"

Butch looked at his brother then to me. I smiled and the shoved food in my face. He raised and eyebrow at me then set his stuff down and went into the lunch line.

I sighed with relief.

"I'm going to tell him sooner or later," Brick said frowning at me.

"Baby are you ok?" Momoko asked as she moved over to him.

"I will be after I tell Butch you like him," Brick said glaring at me.

"No! I don't like him!" I stood up holding up a fist.

"Kaoru! Sit! Butch is coming anyway," Momoko said to me but her attention was mainly to Brick.

"Matsubara why are you standing?" he asked as he sat down next to me.

"Why are you sitting next to me?" I shot back as I sat down.

"Momoko kind of took my seat so I'll take hers."

"As I was saying…" Brick paused and glared at me, "before my foot was crushed. I have something to tell you Butch," he paused again and glared at me then looked over to Butch.

"What do you have to tell me?" Butch asked looking form me to him.

"Kaoru was just telling us about how she likes you," he said with a stratified smile plastered on his face.

I'm going to kick his ass so hard! But then Momoko will kill me… but he deserves it!

"Matsubara, is that true?" he asked eyeing me.

"Uh… I have to go…" I said as I got up, threw my food away, and ran out of the lunchroom.

Butch followed me out.

"Do you really like me?" he asked as he grabbed my arm before I could get too far.

"I-I-I-I don't know…" My face started to blush again. I felt weak.

"It's ok, you don't have to answer," he said letting go of my arm. I could tell that he knew that I felt weak at the moment and nervous. He started to walk away.

"Butch wait," I called after him, "I… may have… some feelings for you…" I said weakly.

"Well I may have some feelings for you too," he said turning around. A small blush came on his face. He walked slowly back to me. "I might have had feelings for you for a while now,"

"Don't make a big deal out of this. I bet your lying. I see how you flirt with all the other girls," I said as I started to return to 'normal'.

"Kaoru, I flirt with you the most out of any those other girls," he said getting closer to me.

"We can find out if my feelings change Friday," I said as I turned around to leave him to think about how he was going to impress me Friday.

Home on chat

Momoko: Kaoru! So what happened with you and Butch?

Miyako: ya what happened?

Kaoru: nothing… we're just going to hang out on Friday

Momoko: see I told you he liked you!

Miyako: you guys would make a cute couple! Are you two together?

Kaoru: no… but we're going to hang out on Friday like I said

Momoko: you going to stay the night again?

Kaoru: none of your business!

Miyako: have you kissed yet?

Kaoru: no…

Miyako: do you have an outfit picked out for Friday?

Momoko: ya cause if you don't we can help you pick something out!

Kaoru: no thanks. I'm just going to wear something normal

Miyako: but…

Momoko: Ya… Butch seemed to like when you wore that skirt

Kaoru: so did all the other boys. No way am I going to wear that again

Miyako: but you looked good in that skirt

Kaoru: well Butch should be able to accept me no matter what I wear

Miyako: ya I guess you're right

Momoko: Brick is taking me somewhere Friday.

Miyako: I wish Boomer would take me somewhere…

Momoko: why don't you just ask him out?

Miyako: maybe I will. Well hey I have to go so I'll see you guys tomorrow bye!

Miyako logged off

Momoko: you know if you guys kiss you have to tell me because you know I'll find out one way or another.

Momoko logged off

I logged off my computer and sat there. I didn't want to have this ending up like my last crush. So I guess this means I do have feelings for him… I liked him and I thought he liked me back, but no he was already dating four other girls! He was such a jerk. I beat the shit out of him to pay for breaking my heart. Ever since then I've been afraid to let my heart have its own mind. But now it's starting to get its mind back. I hope Butch doesn't break it. He is the player kind of guy no matter what he says…

The next few days went by kind of fast but kind of not fast. Butch pretty much stopped with the teasing and flirting. He waited for me after class and offered to carry my books… I didn't let him carry my books and he didn't care. It was kind of weird to see him change into being nice.

His fan girls were pretty jealous of me. 99% of the time his attention was to me and not to them. 1% was to them when he told them to get lost.

Brick and Momoko teased us. But we always got them back. Miyako and Boomer spent less time with us and more time with each other and Momoko thought that was cute. I thought it was weird. Momoko always said I spent too much time with Butch but I always told her that it was because we had the same classes. She just rolled her eyes.

It was finally Friday. I woke up and Dai was standing in my doorway.

"What do you want Dai?" I asked as I crawled out of bed.

"I was wondering if you were staying at your tutors' house tonight,"

"Why do you care?" I asked as I headed to the bathroom.

"I don't know," he paused as he followed me to the bathroom, "are you sure he's not your boyfriend?"

"He is NOT my boyfriend," I said in his face then shut the door behind me and continued to get ready.

I grabbed his clothes that he gave me last week. I was planning to give them back to him or something. Then I headed downstairs to go and eat.

"Hello dear," my mom greeted.

"Hey, is it ok if I stay at Butch's?" I asked as I took my seat at the table.

"Sure as long as you get work done," she replied as she set down food in front of me.

I ate my food and then left for school.

When I reached school I saw Momoko and Brick. When I got closer I saw that they were making out. Gross I thought to myself.

I decided not to bother them and went to my class since Miyako was nowhere in sight.

Girls surrounded Butch when I got to the class as usual. They were looking at him longingly. Butch was trying to ignore them. I rolled my eyes at how he was failing at getting them away and then took my seat.

"Matsubara," he said looking at me, "we still on for tonight?"

"Yes," I said shaking my head.

I saw all the girls' expressions. Some had shock and some had anger but I didn't care and neither did Butch.

The teacher came in and sat at her desk waiting for the bell to ring. There was still five minutes left. I thought to myself.

Thoughts: I am for once feeling happy. I feel weird but in a good way, I think. I know Miyako and Momoko would be happy for me if I did get Butch to be my boyfriend, but it's been a while since I had my heart broken. I don't know if I can trust Butch with my heart. Maybe I shouldn't have said yes. What if I do fall hard for him and my heart ends up broken? Maybe I should call it off…

I thought to myself and it seemed that the more I thought about it the less I wanted to sped time with Butch. But I guess it was kind of late to back out now.

The bell rang and the day's lessons began.

When the first period let out I rushed out and went to my locker and went straight to the next class. I didn't wait for Butch. I felt slightly bad that I didn't but I wasn't sure about anything. Sure we get a long a lot better now but maybe we were just meant to be friends…

These thoughts went through me head all day. I moved fast so I could avoid Butch. But then lunch came and I knew I would have to face him. I reached the cafeteria before him but Momoko, Miyako, Brick, and Boomer were already sitting there. I motioned for them to come over to me and they did.

"What's wrong Kaoru?" Miyako asked noticing something was wrong.

"Are you ok?" Momoko asked concerned.

"To be honest… I'm not sure if I want to hang out with Butch anymore…"

"WHY?" they both cried in unison.

"Well as you know my last crush turned out in a disaster and I don't want that to happen again," I paused as they remember how badly things ended up last time, "I mean Butch is a nice guy but he seems like a player and we have been getting along better, maybe we're just suppose to be friends."

"Kaoru, I know how you feel. I like Brick and all but I'm afraid that he might break my heart. But there is only one way to find out. I'm going to trust that he isn't. I think you should do the same with Butch," she said and then she took my hand and we went back to the table.

This time when we got back Butch was there.

"Matsubara, seems like I haven't seen you all day since you seem to be avoiding me."

"Ya I'm sorry about that. I guess I've been thinking and doubting myself. But I think I'm ok now," I say and look at him. He is looking back at me.

"It's ok," he says and then eats his lunch.

It was finally the end of the day and Butch was waiting at my locker.

"You get your homework done?"

"Of course not,"

"Let's get your homework done and then we can have fun,"

"OK," I say as we start to walk out the school. When we get outside and see Brick and Momoko making out.

"Him and Momoko are doing something tonight," he said as we walked past them.

"Ya I know, it's gross they shouldn't be doing that on school grounds," I say as we walk to his house.

"I know, they should be doing that in private."

We got to his house and he helped me with my homework. This time it didn't take as long.

First he ordered pizza and we played some sports wrestling video games and then watched some sports T.V. It was fun.

"I can't believe he missed that shot!" I said standing up.

"He had a clear shot!" he said also standing up.

Then the doorbell rang. Butch went to open the door. It was the pizza. I heard a loud clap of thunder. Butch came back into the room with 2 boxes of pizza.

"It's really pouring out there. It looks like it is a bad storm."

"Where are your brothers?" I ask as I take out a piece of pizza box.

"Boomer went to Miyako's and Brick is with Momoko somewhere," he said as he got a piece of pizza.

"GO! GO!" I shouted at the T.V. Right as they were about to score I heard a huge clap of thunder and the power went out. Butch was right next to me and grabbed onto him and screamed.

"It's ok," he said as he hugged me back, "are you afraid of the dark or something?"

I pulled away from him, "of course I'm not afraid of the dark," I said as I stuttered.

I could tell he was smirking at me, "So what do you want to do?"

"You have any candles or a flashlight?" I asked.

"Probably. Let's go check," he said as he grabbed my hand taking me with him.

We walked around his house. His grip tightened on my hand. His house was kind of creepy with the lights out and lightning flashing and the thunder didn't help.

BANG!

"AHHHHH!" I screamed and clung to Butch's arm.

"Are you sure you're not afraid?" he asked smirking.

"Hey its not my fault you live in a big creepy house."

"My house isn't creepy when the lights are on."

He then took me into a room, which was his. He left my side and went to his desk and pulled out a candle and a box of matches.

"Crap there are no more matches," he said frowning.

I made my way to his bed and sat down, "so what do we do now?"

"Um I'm not sure. There is not much we can do when the power is out," he said still smirking.

"Do you want your clothes back? Cause I brought them back,"

"Nah you can keep them,"

"Ok, I'm going to go change then," so I got up and changed and came back. I found Butch standing at his desk looking at something. He didn't hear me come in so I walked over to him quietly. I set my clothes on his bed and walked over. He didn't hear me still. I then snaked my arms around his waist and rested my head on his back. I would have put my head on his shoulder but he was a good 3 or 4 inches taller than me. He didn't freak out, he just continued doing whatever he was doing.

"Hey Kaoru," he finally said.

There was another big clap of lightning along with thunder. I hugged him tighter.

"Again are you sure, you're not afraid of this storm, let alone the dark," he said as he turned around to face me. I then buried my face in his chest. What am I doing?

"So I take it that your feelings have gotten stronger for me," he said as he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Maybe they have," I said looking up at him.

This feels so wrong but it feels so right at the same time.

I broke free and sat on his bed, "you know what time it is?"

"I don't have a clock," he said moving to the bed. Then he sat next to me. He looked at me and I looked back. Then I looked away.

"So tell me something about you," I said leaning back.

"Will you tell me something about you?"

"Ya most likely," I said staring at the dark ceiling.

Then after a while of him telling me stuff I started to doze off.

Sorry no cliffhanger but I wasn't sure how to end it. Again thanks a bunch for all the comments! Going to make next chapter soon.