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Chapter 3: Misunderstandings, and Anger

I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I grabbed him and ran out of class. I just didn't want to deal with a million picture perfect girls surrounding his desk. We had to get the hell out of there. So that is why I was running down the halls crazily and went out the closest exit I could find. Which happened to be outside, and the worst part was that I was hunched over and out of breath. I'm not the athletic type. Meaning I looked like a loser. Compared to the model, Ryuu who was practically ready for a photo shoot.

No wonder all the girls like him he's smart, cute, well built, and popular. The best package ever. I couldn't even comprehend why he even talked to me in the first place. No guys ever thought twice about me. All the guys I ever met were complete idiots. Thinking all of this while having Ryuu staring at you makes you feel uneasier than you already are. I was definitely nervous.

I stated, confused, "How come you didn't tell me you were in the S.A?" If I knew he was in the S.A, I wouldn't have treated him like he was the most annoying person who ever existed. I would have been the polite girl I always was at school. At least I used to be. I theoretically slapped myself in the face for doing something that stupid; I really did need to apologize.

The clear blue sky and perfect green grass made me feel more out of place at this school, the only benefit was that no one was even remotely around. They all were probably hurrying to their next class. I glanced up to see Ryuu's expression that seemed to be staring right at me. I looked right back down and continued to gasp for my breath. I regretted every single decision I made ever since I stepped into this photo shoot, even the way I walked into the school gates I would correct cause I bumped into a bunch of people who stared weirdly at me! Ugh…I am going to die of embarrassment.

"Listen, Ryuu. I would have been way more polite to you if I knew you were in the S.A. Now you probably hate me, so I'm sorry for all the things I said when you helped me out. You really are a nice guy," I replied trying to say my apology out loud, though I'm always horrible at saying what's on my mind. I practically said 'um' the whole time!

I finally gnawed out the courage to actually straighten up and look at him face to face. But when I did I did not like what I saw. Ryuu looked seriously angry with me. And not the angry at me in an annoyed way like before when we met at the tree. This was pure anger. His green eyebrows furrowed so angrily I couldn't even explain it and his eyes bore right through me I thought he could actually see my face.

What did I do wrong? I thought I was apologizing! I looked behind me to check and see if he was staring at someone else but he wasn't it was just me. I sweat dropped, and began to physically sweat all over when I awkwardly looked back at him. Ryuu gritted his teeth, and looked away from me and practically spat, "Your just like everyone else." It was as if those words slapped me in the face.

The whole time Ryuu was nice to me and acted like a complete savior and now he was like this? Does he have huge mood swings or something?! I backed up from his hurtful words, and I no longer felt excited to know about the S.A club and get tips from him. Now it felt as if my dreams were completely crushed. Now I get it. He doesn't think I'm cool enough for the club. I was never good enough was I?

And to think I actually believe the S.A members would understand me and except me. Now Ryuu seriously hurt me. I looked at the ground and Ryuu looked so pissed off I swear I thought he was going to hit me. I decided to do the thing that I'm always best at. The thing I can never do wrong. I decided to run away. And so I did.

And he didn't stop me.

I looked back one last time to see him not even looking at me as I ran. As if he wanted nothing to do with me. He probably would go as far as telling the teacher to move his seat because he didn't like his spot. Because he didn't like me. Everyone I meet always acts the same way; everyone ignores me, hits me, and hurts me, in any possible way. And I'm such a huge wimp that I run away from it. I just can't take it anymore.

I may be sad and disappointed but most of all I'm angry with myself for doing something to hurt Ryuu so much that his personality completely changed in a second. The moment that I opened my mouth up I hurt him completely. I am a complete wreck.

I ran down the halls trying to hold myself together before I shattered into a million pieces and become vulnerable in front of someone. I can't become vulnerable or else I will open up to someone. And I can never do that again; opening up to someone only leads to pain, because if it didn't lead to pain then I wouldn't be wearing this hood right now.

I passed many different classrooms, some doors remained opened because the teacher didn't close them yet and students stared at me as I ran through the hall. After I ran at least halfway around the school I realized I didn't even check my schedule yet to see where my next class was. I opened my purple and gray backpack and finally found the folded piece of paper I was looking for. I was tired though and I felt so tired that I would sleep on a public bench if I could. I sighed to myself quietly and decided to sit in the dead end hall on the dirty ground. I lay my head against the cold hard wall and closed my eyes and just sat there in silence.

I just wish I could just start all over again, the day, the incident near the tree, and my class, every single moment. But no matter how many times I opened my eyes I would still find myself in the dead ended hallway sitting on the cold floor that was sending shivers up my spine. I just wanted to sleep, and dream about a vacation, reading on the sandy beach with a romance novel in my hand. But I just could never find myself sleeping in the day. More like napping that is.

For some reason I was dazed, my eyes were open but my head was elsewhere as if I was daydreaming. It felt like hours since my English class actually ended. And it felt like I had forgotten Ryuu's expression when I left. It felt like I was asleep. And soon enough I was asleep, and once again completely vulnerable for anyone to hurt me. Especially a teenage girl who was asleep in a deserted hallway with no one in sight.

But it didn't matter because my sleep made all of the pain go away, and made it seem like the best thing in the world to do. I was basked in darkness, but soon I saw a light and I was on a beach somewhere far away by myself listening to the waves crashing down. I was in heaven.

Ryuu's P.O.V:

I was so pissed off right now that I couldn't even go to class. The only place that I could possibly cool off at was the greenhouse. Because that was where I belonged, not with some annoying girl who only likes the S.A club for popularity. I growled angrily as I slouched myself all the way to the greenhouse, which was super far away from campus.

Finally when I reached my destination I opened the creaky old door, and made my way inside. From the entrance I could hear Hikari's and Takishima's crazy antics involving their newest so called, "competition." I rolled my eyes not wanting to deal with this right now as I heard Takishima's usual 2nd place jokes to Hikari. Apparently Yahiro had come to visit Megumi since I heard his evil diabolical laughter from the path I was walking on.

The usual koala bear that I named Debby came to me from one of the exotic trees, but I just told her to go play with one of the other koala bears because I wasn't in the mood right now. Debby whimpered but obeyed her master silently as she climbed one of the nearest trees. Hearing my best friends bicker to themselves and laughing together brought some ease to my bad mood. But it wasn't that much ease since they all irritated me so much especially Yahiro who was constantly teasing Megumi.

"So how is that cute little voice of yours? You are not getting too chatty are you?" Yahiro teased accusingly. As Megumi glared at him and wrote viciously back, "Of course I'm not talking! Stop being so mean!" She then stuck her tongue out at him. He just responded by raising his eyebrows at her thinking it was an invitation and wrapped his arm around her waist smoothly. Though Megumi stared at his arm as if it were an alien, he just smirked thinking he clearly won.

Akira on the other hand was practically attacking Takishima who dodged all of her hits. "TAKISHIMA if you lay a hand on her I'm going to murder you!" Akira yelled a complete maniac, as she resembled a bear trying to kill her prey. Obviously Hikari was her baby cub that she wanted to protect. Tadashi remained beside Hikari apparently supposedly is there to block off Takishima from tormenting Hikari, even though he was just eating all of Akira's food.

"Hey, I'm sorry Akira but Hikari already agreed to this competition so if I do win, which I'm GOING TO DO I get to go on a date with Hikari. Whether you like it or not!" Takishima stated a matter-of-factly as he sneaked away from the punching Akira and made his way beside Hikari.

"No Way! I'm obviously going to win!" Hikari spat back at him, thinking she could do anything. Akira appeared by her side in a second and patted her head, "Don't worry Hikari, Tadashi and I will handle making sure you absolutely win," she replied as she gave Tadashi a secret wink.

Tadashi just smiled with cupcake still in his mouth not even understanding what he was getting himself into. Akira laughed hysterically, and appeared by her minion Tadashi's side and started to whisper her evil plan in his ear. He opened his mouth revealing the remains of his cupcake to everyone in the room

It was disgusting to watch from a distance cause everyone looked insane except for Jun who was on his phone probably texting Sakura with a smile on his face. Even Sakura was better than Yahiro, well for me that is. By the time everyone noticed me I was already sitting down on one of the couches and I finished two teas.

Jun was the first to notice when he looked up from his cell phone to see if everyone was still talking. "Oh, Ryuu I had no clue you were here!" Jun said surprised that I appeared out of nowhere, "How long were you here?" I was still pissed off so I stated sourly, "About a half hour ago. Does it really matter how long? You guys are going to cause a ruckus anyways." Before I realized what I just said and how uptight I sounded everyone was quiet and staring at me.

Megumi and Jun looked like they were about to cry, Yahiro just patted Megumi with a straight face, Hikari looked worried, Akira was silent, and Takishima looked seriously disappointed in what I just said. Tadashi was still busy eating and didn't notice the silence until Akira elbowed him, and he said, "What's wrong?"

Takishima replied, "Don't worry about it Ryuu was just kidding, right Ryuu?" I looked away not really wanting to talk to anyone and my face still looked pissed off. Takishima had a frown on his face and he seemed much more serious than before. Hikari said, "don't worry about it Ryuu! We were the ones who didn't notice you so we should be apologizing!" with a forgiving smile on her face as she sat beside me.

Everyone nodded with smiles on their faces but once I heard the word apologize, I instantly thought of her.

~Flashback~

Michiko was hunched over and replied sadly, "Listen, Ryuu. I would have been way more polite to you if I knew you were in the S.A. Now you probably hate me, so I'm sorry for all the things I said when you helped me out. You really are a nice guy."

She looked up at me with her face still covered. I was completely speechless.

~End Of Flashback~

Apologies. I hated that word. It reminded of her words to me, she apologized. And it didn't make any sense. It just made me so mad, that I just couldn't understand it. I hated it. My hands began to shake from the anger that was pouring out of me. I hated being treated differently just because we are in the S.A. I hated the fact that she just said that to my face.

The others who were standing continued doing their normal routines and they all sat down on the couches. Hikari noticed me shaking and asked worriedly, "Ryuu, are you okay?" Everyone else still continued to talk; the anger inside me was bothering me so much. When I looked at Hikari she suddenly started to begin to appear as Michiko, she wasn't Hikari it was Michiko. And Michiko was in the greenhouse talking with us.

I looked back down and tried to make sense of it, my eyebrows were furrowed so much they began to hurt and my frown was as deep as ever. I was so pissed off. I was so pissed off that I completely lost my mind. I wasn't myself anymore, I was angry. Angry with everyone I knew. Including my friends.

"Ryuu?" Hikari asked again beginning to get even more worried about me. No one noticed what was going on because they were all talking together except for Megumi who was busying writing of course.

This reminded me of when I was worried about Michiko in the classroom when she started shaking in her desk, and she didn't look like herself anymore. When she found out I was in the S.A. I couldn't stand it anymore, I felt like I was about to explode out of all these mixed emotions.

Hikari touched my now trembling arm and stated, "Ryuu are you"- but she didn't finish her sentence. I yelled, "DON'T TOUCH ME!" And slapped her face really hard. Hikari nearly fell out of her seat from the amount of force I used on that hit. When I looked up I realized it wasn't Michiko who was sitting beside me, but Hikari. That hit was for Michiko. Not her. Her face was all red, and her eyes were watering and red as well.

The worst part was hearing her scream when I hit her, her scream echoed in my mind. She looked at me as if I was a monster. And all I could do was stare at my trembling hand that slapped her. But before I could think of what to say someone already grabbed the collar of my shirt and threw an ear-splitting punch at me.

I thought it was Akira who wanted to protect her so I didn't think it would hurt that much but then I realized once the stinging pain came to my face and nose that Takishima punched me. I fell onto the floor when he hit me once, then he was punching me again while on top of me. His eyes were flaming as he couldn't hold back to protect Hikari. Yahiro and Tadashi tried to stop him. Plus Hikari shrieking helplessly at Kei to stop hitting him.

Once he was off me, I felt numb, and blood trickle down my nose and forehead. For some reason I just felt like I was tired and should just lay down there all day but I couldn't, not with all my friends staring at me that way. Not with my family hating me like this. I struggled to get up but nobody bothered to help me. Everyone was focused on Hikari whose red face disappeared but her eyes were still hurt and tearing up.

Akira was hugging her, talking to her and tried to comfort her, while Takishima just stood by Hikari's side and glared at me, and gave Hikari a worried glance.

Tadashi stood near Hikari and looked worried for not only Hikari but also Akira because Hikari meant everything to Akira. They were practically sisters. Yahiro comforted Megumi who wouldn't even look at me anymore, and Jun was in front of me staring into my soul. His phone rang, but he didn't pick it up, he had other matters to attend to. And that matter was me. I knew I couldn't say anything, because my lips were swollen and I wouldn't be able to. So I just left for home. I didn't even look back once…

because my family didn't want me anymore. They didn't need me.

That night I went to the doctors to get me bandaged up, and I automatically went to this Japanese take-out place to get dinner for Megumi, Jun and I. But when I went home, I ate by myself. When I got ready for bed, I didn't tuck Megumi in, because she wasn't there, and I didn't kick Jun off the computer from playing videogames because he wasn't there.

And when I went to bed, Megumi and Jun were nowhere in sight. I was all alone.

No family, and no friends it was just me. I didn't fall asleep until my body told me to, I stayed up as much as I could, but my dream didn't come true.

Megumi and Jun didn't come home that night.

Writer's Note:

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