Chocó covered: Btw; a word to the wise. If some dude you just met shows up in your room at night. . . He might be Edward Cullen. . .
Addey: Don't listen to her, he might be creeper. . . Don't fallow Rima's examples from this chapter cause chances are-You probably won't be going to see a blue haired cat man. Though if it does happen I suggest checking for drugs.
"Were going to meet Ikuto!"
I can't wait to meet the guy who drove you to wake me from the dead.
"Who's Ikuto?" I asked groggily.
"Just my friend. He likes to meet all the new people here." He said all too cheerily for someone awake at night.
But to be honest I'm grateful he was carrying me, though it might have something to do with the fact that he knew if he set me down he would end up watching as I snuck away to sleep on my locked porch.
"So he makes you get all the 'newbies' at night to bring them to him? He sounds creepy." I said snuggling closer to his chest and using my jacket as a blanket. Maybe I could still get some sleep.
"Nope." He said popping the 'p', "Not usually at night, only you at night. Don't you feel so special?"
I felt my eye twitch in annoyance.
"Not really, I kind of pegged you as the kind of guy to kidnap little girls. Sorry, but it looks like I was right." I growled.
"You know I could drop you."
"You know I could kick you." I mimicked.
We stayed silent after that, only having the crunch of pine needles to remind me that he was still moving. And needless to say I couldn't fall asleep, drowsiness just wouldn't take over tonight (though I suppose thats what happens when you find guy creeping over your bed), so instead I turned over in his arms and watched the moonlight seep through the leaves. The way it came down and how it seemed to sparkle cast a sort of rendezvous feeling over the two of us. It felt weird, but it also felt peaceful and calm, something I hadn't felt in a while, and I liked it.
"It's beautiful up in the mountains at this time of year, isn't it?"
I looked up at at him as he gazed at the area around us smiling softly, and with the stars above that appeared to be dancing by his head, I felt like I was under a spell. I also felt slightly sick to my stomach.
Suddenly he looked ahead smiling widely and picked up the pace, now running at almost full speed.
"We're almost to Ikuto's."
"Just curious but, what exactly is he like?" I asked as we approached the tall white house, "Because, just in case you wanted to know, I would very much enjoy seeing the sun again."
He stayed silent as we got closer and I was able to see certain things more clearly now, such as, the dark silhouette of a man stop by the top bedroom window and reveal his extra white smile.
"I am coming out, right?" I lightly joked. He paused.
"I know I said you were special a second ago but I was told not to make any promises."
I stared at him in horror with my eyes wide and mouth hanging open until he burst out laughing.
"Duh you're going back home eventually, I'm just messing with you." He said rolling his eyes dramatically. I glared at him fiercely, wishing looks could kill.
I smiled graciously as he cried out in surprise, losing his balance and falling backwards to ground with a 'THUD' , momentarily delaying my own fall by throwing me upwards and then back down again landing on his stomach.
Such a dramatic reaction to hair pulling, I think.
"Can you get off?" He gasped. "I think you broke a rib."
"Sorry, I'm not making any promises."
~~~~~~At Iku-rins door~~~~~
Out of all the things in this world that scare me, even slightly, I did not expect a door to be on that list. But as stared up at the pristine white polished wood door the anticipation of what was behind it was killing me. Nagihiko stared with his eyebrows raised.
"Well?"
Putting on my best angry face I crossed my arms, challenging his gaze.
"I believe it's rude to enter uninvited." I argued. I glanced at the door that seemed to loom over me and took an uneasy step back, hoping I could go home unnoticed.
I was, unfortunately noticed. But not by Nagihiko.
As I was backing up slowly he was still staring at the door with a smug expression, not even glancing at me as I turned and ran. I made it all of two steps before a pair of strong arms grabbed my waist and threw me over their shoulder.
"I see you met my backup." Nagihiko said with his back still turned to me and hands on the back of his head leisurely.
I looked over my shoulder to get a look at the boy carrying me. He had auburn hair and forest green eyes that sparkled with a rough looking build; he showed a quirky grin that screamed out in friendliness.
"Yo, new girl." He grinned again before returning to look forward, opening the door as he hauled me inside. I looked over to Nagihiko who was trailing behind as he did so, fuming.
"Screw. You." I hissed out.
The room was dark. Darker then I would have liked, even despite the stream of moonlight flooding through the curtain behind the wooden chair I was sitting in. I slumped back, a bit uncomfortable by the fact I could only see so far ahead of me, though I could make out the image of a professional type mahogany desk with a messy sheeted queen bed few feet behind it.
There weren't many objects in the room except for said furniture and a (what I guessed to be) navy colored dresser with sheet music and a violin sprawled on top, next to the door.
The other thing I could make out was the man on the queen sized bed calmly reading a magazine despite the dim lighting and the fact that there were three other people in the room, not to mention the extremely awkward silence was so thick I was practically swallowing it.
Sighing loudly I turned to the green eyed boy; I was tired of waiting for this man.
"Please tell me I didn't wake up to watch an anti-social collage student read porn." I growled behind gritted teeth.
At the comment, said anti-social student looked up from whatever it was he was reading (I really hope I was wrong on genre) to stare at me with glowing blue eyes that seemed to sweep over me, as if sizing me up- which he probably was. They wandered from the crown of my head, down to my curly locks, further and further making me grow self conscious, but as I was unwilling to show so I did the same.
He had messy blue hair and eyes to match, they seemed to be fixed, along with his mouth, into a permanent nonchalant expression that made me wonder what his smile looked like. He had a muscular build which was obvious through his tight fitting T-shirt, that I'm sure any other girl would blush for, I even felt a light shade of pink come over me as well from the growing uncomfortable tension. This on continued for some time, us both studying the other, until we were just looking each other in the eye, waiting to see who would make the first move.
"Having a staring contest with me probably isn't on your agenda either short cake." He chuckled breaking the ice at my now intensified glare.
The cause of this already aggravating night (otherwise known as Nagihiko) pipped up from behind me, obviously just as tired as I was.
"Can you just tell her so she won't rip your face off?"
"So testy." A soft smile just barely tugged at his lips.
"You're just lucky that I have no other way to get home without him." I said gesturing to Nagihiko.
"I'll keep that in mind."
"So back to the topic of the point. . ." The other boy interjected. I felt bad that I didn't know his name, but I still remembered that he's the one that thwarted my escape plan and my anger out weighed my petty guilt.
Ikuto waved him off, striding over to me and, hopefully, at last getting to the point as to why I was brought to him. This was all starting to feel very sacrificial.
"So here's the deal new girl (I bit my tongue to refrain from any comments that would delay my departure and reminded myself that it was better then 'Shortcake' at least), we have this sort of. . .Thing going on here," He started off, pacing. "There's a special something in this part of the mountains, something that keeps most people at bay. And we like it that way, so we keep to ourselves a lot." He stopped abruptly, hands behind his back and looking at me through the corner of his eye.
"And you know what?" He grinned very slightly, turning his head to look at me all the way. Eerily slow with his walking he came toward me.
"Tell me what." I said rolling my eyes, although the tiniest spark of fear and deja vu lit up inside me at the way he walked closer.
Ikuto slammed his hands down on the chairs arms, getting his face close to mine and making me jump a bit despite my trying to hide it. He stared deeply into my eyes, and in return I glared though I must admit, my very slight shiver ruined it's affect; and even if it had an effect he was very good at hiding it.
"We certainly can't have new girls like you destroying that, now can we? No. So what do you think we'll do about it?" What might be classified as a seductive tone to any other person, I found demonic in this case as his eyes narrowed even more.
I was starting to feel somewhat lighted headed and claustrophobic with him being this close, I felt like I almost couldn't breathe, my only air coming in short and unsatisfying breathes. His face was becoming fuzzier in a way that looked like he was coming closer- I felt like a caged in rabbit. My head pounded and flashes of another person's disgusting smile swept through my mind. Ikuto kind of looked like him.
"Problem?" He asked, his blurry disproportionate smile widening.
I heard the soft clicking of a door opening, accompanied with a pair of soft footsteps thumping lightly on the hardwood.
"Hey Ikuto I was wondering if I could. . ." I could almost feel her sentence fade off as she surveyed the scene before her.
Ikuto turned around nonchalantly to address who had entered his room.
"Oh, hey Utau." He complied.
With his head out of the way and Ikuto's attention on someone else I was free to crane my neck and catch a glimpse of the girl who manged to stumble onto the scenario; she had long, sort of shaggy blond hair the came past her waist and dark purple eyes that at the moment were squinted in confusion, as well as she was wearing a lose night gown that came down just past her knees.
She scanned over everyone and everything in the room once, twice, three times before sighing out loudly and addressing Ikuto.
"I thought I told you how tired I was of finding strange girls in your room at night." She grumbled squeezing the bridge of her nose.
"Aw, you make it sound worse then it is," He childishly pouted at her. "It's just a new girl."
That must have spiked a nerve because she jumped at the words seething through her teeth, striding up to Ikuto looking up into his face.
"Another new girl? What's wrong with you, she looks scared out of her mind! What did you do this time, molest her? And you wonder why we have so little neighbors." She said furiously ranting.
The other boy by the window chuckled quietly to Nagihiko. "I don't think he wonders if he does it on purpose." He whispered holding back a grin at her blow up.
Utau whipped her head towards him, seeming to have her anger doubled simply because it was him that spoke.
"And what about you Kukai?" She growled. "Ikuto gets a clean slate because he's my brother and he's hopeless, but you have no excuse."
So his name was Kukai. Well Kukai's got one hell of a storm coming his way.
"Ah, there's that brother complex coming out again." He muttered.
"Say that again!"
"Oh, you're so scary in your PJ's."
"If you're sick of seeing them, stop coming to my house at night."
"Hey! Can you two take your lovers quarrel somewhere else?" Nagihiko said interrupting. I could already tell he was the peace keeper in this group.
"Nah," Ikuto said joining in again. "Just let them, they'll tire out. Oh and you can take the new girl home now."
"I've got a name. . . . Rapist." I said blanking on good insults.
"Oh, sorry. You can take short cake home now." He corrected, seemingly pleased with himself.
~Wow~I~Do~A~Lot~Of~These~
I sighed noisily as I walked side by side with Nagihiko back to my cabin while Utau, Ikuto and Kukai waved from their balcony (Which are very common apparently in this part of the mountains).
"I found that trip completely useless." I pronounced, hopefully loud enough for the others to hear.
"Aw, I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Nagihiko voiced as cheery as ever.
"On the contrary, I'm probably going to be in bed all day tomorrow, sleeping like rock." I seriously couldn't believe I stayed awake this long.
"I'm sure I'll find a way to wake you." He shrugged evilly.
I scoffed haughtily and turned away from him scowling distantly into the pine scented forest. "Honestly," I grumbled. "You couldn't leave me alone for a day to rest because of something you dragged me to?" I rolled my eyes trying to be as dramatic as possible.
"Well of course." He said staring at me. "It would be boring without you."
"Please, you've known me for a day and a half. Plus, didn't we just visit some of your friends that you could hang out with?"
"Well, yes. But you're interesting." He retorted with a straight face. I stared back up at him like he was stupid, watching his face for any sign of humor before shaking my head in aggravation. I picked up the pace to leave him behind.
"Quit being so clishe." I couldn't help but mutter.
Even with my back turned to him I could feel his stare burning my retreating figure, never the less I continued on knowing he would catch up when he decided to stop making depressed faces at my back.
Eventually I could hear the squish of the soft ground being stepped on slowly behind me as Nagihiko jogged to catch up. I wished he would just leave me alone to enjoy my summer.
He was soon joining my steady pace trying to make eye contact with me, I tried to look at everything but him. "That wasn't being clishe." He argued.
I ran my fingers through my hair, tugging at it slightly to keep me awake. "That was amazingly clishe actually."
"I could always do worse." He countered.
"I doubt it." I picked up the pace once more as if I could leave this conversation behind as well.
"Want to bet on it?"
I stopped in my tracks at his words, my brain slowly mulling over my options. If the boy wouldn't leave me alone we might as well make it interesting; I smiled to myself.
"Okay. . . And if I win, which I know I will, you take me shopping at that little town a mile down the road." I challenged turning around to face him.
"And if I win you spend the entire day with me tomorrow." Nagihiko said holding out his hand, suppressing a grin.
"Deal." I said sneering at him as we shook.
His smile started getting wider as a soft melody filled the air, it started off quite before gradually growing louder. The heartfelt twang of the strings nearly drowned me while it winded through the trees and making the starlit path of pine covered dirt transform into a dance floor.
I looked beyond Nagihiko, past his shoulder where the trio of friends stood. Ikuto had a strange look of determined concentration on his face, with Utau and Kukai swaying ever so slightly to the beat next to him on the balcony.
"This is cheating." I said biting my tongue to keep from growling.
"Whatever you say." Nagihiko replied, placing a hand on my waist and mine on his shoulder as we twirled to the vibrant song.
Choco covered: *Gags* Excuse me as I die on the fluffiness of that chapter.
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