Chocó covered: Okay I'm gonna try and make this quick because I know this is sort of annoying.
Thanks to all those who reviewed! Or added this to your favorites, I wouldn't have made it this far without you! QwQ seriously give yourself a high five because you deserve it!
Thank you to LuvMeOrHateMe for reviewing and for the advice! But sorry I will have to make some POV changes throughout this chapter to make it work out, cause it would kinda suck if Rima never got her memory back, so it will go back to her POV when, OR IF, she does.
Also I just now realized, but am I spelling the abrivation for chocolate right? Is it really Chocó or is it Chaco?
Addey: Enjoy. P.S. Chocó, you suck at spelling.
Nagi's POV
Please tell she's joking. And that at some point she's just going to break into a smirk and say 'Gotcha' and start laughing.
"What are you staring at me for?" She asked in an annoyed tone.
Same Rima, just no memory to prove it. And if you were wondering, yes, Amu's blaming her self...Again.
"I can't believe I hurt my best friend so bad that she lost her memory! What about when we first met? Or when we first..." I started to tune her out because at the moment we have someone who does not remember who they are, I'm still attached to them, and I don't have the patience to deal with break downs right now.
"Look I'm sure it will be fine, we'll get her checked out by the nurse, and she'll probably give her something to help remember." I said leading Rima to the nurse's office and trying to get Amu to calm down enough to help.
"Who?" Rima asked.
"You." I said as if I was talking to little kid.
"Why is our hair stuck together?" She asked pulling on the knot that was getting smaller as the day passed.
"We...Uh...We got it tangled." I said. Then she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Did you try to rape me?" She asked seriously. I almost tripped, and I could hear Amu holding back a laugh.
"NO."
Rima stood off to side for the rest of the trip never fully believing what I had said.
~~~~~~~~Nurses office~~~~~~
"Why is it that it's just you two today? I swear you're the only ones who manage to get in here twice on Valentine's Day." The nurse said as she lead us three into the office. It still smelled like it did before: cleaning alcohol, tongue depressors, and plastic gloves.
"We don't mean to." I said.
"Really, it's all her fault," Amu backed up pointing to Rima. "She's too clumsy for her own good." Said girl glared at her. The nurse (I don't care enough to know her name, she's been helpful though) looked at her confused.
"Why she looks just fine." She said scratching her head looking for something wrong with her.
"Yes she looks like she did before, but there's one problem."
She still looked questioning but then Rima butted into the conversation.
"Who is she?" She said pointing to the nurse.
The nurse raised both eyebrows then sighed.
"She fall down the steep hill on the side of the school?" Amu and I nodded. "Twice." I said. The nurse shoke her head processing what we told just her.
She turned around and went to a cabinet and shifted through the various medicines and pain pills, finally coming back with a glass bottle that looked sort of illegal filled half way with brown liquid. I stared at it with disgust before asking what it was.
"Well your friend here hit her head a bit too many times and her body went to subconscious mode. See when she fell down the first time it hit a certain nerve in her brain, but when she fell down the second time it had to heal itself. This takes a long time but I'm guessing you two where pestering her to wake up?"
We nodded.
"Well her brain wasn't done healing its self so it awoke her subconscious," She pointed to Rima. "I suppose you could say her conscious is sleeping until she heals. This is...Um...I guess you could say her true self? When you're awake you have a shield, so to speak, whatever you say is a thought at first right? Well while she's 'asleep' so is the shield, there for that thought is said out load instead of staying her head."
I was still slightly fuzzy on what she was saying.
"What are you trying to say?" Amu said voicing my thoughts. She looked us both dead in the eye.
"Whatever she does or says in this state is her true feelings. No shields, no armor. She doesn't think before she speaks." She looked at the glass again.
"Oh man, uh I need to get a clean cup for this. You guys stay here-Don't let her out." She said before rushing out the door.
~~~~~~~~~~~few minutes later~~~~~~~~
The room was filled with silence as we all sat down not knowing what to say. Amir (It's what we decided to name subconscious Rima. Rima backwards=Amir) was lying on the cot next to me as I sat on the chair beside it.
"So do you remember anything?" I asked. She opened her eyes and stared at me for a while.
"I have a weird knot in my stomach when I look at you." She said bluntly. I felt like my heart had been flicked when she said this, it probably means its true-she really does hate me.
I smiled weakly trying to at least be happy that I knew her feelings.
"That probably means your healing faster." I said. Amir glared at me for a second before speaking again.
"Stop pretending that you're happy. It's stupid, and the knot gets bigger when you put up a fake smile. It hurts to pretend you're happy doesn't it?" Her face lightened up at the end.
"I know how to make the knot go away." She smiled innocently when she looked at me.
She stood on all fours on the cot to make herself my height, and then I felt her push her face into mine, crashing our lips together, at such a force it knocked us both over. On the ground she clung to my blazer then buried her face in my chest, I looked down and she lifted her head a tiny blush forming on her cheeks. I smiled, tilted her chin up and then, more gently, put my mouth to hers.
Amu had said nothing the entire time but now probably wanted to pretend she didn't exist, her face was red when we finally separated and she looked away. She looked out the window then turned back looking panicked.
"The nurse is coming back!" She said pushing us up.
We quickly scrambled to our previous positions and tried to look as normal as possible (and epically failing). The nurse came back with a plastic cup and a small metal stick, she poured the liquid in and added some lemon juice before stirring it, it reminded me of poison and I highly doubted it would fix the situation. She saw me staring at it oddly and sighed (people seem to do that a lot today).
"Don't worry; this will just knock her out long enough for her to fully heal. It might take a while but I've had this happen before (I'm starting to question the schools ability to keep students safe) and it works well, when she wakes up again she'll be the have her memory back...Well she might not remember the last few minutes but it's a low chance."
Amir looked at the cup un-easily but reluctantly drank it to the last drop, suddenly her eyes rolled and she fell backwards unconscious. I was shocked for a second but remembered that the drink was doing what it was meant to.
"Well it seems as if your hair had gotten a bit looser, let's see what I can do." She said getting to work on un-tangling our hair. While she was working on the hair I started thinking. What if when she woke up she didn't remember anything? Would things go back to the way they were? That would suck.
Amu walked over and put a hand on my shoulder looking sympathetic.
"Don't worry, it's a small chance and yes, she might forget. But guess what? She still likes you. When she fell down the hill the nurse said that whatever she did was her true feelings, if she did that then that means she was just too afraid to actually kiss you without getting knocked out first. I fully expect this whole thing to repeat its self when we're old enough to drink." I laughed at her choice of words but what she said made me feel better because she was right. I smiled feeling confident.
"And...There!" The nurse said finishing with mission un-tangle.
I looked at my own hair seeing that it still had many small knots but it was nothing I couldn't use a brush on, I tried combing it with my fingers but eventually gave up seeing as I would need a real comb. I looked up waiting for Amir/Rima to wake.
I bet their both fighting for consciousness to see who will end up coming out as the winner. The drink the nurse gave Amir weakening her in the battle for control of the mind as Rima fights as hard as a midget can. But Amir giving it all she's got trying with the last drop of strength as Rima makes the final blow destroying her, coming out victorious. But, could it be? Amir twitches, and comes crawling closer until she she's about to strike her, than-
"If you keep staring out into space like that I'm going to be forced to think your dreaming of yoai."
I snapped out of my thoughts about imaginary battle to see the winner staring at me like I'm an idiot, and who knows? My thoughts recently aren't helping my cause, but I'm glad to see the completely conscious Rima is back.
"What exactly have you been reading that forces you to think like that?" I respond. She looked frustrated but replied anyway.
"Just the books I found in your locker."
I raised my eyebrow, because 1) she usually had better comebacks, 2) that didn't help her cause at all, and 3)...That's a little creepy.
"Why were you in my locker?"
She rolled her eyes as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Because I was waiting to launch a ninja attack on you." She said her voice thickly covered by the sarcasm that I could tell was hiding something else. Panic, maybe? Her body language was in the usual 'don't talk to me' stance but she kept fidgeting and avoiding eye contact. Amu got up and ran to her.
"Rima!" She said happy to see no possible brain damage done on her part. Rima smiled happy to see Amu as well, now deciding to ignore me.
"So um, Rima do you remember anything? Like from a few minutes ago?"
As soon as the words left Amu's mouth Rima looked thoughtful. After a while of what seem like forever she answered back with a blunt 'No' and my heart fell to my stomach, but I remembered Amu's words and felt a bit better.
"Okay, okay let's get you three to class. You have one more period left right? Well go on, go on!" The nurse interrupted ushering us out the door. "Oh and um, can you two come here for a minuite?" She said pointing to Amu and me. We drifted back signaling to Rima to go ahead to class without us; she looked hesitant but continued on.
"Yes?" I asked. She lowered her voice and spoke clearly, looking mainly at me.
"I would appreciate it if you and your girlfriend would refrain from kissing in my office." She said giggling slightly reminding me of a fan girl.
Amu started full out laughing in the hall way as I blushed and mumbled a "Yes miss" while already dragging Amu back to class with me, who was still laughing extremely load.
"Their not dating sadly!" She shouted to the nurse between giggles of enjoyment, and I discovered that I have a very strong will power because I didn't slap her.
Sadly.
Rimas POV, back at class
When I walked through the door as I arrived back to the class room, a hush fell over everybody but I ignored them walking to my desk and taking a seat. I was still struggling to not scream at them:
"Don't you people have lives? Of course not, your too busy causing others pain!"
But I held my tongue; I really didn't want anymore excitement today. That is if you would even call my day exiting and not 'Complete and utter torture to the point that I'm willing to rip someone's throat out.'
Just then Amu and Nagihiko walked through the door and the almost non-existent murmur that had resumed after I came back now quickly evaporated to nothingness once more. They both walked down the aisle of seats until Amu stopped in the middle of her walk, a determined and agitated expression on her face. She suddenly changed expressions so fast that I thought I had imagined the look she had moments ago, into one of disgust and humor, nudging Nagihiko in the ribs lightly.
"It's sad isn't it?" She asked him. "How these people have nothing better to do than simply start stupid rumors and make fun of others miss-fortune?"
He got the idea and played along suppressing a smirk, looking deep in thought.
"I agree, I mean all they focus on in situations is how to make it worse for whoever it is in the spotlight. Just look at a few minutes ago, me and Rima-chan's hair was knotted together because she tripped down a hill but all they noticed was that we had gotten it tangled. They even failed to relies that poor Rima-chan had head trauma." He glanced at me looking full of pity, but it was hard to miss the glint in his eyes so I stopped my smiling and immediately put my hand to my head and let the crocodile tears flow just as everyone turned to me.
"I-I don't mean to be a nuisance," I sniffled. "But I just feel really dizzy, and a-all those hurtful things I heard so many students say..." I trialed off letting them think I was too upset to continue. And then it happened, the thing that I had to bow my head and cover my face with my hair because it was too funny.
"Ehhhh? ! I-I didn't know we had hurt Mashiro-san so badly!"
"I'm so sorry! Please accept my apologies!"
"Kanaka-san! How could you do this!"
I smiled to myself under my blanket of hair to see the girl who had the worst affect with this whole thing finally get her comeuppance. I believe you remember her, she said:
"How do you think? They where obviously doing something they're trying to hide." and, "They can say good bye to that image." Yeah she was a bitch, huh?
(A/N: If you have no memory of this at all than check out last chapter...Or you could ask the nurse in the story for her memory drink XD)
After pushing my laughter down enough to look up I saw Nikiadou shake his head as we played our classmates, but the smile playing on his face didn't go un-noticed as he resettled his glasses and attempted to calm everyone down.
"Okay Hinamori, Fujisaki go back to your seats."
They did as instructed but as they passed by we exchanged secret low-fives under our desks when we were sure no one was looking. After everyone got over the whole 'We-are-so-horrible-I'm-so-sorry-I-caused-you-so-much-pain!' thing Sensei got serious again and class got boring once more.
"As I was saying before our missing students rejoined us," He gave a playful teacher like glare our way. "Will the next person go up to present their poem they memorized to the class?"
I'm gave an inward sigh, thankful that during the whole academic I was reciting my poem to myself. I always did like poems, they say things that you're too afraid to admit straight out, and they're so beautiful that most people don't question why certain words are used.
I smiled to myself as I thought of an idea and crumpled up the original version of the poem and raised my hand. Nikadou waved for me to go up but I was already in front.
"Start anytime you're ready Mashiro-san."
I took a deep breath and scanned the room before I locked eyes with Nagihiko and then began.
"He holds me strong,
He holds me well
He says I'm cute
But I can't tell.
I look at stars
I look at skies
But all I see
Are his brown eyes.
I can't be falling
Not for him!
But when he smiles
My heart fills to the brim.
I guess he's alright
I guess he's okay,
Because I was happy
When he kissed me today." I finished with a wink to Nagihiko and I felt proud that I still haven't fainted yet.
Oh and seeing him blush like mad was amusing, oh yes that was very amusing.
"Yes, very good, you can go back to your seat now."
As calmly as I could I walked back to my desk careful to drop the original poem on his desk. The thing is the original doesn't have the last stanza, I made that up on the spot, also it uses 'blue eyes' not 'brown eyes' so I suppose this is my way of telling him 'Yes you adorable idiot, I remember our kiss'. Though I'm blushing on the inside I just couldn't stand the way he looked when I lied and said I didn't remember anything.
The rest of the people went by in a blur and I tried not to think of what would happen after class got out, afraid he would change his mind now that I probably embarrassed him. Right as I finished the thought, the screech of the bell rang releasing all the students, and to me it felt like an escape from this hellish day. Right now I just wanted to go home, lay in bed and be immensely happy that Valentine's Day wasn't for another year.
I dashed out of the classroom to get as far away from Nagihiko as humanly possible. But sadly, as you all know he is much faster than me so I got as far as the door until he grabbed my arm and pulled me aside.
"What was that? You just admit you lied, say you're happy about our kiss, and then just run away?" He hissed at me.
I felt the need to remind him that this was me we were talking about, but what he said cut me like a razor blade and I felt tears poking at my eyes before I covered my face with my bangs to keep them from showing.
"I...I thought maybe you changed your mind...I w-wouldn't want to...to embarrass you or anything, ehehehe." I tried to cover up my shaking voice by laughing but it came out as more nervous than anything.
His face softened as his mouth moved close to me.
"What made you think that anything you do could ever embarrass me?" He moved his face even closer until our lips brushed and I decided I couldn't take it anymore and flung my arms around his neck, pushing my body on his. I could feel his laughter behind our lips. I could even see Amu behind him laughing her ass off so I quickly pushed him off, smirking as I spoke.
"No I suppose not, but the way you kiss kind of embarrasses me." I crossed my arms playfully and turned my back glancing at his direction. We stared at each other before we burst out laughing, laceing our fingers together and walked out of school.
Just like that.
Chocó covered: And there is the end of the 'Tangled' saga *sniff sniff* they finish so fast T^T
Addey: *Cough, cough* Don't you have something to tell them?
Chocó covered: Oh yeah! I might be doing an epilogue! But only if I get enough reviews that ask for it!
Addey: And so, for the (maybe) last time: Review?
Choco covered: Oh and guess what holiday is comeing up? XD
Addey: It's her birthday.
Choco covered: JULY 8th BABY! XD A shout out to all the summer birth-day children!
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