Author's Note: I updated sooner than planned because everyone wants fluff! We'll get fluffiness in this story soon/eventually. I want it a whole bunch too, but you think I'm just going to jump to the romance and forget the original plot? YES I AM.
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Warnings for this chapter: Read the first four paragraphs…I drop the f-bomb that early into the beginning of this. That tells you: language.
"RIN! What the hell, get off me!" Len complained from his pose under the girl, sending a frown at her. The furious girl was straddling him with her hands gripping onto his shoulders out of anger. All eyes were on the two, Kaito's face contorted into a rather surprised expression, not expecting what happened at all.
But then again, nobody was.
The blue man fingering his scarf nervously thought Rin would just ask him, but no, she all but jumped Len.
"Len, you better fucking tell me what has been going on with you and why you hate me enough to hide, because if you don't I will not hesitate to kill you now, and we both know that's possible," Rin stated, and Len frowned from below the girl. Even with that threat, security was not called, though everyone in that room knew that Rin would find a way to hurt Len once more - only physically this time.
"Well, I don't know, ask everybody in this room! THEY all know! Now somebody get me out from underneath her!" Len shouted, turning to Luka (and anyone else around) with pleading eyes.
But Rin didn't allow Len to get free, and just gripped his shoulders tighter, "Give me the damn answer."
Len's anger was almost at its boiling pot, he was getting pretty pissed off. First, Rin was holding him down; second, she wanted him to explain what was happening; and third, it involved a confession he really didn't want to do in front of everyone at that moment. But he had to say it, didn't he? "I think you would establish that yelling at your presumably closest friend that you didn't love them would surely get them upset."
"But there's no need to not show your face for a day! How weak are you?" Rin laughed, and that statement crossed the line that hadn't even created beforehand.
Len really wished he was stronger mentally and physically, because he'd so flip her over and strangle her (pretending it was legal) if he had the strength. "Obviously weak enough to cry over the fact that I'm pretty much just another fan that's in love with you - who'll you'll never love back!"
"...Len...?" At her shocked face, Rin's guard went down, and Len pushed her over and off of him, a glare being sent to anybody who looked at him as he stormed out of the room, escaping through the back door.
All the Vocaloids stared at Rin, who just was lying on her back in shock, rubbing the back of her head.
"What..?" she whispered to Len, who was not with her anymore, tears of both anger over her actions and pain from hitting the floor welling up in her eyes.
The others just watched the blonde, wondering exactly what they should do with the sixteen year olds far over their heads. The blonde girl was just lying on the chilly floor to solve her problems alone, practically screaming for help with that face of her's. But nobody bothered to help her out, and no one dared to follow Len home. Was it not best to leave them alone anyways?
All but the one girl thought it was best to leave Len alone, her loud footsteps echoing through the quieted down room - the crowds outside were calming down in preparation for Kaito's next song. But he, with everyone else, was still processing what had happened.
…How stupid was he? Len just yelled (probably over Meiko's cheering fans) on how he loved Rin, and to top it all off he flipped her over and probably hurt her...just like she hurt him.
If she deserved it, why did he feel infinitely bad about it?
Because it was still his Rin, the girl he cherished. Even if she was a bitch now, he knew he still loved the new Rin he hated originally (read as: "yesterday") so much. Even if she'll hate him forever for doing that, he'd still love her. Because that's the way it's supposed to be, even if it's not shared, love should never die.
God, he sounded like a hopeless romantic that he would laugh at in movies. Len kicked a stray stone off of the sidewalk in fury, his probably permanently etched frown in his face attempting at smiling to no avail.
Len felt like somebody was calling for him, screaming his name, was it just the same feeling he had after every concert or was somebody actually there? Len did not bother to crane his neck to see, instead lowering his head farther downwards so that all he could see was the seemingly never-ending sidewalk.
"Len!" his name was called out once more, and Len had to turn around to bid the person needing him goodbye, and leave whomever wanted his presence alone, did none of his co-singers realize his inner turmoil? Last time he checked they all did.
"What?" Len snapped, and his gaze locked on the figure...the short blonde hair...His eyes narrowed and he picked up his already fast pace, turning around and ignoring the girl, though she had heard his growl.
"Len! Please, stop..." Rin didn't stop shouting; all she wanted was to figure out what the hell Len had just said to her. Did he actually love her, or had she taken the words the wrong way? No, he said he was in love with, not that he just loved her...there was a difference. Even Rin knew that.
Len's eyes shut in annoyance at that moment, just wishing to be left alone. If anybody stormed out of a room, the average person would just leave them be! Len stopped at a lamp post, just to wait and yell at the girl, and he saw Rin's half smile at that action. But Len didn't want to make the girl happy...not now. He would like to see her smiling with him when there was only each other to care about, not happy in a desolate place in the outskirts of a city while he was furious and actually didn't want to have anything to do with her.
But life is surely screwed up like that, is it not?
Len saw Rin slowly be illuminated in the light of the lamp, and as she stepped out of the shadows, Len really wished he wasn't so pissed off with her right then, because she looked tired as hell and just as weak as he had put himself on the scale of failure.
"Len..." she whispered, looking up as she panted while leaning over, trying to relax.
The said boy frowned, scowling down on the girl with a bow, "Rin."
"Please..." Rin stood upright properly, reaching a hand to the boy, "Len...please, what's wrong?"
"I told you already. Are you oblivious to every word out of my mouth, too obsessed with your issues over mine or something?" Len spat, and he tried not to grin as he saw his words did damage.
The girl flinched, her eyes widened. "Len, what is actually wrong, because you and I both know you were just using the best line to get you out of the room. What's up?"
Len chuckled at the phrase "what's up?", so innocent. Rin could even be remotely cute then. When he stopped laughing, he took a few steps to Rin, one by one...Until his face was inches from her own. "Please, just leave me alone. Rin, I would never lie to you like you've been doing to me...I'm not that person. I love you...Rin. Is it that hard for you process and figure that out?"
Rin choked at the closeness, "I don't believe you."
"God damn, Rin..." Len stared right at the girl. He did the one thing that could prove his point, and he grabbed the girl and shoved his lips onto her's as hard as possible, kissing her with a force. Rin's hands clenched as Len did so, out of paranoia of somebody seeing the two. She did not kiss the boy back, as she thought originally to do so to prove to herself she didn't like him. The nearness was not preferred for the girl, and she only could wait for Len to let go, he kind of was killing her mouth.
Len did not just pull away, he shoved the girl back, and Rin stumbled, not from shock but from the impact. Rin's surprise had been taken away from her a few minutes before.
"There, is that enough proof for you?" Len glared, and walked away again, leaving Rin behind for the second time in little under an hour. He didn't care that he could hear her punching the lamp post they had been under, he didn't care why she was doing so. All he did worry about was the girl herself and how badly their lives will change after this one night.
Len didn't even have to sing "Spice!" to ruin today, all he had to do was confess to, kiss, and leave behind Rin all in a row to mess his life up.
Rin couldn't believe how much she'd screwed up - when she said she didn't love Len (to his face at that) to lie to her own thoughts, Rin hadn't expected him to actually love her. She hoped he'd just shrug it off. She hoped he would just be confused over it.
But he had actually fucking loved her.
Oh, how much could've she avoided if she hadn't had overreacted over the media. How pathetic of her to do so, she saw that now. The feeling of Len's lips on her own had not left since he did, and every time she noted this, her heart would flutter.
Which was a terrible thing - she shouldn't love Len after all of this!
But her heart didn't follow her mind, and right now she was clutching the sides of her head and breathing in deeply. Rin was lying against the chain fence beside the light post Len had left her at, grieving over her own pathetic stupidity. Rin didn't know why she was crying for any other reason - Len liking her - the way she did him - should make her so happy, but instead she felt like she was being torn apart...
Rin's cell buzzed in her pocket, and she was paranoid over whether to read the message, but she did so.
From: Luka
Are you okay? Just finished with "Double Lariat" - where are you?
Rin responded that she was a block away from the pavilion, and she knew somebody was coming to pick her up, so she stood at the corner by the lamp post, and she saw pink hair getting closer to her from down the sidewalk.
Rin had assumed a limo would drive here or something, so she was stuck drying off her tears ferociously hard as the figure came so much closer.
Then Luka was in the light with the girl, and the woman was looming down on the girl. Rin was looking at Luka's face, but not allowing eye contact to be met. Luka wrapped an arm around the girl, Rin allowed it - hardly. "We were afraid you were missing, you were gone for thirty minutes."
Had it been that long? Rin shook her head, facing the ground, "I'm sorry..."
Luka pulled away, a smile on her lips until she noted something, redness in Rin's eyes. Luka placed a finger under Rin's chin, lifting her hiding face so she could see clearer. Tear stained cheeks and red eyes. Luka's eyes narrowed and Rin gulped when the salmon-haired woman spoke. "Rin...why were you crying? Are you hurt?"
"No..." Rin pulled away from Luka, looking down and cursing at herself for not cleaning her face up properly.
"What exactly is wrong now?" Luka wouldn't let the subject go. She could list many possible happenings over what Rin had done while she had left, but for now Luka would just try to get the truth out of the blonde.
Rin whispered, "It's just...I don't even know. It's just this mess...Len."
That one name brought a small smile to Luka's lips, though she had feared his presence with Rin the minute before. "Len loves you, sweetie. He just sucks at saying so."
Rin cracked a smile at the reminder of him yelling the stupid words, and at the fact Luka just said he sucks at saying them. "...Yeah. But I'm still so confused with all of this."
"And you should be," Luka brushed a stray pink strand out of her face and back behind her shoulder. Luka hated talking about love and such, but she was rather good with solving problems, and lately she actually started to enjoy discussing this with Len or Rin, even if it was basically her sitting and watching their pain (was that a hint at her true nature?). "You know you broke him with those words yesterday."
Rin didn't respond to her elder, instead just looking down to end the conversation, she had just been giving out what was going on in her life. "Yes...I've got to fix him don't I?"
"Only if you love him enough to see him up and running," Luka softly spoke, and she waved a hand to Rin to signify they had to leave.
"...I don't know how I love him though," Rin whispered, hardly audible, closing her eyes (obviously not noticing Luka's outstretched hand). Rin was lying to herself again, and Rin knew it. Wasn't this entire fight over denial?
Luka stared at Rin's sudden phrase, surprised the girl didn't laugh at Luka's words of advice.
"Well we have to go, and you better think of the way soon. I'm going to the concert, and you are going to go to the manor where he probably is...you should have him back together when we are back home at midnight or so," Luka spoke quickly, and Rin blushed subtly over the whole "fixing Len" idea. Fixing Len would mean telling him how she felt, a rather terrible idea after all this. "Good night for now, I love you."
Rin smiled at the woman, "Love you too..."
It was time to put together this puzzle.
Well…there. I got a kiss in even if it wasn't all the lovey-dovey stuff...And one confession I put in! We'll just have to wait for Rin, won't we? Man, I like writing fluff, Rin better hurry her ass up! Dx
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