Chapter 6. Something, something…
Days… weeks… months passed by and it was already about half a year here in Tomoeda. Almost 6 months passed, since she last saw her family back in Spain, since she last had been to a movie, since she last had yelled at Troy to stop teasing her, since she last threw an object at her cousin bro for calling her squeaky turtle, since she last had been to the farm and played dart at the scare-crow and not ended up throwing the dart at somewhere else especially almost hitting her cousin bro… 'bad shooter'… she thought.
Sayuri sulked in the physics' class missing everyone back in Spain. She almost tripped in the seat when the teacher asked her about gravity… which she didn't paid much attention to… and absent mindedly replied… - "I think Newton should've sat under the palm tree instead of the apple tree sir, then he might have immediately got the formula inside his thick head…!" this answer landed her in detention while the whole class took a long time helping themselves from the fit of laughter. Even when the students stopped laughing, the teacher began laughing alone earning himself a disgusting look from students.
"What's up with you today?" Meilin asked they gathered at the school gates at the end of the day.
"Nothing…" Saya replied giving her the puppy eyed look with tears in it…
"I think she's missing Spain…" Tomoyo replied.
"No I'm not…" Saya gave To-chan the same look, everyone sweat dropped but with additional pout look.
"Aw poor baby missing her Mommy…?" Tsubasa replied and regretted immediately when everyone shot him the –shut-up-or-we'll-kick-your-ugly-rare-so-bad-it'd-hurt-to-sit look.
"Nope, she's missing being called a squeaky turtle…" Saya looked up behind her to find her cousin Onii-Chan and her two best friends standing behind her…
"Onii-san!" She gave a big hug to her cousin bro.
"Hey get off me! You Maneater!"
"Me no maneater!" She swatted at her onii-chan's left shoulder.
"Watch it little girl! Or I'll make you sit in the grave yard alone!" he gave a devious smile and some of the girls giggled behind the group... Saya cowered and shrugged the feeling off and hugged her two other best friends and introduced them to the group…
"So how long are you here?" She pointed her finger at her cousin.
"Long enough to make your life hell…" Tristán replied.
"He's got a job here…" Ayumi said.
"No way! is the company out of their mind or they just can't see their company in peace?!" Saya took a pause… "What about Ramona?" Saya asked about his long time girlfriend.
"She broke up with me… she didn't want me to leave…" Tristán replied with his hands up.
"You seem quite glad about it…!" Saya winked at her bro, she knew her bro had a secret crush on Ayumi, she found out when she accidentally got her hands on his diary while they were all playing hide and seek…
Tristán had a cool air of personality, he had jet black hairs just like Saya but had snake eyes. He had a muscular built not too muscular though, you could call him a Roman Prince for that matter. And he has this gorgeous smile that girls would drool over and not to mention his well chiseled abs that'd kill any girl if he takes his shirt off. He was currently clad in white cotton shirt and dark blue denims. Had a shark's tooth like pendant that hung around his neck in a dark black thread like chain. He was 5 years elder than Saya and 4 years by Ayumi.
Along the way everyone got quite familiar to each other, but it was Troy who didn't spoke a word through all the way, he was just overwhelmed looking at Saya after such a long time, and he simply kept glancing at her whenever she didn't looked at him. This never went unnoticed by Ayumi but she suppressed her giggles. Most of the time it was Tristán and Saya who were arguing with each other on the way.
"Oh My God!" Saya slapped her forehead, "I'm getting late for my job!" Saya said as they entered the Tsuchiura residence and hurried her way to the bedroom and changed and dashed out of the house saying she'll meet them at dinner.
She made it in time to her job and left half an hour early taking the manager's permission. On her way back bought a few snacks and just as she was to her way back to her bicycle she bumped into someone and dropped her bags, and was falling back but the person she bumped into caught her by her wrists just in time…
"I think it iS your habit to fall…" Touya chuckled and Saya's heart's beats paced…
'if only someone's there to catch me…' Saya thought…
"I just didn't saw you…" Saya trailed off as she forced herself to not stare in his eyes and to pick up the bags. Touya knelt down to help her as well and accidentally bumped his forehead with hers… "Ow!" Saya breathed out.
"Sorry…" Touya handed her, her bags. And asked if she'd like to help him with the grocery items and then he'd leave her in his car… to which she agreed thinking 'Well better find out than keep thinking about it all night long…'
"Have you decided on what you're gonna do at the school festival?" Touya asked as he pushed the cart in the store and picking off the products from the shelves that were enlisted.
"Umm… Tomoyo and Sakura were suggesting me to take part in the play and help them with the cafeteria…" She pointed towards a corn flour pack and continued, "But I haven't made up my mind yet about it, I once did a play back in Spain but I terribly sucked at acting, what should've been a serious play but I turned into a hilarious one…"
"And may I ask what made it funny?"
"Well I kept falling in that gown, I'm not used to wearing dresses and that medieval dresses were suffocating me and the language… Sheesh, I kept forgetting them and used my own lines instead"
"Yeah I heard what you replied to Mr. Kanagawa at the Physics' class when you spaced out…" They both laughed for a good while. And boy was it a sight, she kept staring at him for that while.
"What?" Touya asked.
"I haven't heard you laugh that good since a long time…" she smiled at him and moved along to the other section of the store. Touya was struck for a few moments before he himself moved after her in the other section. The rest of the time, they enjoyed the company. She informed him about Tristán, he too was a good friend with him, and also informed about her friends that were here only for a week.
"Don't forget to invite your friends and Tristán at the school festival… I'll catch up with him when he's free…" Touya dropped Saya and her bicycle at her place and waved her goodnight.
Meanwhile Troy was looking through the window waiting for her to come back. And the sight of her being so friendly with Touya got his blood boiling.
"Hey everyone I'm home!" Tristán took the bags of snacks she bought from her hands.
"Ya know I met your old pal while shopping… He told me that he'll be catching up with you sometime soon…"
"Touya still lives here?" Tristán asked as he placed all the things at their respective places.
"Did you forgot? He's our next door neighbor…!"
"He's your homeroom teacher you say…"
"Yeah… What's for the dinner? I'm starved!"
"Lookie… lookie… the squeaky turtle has no patience and manners… do you always treat your guests like this? it should've been you, the one to cook the dinner!" He waved the spatula in her face.
"Oh I thought you were family…" She made her puppy eyes look… faking hurt. "Poor little girl, wakes up early in the morning only for a glass of juice and honey spread toasts… then she gotta ready her lunch, then go to school and she suffer all the subjects barely surviving some of em', and then the poor little girl has to go to work and when she comes home she only gets to stuff her tummy with instant noodles…? Oh the poor fate has no mercy on her… and now her family members don't even appreciate her efforts…" A sad music playing in the background while she knelt at the floor looking like a tragedy queen…
"Enough with your poor little girl drama, I'm used to it, don't you know?"
"Hehe… it's been almost 6 months since I last used it… Sheesh I've lost my magic…!" Saya scratched the back of her head while giving out a nervous laugh.
"Come on now Saya, we all are starving…" Ayumi replied while she came down the stairs to watch Saya's poor-little-girl drama.
"Yeah, I agree… this slow-poke cooks real slow…!" Saya blamed her cousin.
"Well if you're so starved then can't you give a little help!" Tristán complained.
"Eh we girls deserve some vacation from kitchen ya know… You can use that brat over there" she pointed her blame-eee finger at Troy while she skipped towards her room to get fresh and change.
"She's way too happy!" Ayumi exclaimed while staring at the retreating figure, "Well I might as well catch up with her for all this time…" Ayumi made her way towards Saya's room whistling…
"These girls always get their way…" Tristán went back to cooking.
"When are you gonna tell her…?" Tristán asked.
"Dunno…" replied Troy.
"You do realize she's oblivious to obvious and I'm afraid someday she might as well be oblivious to her own feelings… that girl is something…" Tristán stated to his sister's friend.