Author's Comment -
Very short this chapter x,D I wanna make it become more interesting in the next few chapters.
I wasn't planning to update this chapter so quickly, but I wanted to leave it off on a good part.
LEN X NERU~~ x,D OMG you teenagers say kissing is not a big deal, but for me, it's intimate enough for this to be rated T.
Anyways...
Neru shuffles her feet and paces back and forth in front of the classroom.
"I can't believe he did that…" Neru argues to herself. She scratches her head and crouches to her feet.
"This is all so troublesome." Neru sighs.
Then she rises to her feet and enters the classroom. Neru takes her seat and stares out the window.
Class moves on.
The last bell rings and Neru gathers her materials. Neru sends a quick glare at Len and approaches him. She spots
her hairband on his wrist. She hears the girls around him starting to chatter.
Neru smiles.
"Hey, can I have my hairband back?" Neru points to the one on his wrist.
Len grins.
"Eh? But this is actually mine."
Neru smiles harder and flinches.
"Since when does a guy need a hairband?"
Len chuckles, "Who said I couldn't?"
Neru notices the girls slowly closing in on them.
Neru overhears their whispers.
"I can't believe she has the nerve to accuse Len-kun like that, even right after he helped her."
Neru's anger rises and a decision pops up in her head…
Smile and ignore.
Or
Annoy them with something.
Neru decides to annoy them with the one thing they'd panic about.
"Hey Len-kun."
Neru leans towards Len.
She pecks him on the cheek.
An up rise of upset voices fills the room. They start to curse.
Neru deviously smiles then snickers.
Len just sits there stunned. Neru raises one eyebrow.
"What, too shocking for you?"
Len just continues to look at Neru.
He slowly moves towards her.
"Hey, what are yo-" Neru jolts back a step.
Len kisses Neru on her right cheek.
Neru enflames with embarrassment. The girls start to scream frantically.
"Why did yo-" Neru's voice heightens.
Len gives a half smile, half laughter expression that makes Neru stop in her tracks.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Len licks his lips.
"I didn't do that for you." Neru wipes her cheek harshly.
"I know, I did it in spite."
"For what?"
"For not doing it for me."
Neru clicks her tongue. "Whatever."
Neru received the reaction she wanted from the girls so she's bored.
"Anyways, just give me back my hairband." Neru extends her hand.
Len gives an irritable grin.
He pulls the band off his wrist and wraps it around his tied up hair.
"What are you doing to my hairband?!" Neru feels enraged.
He gives a friendly smile.
"I kinda like this hairband so can I have it please?" He points to his hair.
"It matches me perfectly." He clasps his hands together and closes his eyes grinning.
"Of course you can't-" Neru argues but stops from overhearing the uproar from the girls.
"Oh just let him keep it. You got tons right?" Their voices are full of distain for Neru and sympathy for Len.
Neru grits her teeth. She realizes he's using his popularity status to assist him.
"Whatever, see what I care." Neru turns her head away and crosses her arms.
"Thanks Neru-chan!" Len grins.
Neru growls and stomps back to her seat to get her bag.
"See you tomorrow Neru-chan!" Len calls out sweetly.
Neru's annoyance level is ready to boil over so she remains quiet. As quickly as possible, she packs up and bolts out
the classroom door.
Suddenly, Neru's phone rings.
Neru pulls the phone from her pocket and checks it.
"Nero? What does he want?" Neru questions as she goes to answer the call.
"Nero, what's up?" Neru asks as she leans against the entrance of the school.
"…Neru."
"What?"
"It seems something important came up and I'll be gone on a trip for a few days…Is that fine?"
Neru looks incoherent.
"…Why are you asking me?"
"I wanted to ask."
"It isn't my decision. Just do what you want to do."
"…Are you going to be all right alone?"
"Of course, this isn't the first time I've been alone Nero." Neru lowers her eyes and breaths slowly.
"I know... But I wasn't asking that… I was asking if you'd be OK with it."
"Nero, to me, that's the same thing. Anyways, I'm fine with it, I'll see you in a couple of days then." There are a lot
of things Neru wants to say to Nero before he goes, but she restrains herself from delaying him any longer. After all,
it's been awhile since Nero last went on a trip.
"It's a week's time and I'm leaving right now as soon as I finish packing, take care Neru, call me."
"Yeah Yeah" Neru knows she won't be calling him even if she wants to.
"I'm serious Neru, call me tonight before you go to bed."
Neru sighs. "Fine I will."
"Kay, I love you sis."
Neru smiles a bit. "Yea, I love you too bro."
The sound of a phone being placed back on its holder ends the conversation. What is left is the sound of the dead
dial tone.
Neru raises her head and looks to the sky.
"I guess I won't be making that stir fry tonight."
Neru thinks about how when she returns home, no one will be there. She thinks about calling Haku, but it's one of
those days she'd be at a bar drinking away with others.
"I should go home… but…"
Neru decides not to return home and head to the center of the city for the rest of the day. She wants to see that
new café that opened up last week.
Neru waits at the public bus stop on a bench texting away.
'It's this idiot again…' Neru checks back at her comments.
Now three people are butting in.
'Justice huh, it's more like tyranny by the mass.' Neru snickers about how she is able to upset three people so
easily.
'It's funny, they think they're being a good person by ganging up on me… What's even better is that they think
they're winning, they're a hundred years too early to do that.'
Neru replies back.
'-So you bark at me, but then go running with your tail between your legs when the going gets tough, that sure is
justice~-'
Neru shuts her phone off as the bus pulls up.
Neru sits in the right back corner of the bus watching the scenery.
"Where do I belong now?"