Just one date
"You are actually going on that date?" I had only nodded back at her. Letting my black hair out of the tight hold, leaving it flowing down my straight back.
"Mo! Are you actually going to date him?" Kanae couldn't believe it. Even though I had explained everything to her the previous day, she still didn't understand.
"MOKO-SAN! I impaired him! It's my fault if he can't have children!" I cried to her, tears threatening to fall. Even though Kanae was still in disbelief, she still did my makeup for the dreadful date to come. Giving me a natural glow that complimented the casual fitted blue jeans and black top I wore.
"How's dating you going to change that?" She had a point. I didn't know either. But I was willing to at least go on one date to compensate for my unmaidenly actions that placed me in this situation to begin with.
"I don't know! I have no idea how that man's thought process works!" I whaled at her concerned face.
"MO KYOKO! What if he plans to get you alone and do something freaky and kinky?" She didn't understand how I had the guts to be alone with that man, neither did I.
"I don't think he would do anything to me." I defended him. He is more of the type to be a danger for my heart but not body and safety.
"How are you so sure? Mo! How do you know?" She applied the final touches before freeing me from my statue position on the seat.
"I just do." I looked at the reflection staring back at me. I don't remember the last time I went on a date. Wait, would following that baka around count as a date? Thinking more on it, I have never actually been on a 'proper date' have I?
"What do you mean 'I just do'? Mo! It's that same man that had you trapped in his kitchen while he was fully naked! Yesterday Mo! It only happened yesterday!" She was furious that I wasn't thinking of my safety and the potential danger I was placing myself in. That scene was quite a shock to her, and she still didn't believe that nothing happened considering the deep red that had coloured my entire body.
"Moko-san, you know he is Yashiro-san's childhood friend. Anyone that's friends with your boyfriend, I don't think would be as dangerous as you make them seem." Why was I defending him? Why did I find his actions teasing, rather than harmful or a danger to my safety.
"Mo Yuki is an exception!" She blushed and avoided my eye contact.
"Why?" I moved in, invading her personal space like she always did to me.
"Because..." She turned her head, not daring to look into my teasing direction.
"Because?" I waited for her answer, a grin on my lips.
"You saw him! A fly seems more dangerous next to him!" Kanae blushed at how different Yashiro-san was to her past ex-boyfriends. He oozed the image of an innocent klutz, rather than fresh out of high school delinquents she used to date; a complete opposite of her.
Ding Dong!
"It's for you!" Kanae shouted at the door as I grabbed my little bag pack. It was in a shape of a teddy bear and I just had to have it. It's so cute!
"Better keep your clothes on!" Kanae warned him as she looked him square in the eye. Her glare transmitting harmful threats. "Or else." She poked him in the chest with the red lip stick in her hand.
"I promise to be fully clothed." I saluted at the young girl who was behaving like a mother hen. "Are you ready to go?" I asked Kyoko as she came closer to the door. Since day one, she had the ability to transform; simple makeup, casual clothes and yet she looked ever so stunning.
"Y-yes." I blushed as I had stuttered. Yesterday's image flickering past the current events. BURN! I wanted the image gone, I'm a pure maiden, I shouldn't be curious of what I didn't get to see!
"Let's go, Kyoko." I grabbed her small hand as I led her to my car, not waiting for an okay.
"Where are we going, sensei?" I asked after placing my seatbelt on.
"I am not sensei." I corrected her as I placed the car in the correct gear.
"Where are we going, Tsuruga-san?" I repeated, curious as to where he was planning on teasing me for the day.
"You can't call your boyfriend by his last name. It's R-E-N, Kyoko." I teased her.
"Boyfr- you can't be serious!" WAS HE SERIOUS? "You are a teacher! Think about your position and... and your age!" I was pink, I didn't need to see my reflection to know that. No one had ever openly declared themselves as my boyfriend before; that baka never even said it once! Actually, he even denies that we ever dated.
"Age? I'm only 22, we are only 4 years apart. Come on, there are couples with a way larger age gap than us, and besides, don't people say 'age is just a number'?" I didn't think age would matter to her; she seemed like the type to believe in love at first sight.
"22? But you look so..."
"Look so what?" Young, handsome?
"Old" I bluntly said, not willing to compliment his ego. "What about your job! You will be fired as soon as people see us together."
"HAHA, I'm sure that old man would do no such thing." The opposite, probably.
"HUH?" Old man? His father?
"Your school's chairman and principle is my Godfather. If he finds out, he will encourage this 'forbinden love' as he would put it." She had no idea what she was dealing with. If that man found out, he would find ways to get us together; fire me would be the last thing on his mind.
"Your Godfather?" So that's how he got the job. He didn't seem like the type to care about teaching that much, but now it all made sense.
"Adoptive father as well." I chipped in as we made our way through traffic, the chit chatter filling the car.
"Adoptive? You are an orphan or something?" I thought this was one of his teasings, that was until I saw his face.
"Yeah." The sad truth.
"Oh, I'm sorry." I felt bad, even though he had a bitter sweet smile, it was obvious the fact pained him.
"What for? You didn't cause my parent's accident did you?" I don't know why I had let that fact slip, but her pity was the last thing I wanted. "Besides, it happened years ago."
Kyoko didn't know what to say, her mother may have been alive but she felt like she was an orphan herself. Her father had passed away when she was a baby and her mother had abandoned her years ago for a new family. The only thing motherly she still does is electronically pay for Kyoko's schooling.
In that short ride, it was like she saw the man before her, truly saw him for all that he was. It was ridiculous how sharing a little bit of his story made her feel something. Made her heart flutter and her brain think, 'perhaps he wasn't all that bad.'
"We are here!" I interrupted her out of her thoughts.
"Huh?" Looking around, I finally took notice of our location. "Where are we?"
"Where you ask?" I raised an eyebrow. I couldn't help but smile at the look on her face. "Home!" I proudly announced.
"EHHHH!" We are at a location away from civilisation. Maybe Kanae was right, I shouldn't have come alone. Staring at his overly bright face, I regretted my actions.
