Amu parks her car by the sidewalk in front of the apartment complexes that Sera lives in. She turns off the engine and happily turns to face her friend, "Sera, it seemed like you had a lot of fun today," she teases, "Sera?" she calls when Sera doesn't reply back to her. Amu watches as her friend continues to gaze out through the window, "Is someone there?" she asks and turns to look at the direction that Sera was looking at. But when her eyes landed in the same direction, there was no one in sight, "Oi Sera!" Amu shouts and shakes her friend.
Sera snaps out of her daydreaming state, "Huh?" she says confused, "we're already here?" she asks, looking out through the windows of the car at the apartment complexes.
"Are you okay?" Amu asks.
"Huh? Oh yeah…why?" Sera asks, turning to face Amu.
"Well I asked you a question earlier and you didn't respond," Amu replies, "plus you kept staring out through the window as if someone was standing in front of my car."
"Oh…," Sera combs her hands through her hair, "sorry," she apologizes, "I guess I'm just tired, that's all."
Amu lets out a sigh of relief and falls back into her seat, "You scared me there for a moment Sera," she breathes out, "I thought that you were seeing things, like a ghost or something," Amu shuts her eyes and allow herself to calm her pounding heart.
Sera nervously chuckles, "Sorry about that Amu," she apologizes again and places a hand on Amu's thighs, "I just have a lot of things on my mind," she removes her hand from Amu's thigh and grabs her messenger bag, "do you want to come inside for a bit?" Sera asks.
"Sure," Amu answers. Both girls got out of Amu's car and head towards the stairs to Sera's apartment. Sera unlocks her apartment door and walks in.
"Do you want anything to drink?" She asks her friend while she makes her way to the fridge and Amu makes her way to the living room. Amu kicks off her boots once she sat down and falls back on the comfy soda.
"Do you have mango strawberry drink?" Amu asks.
"I sure do," Sera replies. She grabs the drink that Amu requested and shut the fridge with a nudge of her butt. She walks up to Amu and hands the drink to her, "here," she said. Amu gladly takes the drink from Sera.
"Thank you," Amu says.
Sera sat down beside Amu and picks up the remote control, "Wait," Amu calls out, reaching out to stop Sera from turning on the tv, "I still want to talk to you."
"Oh," was the only word Sera replies back with. She places the remote control back down on the coffee table and gives Amu her undivided attention, "what's up?" she asks, crossing her legs on the sofa.
Amu takes a huge swig of her drink and places it down between her legs, "Did you have fun today?" she asks her previous question.
Sera smiles and nods, "Yeah I did," she answers, "Yamato is a very interesting guy."
Seeing that her friend had mentioned Yamato's name even before she got the chance to mention his name, Amu smiles, "You like him don't you?" she teases.
"What?! No!" Sera shouts and turns away, "I mean…he's a pretty entertaining guy over all but, this is our only first date," she tries to give out excuses. But deep down inside, Sera can feel her heart pounding like mad from just hearing Yamato's name in the same sentence with the word "like".
"You can't hide it from me Sera," Amu teases and laughs, "I know when a girl has a crush on someone," she reaches out and cups Sera's face and forces Sera to face her again, "I may not know Yamato that well but, from what Tusk told me about him today, Yamato seems like a pretty good guy," she says and lets go of Sera's face, "way much better than that Kyo guy you're talking to."
"Wait, what's wrong with Kyo? I never really understood your dislike towards him," Sera argues.
"I don't dislike him Sera," Amu quickly replies, "I don't have anything against Kyo actually, but, when I see him and you together, there's something that is off about it."
"Off?"
"Yeah, like, his actions towards you isn't from the bottom of his heart or…something like that," Amu explains.
Sera heaves out a sigh and looks away, "I think you're over thinking Kyo's actions," Sera mumbles.
"I might be but, that still doesn't change my views on him," Amu rebuttals.
"Whatever you say," Sera gives up and stands from the sofa, "I'm going to go take a shower. If you feel like crashing on the sofa then be my guest," she told Amu before leaving the short haired girl alone in the living room.
Amu bit her bottom lip and tightens the grip around her drink, "if you only knew who the real Kyo is Sera," she whispers.
"You're home," Yamato's father says once Yamato walked through the front door.
"Oh," Yamato answers and slips off his shoes. He slips into his house slippers and walks up the genkan, "were you guys waiting for me?" he asks.
"Did your mother tell you of the plans for tomorrow night?" His father asks.
"Yeah," Yamato answers and walks pass his dad but stops, "don't worry dad, I won't ruin your reputation for you," and with that he takes off to his bedroom.
Yamato enters his room and trudges the rest of the way towards his bed. He falls down on his bed and stares blankly up at the ceiling, "When can I start taking control of my life?" he asks himself. Feeling a bit tired from the whole day, Yamato rolls over to his left side and curls up into a ball, "I guess it doesn't hurt to see who this Mimi girl is," he says softly, "after all, what choice do I have?" Yamato shuts his eyes and allows sleep to wash over his tired body.
Sera walks into the livingroom to see Amu sleeping on the couch with no pillow or blanket, "That baka," she murmurs with a smile on her face. She retreats back into the hallway and grabs a pillow and a blanket for her friend. Sher returns to Amu's side and places the pillow under her friend's head and covers her body with the fluffy white blanket, "Sleep tight," she whispers and retreats to her bedroom. Sera walks into her room and sits down on her bed. She reaches out to her phone and opens the text messages.
From: Kyo
Hey, let's hang out tomorrow.
Sera stares at the message and was just about ready to type out an answer when her fingers suddenly stops, "I wonder…," she murmurs. She tears her gaze away from her phone and stares out into her bedroom, "I wonder what Amu has against Kyo. And what that lady said to me earlier, somehow I can't get her words out of my head," Sera heaves out a heavy exhausted sigh and decided to hit the sleep button instead of replying back to Kyo. She throws her phone on the area beside her and falls on the bed, "this is all too confusing."
"Oi…Oi!" a voice shouts. Yamato jerks back to reality and quickly bows to the gentleman in front of him, "I said full tank," the guy yells.
"Ye…yes sir," Yamato stutters and began fueling his gas tank. Yamato watches as the guy spits out his toothpick and exits his car to purchase something from inside the store. He heaves out a sigh as his heart calms down from the sudden adrenaline rush.
"Yamato?" a girl's voice from behind him calls. Yamato spins around to see Sera standing a few feet from him, "you work here?" she asks and walks up to him.
"Ah…yeah," Yamato replies.
"I didn't know that," Sera gives Yamato a smile and studies him from head to toe.
Yamato felt Sera staring and it causes him to slightly blush, "Sorry," he apologizes for no reason, "I look dirty right now," he says.
Sera laughs and waves a hand in front of her face, "No no," she says, "you look rather adorable."
"Ah…thanks," Yamato replies back, "so…um…," he leans a bit over to his left to check out the car behind Sera, "is that your car?" he asks.
"Hm?" Sera turns around a bit to look at the car as well, "ah no, it belongs to Kyo. Kyo and I are going to the mall in a bit," she explains.
"Oh…," Yamato hums and turns to pull the gas handle out from the gentleman's car.
"Yamato, are you okay?" Sera asks.
"Yeah why?" Yamato asks.
"Well…you seem…"
"Oi Yamato!" one of Yamato's co-workers calls and interrupts them, "can you give me a hand over here? These drinks are pretty heavy!" he shouts.
"Coming!" Yamato answers and then faces Sera, "well I guess I'll see you around at school then," he tells her and bows. He turns his back to Sera and was ready to walk away but stops and spins back around "Oh…and um enjoy your shopping day," he says with a smile.
"Thank you," Sera answers even though she felt a bit disappointed that Yamato didn't ask her to hang out instead. Deep down inside, Sera didn't want to hang out with Kyo at all today but he had shown up at her apartment without any notices. Being the nice lady she was, Sera accepted his offer to go shopping and here she was, at the gas station waiting for Kyo to return from his restroom break. Sera lets out a disappointed sigh and retreats to the car. She gets in the car and closes the door then pouts, "That baka Yamato," she mutters. Sera was so engrossed in her sulking that she missed out on the loud crash that came from behind Kyo's car. The one sound that caught her attention was…
"YAMATO!" Yamato's co-worker shouts and drops the case of water he was carrying, "YAMATO!"
Sera snaps out of her sulking stage and got out of the car. A few feet from her was Yamato lying unconscious under a bunch of heavy cases of drinks, "YAMATO!" Sera shouts and rushes over to the scene. She passes Kyo, who was returning back from his restroom break, and is abruptly stopped when Kyo catches her arm.
"Sera," he calls.
"Kyo?" Sera says, looking a the older man, "Yamato…let me go, I have to go see if Yamato is okay," she worryingly says and pries her arm out of Kyo's grasp. She runs up to Yamato and his co-worker and crouches down, "Yamato..," she calls. Sera lifts Yamato's head and places it on her lap, "hurry…do something," she tells Yamato's co-worker.
"I…I'll go call the ambulance," Yamato's co-worker says and leaves Sera alone with Yamato.
"Yamato…," Sera whispers Yamato's name and wipes away the strands of hair from his face. Somehow, Sera felt like her world was crashing, seeing that Yamato wasn't responding back to her with his contagious happy smile, "Yamato…hold on," Sera says.
OH NO YAMATO! Uh oh...seems like Amu knows something about the "real" Kyo. Find out in the next chapter! Or the soon to come chapters! I don't like to reveal the truth so soon :D.
