Chapter Seven- Standing up to the Status Quo
He looked out onto the window of the plane, wondering what Rima would be doing right this moment, he often did that during the spare time that he had; being trapped in that scholarship school prison in Italy. He didn't think that Italy was beautiful at all, which was much contrary to what his mother repeatedly said to him, about how he would find this place just like the home that he never had and they might just find his wife here. He didn't think so and he didn't want to think so either. Throughout the past year he had been trying to figure out some way that he would be able to make the thing with Rima work as best as he could, he couldn't think of anything. After all the work that he put into trying to make it work he put his hard work into writing songs for her instead, he thought that would be his gift for her when he came back.
She looked at her watch that illuminated in the dark, 10:00pm, he was late. Rima was standing outside the airport doors just willing to herself that he would come back home to her safely; her mind was split between whether he would have changed in the short time between himself and herself and whether he would even remember that she was his for life.
Their love was meant to be eternal but she wasn't exactly sure whether he felt this way as well as she did, or even as intensely as a connection that she felt whenever they were together and the intense loneliness that they felt when they were apart. She loved him even though they had been torn apart and through the fact also that her parents didn't allow for someone like Shiki to be dating Rima. Rima and Shiki were the perfect couple; for the moment… she thought but she wasn't sure whether this would be lasting forever as she would have hoped. She wasn't sure, also whether she would be able to reveal to her parents that they had been together for over a year (long- distance). "Hmm," she thought, "only time will tell…whether mum and dad will like him."
Rima was sort of a hybrid vampire, not quite pureblood though, she was a daughter of a nobleman who had come from a long line of nobles all the way from the 17th century vampires when their line had begun to be recorded. Rima's family was half pureblood though and with that half was the primary reason that her family rather prided themselves on nothing that was of much worth anyways to them… There was often no respect that was offered to them, rather than the few that were truly content with the treatment that they received from the Tyouyas'- which were their servants. Rima although she was part of this overpriced family, thought that there was not that much importance to her name and chose rather to look upon the name as something that happened through chance.
The supposed (rumoured) story of how her family became vampires was because the first recorded ancestor was a servant to one of the first pureblood vampires that existed on the Earth. Also, apparently that pureblood vampire fell in love with the first ancestor and accidentally, succumbing to all his desires and savagely bit her neck. That bite on the neck of the first ancestor from a young pureblood vampire is apparently the source of all the pride that her mother, father and older brother exhibit towards all the other vampire families. Rima also hadn't thought anything of who she might have to marry in order to retain that pride, maybe someone from a far extending family from the other side of Japan where the idiots have so far been grown for her benefit.
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The plane landed with a giant thud on the ground and he looked out the window to see if anything interesting would catch his eye; any changes to the scenery of the landscape that he was used to. Nothing had changed but then there was something else that was in the corner of eye… he squinted to see who or what it was but nothing was visible in the pouring rain that came from the winter season. Grabbing his and his mother's hand luggage they stepped out from the plane and briskly walked towards the wide airport doors.
Oblivious to Rima who was standing right beside the doors he walked past her and straight to the baggage claim. She looked up shifting the few strands of hair that had fallen on her pale face; she noticed Shiki not noticing her and ran after him. He walked faster. She walked faster. He stopped. She stopped. Oops, too late; she fell on top of his back and knocked him to the ground.
"Hey! What's your problem?!" He began yelling without even a glance at the person to whom he was yelling at and began to walk again.
"Oops, hey…I'm sorry for that, k's?" she rushed after him again. He stopped suddenly…again. She knocked him on the floor…again. This time when she helped him up he recognised the face.
"Rima? Is that you?" He asked rhetorically, smiling with a fantastic grin of glee spreading across his face.
"Yes…"she replied shyly, pushing her hair back behind her ear. He helped her with the other.
"You look fantastic! You changed your hair- you got a haircut? And dyed it blonde brown? It looks fantastic!" (Don't worry, he's not crazy…this is how he always acts around Rima…very delirious)
"I thought that I would be able to surprise you, coming to the airport to—"she was cut off by what she saw behind him… his mother. She pointed slowly to behind him.
"What is it? Is there something wrong with my hair? My teeth? Tell me!"
"It's your mother… I think…" she had suddenly become very nervous about what was about to happen.
"Huh?"He seemed clueless, as always so she turned his head to face his mother who had a dull smile on her face.
"And who's this?" she questioned with an intimidating tone.
"This is Rima, mother." Shiki took the honours of introducing her.
"Aren't you one of those Tyouya's?" she questioned, accusingly. Shiki's mother had a way with words, very definitely, according to Shiki, that is. His mother hard a very hard head on her that was hard to impress, she began to eye Rima suspiciously as though she had a wire on her and were a spy for her family. However, this was non-sensible to Rima, she had nothing to hide and there would be no reason that her family would want to spy on another family.
"That's not what I wanted to come across as, though; yes I am one of those Tyouya's. The chairman from Cross Academy instructed that I take him back to the dorms there immediately to discuss very private business; alone."
"Very well…go along Shiki….with this…Tyouya…I'll see you next time when the holidays return." He kissed his mother goodbye and grabbed his suitcases, grateful of what Rima had done for him, rescuing him from his dangerous mother who had imprisoned him for the year in Italy at the so called Inecto Lock High School. There was nothing special about that place anyways; he only learnt a few extra charms that he might be able to use in the future for protection of himself and his loved ones, including Rima.
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Tick, tick, tick; Rima's watch announced as it broke the silence every so often, they had not spoken a word since they left the airport. It wasn't because they hadn't anything to say, it was rather that they had too much to say and at the moment were trying to comprehend all that they were currently feeling for each other and had felt about each other during the past year into a few tiny sentences full of incomparable words that struck in their minds as being mediocre in descriptions. In her hand she held very tightly a rose that she had been given to her by Shiki very privately before their parting a year ago, she had put it in resin to forever preserve the entity that reminded her that he was the only one in her life that had felt so strongly for her. Shiki, on the other hand held tightly to a thought that reoccurred in his mind about when they had parted each other; maybe he would be able to kiss her now… Previously he hadn't enough courage to kiss her. To Shiki, Rima was like a beautiful and fragile blooming flower that would not be able to be disturbed; he thought frequently about a first kiss with her, making her his absolute first kiss but he didn't know how to kiss someone. Instructions from Kaname had been pointless, as all that they led to were savage bite marks on the necks of the beautiful women that he used to demonstrate.
They were approaching the gates of Cross Academy and were greeted with happy smiles from the entire of the student body as the party banner was held, 'Welcome back Shiki!' they shouted as he got out of the car. The Chairman came out from the crowd and personally shook his hand as though Shiki had done something great for the entire campus. Shiki did not know how to react, he had never had a crowd this big to welcome him back to anywhere, all there ever was, was his mother. He fled with Rima back to his dorm where Kaname and Ichijou seemed to be very animated while reading to a group of adoring female fan groups.
"Oh, hello Shiki, welcome back. You too, Rima. You know Shiki, Rima had dyed her hair only a few days ago; I think she said something about wanting to give you a fantastic surprise. You don't have to hide behind him, Rima, you can come out I don't bite; there is only one that I would love to bite though…" Kaname whispered hastily as he was being pulled back into the crowd.
"How can you do this?!" Shiki yelled as he realized that allowing a bunch of day students into the night students' campus was illegal. Promptly, he shoved the girls out of the hallway and told them to go back to where they were before this happened.
"Why did you do that? You're such a kill joy, Shiki…"
"I thought that we would be better organized without the girls distracting us so much in our studies. You know that the assessments are only a week away for you guys… although I am exempted from these because I was absent for so long… and well, I had already completed some assessments at Inecto Lock in Italy!" He grinned as he set his friends to work while he led Rima into his study to explain various things that he had been thinking about while he was away. He had indeed thought of many things while he was away- like how lucky he was to have Rima, but how it would be difficult for them since she originated from a wealthy family. They would soon be forced apart by their parents who would find out sooner or later what they were up to.
He held out a seat for her while he perched precariously on the corner of the pine desk, "I think that we need to talk, seriously for a moment." Rima was confused by this; she had thought that he was happy that they were still together… although there had been some difficulties with Melrose and him going to Italy. She thought that that would not affect anything though.
"What do we need to talk about?" she questioned, clearly puzzled by the situation.
"I think that it would be good if we break for a while."
End of Chapter Seven!!! Thank you for reading and for being patient with me, I know that I haven't been getting out my stories as quick as usual and I am sorry…
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