Happy? Haha. This is more chapters than I've written in months.
Oh, and I'm happy to say that I've recovered from that awful breakup :D now it's MY turn to break hearts.
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Chapter 8: Butterflies
Kagome's POV
"Of course I came back, silly. I always come back." He said, messing up her hair.
"This is for you!" Rin held up the second ice cream which was melting down her hand. He took it in his own and glanced at me before saying "You should've waited inside the apartment…"
"Mom had to leave for work." she frowned, then quickly regained her cheerfulness. "I made a friend!" she gestured towards me and beamed at him.
He eyed me suspiciously. Rin looked back and forth between us, waiting for his approval. "Good for you" he finally said. But it sounded like he meant it more for me than his sister. "We should get inside now."
She nodded and clung to his arm as they walked to the stairs. I sighed before looking away. There was too much love for me to handle.
I flinched when I felt someone pat me on the shoulder. It was Rin.
"Thank you!" she said, then planted a big wet one on my cheek.
We sat in silence, unmoving, with him reading his usual book and me trying to pluck up the guts to say something.
"She called you her friend," he said out of nowhere, seemingly talking to himself.
"Pardon?"
"Rin… yesterday she referred to you as her friend."
"Is that a bad thing?"
He stopped reading. "Rin doesn't have friends, she has… playmates, but never friends."
I smiled, "More people ought to treat her ice cream then,"
He scoffed. "My sister, she's… different. She has trust and abandonment issues. That's why she eagerly waited for me to return, she can't calm herself down otherwise. And the fact that she called you her friend, it's… kinda a big deal."
"Oh…" I trailed off, but still hoping he'd share more. "It gets lonely… not having any friends…"
I glanced at him and caught him surveying me.
"Back when I was new and all," I added, meekly smiling.
He put his book down, for once focusing all his attention to me (A/N: or so she thought..xD). He had a serene expression on his face, just as he always did. The wind was messing up his hair, some locks falling on his highly profiled face, making him look somewhat boyish.
I smiled inwardly, unable to deny that I was developing a small crush on him.
"Isn't it unfair," he said "that you know so much about my life and yet you have shared nothing of yours…"
My eyes widened at his statement. "I wouldn't say that I know so much.. and technically, that was about your sister."
"Yes, but now you know that I have a sister, and who she is, and that still has something to do about my life."
"But the fact is, you have shared nothing about yourself."
He had the slightest of smiled on his face; I had the feeling he was enjoying this.
"Fine," he leaned against the wall. "I like mint chocolate chip ice cream."
I frowned. "I surmised as much, your sister practically worships the ground you walk on. Of course she also likes what you like."
"How very perceptive of you. Your turn, Higurashi"
"Then again I doubt she'd look up to you as much if she knew how you are at school."
"I said, your turn."
I rolled my eyes. "I like vanilla ice cream"
"When I was fourteen my father left us for another woman, my aunt."
I opened my mouth; it took a while for my thoughts to clear up. "Th-that wasn't really about you."
"Yes, but that affected me personally."
He was smiling now; I gritted my teeth, and took a deep breath. "My mother died three years ago."
He looked at me intently, the smile disappearing from his face. Seconds passed by. "I don't know what to say."
I couldn't help but smile. "Thank you for saying that… I'm so sick of people saying they're sorry."
"I get it," he said.
"You never did thank me for the ice cream," I muttered, trying to lighten the mood.
He smiled again. It suited him. "How very rude of me. Thank you, Kagome."
My heart jumped up my throat as he said my name.
Uh-oh. Trouble.
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