It's Chapter 9!
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Orange Lover.
"The Booth"
This was probably one of the creepiest days of my life. It all started with the Celebration Festival...
MONDAY
Anon: Our school has this stupid festival for Celebration Week and my form tutor made everyone participate with a partner. And guess who my partner was?! MIKUO. But I'll get into that later. When I got home from school that day I had some guests...
I walked through the front door to find Mum, Dad, Teto and her sister, Miki sat at the table in the corridor.
"Hey...what's up?" I asked.
"Rin, Teto and her sister have just told us that you wanted to beat her up?" Mum said, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh...that? It was a joke!" I said.
"Teto didn't take it as a joke isn't that right, Teto?" Miki frowned.
"Yes..." She murmured.
"I don't know what's gotten into you, Young Lady." Dad said.
"Rin is like family to us, it breaks my heart to see them fight." Miki said, shaking her head.
"Don't worry, Rin will pay for this. She's grounded." Mum said.
"Oh no don't ground her..." Teto butted in.
"She's grounded and that's final. We don't tolerate violence in this household." Dad frowned.
"Well if that's what it takes. She shouldn't be joking like that anyway." Miki sighed.
"Rin, say you're sorry to Teto right now." Mum said.
"I'm sorry, Teto." I frowned.
They got up and left after I'd apologised and didn't even say anything to me. What the fuck? Mum and Dad were stood outside the door waving to them.
"Bye, girls! Drive safe!" Mum smiled.
"So how long am I grounded for?" I asked.
"Grounded? If anything we should be throwing you a party!" Dad smiled.
"Huh?" I said.
"Hun, let's be honest...Teto needs her ass kicked. She just sat there looking innocent while you got in trouble." Mum said, folding her arms.
"Yeah, I saw right through her." Dad added.
"So...I'm not in trouble?" I asked.
"Nope!" Mum smiled.
"And between us, you would've taken her down! She's skin and bone; you would've had her in an ambulance." Dad said.
"I swear I have the coolest parents EVER!" I smiled.
"Damn right! Let's celebrate! Who's up for ice cream?!" Dad asked.
After we went out for ice cream, my dad and I played games in the garage.
I was in the middle of my level when Mikuo came over.
"Hey, Rin, I'm ready to start on this project." He said.
"Okay; we'll start after I finish this level!" I said, pressing buttons on my controller.
"Come on, I have practice in an hour." He moaned.
I finally stopped playing the game and we starting talking about the project.
"Have you come up with any ideas yet?" I asked.
"Yup, have you?" He replied.
"A few, let's hear yours." I said.
"We'll buy baked shop from the store and say we made it." He smiled.
"We can't do that, Mikuo..." I murmured.
"Fine. What did you have in mind?" He asked.
"A kissing booth!" I said.
"You're kidding, right?" He said, raising an eyebrow.
"You know you want girls to line up to kiss you." I smiled.
"...fine let's do it." He grinned.
We just kind of sat there after that. It was really awkward...
"It's time for me to get going...I'll see you tomorrow so we can finish up." He said, getting up.
"Yeah, see ya." I said as he left.
Later that day.
I was hanging out in my room with Len, telling him about the stupid booth.
"And then guess who she paired me with!?" I said.
"Umm...who?" He asked.
"Mikuo Hatsune! The teacher has it in for me! She chose HIM out of all people! Like come on she could have at least paired me with the smelly girl ya know? Worst. Day. EVER." I moaned.
"Like OMG you got paired with the most popular guy in school. That like TOTALLY sucks ya know?!" He said in a high voice.
"Are you mocking me?" I asked.
"Why yes, Rin, I'm mocking you." He smirked.
"You jerk..." I scowled.
"Remember that concert I was talking about? They're coming to this part of town, the dates are online. I'll buy our tickets before they sell out." He said, going on my laptop.
"Hey what's this? Some sort of blog? 'Until next time...Orange Lover.'" He read.
"You can close out of that, it's just some stupid blog I like to read." I said.
"Did you write this? I won't judge." He said, scrolling down.
"I said I READ IT. Now close the page." I said, biting my lip.
"Jeez, someone's a little angry, but fine I closed it. See?" He said, showing me 'Google'.
"Rin! Its 7, time for Len to go home, Sweetie!" Mum called.
I've never been so happy for my mum to interrupt me!
TUESDAY NIGHT
Mikuo came over that night to work on the booth. I loved watching him work. Building was a passion of his and it was nice to see him happy. And of course my dad just HAD to help...
I was looking at them through the kitchen window when Mum started talking to me.
"Rin, come help me out in the kitchen." She said.
I made some hot chocolate for her.
"Alright what's wrong?" She asked.
"Nothing, I'm fine." I said, putting the cups down.
"You've been staring out of the window looking like you're about to cry for the last 30 minutes." She frowned.
"I...I guess I just miss—"I began, but Mikuo and Dad came into the kitchen.
"Hey, girls, we're done for the night." Mikuo said.
"How's it looking so far?" Mum asked.
"It's looking great! Mikuo here is doing an amazing job." Dad smiled.
"Thanks, Mr. Kagane, my father taught me all I know. We're going to have the best booth no doubt about it." Mikuo said.
"Good to know. Do you want some hot chocolate, Mikuo? It has marshmallows." I smiled.
"No thanks, I'm good." He replied.
"Oh...well okay, more for me I guess." I shrugged.
"Oh come on, Hatsune, you deserve it. Rin makes the best hot chocolate." Dad said.
"I'm sorry, I'm actually meeting someone for drinks tonight, and I actually better get going there before I'm late." He replied.
"Oh...well have fun, Sweetheart, we'll see you tomorrow." Mum said.
Mikuo left and I went up to my room to watch...Pewdiepie. Don't ask. (polomints63 makes me watch it!)
The Celebration Festival
I turned up to the festival to find Mikuo at our stall. It looked great! It had love hearts in the background and it had 'Kissing Booth' written on it in sparkly pink letters.
"This looks great, Mikuo, you did an amazing job." I smiled.
"Thanks, I couldn't have done it without your dad's help. Tell him I said thanks when you get home." He said.
Just then Len came over to us.
"Hey, Rin." He said.
"What are you doing here?" Mikuo asked, looking pissed.
"Last time I checked this was a public event, Hatsune. Chill out." He said.
"Umm...Mikuo, I'll be right back." I said, walking off with Len.
I had to get him away from Mikuo so I took him to Neru's booth.
It was yellow with red horizontal stripes, balloons and dart boards.
"Hey, guys! Wanna play? All you have to do is hit the target." She smiled.
"Come on, Len, win me something!" I said.
"Let's do this." He said, cracking his knuckles.
Neru handed him two darts.
"Okay, Len, you have two tries, make it count!" She said.
"Go Len! Go Len! Go Len!" I cheered.
Len threw the dart but didn't get it on the target.
"Try again!" Neru said.
Len was in the zone.
He threw the dart.
He missed the target.
"Eh, close enough, you win!" Neru smiled.
He picked up a black and white teddy and gave it to me.
"I believe this is for you." He said, and handed it to me.
"Thank you! It's so cute!" I said, hugging it.
"Hey I have to leave now; I'm meeting up with some friends to watch the game, you wanna come?" He asked.
"Umm..." I murmured.
I looked over to Mikuo who was sat down in front of the stall. I couldn't just leave him by himself.
"No - I have to stay here, maybe next time." I said.
"Alright then...I'll see you tomorrow I guess." He said and then walked off.
"Len seems like a sweet guy, Rin. I'm really starting to like him." Neru smiled.
"Yeah, he's great. Thanks for letting him win by the way." I said.
"No problem! He's actually pretty good, nobody else even made it onto the board." She replied.
Then a familiar white haired boy walked over to the stall.
"Umm...one game please." He murmured.
"Piko?" I asked.
"Rin? What are you doing here?" He said.
"This is MY school festival." I smiled.
"Oh, awesome. You wanna hit up the photo booth?" He asked.
"Umm, sure! Let's go." I said.
"So...you don't want that game?" Neru asked, but we'd already left.
In the photo booth we took a picture of us sat next to each other smiling, Piko with his arm around me putting two fingers up at the camera, me sat on Piko's knee and the last one was him kissing me!
I got up and stormed out of the photo booth. Piko followed me.
"I'm sorry about that kiss...I shouldn't have done that." He apologised.
I walked around the booth to where the picture slot was to find that there were NO PICTURES!
"Where are the pictures?" I aked.
Fuck my life. FUCK MY LIFE!
"Maybe they didn't print; big deal." He said.
"This is a big pile of shit." I scowled.
I left Piko and went to go check up on Mikuo at the stall. I found this random black haired girl standing there.
"Sorry, the kissing booth is closed." She said.
"This is MY stall. I'm Rin." I said, folding my arms.
"Oh, so you're Rin? Mikuo is so mad at you..." She replied.
"Where is he?" I asked.
"He said he was going to visit that tarot card reader." She said.
I left and went over the tent where the tarot card reader was and stuck my head around the opening.
The room was red and the woman was sat with her back to me on a chair with a brown circular table.
"Um excuse me; did a teal haired and teal eyed guy come in here?" I asked.
"Come have a seat, dear." She said.
"I'm just looking for a guy; I don't have time to sit." I said, walking out of the door.
"I'm getting a lot of bad vibes from you...a lot of negative energy." She replied.
"Okay I'm going to go now." I said, stepping out further.
"Not so fast...Rin. You've been a horrible person. You've hurt the people who cared about you the most and you're not even sorry for the pain you've caused. You take everyone around you for granted and they're getting sick of it. Karma is coming your way, Rin...watch out." She said.
And with that I ran the heck out of there. I ran through the trees next to our school and down the road for Mum to pick me up.
While I was running I was sure I passed Teto but I was too scared to take any notice of her.
"Rin?" She asked.
I'm scared out of my mind! Karma? Coming? WATCH OUT? I don't even wanna leave my room! Do you guys think she was telling the truth? Or was she just bat shit crazy? Why does this happen to ME?
Until next time...
-Orange Lover.
Next time on the dramatic last chapter of Orange Lover.
Rin and Len get...close. Rin apologises to Mikuo for ditching him at the stall. Rin finds herself in a difficult situation so she asks Rui for some help. And Rin finally finds out what happened to her photo booth pictures – but who took them?
Find out in the sequel!
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