Konnichi Wa, Hello Chapter Ten.
Blondes, Harems And Biscuits.
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Crys was angry, too angry for me. She stormed up to Silver and I, grabbing me forcefully by the collar.
"Y-You…" Crys started to shake and her words began to waver as her eyes brimmed with tears. I braced myself. Awaiting the stinging sensation on my cheek…
Smack. I opened my eyes, because I wasn't the one to be hit, and neither was anyone in the room, Silver had Crys' hand firmly gripped in restraint, but Crys was shaking, tears now flowing freely down her pale cheeks. Silver looked at me, and at my shocked expression, and then back at Crys. Silver carelessly dropped Crys' hand, and the cerulean-haired girl dropped to her knees, fists balled and nails digging into her jean-covered thighs. Her tears almost fluorescent against the bright moonlight refracting from the window to her reddened face. Silver's expression was of contempt,. Silver sighed out loud, hauled himself from the ground and stood over Crys,
"Crystal…"
The sobbing girl looked up to Silver with the widest and most hope-filled eyes I had ever seen on her part, her weak voice penetrated the looming silence that followed after his words.
"Silver…this is a dream…right? I love you…and you love me…right?" Crys asked, her voice cracking as Silver just stared at her contemptibly the entire time she spoke. For once in my life, I actually came close to feeling sorry for her, but now, she knew the pain she had put me through, and she got it ten-times worse. Why? She got it all at once.
I stood up and walked over to Silver, who glanced over at me for a second, before returning his hard-fixed stare to Crys.
"Now you know. Now you know how this all feels, to be tossed around, messed with, bullied, your hearts torn is it not?" Silver firmly proved his point to the weeping Crys, who nodded in defeat,
"-I know that, because that's what you put Kotone through, and, being honest, I've never liked you one bit because of that…" Silver started, which made me go wide-eyed.
"Silver…how do you feel about her…?" Crys asked, as if I wasn't standing right next to him. I half-hoped the answer would be…no, I can't think that…
"She's my best friend…but…I…" Silver was lost for words, and he was faintly blushing, or maybe it was the reflection of his hair, or something…I don't know. Crys smiled weakly and looked down at the floor.
"I understand."
And at that, Silver and I left.
Once I woke up the next morning, I discovered Silver had been watching me sleep all morning, all revealed due from spiteful information from Chip, who seemed displeased at the memory. I felt like I was a victim of something…stalking, maybe. But oh well, there was nothing I could do to stop this. I guess everything was sorted after all. Well, that's what it seemed like. I stepped out of my tent, (Avoiding the green ropes holding the damn thing up) to see a most peculiar scene…Hibiki and Barry squatting on a waterproof mat, and directly in between the two boys was a packet of biscuits. They were both staring at each other in a way so strange (it was almost like rivalry, and as if they wanted to rip each other apart, also their eyes occasionally passed over the sweet, crumbly food, all at the same time) , I couldn't really determine the kind of vibe the situation was meant to be giving. Then I noticed there was only one biscuit in the brown packet, and I automatically understood.
Two people. One biscuit.
Oh. Dear. God.
The scene almost tickled me slightly, I mean, it was only a biscuit…right? They were staring as if it were a girl they both liked. This really sounds odd if you put it that way. Barry's hand twitched and Hibiki immediately jumped straight up and pointed at him in shock,
"YOU! YOU TRIED TO TAKE IT-"
Volkner wondered over, glanced over each face, Hibiki frozen in the accusation position, and Barry…just being Barry. Volkner took the biscuit, popped it in his mouth and left. Obviously not caring that the biscuit was the freaking Holy Grail to the two idiots. Speaking of the two idiots, they were watching the stoic blonde walking away from them with their biscuit.
They were both prepared to kill,
Brutally murder,
You get the gist. I backed away from the odd feud and music reached my ears…along with Marley's voice,
"You're not doing this right Silver! You're the one on the left!"
That sounded interesting…then when I recognised the music I have to stifle a laugh.
Work it harder make it better, do it faster makes us stronger…
Bet you all recognise that. I silently walked behind my tent to see Silver and Marley attempting to do that crazy dance to 'Harder Better Faster Stronger', Silver was completely failing and Marley looked like she was prepared to attack him as a result. But one thing crossed my mind, how did Marley get Silver to do this? It wasn't like him at all….he either just complied with her demands…on the other hand, he could've been the only person left that didn't run away from Marley in desperate fear, the latter seemed more probable. Since Silver wasn't scared of anything…actually, what if he was? If so, what on Earth would he be afraid of? I would find that out in time…maybe later today. But I concentrated on the two amateur dancers in front of me. I felt like laughing. Silver was just staring at Marley's rather passionate determination, and not moving at all, until Marley noticed.
"Damn it! You know what? Screw it. I know you don't wanna be here." Marley nearly shouted, scorn laced in her words. Silver rolled his eyes and left.
So like him. I turned away from the scene and walked as fast as I could away from that tent, so it looked like I hadn't gone anywhere near it. I thought my plan would succeed, until a hand was clasped onto my shoulder, I looked around to see Silver behind me, his hood up and he was…blushing.
"Not a word of what you just saw."
I smiled.
"Sure. My lips are sealed."
Silver nodded and stalked off somewhere. I shrugged and walked in the opposing direction.
After that episode, Marley insisted we all go wall climbing; fun! Err, maybe not.
"One! two! One! Two! One! Two!" Marley was shouting like some military officer as we walked through the forest, which brought rather…recent memories of Silver. I just crept to the back of the queue to see Riley, his Lucario walking beside him, it was shooting glares at random trees and people that dare come within a two-meter radius of it; scary.
"Greetings, Kotone!" Riley grinned and gave a small wave. I thought: Oh God. as I approached him. He came from a rather rich family; he wasn't stuck up in any way, but just a little posh…
"Hi Riley…" I said, smiling as coyly as I could; I didn't usually talk to Riley.
"How're you this fine day? It has exquisite warmth to it- don't you think?"
See what I mean? He's just a nice guy, I suppose.
"Yeah, I suppose it is…though, it was cold this morning…"
"What's wrong, Kotone?"
Oh great, too distant…bit obvious that there's something on my mind; which there was, but I don't want to share it at this moment.
"Oh, nothing, just feeling a bit…distant, I suppose…."
"Ah, I see…" Riley replied as he took his blue hat off, and dusted it off as if a million bugs were scattered all over it. Even though there was nothing on it at all.
"You and Cynthia…are really close at the moment…"
Riley blushed; a lot. He cleared his throat and looked away at the mention of the beautiful blonde girl; whom of which, I was sure he had taken a liking to.
"Well, yes. I reckon so. And- between you and me- I really love her…"
No shit, Sherlock. It's kind of obvious.
"That's really nice…I think she likes you too." I spoke with a smile, as confident as Riley seemed, he was really, really shy when it came to this kind of thing- that, I could figure out from this situation alone.
"R-Really?" Riley stuttered, the silver hair placed near his eye flicking as he jumped, a little taken aback.
"Yeah, you really make a great couple." I smiled wider, Riley was growing on me right now.
"What about you and Silver? You also seem very close."
Tut-tut. Riley, changing the subject isn't getting you anywhere, oh well, give him a break from all this embarrassment. I grinned at Riley's remark; I knew everyone would notice.
"Well, we fell out for a while, but now we're friends again." I said, Riley gave a look of disbelief and chuckled:
"It doesn't seem like that."
"Really? How so?"
"Well, for one, he kissed you." Riley gave a smug smile, I blushed, ugh, hot face, not good.
"He wasn't being particularly nice to me. It was more of a teasing thing."
Riley looked like he was about to explode in fits of laughter. I suddenly became self-conscious of it,
"You're crazy, Kotone…absolutely insane…you cannot work it out?"
Wait, work what out?
"What haven't I worked out? What is there to work out!"
"I believe, like most people do- that Silver loves you."
Okay. What the hell.
"We've reached our destination! Now, get here now!"
Phew, saved by…Marley.
We all grouped around Marley, who looked surprisingly pleased with herself. Barry zipped to the front of the crowd, grinning triumphantly. Marley quirked an eyebrow and sighed audibly.
"We've reached the wall climbing…place. Now, get into twos and enter in silence!"
Yeah, that's perfectly reasonable. You're not a freaking teacher, and its outside. We don't need to enter anywhere.
Epic fail to you. -insert smug face here-.
Riley parted from me to approach Cynthia, which really wasn't much of a surprise after our conversing. Guess who approached me,
Chip and Silver. They both stood by either side of me in unison, Silver glaring at Chip, and vice-versa. I was stuck in the middle, feeling like a soft cuddly plushie in between two children, being fought over.
We reached a small gate, with a tower of rock placed in the middle, it loomed over me, swallowing me within its shadow, and I backed away from it, because the sky made it seem to rock, about to topple onto us. But I saw someone clambering up the rock, scaling the thing in no time flat,
And it wasn't one of us. They had thick (But wispy) pastel blonde hair, tied up in a bandanna which looked purple to me; it had a red tip on each loose end. I saw Candice staring at the figure, along with Hikari and Marley, Marley was blushing quite a lot, so I deduced that it was a guy. The boy slid down the rock as if it were a ladder, and stood in front of us, a Gengar grinning a devious grin and keeping close to him.
The guy was cute, I'll tell you that, but definitely not the Gengar.
"Hi, you coming to climb this thing?" Said the boy in a cheery voice, he seemed to be our age, telling from his height and posture, hands in his beige jeans and a purple and crimson scarf tied around his neck, also a plum-coloured sweater on his top half. All the girls apart from me nodded with dreamy faces, and the guys just nodded indifferently, Volkner keeping a closer eye on Candice, and I didn't particularly blame him, most females looked as if they were about to pounce on the blonde.
"Well, first thing's first, I'm Morty. Pleased to meet you all." Morty spoke with a wide smile, the whole situation began to be almost unbelievable. It was utterly ridiculous, even. Then his purple eyes turned to me, he stared for around ten seconds while I attempted to look down at the floor, I hated being stared at. Morty then covered it all up by looking across the line. Ha. I can feel a me-centred harem begging to develop. Oh dear. Not good for a girl.
"Okay, guys on one side"-Morty gestured to his left- "girls on the other, I'll have Leaf get over here…"
Leaf? What kind of a name is that?
A brunette girl with a sun hat on walked towards us and the scary rock at Morty's call, she had chocolate brown eyes-like me, and was wearing a baby blue spaghetti top, and some burgundy shorts and white sneakers - a small smile gracing her features.
Then the guys looked. I tried not to laugh.
"Leaf will take the guys, and I'll do the girls."
I got the vibe telling me that the guys nearly cheered. I was neutral in the situation. As long as I was out of this hell soon, I was happy.
Wait, I have to move.
I walked over to my designated side, and stood around the middle of the line, not really caring about the venomous glares burning through the back of my head.
Soon enough, it was my turn, Morty smiled at me, which he seemed to do a lot.
"You might need to take your hat off." The blonde suggested, I blushed from embarrassment and removed my hat as quickly as I could and walked up to the ghastly rock which I despised almost abnormally. Morty smiled at me a little wider, and for a brief second, it turned into a small smirk. That baffled me quite a bit; what was he thinking of? I heard clapping from around the opposite side of the rock, I craned my neck around the corner along with everyone else, to see Chip smiling triumphantly at the top of the climbing wall, waving gingerly at the scowling boys below him, Leaf was clapping the most enthusiastically, a proud smile etched near her chin, though you couldn't see her very well because of her dull white sunhat, I noticed Chip glancing over at me every few seconds, to see if I was watching him, then he somersaulted down to the ground, landing perfectly with the ropes still attached to him. Chip smiled and bowed at the crowd and at Leaf before glancing over at me and flashing a rather childish grin, I coyly smiled back, though one of Silver's hard and deadly glare bore into Chip's skull once I did so, I was surprised that the poor tan boy couldn't feel it.
I began to climb the rock once I had been properly attached to the blue ropes, I was doing pretty well until I looked down at the ground below me.
Then I panicked. I felt the world begin to spin, and I tried to hold my head, but I was frozen.
"Kotone? You okay up there?" Morty called up, I heard Crys and Marley scoff. I felt like flipping them off.
"Y-Yeah…I'm fine…" I falsely reassured him; I was scared so much I could've just cried right there.
I felt my hand begin to slip, and I grabbed the top of the rock, which was what I was meant to be doing. Morty and the others cheered as I smiled shakily,
"Now let go!" Morty called.
What the hell was he thinking! I can't let go!
I said nothing.
Crys; who was supporting me down below, waited until Morty wasn't looking, and yanked on the aqua rope, it tightened my harness and I unwillingly let go, I couldn't hold on then. I landed slowly with a small rustle of the grass below my feet, it felt great to be back onto ground level.
We found out that Morty was staying at the campsite not far from us, he was from Ecruteak in Johto, and Leaf was from the Kanto region, which I could guess from all of her clothes, Kanto was warmer than Johto, Sinnoh was even colder than Johto, but warmer than Kanto in the summer, but that's another story. Morty and Leaf agreed to visit us every so often, Morty often glanced over at me, and looking away as the awkward eye contact came about. There was something about him that was odd.
But I didn't take any notice of it.
It was sunset, a crackling fire was eventually lit; the delay was thanks to Barry's ability to move very quickly, he had whizzed around the previous flames so fast his trousers has caught fire from running too close, resulting in him cursing at the fire, grabbing our jug of water and pouring it over his trousers, along with the lit source of warmth, making everyone groan in contempt and throw insults at the poor hyper blonde.
Once it was night time, most of us were in our tents, idly chatting or falling into sleep's clutches already, I was outside with Chip, leaning onto the gate. Chip was sitting on it, swinging his legs every so often,
"Kotone, why d'ya like redhead so much?" The tan boy questioned me, I looked at him, and I knew he was referring to Silver.
"He's been my friend for years, he kinda bottles everything up, but once you get to know him, he's a good guy…" I trailed off mid-sentence, realising the truth in my words.
"Doesn't seem like that to me." Chip answered rather bluntly. I looked up at him,
"Why not?"
"Well, for one, he wasn't exactly nice to you after Barry's party…even though I really did like that night"-Chip shot me a playful wink, I shook my head while laughing a little- "-and I guess he's just a bit…overly protective, he can't even express himself properly, I mean, think about it. Unlike me, he can't even admit he's…" Chip stopped and I quirked an eyebrow, something Chip could express that Silver couldn't? That was believable, however…
"He's…?" I dragged him on, Chip blushed a little and jumped down from the gate to be next to me. He then placed a hand on my cheek and lifted my chin to make me look directly at him, and for some reason, I couldn't smack his hand away, or even look away. Chip leaned closer to me with a sincere gaze, something Silver never did unless he was thinking…great, now I was comparing the two.
"Chip…? What can't he admit…?" I asked, a little taken aback and wide-eyed.
"He can't even admit…"
I anticipated the end of the sentence intently.
"He can't even admit that he loves you."
And at that, Chip kissed me.