False Pretense
Chapter 9
A KuroFai Story
My phone was ringing… or rather vibrating as I didn't like having it on loud when I was at work. I raised an eyebrow at my pocket, and fished out my cell; ignoring the question of why my knee felt the vibration and my thigh didn't. (1)
"What…" I grunted out, knowing that it was Tomoyo even without looking at the screen.
"What a lovely way to be greeted by ones big brother," Her voice came out sarcastically through the phone. I gave an involuntary shrug as an answer. I leaned back in my chair, kicking my legs up onto the desk. I heard her sigh when I still didn't answer. "Well anyway, I'm here to tell you that you are now officially out of food. You need to go shopping later!" She chirped, and I could hear water running and a few clanks in the background.
I groaned, letting my head fall back and lightly hit the cement wall behind me. Shopping just wasn't my thing. Especially when it came to food; I'm perfectly content with fast food. (Money wouldn't be a problem, seeing as I still haven't touched the money I won from the bets. Not that I've had an opportunity to do so…) "Did you eat all of my food just so we could go shopping?"
"What ever would make you think that?" She asked, trying to sound innocent.
"Fine we'll go when I get off of work." I said running a hand through my hair, "Oh and Tomoyo,"
"Yes?" She said sweetly.
"Why aren't you in school?" I asked. It wasn't like it really mattered to me if she was or not, (it wasn't like I was ever in school when I had it), but she went to a prestige private school, and I wasn't too sure how they would take her skipping school.
"Oh, don't worry about it, my teacher left me off for the day." She said dismissively.
"Okay, but don't expect dad to accept that lie." I said. "Anyway I'll be there in an hour or two." After I said that I hung up.
I sighed again, and leaned further back in the chair. I had finished helping Arashi with the filing, in fact we finished two months work of piles that had accumulated. It wasn't that Arashi wasn't doing her job, there was just too much of it.
I could probably go home early, I mused. It wasn't like there was anyone here to really care if I did; as no one had been in the building besides me and Arashi since this morning. (Well Kusanagi has once, but again that's somewhat normal.)
I dropped my feet off of the desk, and stood up out of the chair. I grabbed my coffee cup and stalked over to the machine of coffee goodness. I pored myself another glass of the black stuff, and took a drink, grimacing slightly at the lukewarm temperature. Black coffee was the best.
I glanced over at the clock on the wall, and took another sip. I still had about two hours till I got off. God this day was going by slow!
It was then that I realized how quiet the room was; the only sound was the ticking of the clock.
"Ugh," I mumbled, gulped down the rest of my drink, and stormed off to where Arashi was. "Okay, that's it; starting tomorrow I'm doing traffic duty." I announced, "And I'm going home early…"
Arashi shrugged, not taking her eyes off of the computer screen.
I grabbed my jacket off of the back of the chair that I had been sitting in before our meeting this morning and quickly put it on, before I headed towards the door. I didn't bother with a goodbye as I walked out of the building.
It didn't take me too long to get to my house, maybe only fifteen minutes at the most, what with traffic and all.
Tomoyo laughed when I nearly busted down the door trying to get it open. "You're home early." She pointed out, trying to suppress a giggle behind her hand.
I shrugged, and kicked off my shoes at the doorway. I took my jacket off, ignoring Tomoyos' wolf whistle. It was best not to encourage her….
I turned to her after I flung my jacket onto the couch, "We're only shopping at the grocery store, and that is IT. I'm also making a list; if you need anything tell me now. If it's not on the list I'm not getting it." I snapped. Going shopping with Tomoyo was like asking to have your money stolen from you. While she wasn't an impulse buyer it was pretty close….
She crossed her arms in a pout, "You know I thought you being gay would make you more fun, but apparently not." She muttered. I felt my eyebrow twitch a bit, but chose to ignore her. Yet another tip from anger management: Ignorance is the Key… or some shit like that. "Ooh speaking of gay cross dressers, what's your BF up to?"
I stared at her like she had gone insane. For one I wasn't even sure how the conversation had gone from shopping to gay cross dressers, and two, I was never good at text talk… "What?" I asked before my mind could say if I wanted to know or not.
"Oh yeah you never told me what his name was…" She said bringing a finger to her lips in a thoughtful gesture, before she pointed it at me in a dramatic way. "What is his name?!"
"Who?" I asked feeling even more confused than normal when I'm around her. Its times like this that I really wonder if dad was really the one who got that woman pregnant. (2)
"You're BF!" She practically screeched.
"…."
She sighed, ranking a hand through her hair in a frustrated way. "Your boyfriend?" She supplied.
"Oh," I said realizing she had been talking about Fai. "His names Fai and he's not my boyfriend, hell not even a friend. He just an idiot I happen to run into a couple of times." I said walking past her, ignoring the sarcastic 'Sure' that came from her.
I walked into the kitchen, and grabbed a piece of paper, (that so happened to conveniently placed there), as well as a pen.
I scribbled some items down that were missing from the fridge and the cabinets. I was slightly surprised that Tomoyo wasn't bombarding me with questions about Fai, as I would have expected her to.
I finished with the list, and told Tomoyo that it was time to go, (She had been sitting in the living room, channel flipping.) She nodded and soon we were making our way towards the store.
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"DAMN IT TOMOYO! IT'S NOT ON THE LIST SO WE'RE NOT FUCKING GETTING IT!!" I finally yelled, after her fifteenth time of begging me to let her get something. I had been repeating the word 'No' for who knows how long.
But her grin only got wider, "Oh please? I'll leave you alone if you let me get it!"
I glared at her, knowing that she wouldn't do that, you could see it in her eyes that she had no intention of relenting. I sighed; feeling myself give in, after all Doritos weren't that expensive…
"Fine," I grumbled. She giggled happily and ran off quickly.
I let out another sigh and leaned against the shopping cart, cursing dad for spoiling her for so long.
I heard something behind me and ignored it until I felt something cold wrap around my bicep, and a voice chimed, "Kuro-chan~!"
I glared down at Fai, noting that the cold wrapped around my arm was his fingers. The infuriating nickname registering in my head, and I let out a small growl, hoping that would scare him away, but he just continued to smile at me. "What's Kuro-tori doing here? Hmm?" He asked, lightly poking me in the chest.
I shrugged him off of me…. Well tried to anyway, but he held on fast. "Get off of me!" I snarled.
He pouted, his bottom lip jutting out, but his aquamarine eyes were filled with mischief. "But I missed you Kuro-my!" He wailed. "And besides you're warm." He stated, clinging to my arm tighter.
I sighed giving up on trying to get him off of me. (He was like a god damned leech!) "What do you want?" I grated out, irritated. Today just wasn't my day, there were just too many spastic idiots that I had to take care of.
"Oh nothing much," He said, with a smile, finally taking his cold hands off of my arm. "Just wondering what Kuro-chi-Kuro-tan was up to." He tilted his head to the side slightly, and his blond hair covered a little bit of his eyes. I felt a sudden urge to reach out and brush them from his face. I scowled and murdered said urge then and there.
"Shopping," I said my voice monotone. I glanced towards the end of the aisle wondering what was taking Tomoyo so long. Like there was any other reason to be at a grocery store.
"Really what a coincidence so am I!" He chirped. I glanced back at him; with a raised eyebrow…. Really that sentence didn't even deserve a sarcastic comment. "Well anyway I better get going…" He said suddenly, and I saw his eyes cut towards the other end of the aisle, and a nervous tone had entered his voice.
I only shrugged. He glanced back at me again, and grinned even bigger. The mischievous glint was in his eyes again, and he leaned up and wrapped his arms around my neck. I stood frozen as he said, "See ya Kuro-chu~!" And he was gone, speeding back down the aisle before I had time to react. I let out a frustrated sigh, leaning against the cart again, and ran a hand over my face.
"Okay I'm back!" Tomoyo chirped, and I removed my hand in time to see a bag of Doritos sailing towards the cart.
"What took you so long?" I asked, pushing down my irritation at Fai, wanting nothing more than to have run after him and strangle him.
"Oh I just meet someone! He's really cute too~!" She said.
"Hmm…" I grunted, not interested any longer.
"Oh he was just so pretty too, and his name is Yuui!"
1)If my phone vibrates and it's in my pocket I never feel it where the phone is, I feel it either in my knee or the inside of my thigh, or sometimes both… its really weird…
2)If you don't understand this Kuro-chans wondering if him and Tomoyo are really related after all.
Whoo! Longer than the other chapters! My little way of saying "Sorry that it took so long!"