Chapter 9: Fight

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"Gou why don't you eat with us today?" asks Kairi after the bell rung for lunch.

"Sorry, I'm eating with Bo today!" Gou replies happily and runs off towards Bo who was standing near the doorway.

"You take forever Gou." Bo says to Gou.

"Learn to be patient." said Gou as she walks by her. Bo follows her out of the classroom to go eat at their usual spot.

During lunch, Gou's phone vibrates violently in her bag, enough to get their attention. Gou opens her phone and sees a text message from Nagisa. She opens the text and shows Bo the text message.

Gou eat with us! We miss you a lot! You should bring Bo-chan along too!^^ Food tastes better with more people! Come to the roof!

-Nagisa

"He wants me to come too?" Bo says surprised.

"Do you want to? I mean if you aren't comfortable…"

"It's fine. I'll go. It's the only time I get to hang out with handsome guys." She says happily. Gou smiles and they pack up their stuff and went to the roof. They enter and see the swim club and Chigusa there.

"Gou!" Chiusa says happily. She gets up and hugs Gou. She looks over Gou's shoulder and glares at Bo but Bo shrugs her shoulders, not really caring and goes over to the swim team.

"You must be Bo-chan!" Nagisa shouts.

"Bo-chan?" Bo says puzzled.

"Yeah, come sit next to me!" Nagisa pats the ground between him and Haruka. Bo sees Haruka and starts to blush and hesitantly walks over to the spot and sits. "A friend of Gou's is a friend of ours!" The blonde boy said so happily. 'How is he so happy?' thought Bo.

Gou sits in between Rei and Makoto. She blushes as she sits there. Makoto turns his head as if he's embarrassed. Chigusa sits next to Gou and Rei and snuggles close to Rei, making him blush a little.

"So, why is Bo here?" Chigusa asks.

"I invited her! She has been hanging out with Gou a lot so why not let her join us." Nagisa answers. Rei starts to shiver uncontrollably. He pushes his glasses up and hesitantly sticks his hand out.

"its b-been a w-while Wa-Watanabe-san." He says with a crackly shaky voice. Bo gives him a long stare, making Rei even more nervous.

"Oh Ryugazaki! Wow couldn't even recognize you!" Bo says surprised.

"O-Oh really!"

"Yeah! I didn't recognize you because you haven't run away yet." Bo says laughing and finally shaking his hand. "Every time we come across each other you always ran away from me."

"How do you know each other?" Chigusa asks.

"We had class together last year." Rei answered.

"Really!" said Gou. Bo nods and smiles.

"He is super freaking smart. I swear he got all 100s for everything!" Bo praised, making Rei blush a little.

"Of course he does." Chigusa says in a snotty way. Bo rolls her eyes and continues eating her salmon.

"Nagisa stop eating my octopus hotdogs!" Rei scolds Nagisa.

"But I'm hungry Rei-chan!" Nagisa whines. As they fight, Gou takes the opportunity to talk to Makoto.

"So Makoto…it's a nice day." She said awkwardly. Makoto agrees and explains how it is a good day to practice.

"Hey." Haruka says to Bo. Bo turns her head and smiles at him.

"Hello."

"You like fish?" he asks. Bo nods and then they go into a big conversation on how fish is really good for you. After awhile of talking with Makoto, Chigusa asks Gou to talk to her privately.

"Why are you hanging out with that freak?" Chigusa asks sharply.

"Um…because I want to?" Gou said. She can't tell Chigusa about the curse. That will make being normal even harder.

"Well stop. She is going to ruin your reputation." She said.

"I don't have a reputation to protect. I don't even want one."

"Then stop hanging out with her or else you will get a reputation."

"Chigusa, you don't tell me who to hang out with. I do, so if you have problem with it then deal with it. I like Bo. She's is kind of different from the rumors. I mean some might be true but she is a really great person and-"

"Hahaha, really, you think she's great, haha. Oh Gou, you really don't get it. She is nothing but trash. She is the shit on the bottom of your shoe! She-"

"Shut up Chigusa!" Gou snaps. "I am tired of your trash. Gossips and believing rumors that don't have any evidence is shit. Chigusa you were so nice in junior high, what happened? You aren't the friend that I remembered. None of you are. Kairi, Hana, everyone has become bigger trash than actual trash. I'm done." Gou shouts and leaves the roof.

"Gou!" Makoto shouts as he catches up to Gou on the stairs. "What happened!? Are you okay!?" He grabs her arms and turns her towards him. His eyes widen at the sight of Gou crying. "Gou…"

"I'm sorry." She said as she sniffles. "I'm just…done with her shit you know? She has changed a lot. It's at the point where I don't see her anymore. All I see is this cold hearted bitch." Gou starts to cry even more. Then, Makoto pulls her to an embrace. He doesn't say anything but holds her very close to his muscular body. He rubs her head and gently kisses her forehead. Gou looks up at Makoto. His face was smiling lovingly at her. They look into each other eyes. Their faces got closer and closer. Their lips lightly touch each other giving them a feeling of light electricity, making their lips clash together. They clung to each other and their kisses became rougher and their breathing became more rugged. Eventually they slowly parted their lips away from each other.

"Makoto…" Gou says breathlessly.

"You sound so sexy right now." Makoto says as he places his forehead on hers. They laugh a little and slowly parted. Suddenly a big vibration struck, making the school shake. "Get down!" Makoto shouts and pushes her down to the ground. The ground shakes, making Gou scared. Makoto tightens his hold trying to comfort her. Finally it stops. "Was that an earthquake?"

"Hey take a look outside!" someone shouts. Gou and Makoto go towards the windows and see that some of the trees are destroyed. In front of the school was something written in mud. Gou takes a picture of it and sends it to Bo. Then the mud starts to move and then it goes into the ground.

"What the hell?" Makoto mumbles to himself.

"Gou!" a voice shouted. They turned around to see everyone running down the stairs. "Are you alright!?" Bo says worriedly.

"I'm fine."

"You sure? No bruises, scratches." Bo pesters.

"I am fine see!" Then everyone looks outside the window to see the destruction.

"Was it an earthquake?" Nagisa asks.

"I don't know." Rei answers. Then, Bo taps on Gou's shoulder and motions her to follow her. Gou follows her to the roof.

"Look at all that damage." said Gou as she leans over the railings, looking down at the destroyed court yard. "Did you see anything?"

"No but, I felt a vibe. I didn't get to see it because Haruka-senpai pushed me to the ground. How about you?"

"Me either. Did you get my text?"

"Yeah I did."

"Do you know what it says?"

"It seems ancient. I have to look it up."

"Do you know what this thing could be?" Bo was silent for a minute.

"It might be-" Bo starts to say till the door opened.

"Why are you guys up here?" Haruka asks.

"We were just getting our stuff." Bo lies easily. She grabs her stuff and heads to the door. "See you later." Then the bell rings notifying that lunch is over. Everyone came back and grabbed their stuff and went to their classrooms. Gou couldn't pay attention for the rest of the day. Her mind was stuck on the make out session with Makoto with the side of earthquakes and a written message in mud. 'Just what the hell is it?' Gou thought as she tunes everything out.