No. It's still true no matter how many times I say it.

Chapter What: Three Important Words

Alternate Title: No, not those ones.


Kanako Miyamae left Ame-no-Kisaki single, and though she was saddened by the lack of romance (and abundance of pain) in her high school life, she still had hope for the future. After all, a woman's romantic life is bound to be born in college, right?

That hope was quickly crushed with three words, whispered into her ear by her roommate and sworn enemy of two years, Mariya Shidou.

'Wait for me.'

Kanako sighed as she found herself pondering the meaning of those words once again. She was supposed to be walking to the dorms, not dwelling on some words her old rival mumbled to her one or two years ago.

Unlike the rooms of Girl's Dorm 2, Kanako loved living in the college dorms. A bedroom, kitchen and bathroom all to herself! No interaction with the other residents! No roommate!

Smiling as she dwelled on the joys of living alone, Kanako opened the door wide-

-Before slamming it shut.

'No, no, no!' Kanako wailed mentally. 'It's not possible!'

Surely, surely she was hallucinating. Perhaps two years of suffering had traumatized the blue-eyed woman to the point of having flashbacks. Yes, yes, that was surely it.

Because not even Mariya would be cruel enough to continue to torture her long after her two years had passed, right? So it was impossible for Mariya Shidou, blonde hair pulled into a high ponytail and wearing a frilly pink dress, to be standing in her room.

Right?

Slowly, with the sense that she was opening the door to a tiger's cage, Kanako opened the door.

And was greeted with the sight of Mariya, his hair in a ponytail and a pink frilly dress, sitting on a bed that was not there the previous morning.

The blonde gave his former roommate an innocent smile (but of course his true intentions were nowhere near innocent), greeting Kanako with a cheery, "Welcome back, Kanako!"

Kanako screamed.


Kanako Miyamae had a roommate.

Every day after classes were over, she would talk to her roommate until dusk, get help with her homework, and eat snacks with her roommate.

Kanako hated it.

Every homework tip was delivered with sarcasm and insults. ("Everything is incorrect, not surprising considering it's you," Mariya said as he covered Kanako's scribbles with neat cursive. )

Every conversation was basically a back-and-forth of put-downs that never truly hurt the other person, the two too used to their habits to feel pain from silly insults anymore. ( "Pervert." "Asshole." "Idiot." "Satan.")

Every snack was ... well, they were delicious, but the fact that it was Mariya giving them to her was enough reason to doubt and fear for her life, so fear and doubt she did. ("Is this poisoned?" Kanako asked suspiciously as she examined the dessert. Mariya sighed, "Of course not, dumbass." )

She thought she was free of Mariya's tyranny the moment she left Ame-no-Kisaki. Mariya was cruel enough to prove her wrong.

Kanako's irritation only grew when she asked Mariya why he follow her to another school and another town when he should have been running a school, and her only answer was,

"Simple. I lost," Mariya paused, before spitting out, "Now fuck off."

But the raven-haired girl didn't know that, underneath the layer of barbed wire and flames of Mariya's facade, there was a layer of fondness and warmth and kindness, hiding away the true meaning of Mariya's words.

'I love you, so why the hell would I let you get away?'

...well, it was sort of kind and fond, I guess...


It is 10: 11 pm, and I'm about to be kicked out of the youth center, but at least I got the chapter finished! Yay!

Camping is hard. And tiring. I never want to volunteer at a camp ever again.

Anyways, I wanted to ask. In the process of writing this story, a bunch of ideas were scrapped and replaced. I was wondering if anyone was interested in reading about some of the ideas that died in the writing process.

I'll turn it into a poll later. Right now I just want to sleep.

Good night/day/whatever, and see you next update!

Addition: 07/23/2015

Never mind, no poll. Please just leave your answer in the reviews, because I can't understand the instructions due to my current state of lack of sleep.

Good day/night/whatever, see you next update, and I have to go before 11, because they're going to kick me out!