Corpse Party- Cheap and Used

Chapter Thirteen

"A boy?"

"Yes! A...a boy. He really pisses me off. So much. I want to slap him but at the same time I want to...hold his hand." Ayumi stared, her voice quivered slightly as she remembered his stupid face. She could feel her cheeks heat up, and that tingly feeling starting to come back.

The girl looked at Ayumi, smiling.

"Well go on!"

"God...he has this stupid smug smile, he's so conceited and he's rude to me. Then again I'm really mean to him as well. But that smile... and his really broad nice shoulders. I find myself thinking of him a lot. I should be mad at him but I find myself not being mad. I act mad, but I'm not mad at all." Ayumi shyly confessed, looking down at her hands and she intertwined them together, rocking back and forth on her feet.

"You like him." The girl smiled even more, getting all giddy. Ayumi cringed, realizing how jumpy this girl was, just like Mayu. But she was different, her excitement was genuine. She smiled more with her eyes than her mouth.

"I don't. I don't like people. I don't know okay. I've never felt this way before. Never."

"There's a first for everything though."

"It doesn't matter if I do like him. He doesn't like me."

"Hush. Don't be so negative. Tell me more about him."

"He has these such stunning eyes. It's not even because of the color. The way he raises his eyebrows at me, and when he widens his eyes and narrows them.. He just has such beautiful eyes." Ayumi explained with hand gestures, making the girl giggle from how lively she got from just thinking of this said boy.

"Ah, I have someone like that. We are best friends but...they like someone else."

Ayumi frowned. "That fucking sucks."

"Yes indeed-" The girl giggled to herself before deeply sighing. "It's very one sided, and it hurts to look at someone you love and you catch them looking at someone else and not you."

"You loved this person?"

"I still love 'em." She stated bitterly, tucking a strand of her short hair behind her ear.

"He suspended me though. He was really mad at me. He's been mad at me. I've apologized. I really am sorry. It's just that...he makes me feel so many things and I can't even act right. I get so mad, sad, but I'm happy to even be around him."

"He suspended you? Was he like a class rep?" The girl questioned, grabbing onto Ayumi's hand and leading her towards the building.

"Yeah he is..and he did..but I did nothing that bad!" She urged, awkwardly laughing. "It's...it's nothing I shouldn't have told you this-" Ayumi pulled away from the girl hesitantly.

"You're hours away from the school on foot. I can lie for you and say you're thinking of transferring. I'll say I promised to show you around the school." She sweetly smiled, making Ayumi melt.

"That's really...kind of you." Ayumi gasped out gently, feeling her heart twitch in confusion. She thought Mayu was kind, but this girl was just overly sweet. It wasn't sickening though.

"Can you tell me more about your love?" Asked Ayumi, marching in unison with the girl inside the school. Ayumi's eyes hovered over all the girls in matching uniform. She saw a banner hanging from the ceiling that read "St. Cruz Girls' High School"

"I would rather not. I'm not ready to talk about it. But trust me, they're the most amazing person on the planet."

Ayumi once again, felt eyes on her, but these eyes were more gentle. Like a group of deer surrounding her and sniffing her in the forest. It was pleasant and homely.

"The people here are much more nicer than the ones at Kisaragi." Ayumi pointed out, their footsteps echoing down the halls.

"I don't want to be rude but...your school is kind of uh, bad? It's full of very bad gangs. This is just an all girls school. There's an all boys school a few streets away from here."

"Oh." Ayumi smiled to herself, looking around the halls and seeing all the ornate, cutesy posters plastered around.

"I wonder how I would have turned out if I went here.." she started to picture herself in the turtleneck with the blazer, cringing. "I still wouldn't fit in.."

"Yes sensei- I'm helping her look around the campus. Yes, don't worry I won't scare her off." The petite girl chirped, waving off the teacher.

"I honestly don't even remember that teachers name." She giggled. "She's a really good woman though."

Ayumi snapped out of her thoughts, walking with the girl once again.

"I never got your name." Ayumi pointed out.

The green eyed girl giggled, shrugging. "Since you're barely telling me now, I think I'll keep it as a secret." She winked.

Ayumi blushed, smiling. She didn't know why but she felt reborn being at this school. Could she really transfer here? It most likely won't work in reality, but fantasies in her head always did.

"The school is three stories." The nameless girl snickered, hopping around as she led Ayumi. Countless girls waved at her, and at Ayumi as well. Giving them warm smiles and greetings.

"I wonder what Kisaragi is like." A girl quietly whispered to another. Ayumi continued to hear little comments and questions as the short girl in front of her led her into the music room. It was refreshing to hear side comments that were filled with curiosity and not hatred.

"Do you girls really not know much about Kisaragi?" Ayumi breathed out, walking into the music room as the sweet sound of a piano flooded her ears. There were two girls at the piano, and four girls in the back playing with guitars.

The green eyed girl nodded. "It is really far away, and we are in different cities. I would LOVE to go there though. I have some friends transferring there. I think it would be a good experience. I'd just have to get on the bus extra early."

Ayumi nodded, folding her arms and lightly tapping her foot to the tune being played on the guitars. "We do have a good program for the arts..and math and science. Many people just don't go because of the area and the popular rise of gangs."

The girl raised an eyebrow at Ayumi, smiling. "I didn't know you were such a wiz at that stuff. It seems as if you were interested in joining good schools with programs like that?"

Ayumi gulped hard, feeling sweat trickle down the back of her neck. "No, no of course not. I could care less about where I go."

The small girl lightly punched Ayumi's arm. "Come on. This isn't Kisaragi. I'm your friend now you can be honest."

"A friend.. yeah we are friends." Ayumi grinned, feeling those tingles reappear. "I would love to come here. I live far away from Kisaragi, I think I'm way closer to here, at least by car not on foot. Everyone's so sweet here."

The end of the day drew near, and Ayumi made a few friends. It was a bittersweet feeling to be in a happy moment and realizing it was about to end. All these girls were surrounding her, begging her to transfer and how fortunate they would be to have someone from a city away attending there.

"I really have to go-"

"Go where?" A tall girl frowned.

Ayumi's eyes went wide. She swallowed the lump in her throat as she realized, where would she go? Her home didn't feel like a home anymore.

"I just, have to go." Ayumi frowned, pivoting and biting her lip.

"Wait wait- let me take you to your home." The green eyed girl stuttered.

"I have no damn home." Ayumi sneered as she looked down at the hand around her wrist.

"Then come home with me. It's just me and a roommate. I live in an apartment not too far from here. Let me do this for you." She softly persuaded.

Ayumi looked at her with a pitiful glare, a look of defeat. She didn't want to be a burden, she didn't want to look weak, yet she refused to go back with Hinoe or to Yoshiki.

"Fine."

"Let's go home." The girl smiled sweetly to Ayumi as she lead her away from the crowd.

A/N: I'm sorry for being lazy with my updates. Ya girl has been in her feelings. I have a lot of love problems. And I guess the only time I update is when I'm in pain. Pain motivates me lmao.