XXI

"I won't tell anyone… What is it?"

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"I want to tell you, I'm L!"

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"Aughhhhhh! My ass is aching already!" complained Millie, after we exited the ceremony and stood at Toh- Oh's entrance "And if it wasn't enough, you had to play chit-chat with those losers!"

"Can't anyone be nice nowadays?!" I complained with a bored expression on my face

"Hey, I can't see any of our gentlemen anywhere!" said Rena looking around with wide eyes

"But it isn't hard to find new gentlemen!" said Millie patting Rena's shoulder energetically, while she blushed a little

"Hey, isn't that Nobu-san?" I pointed towards a boy who was hanging a poster on the warning board

"Ummmmm, you guys go see him, alright?" said Millie releasing Rena and walking away towards the main entrance

"Millie…" I called, but then I decided not to insist

I believe he had some feelings for her, but because she didn't share those feelings she was choosing to step away from him to avoid hurting him badly. Time is always the solution for dilemmas, no matter what you choose to do. At least it's how I see it.

"Nobu-san!" yelled Rena heading towards him

As I sped up to join them he greeted us both with that warm smile that made him famous in the campus.

"Hello you two! Long time no see…" he said when we reached him

"Where were you sitting?" asked Rena

"During the ceremony? Oh, I was near the exit, because I had to put these posters on every corner of the school!"

I looked at the poster and saw what I always had in mind since I imagined College life: entering the drama club!

"Can I tell you that I'm one of the ones willing to enter?"

"I remember you saying that on your birthday… So, first new member, mind if I tell you about the schedule later?"

"Yes…"

"Just give me your name, and let me write you down…" he said taking out a paper from his pocket and a pen

"Minamoto Seira-dese!" I replied

"Right then, Minamoto-chan!" he said smiling gently to me

I found myself blushing a little, but then I coughed to disguise.

"Where's Light-kun?" asked Rena calling immediately my attention "He should be out of the ceremony by now…"

"His cell is shut down…" I commented a little confused as I tried to send him a ring "Strange…"

"Well, I'm going to have some tea in the cafeteria! Care to join me ladies?" said Nobu placing an arm on Rena's shoulder in a friendly way

"You guys go, I'll check this place out…" I replied with a humble smile

"Don't get lost!" said Nobu winking to me as I walked away and waved towards them

A little while after that, I was chilling out in a garden bench, while the cold wind blew and refreshed my face and neck. The campus wasn't certainly a reply of Hogwarts, but the place sure had beautiful installations, and a lot of vegetation around.

"What is your curiously strange head thinking?" asked Ryuk while fluttering around me

"In so many things per second… If I had to name them all we would be here talking until the next dawn."

"Isn't it what we usually did… when we first met?"

"Our first complex conversation we both had…" I said smiling to him

The turns my life had given: the relationship with daddy had gotten better, one of the persons on my dark list was now one of the persons who I trusted the most, the people I met were really nice, the boy I loved was now my beloved one…

I thought of my life as a sequence of stations: Was I now in spring?

"Hey doll, I think you've got company!" said Ryuk breaking away my pleasant thoughts

"Huh?" I looked instinctively to my right and saw that the person standing there was…

"Domo… Ryuga-san!"

"Domo Minamoto-san…" replied Ryuga disguising his shyness

I smiled to him to hide my surprise in seeing him there. And where was Light? Wasn't he with him?

"Taking an afternoon walk?"

"Yeah, I wanted to know the place a little better…"

I liked the humble voice he showed. Only it didn't make him look less shy.

"So you also had the max grade in the exams… You and Light… Tow braniacs with whom I have to share the school now!"

He smiled with my compliment. It looked good on him. Most girls would find him cutter if he always had that expression on his face. I bet they would!

"So, it seems you two are…" he said trying not to butt in very much

"Yes…" I replied with a sigh that showed how happy I was whenever someone asked about me and him

"For long?"

"Not that long… it was good though that we started out as friends…"

"You seem to share a lot of confidence towards each other…"

"I can tell him everything I want… No matter how silly it may sound."

I was feeling a warm sensation on my chest as I talked about him.

"What about him? Does he tell you everything he wants?"

"Ummmm…" I said because that question had caught me a little by surprise "I believe so…"

"You're not sure of that?"

I looked down and then rose my head up.

"He knows, though that he can tell me everything. Everything!"

When I looked into his eyes I felt that sensation that I felt when I first met him. It was like he was reading my soul, and that what he was reading was reflected in those dark intense eyes: A girl in love. But was that girl feeling safe with her love? Or was she afraid something would happen to tear them apart?

For the first time I noticed that I was more open with him than he was with me. I won't hide the fact that it left me a little bothered.

But before we could talk further, I felt a hand grabbing my right wrist and rising me up quickly.

Light had arrived.

"Come on, Seira let's go! Thank you for taking care of her, Ryuga-san!"

Ryuga just looked at him like the same way he was looking at him when he was walking with him to speech.

For moments I saw the same gaze being shared between the two. And it wasn't a friendly look. I tried to release myself from Light's grip, but he held me like he was guarding my life.

"It's okay… We were just talking casual business, right Minamoto-san?"

"Ye-Yeah…" I said

A strange feeling was invading my chest. It was like the tension shared between the two was linked by me.

But why? Had something bad happened without me knowing?

Ryuk was looking at the scene with amusement, and confusion. I looked at him discreetly with fear and confusion stamped on my face.

"Let's go…" said Light taking me like a mother leading a child by the hand

As we walked through the streets, I laid my hand on his shoulder, and my free hand on my aching chest. It was a bad feeling. I knew it.

At the entrance of my apartment, he made me stood face to face with him.

After releasing my wrist, he held me in his arms. I didn't hug back, though. There was something strange in that somewhat profound embrace.

"Be careful… Please be careful…"

I didn't count the number of times he whispered that into my hair. I only know fear was there. Present in his voice.

He released me, when I was getting ready to hug him back. I looked at him feeling strange. He turned his back towards me, but didn't walk away.

"Why?" I ended up asking

He lowered his head, and sighed heavily.

I also didn't count the time we just stood there, looking to our feet. And then I just watched him walk away as the wind made my hair and my dress flutter. But it was that cold winter-like wind. The sensation in my chest worsened.

What was there to him… that I didn't know? What did he knew… that I didn't?

And what was it... that he didn't want to tell me?