Utagaibukai
Peach Girl Fanfiction by Yohko.

Chapter Four: Slow Torture

"You're lying!" Sae shot her accusing finger at Kairi.
"I swear, I'm not!" Kairi put his hands up in defense.
"That doesn't sound like something Momo would do," Toji didn't believe Kairi either.
"I wouldn't think so either, but I know what I saw. I even took her home!" Kairi fought to prove he was right.
"Why the heck would she do something like that!?" Sae was getting madder.
"If I knew, I wouldn't be asking!" Kairi fought against Sae.
"Well, we don't know either Kairi, so it's useless." Toji said calmy.
"How can you be so calm about this?" Kairi asked suspiciously.
"What's THAT suppose to mean?" Toji asked, now mad.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say you didn't care."
Toji grabbed Kairi's shirt collar and pushed him up against the lockers. "I probably give more of a damn than you do, Okayasu. You better watch it."
Kairi pushed Toji's hands off casually and moved up to Toji's face. "No, YOU better watch it." He gave a small push in counter to the one Toji gave him and started walking away.
Toji made fists and growled lightly, "He's asking for it."
"Tell me about it!" Sae yelled, walking towards her locker. "I don't know what Momo sees in him."

FORTH PERIOD = Gym Class
"Hey Toji~!" Chi stepped up to Toji as he caught a volleyball that was being passed to him. She wore her blue shorts and white shirt, more commonly known as the school gym class uniform.
"Hey Chi," Toji responded as he passed the ball to someone else.
"A penny for your thoughts," Chi said smiling.
"Why do you ask?" Toji took a break from the game and walked to a chair where he had his water bottle.
"Well, today you've been looking... I don't know, lost in thought."
Toji took a gulp of his water and didn't look at Chi. "it's nothing."
"Are you sure?" Chi was obviously not convinced.
"Yeah, don't worry about it."
Sae was keeping her suspicious eye on Toji and Chi talking. As if trying to read their lips. Ever since Chi came to their school, she's been Sae's worse enemy. Some of the boys were starting to like Chi more than her! Sae had to get Toji away from her, but how? Suddenly she ran towards them.
"Hey Sae," Toji said to her.
"Hi Sae," Chi said.
Sae wrapped her arms around Toji's left arm and smiled up at him, totally ignoring Chi without even glancing. "Hey Hun!"
"Huh?" Toji looked at Sae strangely.
"Um, I'll see you later Toji" Chi said as she waved and walked away.
"What is up with you, Sae?" Toji asked while trying to get his arm back.
"Toji, do you think Kairi was telling the truth about Momo?" she changed the subject.
Toji looked down at Sae, somewhat surprised by the question. He shrugged, "I don't know." Taking another gulp of his water, while thinking. He had been thinking about it all day and still ended up with the same question. What could possibly make Momo act that way?

FIFTH PERIOD = Math Class
"Adachi...? Adachi...?"
"Momo isn't here today, sir." Kairi spoke while raising his hand.
"Oh right, her mother called." The teacher wrote something on Momo's attendance card and then continued calling out names. When he was finished, he wrote out some page numbers on the blackboard and spoke as he wrote. "Everyone open up to last night's homework and please take out your math assignments and pass them to the front." There was some discussion among students and paper being shuffled as the papers slowly made their way to the teacher's desk.
"Alright moving on," the teacher continued, "could everyone please open up to page 265 in your intermediate mathematics text book. Today we'll be reviewing the entire chapter and the test will be this Friday."
There were sounds of books being opened, papers being shuffled, and students groaning and complaining about the day the test had fallen on.
"Not the same day as the test, sir." one girl with pink short hair protested.
"Come now, this way you'll have nothing to worry about over the weekend."
"I have like, all these appointments to go to. I don't have time to like, study!" Another girl said after taking a break from nail fileing. She was pretty and one of Kairi's preps; skirts too short and way to much make-up.
"First Cindy, spit out the gum. Second, you never study for tests anyway!"
The prep, Cindy, got up from her seat. She spat out her gum and sat back down, "I study! Just not a lot because that can like, cause wrinkles and your eye muscles strain which would look really, really, really bad. Especially before the dance."
"Today's work," the teacher continued, ignoring Cindy's little speech, "you'll have to do all of pages 265 to 267. Today is Wednesday so we'll take it up tomorrow so you can review it the night before the test. Now, get started on today's work. Ash, I'd like to see you out in the hall about your math assignments."
Someone hummed funeral music as the student at the very back of the class got up and walked to the front. His pants hanging down to his knees as he smiles, trying to look calm. Walking outside to the hallway as the teacher closed the door behind him.
At that moment, everyone turned around to talk to the other classmates. Kairi looked at his textbook and then started to get to work. Ash and the teacher walk back inside the class as everyone goes back to their original seats.
"Now then," the teacher began, "we'll start with the beginning of the unit..."
As the teacher talked gibberish about what they had learned during that unit, Kairi paid close attention. After a few moments of hearing stuff he already knew, Kairi's thoughts started to wander and boredom got the best of him. Kairi found himself looking at the empty desk to his left. The seat that usually had a very bored looking Momo sitting in it, doodling on her binder, awaiting to get poked with Kairi's pen. No one even noticed the sigh that he had let out. He didn't even notice it.
"I wonder," Chi thought as she watched Kairi. He was looking as if he was daydreaming while looking at Momo's seat. 'Momo Adachi... She's the other girl that Toji hangs out with so much. I wonder if that's why he was so spacey today. Her absence... I wonder if something is wrong with her.'
Before Kairi or Chi knew it, the bell rang and class was dismissed.

'Wow, I never realized how fascinating the ceiling bumps can be.'
Momo lay under her puffy bed sheets in her comfortable bed. She just lay there, staring straight up at the ceiling. 'too quiet.' The sound of the front door opening and closing, followed by the garage door opening and closing. Momo waited a few minutes in silence before jumping up from bed and throwing her bed sheets to the floor.
"Finally! She left!"
Running down the stairs and to the kitchen, Momo immediately invaded the cupboards. Grabbing anything that looked good and setting it on the counter. When Momo realized it was still mourning. 'damn,' she thought, 'and that double fudge chocolate cookie dough with chocolate chips ice cream was looking so tempting.' Momo slowly put more than half the stuff she grabbed away and then walked to the counter chairs. There was a little note in her mother's neat hand writing taped to the television screen. Momo took it off and read it aloud.
"Momo, I had to go to work and I'm sorry I didn't say goodbye but you were asleep. Yadda yadda yadda, be sure to eat and take some Advil. I'll be home later, but I'll call to check up. Love, Mom."
Momo tossed the note away and grabbed the television remote.
"Springer, Springer, Montel, the psychic hotline... Gotta love cable."
Settling on Ricki Lake, Momo grabbed some chocolate covered cereal and started eating.
::Today on Ricki, "I like you, get a clue!"::
"Arg!"

A FEW HOURS LATER
"Alright, I've finished my Science Assignment, re-did my Math Assignment (due today), I finished my writing assignment and now I can't think of what to do!"
Momo sat back in her chair as she sat in her desk in her bedroom. The slipper from her right foot slipped off and fell on the floor. She uncrossed her legs and slid her foot back in. "I guess I'll type out the writing assignment."
Walking to the basement of Momo's house, she passed a mirror and saw herself. Her long hair, messy and still dusty from yesterday. She stood in her pajamas, a gray, baggy, cotton t- shirt and long, baggy, gray cotton pants. Followed by her purple slippers. Walking away from the figure in the mirror, Momo turned the power on her computer. She hardly used the computer, let alone the Internet access.
"Might as well," Momo decided as she logged onto MSN Messenger. Twenty-One new emails. "Damn you Sae and your stupid chain letters!"
"After deleting most of them, Momo got to work of typing out her Assignment. Just a short story she had to right, she practically had it memorized already.
While it was printing out, Momo ran her hair through her hair.
"Ewww, I better take a shower.".
Momo looked at the clock.
"After lunch" she grinned.

After a meal of homemade pasta followed by that special ice cream, television had failed to show its usefulness once again as Momo settled on some cartoons. It had been awhile since she watched television, let alone cartoons. "Sailor Moon at twelve, Digimon at twelve thirty and Pokémon at one." Momo blinked, "I know Sailor Moon, but what the hell is Digimon and Pokémon?"
Sailor Moon was good, as usual. Usagi and Mamoru still didn't know about their pasts, so Momo didn't have to look at any lovey dovey crap. Because that's what it was. Crap. Digimon was pretty interesting, but Pokémon was unbearable and way to annoying for Momo's taste. What ever happen to the good shows, like Astro Boy, Jem and the Holograms, Inspector Gadget, or Under the Umbrella Tree? "Kids these days."

"Face it Momo, you're just trying to beat around the sac." Momo looked at her reflection in the mirror. "Get over him, it's not worth it." Sighing heavily, Momo continued, "Don't you think I've tried? It's hard, he's just so... so... so caring loving? Yes, I'm sure he was caring when he ditched you and asked the more prettier girl to the dance. But Toji's not like that!" Frustrated, Momo plopped down on her bed and stared at the ceiling again. Minutes felt like hours, as all she did was stare at the ceiling and think.
"Damn it! This is like slow torture!!" she yelled. Momo buried her head in her pillow. "Cruel and unusual punishment!!"