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Chrono girl:Hi hi...I've still got tests...sigh...mother tongue aint easy when you've got spelling for 4 chapters and a test on the same week.Together with science,Thank goodness I'm done with geography and math why am I telloing you this?I havent a clue haha okay I'm trying to make this one longer realizing that my previous chapter turned out to be so measely.
Who's that girl? :Chapter 9
"Nii chan, do you have an extra towel? I can't seem to find mine." Kaeze called from the bathroom, her voice echoed through the hallway.
"Think its in the third drawer to your right."he shouted back.His voice was sort of sore. It usually turned out this way if he had been upset over something.It was like there was something stuffed up in his throat.
He suddenly got out of his seat as if it was some kind of natural reaction.He walked slowly to Kaeze's room and went in.He looked around the room.
'Where is it?' he wondered.
He noticed a bacpack on the floor near her desk and dug his hand into it and pulled out a leather notebook.He put it under the light of the hallway and the cover read: Kaeze's Address and phone number book.
'Yes..that's it."he thought, smiling to himself.
He flipped through it not knowing what he was looking for, he just had a feeling there was something to do with the phonebook.
There was a loose piece of paper sticking out from the top of the book and he took a peek at it.It wrote in big letters: Overseas calling, Mom and Dad.
He took the paper out and cramped it into the pocket of his jeans.
Not knowing what he was supposed to be looking for, he tapped on the book with irritation.
'Give me some kind of sign..."
"Nii Chan...Could I use this blue towel?"Kaeze shouted, she was still in the bath room.
"Use whatever you want! I don't care."he shouted back with annoyance.
'That's it,"he thought.Nii chan.Who else could that be but Sendoh.
He flipped to 'H'.For Home of course.
He quickly memorized the number and dashed out of the room as fast as he could so that Kaeze wouldnt find him there.(Well not really dashed but something like that)
He picked up the phone and dialed up Sendoh's number.
"Hello...Sendoh residence please leave a message after the tone,"went tthe answering machine.
'Ah...damn thing..might as well.'
"This is Rukawa.Please call me back as soon as you get this message.You are sooo dead if you don't."
Rukawa practically slammed down the phone in frustration.
Then he remembered his mom's number.'What if...?'
He dialed her number.
It was a while before she picked it up.
"Hello?"she asked sounding alittle grumpy.
Rukawa was silent.He wanted to listen to his mother the way he did before.
"Hello? Who's this? If you don't speak up now I'll hang up."
"It's me, Mom."he said in a sort of whisper.
"Akira? Is that you?"
"Its me Mom..Kaede."
"Kaede?Is there something wrong? Did something happen to your sister?"
He waited for a while, just listening to her words.Something wrong?To my sister?
She shows so much affection.My sister, she called Kaeze my sister...she still regards me as her son.
"Nothing's wrong Mom.I just needed...I...I wanted to talk to you."It was so hard for him to say it because he never believed in telling anybody anything.And now here he was, pouring out everything to a woman whom he had just seen for a couple of shocking seconds.He could still remember her face though.
She looked young and her raven hair just like his.If he looked in the mirror he could see a part of her in him.
"Kaede, please make it quick.An overseas call isn't cheap."
"Don't hang up yet...it won't take long I promise."He sounded so desperate.
"Alright, what's up dear?"When he heard her call him 'dear' it brought him back to the many times when he was younger when he wished that someone would call him that.Something 'Dear' to them.He'd envy the other children who got all their parents' attention. Calling then cute names and showing how much they loved them.It wasn't fair.It just wasn't.
"Mom....I..........."
"Kaede? Is there something wrong?"
"I love you."
There was a silence between them.And for that moment,Rukawa thought his Mom just fainted or something. It kind of scared him.
He could hear soft sobbing over the phone.He pressed the phone closer to his ear.'What have I done?'
"Don't cry...please don't..."he whispered in the most comforting way he possibly could.
Then there was nothing more.She had hung up on him.
'I've been rejected.'he thought with a sigh.But deep down inside, he felt like someone had ripped out his heart and stepped on it.
He rubbed his eyes and felt the unwanted tears come down.
'What's this? I'm crying? That's impossible...I can't allow it to happen. Can't let my emotions take over me.'
"RING...RING.."went the phone and it interrupted his thoughts.
Rukawa picked up the phone.
"Hello? Rukawa residence."he said in a bitter voice.
"Rukawa, did you call?"the familiar voice asked.
'Gawd...why'd he have to call now?'
"Yeah...look, Sendoh,I need a really big favour."
"HAHAA.....okay...that's a good one.So what did you really call for?"
"I'm serious...i really need you to do something for me."
"Alright.What is it?"
"Call Fujima, ask him to be at the skating ring at 7 tomorrow."
"I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Because...well...he's Kaeze's boyfriend and he's a one of those basketball guys and he's a guy I only call girls."
"Geez...what's the matter with you? Just call him will you."
"Why don't you do it?"
"I can't...he thinks I'm Kaeze's boyfriend and he's angry and..."
"Wait wait wait.....what's this you say? He thought that.."
"Look you just call him alright. I need to go."
And he hung up the phone.
'Now to get Kaeze to go skating tomorrow.'he thought feeling quite satisfied with himself for building up courage to do 2 very hard things like calling up Sendoh and his Mom.
He knocked on the bathroom door.
"I'll be out soon!" Kaeze called from inside.
She opened the door and Rukawa's stomach did a little flip flop.
Kaeze had on a robe and her hair was wrapped up in a towel in a shape of a hive.
He couldn't help but grin.He had never seen anyone dress like that before.
"What's so funny?" she asked raising her eyebrow.
"Nothing's funny but don't you think you're wearing a little too little and what did you do to your hair."He said.
"You call this little? I'm practically covered up from head to toe.literally."she said pointing to her waxed legs and arms.
"So what's it for?"he asked tugging on the waxy substance.
"Oww...don't do that.It removes hair from your skin."
"Really?"Rukawa crossed his arms and his grin grew even wider.
"Does Sendoh use it?"he asked with sudden interest.
Kaeze wrinkle her nose and thought for a while.
"No...I don't think he does,however I did do it to him once when he was asleep.Did it to his right leg and for the next few basketball practices he refused to wear shorts."she laughed.
"Oh man...and you call me mean."he said thinking about how embarrassing it was for sendoh to be leg bald.
'That's so gay...'he thought.
"Anyway..."he said following her to her room.
"Turn around,"she said as she pulled on a pair of shorts.
He closed his eyes and plopped down on her bed.
"I was just wondering it you wanted to go ice skating tomorrow."he continued.
"I'd love that."she squealed in excitment.
"Great...can I open my eyes yet?"
"Yeah...thanks for asking..I really wanted to go."
End of chapter 9
Chrono girl:Hi hi...I've still got tests...sigh...mother tongue aint easy when you've got spelling for 4 chapters and a test on the same week.Together with science,Thank goodness I'm done with geography and math why am I telloing you this?I havent a clue haha okay I'm trying to make this one longer realizing that my previous chapter turned out to be so measely.
Who's that girl? :Chapter 9
"Nii chan, do you have an extra towel? I can't seem to find mine." Kaeze called from the bathroom, her voice echoed through the hallway.
"Think its in the third drawer to your right."he shouted back.His voice was sort of sore. It usually turned out this way if he had been upset over something.It was like there was something stuffed up in his throat.
He suddenly got out of his seat as if it was some kind of natural reaction.He walked slowly to Kaeze's room and went in.He looked around the room.
'Where is it?' he wondered.
He noticed a bacpack on the floor near her desk and dug his hand into it and pulled out a leather notebook.He put it under the light of the hallway and the cover read: Kaeze's Address and phone number book.
'Yes..that's it."he thought, smiling to himself.
He flipped through it not knowing what he was looking for, he just had a feeling there was something to do with the phonebook.
There was a loose piece of paper sticking out from the top of the book and he took a peek at it.It wrote in big letters: Overseas calling, Mom and Dad.
He took the paper out and cramped it into the pocket of his jeans.
Not knowing what he was supposed to be looking for, he tapped on the book with irritation.
'Give me some kind of sign..."
"Nii Chan...Could I use this blue towel?"Kaeze shouted, she was still in the bath room.
"Use whatever you want! I don't care."he shouted back with annoyance.
'That's it,"he thought.Nii chan.Who else could that be but Sendoh.
He flipped to 'H'.For Home of course.
He quickly memorized the number and dashed out of the room as fast as he could so that Kaeze wouldnt find him there.(Well not really dashed but something like that)
He picked up the phone and dialed up Sendoh's number.
"Hello...Sendoh residence please leave a message after the tone,"went tthe answering machine.
'Ah...damn thing..might as well.'
"This is Rukawa.Please call me back as soon as you get this message.You are sooo dead if you don't."
Rukawa practically slammed down the phone in frustration.
Then he remembered his mom's number.'What if...?'
He dialed her number.
It was a while before she picked it up.
"Hello?"she asked sounding alittle grumpy.
Rukawa was silent.He wanted to listen to his mother the way he did before.
"Hello? Who's this? If you don't speak up now I'll hang up."
"It's me, Mom."he said in a sort of whisper.
"Akira? Is that you?"
"Its me Mom..Kaede."
"Kaede?Is there something wrong? Did something happen to your sister?"
He waited for a while, just listening to her words.Something wrong?To my sister?
She shows so much affection.My sister, she called Kaeze my sister...she still regards me as her son.
"Nothing's wrong Mom.I just needed...I...I wanted to talk to you."It was so hard for him to say it because he never believed in telling anybody anything.And now here he was, pouring out everything to a woman whom he had just seen for a couple of shocking seconds.He could still remember her face though.
She looked young and her raven hair just like his.If he looked in the mirror he could see a part of her in him.
"Kaede, please make it quick.An overseas call isn't cheap."
"Don't hang up yet...it won't take long I promise."He sounded so desperate.
"Alright, what's up dear?"When he heard her call him 'dear' it brought him back to the many times when he was younger when he wished that someone would call him that.Something 'Dear' to them.He'd envy the other children who got all their parents' attention. Calling then cute names and showing how much they loved them.It wasn't fair.It just wasn't.
"Mom....I..........."
"Kaede? Is there something wrong?"
"I love you."
There was a silence between them.And for that moment,Rukawa thought his Mom just fainted or something. It kind of scared him.
He could hear soft sobbing over the phone.He pressed the phone closer to his ear.'What have I done?'
"Don't cry...please don't..."he whispered in the most comforting way he possibly could.
Then there was nothing more.She had hung up on him.
'I've been rejected.'he thought with a sigh.But deep down inside, he felt like someone had ripped out his heart and stepped on it.
He rubbed his eyes and felt the unwanted tears come down.
'What's this? I'm crying? That's impossible...I can't allow it to happen. Can't let my emotions take over me.'
"RING...RING.."went the phone and it interrupted his thoughts.
Rukawa picked up the phone.
"Hello? Rukawa residence."he said in a bitter voice.
"Rukawa, did you call?"the familiar voice asked.
'Gawd...why'd he have to call now?'
"Yeah...look, Sendoh,I need a really big favour."
"HAHAA.....okay...that's a good one.So what did you really call for?"
"I'm serious...i really need you to do something for me."
"Alright.What is it?"
"Call Fujima, ask him to be at the skating ring at 7 tomorrow."
"I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Because...well...he's Kaeze's boyfriend and he's a one of those basketball guys and he's a guy I only call girls."
"Geez...what's the matter with you? Just call him will you."
"Why don't you do it?"
"I can't...he thinks I'm Kaeze's boyfriend and he's angry and..."
"Wait wait wait.....what's this you say? He thought that.."
"Look you just call him alright. I need to go."
And he hung up the phone.
'Now to get Kaeze to go skating tomorrow.'he thought feeling quite satisfied with himself for building up courage to do 2 very hard things like calling up Sendoh and his Mom.
He knocked on the bathroom door.
"I'll be out soon!" Kaeze called from inside.
She opened the door and Rukawa's stomach did a little flip flop.
Kaeze had on a robe and her hair was wrapped up in a towel in a shape of a hive.
He couldn't help but grin.He had never seen anyone dress like that before.
"What's so funny?" she asked raising her eyebrow.
"Nothing's funny but don't you think you're wearing a little too little and what did you do to your hair."He said.
"You call this little? I'm practically covered up from head to toe.literally."she said pointing to her waxed legs and arms.
"So what's it for?"he asked tugging on the waxy substance.
"Oww...don't do that.It removes hair from your skin."
"Really?"Rukawa crossed his arms and his grin grew even wider.
"Does Sendoh use it?"he asked with sudden interest.
Kaeze wrinkle her nose and thought for a while.
"No...I don't think he does,however I did do it to him once when he was asleep.Did it to his right leg and for the next few basketball practices he refused to wear shorts."she laughed.
"Oh man...and you call me mean."he said thinking about how embarrassing it was for sendoh to be leg bald.
'That's so gay...'he thought.
"Anyway..."he said following her to her room.
"Turn around,"she said as she pulled on a pair of shorts.
He closed his eyes and plopped down on her bed.
"I was just wondering it you wanted to go ice skating tomorrow."he continued.
"I'd love that."she squealed in excitment.
"Great...can I open my eyes yet?"
"Yeah...thanks for asking..I really wanted to go."
End of chapter 9