Anywayz, here it is! The Fourth chapter!
Chapter Four: Blind DateWhy did she have to kiss him? Of the entire stupid thing in the whole damn world, she had the nerve to kiss him. She had to kiss him!
Maybe some kind of unknown spirit had possessed her soul that instance. She couldn't even face him without blushing furiously. My, my, what had she put herself into now? What will he think now? That I'm helplessly in love with him! Well, that's true but still…!
She unconsciously slapped both of her cheeks as frustration builds within her. The guy sitting in front of her for once had miraculously stopped talking and stared curiously across from her.
"Is something the matter?"
Eri shamefully simpered and shook her head. He resumed his chat, which seems to include only himself. Some kind of a date this turned out to be.
She sighed in full irritation as she absent-mindedly stirred her drink with the straw. Her chin was resting on her left hand and her eyes shows pure boredom even though how she truly tries hard to remain interested to every bit of word her conceited date was babbling for about an hour or so. He just talked merely about himself and nothing more all throughout the date.
The guy was wearing that hideous smile you could only see on the face of an antagonist in a movie. Although she admits that he's a gentleman, he is also a conceited brat. Too bad.
"And I have this newly brought car given by my ever loving parents. My friends were really jealous of it even how much they tried to hide it. Maybe one of this days I'll show it to you when we…"
"Better not," she mumbled.
But he continued talking as if she had never spoken a word.
Where in the hell did Rina and Yuri found this guy?
"Don't worry, this one is more better and will definitely listen to your every word," Rina gushed as she playfully pushed her friend toward the entrance of a nice polished restaurant that was known for its expensiveness.
"It should be." She folded her arms on her chest. "Don't I have any right to say no?"
She knew that if she says no, her two sweet darling friends will still continue their very wonderful plan or might even kicked and pushed her inside.
Yuri laughed. "Don't get angry at me now, Eri. Its all Rina's plan not mine."
"I know that if I'll say no, you'll still drag me."
"Now, now, you're the one whose looking for your dream guy right? So what have you got to lose? It's just a date," Rina began to drag her towards the door. Just as she had expected.
She released her arms from her grasp. "Alright. I'll go there you don't have to push me."
She sighed inwardly as she pulled the door.
"Remember the guy in a purple polo and pink tie!" Rina added before Eri closed the door from their noses.
She took a last sip from her cold drink. Silence engulfed between her and her date, which turned out to be Hiroshi, who from what her friends told her, had a crush on her.
She glanced across the table at him who quickly shifted his gaze, his cheeks blushing a deep crimson from being caught of staring at her.
"So, uh, do you like the food?" he timidly asked her after a long silence.
She grinned. "Yup, thanks!"
He blushed again and remained silent.
Eri fidgeted from her seat, getting uncomfortable in every minute that passes by because of the long quiet atmosphere that surrounds them. Instead she asked, breaking the silence, "So how did my two little devil friends persuade you into this?"
He smiled. "Uh, they just ask me if I want to and well…I, uh…"
Eri laughed. "I could just imagine them. I'm really sorry about it."
"No, it's all right, really."
She smiled while silence pass their table once again until they finally turned to leave.
"Hello?"
The voice at the other end of the phone broke into a fit of laughter. "Sendoh-kun!"
Sendoh frowned, thinking it could be one of those pranks the girls in school do. Calling him for no real reason at all then will slam it down the moment he had spoken a word or two. "Who's this?"
"Already forgotten about me?" the voice whined then it giggled. "Its me, Masami!"
He frowned again until realization hits him. "Masami? Is it really you?"
"Of course dummy!"
Questions suddenly popped inside his head at this sudden call.
"What—? How come—? Why are you—?"
"Now don't get so excited," and she laughed at his astonishment. "I just called you to tell you that I'll be coming over there," she answered.
Sendoh blinked. "Here?"
"Yeah. I still didn't know if I'd continue my studies there or just pay a visit." And she said a little hastily, "Just pick me up on Saturday, alright? Got to go now!"
And then a busy signal filled his ears.
"Wow I didn't know that you look ravishingly beautiful," the guy named Rui, said as she walked down the escalator to meet her fourth blind date of the week.
Eri smiled politely, finally reaching him, she asked, "So what do we do today?"
"Hmm, perhaps a movie?"
They finally got themselves a seat and a couple of drinks and food. The opening credits finally flashed on the wide screen before them after their long wait.
Feeling comfy and relaxed, she focuses herself on the movie. It was between the movie that she felt his hand took hers and gripped it rather tightly.
Eri stared at him and it looks like he was deeply absorbed with the movie. She decided to pull her hand from his since they were not a couple yet. She started to yank her hand from his clasped however she didn't have any success.
So she gently asked, "Uh, can you please release my hand?"
Rui grinned beside her. "Relax. I will not do anything, if that's what you're afraid of," he answered back, rather sweetly.
Eri gritted her teeth. "Rui, I'm going to the toilet."
He glanced at her. His sweet tone changed into that of a perilous way. "I'll go with you then."
Fear suddenly creeps on her face. The way he was looking at her send jitters all over her body.
"You don't have to."
"No, I will."
Calm down Eri, inside her head she chanted just to ease herself. If she stayed here for another minute, she might ridiculously run out of the theater, screaming her head off. He really makes her feel creepy.
"No you will not," she got up to her feet, trembling. "And can you free my hand?" she demanded, glaring back at him ominously. She could hear shouts of protest and irritation behind her.
Rui finally freed her hand, which was stinging and red from his tight grip. Instead of going to the toilets, she stomped out of the room with her head boiling in wrath and her heart pumping with fear.
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