His eyes narrowed infuriatingly at the girl sitting at the sideline of the public court. He suddenly felt very troubled and quite agitated at her silent disposition, watching him quietly unlike the other girls in his school that would scream until their throats went sore.
She was always there, always before him every morning. Then when he would shot her his coldest glare, she returned it with a smile.
Rukawa Kaede snorted as he did a crossover dribble. He doesn't care whoever she is as long as she kept her nose to herself. He swiftly run to the end of the court, his eyes focused on the basket alone. Fast as a lightning, he made a quick maneuver and dashed towards the basket, perfecting a graceful lay-up.
The girl could only clapped her hands.
Rukawa brushed the sweat on his forehead. He gazed at her at the corner of his eye, utterly disputing her existence. But deep within him, a very peculiar feeling aroused. A feeling he never had before. It seems like he had seen this girl, as if he knew her the moment he first laid his eyes on her that morning.
He shook his head. That could never happen though.
"Oh my goodness!" Rina exclaimed as she and Yuri poked their heads from a corner and stared at the two people standing in a dark corner. "I couldn't bring myself to believe this! This is mortifying! This is a crime! This is murdering a person's heart!"
She then turned to her companion. "We've got to stop this, Yuri! This is totally unjust! I couldn't let this happen!" and she sprang to her feet.
Yuri hastily grabbed her arm and pulled her back to their hiding place. "He can do whatever he wants to do, Rina. And besides we don't have any right of barging into other people's business."
Rina snorted. "I don't care. But what will happen to Eri then! So we have every right to stop this!"
She shook her head. "Rina, what if Sendoh feels the same way to that girl then? We shouldn't just go there and pulled him out of that girl's arms."
The other slumped back and folded her arms in ire. "Alright then. But what if Eri finds out, huh? What if she finds out?"
"What will I found out?" Eri suddenly walked over to her two friends who were unusually hunched back behind a row of lockers. The two jumped at the sound of her voice. "What in the heaven's name you two are doing there?"
Rina bit her lips and whispered, "What should we do?"
Beside her, Yuri paled. "Just block the view from her sight," and Rina nodded, doing what she had told her.
Eri had a big smile on her face and her eyes sparkled quite unnaturally as she hugged her friends. "You wouldn't believe what I will tell you!"
Yuri smiled. "What is it? Did you win a lottery?"
Their friend smiled even harder that it seems her lips will reach her ears if she smile even more. "Better than that."
"Hehe," Rina croaked weakly. "What is it then?"
Eri laughed. "I will tell you unless you tell me what is it I should find out?" she leaned over to Rina's shoulders that quickly moved to block the view behind her. "You're hiding something from me, ne?"
Rina grinned feebly at her. "Of course not! How could we hide something from you? We're friends, right?" and she nudged Yuri's arm for help.
"Yeah, right. We're friends and friends don't hide anything from each other," she supplied and bit her lip. I am the worst hypocrite ever.
Eri narrowed her eyes at them and decided to leave it all behind. The two grinned like a couple of idiots as she began to turn around. But not fully anticipating it, Eri quickly turned back and dashed behind Rina.
And she paled.
The girl across the room smiled triumphantly at her as she walked with her hand rested on the arm of her prince. She just kept her chin up, knowing that her prince loved her dearly.
Or does he?
The thought played itself on her head as she stared at the girl dance with her prince in the middle of the floor as the orchestra started to play songs. Cannot bear to watch the two of them, she stood up from the sofa and headed to the balcony with downcast eyes.
Does he?
She stared up the sky and to the stars that seemed to form pictures before her. She sighed. Instead of hearing the 'Can I have this dance,' she heard nothing. Her prince didn't come for her—
THWACK
"Hey what was that for?" she exclaimed, glaring hard at the blue-eyed quiet dream guy of hers. She gently massaged her cheeks where a huge round mark of a ball can be seen which that blue-eyed dream guy of hers had earlier threw at her face. "That really hurts, you know," she mumbled.
Eri, however didn't felt the pain for the pain inside her was much more unbearable. Who wouldn't be, when you felt you were betrayed by someone you loved. She sighed.
"You're starting to look funny," he muttered. He flapped his hands at her face impatiently.
"WHAT?" she cried out furiously, still glaring at him.
"The ball."
And her face fell, "Oh." She took the ball from her side and gave it to him. He was still standing there, staring at her like a statue with its eyes coming to life all of a sudden. She could feel her skin tingled. "What now?"
He snorted and walked away, whispering, "Baka." First there was a do'ahou and now there's a baka. He sighed inwardly.
Eri just stared at his retreating back. "You just didn't know the feeling of loving someone and then being betrayed, huh? Maybe you only cared about that game of yours, but it really hurts. When you gave your all, when you showed him your best and yet he still didn't notice you. As if you were never there," he stopped and she felt humiliated at herself. "Silly old me, pouring my feelings at you, someone whose a total stranger."
"Baka."
"I have a name you know! It's Eri not Baka!" and she ponder for a moment. This was her chance! "So can I know your name now, mister?"
He dribbled the ball. Silence engulfed within the air. Finally he mumbled, "Rukawa, Kaede," and walked away.
Eri smiled then. Rukawa Kaede, her dream guy.
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