Surprises ch. 3
Botan found Kathy that afternoon, sweeping the steps to the shop. "Oh Hi Botan, you said there was a meeting?"
Once again the reaper had to keep her lust firmly controlled. Must be a blue moon or something. "Yeah, at 4, Yusuke got detention again for fighting."
"He's a firey kinda guy, a complete idiot." Kathy seemed unimpressed. This was kind of surprising for Botan, she'd been so sure that Kathy would like Yusuke.
"You don't like him?"
"Didn't say that, but from where I'm standing 99 percent of the world's straight male population are idiots. Okay, Aaron was nice, Nate was nice, Seamus was nice, and Quinton was nice, but at my old school that was about it. Everybody else at Da Vinci was either gay or looking for a sex kitten. I'm not gonna end up being one of those." Kathy shivered. "There was one girl every year there who had to drop out because she gave in to the heat of the moment. And who knows what little green wrigglies they've got in their scrotums." Another shiver.
"Is something wrong?" Botan asked, cocking her head curiously to one side.
"Nothing." Kathy sighed, lifting her face to the sun. "I'm done anyway, come on in." She smiled shyly. "Mom made cookies, and she said I could have all the soda I wanted until 5." Kathy's grin suggested the perils of her having too much caffine.
Kathy brought a tray of goodies up to her room with her. Botan moved aside some of the sketchbooks and notebooks that Kathy had strewn hither and yon. "Watcha got here?" Botan asked, picking one up. Paging through it, she found it was a fanfic, Yugioh in fact. But it seemed to be centered more on Tea than Yugi. There was very little reference to Yugi at all in fact. But a lot of Tea telling Mai her woes. Then the fic was snatched from her hands.
"Um... writing... nothing too... um... suspicious." Kathy blushed deeply. And Botan began to realize that she may have a chance.
"Have you tried to write something original?" Botan asked, stacking the notebooks in hopes that she'd see more.
"Yeah, poetry and stuff too. Stuff that wouldn't be too out of place on Media Minor, fiction press, or Teen Ink, but I can't figure out how to make the software work." Kathy shrugged. "I heard that the High School I'm going to has a Manga circle though. I'm hoping that they can do something with it."
"I'm glad, you could go a lot farther than where you're at now." Botan sighed flopping back on the bed and taking a cookie.
Kathy smiled in relief. For all of her tough talk, Botan realized, Kathy was rather shy. Kathy leaned back against the wall behind her bed. "Botan, have you ever felt like you were, you know, different from everybody else?"
"What do you mean?" Botan asked, swallowing the last of the cookie.
"I've just felt, different, like there's something more out there for me to do, that I'm supposed to do, but that I'm not. And I don't know what that thing is supposed to be." She shrugged. "I've always, thought differently, dressed differently, even felt differently than anybody else." Kathy sighed. "It's confusing sometimes."
Botan smiled. Of course, her parents wouldn't have told her what she is. "Yeah, I KNOW I'm different Kathy." Like the fact that I can't stop thinking about you at night, or the fact that my stomach does backflips when you talk, when you just act like you. If you only knew, but you will, Koenma will see to that.
Kathy sighed, snuggling up against Botan, resting her head on the Reaper's chest. Lazily, the girl reached one arm out for the tape player. Melissa Etheridge poured forth her woes to the world, Silent Legacy, one of Botan's favorite Ethridge songs. She liked it, because it implied change. That was the only thing that she liked about her job as Guide to the Styx, death wasn't forever, although most mortals didn't remember it. Death was, to her, simply a change of clothes and circumstances.
It also implied something else to Botan. "Kathy? Did you know that Melissa Ethridge is gay?"
The wince was all the response that Botan needed to confirm her conclusion. "Yeah, I did know." She said, so quietly that Botan could barely hear her. "I had to leave behind a girlfriend of mine. The only time that I see her now is online, we've got a web cam. I send her video tapes too. I got the idea from Yugioh, you know, how Joey and Serenity send each other videotapes..." Kathy trailed off, biting her lip. "You're not angry with me are you?"
This was it, now or never, Botan felt her heart doing backflips. "I could never be angry with you..." Her lips were the barest inch from Kathy's. Then she gently brushed her lips to Kathy's.
The response was like lightning. The beauty, the power in that kiss, sent Botan's mind in a whirl. No relationship she'd had with a boy was EVER like this. Kathy leaned into the kiss, licking at Botan's lips, begging for a taste. Botan smiled, opening her lips for the younger, less experianced girl. Their tongues twined in joy, quite different from the wrestling match of will power that she'd heard of other boys doing, gay or straight.
The two of them pulled back. Botan flopped onto the bed. She noticed the music as well.
"When I fall in love
I'm taking my time
No need to hurry when I'm making up my mind..." How beautiful. Botan took that as a good omen.
Botan found Kathy that afternoon, sweeping the steps to the shop. "Oh Hi Botan, you said there was a meeting?"
Once again the reaper had to keep her lust firmly controlled. Must be a blue moon or something. "Yeah, at 4, Yusuke got detention again for fighting."
"He's a firey kinda guy, a complete idiot." Kathy seemed unimpressed. This was kind of surprising for Botan, she'd been so sure that Kathy would like Yusuke.
"You don't like him?"
"Didn't say that, but from where I'm standing 99 percent of the world's straight male population are idiots. Okay, Aaron was nice, Nate was nice, Seamus was nice, and Quinton was nice, but at my old school that was about it. Everybody else at Da Vinci was either gay or looking for a sex kitten. I'm not gonna end up being one of those." Kathy shivered. "There was one girl every year there who had to drop out because she gave in to the heat of the moment. And who knows what little green wrigglies they've got in their scrotums." Another shiver.
"Is something wrong?" Botan asked, cocking her head curiously to one side.
"Nothing." Kathy sighed, lifting her face to the sun. "I'm done anyway, come on in." She smiled shyly. "Mom made cookies, and she said I could have all the soda I wanted until 5." Kathy's grin suggested the perils of her having too much caffine.
Kathy brought a tray of goodies up to her room with her. Botan moved aside some of the sketchbooks and notebooks that Kathy had strewn hither and yon. "Watcha got here?" Botan asked, picking one up. Paging through it, she found it was a fanfic, Yugioh in fact. But it seemed to be centered more on Tea than Yugi. There was very little reference to Yugi at all in fact. But a lot of Tea telling Mai her woes. Then the fic was snatched from her hands.
"Um... writing... nothing too... um... suspicious." Kathy blushed deeply. And Botan began to realize that she may have a chance.
"Have you tried to write something original?" Botan asked, stacking the notebooks in hopes that she'd see more.
"Yeah, poetry and stuff too. Stuff that wouldn't be too out of place on Media Minor, fiction press, or Teen Ink, but I can't figure out how to make the software work." Kathy shrugged. "I heard that the High School I'm going to has a Manga circle though. I'm hoping that they can do something with it."
"I'm glad, you could go a lot farther than where you're at now." Botan sighed flopping back on the bed and taking a cookie.
Kathy smiled in relief. For all of her tough talk, Botan realized, Kathy was rather shy. Kathy leaned back against the wall behind her bed. "Botan, have you ever felt like you were, you know, different from everybody else?"
"What do you mean?" Botan asked, swallowing the last of the cookie.
"I've just felt, different, like there's something more out there for me to do, that I'm supposed to do, but that I'm not. And I don't know what that thing is supposed to be." She shrugged. "I've always, thought differently, dressed differently, even felt differently than anybody else." Kathy sighed. "It's confusing sometimes."
Botan smiled. Of course, her parents wouldn't have told her what she is. "Yeah, I KNOW I'm different Kathy." Like the fact that I can't stop thinking about you at night, or the fact that my stomach does backflips when you talk, when you just act like you. If you only knew, but you will, Koenma will see to that.
Kathy sighed, snuggling up against Botan, resting her head on the Reaper's chest. Lazily, the girl reached one arm out for the tape player. Melissa Etheridge poured forth her woes to the world, Silent Legacy, one of Botan's favorite Ethridge songs. She liked it, because it implied change. That was the only thing that she liked about her job as Guide to the Styx, death wasn't forever, although most mortals didn't remember it. Death was, to her, simply a change of clothes and circumstances.
It also implied something else to Botan. "Kathy? Did you know that Melissa Ethridge is gay?"
The wince was all the response that Botan needed to confirm her conclusion. "Yeah, I did know." She said, so quietly that Botan could barely hear her. "I had to leave behind a girlfriend of mine. The only time that I see her now is online, we've got a web cam. I send her video tapes too. I got the idea from Yugioh, you know, how Joey and Serenity send each other videotapes..." Kathy trailed off, biting her lip. "You're not angry with me are you?"
This was it, now or never, Botan felt her heart doing backflips. "I could never be angry with you..." Her lips were the barest inch from Kathy's. Then she gently brushed her lips to Kathy's.
The response was like lightning. The beauty, the power in that kiss, sent Botan's mind in a whirl. No relationship she'd had with a boy was EVER like this. Kathy leaned into the kiss, licking at Botan's lips, begging for a taste. Botan smiled, opening her lips for the younger, less experianced girl. Their tongues twined in joy, quite different from the wrestling match of will power that she'd heard of other boys doing, gay or straight.
The two of them pulled back. Botan flopped onto the bed. She noticed the music as well.
"When I fall in love
I'm taking my time
No need to hurry when I'm making up my mind..." How beautiful. Botan took that as a good omen.