Chpt. 3- Unpleasent meeting
At the end of yet another day in school Rini slowly made her way through Tokyo park after convincing her friends she had to get home soon. Again alone, her pink backpack thrown over one shoulder, she meandered across the park, not really caring where she ended up. Sure her excuse had been to get home but that was only to remover herself from the friends that were her past. Now she was a new person. Looking back the transfermation both amazed and confused her. It had taken place in a matter of weeks, only a few months back ago. In fact she can place a finger on the exact date of the day she started to change to the depressed form that now walked the parks grounds.
~It had been a warm summer's evening as she sat on the front porch writing idely in a small spiral notebook for lack of anything better to do. Just then Serena and Darien pulled up in his car after their latest date, stopping at the end of the walk. Darien emerged from the car and quickly walked around to open the door for Serena. As they moved closer to the house, arms linked, Serena's smile became a more prominent feature of her face. Stopping before entering the house, Serena looked back at Darien and moved to open the door when he stepped forward and quickly placed his lips over her own. the kiss was only momentary and in seconds Serena was in the house and Darien back in the car and gone, but there was one fact they forgot to consider in their perfect evening. The whole time she was watchin, the whole time she was scowling, the whole time she was hateing them for what they had...~
Comeing back to reality the sound of a bird cawing penetrated her mental shell and she blinked once before looking up to the now clear sky. It was supposed to start getting colder tomarrow, she would have to try to enjoy today as best she could, though she was not sure how she could enjoy anything. She continued to walk, paying no heed to what lay ahead as she stared skyward toward the cerulean blue. Slowly a few cherry blossoms floated by above her, something her old self would have loved to see. Then, for no apparent reason to passers by, she stopped. Far in the distance, unnoticed by all other nearby, one could hear a faint string of music being played. Vearing off the cement path laid in the grounds of the park she began to walk off in the direction of the music now teaseing her ears. Moving quickly through the park, now with a purpose and place to be, Rini was surprised to find that deep within her rose an emotion not felt in what seemed like years. A playful grin crossed her face as, for the first time in months, she felt true joy, brought about by the sound of that music. Then it struck her why she was so curious. The sound of that music, the slow rythm being played from some didstant instrument had lifted her spirits to a place not seen in ages, she wanted to know how, and why.
The music got louder until finally she rounded a tree and saw, seated on a nearby bench with his back turned toward her, the same boy with whom she had walked to school that very morning. As she approached him, carful to make no noise, he stopped all of a sudden and quickly placed something in his front jacket pocket. She reached the back of the bench he was sitting at and looked down into his now spiked platinum hair.
"That was beautiful..." she wispered
"I don't know what your talking about," he said sternly.
Making a move to get up he suddenly found that he could not move his right shoulder, unless he wanted to throw a you, pink eyed girl from it as she now leaned upon him heavly.
"Then what's this."
Reaching her hand down into he jacket her hand emerged weilding a polished silver harmonica. Engraved upon the top of the harmonica, a single rose. Snatching the harmonica back from her grasp he replaced it within his coat, his hard, ice blue eyes darting toward her for only an instance showing for only a second a look more made of sorrow than of anger. Taking up his resolve instantaniously he brushed her off his shoulder with a harshness Rini had never seen or felt before. Once again a feeling of rejection welled up within her and she found herself longing to cry but refused to give him the pleasure.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he reapeated
Slowly he turned away and walked off, that same hypnotizeing movement from only hours before. She watched his hardened form dissipate into the distanct trees and then vanish from sight. Mere seconds after she had confirmed that he would not return, she ran. Tears streamed down her face as she bolted in an unknown direction. For the first time in months she had found something that brought her true joy and, as usual, it had been ripped by form her grasp. Some how she ended op back at her house. Bolting upstairs she didn't give a glance at anything else in the house, leaving the front door hanging open. In her room, the curtains shut and lights nonexistent she continued to sob into the pink of her pillow until eventually, she slept. All the while Serena's mother stood downstairs, unerved by the sudden flurry of movement through her house and up her stairs, but most of all, by Rini's obvious lack of manners in leaveing the door open, completely unaware to the dilema of the young girls heart.
At the end of yet another day in school Rini slowly made her way through Tokyo park after convincing her friends she had to get home soon. Again alone, her pink backpack thrown over one shoulder, she meandered across the park, not really caring where she ended up. Sure her excuse had been to get home but that was only to remover herself from the friends that were her past. Now she was a new person. Looking back the transfermation both amazed and confused her. It had taken place in a matter of weeks, only a few months back ago. In fact she can place a finger on the exact date of the day she started to change to the depressed form that now walked the parks grounds.
~It had been a warm summer's evening as she sat on the front porch writing idely in a small spiral notebook for lack of anything better to do. Just then Serena and Darien pulled up in his car after their latest date, stopping at the end of the walk. Darien emerged from the car and quickly walked around to open the door for Serena. As they moved closer to the house, arms linked, Serena's smile became a more prominent feature of her face. Stopping before entering the house, Serena looked back at Darien and moved to open the door when he stepped forward and quickly placed his lips over her own. the kiss was only momentary and in seconds Serena was in the house and Darien back in the car and gone, but there was one fact they forgot to consider in their perfect evening. The whole time she was watchin, the whole time she was scowling, the whole time she was hateing them for what they had...~
Comeing back to reality the sound of a bird cawing penetrated her mental shell and she blinked once before looking up to the now clear sky. It was supposed to start getting colder tomarrow, she would have to try to enjoy today as best she could, though she was not sure how she could enjoy anything. She continued to walk, paying no heed to what lay ahead as she stared skyward toward the cerulean blue. Slowly a few cherry blossoms floated by above her, something her old self would have loved to see. Then, for no apparent reason to passers by, she stopped. Far in the distance, unnoticed by all other nearby, one could hear a faint string of music being played. Vearing off the cement path laid in the grounds of the park she began to walk off in the direction of the music now teaseing her ears. Moving quickly through the park, now with a purpose and place to be, Rini was surprised to find that deep within her rose an emotion not felt in what seemed like years. A playful grin crossed her face as, for the first time in months, she felt true joy, brought about by the sound of that music. Then it struck her why she was so curious. The sound of that music, the slow rythm being played from some didstant instrument had lifted her spirits to a place not seen in ages, she wanted to know how, and why.
The music got louder until finally she rounded a tree and saw, seated on a nearby bench with his back turned toward her, the same boy with whom she had walked to school that very morning. As she approached him, carful to make no noise, he stopped all of a sudden and quickly placed something in his front jacket pocket. She reached the back of the bench he was sitting at and looked down into his now spiked platinum hair.
"That was beautiful..." she wispered
"I don't know what your talking about," he said sternly.
Making a move to get up he suddenly found that he could not move his right shoulder, unless he wanted to throw a you, pink eyed girl from it as she now leaned upon him heavly.
"Then what's this."
Reaching her hand down into he jacket her hand emerged weilding a polished silver harmonica. Engraved upon the top of the harmonica, a single rose. Snatching the harmonica back from her grasp he replaced it within his coat, his hard, ice blue eyes darting toward her for only an instance showing for only a second a look more made of sorrow than of anger. Taking up his resolve instantaniously he brushed her off his shoulder with a harshness Rini had never seen or felt before. Once again a feeling of rejection welled up within her and she found herself longing to cry but refused to give him the pleasure.
"I don't know what you're talking about," he reapeated
Slowly he turned away and walked off, that same hypnotizeing movement from only hours before. She watched his hardened form dissipate into the distanct trees and then vanish from sight. Mere seconds after she had confirmed that he would not return, she ran. Tears streamed down her face as she bolted in an unknown direction. For the first time in months she had found something that brought her true joy and, as usual, it had been ripped by form her grasp. Some how she ended op back at her house. Bolting upstairs she didn't give a glance at anything else in the house, leaving the front door hanging open. In her room, the curtains shut and lights nonexistent she continued to sob into the pink of her pillow until eventually, she slept. All the while Serena's mother stood downstairs, unerved by the sudden flurry of movement through her house and up her stairs, but most of all, by Rini's obvious lack of manners in leaveing the door open, completely unaware to the dilema of the young girls heart.