Hey you guys! It's me again! Sorry I haven't update for a while because I
just got my electricity back. Anyways, this chapter is about two guys
fighting over for a girl, well kind of anyways, just read it!
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Normal P.O.V. (in the cafeteria):
The boys except Kouichi are now having some chitchat while having their meal.
"Hey Kouji, Harlen and I got something to show you!" Michael said stiffly, trying to muster some enthusiasm.
"What is it?" Kouji questioned, stabbing his plastic fork into a plate of chicken cedar salad.
"Ta-da!" Harlen held up a picture of Kouji and Zoe were about too kiss in Kouji's birthday party.
Kouji immediately choked his food out from his mouth. Then let out a horrendous cough.
"How did you guys.." Kouji's jaw suddenly felt tensed.
"What?" Takuya shouted, he sounded baffled. "Kouji I'm telling you, she's not the kind of girl you want to spend the rest of your life with!"
Kouji felt the tight knot of tension in his stomach slowly uncoil.
Meanwhile.
Kouichi stood at the end of the cafeteria line, holding his tray awkwardly and scanning the room for his friends.
"Why weren't they at their normal table by the windows?" Kouichi wondered.
"Hey over here!"
He turned and caught sight of Zoe's distinctive blond hair. She was sitting at the far end of the cafeteria, waving frantically to him.
Kouichi gave Zoe a lopsided smile and sat beside her.
"So-are you busy tomorrow Saturday night?" Zoe asked, her eyes flickered as she felt the urge to ask him out.
"What? You want guy opinion on outfits again?" Kouichi chuckled as he made his finger into quotation marks and his dark cerulean eyes flashed.
"No of course not!" Zoe gave him a playful swat on his arm.
"Then what is it?" Kouichi asked again, rotating the spaghettis on his fork.
"Well," Zoe said, twirling a strand of her long silky blond hair into her index finger. "I heard the radio said that there will be a meteor shower tomorrow night at 3'o clock. So I was wondering if you could come."
"It's 3'o clock in the morning missy, don't you have to go to sleep?" Kouichi gave Zoe a peck on her cheek.
"What, Marilyn said that she have to study for an upcoming test, Chris got a date that night, and Kouji have to go to this meeting for his dad. You are the only one that I can ask!" Zoe countered; she'd never been so cavalier about this before. "A girl can't go outside alone in the dark, it's too dangerous!"
"But I have to go to sleep!" Kouichi reasoned.
"Come on please!" Zoe leaned forward to Kouichi eagerly, begging him with her puppy-face.
"But I really have to go to sleep!" Kouichi complained with annoyance.
Zoe felt her heart gave a little flutter as the news sank in.
"Fine, be that way!" Zoe then held up her tray and turned on her heel and strode out.
Kouichi immediately stood up and raced after her.
"Zoe wait!" Kouichi said, standing in front of her, he held up his hands in an I-give-up posture. "Okay you win, I'll pick you up tomorrow night at 2:30."
"You mean it?" Zoe's eyes were glittering with excitement.
.Kouichi nodded in defeat.
"You're the best Kouichi!" Zoe cheered. She ran up to Kouichi and flung her arms onto him.
Kouichi smiled at her. Then Zoe unexpectedly pressed her lips gently onto Kouichi's cheek.
Kouichi felt a slight blush got up to his neck; he tugged his hands in his pockets. "Aaaaaa.gee thanks!" He stammered.
Zoe let go of Kouichi and looked down on the ground as a slight blush crept up to her cheek.
Meanwhile..
"Anyways, she's a." Takuya's terrifying shouting dropped into a murmur as his chocolate brown eyes flicked to the other end of the room where he saw Zoe hugged Kouichi and kissed him on the cheek. "Ummm, Kouji, you better see this."
What Kouji saw filled him with a horrible feeling of dread. He felt his stomach lurched. Suddenly, the tuna sandwich inside of his mouth tasted like sponge. The corner of his mouth flickered down into a frown.
As Kouji looked up, he saw his friends' mouths speechlessly flung open. They were staring at each other, as if they were each silently trying to convince the others to speak first.
"What's going on? How come Zoe." Harlen looked dubious. An idea was beginning to take shape in his mind.
"So that Zoe cheated on Kouji isn't it?" Harlen thought.
Kouji felt the colours drained out from his face.
"I told you she's no good!" Takuya said, folding his arms across his chest.
"Knock it off!" Kouji shouted thunderously, he brought his fist down on the table, making everyone jumped a little.
Kouji's chair let out a fierce shriek as he push it back, he walked away angrily, leaving everyone in the table stunned in silence.
"What was that?" Michael asked finally.
Takuya gulped then he replied. "No idea!"
Meanwhile.
"I.. got to go, bye!" Zoe sauntered off.
Kouichi placed his hand gently on his cheek where Zoe had kissed him, his heart started to race faster and faster every seconds.
"Wow!" Kouichi murmured to himself. "That was unexpected, what was that for?"
Saturday night (2:30 p.m.):
Zoe walked up to Marilyn, holding up two dresses. "Which one should I wear?" Zoe asked.
Marilyn studied the two dresses Zoe was holding up. In her left hand was a pink slip dress and in the right one was a midnight blue sheath with a long white velvet scarf.
"The dark blue one, definitely." Marilyn replied.
"Great!" Zoe said. "I've got everything under control, this night will be perfect!"
"Perfect enough that you'll kiss him under the moonlight?" Marilyn smirked.
"What are you talking about?" Zoe batted her eyelashes innocently. "We're just friends!"
"Oh really?" Marilyn's eyes glared at Zoe. "Than can you tell you tell me why you hugged him and kissed him yesterday in the cafeteria?"
"That's what friends always do isn't it?" Zoe protested, knowing the fact that her cheeks are burning.
"Uh-huh?" Marilyn said, she looked dubious about it.
Then the phone rang.
"I'll get it!" Zoe replied anxiously, placing the two dresse onto her bed, she uickly picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Zoe answered.
"Oh hi Kouichi!" Zoe's voice became softer, and then she started to blush.
"Okay alright. I'll be down there in five minutes, bye!" Zoe put the phone back to the cradle and secretly smiled to herself.
"Have fun you two!" Marilyn giggled, then she made some kissing noises to Zoe.
Then Zoe rolled her eyes.
Fifteen minutes later.
Zoe was in Kouichi's black convertible. They were both speechless. Zoe stole a quick glance at Kouichi and started to talk to him. "So.where are we going?"
Zoe's soft voice made Kouichi feel warm all over. He tightened his grip on the steering wheel.
"Um.to the park." He replied.
Zoe pressed a button and the classic music started pouring through the speaker, so she turned the knob to find a better channel.
"Don't you know that I want to be more than just you friend."Another slow music started to come. As soon as they both heard the words in the music, they reached their hands to turn the knob, but realized that they touched each other's hand. So they both snapped away their hands and let the music go on.
"Don't you know that I want to be more than just your friend? Holding hands is fine but I've got something on my mind. You know it could happen if you want to set it in a different mind. Baby when we finally get together, you will see that I was right. Say you love me, I'll be yours and you be mine."
Both of them started to blush really badly as they heard those words in the music.
Kouichi's hands were almost too sweaty to maintain a grip on the steering wheel. And Zoe was looking out in the window, letting the cool, freezing wind stroke past her face to cool herself down from the blushing. Then she forced herself to push away the thought out of her mind.
"Zoe Orimoto, Kouichi is only your friend!" A voice popped up into her mind. "You two are not in love!"
"No, we're not in love!" Zoe thought.
"But why are you blushing right now?" Another voice came up. "And why did you kissed him?"
"Oh this is such a chaos!" Zoe thought again.
Kouichi looked over to Zoe as he drove under the streetlamps, the light growing and dimming in a steady, noiseless pattern. His heart started to beat louder and an emotion cam up to his throat, making him swallowed back. Then he trained his eyes back onto the road.
Ten minutes of silence.
"We're here!" Kouichi announced. "How come the meteor shower is not here yet? It's almost three now." Zoe asked as she steeped out from Kouichi's car.
"I guess we have to wait." He replied.
Five minutes later.
Kouichi and Zoe are sitting on the bench.
"I'm sorry about what happen in the car." Kouichi blurted out.
"No. It's not your fault," Zoe shook her head. "I guess everything just got blown out of proportion here."
"I guess you're right." Kouichi planted his hands onto his thighs. "I know there won't be anything happen to us because you already got Kouji in your heart."
"What made you say that?" Her eyes flicked to him, under her intense stare, she bit her lips. "You're wrong!"
A wave of emotions -hope, fear, dread-rushed through Kouichi's head, making him feeling light-headed. He locked his level gaze on Zoe.
"There's something about you that I just."Zoe suddenly felt the muscles in her jaw tensed. She felt her mouth opening and closing, but she knew that no sound was coming out. Then she cast a nervous glance at Kouichi, she dropped her eyesight down to the ground and started to blush.
Kouichi felt almost detached from reality, as if he was an actor in a play, except he doesn't know the lines in the play.
"Zoe, I.I wanted to tell you something for a long time.I." Kouichi couldn't continue anymore. He felt something had just drained all the blood out from his head, making him feeling dizzy.
Kouichi's answer caught Zoe off guard. She looked straight at him and he felt his heart started to race crazily. The moon glowed in her hair, lighting up her face. Her skin was the colour of sand, her eyes were luminous and hypnotic.
Kouichi listened to the sound of the blood rushing in his ears as he looked at Zoe.
Zoe held up her white velvet scarf across her eyes and peered up at the moonlight. Her hair felt straight and sleek almost to her waist. Her eyes were almond shaped and in the pale light looked like clear glass. Then she threw the scarf into the air, and they both watched it flutter downward.
"She's beautiful!" Kouichi thought.
"Zoe, I."Kouichi stopped when he saw Zoe was looking at him with her bright emerald eyes. Those pairs of eyes, melted his heart like flame, making the heat crept all over his body.
A mysterious tension brought them closer and closer to each other. Kouichi ran his fingers onto Zoe's and laced them tightly onto her hand, and then he used the other on of his hand to tangle into her golden blond hair.
Zoe leaned forward onto Kouichi, wrapping his hands onto his neck. She suddenly felt the urge to bring her lips to him. His dark eyes sparkled, then he parted his lips, drawing it closer and closer to her every second.
"Kouichi stop it right now! She's Kouji's girl!" A voice came into Kouichi's head. But Kouichi couldn't control himself any longer.
"Zoe stop it now! You'll hurt Kouji!" A voice got into Zoe mind. But Zoe disobeyed it, she shifted her whole body into Kouichi's.
"Oh my gosh! It's the meteor shower!" Zoe exclaimed happily just before their lips touched each other. Then they both looked up to the sky.
Twenty minutes later.
Zoe felt a bit tire, she gently shut her eyelids. Then she dropped her head on Kouichi's shoulder and she fell asleep.
Kouichi was surprised by her action, a slight blush appeared on his cheek. He looked down at her and smiled.
"Time for you to go home then." Kouichi whispered to her. Then he secretly planted a quick kiss on Zoe's forehead. "Sweet dream, Zoe."
Monday (in the cafeteria):
Kouji and Kouichi were sitting in the table across from each other, without talking or looking at each. They haven't even been smiling all day.
Takuya, Michael and Hralen were looking at then silently.
"I think they're mad at each other." Harlen whispered to Takuya and Michael. "Definitely!" Takuya agreed.
"I can't believe they're mad at each other just for a girl." Michael frowned.
Suddenly Kouji stood up and startled everyone's attention.
"Kouichi, we've got to talk." Kouji told Kouichi with his sullen voice. He looked really serious.
Kouichi gulped and nodded, then he followed Kouji out of the cafeteria.
"I hope they won't do anything stupid!" Takuya said.
"Me too!" Michael nodded.
In the washroom:
"So what do you want to talk about?" Kouichi asked.
"It's about..Zoe!" Kouji replied slowly. He tugged his hand into his pocket and looked down at the floor.
Kouichi suddenly felt blood rushing into his head, his heart was beating.
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Ouch! Friendship break. Don't look at me now! Hurry up and go to the next chapter and see how this dilemma is going to end? Well, toon in next time!
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Normal P.O.V. (in the cafeteria):
The boys except Kouichi are now having some chitchat while having their meal.
"Hey Kouji, Harlen and I got something to show you!" Michael said stiffly, trying to muster some enthusiasm.
"What is it?" Kouji questioned, stabbing his plastic fork into a plate of chicken cedar salad.
"Ta-da!" Harlen held up a picture of Kouji and Zoe were about too kiss in Kouji's birthday party.
Kouji immediately choked his food out from his mouth. Then let out a horrendous cough.
"How did you guys.." Kouji's jaw suddenly felt tensed.
"What?" Takuya shouted, he sounded baffled. "Kouji I'm telling you, she's not the kind of girl you want to spend the rest of your life with!"
Kouji felt the tight knot of tension in his stomach slowly uncoil.
Meanwhile.
Kouichi stood at the end of the cafeteria line, holding his tray awkwardly and scanning the room for his friends.
"Why weren't they at their normal table by the windows?" Kouichi wondered.
"Hey over here!"
He turned and caught sight of Zoe's distinctive blond hair. She was sitting at the far end of the cafeteria, waving frantically to him.
Kouichi gave Zoe a lopsided smile and sat beside her.
"So-are you busy tomorrow Saturday night?" Zoe asked, her eyes flickered as she felt the urge to ask him out.
"What? You want guy opinion on outfits again?" Kouichi chuckled as he made his finger into quotation marks and his dark cerulean eyes flashed.
"No of course not!" Zoe gave him a playful swat on his arm.
"Then what is it?" Kouichi asked again, rotating the spaghettis on his fork.
"Well," Zoe said, twirling a strand of her long silky blond hair into her index finger. "I heard the radio said that there will be a meteor shower tomorrow night at 3'o clock. So I was wondering if you could come."
"It's 3'o clock in the morning missy, don't you have to go to sleep?" Kouichi gave Zoe a peck on her cheek.
"What, Marilyn said that she have to study for an upcoming test, Chris got a date that night, and Kouji have to go to this meeting for his dad. You are the only one that I can ask!" Zoe countered; she'd never been so cavalier about this before. "A girl can't go outside alone in the dark, it's too dangerous!"
"But I have to go to sleep!" Kouichi reasoned.
"Come on please!" Zoe leaned forward to Kouichi eagerly, begging him with her puppy-face.
"But I really have to go to sleep!" Kouichi complained with annoyance.
Zoe felt her heart gave a little flutter as the news sank in.
"Fine, be that way!" Zoe then held up her tray and turned on her heel and strode out.
Kouichi immediately stood up and raced after her.
"Zoe wait!" Kouichi said, standing in front of her, he held up his hands in an I-give-up posture. "Okay you win, I'll pick you up tomorrow night at 2:30."
"You mean it?" Zoe's eyes were glittering with excitement.
.Kouichi nodded in defeat.
"You're the best Kouichi!" Zoe cheered. She ran up to Kouichi and flung her arms onto him.
Kouichi smiled at her. Then Zoe unexpectedly pressed her lips gently onto Kouichi's cheek.
Kouichi felt a slight blush got up to his neck; he tugged his hands in his pockets. "Aaaaaa.gee thanks!" He stammered.
Zoe let go of Kouichi and looked down on the ground as a slight blush crept up to her cheek.
Meanwhile..
"Anyways, she's a." Takuya's terrifying shouting dropped into a murmur as his chocolate brown eyes flicked to the other end of the room where he saw Zoe hugged Kouichi and kissed him on the cheek. "Ummm, Kouji, you better see this."
What Kouji saw filled him with a horrible feeling of dread. He felt his stomach lurched. Suddenly, the tuna sandwich inside of his mouth tasted like sponge. The corner of his mouth flickered down into a frown.
As Kouji looked up, he saw his friends' mouths speechlessly flung open. They were staring at each other, as if they were each silently trying to convince the others to speak first.
"What's going on? How come Zoe." Harlen looked dubious. An idea was beginning to take shape in his mind.
"So that Zoe cheated on Kouji isn't it?" Harlen thought.
Kouji felt the colours drained out from his face.
"I told you she's no good!" Takuya said, folding his arms across his chest.
"Knock it off!" Kouji shouted thunderously, he brought his fist down on the table, making everyone jumped a little.
Kouji's chair let out a fierce shriek as he push it back, he walked away angrily, leaving everyone in the table stunned in silence.
"What was that?" Michael asked finally.
Takuya gulped then he replied. "No idea!"
Meanwhile.
"I.. got to go, bye!" Zoe sauntered off.
Kouichi placed his hand gently on his cheek where Zoe had kissed him, his heart started to race faster and faster every seconds.
"Wow!" Kouichi murmured to himself. "That was unexpected, what was that for?"
Saturday night (2:30 p.m.):
Zoe walked up to Marilyn, holding up two dresses. "Which one should I wear?" Zoe asked.
Marilyn studied the two dresses Zoe was holding up. In her left hand was a pink slip dress and in the right one was a midnight blue sheath with a long white velvet scarf.
"The dark blue one, definitely." Marilyn replied.
"Great!" Zoe said. "I've got everything under control, this night will be perfect!"
"Perfect enough that you'll kiss him under the moonlight?" Marilyn smirked.
"What are you talking about?" Zoe batted her eyelashes innocently. "We're just friends!"
"Oh really?" Marilyn's eyes glared at Zoe. "Than can you tell you tell me why you hugged him and kissed him yesterday in the cafeteria?"
"That's what friends always do isn't it?" Zoe protested, knowing the fact that her cheeks are burning.
"Uh-huh?" Marilyn said, she looked dubious about it.
Then the phone rang.
"I'll get it!" Zoe replied anxiously, placing the two dresse onto her bed, she uickly picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Zoe answered.
"Oh hi Kouichi!" Zoe's voice became softer, and then she started to blush.
"Okay alright. I'll be down there in five minutes, bye!" Zoe put the phone back to the cradle and secretly smiled to herself.
"Have fun you two!" Marilyn giggled, then she made some kissing noises to Zoe.
Then Zoe rolled her eyes.
Fifteen minutes later.
Zoe was in Kouichi's black convertible. They were both speechless. Zoe stole a quick glance at Kouichi and started to talk to him. "So.where are we going?"
Zoe's soft voice made Kouichi feel warm all over. He tightened his grip on the steering wheel.
"Um.to the park." He replied.
Zoe pressed a button and the classic music started pouring through the speaker, so she turned the knob to find a better channel.
"Don't you know that I want to be more than just you friend."Another slow music started to come. As soon as they both heard the words in the music, they reached their hands to turn the knob, but realized that they touched each other's hand. So they both snapped away their hands and let the music go on.
"Don't you know that I want to be more than just your friend? Holding hands is fine but I've got something on my mind. You know it could happen if you want to set it in a different mind. Baby when we finally get together, you will see that I was right. Say you love me, I'll be yours and you be mine."
Both of them started to blush really badly as they heard those words in the music.
Kouichi's hands were almost too sweaty to maintain a grip on the steering wheel. And Zoe was looking out in the window, letting the cool, freezing wind stroke past her face to cool herself down from the blushing. Then she forced herself to push away the thought out of her mind.
"Zoe Orimoto, Kouichi is only your friend!" A voice popped up into her mind. "You two are not in love!"
"No, we're not in love!" Zoe thought.
"But why are you blushing right now?" Another voice came up. "And why did you kissed him?"
"Oh this is such a chaos!" Zoe thought again.
Kouichi looked over to Zoe as he drove under the streetlamps, the light growing and dimming in a steady, noiseless pattern. His heart started to beat louder and an emotion cam up to his throat, making him swallowed back. Then he trained his eyes back onto the road.
Ten minutes of silence.
"We're here!" Kouichi announced. "How come the meteor shower is not here yet? It's almost three now." Zoe asked as she steeped out from Kouichi's car.
"I guess we have to wait." He replied.
Five minutes later.
Kouichi and Zoe are sitting on the bench.
"I'm sorry about what happen in the car." Kouichi blurted out.
"No. It's not your fault," Zoe shook her head. "I guess everything just got blown out of proportion here."
"I guess you're right." Kouichi planted his hands onto his thighs. "I know there won't be anything happen to us because you already got Kouji in your heart."
"What made you say that?" Her eyes flicked to him, under her intense stare, she bit her lips. "You're wrong!"
A wave of emotions -hope, fear, dread-rushed through Kouichi's head, making him feeling light-headed. He locked his level gaze on Zoe.
"There's something about you that I just."Zoe suddenly felt the muscles in her jaw tensed. She felt her mouth opening and closing, but she knew that no sound was coming out. Then she cast a nervous glance at Kouichi, she dropped her eyesight down to the ground and started to blush.
Kouichi felt almost detached from reality, as if he was an actor in a play, except he doesn't know the lines in the play.
"Zoe, I.I wanted to tell you something for a long time.I." Kouichi couldn't continue anymore. He felt something had just drained all the blood out from his head, making him feeling dizzy.
Kouichi's answer caught Zoe off guard. She looked straight at him and he felt his heart started to race crazily. The moon glowed in her hair, lighting up her face. Her skin was the colour of sand, her eyes were luminous and hypnotic.
Kouichi listened to the sound of the blood rushing in his ears as he looked at Zoe.
Zoe held up her white velvet scarf across her eyes and peered up at the moonlight. Her hair felt straight and sleek almost to her waist. Her eyes were almond shaped and in the pale light looked like clear glass. Then she threw the scarf into the air, and they both watched it flutter downward.
"She's beautiful!" Kouichi thought.
"Zoe, I."Kouichi stopped when he saw Zoe was looking at him with her bright emerald eyes. Those pairs of eyes, melted his heart like flame, making the heat crept all over his body.
A mysterious tension brought them closer and closer to each other. Kouichi ran his fingers onto Zoe's and laced them tightly onto her hand, and then he used the other on of his hand to tangle into her golden blond hair.
Zoe leaned forward onto Kouichi, wrapping his hands onto his neck. She suddenly felt the urge to bring her lips to him. His dark eyes sparkled, then he parted his lips, drawing it closer and closer to her every second.
"Kouichi stop it right now! She's Kouji's girl!" A voice came into Kouichi's head. But Kouichi couldn't control himself any longer.
"Zoe stop it now! You'll hurt Kouji!" A voice got into Zoe mind. But Zoe disobeyed it, she shifted her whole body into Kouichi's.
"Oh my gosh! It's the meteor shower!" Zoe exclaimed happily just before their lips touched each other. Then they both looked up to the sky.
Twenty minutes later.
Zoe felt a bit tire, she gently shut her eyelids. Then she dropped her head on Kouichi's shoulder and she fell asleep.
Kouichi was surprised by her action, a slight blush appeared on his cheek. He looked down at her and smiled.
"Time for you to go home then." Kouichi whispered to her. Then he secretly planted a quick kiss on Zoe's forehead. "Sweet dream, Zoe."
Monday (in the cafeteria):
Kouji and Kouichi were sitting in the table across from each other, without talking or looking at each. They haven't even been smiling all day.
Takuya, Michael and Hralen were looking at then silently.
"I think they're mad at each other." Harlen whispered to Takuya and Michael. "Definitely!" Takuya agreed.
"I can't believe they're mad at each other just for a girl." Michael frowned.
Suddenly Kouji stood up and startled everyone's attention.
"Kouichi, we've got to talk." Kouji told Kouichi with his sullen voice. He looked really serious.
Kouichi gulped and nodded, then he followed Kouji out of the cafeteria.
"I hope they won't do anything stupid!" Takuya said.
"Me too!" Michael nodded.
In the washroom:
"So what do you want to talk about?" Kouichi asked.
"It's about..Zoe!" Kouji replied slowly. He tugged his hand into his pocket and looked down at the floor.
Kouichi suddenly felt blood rushing into his head, his heart was beating.
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Ouch! Friendship break. Don't look at me now! Hurry up and go to the next chapter and see how this dilemma is going to end? Well, toon in next time!