Chapter Three: A Close Call at the Omelet Shoppe
By: Winter Peacecraft-Yuy
With additional help from: Meilin Rae, Trowa'sgal2004, and MiMeQ
Disclaimer: Trowa'sgal2004: Ok you know what belongs to the producers and stuff like that. Don't make us write it again. Read On!!!!!
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Rekino made her way to English 101. She wondered who would be in there that she might possibly know. She walked into the room and made her way to a table. Just as she got comfortably seated, someone plopped into the seat next to her. When she saw who it was, her eyes almost popped out of her head. The young man resembled Josephine, but was male. Oh my dear sweet God, I have English with Kento. She thought.
"Hi, my name is Shuu Rei Faun, you can call me Kento though." He said flashing Rekino a smile.
"I'm…uh…Sanada Rekino. Rekino if you please." Rekino replied
hoping Kento's stupid side would kick in and he wouldn't ask questions.
Fortunately he didn't think about it, but simply replied, "Nice to meet you."
Just then the teacher walked in, "This is English 101; therefore, I want all of you to know that this is not an easy class. Forget all of your high school English classes. This class will be like nothing you've ever experienced before." The teacher stopped and looked around, "Your first assignment will be a group project. You will write a two-page essay on an author. William Shakespeare, Tom Clancy, or whomever you wish. This two-page essay will include the author's: career, home life, etc. Now, what I want you to do is to get to know the person sitting to your left because they will be the person who you work with."
Rekino just slammed her head against the table, Whammm! She could not believe this was happening. Of all people to be teamed up with, why did it have to be Kento? It wasn't that she didn't like Kento, but he was a friend of Ryo's and she knew Kento had a big mouth and tells everything he did that day. She didn't need this, not yet.
The sound of her head hitting the table startled the teacher, "Are you alright dear?"
Rekino thought for a minute, then replied, "I don't remember if I locked my car or not." What kind of excuse is that, I can come up with something better that. Oh well too late now.
"Well, maybe you did." The teacher responded, "Try not to hit you head again, please?"
"Hai, sensei." Rekino said at the thought of what else could go wrong that day.
Kento felt there was something more to her hitting her head that hard, "Hey, you okay?"
"Just fucking peachy," Rekino replied. "So let's get this over
with. Now if you ask a question that I don't want to answer, I just won't
answer it, okay?"
*~*
The teacher looked around as he repeated himself again,
"I'll give you one last chance, Miss Rai-Utano. Are you here or not?"
Hana looked around nervously. She was sweating bullets. This cannot be
happening! Why me? If I raise my hand, Ryo's gonna know. Oh shit, oh shit, oh
shit! She glanced at the teacher and starting raising her hand. God
dammit. I hate to have to do this, but I have no other choice…"Gomen nasai,
sensei. I wasn't paying attention."
The teacher snarled at his young, irresponsible student, "I hope that you'll be
able to pay more attention when class really does start, Miss Rai-Utano. I'd
hate to fail you." He marked her down in his book and continued with the names.
Ryo sat behind her, watching the way she squirmed in her desk. I knew it.
He remembered her. Hana had been best friends with his little sister, Rekino,
many years ago. When he had seen her in Hardee's something told him he knew her
from somewhere. He lightly tapped her on the shoulder and moved up to whisper
in her ear. "Long time no see, Hana. How have you been?"
Hana's eyes widened. Oh…son of a mother fucking bitch! Rekino's not going to
be happy. I cannot believe this happened. Ryo now knows who I am. Worst
of all, he's going to ask questions. This isn't good. I have to play it cool.
Get it together, Hana-girl. She drew in a deep breath and turned back
towards Ryo, "Yeah, it has been a long time, huh?" Oh yeah, greeeaaat move!
Man, I've gotta remember to not sit here tomorrow!
*~*
Kento raised an eyebrow at her statement, "Uhhh, okay.
Whatever you say." He took out a pencil and looked at Rekino, "So, since we're
working together, I guess we should get to know one another then, huh?"
"No! I don't think that's necessary!" Rekino blurted out as her partner raised
an eyebrow. I already know everything about you, dude! I don't need to know
anything else! She smiled innocently and continued, "So, who do you want to
do the essay on?"
Kento tapped the end of his pencil on the desk, "I don't know. I was thinking
something along the lines of Anne Rice. Or maybe even Steven King! But I don't
really enjoy reading. I like playing video games and football. If I had time,
I'd ask my friend, Rowen. He's really smart and reads a lot too!"
"Yeah, that's great," Rekino was tempted to slam her head down on the desk
again. At least she knew that Kento enjoyed playing football and video games.
She thought for a minute on what author they should write about. Oh, what
was his name? He lived in Flordia.. He was really famous. Shit, I cannot think
of his name!
Kento studied his partner. She reminded him of someone, but who? Her facial
structure seemed familiar; even though it was a woman's, he could've sworn he
saw it somewhere before. The way her bangs were going out in every which
direction. Her eyes held a certain gentleness to them. Who the hell is she?!
She seems so familiar! He couldn't stop asking himself that one question…
Who was she?
Suddenly, it hit him like a ton of bricks. Sanada…Ryo Sanada…Rekino
Sanada…SHE'S RYO'S SISTER! Oh man! I can't believe it! Kento couldn't
contain his excitement, but had to in order to not get berated by the teacher.
He looked at Rekino with an indescribable expression, "You're Ryo's sister!"
Startled by his words, Rekino was knocked out of her thinking process. She rose
one of her delicately shape, raven eyebrows at his outburst, "What did you
say?"
Kento pointed and bounced lightly in his chair, "You're Ryo Sanada's little
sister!"
OH SHIT! Was the only thought that popped in Rekino's head. She had to
make a cover up and fast! "Uhhh…I don't think so, bubba. Listen, you're
obviously mistaken me for someone else."
"But you have to be!" He leaned in closer so that he didn't attract any
'unwanted' attention, "You look just like him! Well, Ryo doesn't have glowy,
purple eyes, but still! You look just like him in the face! And the poofiness
of your bangs is just like his too! You're Ryo's little sister!"
I'm so busted. Rekino let out a long frustrated sigh. "There's no way I
can convince you otherwise, is there?" He shook his head no and she continued,
"Okay, okay, sheesh. Yes, I'm Ryo's sister. There, are you happy?"
"Man, I knew it!" Kento exclaimed, "I can't wait to tell him! He'll be so happy
that you're alive!" Before he could even blink, Rekino had grabbed Kento's
wrist and applied force – too much for his liking – to the pressure point in
his wrist, "Ow!"
Rekino grabbed Kento by his collar with her free arm and pulled him towards
her. So close that their noses were almost touching, "Don't you dare! If
I wanted Ryo to know, I would've already told him I was alive and well,
understand? If you tell him, Kento, so help me God…I'll kick your ass faster
than you can blink an eye, got it?"
The only possible thing he could do was whimper and nod his head.
"Good." She released her grip on both his collar and wrist, "Now that that's
settled, let's get back to work. How about we do our essay on William Faulkner?
He's a well known and respected writer."
Kento rubbed his wrist, "Yeah. Sounds good to me." He straightened out his
collar and stared down at his wrist. She had hurt him! Not only that,
but she was a woman. He had never meet a woman who could actually hurt him!…Well,
except for his mother, but that was different. His eyes were fixed on her as
she wrote down their choice in author. He thought back to what she had just
told him.
"I'll kick your ass faster than you can blink an eye, got it?"
Kento frowned. Yeah, right. She couldn't land a finger on me. Much less have
me begging for her mercy. He stared down at his wrist again and he
grimaced. That was pure luck. I wasn't expecting it. Well, I don't know how
she did that, but DAMN! It's already starting to bruise.
Ronin Warrior or no Ronin Warrior, but that shit hurt like hell!
*~*
Professor Akina sat at
the front of his Math Applications class. He had given a test to see how much
his students remembered from their old high school or recent college math classes.
He looked at the clock and turned his attention towards the class.
"Pencils down. Pass the tests forward."
Josephine smiled and passed her test to the person in front of her. She
actually thought the test was pretty damn easy, considering it was pre-algebra.
To her left, that British guy from her first class passed his test forward as
well. She had been talking to him before the class started. Cye Mouri was his
name, and Josephine thought he was pretty damn cute. To Cye's left, was Sage
Date, who, in Josephine's opinion, looked like Mary Tyler Moore, only with
blonde hair.
Professor Akina looked around after all of the tests were passed forward. Not
saying a word, he walked around and took the tests from every person on the
front row. After placing them on his desk, he picked up a stack of papers that
had been rolled up like a scroll, "This is what we have to learn by the end of
the semester."
It didn't look like that much. The professor grinned morbidly at the sound of
relief and delight by his students. Using his chair as a step, he climbed on
top of his desk. Standing on the edge and holding the first page of the scroll
over his head, he released the others to trail down from his hand to the floor,
bounce twice, and continued rolling for another four feet. He enjoyed the sound
of tall, muscled jocks burst into tears. The truth was, it's what kept this man
coming back to his job year after year.
"And if we don't cover it all…I'll still get paid and you'll still see it on
your final. That way it works out for all of us."
"How do you expect us to learn all of that in one semester?" A student asked.
Professor Akina grinned, "I learned it all in one semester. How do you think I
came to teach this class?"
Josephine just stared in complete astonishment. He expected her to learn all of
that in less than four months. She looked towards Cye and nudged him in the
side, "What a blowhard."
Cye nodded in agreement and turned his attention back to the professor when he
noticed that man wasn't done talking yet.
Professor Akina dropped his part of the scroll and hopped down off his desk,
"And just so you know, this is not a daycare. I'm not going to spend my time
with each and every one of you when you have a problem. In this class, I do ten
percent of the teaching; the book does eighty percent. The other ten percent
will consist of one simple principle: teach yourself. This test that you just
took is an assessment test. The next time you come in this class, there will be
a seating arrangement. The lowest scored people will be at the front of the
class, and the high scoring people will be at the back. I do this for a simple
reason: My daughter spent three years and twenty thousand dollars of my
money trying to pass a history course when the truth is she just wasn't paying
attention. If you didn't try on this test, you're probably not very motivated
to try in my class."
He walked behind his desk pulled out the small end of a fishing rod. The real
flexible part, "If you fall asleep in my class, your parents will know it and
so will everyone else."
Sage shifted in his seat. He made note to never sleep in this man's class. Geez,
fall asleep in here and I'll have a big whelp across my neck.
"I don't like to give pop quizzes, they are a waste of my time and in my
opinion, a pop quiz is just a way to torture students. It's not a real basis of
assessing this class's progress. So, you will not have another pop quiz in this
class unless I crawl through the window in overalls and a straw hat with test
in hand. As for now," He glanced at his clock again, "You are dismissed."
*~*
Rekino's class had been dismissed early for a professor's conference. She and
Kento walked out of class together, talking about how badly Rekino would hurt
him if he revealed her identity. Kento grimaced, remembering how she had
injured him before. He didn't want that to happen again.
"Now, here's my number so you can call me. Be sure that you don't call me
while you're around Ryo, okay? You'll have to ask for me, and then you'll just
ruin everything." Rekino took out a pen and pulled Kento's hand toward
her. She wrote the number to her and Hana's apartment on it. After she had
finished, Rekino leaned up and kissed Kento lightly on the cheek. After that,
she walked away.
Rekino noticed Josephine and Amaya in the courtyard, so she walked toward them.
She knew that Hana would be out soon, and that would be a common and easy spot
for her to find the rest of the girls. Rekino sat down on the bench and started
talking to Josephine. She didn't get much time to speak. She heard quick
footsteps coming her way.
*~*
Hana bolted out of the classroom when the teacher dismissed them before Ryo
even had the chance to talk to her. When she reached the outside of the
building, she scanned the courtyard for Rekino. After spotting her, Hana dashed
over to her. She pulled Rekino aside, out of breath, and told her the news.
"Ryo knows who I am."
That one sentence seemed to hit Rekino like a ton of bricks. She was almost
knocked off of her feet. She immediately turned the opposite way of Hana's
building, trying to disguise herself from anyone's view. "How the hell did
that happen? You were supposed to keep your identity a secret, dumbass,"
Rekino whispered to her blonde friend.
"Like I could help it!" Hana whispered in an irritated voice.
"It was either that or fail my class on the first day. I can't do that! I
had to identify myself when the professor called on me." Hana looked away
from her friend of so long for the first time in a while in anger. It wasn't
my fault. I had to do it. Like I could help it. But noooo. Does Rekino care
about that? ... Yes. She does. Damn. I can't believe I'm thinking this about
her. How could I be so cruel?
Rekino grabbed her friend's army gently. "Hey, Hana, I'm sorry. I
know. Sorry I snapped at you. I didn't mean to." Rekino smiled at her.
"I know what will make you feel better."
*~*
Kento walked up to his four friends. Sage was looking at him rather strangely.
"Damn, boy. Go get you some," Sage said playfully. It was the first
and only time that Sage had seen Kento attract a female. He wasn't as good
looking as Sage was, after all.
Kento smiled nervously. "I don't think so. That's one girl that I would
never touch. She's..." Kento stopped himself before he said anything. He
looked away nervously. Oh man. I'm gonna get killed if I say anything. Could
I be any stupider? ... Wait, is stupider a word? ... Hmm ... I don' t know.
Kento glanced in Rekino's direction. What he saw nearly knocked him off of his
feet. "Hey! That's my cousin! JOSEPHINE! HEY! JOSEPHINE! WHAT ARE YOU
DOIN' HERE, JOSEPHINE?!"
*~*
Josephine looked up, Rekino stopped talking and looked up, Hana looked up,
Amaya stared in disbelief, and Mia, who had just walked up, stared in Kento's
direction with a disappointed look on her face. Josephine was the first to
speak. "Oh...my...God. That...is...so…embarrassing." Josephine smiled
slightly and raised her hand to wave at Kento.
Hana looked at Josephine and smiled. "Embarrassed?" Josephine nodded
in response to Hana's question. "Exit stage left?" Hana asked.
Josephine nodded again. The five girls ran in the opposite direction of the
guys. They stopped a short distance from the courtyard, each of them laughing
in their own way.
Rekino looked at Hana, trying to catch her breath. "So, about me making you
feel better … how about we all go to the Omelet Shoppe and have some lunch? We
can talk about guys, Hana … since you don't talk about them that often." Rekino
laughed at her sarcastic joke. "Just kidding. So, what do you girls say to
that?"
Mia was the first to respond. "I'm paying!" She said cheerfully. She smirked at
the other girls. Rekino and Hana grimaced at her. She always wanted to
pay for everything. Not that they were objecting! They were, after all, poor
little college students. "And that's that! I don't want to hear another word
about it!" Mia looked at the other girls and noticed that no one was objecting.
"Good. Then it's settled. Let's go!"
Josephine piped in, "Yeah! I'm starving! I'm as hungry as a hostage! I feel
like I haven't eaten in years!" The other four girls looked at her with
skeptical faces. "Okay, okay, so it's only been a couple of hours. I'm still
hungry!"
The girls decided to take different vehicles, since each one had driven their
own vehicles to the college in the first place. Each headed for the parking lot
to find their cars and meet up at the Omelet Shoppe.
*~*
The guys decided to go out to lunch together, so they all headed for the
parking lot. On the way there, Ryo spotted the four girls that Hana had ran
toward in the courtyard and Hana. One was, of course, Hana; another was Kento's
cousin, Josephine; another was Mia; another was a girl that he had never seen
before; however, he couldn't figure out who the one with the long black hair
was. Who is she? She reminds me of someone, but I can't put my finger on it.
I have to see her up close in order to figure it out. Who is that girl?
The guys arrived at their cars, which were all conveniently parked beside one
another, shortly after all of the girls had departed. They decided to take a
trip down memory lane and visit an Omelet Shoppe that was close by. That was
Kento's idea, of course, seeing how he was the expert on food in the area.
*~*
When the girls got to the Omelet Shoppe, they took a seat at the round table in
the corner so they could all sit together. It didn't take long for them to
decide on what they wanted. Everyone ordered a waffle with side orders and
Mountain Dews. As the waitress walked away to report their order, they began to
talk. Hana was in the corner of the building, so she had a full view of the
people coming in the restaurant.
What she saw nearly knocked her out of her seat. She saw Ryo get out of his '68
Corvette and look around. Apparently, he was meeting some other people there.
Hana cleared her throat. "Don't look now, Rekino, but your brother is here, and
I think that he's going to be coming in. Don't you think that's a little
problem?" Hana asked nervously.
Rekino took in a deep breath. "Oh … shit." She couldn't get anything else out
at the time, so she just put her head down on the table. She raised her head
up, grinning evilly. "I've … got … a plan. Okay, Hana, when he comes in, you
distract him and I'll leave quickly, okay?"
Josephine looked at her in amazement. "What are you going to do about your
food? You can't just order and leave, you know? That's kind of rude!" Josephine
scowled at Rekino, who looked at her in amazement.
This time, Amaya stepped in to keep the peace. "Rekino, she is right. That
would be rather rude of you to do so after that nice waitress has already taken
your order. That reminds me of a story that I know. A woman I know left her
food sitting on the table without touching it and then she left. They banned
her from returning to the restaurant." Amaya sighed in disappointment. "Sad
story, really. She was otherwise a very nice person."
Rekino glared at Amaya cruelly. "So, Miss Etiquette, what next? A lesson in
tea? I mean, really, you could think of something better." When Rekino saw how
she had hurt Amaya's feelings, she was quick to apologize. "I'm so sorry Amaya.
I didn't mean to snap at you like that. But seriously, what do you think that I
should do?" Before Rekino had a chance to hear a response, the guys had walked
in the door.
*~*
Ryo was joking with Rowen as they walked in. Rowen was telling him all of the
recent jokes that he had heard, and Ryo was about to completely forget about
Hana ... until he saw her. She was sitting at one of the corner tables with her
three other friends. Curiously, Ryo walked over to the table. He kissed Mia on
the cheek and smiled at Hana.
"Well, Mia, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends? I've already
met Hana, of course. She was my sister's best friend, after all." Ryo
smiled at Hana, who returned a nervous smile, but tried to play it off. Before
Mia could introduce Ryo, he noticed that there was an extra plate on the table.
"Wait, whose plate is this? There are only four of you, but five plates.
That doesn't make very much sense." He glared at Hana suspiciously.
Josephine laughed. "You don't know me or my cousin very well, do you? That's my plate. I just had them sit it down right beside me. I'm hungry, you know." Josephine smiled at Ryo.
He accepted that answer. Mia went on to introduce the only other person left to Ryo. "Ryo, this is Amaya Kazeno. She's French. You've already met Josephine Rei Faun ... who speaks for herself. Josephine, Amaya, this is Ryo Sanada." She frowned at Josephine, who didn't really notice.
Ryo extended his hand to take Amaya's. He lifted it up to his lips and kissed it lightly before softly returning it to her. She blushed lightly, having forgotten what that felt like. "Pleased to meet you, Amaya. I always look forward to seeing fresh new faces."
"The pleasure is mine, Mr. Sanada. You are a well-mannered gentleman. I see why Mia likes you so." Amaya barely raised her voice above a whisper, not wanting to appear rude. She was always a little shy around new people ... well, people in general. It was just her nature.
Ryo smiled and kissed Mia again on the cheek. "I have to go and sit with the guys. You are all welcome to come over if you like and sit with us. We would enjoy the company. It gets kind of boring with only guys around you all the time, you know? Well, I guess you wouldn't. Women are always so ... cheery and interesting. I would much rather be around all of you than the guys."
"Oh, stop Ryo, really. You shouldn't try to flatter us like that so much. You should just be your plain old self. I like you better like that than when you're so formal. Amaya doesn't mind, and neither does anyone else. Anyway, we would come sit with you guys, but we don't have a lot of time. We have to eat and get out of here." Hana flashed Ryo a genuine smile. "Or else we would come sit with you."
"That's okay, Hana, I know that you girls are busy. I'll talk to you later, Mia, and it was nice to meet you, Josephine and Amaya. I'll talk to you all soon, I'm sure." Ryo smiled and waved politely before walking off to join the guys on the other side of the restaurant.
After he was clearly out of sight, Hana sighed deeply. "Thank goodness he's gone. I thought for sure that he would find out." She kicked her feet under the table, making contact with a very frustrated Rekino.
"Hey! You could watch it, you know! I've only been under here for the whole conversation! It's hot and cramped, and I'm really hungry!" Rekino returned to her chair and removed her silverware from its holder. She stabbed into her steak and cut a large piece out. She stuffed it into her mouth and chewed furiously. Even Josephine couldn't have matched that bite. After she had swallowed and taken a drink, she looked at the other girls. "What? I was hungry."
*~*
Ryo walked to the other side of the restaurant, where his four friends were sitting patiently. They had waited on him to order so that he wouldn't get something that he didn't want. He ordered steak. It was what he had been craving for a while. "I saw Mia. She was out with her friends," Ryo said as he sat down.
Rowen looked at him curiously. "You know, I don't recall you ever mentioning 'friends' of Mia's. Who are they? What do they look like?" Rowen smiled. "Sorry, man. We'll talk later. If we don't Sage will go over there and steal all of their hearts. Then I won't stand a chance." He laughed.
The guys waited patiently for their food. It had been a while since they had gone out ... well, just the guys. Mia was always with them. While they waited, they talked about "guy stuff", which meant girls. Rowen's talk about Mia's friends had brought back stories of old girlfriends.
Rowen, of course, was the first to speak. "Do you remember that girl that you made out with, Kento? I don't remember her very well, but she was like your first girlfriend. Do you remember? I caught you two in the living room. You said she was choking. Do you remember that?"
Kento sighed. "Yes, and she was my third girlfriend. We were in the kitchen, and she was choking! We weren't making out, like you thought. I promise she was choking. Kissing in the kitchen isn't sanitary. I would never risk being unsanitary around food." Kento looked at Rowen with an evil stare.
Rowen laughed. "Yeah, right, Kento! Choking! And I'm Jack Nicholson! She was choking 'bout as much as you hate food!" Rowen was laughing so hard now, that he was about to cry. Before he could make fun of Kento anymore, though, the food came, so he had to stop. The guys spent their meal in silence, other than the occasional comment about the food.
*~*
Back at the table with the girls, Rekino, Josephine, and Mia were chatting with
one another about the plans for the rest of the day while Hana and Amaya ate in
silence. Amaya would occasionally throw a comment out towards the other girls
while Hana was just completely silent.
Rekino frowned slightly at her friend's abnormal behavior. Usually Hana was the
one to bring life to a conversation, but she just seemed so…sad today. Rekino
lightly nudged Hana with her elbow, "What's wrong?"
The blonde sighed out loud. The fork in Hana's right hand absently ran over the
syrup on her plate while her cheek rested in her left hand. She closed her
midnight blue eyes and spoke softly. "Nothing."
Before Rekino could speak, a male voice was heard.
"Someone as beautiful as yourself shouldn't frown. You never know who's falling
in love with your smile."
Hana's head turned so sharply to the right that her neck instantly popped. She
looked up into the eyes of the person that addressed her and was met by a pair
of silver orbs – correction, one silver orb. A sheet of luscious blonde hair
covered the other eye. Her heart almost
skipped a beat. It was the one person who was causing her all of this
confusion.
The man smiled, "What a coincidence to see you up here, Hana. I surely would've
thought you'd be at your home waiting for my phone call."
*~*
The guys had been so wrapped up in their idle chat that they didn't notice when
Sage got up and left. Rowen doubled over in laughter after being reminded of
one of his many past girlfriends, but immediately stopped laughing when he
started choking slightly. Cye patted him on the back trying to calm his blue
haired friend down.
Ryo rolled his eyes at his goofy friends and looked towards Sage to ask him how
his food was when he noticed Sage's chair was empty. He tilted his head to the
side and raised one of his black eyebrows, "Where's Sage?"
Kento looked up from his plate when Ryo announced that their blonde friend was
missing. His eyes started scanning the room until he found what he was looking
for. Sage was at the other end of the restaurant talking with a blonde girl and
beside her was Rekino, "There he is! He's over there talking with some girl!"
He pointed towards the table and noticed someone else. It was his younger cousin.
"Josephine? HEY, JOSEPHINE!"
Before Cye could say anything, Kento was already half way across the restaurant
waving frantically at his cousin. Cye covered his mouth as he slightly laughed,
"I guess no one ever told Kento that yelling while people were eating was
rude."
"Yeah, I guess," Rowen said in annoyance. He looked at Cye and raised an
eyebrow, "Dude, you look so much like a girl when you do that."
Cye's happy personality was turned upside down, "That really wasn't necessary,
smurf boy."
"SMURF BOY?!" Rowen yelled, standing up, "I'll give ya 'smurf boy', you British
pansy!"
Ryo jumped in-between his friends, "Calm down you two. Stop acting childish." A
pair of green eyes and a pair of blue eyes stared at him in disbelief. Dammit.
I'm starting to sound like Mia. Speaking of his lover, he glanced behind
his shoulder to see her. She was beautiful, sitting there and laughing at
Kento's antics. That's when he noticed her, the girl with long black
hair that had gotten to him earlier that day. She hadn't been at the table
before, and he hadn't seen her walk in, so how was she able to get past him?
Unless he missed something earlier.
"Yo Ryo," Rowen's voice brought Ryo crashing back to reality, "What're you
staring at? More importantly, who are you staring at?"
Ryo pushed his chair in and looked at Cye and Rowen, "I need to go talk with
those girls. I'll be back in a minute." He turned away from his friends and
started walking towards the girls' table.
Rowen and Cye looked at one another and shrugged. They, too, pushed their
chairs in and followed Ryo towards the other table.
*~*
Rekino couldn't help but laugh at Josephine's facial expressions every time
Kento asked her a question. It seemed that not only was he a human garbage
disposal, but an auctioneer as well. She put another piece of steak into her
mouth and chewed lightly. As she reached for her drink, someone tapped her on
the shoulder. When she turned around, she, literally, started choking on her
food.
Behind her was none other than her brother, Ryo Sanada. And he was staring at
her with those intense tiger blue eyes. Kento and Josephine looked up when they
heard Rekino and both went silent, Amaya cleared her throat, Mia lowered her
head and said a silent prayer, and Hana stopped talking with Sage, who too
looked at the scenario before him.
Rekino grabbed her cup and drank half of the liquid. She was still trying to
catch her breath when Ryo's deep, curious voice startled her.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you," He said rather politely.
Rekino shook her head, "No, it's fine."
Ryo smiled at her and decided to keep going, "I know this may sound weird, but
it seems like I should know you from somewhere. Who are you?"