Da Capo
-by Meeko Melodie
Meeko: Hey, 2 more weeks of torturing and I'm free! Thank you for the reviews and for being so honest with me, some of you. I really appreciate them. Really. Also thank you for being so patient, here's your chapter. Enjoy!
"I mean," Kouji said, "sure, Ms. Goldsmith, except, you know, there are lots of spider webs under there and I was trying to clean them up and all." He said all this really fast.
Ms. Goldsmith nodded. Kouji was relief but what Ms. Goldsmith did next almost make him swore out loud. She looked under his bed!
End of RecapChapter 8: Sweet Revenge, or is it? Part 3"Fuck," Kouji found himself muttering under his breathe.
"Excuse me?" Mrs. Goldsmith turned back to him, her eyebrows raised.
"Erm..." Kouji stunted, "nothing."
"Alright then," Mrs. Goldsmith still looked at Kouji with distrust and stuck her head under the bed. (Meeko: The bed is pretty high) Kouji held his breathe and his heart were beating so damn fast that it was hurting Kouji in the chest.
"One of these seconds now," Kouji thought frantically as his hands went even sweatier than before. But that 'second' never came as Mrs. Goldsmith emerged from the bed and shook her head.
"You should really clean that space under your bed," Mrs. Goldsmith only commented. Kouji could not believe his eyes or ears. He actually thought he would be kicked out for sure.
Sighing with relief without being too obvious in front of Mrs. Goldsmith, Kouji smiled and replied, "Of course, Mrs. Goldsmith, I was just thinking of doing that right now."
Nodding, Mrs. Goldsmith finally left the once again quiet room, leaving Kouji flushed with embarrassment.
Crawling out with only her bra and skirt on, Jocelyn once again flung herself onto Kouji but he obviously wasn't in the mood after almost being caught at it.
Shrugging Jocelyn off roughly, Kouji suddenly found himself so...dirty; he felt like he had to take ten baths and even ten at the moment did not sound enough after touching Jocelyn Clarkson.
"What's wrong with me?" Kouji asked himself, mentally banging his head on the wall, "this is just not right."
"Ok, so Izumi just dumped me," Kouji thought dully, "but that's not the end of the world, is it?" He didn't even notice when Jocelyn left, with a scowl on her pretty face.
He lay on his bed and glanced up at the graying ceiling for a few seconds, then closed his eyes to try and forget all of the things that had happened to him so fast he couldn't even adjust.
But the moment he let his eyelids close, Izumi's expressionless face hovered in front of him, telling him they were 'officially over'.
Kouji forced his eyes open.
"Damn," Kouji swore," why can't I just forget about her?"
"Maybe I just need some time to quiet down," Kouji convinced himself," yes, after a few days, I can lead a normal life again, without Izumi's face sticking in my brain when ever I sleep and who knows, maybe we can still be friends."
With that, he walked into the bathroom, deciding to scrub himself hard to get the 'Jocelyn germs' off his body as quickly as possible before the next bell.
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An earsplitting bell at six o'clock at Vancouver International Secondary only indicated one thing: dinner time!
Students from different dorms down the avenue scurried into the main building with their friends and peers to the dining hall.
Kouji walked alone down the street, since Ryo was nowhere in sight. Knowing him, he was probably bothering, or in Ryo's words, 'flirting', with Ryuko. Sure enough, Kouji caught sight of Ryo, along with Ryuko, Elli and Izumi marching up the stairs into the school building.
He kept a slight distance, not wanting Izumi to see himself in such a miserable mess.
Entering into the dining hall, Kouji lined up with a few other kids in between himself and the group, or a.k.a the group including Izumi.
Kouji wasn't that hungry, so he just settled with a bowl of salad and some noodle soup and set himself near the group but not so close as to they could see him.
Unfortunately, Ryo had really good eyes and spotted Kouji right away. Even worst, he started yelling across the room, "Kouji! Come over here, someone wants to see you!"
Sighing and cursing why he had such an annoying and loud mouthed roommate, he pretended he was not Kouji and continued to eat his salad. He wasn't about to join a table with Izumi sitting stiffly next to him like they had met for the first time and wishing they would never meet again, ever.
Without noticing, someone just sat herself beside Kouji and in an unnecessarily close distance. Kouji almost literally jumped with a heart attack when he saw who it was.
"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked harshly to the silver haired girl who had just brought a tray to join him and who Kouji just did not feel like sitting with at the moment.
"To look at your miserable face and Orimoto's pathetic expression between you two's special relationship," Jocelyn replied smoothly as she brushed her leg lightly against Kouji's.
"So she knew we just broke up," Kouji thought, stabbing the lettuce with redundant force. He felt sick at being seen with Jocelyn by Izumi herself, though, Kouji didn't know why he still care.
"Just leave me alone," Kouji muttered, twisting the fork in his hands.
"What if I won't?" she asked slyly, putting her hand on Kouji's arm and teasingly drawing circles on his skin with her slim finger.
"I will make sure you do," Kouji replied hatefully and faced her.
Smiling lightly, Jocelyn came up close to Kouji's still twisted face and without any sign of warning, she forced a kiss on Kouji's lips, a fiery one at that.
She was just so skillful at it that it was impossible to think of her as an innocent grade twelve girl. Every touch and every lick of her was like a little piece of heaven for any guy; any guy except Kouji Minamoto, who actually had the common sense to push her roughly off of himself.
Standing up abruptly, with everyone around his table glancing at him in a strange way, Kouji looked over at Izumi's table and saw, without any surprise, that Izumi's chair was empty.
"Damn that stupid bitch," Kouji muttered heatedly as he left his food untouched and attempted to chase after Izumi.
But no sooner did he reach the dining hall door, a figure halted him.
"You got some explaining to do, mister," Ryo Akiyama told him seriously, looking darkly at the direction Izumi had just ran out, tears stinging in her sea green eyes.