Wasurenai
Never Forget

By: FiendisHSerapH

Two - Curiosity

"And who might you be?"

Her senses (which by that time seemed to have hanged) was 'rebooted' upon hearing the cold and deep voice asking her that sentence. She looked around and realized that the one with that cursed index finger owned it.

"Uh..." that blank thoughts filler was simultaneously done with observing the other person. As the deep voice implied, he's a he, and it's surprising to know that he's about her age, though his voice seemed to be from a teenager about fifteen years of age. He has spiky brown hair, fair (and note-worthy, flawless) complexion, sharp blue eyes with brows raised half an inch higher than the usual, pointy nose, lips that are pursed into a pondering pout and lean built. His expression was somewhat comical that the girl almost chuckled out loud. Good she had temperance on her cooperative part.

"Just the to-be owner of that cricket you're stealing." came her straightforward reply hinting annoyance.

"Weird girl..." the lad eyed the destroyer of his solitude. Pale yellow mane cropped to her cheeks, blue-green eyes battling his on a staring game, round-tipped nose and lips formed on a one-sided smirk. Usually, if you ask for introductions, they'll give you their name of any identifiable word you could call them... but she's weird, definitely.

"Okay, Miss to-be owner of this cricket, excuse me, but I think this is my pet you're talking a---"

"I don't believe you." the bright-eyed girl immediately objected as she crossed her arms in front of her, never taking her scowl off.

"Want a proof?" he made some buzzing sounds then called, "Mikuri, saa..." In compliance, the creature jumped up to his left shoulder. The girl still stared, dumb-founded this time.

"You call that insect by name?" a spark of interest made her eyes glow even livelier, a glow hard to ignore that it took almost half of the lad's concentration.

"Yes, of course. She is my pet, you see..." he replied in a manner disturbed, probably regretful of sparking the stranger's interest into a blazing fire, because that would surely mean total destruction of peace in his private space.

"And that's a she? How did you know?" the inquisitive lass already found her seat beside him, and that move left him pondering. That is something someone had ever done to him for the first time, his mind registered. If only she knew why he had established such deep relationships with insects... wouldn't she be irked out?

I hope she wouldn't. I don't want to..., his other side mumbled, and that made him questioning his thoughts. He was annoyed with himself, in short.

"Uh... I just can... can feel it?" he said, slightly unsure under those eyes.

"You are weird." the lass frowned a bit, then looked around. There it went, the sentence he's so afraid of.

"You're also eccentric." she paused, feeling the soothing wind pass through them and whispering something in the lad's nature-sensitive ear. The note sent him an eyepop.

She's the one you've been waiting for...

With that whisper came the girl's continuation,

"... but I like that kind of weirdness." He turned back to her and caught the sign he had been waiting for. It's an approval of good tidings for the future, and the signal of the end of his loneliness.

A heart-warming smile. Who would've known that she'd be having it? Deep inside, he felt cheated for he was the first one who asked for her name and yet she ended up knowing something about him. He felt that he was taken advantage of upon that meeting.

"Uh, who are...?"

"Ino! Come back here, you girl. Kakibara-sensei's calling us!" He heard voices coming from the forest of trees, repeating the sentence louder with each repetition.

"Coming!" The pale-haired girl shouted back. Seh walked ahead a few steps, then turned back to the silent boy and said, "Nice meeting you, and you've won; she's yours. Maybe I'll see you again."

"I don't know..." The coffee brown-haired boy said, "but I am certain you won't."

"I can, and I will." she uttered the lase statement faintly, for she was already running away from their meeting point. Soon enough, the whole place was deafeningly serene... again.

And the persistent wind blew, whispering another message to the boy's ear.

"Hah, we'll see." his hand found Mikuri's miniscule head and lapped it several times. But then, he was bugged by the beings inside him jumping due to a reason who-knows-what. Indeed, it freaked him out.

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TBC