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Chapter TWO - Friends
It was Tuesday morning and Tohru was sitting in her math class, thinking about all of the attempts of trying to talk to Kyo had failed miserably. Whenever she came up to him, he would turn around and talk to someone else, giving her the cold shoulder. She pouted and wondered what she had done to make him angry, instantly blaming herself for whatever action she had done to hurt him. She was sitting in her math class lost in thought when the bell suddenly rang, signaling the end of the period. Students rushed out, and Kyo was the first one to walk out of the door. She sprang up from her seat, ready to follow him, until three girls with menacing stares stood in her way. Tohru's eyes widened and she stumbled backwards, bowing down to apologize,
"Excuse me, I'm sorry."
The girls crossed their arms over their chest instead of moving aside, and then the girl with long brown curls that was standing in the front spoke up with a nasty tone,
"Excuse me, but do you know who we are?"Tohru shook her head slowly and answered cheerfully,
"I'm sorry, but I would love to get to know you all though! My name is Honda Tohru!"
The snotty girl in the front smirked and just raised an eyebrow at Tohru before continuing with a haughty tone,"We are seniors, and you? You are a little lower class freak; you're just like a bug, so you better stay the hell away from guys like Kyo, because you and him are in two completely different leagues. He's popular, and you? You are nothing. Kyo is ours, so stop chasing him around like the loser you are, got it?"
Tohru's eyes filled with tears as they all flipped their hair with triumphant grins and pushed Tohru out of their way before leaving the classroom, swaying their hips. Tohru felt like a statue as she stood in the middle of her math classroom, feeling completely mortified. She looked around the room to see if anyone had witnessed that scene and unfortunately she caught a few students shooting her sympathetic glances from behind her, but they all rushed out, dodging her on their way out. Tohru could feel her heart pounding in her chest with apprehension as she bolted out of the classroom and straight into the girl's bathroom to cry her heart out. Again.
After school, back at home
Kyo was stomping up the stairs to his room, and while passing by Tohru's room he heard muffled noises. His forehead wrinkled as he stopped at the top of the staircase to listen again. He willed himself to not pay attention to the noise, but couldn't help but peek in when he saw that her door was ajar. When he looked in, he saw her laying on her bed, crying softly in her pillow. He felt his heart drop to his stomach and his fists tighten as he gradually opened the door up a little more. She looked up when she heard the creak of the door and sat up quickly while furiously wiping at her eyes with the sleeve of her shirt. She turned red and said a bit loudly,
"U-Um, hello Kyo-kun!"Kyo gripped the knob tightly until his knuckles turned white, and he was about to turn around and leave, but when saw that her face was all red and blotchy with tears he caved. He opened the door fully and walked over to her dresser, grabbing the box of tissues, handing her one. She blinked rapidly a few times and nodded with thanks as she accepted the tissue, blotting her eyes with it. Kyo awkwardly lowered himself onto the edge of the bed, staring intently at the wall in front of him, and he asked robotically,
"So… do you mind tell me what's bothering you?"
Tohru shook her head very quickly and said with denial,
"It's nothing at all!"
Kyo sighed, lowering his eyes a bit, and fiddled with his thumbs as he stated,
"You wouldn't be crying if you were fine, so what's wrong?"
Tohru looked away and bit her lower lip, feeling it begin to tremble again, but she forced herself to control her tears back. She took a deep breath and said with a brave voice,
"I… just feel kind of alone. I mean, everyone at school ignores me and… um…. Kyo, I-I just wanted to know if you were mad at me, or anything."
Tohru blew out a sigh of relief when she finished that last sentence, shooting a timid glance in his direction. Kyo's eyes widened and his heart felt like it had been stabbed by a milion knives, because he finally began to take note of what a jerk he had been to her by ignoring and pretending not to know her. Kyo replied with a low and candid voice,
"I'm… not mad."
Tohru sighed with relief and said warmly,
"That's good to hear…"
Kyo cursed under his breath and then pounded his fist on the bed, making her snap up a little with surprise. He shut his eyes and said through clenched teeth,
"I… I'm sorry for being a damn jerk towards you; I don't know what was wrong with me."
Tohru shook her head and answered automatically,
"You weren't being a jerk Kyo-kun!"
Kyo took a deep breath and insisted,
"No need for pretending okay? I know I was being an ass, and I'm sorry about that."
Tohru was about to open her mouth to protest more, but he interrupted her by offering,
"Look, there's this party at six tonight, uh, you… wanna come?"
Tohru felt a warm smile spread across her face, placing her hand over her heart, and said to him with a heartfelt tone,
"Thank you very much Kyo-kun."
"Yea… whatever."
At the party…
Tohru and Kyo entered the building where the party was being held and she looked around nervously, cowering behind Kyo's back when she saw that there weren't any familiar faces to greet. Also to add to her fear the girls that had threatened her earlier were standing at the corner of the party, flipping their hair flirtatiously with sick saccharine smiles pasted on their make-up covered faces.
Kyo spotted his friends from across the room, and felt his heart tear, not wanting to abandon Tohru by herself, but not really wanting to go and introduce her to his friends either. Before he even had a chance to decide on what to do, Tohru pointed at the restroom door and said nervously,
"Um, I'm just going to go to the bathroom okay? You can go talk to your friends…"
Kyo sighed with relief and then nodded at her before walking over to his friends. Tohru ran into the bathroom and locked the door before sitting down in the stalls, taking deep inhales and exhales, trying to calm herself down.
You can be social… you can be social…no one hates you! Breathe, breathe, breathe.
Tohru closed her eyes and took one last shaky breath before regaining her composure and slowly unlocking the door to the bathroom. She stepped out cautiously, quickly surveying the room for Kyo's face. When she finally spotted him, she saw him joking around and laughing with his friends. She gulped and felt all of her courage diminish quickly while watching him have fun. She looked down at the floor, letting her shoulders slumpas she thought to herself,
Maybe I should just leave…I don't belong here.
She lowered her head downward and walked quickly towards the exit, not wanting to bother Kyo or give him hard time. Just as she was heading outside though, she bumped right into a burly man with bloodshot eyes. Tohru looked up into his eyes and said,
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't see you there…"
The guy leaned in really close so that she could smell the bitter breath of alcohol that protruded from his mouth, making her cringe backwards a little. He looked into her eyes and smiled wildly at her,
"Hey, you're pretty cute, baby. You wanna go somewhere private?"
Tohru gulped and laughed at him nervously while trying to be as polite as possible,
"N-no thank you."
He grabbed her hand forcefully, pulling her along through the exit and said with a dangerous voice,
"C'mon I just wanna tell you something."
Tohru tried to scream out 'no!', but no words came out, so she silently let herself get dragged out into the alleyway behind the building, feeling the cold air biting at her face. There were hot tears streaming down her rosy cheeks and her whole body was trembling with fear as he smiled at her seductively.
Back at the party
Kyo's eyebrows scrunched together when he thought he saw a giant man leading Tohru outside.
Why do I even care?
Without thought, he found himself pushing his friends out of his way just to get a better look at what he thought he was seeing. He was snapped out of his thoughts when one of his friends asked loudly,
"Yo man, what's wrong?"Kyo whipped around at the guy, shooting him a death glare, before informing him angrily,
"I'm going outside, later."Kyo pushed through everyone that was in his way, ignoring the dirty looks, and made a beeline towards the exit where indeed he found some huge drunk guy pushing Tohru up against a brick wall with force. She whimpered softly and Kyo could feel his anger breaking past its maximum as he lunged at the guy, grabbing him by the shoulders, and punching him so hard that the huge guy fell backwards and to the ground with a huge THUD. Kyo's chest heaved up and down as he watched the guy's unconscious and bloody face on the pavement. He kicked him one last time in the side and said with triumph,
"And stay down, you dirty piece of crap…"
Tohru's mouth was wide open and she looked straight into Kyo's eyes when he glanced her way with an intense stare. He went closer to her and looked Tohru up and down to see if she was okay before scolding her,
"Damn! How the hell could you follow that guy out here?! Are you stupid or something?! I mean, seriously, you coulda screamed or something!"
Tohru blinked away the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes and she let her emotions take over as she rushed forward, throwing her arms around his neck, sobbing loudly,"I was so scared… thank you so much for coming..."
Kyo winced at her actions and immediately detached from her as gently as he could, then he said sternly while shaking his head,
"Look, hugs aren't my thing okay?"
Tohru turned a little red and she apologized softly,
"Oh! Sorry…"
Kyo glanced around at the empty alleyway and sighed as he pointed his head away from the party,
"Let's just get you home alright?"
Tohru's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and her eyes clouded with concern when she asked,
"What about your friends?"
Kyo shrugged and just started to walk away from the party, with her following close behind wearing a secret smile on her face.
The next day
Kyo was putting on his shoes to go to school when he heard his mother calling out his name from the kitchen. He sighed with exasperation, waiting impariently for her to come out of the kitchen and tell him,
"Kyo, why don't you wait for Tohru? I'm sure she doesn't enjoy walking to school alone…"
"Dammit mom! I don't want to walk wi---"
He stopped short when he heard Tohru coming down the stairs. She appeared with a smile on her face and waved at Kyo while greeting him brightly,
"Good morning Kyo-kun!"
Kyo looked at his mom's pleading eyes and then at Tohru's dancing eyes. He let out an audible sigh, then he put on a scowl and barked out at Tohru,
"C'mon, Let's go!"
He stormed out of the front door and Tohru blinked back in surprise while following him out of the door in a hurry while calling out behind her,
"Bye, Mrs. Sohma!"
Kyo's mom waved back at the both of them and yelled out,
"Bye!"
Tohru walked quickly to stand beside him and slowed down to a walk while racking her brain for something interesting to say to him.
"Um, um...thank you for walking with me to school, Kyo-kun."
"Yea… whatever."
"It's really nice of you."
Kyo stuffed his hands into his front pockets and announced with a red tinted face,
"Don't expect me to make this a daily thing though!"
Tohru smiled to herself and nodded happily.
At school
Kyo and Tohru were walking together down the filled hallways and Kyo flinched a bit when he saw his "friends" hanging around at the lockers. Tohru glanced at Kyo to see if he was going to leave her side and go with his friends, but even when his friends noticed him, he still stayed planted by Tohru's side the whole time. One of his friend's went up to them, stopping them in their tracks, and asked with an accusing tone,
"Hey, what's goin' on man? You totally ditch us at the party the other day and now you don't even talk to us?"
Kyo just shot him a stone cold glare and snapped,
"Damn, stop acting like a freakin' baby! I had to deal with something."
Tohru gulped as she watched the scene play out, feeling extremely guilty so she whispered out,
"Um… I'll leave now if you want."
Before he could even reply, Tohru started to quickly walk away from the whole group, knowing that they all disliked her, and she didn't want them to dislike Kyo because of her either. While walking further and further down the hall she could feel her shoulders slumping and her mood getting darker, but that changed when she heard a deep voice call out to her,
"Wait up!"
Tohru turned around and scanned the crowd, her pupils dilating when she caught sight of Kyo racing up to her. When he reached her side he rolled his eyes and stood next to her, saying with an exasperated tone,
"Geez, the least you could do was wait."
Tohru felt a small smile spread across her lips and she thought to herself,
Maybe this means that Kyo really wants to be my friend… I'm so happy.
"Sorry."
"Ah, whatever, let's just get to class."
Tohru nodded happily and they continued to walk off together side by side and into their next classroom, as newfound friends.
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