Sweet Dreams
#3 One Step Before Reaching You - Catching Up
She swallowed, tightly gripping the two tickets to the musical 'Cats' in her sweating hand.
There were two reasons why she was feeling so nervous; one, because she had actually stolen these expensive tickets from her brother, (At least she had gotten permission from his girlfriend, Tamao, to give it to her. After spending a considerable amount of time begging on her knees and explaining things, of course.) and two, because she was just a few steps behind her crush Ren Tao.
He was the main reason she had run around begging for tickets, and furiously making excuses to her clueless brother. Now that she'd gotten the tickets, however, she still had one last huge task left- asking him out.
This scared her even more then the wrath of her brother if he found about her little crush on his best friend. But then again, if she didn't ask him out, then all of her efforts would be useless and Ren would probably never look her way.
There was also an equally large chance that he'd laugh in her face and tell her to get lost, and then Pirika would remain this big colossal joke in his memory forever.
'Get a grip, girl, you're just one step before reaching your dream guy...' she thought furiously, trying to erase all unpleasant thoughts from her head. Just two more steps... one more step...
And then she just had to trip over a stray rock, colliding into her crush who had been calmly waiting for something or someone.
"Ow- what the hell?"
Her face was burning with embarrasment as she quickly got up again, and offered a hand. "Sorry. Clumsy me." She said sheepishly.
Oh, great. He probably hated her more now.
Scowling, he ignored her hand and hoisted himself. "Baka ainu. Anyway, I was looking for you."
He was looking for her? There is a god up there. Her heart raced faster as she blushed even more.
"Your idiot brother bullied me into taking you home." He said, still scowling.
Oh. That was why. Because of her brother. Not because of her. She felt so disappointed, she didn't notice that the two tickets were gone from her sweating hand.
"Well, come on, brat, let's get a go." he barked, trying to walk away... but then stopping at the sight of the two lone tickets lying forlornly on the ground. Curiously, he picked it up and studied it as Pirika felt herself panicking. When did she drop her tickets?
"...Cats? These are musical tickets!" He exclaimed. Ren quirked an eyebrow at her. "Yours? Are you going with your brother?"
She was too tongue-tied to reply as she tried to reply with a coherent sentence. Not very effective, to say the least. "I-I..."
'Just say it,' she told herself. 'Just one more step!'
"Willyougotothemusicalwithme?"
He didn't appear to hear her as he examined it closely. "I don't think you can use this ticket anymore... the part where the reception people cut off is gone."
"WHAT?" This was not good. She was falling behind again... "That can't be true! It was perfectly useable when I stole it from oniichan..." Pirika trailed off, realizing her mistake.
Ren furrowed his eyebrows, which only made his already handsome face even cuter. "You stole it from Horohoro? Why?"
And despite the fact that her crush was standing only inches away from her, she felt tears springing into her eyes. Why oh why did she have to be such a cry-baby? "I g-got it from Tamao." she said, sniffing. "I just wanted to ask you out on Saturday..."
She'd said it. The magical word... or sentence. Slowly she was regaining her step, just one step behind him now. His next words would probably either take her right up to him, or cause her to trip and never to get up again.
There was silence, and Pirika couldn't help but raise her head slightly and take a peek at his reaction.
At first, it didn't look very successful. Ren was frozen at the spot, still clutching the now useless Cats ticket. And Pirika stood there, waiting, bracing herself for a shout of laughter... that never came.
"Uh, R-ren?" she stuttered, looking away from him. "I-I'm sorry about that... just forget about it. Please."
She was falling behind him again...
"Well..."
Surprised, she turned her head and gave the chinese boy a quizzical face.
"Since we can't go to the musical, you think you can handle a much cheaper movie?"
Pirika was shocked as she tried to process what he had just said. "A m-movie?"
This was too good to be true. Was he really, really asking her out to the movies?
"Yeah. I mean, you do want to go, don't you?" He asked nonchalantly, walking ahead. But she could still see the faint twinge of red on his cheeks.
And then she had jumped on Ren, smiling as she hung onto his arm. "Yes!"
She wasn't one step behind anymore... she had already caught up.
Very confusing, I know. And Ren asking out Pirika out was totally unexpected even for me. xD lol. Leave a review if you like please. Next up- Body Heat. More fluff coming up.
