"I... I've never ridden a bus before." She said, finally speaking up.
"Oh, well, did you like it?"
"Yeah, it was fun." She smiled.
"Good, I was hoping so." Eiji said, scratching his neck. They walked up to a small house with a flowerbed going around it like a moat. Upon entering, Eiji shouted, "Mom! Dad! I'm home!" There was silence, no one was home. "Well, looks like we have the place to ourselves." Kagura quickly (but smoothly) twisted her fingers, as if slightly shocked. "What's... wrong, Kagura?"
"N... Nothing, so, where's your room?"
"Over here, this door right here." he opened it and stood back. There were many Magazines, books, Mangas, DVD and Game cases, papers, papers, and many other media-esque thing strewn across the floor. The room was lit up my the glows of a computer screen, many wires jutting out of it, and a TV screen, playing the menu screen of some demo disk you'd find in one of those expensive Anime Magazines. He pressed play on a large stereo to set a very odd, but suitable mood. A guitar buzzed in a corner, aside a turntable with a stack of disks by it. The closet was part open with a couple shirts slightly hanging out.
"So, this is your room."
"Yeah, sorry about the mess..."
"Not at all, you like music allot, you like to chill to this music in your hammock under those home grown pines outside you house, right? You've gamed for a while, you had and anger issue, but not with real people... Umm... you like Anime, that's clear." she said, walking around the room.
"Right, but, how did you know that?"
"Well, this is humbling, mellowing music that makes you keep to yourself, like a hammock, and I saw you outside laying in the hammock outside walking to school, so I would think this would perfect for that. Plus, pines? In Yokohama? Not likely, mainly because of there height, it's just impractical. I'd imagine you'd grow them yourself, plus, I see your little black box has gone through a bit, right? But your computer, guitar, stereo, turntable, even another one of your game systems, they seem so new and pure, and PS2s are quite old, something someone who gamed allot would buy right away, so that would be the one thing that, if you did in fact have an anger issue with you getting stuck or something, that would get worn down first, but it doesn't look like it's falling apart, and you just don't seem like someone who'd hurt others, you're too intelligent to do that."
"Yeah, well, mostly, you missed this, music is what calmed me, I listened to Bowie, Beck, Radiohead, all those intelligent artists for a little revelation when I thought I was wrecking my stuff a little too much, I guess. Then, yes, I listened to Clint Eastwood, the song, in the morning to calm me down in the mornings. But you did a good job in that short of a time."
"Well, allot of it was just ramble, anyways..." She said, sitting on the bed, washed sheets, "Really, I just wanted to say, well..." She paused.
"Yes? You can say anything, I don't care, I won't judge you."
"Well... There was just some things that happened in past, I have a hard time getting through it, so... That's it, well... What do we do now? I know, we can play you game... thing."
"PS2, and yeah, sure." He handed her a controller and started setting things up.
"Actually, could we eat first?"
He laughed, "Sure, I'll cook something up."
"What are you fixing?" She said, coming out of the restroom, which is, when you think about it, would be the only place someone would actually go when only one other person is with them, unless they deserted them, that's not very nice, you know, don't do that.
"My special recipe that has been passed down from generation to generation."
"Ooh, sounds exotic, care to tell me what it is?"
"Mac and Cheese." He laughed.
"Oh yeah, Mac and Cheese, I haven't had this since, wait, yesterday!" She laughed with him.
"But this one is different, I could win a life size Mr. Incredible blow up punching bag! It's four feet tall, now I can really fight crime!" he announced in that on cheesy announcers voice that all the announcers have.
"Eiji, I hope you're here or else!" the woman entering Eiji's house exclaimed. Once sounding light, she now had gotten frustrated, "Eiji! Where are you?" She opened the door to his room fast to find two people laying on beanbag chairs to the buzz of a TV.
"Huh? Well who is this, now? Oh, he'll have explaining to do." She stomped into the room and grabbed Eiji's arm, pulling him up and out of his room.
"What? Who's... Oh, hey Mom..."
"Eiji!"
"... ... Yes?"
"What was that?"
"Who? Oh, that's Kagura, she my friend from school."
"I could have guessed who she was, what is she doing here?"
"Hanging out, I've taken home girls to hang out before."
"Not to sleep..."
"What? Oh, Mom, people fall asleep, especially watching Lord of the Rings (Buh-zing XD)."
"No they don't, not with a girl at least!"
Eiji turned around and looked at Kagura, "Mom, we're like... 5 Feet away from each other, plus, I didn't want to fall asleep, it happened, if I wanted to fall asleep I would have laid on my bed."
"How do I not know you didn't alread..."
"Because I'm not a lecher!"
The two were quiet for a moment, Eiji jerked away from her grip and went into his room. He put his hand on Kagura's arm, "Kagura... Kagura... Wake up Kagura..."
"Huh, Eiji, what time is it...?"
"5:05 PM, let's get you home..."
"Yeah, let's, my Mom will be worried sick, I meant to call her but I forgo..."
"Forget about it, no need thinking about stressful things, right? Come on." He helped her up and led her out the door till she was awake and well. His Mom gave him judging eyes as he walked through the front door and out the house with the flower-bed moat.
"You awake yet?"
"Yeah, I'm awake..." She said, though sleepily still.
"We're in a Café', it's raining, so I bought an umbrella." He said quietly.
She touched her shoulder, "Your coat is on me." She laughed.
"Well, it was raining, would you rather get wet?"
"I was kidding, it's fine." She smiled.
"Drink some Coffee, then I need you to tell me how to get you home." He laughed.
"I told you I'm awake... But Coffee is good, are we at StarChild?"
"Yeah, what would you expect? It's not like there's any other Cafes around."
"W... What... About your Mom?"
"She's pissed, but I'm fine with that."
"I'm sorry, I guess I shouldn't have came over..."
"No, she was pissed we were, when you look at it, both unconscious in the same room behind a door."
"But there's just something about sleeping in the same room together that get's people angry and suspicious." She said, drinking some more Coffee.
"Yeah, I guess..." Kagura leaned against Eiji and rested, which took Eiji quite surprised.
"I'm too tired to go home right now." He took the Coffee cup and set it on the table before she spilled it.
"Amazing."