At First Sight
Chapter One- Happy seasons
"Suffocating Boredom
Annoying displeasure
Falling off a mountain
Never hitting the ground
I can't stand the color of your lipstick
Yet I love it all the same
I can't stand the flip of your hair
It's controlling me through vein
I can't stand your attitude
It's spread all with lies
The thing I must don't like is
How
You
Make
Me
Fall
Inside
Suffocating Boredom
Annoying displeasure
Falling off a mountain
Never hitting the ground"
I smiled to myself and licked my dry lips. The crowd before me was cheering and clapping, it may have been just a karaoke at a stupid party but everyone seemed to like my song. It was a Inuyasha original as Miroku called it, formed by my anger at my ex-girlfriend.
I looked around slowly and grinned. "Want more?" I asked, they cheered. I nodded. "Okay... how about... oh I dunno, Miroku give me a song you like. One of mine."
Miroku jumped up in excitement hitting the drum before him. "At First Sight!" he grinned, there where a few people cheering, the ones who've heard the song before. I was planning on saving it for the talent show and I wasn't exactly done with it yet but heck, I was on a roll. Miroku only wanted to do the song because he got a drum solo anyways.
"At First Sight it is." I nodded back at Miroku. He played a heavy beginning to the song then abruptly stopped. I gripped the microphone and grinned at the audience.
"At first sight." I began, out of the corner of my eye I saw the door open slowly and a girl with long black hair walked in, I didn't see her face.
"You took my breath away-" she turned slowly and sat down on the bench next to the door. I stopped singing and I wasn't sure if my jaw was down or not. She looked like my ex-girlfriend Kikyou, but... different.
And she was crying.
She wiped a tear away and looked to the ground not even noticing me on center stage. The crowd laughed at my a gap face, staring at the girl. Some turned to find who I was looking at but the crowd thought it was a joke, seeing how I wasn't breathing, was frozen, and I just sang 'you took my breath away'.
Miroku called my name still playing a repetitive beet. I didn't hear him though. I dropped the mike to the ground and pushed past the crowd. "Hey that mike's expensive!" I heard Kouga call. He was on the electric guitar, normally I would be playing the electric guitar too but I didn't know the party had karaoke and I wasn't planning on singing.
The girl stood up and walked out of the room wiping more tears away. It was like she had me in a trance, I couldn't do anything but follow her. I didn't know why I followed her it just happened. She had long raven black hair that had a blue tint to it, I couldn't tell if it was just the lighting though. I felt a sudden urge to run my hands threw it, to see if it felt as silky soft as it looked.
She walked up the stairs past a few couples. They where chugging down Pepsi so fast you'd think they where drowning. It may have been a college party but we had exams in a few days. Some rich kid was holding the party and even though a lot of people where upset they had no beer, he knew our college could act drunk better than they can get drunk.
Acting, now that's a biggy here. Oh, did I forget? Welcome to Sunset Filming school. Home of actors, film directors, script writers, the technical and make-up crews plus more. I'll admit or college is rich, they fund all of the movies here and if a movie is especially good, they'll even make sure it hits theaters. That's all thanks to the old hag who runs this place, Keade. Back in her day she was a very famous actor, singer, writer, ect ect. (She told me that while I was in her office for a uh... 'tiny' offence. It surprised me they had camera's back then I mean, who knew cavemen could actually work them!)
Well anyways, she saved up all her billions and made the college. Our college is the birth place of over half the actor population. All of them very successful and also filthy rich. The school doesn't run out of money because the actors donate half of their money to keep it standing and working.
But back to the girl.
By now she had just entered the balcony. She pushed the doors open and walked over to the railing, she didn't even bother to shut the doors.
She sighed heavily and rested her elbow on the railing and her head in her hand and stared at the stars. A cool breeze went by and she shivered slightly and rubbed her arms. Being the nice gentlemen I was I took of my jacket and was about to offer it to her when she spoke.
"Why are you following me?" she asked, never taking her eyes off the stars.
I walked up next to her and looked up at the stars as well. "Well, you're kinda a attention grabber with the tears and all."
She looked down as if she was trying to see her cheeks and blushed slightly as she wiped them away. She tried to laugh but it came out as huffs of air. "I didn't mean to drag you away from your little show because of a small tear."
I crossed my arms and shook my head slowly chuckling to myself. "A little tear? I saw about ten falling a second."
She looked up at the sky again. "Aren't you observant." she said slowly.
I shrugged. "At this school you haffta be. The song didn't matter anyways I'm not even done with it yet." She studied the stars for a moment before saying anything.
"But why did you follow me?" She asked.
I shrugged. "I wanted to know why you where crying." I said.
She frowned and another tear fell. "You wouldn't believe me even if I told you." she said coldly.
It surprised me that she could speak with the frosty tone of voice she used, she seemed really gentle. "Well excuse me for being nice." I said chuckling lightly.
"You're just acting." she told me and finally looked at me.
"What?" I asked.
She sent me a cool look. "I said you where acting. I've heard about you, my friends warned me not to talk to you." I didn't know her words could actually hurt me. I couldn't tell if it was the look she was giving me or if it was her cold tone of voice.
I leaned forward a bit and gave a small grin. "They warned you about me huh? Why would they need to warn you?" I asked, the cloud of air from my breath hit her face. It didn't even faze her.
"I've heard stories. We all have. Their running around campus like a breeze." She said. 'Running around campus like a breeze', who in the hell says that? That was so lame!
My grin widened. "Really now? What type of stories?" I asked.
She shivered slightly when a breeze hit her. "You should know, they are about you after all." She said.
I chuckled lightly and leaned foreword more. "Their only rumors." I told her and stood up straight taking my jacket off all the way.
"They don't sound like rumors to me and meeting you really makes me doubt their lies." Whoa, this girl has serious anti-socialness just pouring off her. So, let's mess with her head, just to piss her off.
I leaned against the rail letting her study my movements. "Lies and rumors are to different things little girl." I said.
She looked my up and down just now getting a good look at me. "Really now." she said as if she was challenging me.
Another breeze flew by, he eyes snapped shut and she backed away from me shivering. I walked behind her and set my jacket over her shoulders. "You should come inside, it's warmer." I said and walked away. "So seeing how these 'rumors/lies' about me are getting in the way I guess I'll go back and sing more." I shrugged and walked away.
She called out to me asking about my jacket but I pretended to not hear her over the music. When I got back though I couldn't concentrate on singing. I'd re-sing a lyric or go off into a different song completely. Finally I just stopped and decided to get back to the dorm.
That girl was plaguing my mind though. "Damn..." I muttered as I walked down the snow covered streets slowly. "Shoulda got her name." I shivered and rubbed my arms. "And my jacket." That was the last time I'd ever try to make a awesome exit at the cost of my jacket in the middle of winter to a girl I didn't even know. Wow, that's a mouthful, huh?
Suddenly Miroku chuckled next to me. I thought he was still at the party so it surprised me and made me jump. "And her number." he added.
I shook my head slowly. "Yeah right, the girl was freaking psycho, man."
"You mean that girl you ran after in the middle of your song for no reason?" Miroku asked.
"Okay first of all it was the second line, Second I didn't run after her, I walked. Third-" he interrupted me.
"So what'd you say? Why'd you follow after her? Was she hott? Does she have a friend? Maybe a twin sister? And with how far you are with that song, that was the middle of it."
I shoved him into a snow pile with one arm and continued on. "Shut up man, I asked her why she was crying and she said she didn't want to tell me because of the rumors floating around campus-" I held up my hands and made quotation marks in the air. "-'Like a Breeze', who says that kind of stuff anyways?" I asked. Like Breeze actually sounded like a good song name.
Miroku through a snowball at me and ducked from mine. "She said that? She was crying? Ah a damsel in distress and brave young knight Inuyasha goes to save her in her time of need!" he said dramatically then paused. "And also needs to ask for better lines!"
"Okay 1 dude, you're gay. 2, yeah she was crying, and 3, you're getting way to into the medieval story you got going." he pouted and threw another snowball at me.
"I'm not gay! I even almost got a phone number tonight!" He pouted.
I raised an eyebrow at him. "Almost? What happened?" I asked as I shoved his head in a snowman.
He pulled his head out and threw the snowman's head at me. "That was cold! Oh almost? Well I pulled out the Miroku charm-"
"That never works." I interrupted.
"As I was saying." he said with an edgy tone. "She didn't like my charm - amazing isn't it- and well she kinda threw me into a lamp then I woke up under a end table with glass around me."
"That's not almost. What did you do? Grope her?" I asked.
He winced. "Touched without permission, Inuyasha." I snorted and kicked him into another snow pile. "STOP!" he yelled and threw at least fifty snowballs at me.
I laughed and ran away. "You gotta stop playing in the snow Miroku! You're gonna get pneumonia!"
I heard him chase after me so I ran up the stairs of the dorm hall and into our dorm then locked the door. I wasn't afraid of him, but it was fun to torture him. I sighed heavily and laid down on my bed. To my surprise there was a message on our phone when I looked over. I hit play and gasped in surprise at who the call was from.
Uh... hey. Sorry about earlier I was a big bitch. I was just upset so no hard feelings, umm... your jacket should get to you tomorrow in the mail... Girls aren't allowed in the guys part of the dorms you know so I couldn't leave it at your door. Oh! And uh, don't think I'm a stalker or anything, I got your number from the office. Happy seasons.
I stared at the phone for a while. She didn't even tell me her name but she probably knew mine. And my jacket was going to be mailed back? We don't get our mail till after school and there isn't exactly a way to get to school without freezing in the morning. And did she sound nervous?
That was it. I was going to find out who this girl was if it was the last thing I ever did.
