At First Sight
Chapter Four- Cherries R' Us
A/N: I know I'm updating early but I wanted to update. I got the idea for this story from Gavin DeGraw's music video, I Don't Wanna Be. The party he's at is what the party he was at looked like. Watch it, I love the song too!
"I'll let you figure it out."
"Damn…" I mumbled and gently punched the wall next to me. School was over, Miroku and Kouga still didn't have the guts to come back home. They probably knew I was going to find some way to torture them. No matter, I already hid their alarm clocks in my secret compartment in the closet and found mine under Miroku's bed. I couldn't concentrate in school; I had even lost my appetite at lunch. That was amazing, even after I separated from Kikyou I had an appetite. Here, this girl, who I didn't even know her name, had made me loose mine by just walking away.
Boy was I lost.
I sighed heavily and leaned back in my computer chair. I stared at the computer; open on the desktop was a blank word document. I had to write an essay for some reason but I couldn't find any inspiration. I clicked out of the document and got out of my chair then jumped on my bed and sighed again. I opened the drawer on the end table next to my bed where my alarm clock sat. I pulled out some double stick tape and lifted my alarm clock up then began to stick the tape on the dresser where my alarm clock normally sat. Maybe this would slow them down from taking it next time.
After about fifteen minutes I had ran out of the first roll of tape and was in the middle of my second. I sat my alarm clock down on the tape mass and began to tape my fingers together. Why I did this I have no idea.
Problem Number One When Your Hands Are Taped Up With Double Stick Tape:
Phone Rings
I jumped up and looked at the caller ID. It was an unknown number. My first guess was that Miroku and Kouga where using a pay phone, Kouga probably forgot his cell phone and knowing Miroku he forgot to charge his. But both phones where gone and I saw Miroku's charging last night. I remember because I changed his banner again from 'Ladiez man' to 'Loves to bath in tub with fat men'.
I scrambled to grab the phone but was having some difficulty.
Problem Number Two When Your Hands Are Taped Up With Double Stick Tape:
You can't pick up the phone
I growled and tried to pick it up again but I couldn't even get the phone to stick to the tape. The phone beeped and began to record a message. While it was recording a message I went into the bathroom and stuck my hands in the sink then used my cheek to turn the faucet on. The phone beeped again which meant it finished recording the message. I pulled my hands out from the faucet and listened, water dripped form the tape onto the floor. The phone's mechanical voice turned on.
You have one new Message:
New message:
Hey, I realized I didn't give you anything to go on when I told you to figure out my name.
I jerked my head to the side and was about to run to the phone when I slipped on the water and fell flat on my ass. I seemed to be abusing it lately…
Here's a hint: Ask around about Cherries. You'll get it and when you do, we can talk then. Happy hunting.
I blinked and listened to the phone beep off. This girl was seriously giving me a run for my money. She must know how much this is driving me up the wall.
"Cherries, huh?" Miroku asked me. He leaned back in his chair and balanced a spoon on his nose. "That sounds so familiar…" he mumbled.
Kouga stopped shoving his dinner into his mouth and swallowed then looked up at me. "Maybe she's wh-" I kicked him before he could continue. "Ow! What!? I'm just saying you know she might be seeing how her hint was 'Cherries'."
I glared at him and growled. "She's not a whore you ass! Maybe she meant the super market or something. They have cherries there."
"And 50 off per pound until thanksgiving." Miroku butted in.
I stared at him. "Do you read supermarket catalogs or something?" I asked him.
He shook his head and dug into his spaghetti. "Nope! That new girl, Sango works there. I went to the store after the party Saturday when someone locked me out-" he sent me a small glare. "I wanted to get some egg nog, you know Christmas is coming up and all and I haven't had any in a while. I saw her working there and I've been going to the store everyday ever since. Did you know she works every other day for eight hours?"
I shook my head slowly. "You're pathetic, damn stalker." I mumbled.
Kouga shook his head too. Miroku spoke up again. "I'm not stalking her, I just happen to know about the great sales going on in the department closet to her register where you get a perfect view of her rump posterior." I rolled my eyes at him. "Anyways, if the clue has to do with something on campus you can go to the library."
What was a library? I had to figure this out. "What's a library?" I asked him.
Kouga snorted. "No wonder you get bad grades, you've never even heard of a library… you know it's a big building right in the middle of campus with tons of books in there. Books are pages with writing or pictures on them that are binned together-"
I stopped him. "Alright I get the picture! We have a library?" I asked then.
Miroku and Kouga sighed at me. "We'll have to go with him." Miroku said to Kouga.
Kouga nodded and motioned to the waiter for our check. Of course they knew I wouldn't pay it of course.
I gapped at the large dust heap the surrounded me. Miroku had told me this was the library; I think it's a large dust bunnie waiting to come alive. "We're looking for a list of things in and around Campus." Miroku told the person at the desk. I think he called her a 'Hungarian'. Why would they call a person who worked at a Library a Hungarian? She looked American and didn't have an accent…
She nodded and wrote down some sort of code with numbers and letters on a piece of paper. Maybe she was Hungarian, that writing/code thingy didn't look English.
Kouga grabbed my arm and dragged me into the center of the dust bunnie beast then pulled me into an alley way of books. Miroku pulled a ladder on wheels over to a section and started to climb up it. "How come he gets to get on the ladder thing!?" I asked. It wasn't fair; I wanted to get on it too!
"If we find your mystery girl then you can get on it." Kouga told me. I rolled my eyes and climbed up a different one on the other side. I figured out if I push off against the books, I could slide! I pushed off a bit too hard and the ladder almost came off then the shelf like thing shook and a few books fell so I got off.
I looked up at Miroku and saw him trying to pull out a huge book. He pulled it out and along came the attack of the dust bunnies! He swatted at them, coughed and slid down the ladder. NOTE TO SELF: Figure out how he did that…
Miroku set the large book down on a table. Kouga had walked off back to the Hungarian. Miroku blew the remaining dust bunnies off the large book. They formed a large cloud that we swatted at until it dispersed. I stared at the book. It was probably 800 pages, the side was torn, the cover was faded, everything! It looked like someone had beaten it with an ugly stick!
Miroku opened it and flipped through the yellow faded pages. "C..c…c.. Ah here we go! C! ch..ch…ch, okay Cherries…" he mumbled more under his breath that I didn't catch. He slapped the book. "Here! We have roughly 20 things under Cherries from earliest development to 1998." I looked at the page to where he was pointing at;
Cherries Diner
Cherries Club
Cherries Bar and Grill
Cherries market
Cherries night club
Cherries dance
Cherries, DJ (DJ Cherries)
Cherries fine Dining
Cherries modeling agency
Cherries photography
Cherries housing development
Cherries dorms
Cherries Secret
Cherries psychiatry
Cherries Park
Cherries ice cream
Cherries
Cherries gas
Cherries car repairs
Cherries Pizza
Cherries Restaurant
I sighed. "She could have given us something easier as a hint!" Miroku pulled out a notebook (Where he got that I will also never know) and started to write down all the 'Cherries'.
Kouga ran over to us. "Any luck?" he asked. Miroku nodded and made a small noise as he wrote down the rest. "Guess what, I just got a phone number." he grinned then nudged his head over to the Hungarian.
"You got the Hungarian's number?" I asked.
"Hungarian?" He asked me. "You mean Librarian?" I just stared at him. "Anyways…" he said. "I got her number, and her name is Ayame, and we're going to hook up this weekend."
"Well I guess you can't come with us when we look for my mystery girl." I shrugged. I didn't care; it'd save me some wasted time getting in a fight with him.
Miroku stood up and handed me the list. "You mean he can't come with you when you go to find her. I have to stick at the store. Nice going too Kouga."
I gapped at Miroku. "You're not going to help me!?" I asked.
"Nope, I told you I have to visit Sango." he said. Kouga grinned and walked out with Miroku. I couldn't believe it, they where actually going to not help me! What jerks!
The Hungarian/Librarian Ayame girl walked up to me. "Hey, Kouga told me about your little problem…" She started. "If it helps at all, there's a game girls do with cherries… you see we put the stems in our mouth and try to tie it in a knot with out using our hands or anything, just our mouth. It's supposed to be if you can tie it, you're a good kisser. But if I where you, I'd go to the store first, just in case." she told me then walked off before I could say anything.
So I was headed to the store to start my search for the mysterious girl that I just met Saturday.
