Aya, Anshi and Utena were all walking down the quite school hallway towards
the exit to the student parking lot. They all paused when they approach the
door and peer through the large rectangular door window.
"The rain is pouring down steadily," Aya replies with a slight sigh in her voice.
"Well I can't stand around here all day. I have to get home and study," Utena spat, then open the door and begins to walk out into the cold winter rain unguarded.
"Wait Utena!" Anshi ran out to her pink haired friend and quickly opens her large black umbrella. "No need for you to get all wet, we can all share." Anshi said then she turns around and gestures for Aya to join them. The platinum blonde pulls her hood over her head and ran for sanctuary under the umbrella.
"Thanks Anshi," the blonde smiles then turns and tosses an annoying smirk at Utena. "You know you could have waited for Anshi and me to join you. Gosh you are so impatient at times Tenjou.
Utena shakes her head in aggravation and then replies, "Look a little rain isn't going to kill you okay, I just don't like waiting, so stop complaining."
"For you information, I don't want to get all soaked. Remind you that I just showered and washed my hair. I don't want to catch a cold from walking in this awful weather." Aya argues back.
Anshi looks at both girls and frown. "Could you two please stop quarrelling? I can't believe you two are teammates."
"Sorry," Utena and Aya both mumble. "Lets just please get to the car it is cold out here." Anshi adds.
They all quickly walk in the direction of Aya's vehicle. Once they arrived at the automobile, Aya ran to the driver side and quickly opens up the door. Utena and Anshi stand patiently outside the passenger door waiting for Aya to unlock it. Anshi notice Utena scratching her abdomen and arches her eyebrow.
"Are you alright Utena?" Anshi questions her.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Utena gives her violet haired friend a blank look.
Aya unlocks the door but the two girls don't notice.
Anshi points at Utena's right hand which is now scratching her lower back. "Oh," Utena said sheepishly. "It must be this sweat suit I am wearing. The material it is made of must be irritating my skin.
"Ah, okay." Anshi shrugs.
Aya rolls down the window and replies, "Are you two going to stand out there all friggin' day and talk or get inside. "Oh right sorry Aya-chan." Anshi reaches for the car door handle, but Utena grabs her wrist out of the blue. The violet haired princess gives Utena a bemused expression, but Utena just smiles at her.
"I'll get that for you if you don't mind?" Anshi found herself nodding and smiling at her friend. She hands Utena the umbrella and moves to the side of the door so her prince could open it.
"Thanks," Anshi says as she sits down in the passenger seat, not breaking eye contact with Utena. "You are very welcome." Utena stands there staring into her gleaming green eyes.
The blonde smacks her hand against her forehead intolerantly. "Tenjou would get in the car already, I thought you wanted to get home and study."
"Oh, right. Sorry about that," Utena breaks out her mesmerized state and hastily hops into the back seat.
********
During the entire drive home Utena didn't say a word. She just quietly listened to Aya and Anshi chat idly to one another in the front seat. For Utena's mind was preoccupied with all that happened to her during the course of the day.
'We almost kissed today,' Utena thought as her eyes wanders to her uncannily gorgeous best friend who's giggling at something Aya said to her.
'Did she want me to kiss her? It seemed so, but why did she agree to go on that silly date? Is she unsure about her feelings for me, as I am for her?' Utena turns her head and looks out the passenger window. The rain was crashing hard against the glass, obscuring her vision.
'There is more to her than meets the eye. We are somehow drawn together, I can feel it.' Utena exhales softly and slouches down in the white leather seat and pulls up her athletic sweat shirt slightly. She rubs her slender fingers across the mysterious scar. An unsettling confusion enters her mind. She doesn't know where the scar came from, but there is something strange about the already healed wound.
Anshi pulls down the visor and pretends to look at herself in the mirror, but actually she wants to check out Utena in the back seat, being so quiet. She focuses the mirror perfectly and notices Utena lounge down in the back seat looking at something, but Anshi couldn't tell what it is grasping her prince's attention.
Aya glances at Anshi suspiciously. "What are you looking in the mirror for?" Anshi raises an eyebrow at that lavish comment. "What, I cannot look in the mirror?"
Aya chuckles in her throat. "Like you need to?"
"What is that suppose to mean?" Anshi replies pushing the visor back up. "You are so modest Anshi, really. Do you even realize how beautiful you are?"
Anshi just shrugs. "I really don't think of myself that way. Narcissism is really beneath my standards. One shouldn't waste time focusing on appearance, but once in awhile I like to look at myself," Anshi smiles at Aya.
Aya shakes her head and laughs softly then says, "You really amaze me sometimes. You're the epitome of female beauty and intellect, yet you chose to not acknowledge it."
"It is unnecessary for me to recognize it; I guess because I only take them for granted." Anshi replies blatantly gazing out the blurry windshield.
"And somehow you end up being friends with the most popular female jock in school." Aya says and glances back at Utena. "What are you doing Tenjou?" Utena quickly pulls down her sweater.
"Nothing," the pink haired girl blurts out and sits up straight in the seat.
********
Aya pulls up in front of Anshi house. "Well I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow." Aya says with a nod.
"Yeah, thank you for the drive home Aya-chan I really appreciate it." Anshi said getting out of the car in the pouring rain. Utena hands her the umbrella.
Anshi grabs the umbrella and says with a generous smile, "I guess I will see you in the morning Utena-chan." Utena starts blushing for some odd reason and stutters "Oh, yeah I'll see ya in the morning."
Aya drives off to Utena's house. They arrive there in less than five minutes. Aya pulls into the driveway. Utena smiles and starts reaches for the door handle to get out the automobile. "Thanks for the lift home Aya." Utena starts to pull the handle and get out, but Aya pushes the automatic lock.
"What gives Aya? Would you kindly unlock the damn door?" Utena replies irritably.
"Not until you confess up?" Aya turns around and looks at her team captain. "I am not sure what you mean? I don't have anything to confess." Utena sighs and shakes her head, pink strands falls into her face.
"Fine, live in denial all your life. I know you like her. It's written all over your face."
"Please, just open the door." Utena knows the blonde is right but she doesn't want to admit it.
"Whatever Tenjou," Aya clicks the button that unlocks all the doors.
Utena got out of the sports car and looks at her prying team mate before shutting the door. "Aya I don't like her like the..." the blonde cuts her off mid sentence.
"You don't have to convince me Tenjou-kun, but you have to convince yourself. Denial is not going to get you what you want." With that said Utena shut the door and Aya drives off, leaving Utena standing in the rain deep in thought, water washing all over her body.
"It's not that simple, there is more to my dilemma than you know Aya-chan. I just need to figure things out before I can tell her." Utena mumbles to herself walking towards the front porch of her house rubbing her belly.
To Be Continued....
Next Chapter 24: The Date
"The rain is pouring down steadily," Aya replies with a slight sigh in her voice.
"Well I can't stand around here all day. I have to get home and study," Utena spat, then open the door and begins to walk out into the cold winter rain unguarded.
"Wait Utena!" Anshi ran out to her pink haired friend and quickly opens her large black umbrella. "No need for you to get all wet, we can all share." Anshi said then she turns around and gestures for Aya to join them. The platinum blonde pulls her hood over her head and ran for sanctuary under the umbrella.
"Thanks Anshi," the blonde smiles then turns and tosses an annoying smirk at Utena. "You know you could have waited for Anshi and me to join you. Gosh you are so impatient at times Tenjou.
Utena shakes her head in aggravation and then replies, "Look a little rain isn't going to kill you okay, I just don't like waiting, so stop complaining."
"For you information, I don't want to get all soaked. Remind you that I just showered and washed my hair. I don't want to catch a cold from walking in this awful weather." Aya argues back.
Anshi looks at both girls and frown. "Could you two please stop quarrelling? I can't believe you two are teammates."
"Sorry," Utena and Aya both mumble. "Lets just please get to the car it is cold out here." Anshi adds.
They all quickly walk in the direction of Aya's vehicle. Once they arrived at the automobile, Aya ran to the driver side and quickly opens up the door. Utena and Anshi stand patiently outside the passenger door waiting for Aya to unlock it. Anshi notice Utena scratching her abdomen and arches her eyebrow.
"Are you alright Utena?" Anshi questions her.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Utena gives her violet haired friend a blank look.
Aya unlocks the door but the two girls don't notice.
Anshi points at Utena's right hand which is now scratching her lower back. "Oh," Utena said sheepishly. "It must be this sweat suit I am wearing. The material it is made of must be irritating my skin.
"Ah, okay." Anshi shrugs.
Aya rolls down the window and replies, "Are you two going to stand out there all friggin' day and talk or get inside. "Oh right sorry Aya-chan." Anshi reaches for the car door handle, but Utena grabs her wrist out of the blue. The violet haired princess gives Utena a bemused expression, but Utena just smiles at her.
"I'll get that for you if you don't mind?" Anshi found herself nodding and smiling at her friend. She hands Utena the umbrella and moves to the side of the door so her prince could open it.
"Thanks," Anshi says as she sits down in the passenger seat, not breaking eye contact with Utena. "You are very welcome." Utena stands there staring into her gleaming green eyes.
The blonde smacks her hand against her forehead intolerantly. "Tenjou would get in the car already, I thought you wanted to get home and study."
"Oh, right. Sorry about that," Utena breaks out her mesmerized state and hastily hops into the back seat.
********
During the entire drive home Utena didn't say a word. She just quietly listened to Aya and Anshi chat idly to one another in the front seat. For Utena's mind was preoccupied with all that happened to her during the course of the day.
'We almost kissed today,' Utena thought as her eyes wanders to her uncannily gorgeous best friend who's giggling at something Aya said to her.
'Did she want me to kiss her? It seemed so, but why did she agree to go on that silly date? Is she unsure about her feelings for me, as I am for her?' Utena turns her head and looks out the passenger window. The rain was crashing hard against the glass, obscuring her vision.
'There is more to her than meets the eye. We are somehow drawn together, I can feel it.' Utena exhales softly and slouches down in the white leather seat and pulls up her athletic sweat shirt slightly. She rubs her slender fingers across the mysterious scar. An unsettling confusion enters her mind. She doesn't know where the scar came from, but there is something strange about the already healed wound.
Anshi pulls down the visor and pretends to look at herself in the mirror, but actually she wants to check out Utena in the back seat, being so quiet. She focuses the mirror perfectly and notices Utena lounge down in the back seat looking at something, but Anshi couldn't tell what it is grasping her prince's attention.
Aya glances at Anshi suspiciously. "What are you looking in the mirror for?" Anshi raises an eyebrow at that lavish comment. "What, I cannot look in the mirror?"
Aya chuckles in her throat. "Like you need to?"
"What is that suppose to mean?" Anshi replies pushing the visor back up. "You are so modest Anshi, really. Do you even realize how beautiful you are?"
Anshi just shrugs. "I really don't think of myself that way. Narcissism is really beneath my standards. One shouldn't waste time focusing on appearance, but once in awhile I like to look at myself," Anshi smiles at Aya.
Aya shakes her head and laughs softly then says, "You really amaze me sometimes. You're the epitome of female beauty and intellect, yet you chose to not acknowledge it."
"It is unnecessary for me to recognize it; I guess because I only take them for granted." Anshi replies blatantly gazing out the blurry windshield.
"And somehow you end up being friends with the most popular female jock in school." Aya says and glances back at Utena. "What are you doing Tenjou?" Utena quickly pulls down her sweater.
"Nothing," the pink haired girl blurts out and sits up straight in the seat.
********
Aya pulls up in front of Anshi house. "Well I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow." Aya says with a nod.
"Yeah, thank you for the drive home Aya-chan I really appreciate it." Anshi said getting out of the car in the pouring rain. Utena hands her the umbrella.
Anshi grabs the umbrella and says with a generous smile, "I guess I will see you in the morning Utena-chan." Utena starts blushing for some odd reason and stutters "Oh, yeah I'll see ya in the morning."
Aya drives off to Utena's house. They arrive there in less than five minutes. Aya pulls into the driveway. Utena smiles and starts reaches for the door handle to get out the automobile. "Thanks for the lift home Aya." Utena starts to pull the handle and get out, but Aya pushes the automatic lock.
"What gives Aya? Would you kindly unlock the damn door?" Utena replies irritably.
"Not until you confess up?" Aya turns around and looks at her team captain. "I am not sure what you mean? I don't have anything to confess." Utena sighs and shakes her head, pink strands falls into her face.
"Fine, live in denial all your life. I know you like her. It's written all over your face."
"Please, just open the door." Utena knows the blonde is right but she doesn't want to admit it.
"Whatever Tenjou," Aya clicks the button that unlocks all the doors.
Utena got out of the sports car and looks at her prying team mate before shutting the door. "Aya I don't like her like the..." the blonde cuts her off mid sentence.
"You don't have to convince me Tenjou-kun, but you have to convince yourself. Denial is not going to get you what you want." With that said Utena shut the door and Aya drives off, leaving Utena standing in the rain deep in thought, water washing all over her body.
"It's not that simple, there is more to my dilemma than you know Aya-chan. I just need to figure things out before I can tell her." Utena mumbles to herself walking towards the front porch of her house rubbing her belly.
To Be Continued....
Next Chapter 24: The Date