Chapter 5

A soft tap on her shoulder makes Rie wake up. Her eyes shoot open and she closes them immediately when she sees Seth's face right in front of her.
She moans and rolls around, covering her head up with a pillow. ,Muuuuuh."

,Rie, wake up!" Seth's voice is remarkably tender.
,I don't wanna." Rie moans and she clings her arms around the pillows on top of her face. A hand is cought in her arms.

She shoots up, letting go of her pillow and the hand, which without a doubt belongs to Seth, falls on her lap.
Seth looks at his hand, a little dumbstruck. ,I still can't really believe we can touch eachother." He breaths.
Rie raises her eyebrows, looks down at the hand laying on a place where she definetly don't want it.
,Seth…"
,Yeah?"
Seth looks up; she looks back, a deadly look in her eyes.
,One, don't make it sound so perverted! Two, get your fucking hand away from there!" If she had spit fire, it wouldn't had surprised a soul.
Seth quickly pulls his hand back. ,Not that I can feel pain or something." He mumbles, followed by a loud,,OUCH!"
Rie's hand is still hanging in the air, ready for a new attack on Seth's head.
,Hey, that's not a good feeling." Seth cries out. ,That really wasn't good."
,Don't be so wise." Rie snatches. ,And don't touch me, you pervert!"
,It was just your lap!" Seth defends himself, quickly taking a step back, safe from Rie's smashing fists.
,That's the whole thing, you ass!" Rie growls,,It's my lap! You can't touch a girl there! Just like you have to keep your hands away from my chest!"
,You can touch girls there." Seth mumbles, eyeing Rie with an upset face. ,I saw it many times before. And those girls didn't hit the boy!"
Rie clenches her fists, she can't believe it! She is stuck with a pervert!
,What do you mean, you saw it many times before?" Rie asks, losing her temper sooner or later.
Seth's eyes grow bigger. ,What?…Is that… a bad thing?"
The look on Rie's face already gives him the answer and his cheeks become very red. ,But… I know you can't really… go into somebody's bathroom and all… but I mean, those people were outside… danceparties and all. In public!"
Rie rolls out of her bed, moves closer to Seth. ,Let me make something clear, Seth. I can imagine your little hormones make you wanna watch some stuff I don't even wanna know about, but you better keep your hands to yourself or else I am gonna inflict so much pain in you, you won't even be able to breathe!"
Seth slowly gets on his knees, simply of fear, the feeling of pain fresh in the back of his head. ,I don't really like pain, Rie."

,Well, I guess you know what to do then, don't you?" Rie growls and she walks to her closet. What should she wear today?
Not that there is much to choose from, since everything she owns is black. And she doesn't own much, cuz she really hates shopping for clothes.
She picks out a black skirt and a black sweater and turns around to face Seth. ,Hey pervert, get the hell out of my room! I need to get dressed."
,What's the deal of seeying you in your panties anyway?" Seth mumbles. ,That's not a big of a deal, is it?"
,Get the hell out!" Rie rushes towards him, her fist in the air.
,I'm going! I'm going!" Seth quickly gets out of the room.

Shaking her head, Rie pulls out her pj's to get dressed. The few days he has been here, he just left the room as soon as he saw she needed to change her clothes.
Why is he making a fuss about it right now?
She combs her hair and washes her face ar the little sink that is installed in her room.
Seth is quite something and this is the first day he will come to school with her. Well, except for that day when he scared the hell out of her.
When she's ready she opens the door of her bedroom and Seth is standing right in front of it. ,Rie, ehm… sorry for everything, you know." He immediately says. ,I mean, I didn't mean to act to stubborn to you and I am really not preverted, but ehm.. everything happens right in front of me and well… I'm used to just looking at everything I can look at. That's pretty much all I can do all the time, you know. Sometimes you kinda wander off to certain things and… I'm sorry, I was such a burden when you needed to get dressed and when I touched you… 'there' and…"
,Shut up, you're giving me a headache." Rie moans.
,Please forgive me, Rie! I didn't mean to be like that! I really didn't!" Seth begs. ,I don't want you to hate me or give me pain! I just want to be with you and I don't want you to be angry at me!"
,Did you think of all that in the little time I was getting dressed?" Rie asks as she climbs the stairs.
,Huh?" Seth quickly follows her. ,Kinda… I don't know. I just thought I was wrong. I'm used to just doing and saying what I want to say and think, you know. And I want you to like me, so I'm trying very hard. But I often don't even see it myself when I go wrong! So…"
,Shut up, please! You are really The Thing That Wouldn't Shut Up, aren't ya?" Rie turns around to look at him. ,If you are gonna talk that much to me when we are around people, you aren't gonna live to tell the tale, understood?"
,Roger!" Seth nodds and closes his mouth like a zipper, following Rie into the kitchen. Seth takes seat on the floor in the corner of the kitchen where nobody walks and silently watches everything moving.
Rie starts preparing lunches and breakfast.

Mom walks into the kitchen a few minutes later ,Make Aye's lunchbox too, please." Mom asks, quickly drinking a cup of milk, while combing her long black hair.
Rie doesn't reply but prepares breakfast and lunchboxes for the whole family, like she does all the time. Nobody really asks her to do this, but she hates it when the kitchentable is crammed with people, trying to butter their toasts. And she is the first one to get out of bed she made it a habit to make everyone's breakfast and lunch.

She sets the table and just when she poured the last cup of tea, her father walks in, a yawning Aye on his arms.
,Goodmorning, angels." Dad yawns, sitting down at the kitchentable.
Rie doesn't great him back, but stuffs her lunch in her schoolbag, takes a bite of her breakfast, drink her milk in one gulp and quickly walks out of the room.
,You're gone already?" Her dad calls after her. ,It's just 7.30!"
,Homework." Rie yells back, hiding in her room, rocketing her schoolbag on her bed, crashing down on the floor, pulling out some Math-books.
She hates sitting in the kitchen in the morning, since her parents keep asking her what she is gonna do today, while they won't listen to her answer, cuz they will be busy getting ready for work and making Aye eat his breakfast, which he really don't want to eat.
She could use her time better, by just doing some homework. She doesn't have anything better to do with her time anyway. It's not like she has a boyfriend, or she has a hobby she can practise. Except for kinda inventing stuff. Well, if you can call, breaking down old tv's, VSH-players and vacuümcleaner and trying to make something new out of it, inventing.
She never makes anything usefull, but she enjoys screwing stuff together and trying to make it work again. She was able to fix the dvdplayer once, so the works pays off eventually.
Seth enters the room, by walking through the door. He shivers. ,I don't like going through stuff, you know that."
,Like I give a damn." Rie replies, scribbling down some formulas in her Math-book.
Seth sits down next to her. ,Sorry for mentioning." He says, sarcasm leading his voice.
,Better be." Rie says. ,I never asked for you to be around me, so don't go telling me stuff I don't wanna know! I think I did more then enough by accepting your presence!"
Seth stares at her for a few seconds.
,What do you… want to know then?" he finally asks.
,How to shut you up!" Rie's hands shoots up, jolting up his jaw. ,Didn't you notice I am a horrible person, who is really egocentric? Just leave me alone! I don't want people talking in my ear all the time! Especially when I don't ask for it!"
,That hurt!" Seth whines, his hand on his jaw. ,And I don't think you're horrible."
,Shut up, you don't have a choice." Rie says. ,I'm the only hope you have, so you try to see every positive thing about me. Newsflash! I don't have anything positive! I'm a terrible person, I'm a horrible sister and daughter! The only thing I am good at is schoolwork, but nobody wants to be around a nerd!"

Seth lowers his head, his hand still on his jaw. He takes a deep breath. ,But… you're wrong. You're not horrible… you're just… misunderstood."
,Don't try to make it look better. I just described the truth for you! You can't change the truth!" Rie totally forgot about her Math-work now, leaving it motionless on her lap.

,You can't change the way I look at you either!" Seth suddenly yells. ,To me, you aren't a bad person! To me, you are somebody!"
Rie clenches her teeth.
,I don't say this because you are my only hope, but I say this, because I witnessed you for a few days now and I already saw who you are!" Seth continues, his voice softer now. ,When you're working with you machine-thingies or doing your homework, when you prepare dinner for everybody, when you run for your father's nice comments, when you look at your little brother, when you're laying in bed, staring at the ceiling… you're not… somebody I can hate. No matter what kind of things you say or do."
Rie doesn't know what to say, so she just stares at Seth, who isn't looking at her, but sitting on his knees, reaching to her hand. He holds it and pets it like you would pet a cat. ,You may think I just… say this because I want to stay with you and maybe I partly say it because of that. But the biggest part of me says it, because I mean it. You think so low of yourself, only getting security out of schoolwork…"
,Shut up, will you?" Rie mumbles, feeling uncomfortable.
,No… I won't…" Seth says, still petting her hand. ,You think you are such a bad person, but you really aren't. You are really just misunderstood. It's like you speak a language nobody else speaks and nobody has a dictionary."
,That's the stupidest thing I ever heard." Rie growls, but not trying to remove her hand from Seth's hands.
,Rie, if you want to yell at me, or call me names, or even hit me,… that's okay." Seth whispers. ,Because… if that makes you feel a bit better, it's all that matters. Because I know how terrible it is when you're misunderstood."
,Stop being so stupid, will ya?" Rie growls. ,You sound like a drama-movie."
She stands up, pulling her hand back. ,I don't like the way you said all that, because it's not true…."
Seth looks up at her from the floor where he's sitting. His large blue eyes staring at her. She never saw eyes like that before and in some weird way it does something to her. Just like the first time she saw him.
,But… I appreciate it too." Rie mumbles, feeling her cheeks becoming red. ,And… well, I may be a bitch and all, but you can keep being around me and lecture me in stuff, but if you get too much…"
,I know…" Seth says. ,So… ehm…"
,What?" Rie eyes at him, suddenly feeling really uncomfortable again.
Seth stands up, facing her. ,Rie… we had a sort of a fight right?"
,Eh…. I guess you can call it that." Rie says.
,And we made up again, correct?"
,I guess."
His eyes look at her, making her feel so stupid. It's like he is looking right through her. It's like his eyes are made out of the blue sky.
Seth holds up his hands.
,Can we hug then?"
,What! No way!"
Rie jumps back. ,I don't like hugs!"
,I never hugged somebody! They all fall right through me!" Seth begs.
,No! Not a change! Go hug the floor! You can touch that too!"
,Please!"
,Drop dead!" Rie ducks to grab her schoolbag and mathbook. Before Seth can even blink, Rie dissapeared out of the room through the little window.
Seth lowers his arms and smiles. ,I could have expected that."