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."
