Differences
Chapter 2: The Night
(On the balcony in Ren's room, Ren is standing near the edge, looking at the nice view of the city's evening lights. He is wearing a black longsleeve chinese kimono and black pants, the one he usually wear on the shaman fight)
"Ano..." Pirika said getting Ren's attention.
"So you're here..."
"You said that we'll going to eat here, right?"
"Then sit down and eat everything there... I'm not yet hungry..." Ren said still looking down on the nice view of the city.
"How rude, aren't you supposed to serve me or at least pull the chair for me so that I may sit down and chow on everything there?"
"What do you think of this, a candle light dinner for two? How stupid... I won't do such thing with a person like you..."
"Fine! If you don't wanna eat, you'll be sorry, there's nothing even a spec will be left for you..." Pirika said while she started to munch on different types of chinese specialties. She just thought that Ren is just so insensitive that he didn't even notice her beauty on her black cheongsam...
(after 15 minutes)
"(burp) Ahh... I'm stuffed... your cook cooks great!" Pirika said rubbing her stomach going back inside Ren's room.
"It's not cook, it's chef..." He said also heading to his room.
"Chef or cook, whatever, as long as they cook food..." Pirika said lying down on Ren's bed swinging her foot. "Your bed's so fluffy! Can I sleep here?"
"WHAT! So where do you want me to sleep, in the floor! YOU'RE CRAZY!" Ren retorted.
"Besides me!"
"Ba - baka kisama wa...!" Ren blushed some more making his face beet red.
"Just joking! You look so cute when you get mad!"
"W- will you shut up and go back to your room..." Ren said sitting on the couch turning the television on.
"Hey, w-what time is it?" Pirika asked.
"It's already 9:00..."
"AAAAA! IT'S MY FAVORITE MOVIE ALREADY!" Pirika yelled, running to the couch and snatches the remote control from Ren's hands. She switched to the movie channel, airing 'the grudge'.
"You like watching horror movies?" Ren asked getting a bowl of popcorn from the fridge beside the couch.
"Horror is my favorite!" Pirika said snatching the bowl of popcorn from Ren's hands and munching a mouthful of it. Ren just sighed and watched though he don't like the movie that much. He just suddenly noticed her trembling and holding tight to his arms...
"G- get off me!" Ren shrugged his arm but she just suddenly...
"KYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Pirika grabbed Ren and hugged him tightly, burying her face on his chest. She was just to scared to look at the bloodyKayako (the ghost at the movie) crawling down the stairs (that was one scene of the movie). He can't do anything but just let her hold on to him.
Ren took the remote from her trembling hands and turned the tv off.
"You're such a stupid bastard... watching horror but just screams and freak out, if you'll watch horror movies again, I'll gonna beat that crap outta you..." He stroked her soft icyblue hair.
"Thanks for d concern..., before I thought that you were a completely bad person, I was wrong..." Pirika smiled at him.
"W- WHAT! N- NO! I'm just doing what I have to!" He retorted putting his arms away from her, shrugging her off away from him.
"I used to hate you before but now I'm starting to like you..."
"W-will you go back to your room and go to sleep, I'm tired of seeing your damned face..." He said blushing.
"Ok... goodnight..." She kissed him on his cheeks making him blush more. "Thanks for everything..." She went out of the room.
"Ch... that crazy bitch..." Ren rubbed his cheeks still blushing.
"Looks like your falling for that Ainu, bocchama..." Bason said.
"W-WHAT! O-Of course not! (blushes some more) She's nothing but... but an imbecile's sister! Why should I fall for her!"
(At the corridor, Pirika is heading to the guest room when she meets Jun)
"Konbanwa, Jun-san..." Pirika bowed.
"Ee... Horohoro-kun no imouto, Pirika-chan da ne?" Jun asked.
"Yes..."
"Not to be rude but, What brought you here?" Jun asked.
"Umm... Ren-kun brought me here to..."
"Ren? O-hohohoho..." Jun just laughed.
"What's wrong?"
"You're lucky, you're the very first girl he brought home for a sleep over... anyway, goodnight and sweet dreams..." Jun smiled and walked away.
(when Pirika got inside her room)
"Me? The very first girl he brought home? It's not what she thinks! (blushes), he just brought me here so that he could payback for what he had done to my clothes, But what if... NO! Usui Pirika, don't think like that, he, a very rich braggart, an owner of 33, I mean 32, jetplanes, an insensitive jerk would never fall for a poor girl like me who owns nothing but just a field in Hokkaido..." Pirika thought while lying on the king-sized bed in the very wide guest room.
"HEY! I shouldn't think like this! I shouldn't supposed to care about however he feels for me, ne? (sighs) Ok...even though I always say 'I hate him from the bottom of my bottomless anger for him', I admit... I already had a crush on him since the first time I saw him in the shaman fight until now... the anger I feel for him now is just that I already knew he wouldn't feel the same way for me cu'z he's just an insensitive bastard who doesn't even know what does love mean... I wish just one day I could say how I feel for him, even if he will just reject me, at least I had finally let him know..." Pirika shoved her blanket up to her shoulders, turned off the lamp and started to close her eyes. "Ren, Ren, Ren... if you only knew, this is the first time I'll admit to myself, I love you..."
(an hour later)
"Damn... the face of that monster from the movie still won't erase in my mind..." Pirika trembled and held the pillow tightly to her. She could hear the hush of the leavesof the trees outside blown by the wind which scared her more, plus the lights off... she could feel as if the bloody monster from the movie was just under her bed, that would just suddenly crawl above her and eat her.
"NO! That was just a fiction... it's not true and there's no things such as monsters..." Pirika tried to think of anything else but thinking of anything else just brings her back to thinking of the monster from the horror movie, just freaking her out...
(at Ren's room)
KNOCK KNOCK!
"Bason... check out who's that..." Ren said, awakened covering his head with pillow.
KNOCK KNOCK
"Bocchama, it was Pirika-san..." Bason said.
"Pirika?" Ren stood up and opened the door to see Pirika carrying a pillow.
"Ano... can I sleep there?" Pirika asked, blushing.
"What? (blushes into deep red) Sleep here? You're crazy! Just go back to you room..." Ren said.
"Onegai! I am so scared, I can't sleep alone..." She insisted.
He stared at her for a few seconds and finally came up to a decision...
"Ch... Ok, get inside..." Ren let her enter.
(inside Ren's room)
Ren turned off the lights and lied down on the couch.
"Are you going to sleep on the couch?" Pirika asked.
"I don't want to sleep beside someone, so suit yourself, and just sleep there in my bed..." Ren said.
"B - but... I want to sleep beside someone... I can't help but think of the monster until I can see someone sleeping besides me..."
"If you want to sleep besides someone, you went on the wrong place... Just go and sleep with Jun, she's a woman too, there'll be no malice if you'll sleep with her..."
"B- but..."
"(sighs) OK, OK,... (goes back to his bed and lies besides Pirika) Are you happy now?" Ren asked.
"The lights, please turn it on..."
"Ch... so many caprice..." Ren turned the lights on and went back to bed.
"Thanks..." She placed her arms around him, leaned on his barechest (he's shirtless)and closed her eyes. "You're just as warm as onichan..."
"Stop comparing him to me, I didn't let you sleep beside me because I wanted to but because I pity you..." Ren said another aliby, as usual...
(Pirika's POV)
This is the happiest moment of my life! I can't believe I am here, sleeping beside Tao Ren, the guy I hated at the same time I loved... If this is just a dream, I wish I will never wake up... I wanna be with him forever... This is the chance... it's now or never... I'll tell him how I feel, I don't care if he'll reject me...
"Ano... Ren-kun... "
(Cliff hanger!)
