Desperate Situations of the Heart
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These last three weeks, I have been through hell and back, trust mmeeee. Heh. Well of course I know I took FOREVER to update, I'll be updating A LOT more in these next few weeks, considering…I'm finally out of school for SUMMER! Ha!
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Sakuno stood at the entrance to the library, twiddling a shard of her hair around her index finger and back again, caressing her thumb.
This was all too nerve-racking. There was no way she could survive an evening with Ryoma in a library.
Ryoma Echizen. The heir to the well-known Echizen Tennis throne, the throne that currently belonged, well, once belonged to his saintly, pure, father.
Fingering the hem of her tennis skirt, she waited for Ryoma to finish his practice. Thoughts staggered across her mind, like a jagged line of paint across a canvas. A nervous line, a curious line asking too many questions, and they had now been executed from the mind and put on the paper.
Sakuno stared at the sky, the deepening navy already overtaking the slowly fading sun,
How much longer was Ryoma going to take?
"One more game!" the voice protested, obviously a sore loser wishing for one last chance.
What the—no way! Echizen if you…
"I have to work on a project." Ryoma responded, his usual monotone.
"Pfft! Come on I want to beat you at least once!" the voice whined. Who knew teenage men could be such sore losers… (A/N: No offence to any teen males reading this. Heh…)
"Well, not right now. Besides, it's getting dark." Sakuno watched as Ryoma's figure began to walk off, Penn tennis ball in one hand, racquet in the other.
"But we have the lights-" The voice began, but was cut off.
"Enough. I have to go." Ryoma dumped the tennis ball into it's container of three, and left it there, then grabbing the case for his racquet and sealing the racquet into it. "Would you mind taking the tennis balls into the supply closet?" Not waiting for an answer, he lifted his cap up a bit and walked up to Sakuno.
Silence.
"Let's get a move on. Follow me." Ryoma began walking, picking up his backpack which was leaning against the changing rooms.
Sakuno obediently followed, but then stopped as they passed the school gates.
"W-where…are we going?"
"To my house." He stated simply, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Sakuno froze, her skin went frigid.
"N…not…the…library?" She stammered.
"Do you really expect the school library to be open at this hour? It's almost dark."
"B-but you said…" she began, and then was cut off.
"Change of plans…"
"Well do you have a computer…?"
"Nope. Apparently my dad has many books and such…and earlier I got out a few books from the library anyway, so we have enough information for now. We can go to the library tomorrow. We have about 2-3 weeks. Or more."
"I suppose…" Sakuno blushed slightly, just thinking of her in Ryoma's house.
No. She shouldn't blush. She was over Ryoma. FOR GOOD!
Yes. For good.
Hopefully she would survive…in his house. Hopefully she would remember that…in his house.
Ryoma's house…Echizen Ryoma's house…
'Just stop thinking about it!' Sakuno scolded herself mentally.
"We're here…" Ryoma turned to look at her.
"Oh…" Sakuno looked up, staring at where Ryoma stayed. Where he slept. Where he ate. Where he showered…
Everything…
"It is really my cousins place…well, something like that."
"You're…cousin?" Sakuno responded, half aware he had talked and she had answered.
"Yes. But she is usually out or studying."
"Alright…"
"And my dad…he just is lazy and is probably asleep on the couch. So we'll just take the books up and record notes in my room."
My room…his room…Echizen Ryoma's ROOM… 'Oh God…' Sakuno thought.
Ryoma's room was normal. Like any other room. Bed, television, game station, a few clothes here and there, and not to mention, trophies and medals hanging across his dresser, it was like any other room belonging to a boy…man…male of his age.
Sakuno stood at the doorway as Ryoma slung his backpack next to his bed and sat on it. She had no clue what to do, or where to sit, afraid that if she sat on his bed he would tell her, 'get off.' Though, if she just stood there he'd probably think she was an idiot.
Or something like that.
"Sit on the bed." He commanded, already searching through his bag for a notebook.
"O-ok-ay…" Sakuno responded and sat onto his bed, a light, feathery pink blush deepening.
'Merow!'
"Eh…!" Sakuno jumped at least a foot in the air by the strange sound that came from under the bed.
"Kalpin…" She heard Ryoma sigh and drop his bag to look under the bed. "You can't be in here now; I have to do a project."
'Eh? Who's he talking to?' Sakuno blinked, her blush already passed pink and now taking a darker, reddish hue.
Ryoma looked up at her, his amber eyes glowing in the late sunlight that was sliding in through the blinds of his window. "It's my cat…sort of…it just walks in and out of my bedroom and the bathroom a lot. It can be very…disturbing."
"Oh…" Sakuno nodded slightly, and then too looked under the bed to only be greeted with eyes resembling Ryoma's.
'Mew…' the cat began to make its way from underneath the bed.
"It's very adorable…" Sakuno murmured, not even aware that she had said a full sentence without pausing or stuttering.
"Yeah." Passing her a book, he looked to her, "Read through this one and make notes. I'll do the same with this one." He held up the book he was going to use. 'The Reproductive Organs.'
Sakuno's blush turned maroon as she looked at the title of that one, down to hers.
'The Male and Female Reproductive Anatomy.'
"They are basically the same thing." Ryoma explained, "So we might get the same information."
"Oh…o…k-kay…" Sakuno stammered, her fingers twitching as she slowly pulled back the covers to the Index.
"I…you…well…I could do one section…such as the Female anatomy…and you could do the male…" Sakuno suggested maybe this would make it easier. She may not be a 12 year old, disgusted by opposite sex, but she didn't feel like studying the…lower areas of a male.
If she had an image of that lower area in her mind she would begin to think of it every time she looked at that certain boy next to her.
"It'd be better if we studied the opposite sex's anatomy."
"Oh…alright…"
Flipping to the correct page, Sakuno could see a huge diagram of both reproductive anatomies' staring right back at her.
"E-echi…zen…"
"What?" He turned to look at her, but his eyes locking onto something else.
Sakuno thought she would never see the day when Ryoma Echizen would blush.
Never in her life, did she think that. Now, however, she knew that if he could blush, a pig was capable of flight.
This was going to be a long night...
Arghh I know, you were probably expecting some Ryoma x Sakuno-ness, but next chapter…you just wait! ;-D hehehe.
I know that this chapter seems sort of rushed, bare with me x.x;
Well, I've got to get working on my other fic before my reviewers hunt me down and kill me! Heh…peace out! Read and Review!
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