Chapter 9 Emotion

Blue found herself falling Khiana and Jackie around the town trying to get a peek of Callie and her boyfriend, Tsume, all goo-goo eyes. She hadn't wanted to go but Jackie has away with convensing people. Blue had no doubt that Jackie could convense a vegaterian to eat a forty pound stake.When they caught up with Callie sitting on a bench just around the corner from the mall. Tsume joined her only a mintue or two after she sat down. Blue could have sworn that she heard both Khiana and jackie whisper something about Callie having good taste.

"What's bothering you?" Callie asked asked with concern coming from every word she spoke.

"Remember how I told you that some of my friends are moving?" Tsume said.

"Yes. What about it?" Callie replayed happy that he was opening up to her.

"They're leaving Thursday. It's just so hard to believe, and it pains me to say that I have actually gotten close to the little runt. He was some how able to drive me out of my mind and still become like a brother to me." Tsume explanned to his girlfriend. Blue amired how easliy Callie got him to talk. "It just won't be the same without Porky around to make smart ass remarks and eat those muffins all the damn time."

"I'm sorry that Toboe and Hige are moving." Callie said with sympathy. "I really don't know what to say other than that." Blue stood dumbfounded at Callie's words.

"You don't have to say anything. Just staying here with me is enough." Blue couldn't catch Tsume's words because of the thoughts of confusion were swirling around in her head. She ran back to the boarding school only making it to the front doors before vbreaking down in tears of sadness and anger.

Hige sat at lunch thinking of how he was supposed to tell Blue that he was moving in less than five days. Toboe was able to tell Leara which of course sent her to tears. Hige cannot stand the thought of making Blue cry. Leara was lucky becauseToboe could come back in a year or two once his dad got out of rehab. Hige doubted that he would ever see Blue again. The bell rang making Hige and Kiba get up and walk to P.E. Today was Hige's last day in this school as well as the last time him and his best friend would play basketball together.

"Ready for a game?" Kiba asked as the walked into the locker rooms.

"You bet, but this time you're going down." Hige heard Kiba chuckle at that statement. They changed and grabbed a basketball. Then they went to their usual spot on the court. They played for forty mintues with Hige coming up short by two points. They admitted that it was their best played game since their meeting in junoir high.

Blue spent the entire fifth period trying to figure out why hige hadn't told her he was moving. Maybe it was because she hadn't seen him in to weeks or the fact that hey couldn't see each other in less it was a weekend, and why hadn't Callie said anything to her. If he does care for her than he would have told her by now. The bell rang for sixthperiod. Blue sat down next to Jackie and khiana, like always, but noticed somthing or someone was missing.

"Where's Callie?" Blue asked them.

"Beats me." Khiana answered.

"Haven't seen her since we spyed on her at the mall." Jackie said. "Do you think that she's still with Tsume?" Blue thought that maybe Jackie was right on that but she could fell that Callie was up to something.

After school Callie carefully made her way out of the campus and toward Tsume's school. She was on a mission to somehow talk Hige into telling Blue about him moving. She was lucky and noticed Hige and the younger boy she saw at the mall with Leara walking down the street away from her. She quivkly ran toward them.

"Hige!" she yelled catching up to them. He turned around to acknowledging her. "Remember me?'

"Yeah you're Tsume's girl, Callie, right?" he said wondering why on earth would Tsume's girlfriend be running down the street yelling his name.

"Yep that's me." Callie paused thinking of what she was could to say to convense him and right now she actually wished that Jackie was around to use her convenseing skills. "I'm a friend of Blue's and I also know that you're moving. So when were you planning on telling her?" She came right out and said it.

"I'm not sure. I've spent all day trying to figure that out." Hige answered with his head parallel to the ground. Callie thought for a moment with a finger to her chin.

"Don't worry I have an idea." She said cheerfully almost scaring Hige and Toboe.

Blue and Khiana walked to begin the never-ending stack of homework assigned to them. Blue sat down on her bed and pulled out the books needed.

"Can you believe that Mrs. Muffly gave us a fifteen page report on firesafty." Khiana groaned from her side of the room.

"No. It's so unfair. I heard that she gave all her other classes only a ten page report." Blue said taping her pencil to the notebookpaper.

"That figures. Our class always ends up with more work." Khiana said lying back on her bed. Blue got about a page done before she heard a knock at the door. Khiana got up and answered it to find out that it was the missing Callie.

"Hey Callie. Haven't seen you all day." Khiana said as if asking what was up. Callie only smiled.

"Khiana could you come with me. I got caught and I need someone to bail me out. Please!" Callie begged.

"Fine but next time, don't come running to me." Khiana sighed. Blue laughed a little. She then heard a knock at the window. She turned to look and to her surpise saw Hige. She walked over tho the window and opened it.

"Hige what are you doing here. Does the words all girls boarding school mean anything to you?" Blue was amazed at how mad she was at him.

"Yeah I got that but I have to tell you something. Can I come in because I don't think that a guy hanging uot of this kind of school dorm is aloud." Blue nodded and helped him in.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" Blue asked trying not to tell him that she alrady knew.

"I'm moving this Thursday." Hige spilled it out. "I didn't plan this. My dad suddenly showed up out of nowhere and said that he was taking his house back because his was burned down." he said before she could say anything.

"So your just going to leave me here?" Blue asked sadly while looking at the ground.

"Blue I'm never going to leave you. Even though I'm moving my feelings for you are not going to vanish in thin air." Hige said with emtion thst he never thought that was in him. Blue looked at him to say something but he kept going. "When I graduate, I'm going to Western State College. If you aren't mad at me then apply for the same college and I promise that we'll be together again. But that's totally up to you."

"Heh, I would like that." she said. Hige smiled for the first time in days.

"I wish that I could stay longer, but if i don't get home Mom's gonna kill me." he said. "I'll see you again before I leave." and with that he kissed her goodbye and climbed out the window. Khiana and Callie came back in soon after with 'I know what happened in here' grins. Blue ingored them and went back to her school work.