A/N: hey kids…well yeah it seems to have been a while. Sorry. I had PSATS on yesterday and then I just updated two stories so now im doin this one. please review…im trying. The update rotation will go as follows : Life in the Fast Lane, Life in a Boarding Home, The A-List. Am I doing good so far on updates?
Disclaimer: I wish…-sigh-
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The A-List
Chapter Five
Saying Sorry
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On Monday morning, Kagome sighed in Economics class and looked around. Everyone was either asleep, taking notes or staring dumbly at the teacher and the board behind him. Today they were learning about, supply and demand – which is when a country had a certain amount of products and the less they have the higher the prices on those products are.
Kagome couldn't stand this. Of course she knew this shit already. She lived with the richest man in the world who was all about money and money only. Another thing that was on her mind was what happened last Saturday at her party. The fight with Sango and also she hadn't had the chance to say sorry to him for Kouga's behavior, but she also didn't have the courage to go up to him yet. She felt pretty bad. Kouga had insulted him in the worst way possible and that was sad. She knew Inuyasha probably wasn't rich, rich, but she also knew that Kouga didn't have to point it out to the whole world.
She sighed, again.
And when the bell rang, she was out of there fast. She wanted to find him and say sorry and to excuse Kouga's words. It wasn't right and she wanted to fix it.
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At Lunch period, Sango and Miroku were walking down the stairs leading to the roof and they ran into Kagome coming up them.
"Hey Kagome." Miroku greeted.
"Hi Miroku. Hi Sango." She smiled warmly at the girl she fought with not more than two days ago.
"Hey." Sango said bluntly. She really wanted to be friends with Kagome, but she couldn't let down her pride or her guard. She never liked preps and she never, ever trusted anyone besides Miroku, and Inuyasha. She learned to only trust those closest to her, or else she would be betrayed or let down.
"Do…you guys happen to know where Inuyasha is?" she asked, a slight pink tint to her cheeks. Miroku smiled.
"He's on the roof." She nodded her thanks and ran up the rest of the stairs. Pushing open the heavy door, she saw Inuyasha sitting with his back against a wall up there, and in his lap was some type of notebook with a pencil in his hand hovering over it. She smiled and prepared herself.
Inuyasha peeked an eye open as that unmistakable scent reached his nose.
"Are you going to stand there all day, or did you have something you wanted to say to me?" he asked lightly, closing his eyes completely. Kagome started and looked around.
"Uh, I uh…wanted to say something." She walked over to him, as slowly as she could without looking like a complete dork, trying to make this time draw out so that she didn't have to say what she was going to.
"Like…" he drawled, waiting for her to continue.
"Um…" 'Say something intelligent' she coaxed herself. "Nice weather, huh?" 'Oh, man. That had to be the worst conversational line ever'. She mentally smacked her head and she could see Inuyasha smirking.
"You don't have many conversations do you?"
"Shut up…that's not the real reason I came. I, uh, I just wanted to know…" 'Damn', she thought. She needed something she could ask him for. What did she need?
"Know what?" Inuyasha asked, finally opening his eyes and looking at the black-haired girl.
"Um…if you could give me a ride home?" she asked, sighing with relief that she came up with something and the good thing? She actually needed a ride home.
"How bout no." he said with a light smirk.
"What, why?" she asked, completely taken aback.
"Mommy told me to never give rides to strangers." He said in a cute little boy voice.
"But I'm not a stranger. I just want a ride home, that's all."
"Uh huh, and that's what all the creepy cereal killers say to all their victims before they strike." He said grinning even wider when she hit his arm.
"Onegai?" she asked meekly.
"Ooh, now you're begging for it. You must really be desperate," he said going back down to his sketchpad and doodling something.
"Inuyasha!" she whined.
"Okay, okay. Jeez, you can have a ride home."
"Arigato." She said bowing and she left the roof with a smile on her face. Okay so she chickened out and didn't say sorry like she was supposed to. But it's all good. She would do it in time…sooner than she thought.
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"You drive slow." Kagome commented with a bored expression gracing her features.
"What?!" Inuyasha stopped at a light and looked over at his driving companion.
"You…drive…slow…" she drew it out as if she were speaking to a three year old.
"No I don't. If I were really driving, you'd be slammed back into your seat. I just don't like to drive like I usually do with people I just met."
"Uh, huh." Kagome looked out the window semi-convinced and she just sighed.
"What now?"
"Nothing. Just thinking about all the things I have to do."
"Really now? You're life sounds so busy." He said in a bored voice, as they pulled into their younger brothers school.
"Whatever. My life is probably way better than yours is, any day." She said and instantly regretted it. "I didn't-"
"Save it," he muttered. Their brothers hopped into the backseat.
"Hey guys, how was your day at school?" Inuyasha asked. The boys looked at the two teens and instantly felt a thickness in the air of the car, and it wasn't the heater either. It was a thick tension between their older siblings. Sota rolled down his window, as if that would get rid of it.
"It was fine," he said slowly.
"Good." Kagome said shortly. The rest of the ride was silent. Inuyasha took Kagome and her brother home and stopped in front of their gates. "Catch you later." He said to Kagome as they got out.
"Bye." She said quietly. When she was inside the gates, he took off towards his own house, which was about a block away.
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On Friday, at about midnight, Kagome was getting bored. Everyone was asleep and the house was too quiet. She needed to do something. So what better to do than go bug Inuyasha? She didn't know why exactly she wanted to bug him. Maybe it was because she had a crush on him. Or maybe it was the fact that she had been pretty mean to say what she had said last Monday in his car - they had been avoiding each other ever since – but either way, she was bored. She got dressed into something a little warmer and walked out to Inuyasha's house.
When she arrived at her gates she stopped in front of them and looked into the security stand, to see that no one was on post. But she also couldn't get in because the gates could only be opened from the inside. So she got the brilliant idea of going around the house and climbing a stone wall with green vines growing up and over it. She got over the wall and onto the exact street she needed. She walked down the quiet streets, hoping no one would recognize her and try to jump her, but she knew had to get him up somehow. She needed to talk to him. It would be a miracle if he were up, so when she got to his house and into the backyard, she had to resort to throwing little pebbles at his window. Only problem was, she didn't know which window was his. So, she would just throw pebbles at a window until something happened.
CLINK.
CLINK.
CLINK.
OUCH.
Becky realized the last sound came from a pebble hitting someone's head.
"Sorry!" she whispered.
"Is that you Kagome?" a male voice asked. Kagome recognized it was Inuyasha's.
"Yeah, sorry about that." The moon cast little light and she saw Inuyasha through his open window. Why did she suddenly feel like Romeo and him Juliet?
"What the hell are you doing here? In the middle of the night, I might add." He rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
"Will you go on a walk with me?"
"Are you crazy? Or just weird?"
"Could be both. But that doesn't matter, you're up and you're coming with me. Get dressed." She said blushing because she realized he wasn't wearing a shirt, - Why did he have to have such a good body? - But thanks to the little moonlight in the darkness he couldn't see.
"Kagome, I'm worried. What are you on?" he teased. She reached into her sweatshirt's pocket and pulled out some candy in a brown paper bag.
"Just some sugar." She grinned.
"Okay, I coming." He laughed quietly and shut his window. In a few short minutes, he walked out into the backyard wearing a hooded sweatshirt and some baggy jeans. After looking around for a second, he asked, "How did you get in here?"
"Well, I know it's considered breaking and entering, but I needed to get in somehow so I climbed that wall." She said pointing to a stone wall, which separated his yard and the neighbors, with plants all over it.
"I see. Okay, let's go." They started to walk over to the wall and managed to get over easily and out onto the street. They walked to the park in silence, except for the occasional shoe shuffling on the pavement.
"So why did you decide to come and get me, in the middle of the night, on a Friday?" Inuyasha asked looking up from his shoes and at Kagome.
"Because I was bored. Thought I'd come and bug you. I knew you wouldn't turn down my offer to go out in the middle of the night with me."
"Why is that?" he asked, as they arrived at the park and sat down in the grass, under a tree.
"Because I'm irresistible. That's why." She paused when he chuckled. "Candy?" she opened up her bag, revealing lots of different flavored sour candies.
"Where did you get so many?" he asked dazed.
"I stock up. Sour candies rule over all others." She said sticking some in her mouth.
"These are the best. I used to get these all the time as a kid. My parents used to take my little brother and I to the candy store all the time. Then they got busy with work." He said the last part a little quieter.
"Yeah, my dad has never been there for my brother's or my life. He's just really snobby and rich and thinks a family would get in the way. But my "mom" has always been there. She's our caretaker/best friend/older sister/mom. She's always there for us." She said putting another piece of candy in her mouth. When they finished off the bag, Inuyasha laid down in the grass with his hands behind his head. Kagome did the same; except for she laid on her side, her hands tucked under her cheek as if she were sleeping.
"Hey Inuyasha?"
"Yeah?" he shifted his gaze from the starry sky, to Kagome's chocolate eyes.
"Remember earlier in the week? You know when you drove me home?"
"Yeah I remember. And I was mad because of what you said." He pointed out.
"Yeah…sorry…" she frowned and she saw a wave of guilt wash over his face, his eyes still locked with hers as he spoke next.
"It's no biggie. Whatever, it's in the past right?"
"Yeah, I guess. And I'm sorry for calling you all those names when you threw the paint balloon on your head. And I'm sorry for all the mean things I might have said. And for hitting you in the forehead with that pebble." She said, propping herself up on one elbow and leaning over Inuyasha to see his forehead. There was a small cut right above his right eyebrow, but luckily it was already starting to heal. She slowly reached out with her left hand and laid her finger down near it. He didn't flinch to her touch, but she pulled her hand back anyway, wondering why she had done that.
"That's ok. And I'm also sorry about all the prank pulling too." She nodded. "But what were you going to say?"
"Oh. Um…I was referring to our conversation about how I said that my life is probably way better than yours..." she cleared her throat.
"I said it was fine…"
"But it's not. That was really mean and I really didn't even mean to say it, because I…well it's kind of a lie. I'd kill for your life." She said quietly.
"Right. And I'm King Kong. You wanna have my life? That's rich, Kagome." He said with a slight chuckle.
"Don't laugh…I wasn't kidding." He stopped laughing, and his face grew more serious.
"Well, in any case, don't worry about it. I don't really care."
"I'm also sorry about Kouga, h-"
"Don't." he said with a warning tone.
"What?"
"Don't fucking say sorry for that loser."
"But-"
"No," he cut her off again, this time looking at her to get his point across. "You didn't do it, so you shouldn't be saying sorry. That little pussy has too much pride, and since he's not going to say sorry himself, then no one should say it for him."
"Okay, I won't say sorry for him."
"Good."
"But, he's a good person. I know sometimes he can be-"
"Idiotic, selfish, impious, preppy?" he supplied.
"Now wait just a second. Preppy has nothing to do with his personality. People shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Good advice to live by."
"I want an example from your point of view."
"Ok. If you were new to school, and you saw me by myself, what group of kids would you think I hang out with?"
"Preps…" he said slowly.
"Exactly. Because that's what I look like and act like on the outside."
"So what you're trying to say is that you're not a prep?"
"Well, I hang out with them. But deep down I'm a "punk rocker"." she said motioning the quotes with her fingers, and he smiled slightly.
"So why hide behind the preppy mask?"
"Just doing what my dad want me to."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Inuyasha asked.
"It means my father want me to hang out with rich snobs so that their families won't be too bad of competition in the business world." Inuyasha frowned.
"That sucks ass. Are they the same with your brother?" she nodded slightly, trying to decipher the look on his face. "Then how do they allow him to hang out with my brother?"
"I don't know. My dad doesn't really care for Sota. He just wants to use him to take over the business." She shrugged.
"Oh." He said. Kagome sat up, and pulled her knees to her chest. She sighed and then looked up at the sky. "It's great, huh?"
"What?" she asked looking back down at him.
"This night. It's cool." Kagome bit her bottom lip and nodded.
"Yeah." Silence ensued until Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore. He sat up and looked over at Kagome.
"Kagome?"
"Hmm?"
"Why are you being so nice to me?" Kagome took a deep breath of the crisp night air and looked back at Inuyasha.
"What do you mean?" she whispered.
"I mean…you just kind of...kept talking to me after I talked you on the roof, even though you didn't have to…and we're both from totally different worlds…so why me?" He said, equally quiet.
"Um…" Kagome sighed. She knew exactly why, but she knew it might sound dumb if she said it out loud.
I Want To Change The World
Keep
on holding on your desire
You will get that shining love
That
you can't wait to know
If you go on to get your goal
It's
Wonderland
"Yeah?"
"Well, I feel like…I'm supposed to know you. It probably sounds stupid-"
"No it doesn't, I just…I didn't get it, that's all."
I felt so worried when I spout
out the time
Thinking of the future it lies
Cause I knew that
there's nothin'
That I really want to know
And then I met you
So I could feel what you should know
I finally find a love
And
now I'm really feeling her right
Cause the matter is gone
This
is the way to love you
"I don't care about the fact that we're different. I just want a real friend." She smiled at him, and then looked away.
"A real…friend? You have tons…" he said slowly.
Want To Change The World
Walk
again, never miss the way
Don't be afraid I'm with you
And we
could fly away
If you could stay with me forever
Change My
Mind
Won't get lost if your passion's true
I'm gonna fly with
you again
So you could spread your wings
And you will fly with
me away
It's Wonderland
"But they aren't my real friends. I know they use me because of my reputation, and I want someone to except me for the real me. You know what I mean?"
"I can't say that I do. I mean, I don't usually have different people coming up to me and saying that they want to be my friend." He said with a small smile.
"Right…well do you get the basic idea."
"Yeah."
Every single thing
The time
and the flyin'
Til the day, I won't let you go
You will see
that your desire will
be granted again
It's just the feeling
You understand the travel life
It won't be to bad to face
And
then it probably you will see will not be to heart
If we could
walk beside you
"It's just, these people judge my every move, and it's like one slip up, and I'm the main talk on Monday morning."
"Like talking to a less fortunate person. Why the hell do you care about what people think?"
"Inuyasha, I don't think of you as some charity case. And, don't you?"
"Sometimes. But not on shit like that. It's not important to me."
Want To Change The World
Walk
again, Fire against the wind
Don't be afraid to be true
Cause
now you have to bring
The power of your smile in your face
Change
my Mind
Keep on holding on your desire
You will get that
shining love
That you can't wait to know
If you go on to get
your goal
It's Wonderland!
"Oh I see. Well maybe if you had people expecting things from you, you would toot a different horn."
"Not exactly. If people expect things of me, I let them expect it. But I just do whatever works for me."
"You're lucky."
"Yeah I guess I am." He replied. Chocolate orbs searched golden amber. But Kagome broke the gaze and looked down at her watch.
"Hey I better go if my dad knew I was gone, he'd have the Tokyo police force hunting me down." She smiled and Inuyasha smiled back.
"I'll walk you home."
"You don't have to," she started.
"No, I want to." She nodded and he smiled and they headed back to Kagome's house in silence, like before when they were on their way to the park. After they came to Kagome's gates and after thanking him, Kagome climbed over quietly. Inuyasha turned and went home, with a smile on his face, the stars shining down on him. He found out that the girl he was crushing on, was even more amazing than he thought she was.
I Want To Change The World
Walk
again, never miss the way
Don't be afraid I'm with you
Now we
can fly away
If you could stay with me forever
Change My Mind
Won't get lost if your passion's true
I'm gonna fly with you
again
So you could spread your wings
And you will fly away with
me away
It's Wonderland
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A/N: Okay! Whoot whoot! Got another chappie out. How did you guys like it? Tell me what u think…um…I have a vote I need yall to take tho. Okay. I have to ruin the plot a little but its okay. In my story, I was going to have an incident where Inuyasha comes to Kagome's rescue, not like a kidnapping or anything but you know…something completely random. So then as a reward for saving her, her father is going to invite Inuyasha and three other people to come stay at their mansion. Too cliché? It just works with what I wanna write…
Poll:
Have him stay
Screw it and have him just be her friend like how they are
Tell me what you –the readers- want to see happen
For number three I'll see what I can do if I get votes for that one. Anyway, thanks for all the reviews! I love you! Please take this poll and tell me what you think, I need feedback lol!
Later Dayz, TaintedMunkeyz