Valentine's Day Disappointment

AN: Ello people so here is the second chap. Sorry to say I thought I wouldn't get any reviews. But to my shock I got reviews and when I was feeling particularly blue. Oh well 2 chaps. down 3 to go.

Disclaimer: Now if I owned Rurouni Kenshin…. Would I be doing this….. That's a good question.

February 14th

POV: Love what is it? A feeling? An useless emotion? I don't know what is so great about it. Being loved and being hurt. Is it all worth that? The pain and the heartbreak one feels. Is that what people want? I just don't understand it. Why is it that even if you try your hardest to escape it comes back and haunts you over and over again until you wish you could die.

Megumi stood shivering outside on her bus stop. Her hair was slick shiny and sopping wet. As she waited she listened to her new CD 'Hot Fuss' by the Killers. She hummed along to 'Somebody Told Me' as she waited. She saw the bus round the hill on her street and picked up the black canvas messenger bag she had gotten for the school year. The faded yellow bus stopped right in front of her she climb up the sanding steps and sat down in the 3rd maroon seat. She placed her bag down and turned to the guy and two girls sitting around her.

"Morning Megumi!"

"So did you send me your speech?" asked Miaso.

"Oh gosh! I'm really sorry Misao. I forgot I'll send it to you later. I completely forgot."

"You're always forgetting things." laughed the red hair boy in front of her.

"Kenshin." rebuked Kaoru.

"What it is true."

"Well it is no worse than your obsession of the laundry."

" Touché."

"So you decided to enter the Green and White Day speech contest."

"Yes," sighed Megumi," it is a lot harder than it looks."

She sighed again and closed her eyes thinking about the past. She could remember every single little detail of that room: the 6 long white tables, the black table in the middle of the room, the teacher's desk at the front of the room, the blue stools that stood at each table. She sighed again and opened her eyes. Megumi hadn't noticed because she had felt to preoccupied but she realized that most of the occupants of the bus were wearing red or pink. 'That's strange' she thought and without a second thought about the matter, she turned and joined the conversation that Misao and Kaoru were having.

The rest of the morning went as it normally did. She slept through homeroom on her desk. She went to Math and French class without a problem. As she was going to art she noticed the lockers of the 7th graders they were covered in hearts. "Oh my god." She stopped in the middle of the hallway rooted to the spot. Hearts... Pink... Red... it finally hit her today was Valentine's Day. Megumi never had good experiences on Valentine's Day. In 4th grade when she went to tell her crush, Kenshin, that she liked him, but he asked Kaoru to start going out with him instead. Then in 5th and 6th grade Kanryu Takada had literally stalked her. Then he ended up being arrested for using drugs. Megumi had never had any luck when it came to love. She continued down to the art room.

"Morning Class." The art teacher Ms. Watru called to the class. "Since it is Valetine's Day I thought we would do something special and draw 2 pieces that have to do with Valentine's Day. The paper and the pencils are in the back. I would like the assignments by the end of the class. "

Megumi got her materials and came back to her seat. She started to draw her emotions in a stir. She hated Valentine's Day. It was pointless. As she drew she put he anger into the paper. She finally finished the drawing. It was very beautiful and tragic. A girl stood in the middle of a hallway her hand covering her face. Teardrops could be seen falling to the floor or on the floor. She put the drawing a side and started to draw her last picture. She didn't realize what her hand were doing until she was done. She stared down at the paper. The face of a handsome grinning boy looked up at her, his eyes twinkling. He had spiky hair and glasses. Her face became pale. For 7th grade she had become a friend of Sanosuke Sagara. They had been fairly close. After 7th grade ended that was the last day she had talked to him. She still remembered sitting next to him in science their conversations and everything. I killed her. Sayo who she had also become friends with in that same science class had started to date him this year. Misao who had a ton of class with him, had become friends with him and talked about him a lot. It killed her inside and out. She walked up to the front of the room and put the two drawings face down in the hand-in tray and walked out. At lunch Misao went on and on about how Sanosuke had done so much for Sayo on Valentine's Day.

"And then he…"

"Misao!" groaned Megumi "Enough already alright. I don't want to here any of it. I don't' care"

"Fine. Guess what Aoshi gave me?"

"What?" she said irritated this was going to be one hell of a long day she could just tell.

As she was leaving the school feeling relieved that it was finally over. She saw them. It was the last thing she wanted to see. Sanosuke and Sayo were standing there holding hands talking and laughing. She felt a surge of jealously wash over her as Sanosuke told Sayo " I love you." She watched as they kissed tears falling down her cheeks. She just ran she couldn't take any of it anymore. She ran away from it all.

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