Im so sorry! I didn't update for like a month again! Or maybe even more…okay, I'm gonna start updating more now! It's just that I'm blanked out of idea sometimes, so please understand! Any who, I hope you'll like this chapter and please review!
The violent howls of the afternoon rain ceased into distilled murmurings of the surrounding wind, the birds begun to sing their melody of love in the air. It was amazing how the rainbow softly and faintly peered into the dark, gloomy sky. It brought a beautiful feeling into the street. Yet, it brought a vague feeling to her. She can still feel the stiffness of her own body against his. Overwhelmed by an uncertain feeling inside, she was only able to take notice of his deep breathing that tickled her ears. "Stop it," she said quietly, "let go of me." Her hands started to shake uncontrollably when she felt his grasp started to loosen up and his boyish sobs suddenly faded. She looked up to meet his eyes, unknowing that they have fell into each other's gazes. A pink shade of blush fell upon his pale cheeks as a sudden realization came upon him; how could have he failed to see how beautiful she actually was? He sensed his hands that lay upon her, touching the softness of her dress material, feeling the adorable curve of her waist, and the sheer touch of her radiant skin. He could hear his heart beats as he traveled his foot backward, but he was unable to pull away his gaze from her. Her head unexpectedly felt as light as a helium balloon as she looked into those blue eyes of his, his pupils widened and she could feel the warmth of her cheeks.
"What's going on here?" she thought to herself. "I can't move."
Just then, a car passed by, its metal parts chattered uneasily down the road. They broke apart their gazes and returned back from their fantasies. "Aeehhh!" Zoe exclaimed half disgusted and half surprised. "What the-," Splash! He angrily shoved her away from him, making her landed on a puddle of rainwater. He shook off his lusting thoughts and stared mercilessly at her.
"You bastard!" She screamed, trying to pushed herself up. "What the hell's your problem!"
He took a step backward and turned around to run off. His eyes were gloomy and soulless, yet he felt irritated by the warmth that still glowed vibrantly on his cheeks. He clenched his fists and grinded his teeth, with that, he ran away as fast as his legs could carry him. Zoe watched furiously at him as he took off, she made a high-pitched squeal to convey her fury and took off her sandal, trying to lift it up and throw it at him yet she missed the target.
Back at home, Misha sat beside her piano to wait for the return of Zoe. She began to fret knowing that Zoe had been gone for a while. She withdrew her attention to the notes on the book and looked at the big window that sat beside her, praying that Zoe will appear in the scene. Just then, she caught her eyes on a bright figure in the rain and realized it was Zoe. She ran up to the door and opened it to find Zoe standing angrily at the door; she was wet from top to bottom.
"Zoe, what happened?" she asked, trying to hold back her amused thought. "I thought you brought an umbrella with you?"
"Errrrr!" Zoe moaned in rage, kicking off her sandals and stepped in. "I don't wanna talk about it!"
"W-Well, anyways," she continued, smiling a bit. "Do you wanna get out your cello and play a little duet with me?"
Zoe shook her head and walked upstairs. "No, I wanna take a shower right now. Maybe later."
The next day at school, everything seemed to go back to normal. Zoe was at her locker when she spotted Kouji walking by at the hallway. She pouted a little at the sight of him and turned around to face her locker door. As always, he had his headphone on, blasting it at the highest volume. He looked up to catch his eyes on Zoe's distinguish hair colour and felt irritated. He crossed his eyebrows and looked away.
In the classroom, before class started, Kouichi was talking to his friends at the desk when Misha spotted him. She smiled sweetly to herself and fixed her golden brown hair a bit. She walked up to him, flashing her brilliant white teeth. "Hey Kouichi!" she said sweetly. Kouichi, who was totally oblivious to her flirting just looked at her and grinned casually to her. "What's up Misha?".
"So how was your weekend?" she asked, flaring her short uniform skirt a little.
He shrugged. "Nothing really, it was raining really bad during the weekend."
She looked away a little and came up with another topic. "Uh, well, hey, have you heard of the new movie that just came out today?"
"You mean 'Toki no Sabaku'?" he said.
"Yeah!" She chimed brightly. "You wanna go an see it?"
"Mmmm…I don't think so." He replied, "It's not my type of movie."
"What? Why not?" she whined a little in disappointment. "I'm sure it's a really good movie! Zoe and I are dying to see it ever since we saw the commercial!"
"Zoe?" he thought to himself then, he smiled. "Sure I'll go and see it!"
"Great!" she said, trying to hide the true happiness that's inside of her, thinking that she'll be going to watch the movie with him after school.
During lunch hour, Zoe met up with Kouichi at the locker area. He bent down and placed his hands on his thighs, trying to catch his breath. Zoe placed her hand on his shoulder and bent down to pat him. "Are you okay? You looked like you've been outside running for a while."
He nodded and smiled at her. Even though he did run all the way to the movie theater to buy the tickets, he knew it was worth it. He took out the tickets and showed them to her. "I got these tickets to this movie that you wanted to watch. I was wondering if you could watch it with me after school today."
She felt speechless and uncomfortable. "He's asking me out to a date?" she thought. "Oh no!"
He took her hand and placed the ticket on her hand. "Here, I'll meet you at the movie theater today. And don't be late okay?"
She reluctantly nodded and accepted the ticket. Yet, she felt her stomach twitching as if there were butterflies in there. He smiled and blushed. "I've been thinking about asking you out for a really long time. I'm just glad that…"
Zoe didn't hear any of that; she was looking at Kouji who was walking at the other far end. She felt curious about what he was doing, watching as he looked suspiciously back and forth to detect if there were anyone in the hallway. That's strange; don't tell me he's planning to poll out another one of those scary pranks again! However, he just entered this room and closed the door behind him. Zoe gasped a bit and returned her eyesight back at Kouichi to find his face was drew closer to hers. She took in a deep breath, noticing the deep flush of her cheeks. She dodged herself away from his lips and laid her head on his shoulder. Kouichi smiled a bit and placed his hands on her back to pull her closer to him.
"What's Kouji up to again?" she thought deeply to herself as she rested her head on Kouichi's shoulder.
After school in the locker area, Zoe turned around after locking her locker to find Misha smiled radiantly to her. "Hey Misha!"
Misha jumped up and down happily, her face glowed with such radiance that sometimes made Zoe believed that Misha was one of the most beautiful girl she'd ever met. Misha put her hands on Zoe's wrists and grinned. "Guess what, I'm going out with someone tonight!"
"Really? Who is he?" Zoe asked excitedly.
Misha simply shook her head and smiled again, "I'll tell you when I get back home from my date with him." She dashed off without saying goodbye. Zoe looked at her and smiled, then she turned aside to take notice of that same door that Kouji went in during lunchtime. She suddenly felt the urge to go inside that door, and she knew that she couldn't resist the temptation. She wondered thoroughly to herself as she took closer and closer steps toward the door. When she finally came in front of the door, she found her heart beat viciously and felt the butterflies in her stomach. She turned the doorknob open to find that the door was unlocked the whole time. She gasped as entered the room and realized that it was an abandoned storage room. The dark room reeked with a strong dusty scent, and she was unable to see a thing from the room. "What's he doing in this room?". As she took a step closer into the dark, she heard the rattling of some kind of object. She gasped and decided to go back out, only to bump into another sharp edged object. She became more frightened than before, she held her injured right arm that got scratched by the scarp object closer to her. She breathed heavily as she resisted the pain from her arm and felt the blood that came out from it. She backed up a bit and accidentally knocked herself against the drawer, a picture frame that was above it fell and hit her on the head. A sudden shock of pain triggered her into a deep pass-out; she weakly closed her eyes as she felt herself drowning into the deep darkness.
During her pass-out, she had a dream; a weird dream indeed. She saw a little, no more than the age of six. He was adorable; his blue eyes were so charming that they looked like as if they were shimmering on his soft face. His hair was dark and vibrant underneath a chic-looking bandana. Suddenly, a vicious tire screech from a car broke the smile on his face. A woman lay silently on the lifeless road; she had blood almost everywhere on her body. He quickly ran up to her and cried. Mother! Mother! Were the words that Zoe could hear, the woman smiled at her beautiful little boy. She was breathing heavily to stay awake, Kouji, mommy will always love you. Please be strong for me. Please don't cry. But he couldn't hear those words that came out from her mother's mouth, he wrapped his arms around the dead body, sobbing and sobbing until the siren wails from the police cars came into the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, Kouji came out from Ms. Naruto's office once again. He sighed and closed his eyes. "That bitch just couldn't stop talking about how she's gonna press those damn charges on me about vandalizing the school hall way. Damn it, I don't want to see her again!"
He then remembered that he left his jacket at the abandoned storage room, which also happened to be his secret hideout. He went upstairs and found the door opened. His heart jumped a bit and he went inside the room to check out what happened. He found his jacket on the floor, there was a shoe print on it, and he then instinctively knew that someone was inside the room. He took out his knife and twisted it to reveal the sharp blade on it. He walked closer to the dark, sensing the presence of a person. Zoe finally woke up from her deep pass-out and gasped at the horrible dream that she just had. She got up from the ground, making the piles of stuff beside her rattled. Kouji ran up to the noise with his knife and jumped onto the dark figure he saw…only to realize that he stabbed Zoe with the blade. She screamed in pain at the sharp blade that was stabbed on her lower shoulder, the agony of the pain took over her strength. Kouji's eyes were wide open with shocks as he saw her fainted. He was terrified; the sight of her in pain made him felt awful, his heart was twisting with pain.
"Z-Zoe!" he quickly brought her onto his opened arms and ran out of the room.
Kouichi waited patiently outside the theater door and saw Misha walking up to him. She gave him her best smile and looked attentively at him. "Hi!"
"Oh hey Misha!" he greeted her. She looked down to see a beautiful bouquet of flowers on his hands. She smiled sweetly, thinking that the flowers were for her.
"So uh, why aren't you going in yet?" he asked, knowing that she had been standing for a while.
"I'll go in if you go in." she said with a flirtatious tone.
He chuckled and replied, "Actually, I have to wait for Zoe here."
Her face went into a deliberate shock. "Zoe? But I thought-,"
"Yeah," he interrupted, "I asked her to come with me to watch the movie. But somehow, she's late."
She looked down to hide the tears in her eyes. "Um, then I better go in now, see ya!"
"Bye!" he smiled at her as she ran pass him, oblivious to her emotions and feelings.
It was getting late, and the movie was almost over. Kouichi was still outside the front door, sitting on the staircases. The petals on the flowers started to fall out, he looked at them with a broken heart, wondering where could Zoe be.
Back at school, out from the corner of the hallway, came Kouji, holding the unconscious Zoe on his arms. He knew that if he takes her to the nurse room, Ms. Naruto will find out, and she'll probably threaten him even more. And he could be sent to the juvenile court for doing this. But he had no choice; it was the only way to save her. He couldn't care less right now, because at the moment, nothing meant more to him than her safety; he felt like that she was his responsibility. His heart ached as he looked at her, her head was resting on his chest, and her blood stained his shirt. He closed his eyes and ran as fast as he could down the staircases into the nurse room, suddenly, he accidentally ran into a person. He looked up to see Ms. Naruto, her eyes were as furious as ever; she clenched her fists and stared maliciously at him. "Kouji you little bastard, what the hell did you do this time!"
Well, that's all for now! I hope that you'll find this chapter better than the one before and I really hope that you'll send me a review. Well, ciao!