Chapter Four - Life Can Not Get Any Worse, Can It?

"You! Why, on earth, are you here!" yelled Tomoyo.

"Excuse me; why else would I be here if I don't go to this university for education?" Eriol questioned back, "Do you really think I am just here to admire the beautiful view?"

"How would I know!" retorted Tomoyo, "you could be stalking me, because I broke your 'precious' glasses, for all I know!"

"What, on Earth, had gave you the idea of me stalking you?" asked Eriol, obviously thinking the girl have lost her sanity.

"Nothing, I've just thought it up, in my head, a while ago," retorted Tomoyo, not liking where this conversation was heading. She could not believe she was actually talking to this arrogant jerk.

After that ridiculous statement, Eriol cocked his head, to one side, and stared blankly at Tomoyo. He contemplates on an intelligent remark when he decided to forget about this encounter before he completely loses his sanity if he continued talking to this insolent 'girl.' He needed to rest his stressful mind before he explodes from this ridicule.

"I do not know what you are on about, and I do not believe I want to know," began Eriol, "but if you don't mind, I have better things to do than to tolerate you and your incompetence."

Eriol was about to walk away, when he abruptly stopped next to Tomoyo's left side.

"Miss, you would do well, not to mess with me. Or else, you would be very sorry you have ever done so," he whispered, with a smirk on his face, before he left, once again, a fuming Tomoyo behind.

After a few minutes, after that rude man has left, Tomoyo stared at the place where the man was once standing. She felt her anger rising rapidly. Oh, how she wanted to mutilate him.

"Oh my God!" exclaimed Tomoyo, as she fumed. "The nerves of that guy! How dare he walk away from me just like that, thinking that he is superior to me! How dare he try to intimidate me like that! Well, I am not the kind of women who gets threaten easily! Oh, I hope he falls on a banana skin and falls on his face, in public, and that he would walk under an apartment, with a flower falling upon his head, and that he would be pushed into a puddle, dirtying his clean clothes!"

Now, Tomoyo was not the type, of a typical girl, who would jinx people that they just knew, and hardly knew any thing about, but the arrogance of that man was driving her nuts. Not as in 'I'm-totally-crazy-about-him' nuts, but the 'he-makes-me-want-to-kill-him' nuts. Since there was nothing else to do, but to stand there, she decides to walk away from that dull sense and head towards her first class. She believed everything would go just great after that rude man was gone. Alas, the thought of him going to the same school as her, she could not imagine what could possibly happen. Will she explode if she sees him again? Will she be pressured from the fact that he is in the same building? Will she be having a hard time at school, knowing she could meet him any time of the day? She does not know. She could only do one thing at that moment. Hope. She could only hope everything will turn out fine.

Alas the Gods did not hear her plea, or either they were not there when she did, because after that encounter she was greeted with a series of misfortunate incidents.

It all began the morning as she was walking to her first lesson, which was maths, when she accidentally slipped on a banana skin, which was abandoned by an ungrateful student, in front of the classroom and fell upon her delicate back.

Secondly, it happened, at recess time, when a group of boys was playing soccer. Tomoyo was eating her bento box when a soccer ball went flying and kicked her lunch off her lap, dirtying her lunch.

Her last misfortune had happened during her Art class. One of her clumsy classmates had accidentally poured filthy paint water over her purple tank top, leaving a permanent stain on it. She then went to clean her top when the bell ran, indicating the period had ended. It was lunchtime. Believing food would lighten up her mood a bit, she headed towards the cafeteria.

Even though the line at the cafeteria was quite long Tomoyo lined up with a plastic tray in her hands, since her lunch has been fed to the ground. She was hoping she was able to get her favourite chicken salad when it was her turn when, unfortunately, it ran out. She soon realized the irony in the incidents that occurred to her. That very same morning, she had jinxed it to that rude man. Instead of occurring to him, it occurred all to her. Oh, the irony. She hoped she was able to eat something before English class. She did not want to faint in the middle of the class, from starvation. Finally, she was about to take the last cheese and ham sandwich when another hand had grabbed the sandwich at the same time as her. She was about to rebuke the poor innocent study body, for taking the last sandwich which she wanted to eat, when she saw him. The man that saved her from that treacherous fall. The man with a smile that made her speechless. The man who flattered her and made her blush. Him with those Emerald-green eyes. Him.

"Daidouji-san! How nice to meet you here," exclaimed Hideki, while smiling at Tomoyo kindly.

"Hello Igarashi-kun, ano…I was going to have lunch here, since my lunch was eto… fed to the ones that needed more than me…" said Tomoyo, mysteriously.

"How generous of you to share your lunch to other starving students," said Hideki contently.

"Ano… well, not exactly. You see, a group of boys were playing soccer and had accidentally kicked my bento box away, only with my lunch," explained Tomoyo, sheepishly.

"Oh dear, did they apologies?" asked Hideki with concern.

"Oh yes," replied Tomoyo, "they did."

"Then you must be starving then! Come, I'll buy you lunch," offered Hideki generously, "It's not healthy to miss out recess. It would be an outrage if you miss out lunch too!"

Being uncomfortable, with the fact that Igarashi-kun was buying lunch food for her, she declined his generous offer.

"I don't think it's a good idea," said Tomoyo, "you need to buy lunch too. I don't think I like the idea of using your money, for lunch, just to fill up my famished stomach."

"Oh, its fine by me," responded Hideki, "so, please let me buy you lunch."

Tomoyo just could not just say no. Who could, when a gorgeous man is looking at you with those cute, pleading puppy-eyes? So she decided to give in to his pleas and her heart. It's so hard to resist this chance to know him more. And, after all, my stomach is going to growl if I don't eat something soon. That would be just too embarrassing, for him to hear my stomach growl.

"Alright," said Tomoyo "Thanks a lot."

"Your welcome!" exclaimed Hideki with a smile, "so what are we waiting for! Let's go to that new café for lunch there. The salads are exquisite! It's called Mishu Café."

And before Tomoyo could comment, about the name of the café, Hideki had already dragged her out of the crowded cafeteria, followed with a couple of eyes staring after them.