Kyo pulled away quickly from his arms, as Akari hurriedly ran to the other side of the hallway.
"Kyo! Hey Where are you going?" Chiharu yelled, running after her. He was trying to grab her arm, finally after a while, they reached the girl's bathroom.
She turned and faced him. She sighed at looked at him. He paused from his breathing and stared at her.
"Chiharu, I need to do something very important, so please, I need you to go." She said calmly and pressed her ear on the door. She heard weeping noises, she knew it was Akari.
She could hate her forever, but she was her best friend, and now she hurt her.
Some friend I turn out to be.
"Wait, please don't tell me, you ran all the way here..just so you can use the bathroom?" Chiharu had some laughter in his voice and held it in. His grey eyes were laughing at her and at this situation, it was so not funny.
"You know what, yes, and I really have to go, so later!" She turned and went into the bathroom. She could hear Chiharu laughing, his laughter was echoing in the walls.
She sighed and turned, the crying stopped. Akari knew she was here.
"Akari, I know you hate me, right now." She started speaking slowly, knowing that Akari was going to explode any second without getting an explanation. She sighed and continued to stare at the bathroom door, in which Akari was in. Akari didn't respond.
" And I don't blame you if you do, what you saw there, was just a previous argument that was taking place between me and Chiharu, he was only trying to make up with me, I guess you can say I got carried away and allowed him to hug me."
She saw the bathroom door open a little bit, Akari was peeking at her, still listening to what she had to say. She took a deep breath and continued.
"I'm sorry, but it looks like I betrayed you, but I didn't. Chiharu doesn't have a date yet to the banquet and he's still waiting for that one girl to go with him." She mentioned, noticing that the bathroom door opened and out popped, Akari, with the trailing of mascara down her cheeks.
"He doesn't like me, I know because..well, I just know. Akari, you're my best friend, but if you want our friendship to come to an end, ok, I understand. I know I deserve it, well not the ending of our beautiful friendship, but a sincere apology, instead?" She looked at Akari, flashing her hopeful smile.
Akari shrugged, but gave her a smile in return," So he doesn't like you?"
"Positive." Well, yeah I guess that's true.
She hugged Akari and looked her, "Friends again?"
Akari nodded, "Friends." She was turning to go out the door, but Kyo stopped her.
"Uh uh, girl, you are not leaving with mascara flowing down your face." Kyo said, tugging her arm. She grabbed a tissue paper and dabbed some water and helped Akari clean her face.
"Kyo, do you think maybe he likes me, and secretly doesn't want to tell me because he's shy?" Akari asked, her cheeks were turning into a blush of pink.
Unsure of what to say, she replied," Yeah, maybe that's it."
Akari sighed and was now thinking dreamily about him.
It's too bad that she was busy thinking of Chiharu, not noticing that sad smile on Kyo's face. Maybe it's for the best..right?
The bell rang!
Akari and Kyo ran out of their biology class before the teacher would assign them even more homework.
"My mom is going to pick me up, you need a ride?" Akari asked Kyo as they were walking to their lockers.
"Oh no, it's ok, I can walk."
With that response, Akari gave her a worried look.
"You're going to walk alone?"
"Don't worry about it, my dad will be here to pick me up." She lied and gave a don't-be-worried-about-me-I'm-fine look to Akari.
"Well, ok, oh yeah, when you talk to Chiharu, mention me and call me tonight about his reaction okay?" Akari gave her a huge-do-me-a-favor smile. After what happened this afternoon, she decided to go ahead and mention Akari everytime.
"Yes, Madame Akari." She saluted, Akari laughed.
"Ok, ta-ta, Kyo!" Akai gave her a small hug and walked out of the hallway to the doors.
Exit. She was finally gone.
She leaned against her locker and sighed. Friendship saved, boy madness continues.
She started to think as she walked outside and sat at the benches where the basketball courts were.
She put her backpack down, looked down and stared at the side of the bench. There were some left-over gum sticking underneath, some had fungi growing on them.
Gross.
She saw the orange basketball, abandoned by its players. Oh well, as they saw,
Finder's keepers, loser's weepers.
She held the ball in her grip and bounced it, jumped and mimicked some of the moves that she saw on TV and went for the shot. She jumped, aiming in a straight position towards the hoop. Finally she released her grip and she flew.
She let go of the ball.
It flew.
Flew.
Flew…
She squinted a bit; the sun was making it harder for her to see.
It went…
"GOT IT!"
All of a sudden she saw a larger figure grab the ball.
"Hey, what did you do that for? I do not need your goal-tending skills ok!" She was yelling at someone that she couldn't see.
"Chill, Kyo."
"Wait, she shot that?"
"Her, that small dude over there."
"Whoa, she has some skills."
"You killed it, Hamaya."
"Dude, that was the picture-pack, KODAC momento, man!"
"Hey Kyo, she's pretty cute."
"Fuck off, Kensuke." That Kyo knew was Chiharu's voice.
The rest were the basketball team that was staring at a short girl, trying to shot a ball.
And She looked like a loser.