Chapter Ten: Time Is Relative

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Song Playing: The Bride

Theme 44: Stuck

Mamori let out a sigh as she took a seat on the ground and leaned herself against the wall. She glanced at the locked door that Hiruma was yelling obscenities at and decided to make herself comfortable. It looked like she was going to be here a while.

It seemed that Suzuna had come up with the brilliant idea that the reason that her and Hiruma bickered so much was because they had too much 'sexual tension' built up with no way out. Her solution? Lock them in a remote closet and let nature take it's course. The manager shook her head. She felt sorry for the poor boys she had convinced to help her with this crazy scheme of her's, who knew what Hiruma was planning on doing to them once they got out.

She glanced at her watch and restrained from letting out another sigh. They'd only been in there for five minuets and she was getting annoyed.

As the manager she had many more important things to do than be locked in a closet with a demonic quarterback. She could be doing her homework, editing the tapes from the last game, cleaning the clubhouse, patching up the uniforms or the many other things on her extremely long to do list. Instead she was stuck in a small, cramped, dark room with a man that tended to remind her of the monsters that mother's insist aren't hidden under the bed. She glanced back at her watch.

Seven minutes.

She stared up at the ceiling and couldn't help but be reminded of what a teacher of her's had once said during a discussion. She couldn't remember it word for word but it went something like 'an hour sitting with a beautiful woman seems like a second but a second sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.'

Or something like that anyway.

Point was why couldn't time slow down like this when she needed it to? Like in the middle of a game or test? When she needed to finish up something important there never seemed to be enough time. Now that she was in a closet with no way out time couldn't have gone slower if it had crawled.

Then she looked up, noticing for the first time that the room was silent. Hiruma had his back toward her and seemed to be fiddling with something.

"Hiruma?"

He put whatever he was holding down. "Fire in the hole!"

"What?!"

Mamori suddenly found herself completely covered by his sturdy frame and her ears momentarily deafened by the loud explosion behind him. Blinking in shock she found herself staring at a hole in the wall where the door used to be.

Well, she supposed that was one way to open a door.

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