I stood on top of the pyramid as two of the cheerleaders held my feet firmly. I have gotten better at being up here, so I stood up straight held a liberty as I called out the cheer. Then out of nowhere, I felt the hands on my foot slip and I fell to the ground with a thud. I sit up on my butt and rub the back of my head.
"Geez. She can't do anything right." I hear the captain grumble under her breathe and I couldn't help but slump my shoulders.
"Hey. Sorry bout that Christina." One of the girls says to me as she gave me a hand up. "My hand just slip from being sweaty."
I scan her facial features and notice a small, almost invisible smirk cross her lips before it disappeared again.
"Um, it's fine."
"Okay, let's do that again!" The captain shouts.
We do the cheer again until the part where I have to do the liberty. I gaze my eyes down at the girl holding my foot and it felt like the whole world slowed down when I saw in plain black and white, that she loosened her arm and hand and I; for some reason froze as I felt myself start to fall again. I hit the ground harder than last time as I fell on my back.
"Damn it! Why can't you do it right?!" The captain shouts at me angrily as I sat up.
"I was but,"
"I'm sick and tired of you always falling on your ass. Get the hell out of here." She points at the gym door and the room just filled with silence.
I got up and ran out of the room and into the empty locker. I felt like I could throw up from embarrassment and rejection. I worked hard to get into the cheer team and the next thing I know; I got kicked out. I went in front of the mirrors over the sink and take shirt off to see the new bruise that appeared on my lower back. My whole body was sore from falling so much.
I go to the showers and felt the hot water burn my skin. That's okay. It will probably give me another thing to think about then being rejected from the cheer team.
"You ended early." I heard a voice say from the open shower curtain. Looking back, I saw Subaru standing in the steam with a blank expression and arms crossed over his chest.
I didn't give a shit about him looking at me naked. Not now. I have too much on my mind right now. Seeing Subaru right now, he's gonna lecture me and say "I told you so" and say how dumb I was. I was ready for his criticism.
"I was kicked off."
Subaru stays quiet.
"He isn't gonna say anything?"
Subaru stares me in the face in silence as I look back in question.
"You're...not gonna criticize?"
"Why would I?" He asks.
"Huh?"
"You were determined to be in the cheer team. I don't want to put you down."
Subaru spoke so gently to me, that it was almost blocked out by the sound of the loud shower water.
I turn my back to him for a second before I felt his arms wrap around my waist and his lips run down my neck. He was still fully clothed as we both stood in the water. His fingers intertwine in mine and he pushes our hands against the shower wall. I look over my shoulder and my lips immediately meet Subaru's. We kiss each other passionately; not the way a brother and sister would kiss each other.
But I felt like I need this right now.
~*~*~*~ Call Me Sane ~*~*~*~
I decide to take a walk outside the mansion tonight to clear my mind. It was in the middle of the night and I couldn't stop thinking on how I am kissing Subaru. I have pushed the cheerleading to the back of my mind but since my mind came back to reality after kissing Subaru, I couldn't help and wonder if I am starting to have a thing with my brother and not Shuu. I still love Shuu, but do I love Subaru that way?
RUSTLE RUSTLE
"Huh?!" I quickly turn back in a panic and look at some nearby trees and bushes where the rustle sounded like it came from.
"Geez, where are you?" I hear from the bush.
"Is someone there?"
I ask mentally.
After a few moments, a body pops out from the bush and I look at the person from head to toe before they look at me.
"Oh hey Christina!"
"Ryoa?!"
"What are you doing out here?" She ask me as she stood up from her hands and knees.
"Um, I live around here. What are you doing?" I ask, still confused.
"I'm looking for my Berith." Ryoa looks around on the ground again before looking up at me casually.
"Isn't a Berith a demon?" I ask out of curiosity.
"Yes. But I lost him." Ryoa walks past me and looks under some other bushes.
"You lost a demon?" Raising an eyebrow, I walk over to her and start helping her look.
"Well, he's not technically a demon," Her voice was then interrupted by a meowing of a distant kitten.
"A kitten?"
"Berith!" Ryoa ran in the direction of the meowing with me following her.
The meowing increases as we got closer to a tall orchard that was just a ways away from the mansion. We both stop near the tree and look around until we both look up to see a black kitten on one of the smaller branches on the end of the tree. The kitten continued to meow as it looks down at us.
"How are we gonna," I pause as I saw that Ryoa can fly?!
"Hey, I got you Berith." She spoke calmly to the kitten as she gently picks him up and cradles him against her chest. She then gently comes down to the ground and rubs the little kitten on the ear.
"Ryoa, you can fly?" I ask after a moment.
"Well yeah. I thought you would have known that demons can fly."
"A demon?!"
