Here's the seventh chapter. Not really much I could've written but I tried my best. Last time, Len was walking Rin back to her house. What a gentleman. We shall see what happens next. Enjoy. ^-^


Chapter 7

"And here's my house."

I blinked out of my own thoughts as Rin announced to me the viewing of her house. It was a small, average house, not much extravagant than mine, but it did have a welcoming warmth to it rather than mine that almost scares others away.

"Hey, I just want to say thanks," Rin said.

I looked at her.

"Thanks for walking me home," she added. "Not because I had to spend time with you."

I rubbed the the back of my head. "Yeah...I , uh, I guess I better be going."

Rin nodded. "See ya later."

I nodded and walked away. As I walked away, I heard Rin entering her house and shouting 'I'm home!' I was never able to do that. There was no one home to greet me.

"Len!"

I suddenly turned around towards Rin who waved at me. I raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"My parents aren't home," she called out.

"I should care because...?"

"Because that means we have time to work on our project."

"Come again?"

Rin rushed over to me, grabbed my ponytail, and dragged me towards her house.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!" I yelped.

Rin pushed me inside the house. "There. Don't worry. I didn't manage to pull any hairs from you this time."

I huffed and looked at my surroundings. It was a simple house, a very simple, family house. But it felt so warm and comfortable. It was like the feeling of being accepted. It was like I was welcomed here anytime, a place where I could leave everything behind and relax. This place was like the dream house of mine.

I shook my head out of those thoughts. "Why did you bring me here?"

"To force you to do half of the work for the project," Rin said. "Since my parents aren't here, it's the perfect time for us to do work."

"What if they come unexpectedly?"

Rin took out a note and waved it at me. "They said they're going to come until tomorrow. Anniversary day."

I frowned. "But why would you-"

"To do work. Didn't I say so?" Rin grabbed her notebook and writing utensils. "We only have four days until it's due.

"But it's the weekend!" I whined.

"Blah-blah. I'm sure we can get this done in no time. I've already finished the essay."

"Really?"

Rin nodded proudly and guided me towards her living room couch. "I was able to finish it and even typed it out."

I sat down. "Aren't you going to show it to me?"

"You'll just waste time if I do. I'll show it to you later. Right now, we should focus on the presentation." Rin turned to a page in the notebook and showed it to me. "I rewrote the ideas you gave me."

I read my own list. "And here I thought you didn't want to see me anymore." I smirked. "You do love me, don't you?"

Rin laughed. "You are so funny!"

"They why invite me over to your house?"

"For school purposes only."

"So, we're going to study some health along with doing our project, right?"

"Sure. We can study some...health..." Rin hit me at the back of my head, but I could only laugh. "You pervert!"

I shrugged. "Almost got you there. But you're still a bad girl yourself."

"Me? How so?"

"You invited a guy over without the approval of your parents."

Rin huffed. "It's not like my parents don't trust me. They won't mind if I told them a guy came over to work on a project with me. They know about you and know I'm not the one to fall over guys like you."

I smirked. "Oh this little 'project' we're doing. Did they questioned what type of project it was?"

"And this is why I don't like you." Rin scanned through the list, ignoring my question. "So, I was thinking that maybe we could do some music as our presentation."

I raised an eyebrow. "Music?"

"Yeah. You did put that on here. What was your intake on music?"

"Well, I can make music," I said as I leaned against the couch.

"You can make music? What genre?"

"Any kind. Just whatever fancies me at the current time."

"That's very interesting. I never thought you would be one with music."

"Music is a part of me. I'm always listening to music at home."

"Same here." Rin grabbed a pen and circled 'Music'. "Then music it shall be. At first, I was thinking it was to just pick a song to the class that describes love the way I described it in my essay. You know, there's a lot of songs about love. It might take us forever to pick just one."

"We can make our own song, no sweat. It'll be original and creative. We should get extra points on it if that essay lacked anything."

"It's a perfect essay, kind of since writing is never done and revising can always be made."

I sighed. "You really are a nerd."

Rin punched me on my shoulder but not as hard.

"But if we're going to make a song, there should be a singer," Rin said.

"Hello? I make music and songs. I can sing," I said, rubbing my shoulder.

Rin turned to me and held in a laugh. "You? You can sing?"

I pouted. "Yeah. Got a problem with that?"

"No, no. I just never expected that from you. But you're not saying that you 'think' you can sing, are you?"

"I can sing, maybe not as a professional, but I can sing."

Rin smiled. "That's nice because I, too, can sing."

I jerked my head to her. "You? Sing?"

"As a little girl, music always got into me, and I always find myself singing along. I've also written some songs myself and performed them for my parents and friends. I've been praised before, but that was a long time ago. I rarely sing nowadays, but I still listen to music."

"Why don't you continue singing?"

Rin smile softly. "I want to so badly, but it's hard for me to sing nowadays."

I raised an eyebrow. Rin waved a hand in front of her face.

"But I'm going to need to save my voice for the presentation, right? Unless you want to sing the song yourself," she said.

"I'll sing," I said. "But we need the lyrics and music. It might take us a while to get everything out together. Not sure if we can finish it before the project is due."

"I'm sure we can if we don't waste anymore time." Rin grabbed the notebook and pen. "How about we start with the lyrics?"

I leaned forward. "A song about love, huh? So many possibilities."

"How about this?" Rin wrote down two sentences and showed them to me. "Since the both of us are going to sing it, we might as well both have a different set of lyrics at some parts to make it a duet."

" ' "I really love you," you said, that's what you said.

"I really love you," I said, that's what I said.' "

I read the sentences. "So basically, you just repeated a sentence twice."

"Well, it's what I have so far. I'll be singing the first sentence, and you'll be singing the bottom."

"I guess that could work. So, what are you trying to get out of this?"

Rin bit the end of the pen. "Well, I was thinking of having this relationship between a girl and a boy. The girl, being me, is disappointed that the boy, being you, isn't there by her side when she needs him the most and wishes to have him close by..."

"...the boy actually wants the same attention as the girl because he likes her and feels bad that the girl believes he doesn't like her anymore..."

Rin and I looked at each other with sparkly eyes and said in sync. "And it would be centered around a phone call that both of them are trying to get from each other." We both smiled for a while before breaking into laughter.

"We think alike," Rin said.

"Which is not weird at all," I said sarcastically.

Rin giggled. "It comes handy."

I smiled. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's write the song."

Rin smiled. That smile was amazing. It was a warm, accepting smile, a real smile. I never felt so good before in my life. I know I've received many smiles before in the past from a bunch of girls, but Rin's smile was by far the best. She had her heart out in the open, and I could feel it pumping. As much as I would try, I would never be able to get the same smile she has, but that shouldn't stop me from giving it a try.

"Len, stop smiling at me. It's creepy."

That only made me smile even more.


And that was it for this chapter. Len and Rin get together and start on their presentation for their project. Hmm. I wonder what song they're going to do. I wonder...

Len, you're smile is just as good as Rin's. Both of you have beautiful smiles. Believe it! Haha.

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