Here's the eleventh chapter. Again, I almost did not have anything to write about until I heard some Vocaloid music. It always saves my writing. Anyway, last time, Len visited Rin at her house after school. After that, Rin went over to Len's house to work on the project. We'll see what happens next. Enjoy. ^-^


Chapter 11

Another day has passed. As I was busy taking notes in class, Rin was probably resting at home. She did not come to school because she needed the rest. Even though she argued with her parents, they all decided it was best to have her rest for an extra day. Once I knew she wasn't going to show up today, she handed me the project in order to present it in case the teacher showed up.


'"What if she does show up, and you won't be able to receive credit?" I said.

Rin smiled. "I'll be fine. I'll convince her for another project I can do by myself. I won't drag you around this time."


I sighed and continued writing notes.

After all this time, Rin was the one who did most of the work. It wouldn't be fair if I took the credit, and she didn't. I didn't contribute as much as I should have, so taking everything for myself would just be wrong.

Luckily, as I reached English class, the teacher wasn't here once more. The substitute told us the teacher was on a family emergency and won't be back until sometime after the fall break which was next week.

This was a big relief. This meant Rin and I have more time to work on the project and make it perfect, just the way she likes it.

I smiled to myself, just thinking about Rin's smile upon the news.


"So, fall break is just around the corner," Kaito said as he handed Miku chocolate ice cream.

Miku smiled. "We all should plan on what to do next week."

"I've wanted to go camping for the longest time," Gakupo said as he was about to eat a piece of his eggplant until Luka yanked it away and began drawing a face on it.

"Camping sounds fun. We can go hiking and find stuff," Luka said and gave Gakupo the now smiling eggplant.

"Like aliens and supernatural creatures," Miku smiled.

"Then dissect all of them and become famous."

Luka and Miku double high-five each other and giggled afterwards.

"I told you they're freaks," Gakupo said as he threw the eggplant into his mouth.

Kaito chuckled. "They're our freaks."

I smiled softly as I took out my banana without a peep.

"If we are going to go camping, we need to get everything ready as soon as possible," Kaito said. "I have two tents at home, so we don't need to worry about that."

"Fishing rods right here," Luka said. "We can go catch ourselves some delicious tuna fish."

"I'm sure there aren't any tuna fish in the nearest pond," Gakupo said.

"Wish on the tuna fairy. There's going to be fish. Watch."

As the gang talked about the camping trip, I stayed silent as I ate. The silence wasn't the bad kind, but the good kind where you're thinking about something good. What am I thinking, you ask? I can't tell you. My thoughts, my business.

"Len, what's with that smile on your face?" Kaito said. Everyone turned over to me, curious to know.

I shrugged and continued eating my banana.

"Rinny. He's thinking about Rinny," Kaito teased.

"Speaking of Rin, if she feels better, we invite her to camp with us," Miku said.

"I'm getting excited all over again! I can't wait!" Luka said.

The group went back to talking as I went back to my thoughts.


After school, I headed straight to Rin's house. Since yesterday, we both had a sense of how our song should go. Today, she wanted to work on it again if the project wasn't due. I wanted to give her the scare of her life and lie to her. It was like a payback for pouncing on me.

I felt my phone vibrate all of a sudden inside my pocket. I took it out and opened the message I received.

'Len, we need to work on our project. I know you're out of school, so get over here and pick me up.'

I chuckled. Oh Rin.

I texted back saying, 'I'm busy. Work on it yourself.'

And this is where I begin to mess with Rin.

'What do you mean, you're busy?! Busy with ten girlfriends?!' she texted back.

I laughed. 'Five to be exact.'

'I dislike your existence!'

'I love you too.'

'Shut up and get your ass over here.'

I laughed as I made my way to Rin's front porch and knocked on the door.

"Hello again," the woman answered.

"Don't tell Rin I'm here," I whispered. "I'm messing around with her."

The woman giggled. "You're a horrible guy." She led me inside the house and left me to do my stuff.

I walked towards Rin's room and stood in front of it. I took out my phone and texted her. 'There's no point in working on the project since it was due today.'

Silence.

I leaned against her door, trying to hear what she was doing, but there was nothing. I felt my phone vibrate and looked at the message.

'Sorry. You can go back to your work.'

Okay, so that made me feel like I just saw a puppy get kicked. So sad.

I knocked on the door and waited for a response.

"Mom, is that you?" I heard Rin say.

I did my best high pitch voice. "I'm the one who brought you into this world. I demand an apology."

"What? Mom?"

I tried to hold in my laugh and was about to talk again until the door opened and revealed a confused Rin. Her confusion did not last long once she saw it was me and began to give me a glare.

I waved my hands. "Ta-da!"

Rin pouted and poked my forehead, causing me to laugh. "You're really horrible, you know that."

"I told you I was a bad boy."

"You sicken me."

I smirked. "Oh you. Anyway, I'm here already. Let's get to work."

"You know, I knew you were lying." Rin grabbed her notebook and utensils. "I was ready to head over to your house."

"I just felt the need to mess with you."

"Don't you always."

"You do the same."

Rin shrugged and walked out of her room, closing the door behind her. "Come on, let's go."


"So, the teacher isn't going to come until after fall break," I said as I unlocked my door and let Rin walk in.

"What a relief. We have an extra week to work on it. Perfect," she said as she walked over to the living room and sat on the couch. "It seems like this time you cleaned up."

I walked over to her once I placed my keys down. "I had to. It was actually starting to get on my nerves."

Rin looked around. "Where are your parents? I haven't seen them at all."

I frowned as I pulled up a stool over to the piano I left the day before. "They don't live with me. They're somewhere out there."

"What? You mean to tell me you're living by yourself?"

"Yeah."

"Why?"

I shrugged and turned on the piano. "I guess they just don't like me."

"That's awful. I'm so sorry."

I turned to Rin who held onto a frown and sad puppy eyes. I sighed. "It's nothing. I mean, I'm handling myself just fine."

"It's still awful. You shouldn't be-"

"Let's get to work, okay?"

Rin sighed. "Yeah. Okay. Sorry." As she opened her notebook to the lyrics, I couldn't help but feel an uneasy feeling in my chest. It was a feeling like no other as if someone was just fine the way I was even if I was such an ass to them. Rin felt bad for my misfortune. I knew she did. I felt it myself. She had sympathy for me, something I never had from anyone else.

"So, let's review over the music we have so far," Rin said.

I turned back to the piano and began playing a slow, steady rhythm while I placed a beat in the background. It was only a few seconds for the introduction.

"Okay. That's nice," Rin said.

"It's not nice when we just got that part and haven't even gotten to sing yet," I said. "The voice needs to fit with the music. We can't go away from the rhythm."

"I know, I know. That's why we should start singing the first verse."

"Let's just continue the same beat until we need to change it somewhere."

"Okay." Rin placed the lyrics on the stand on the piano in front of me while she kept herself another copy.

We both took deep breaths and I replayed the introduction. I was hoping how I would sound to Rin as she would sound to me. This was our first time hearing each other sing. Oh boy.

"And go," I said after a few ten seconds.

" 'Into the busy town.' "

We both sang. I was stunned and I knew Rin was as well from the look on her face. We looked at each other for a while, almost sending ourselves signals with our minds telling each other 'That wasn't so bad at all.' We actually went in the same pace which was crazy.

After the first part, we decided to sing the second verse.

Rin sang her part: 'You ran in a new jacket and didn't come back to me.'

I sang my part at the same time: 'I ran in a new jacket and didn't come back to you.'

It was just so amazing. Rin sang beautifully and went with the same speed as I did. We were acing this thing. We were so on it and so good.

I stopped the music from my shock. "Wow. I can't believe we just did that."

Rin had her jaw wide open, completely speechless. "I...I...wow."

I chuckled. "I didn't know you can sing really well. I thought you were seriously lying when you told me you could."

Rin pouted. "I would never lie."

I raised an eyebrow.

"Only when I have to," she said.

"Which should be never."

"You lie all the time. You lied to me a few minutes ago."

"That was to mess around with you."

"Whatever."

I smirked as Rin pouted and crossed her arms over her chest. For some reason, that pose made something come into my mind.

"I forgot to mention that the gang is thinking of going camping next week," I said as I turned back to the piano. "They wanted to make sure if you were feeling better by that time."

"A camping trip? That's so awesome! I've always wanted to go camping," Rin said.

"But you can't go if you're not feeling good."

"I'm sure I'll be good by next week. I mean, I'm not severely sick. It just comes and goes."

I turned to her. "It comes and goes?"

"Yeah. Like..." Rin covered her mouth. "Oops!"

I raised an eyebrow. She was hiding something. I could feel it. I sighed and turned my full body towards her. "Rin, what's wrong with you? Why are you sick?"

Rin lowered her eyes. "It's just a simple sickness, you know, like a small fever and such."

"And you get this every now and then?"

"It's like the common cold. It comes and goes."

I frowned as Rin looked back up to me with a weary smile. "Rin, don't lie."

Rin blinked. "Lie?"

"You're lying. What's really wrong with you?"

Rin opened her mouth but shut it back up. We stayed in silence after she decided to say something. "Why do you even care?"

I was taken back.

"Seriously, why do you care? You're Len Kagamine, the player of high school. You don't care about people. You only care about yourself. The world is yours, you don't need to care for others. you have everything under your grasp from looks to girls to money. You don't care about the girls you smooch all over. You break their hearts and move on." Rin glared at me. "So why do you care? I'm just a girl who wants to do well in her life. I don't want to fall under bad influences. I've gone through so much in my short life time, but I am still going, and I will not let someone bring me down. If this is a way to try to get to me and break my heart, you're not going to accomplish it. I'm not going to be one of your toys. I will never fall in love with you, Len Kagamine, so stop trying to make it seem like you even care in the least because I know you don't."

I felt like I got stabbed in the chest. It was a painful feeling. I've never been told off by anyone before. Not like Rin did. Of course, some girls had made me feel bad but I quickly healed because...I didn't care. Somehow, I have a feeling that with Rin's words piercing my heart, this awful sensation won't go away that easily.

Rin huffed and turned back to her lyrics. "Let's get back to work."

Without saying a word, I turned back around to the piano. I've wanted to tell her that I...nevermind. We would get nothing done if I started something else.

I sighed. "From the beginning."


Wow. Rin must really not like Len at all for her to say such things. Len, why were you so mean to her earlier? You care, just admit you care for her. And now that you realize that you do, she's not going to care for you back. Len, you ruined this for yourself!

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