Chapter 2: Chapter 2
Favine walked out of the arena area to be greeted by a crowd of people asking him about the fight. Favine just smiled and told them to talk to the champ about. He made his way through the people, and taking the log way back to the dorm, he cut through the park. The cherry blossoms were in bloom and there pedal's fell from the sky. Favine enjoyed this way, because it was peaceful to him. He took a deep breath and let it out as someone gripped his shoulder.
Favine turned, fist in a tight ball ready to strike. "Bring it down a tick there killer. You're among a friend" The girl smiled to Favine as she placed a hand on his fist. "Shiyu you know better than to sneak up on someone, mainly at this school." But Favine could not help but to smile at her. Shiyu was a girl of good size; she was a few inches shorter than Favine. But with the Lolita style cloths and shoes she wear she could see eye to eye with him, Favine never know her real hair color but her hair now was white, and her eyes today were as pink as the pedal's falling from the tree's. She wore and all white Lolita style dress with pink laces flowing from it, and a white umbrella rested on her left shoulder.
"You look lovely today Shiyu. Big plans today or just out for a walk?" Favine said as he opened his hand for her to hold. Do to her condition Shiyu was blind during the day, but could see perfectly at night. How she got around fine during the day is a mystery to Favine, and only few know about her problem. Shiyu smiled. "I went to see your match." She winked at him. "Sorry to hear you lost. I told you to add in the double back flip kick like I do." She shook her head. "Next time you well beat her." Smiled as her eyes looked at something in the distance. "Tell my baby not to forget band practices tonight. We have a show this weekend." Shiyu pulled Favine close to her and gave him a hug before turning around and walking away.
Favine watched her leave. He had known Shiyu for three years, and it still surprised him how she got around during the day. But he smiled and went back to his walk to his dorm room. It took him five minutes to finish his walk. Favine looked up at his building and the six other like it. The school had a rule about the buildings. They were each their own policing body's. Each building had a leader; each building was their own house. But it was more like each building was their own gang, and it was not uncommon to see large scale battles taking place in the main court yard that was in-between them. The builds somewhat made a circle around it. The only two rules were no killing and no fighting during the tournament season. Which was now over, and Favine watched as two of the house's lined up to go to war.
Favine shook his head and headed to his building, which seemed to be gearing up for its own little battle. The house war's only severed one point, to see who the head house was, and who got the first pick's during the freshmen drafted. Favine's house won last year, and that's how he got drafted to them, along with the twins. Favine walked up the stairs and opened his door. He was greeted by Sephoron, a five seven tanned skin male the same age as Favine. He had jet black hair which he wore to his shoulders. "Mi amigo, you got your ass kicked today." Sephoron was too deep into his laugh to hear his sister get up and kick him in the back of the head. "Leave Favine alone, he did his best." Sephony said before looking up to Favine. "Welcome back, is what he should have said." Sephony said as she made eye contact with him. Sephony was just like her brother, they were twins. But to where Sephoron was a bigger build, Sephony was slender, her green eye's a lot softer. Plus she wore her hair down to her back.
Favine stepped over Sephoron. "Don't you have to meet Shiyu somewhere? I saw her in the park on my way here." Favine put his bag down by the sofa in the living room, and headed to the frig for a drink. Sephoron had stopped laughing and picked himself up off the floor. "Oh crap man, really?" Sephoron grabbed his coat and rushed out of the place. Favine watched him rush off as he downed a bottle of water. "He knows that she is fine, even if she can't see during the day right?" Sephony said as she opened Favine's bag and pulled out his cloths. "I'm going to add this to my load ok." Sephony walked off before Favine could say anything.
When he was done with his drink he headed to the living room and lay down on the sofa. He grabbed the remote and flipped though some channels. Nothing was really on so he left it on the history channel , they were talking about the great JVP takeover of the world, and a few picture's and videos of Ivory and Javier showed on the screen. Favine closed his eyes for a few seconds. He thought about the story's his grandfather would tell him about the war, about how he fought in every major conflict on the west front.
As Favine's mind drifted from the story's to a somewhat sleep state, he felt a weight on his chest. He opened his eyes to see Sephony lay on top of him, her head now resting on his shoulder. "What's up Seph?" Favine said, as he moved around to make it more comfy for her. "Oh nothing Fav, just laying here resting." Favine placed a hand on her head and smoothed her hair out as she talked.
Sephony quickly relaxed at his touch. "Sorry again about my brother and your match. We watched in on TV, you looked good out there. But what was with the long pause when you were going in for the win? Was she too pretty?" She said, as she poked him in the side. Favine giggled a little. "Maybe she was. Maybe I was lost in her beauty. A beauty I rarely see around here." Favine did not stop her from poking his side, which she was now doing harder as she shot him a death gaze. "Beauty you don't see around here? Must be when I'm out of the place, cause I glow beauty." She poked him one good time in the chest and laughed. "But yea, you had her. Maybe next year, plus we are still number one in the team tournament, so don't get your hopes down." She jumped a little as Favine kissed her neck. "That we do." She could not really hear him as her mind and body were lost in the feel of his kiss.
When she finally came around from the kiss, she turned to look at him. "Oh Favine, what is this all about?" She said as she curled up closer to him, kissing him lightly on the cheek. If anyone just looked at them, they would think they were a couple, but the two were far from that, with Sephony being a free sprite all about free love, and Favine being a guy that enjoyed flirting. The two enjoyed the company of each other, and over time as they matured they could settle down and have a wonderful life together, but this was not the time for that. Favine rolled his eyes and laughed. "She was pretty cute." He said as he faded off to sleep.
Favine woke up a few hours later, his body a little sore. "Ah." Favine said as the pain in his chest seemed to flare up. 'God she kneed me pretty hard.' Favine thought to himself as he quietly slipped from under the sleeping Sephony. As he stood up on his feet, he rubbed the pained area on his chest. 'That's going to bruise in the morning. I'll have to thank Pandora for this over dinner.' Favine's eyes grow wide. 'CRAP, I forgot to call Pandora.' Favine reached into his pants and pulled out his phone to check the time. It was eight so he figured it was still earily enough to call. He pulled the slip of paper with Pandora's number on it out of his pocket. "Hope she is not mad at me." Favine said as he punched in her number and turned to walk to his room.
He held the phone to his ear, as he looked into Sephoron's room. 'Still out I see' Favine thought as the call dialed and the ringing began. Favine heard a low song begin to play, and right off the back he began to sing to it. "I Still Love you baby." He even added in his own little sound effects to it. "Yea, our love is stronger than the tides, even as waves clash to separate you…" Favine stopped. 'That's our song, that's one of our songs.' It also reminded Favine that they had a show tonight. Favine looked around, trying to place the sound, which was growing strong from his room. 'The hell.' Favine thought as he ended the call with Pandora. He would just have to explain it to her later. But to Favine's Surprise, the song ended as soon as he ended the call.
"The hell is going on?" Favine said in a low voice and he peeked into his dark room, his right fist in a tight ball. He reached his hand over slowly as he flicked on the lights, and jumped in ready to attack. "AHHHHHHHH…." Favine's yell quickly ended as it had just begun. He looked to his bed, down to the long streams of black hair sticking out from under his covers, and the smell of wild strawberries. Favine narrowed his eyes as he reached down to the covers to see who was intruding in his room. "3, 2, 1."