Chapter Five
The next day at school. . .
'Oh no where the heck is the exit' I scream in my head as I run around the school looking for the door so I can get out of the prison.
I make a quick turn at the corner and crash into someone.
"WAHH!!" I scream as I was about to fall when someone catches my wrist and prevents me from falling.
"Are you okay?" someone ask.
'Just my luck it's him.' I shout in my head. "Yes I'm fine." I reply as he helps me up.
"Uh thanks now could you let go?" I ask as I motion to my arm which was still being held by him.
"Nope!" He replies.
"Oh and why not?" I ask through greeted teeth and I clutch my other hand into a fist.
"Don't feel like it." He says smiling.
"WHAT!!" I roar and send him soaring through the air. He hit the wall with the thump.
"OH MY GOSH!!" I scream and run over to him worried "I'm so sorry are you okay?!" I ask.
Then I realize he's laughing.
"HAHAHA!!" He laughed.
"What's so funny?!" I screech at him.
"Hikari you're so different that what I like about you." He said with a smile which leads to me having a major blush attack.
"W-what." I say.
"It's true you're cute, and weak and sensitive are the last words that could be used to describe you. Hikari you're so different. That just makes me want to hold you in my arms and never let go!" He says.
That makes me blush even more and my face literally looks like an overly ripe tomato.
I immediately get up and walk away. In super fast anime speed may I add.
As I turn the corner I again bump into someone again.
CRASH!!
"Ow." I say.
"HIKARI!!" Someone screams.
"Huh?!" I look up and see Hanon with a death glare on her face.
"Hi Hanon-" I was cut off as she grabbed me and dragged me out the door.
Once we're out of the school with her still dragging me she turns her head around and says "You were late we agreed we'd meet right after school don't you want new clothe?!" Hanon shouts.
"Sorry." I say "I couldn't find the exit and then I ran into Kenchii-"
"Oh my gosh you ran into Kenchii?!" She says stopping suddenly.
"Y-yeah he was apparently just about to leave until I bumped-"
"OH MY GOSH WAS IT JUST THE TWO OF YOU?!" She asks.
"Y-yeah." I say.
"OH MY GOSH WHAT HAPPENED?!" She screamed and grabbed my shoulders and started to shake me around like a baby and its rattle.
"N-nothing hap-happened." I said with stars in my eyes.
"Pu-lease when I bumped into you were running and you were blushing-"
"Come on Hanon clothe don't buy themselves!" I say as I grab her and drag her to the mall.
"Tadah!" I say coming out of the changing room in yet another outfit. This one
was a red tube top and a black denim mini skirt a pair of arm warmers that go up to my elbows and have red and black sripes and a pair of boot's that look like luchia's except they're black and have red laces.
"Ohh that's another cute one!!" Hanon squeals
"Few finally I thought I'd be here forever since you're such a picky dresser. So far you've only approved three outfits not including this one and eliminated thirty seven." I stated.
"Ohh Kenchii will love it" She says with a look on her face as she leaves us and goes to la la land.
I anime fall.
"W-wha- What the heck does he have to do with choosing an outfit" I say as I start blushing.
"Just give the guy a break he's soo hot just date him already." Hanon begs.
"NO WAY!!" I screech and I cross my arms over my chest, and in the process the light bounces off my ring.
"What the?" Hanon says as she shield her eyes from a light that glistened in her eyes "Hey Hikari have you always had that ring?" She asks seeing the ring glisten on my finger.
"Huh? Oh this?" I said pointing to my finger
"Uh huh." She said.
"Oh yeah I've had this forever?" I say.
"It's soo cute can I try it on?" She begs with pleading eyes.
"Uh no I'm sorry this ring is really special to me." I say.
"Oh? How come?" She asks.
"Well it all started a few years ago. . ." I begin as I start to drift back into memories.
"Wow mommy was right the moons so pretty!" A young me squeals as I swim to shallow water and lift my self onto a rock and just continue to stare at it then I begin to sing.
doushte doushte suki nan darou
konna ni namida afureteru
I then take a breath and begin again.
ano koro ha ushinau mono ga oosukite nani mo utaenakatta
sukoshi hanareta basho soko ga watashi no ibasho data
But what I didn't know was someone heard me.
"Wow what a pretty voice!" Someone exclaims to far away for me to hear. "I wonder were it's coming from?"
kimi no hitomi no oku ni ano hi samishisa wo mitsuketa
futari niteru no kana?
kitsukeba itsu mo tonari ni ite kureta
The person continues to follow the voice and then finally finds were the voice seems to be coming from.
doushte konna ni suki nan darou
kimi no koe kanshii hodo hibiiteru yo
He then peers onto the lake and see's a young girl sitting on a rock singing to the moon.
ima made nani ga sasae datta ka
tooku hanarete wakatta yo-
"Wow you have a pretty voice!!" The voice exclaims.
"Huh?!" I say and quickly turn around.
"Hi what are you doing out here so late?" A boy probably a year or two older then me asks.
"EHH!!" I shout in surprise and turn myself fully around.
"Wha?! A mermaid?!" He says seeing my tail.
"AHH!!" I scream and I attempt to dive into the water and swim away but I had forgotten that I was in shallow water end up falling into the water with a big splash.
"Ow." I say rubbing the back of my tail in pain.
"Are you all right?!" The boy says running up to me.
I look up at him fear in my eyes.
"It's okay I won't hurt you." He says with a smile.
Now that I took a good look at him. 'he's pretty cute.' I say in my head as he helps me up.
"Ow!" I say. I look down. I scrapped my tail when I fell and started bleeding. At the site of blood I began to get woozy and start to fall again.
"Whoa I got you." He said as he caught me.
I blush.
"That's a nasty cut." He says. He tears off the sleeve of his shirt and wraps it around my cut.
"T-thank you." I say.
"No problem. Listen I have to go but can I meet you again here tomorrow night?" He asks.
"Well-" I start.
"Please I just moved here and I don't know anybody around here." He begs with pleading eyes.
"Um. . . well. . . sure before the sun sets tomorrow." I say.
"Promise?" He asks.
"Promise!" I say.
"Great see you tomorrow!" he says as he runs off. And I dive into the sea on my journey home.
I get to the palace gate and go into the palace and was just about to get to my room when.
"Hikari what's that rag on you?" My mother asks.
"Huh? Oh this uh I cut myself on a rock and this guy gave me this to stop the bleeding."
"This fabric doesn't look like anything familiar. . . Oh well just be more careful."
"Yes mom." I say before swimming of to my room.
The next day. . .
"Hikari where are you going?" My mother asks me as I swim towards the gates of the palace.
"Um out to uh visit uh Toshi!" I say.
"Oh well be back soon." She says.
"Yes mom." I say and swim away. As soon as I'm far away from the palace I grab my necklace and yell O-PUNSESAMI!!"
The vortex appears and then a portal forms and I swim through.
I reach the surface and position myself comfortably on the rock.
"Hey." comes a voice.
I turn around.
"Hey." I say.
"I was thinking you would've changed your mind and not have showed." He said.
"Well I'm here, and I don't go back on my words." I say.
"Here." He says giving me a box.
"Huh?!" I say confused looking at him to the box to him again.
"A gift you're my first friend." He says.
"O-okay." I stutter a little and a slight blush appears on my face. I open the box. Inside I see the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. It was a gold band with a red pearl in the center with two red gems in the shape of a heart on the side.
"My grandmother gave it to me and told me to give it to someone I thought was special. That's you and it defiantly suites you having red and all so we must be destined to be friends." He tells me.
I just stare at the ring.
"I-if you don't like it that's fine I-I mean just announcing we're friends like that out of the blues is kinda weird especially the being special part but I consider us friends I mean you did come back and all and you really are special cause you beautiful and have a great voice and -"
"IT'SCUTEILOVEANITHINKYOUSPECIALTOO!!"I say and I kiss him on the check.
We both blush. Finally he breaks the silence. "So what's you name-"
"OH MY GOSH IS IT THAT LATE ALREADY?!" I shriek as I see the moon is about to rise "I gotta go!" I say.
"Meet me here again same time tomorrow?" He asks
"Yup!" I say as I dive into the water and journey home with a smile on my face and admiring my gift.
I sneak into the palace and am almost safely secured in my room.
'Just a little further!' I think to myself and reach for the handle.
"Hikari where have you been?!" Comes the voice of no other than my mother.
"I-I-I told you I w-was visiting Toshi." I say.
"Oh really? It was getting late so I sent Kasumi to fetch you only to learn you weren't there tell me the truth Hikari where were you?!" She asks in that 'oh boy am I in trouble' voice that no kid ever likes to hear.
"FINEIWENTTOTHESURFACE!" I said.
"What!? Hikari you know very well that you are to never go to the surface without my permission and very well not to go unless it's under moonlight why do you think the red pearls for years have called themselves the Moonlight Melodies. WHAT'S THIS?!" She says snatching my hand that I was trying to hide.
"U-uh gift." I squeak out.
"FROM WHO?!" She asks.
"A boy." I mumble.
"Hikari by any chance is this BOY a human?" She asks.
My throat tightens and instead of answering I slowly move my head up in down in a shaky nod.
"Hikari what were you thinking?! First contact with a human, then accepting a gift?!" My mom shouts. "That's it you're forbidden to go to the surface!"
"But mom!" I plead.
"Guards escort Hikari to her room!" She says and swims away.
In my room. . .
"No! I have to go and say goodbye to that boy. That's it! Tomorrow I'll go just to say bye and I'll be back before anyone even notices."
The next day around the time the sun sets I open my door a crack to discover guards surrounding my room.
"Drats now what do I do?!" I say as I slowly close my door.
Then my curtains sway from a mild current.
"That's it!" I say and swim out my window fast but softly away from the palace.
Once a good distance away from the palace I yell in barely more than a whisper "o-punsesami!" and swim through the portal.
Finally I reach the surface.
"Where is he?!" I shout in my head as I panic beginning to think I was too late.
"There!" I exclaim. I see him just staring at the water. I start to swim over.
He see's me and runs over till the water just above his knees
"Sniff. . . I thought you weren't coming." He says his eyes glassy with tears that look like they might fall at any moment know.
"I-I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to see you anymore." I say looking down and avoiding his eyes.
"WHAT?! NO YOU HAVE TO YOU'RE MY ONLY FRIEND SO FAR!!" He shouts.
"B-but I-I'll find a way to come see you again! I-I promise! W-will y-you wait." I ask and look at him with tears in my eyes.
"I promise I'll wait forever if I have to." He leans in and we kiss this time on the lips.
"Princess!" A voice says.
I turn around.
"Oh no it's the palace guards!" I say.
"We've come to bring you home by orders of the queen." A guard says.
"No I won't let you take her away!" He says and stands in front of me.
"No it's not worth it." I say and swim pass him.
"Wait I don't even know your name." He shouts as I'm lead away.
"I'm sorry!" I shout as I'm led away. "I promise we'll meet again! Meet me here in exactly seven years same date same time!" I shout.
"And that's another mission of mine to meet that boy again." I say finally done with the story.
I then look at Hanon she has tears streaming down her face.
"T-that's s-so r-romantic. BWAHHHHHHHH!!" She says taking a hankie out of nowhere and blowing her noise in a rather noisy motion.
"Eh?! Uh Hanon calm down people are staring?" I say seeing people staring.
"That's it I 'm going to help you find this guy!" She announces.
"EHHH?!" I scream.
End of Chapter Five