~Chapter Seventeen~
"Hikari." A voice whispers into my ear. A voice that made my skin crawl.
I swirled around to face the last person I'd ever want to see.
"Haru!" I say through clenched teeth.
"You'll never be able to escape. You will be mine!" he says before letting lose a crackling laugh as he disappeared into the darkness.
I woke up in a jolt. My eyes wide and my face drenching with sweat as I took in my surroundings.
"I-it was just a d-dream." I say before I slowly drift off to sleep. This time having pleasant dreams. That is until it's ruined with hundreds of Hanon heads swirling around my head screaming "Try this on!", "No this!" until eventually I was being buried alive under a mountain of clothe.
A few hour after I woke up and groaned as I made my way down the stairs to the breakfast table.
"OH MY GOSH HIKARI YOU LOOK AWFUL!!!" Hanon screeched.
"Thanks." I mumble as I take a seat at the table and pour myself some cereal.
"Hikari." Yuki asks.
"Are you?" Kasumi adds.
"Alright?" the finish in union.
"I'm fine I assure them."
"You don't look to well." Sakura adds with a slight bit of concern.
"Yawn. . . I'm fine. Just didn't get much sleep." I assure them.
"Aww! You're excited about your big date aren't you?!" Hanon says and squeals like a fangirl.
I sweatdrop as I stop in mid bite.
"We'll don't worry I'll have you fixed up in no time!" she assures me, "To the bathroom!" she announces with stars in her eyes as she zooms me up the stairs.
"MY BREAKFAST!!!" I wail.
A few hours later the doorbell rings.
"We'll get it!" the twins say as they rush to the door. There Kenchii stood dressed in black shirt button down shirt and dark jeans.
He sweatdrops when he sees the twins drooling.
"Uh. . . Is Hikari ready?" he asks.
"Yup!" Hanon says in a sing song voice and skips down the stairs.
"Presenting Hikari!" Hanon says pointing to the stair way.
Everyone sweatdrops when I don't appear.
"I am not coming out!" I scream.
"Just one moment." She tells Kenchii before she speed dashes up the stairs.
"GET YOUR BUTT OUT THERE!!!" She screams and pulls me out by force.
I feel myself blush when I see him look me over. I was wearing a dark red lowcut blouse along with a black miniskirt and shiny black stilettos. My bangs we're pulled to the side and held by a red rose barrette. And unfortunately I wasn't allowed to leave until Hanon could apply makeup and we eventually compromised on some mascara a bit of shimmery eye shadow and some lip gloss.
I somehow turn and even darker shade as I made my ways down the stairs and heard him give wolf whistle.
'Phew! Made it down the stairs in one piece.' I think to myself as approach my boyfriend. My boyfriend, I kinda like how that sounds.
"Spoke to soon." I say as I fell myself stumble.
"Gotcha!" he says wrapping an arm around my waist and stopping me before I hit the ground.
"T-thanks." I mumble wondering if I had invented yet another shade of red.
We both sweatdrop when we see the twins give him a death look like they were about to devour him. Just picture Sakura holding back two attacking twins with leashes and replace their faces with the faces of pitbulls and you pretty much have what we were seeing right now.
"We're gonna go now. . ." I said grabbing a sweatshirt.
"Hikari. PUT THE SWEATSHIRT DOWN!!!" She screeched.
"RUN!!!" I screamed dragging my boyfriend away and somehow making it down the block without tripping in two inch stilletos.
"Phew!" I say breathing a sigh of relief as we rest each with a hand on the wall as we caught our breathe.
"You never. . . huff. . . leave me. . . bored." Kenchii says with a weak laugh.
"Shut up." I mumbled, "So where are we going?" I ask.
"Well there's this new restaurant I heard about." He says, 'La Amore' I believe it was called. It's for couples!" He says with a face.
"No." I say.
"Aww why not?" he says giving me the puppy face.
"I've heard about that place. It's way too expensive. I mean they charge you for water for goodness sake!" I exclaim.
"So what? I'm the one paying." He points out holding a finger up and smiling.
"There's noway- AAH!!!" I scream when I feel him pick me up bridal style.
"Off we go then!" he says carrying me away.
"W-wait Kenchii PUT ME DOWN!!!" I scream as I squirm.
It was like that the whole way to the restaurant. Me squirming with useless attempts, and him just smiling at me like he didn't notice anything. I was positive that I had invited yet another shade of red by now with all the stares we were getting.
"Would you put me down already?!" I ask him.
"Why?" he asks stopping and bringing his face close to mine, a little to close.
"Would you quite doing that?!" I hiss at him covering my face with my hands.
"Doing what?" he asks moving in closer until I can literally feel his breath on my cheek.
"That! How many shades of red do you want me to invent in under fifteen minutes?!"
"Okay! Okay!" He says backing off and putting me down.
"Thank you!" I say thanking the heavens.
"Come on. Where almost there." He says grabbing my wrist and dragging me along. I just groan and allow him to drag me alone.
A few minutes later we reach the restaurant and everyone looked up. All the girls seemed to be checking Kenchii out and oddly that was bugging me. Not to mention I wasn't he wasn't the only being checked out as I saw the other half of the place, the male side check me out and some of them letting their eyes linger where I would rather not have them look. Curse Hanon and her lowcut shirts and miniskirts of doom! He puts his arm around me in almost a protective like way and we approach the front desk.
"Table for two." He said not even having to say that as I saw the restaurant really was set up for couples and I saw a lot of them making out.
"Sure things. Right this way." The waitress says winking and leading us to a table.
"Let me know if there's anything I can get you." She says aiming her words mostly towards Kenchii and gives him another wink before she walks off.
I start gripping the table which leaves a little bit of an indent and also doesn't go unnoticed by Kenchii.
"Jealous?" he asks in a teasing manner.
"Who me? Of course not." I say.
Suddenly our waiter appears and fills our glasses.
"I'm Ryuu and I'll be your server. Is there anything I can get you?" he asks in a flirtatious way this time towards me.
Suddenly we hear a crack and turn to see Kenchii's hand wet with ice water and broken glass on the table.
"Yes actually. A new glass." He says with smile that could kill.
"R-right away s-sir!" They guy says with a gulp before rushing off.
"Jealous much?" I ask him in a teasing manner.
He looks at me for a moment.
"Of course I am. You're my girlfriend. He says putting an arm around my waist and pulling me closer.
"Would you quite doing that!" I say trying to push him away, "We're in a public place!"
"So?" he says, "it's a couples restaurant. See." He says pointing to all the couples and certain ones that were certainly enjoying themselves.
"Yeah but-" I start.
"All I want is a kiss." He says, "after all we hook up and then you leave for three days without telling me anything."
I sigh and peck him on the lips.
"That's it?" he says in a pouty manner.
"P-pervert!" I yell at him.
"You know you love it!" He points out.
"We'll you're right about that." I agree and laugh when he almost falls out of the booth.
"Huh?!" he asks in disbelief.
"We'll you're just so hot. How can I not love it? I love everything about you." I say in a flirty way.
"HUH?!!" he says about to go into a state of shock and I almost fall on the floor from laughing so hard. The guy was actually blushing.
"Just kidding!" I say between gasp.
"You-" he starts.
"Here you go sir." The waiter says and gulps when Kenchii turns towards him with the face of a snake.
"May I t-take you order?" the guy asks hesitantly.
Suddenly Kenchii looks at me with the face of revenge. It said 'two can play at that game.'
"Yes we'll have a plate of spagatii! And the cheesecake."
I feel my mouth drop. Was he crazy?! That was the most expensive thing on the menu. 175 yen a slice!
"Okay that's it-" I say standing up.
"GAAH!!!" I scream as him pulls me back down again.
"You're not going anywhere." He says, and he meant it.
"Tell me when its over!" I groan.
Well the rest of the date went just swimmingly! Please note that I am BEING SARCASTIC!!! Of course he certainly seemed to be enjoying himself.
"Say ahh!" he says trying to fed me.
"I am fifteen years old! I know how to fed myself-"
"Okay that wasn't ah but close enough!" he said.
"I hope you know I will kill you-"
"That's a good girl! Eat up!" he says smiling and definitely enjoying himself.
I swore to myself he would pay!
"We are NEVER going to a restaurant again!" I swore as we walked along the beach.
"Aww why not! I had fun." He says pouting.
"I could see that!" I scream at him.
"Are you mad at me?" he asks.
"YES!!!" I screech and regret it when he goes to a corner and starts tracing imaginary circles in the sand.
"Uh Kenchii. I'm sorry. I'm not mad. Just frustrated- GAH!!" I scream.
He made a speedy recovery and ran up to me and hugged me.
"FORGIVE ME HIKARI!!!" He wails.
"Okay, okay, OKAY ALREADY LET GO OF ME!!!" I scream.
"Yay." he screams and starts bowing to the ocean tides honoring the heavens.
"Sigh. . . You're impossible."
"Yup!" he says.
I just sigh.
"Huh?" I ask as he picks me up.
"Away you go!" he says and throws me into the water.
"GAHH!!!" I scream before I plop into the water.
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!!" I scream at him when I resurface.
"Huh? Kenchii? Where'd you go?" I say looking around.
"AHH!!!" I scream when arms appear around me.
"That's better." He says.
"Huh?" I ask really confused. Was this guy only in love with my mermaid self who really was me but the human me was still me sorta. Now I was just making myself dizzy.
"The way you looked was driving me insane." He says.
"You looked very hot but it wasn't you. And the attention you were attracting, you're mine, none of them can have you." He tells me and his grip around me tightens.
I was glad my back was facing him. Yes I was probably turning my brightest shade yet but my eyes were also starting to water.
One of my tears fell and this is noticed by him.
"I'm sorry! Am I squeezing you to hard?!" he asks in concern and turns me to face him.
I look at him before I reach up and kiss him.
'I love you' I think knowing he heard me even though no words were spoken.
Kissing him, being with him, as long as I was with him my terrors of Haru were forgotten.
'Kenchii I love you. . .'
~End of Chapter Seventeen~