Days passed and Kyo was a no show. I waited and waited for him to show up at school to tell him ask what was his problem, but he never appeared. I started to get curious about his disappearance, so to find out what was going on, I still stood by my truck in the morning before school waiting for him to reappear.
That first day I looked into his eyes, I started to feel scared and helpless. I never had seen black eyes like Kyo's before. It felt like I was entering the gates to hell just by those eyes and how he looks at me. I knew that this was going to be a weird school year.
"So those are some of our ideas. What do you think?" asked Momiji as Tohru and he entered biology classed and hung up their coats.
"Yea, yea I think it's great. I bet it would come along quite well," said Tohru as she hung up her coat. Yuki walked in right after Momiji and Tohru and started to sprinkle a little rain water from his hat onto Tohru's head.
"What do you think of this rain Arizona?" Laughed Yuki as he continued. Tohru smiled and started to walk towards her desk.
"Ok now that was cute," said Momiji to Yuki from the background.
Tohru looked at the blackboard than back to her desk, and just stopped in her tracks. He was there, Kyo Sohma. Kyo slowly looked up at Tohru and kept his gaze on her. Tohru finally made a move and took a seat right next to Kyo.
Tohru stared at the board for the longest time but was interrupted by this pale face sitting right next to her. Kyo looked at Tohru and said, "I'm sorry that I didn't properly introduce myself the other day. My name is Kyo Sohma and you are Bella right?"
"Yes, yes I am," said Tohru as she looked at Kyo.
"Ok class, today we are going to look into meiosis and mitosis. Whoever figures out the stages on these slides will win the golden onion," announced the teacher. Tohru carefully reached for the microscope and laid one of the slides in place.
"You were gone for so long," said Tohru as she peered into the microscope.
"I uh, had a family thing to contend with. So, do you like the rain?" Kyo took his turn at the microscope and said, "Its anaphase." Tohru looked over at Kyo then back at her work.
"I don't really like the rain that much. I just don't like the cold period. I'm more of a sunny, heat type of person," said Tohru as she wrote another answer down on her notepad.
Kyo looked away from her with a sadder expression than before. "So why did you move to Forks if you don't like the rain and the cold?"
"Well, I moved in with my dad here while my mom went to Jacksonville with her new husband. I just thought it was about time that I should visit my dad. It's metaphase by the way," said Tohru as she wrote it down. She looked up at Kyo and noticed that his eye color was different from the last time they met.
'I simply don't know what is going on? At first I meet him he had black, ebony colored eyes but today, his eye color is completely different. It goes from black to an auburn color which I think is a bit of a drastic change. There is so much that I want to know from this Sohma. I have so many questions to ask him and yet I never question people at all. I don't know what makes him so different from all of the other people I've talked to; I just want to know why.'
The class just ended and Kyo and Tohru walked out of the room with the golden onion. Kyo walked with Tohru all the way to her locker to ask more questions.
"So, is it that you don't like the guy your mom is with," asked Kyo as he walked Tohru down the hall.
"No, he's a really great guy but I felt that I just needed to be with my dad for awhile. Let me ask you something, why is it that you are all of a sudden asking me all these questions?" Tohru stopped in front of her locker and turned to face Kyo.
"It's just that you are very difficult for me to read. I don't why but it just is," answered Kyo.
"I don't understand, probably I won't but what's going with your eyes. At our first meeting, your eyes were pure black and now they are a bright orange," said Tohru as she stood still with the golden onion in her hands.
Kyo started to grow frustrated, Tohru noticed his eye color changing and it was going to bother him big time. "It's just a… a gene that I inherited or whatever…," Kyo stormed off away from Tohru looking like his head was about to explode. Tohru stayed in the same spot for quite awhile just thinking about Kyo's mood swings.
After school, Tohru right beside her truck with headphones in her ears. She noticed that Kyo was standing beside his car just staring her down. Tohru looked back at him for a couple of seconds then turned around. She set her messenger bag on the hood of the truck, trying to fix or to pull something out.
While Tohru was distracted, a student driving a big van was driving down the parking lot. Another car almost ran into the van causing the van to quickly turn sharply towards Tohru as it lost control on the icy parking lot. As Tohru turned around, the screeching of the tires grew louder as the side of the van was seconds away from piercing her body to her truck.
