LPB: okay i know i haven't updated in yonks now I'M SORRY! i just kept on getting distracted by other stuff like school and what not, but the good thing is im writing again! yay! :P
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Chapter 2
Amu POV
"Onee-chan! I wanna go to the park!" Ami shook my arm. I sighed and put down my pencil.
"Okay Ami..." I wasn't making any progress in my math homework anyway. I had been at Seiyo Academy for a whole week now. Nagi and Kukai were basically my only friends there. Yes, I do hang out with Utau and Rima as well but it's obvious they don't like me very well. And Ikuto, well... all he ever does is tease me and all.
Today was Saturday and our maths teacher had decided to give us a weekend assignment. It was 14 A4 pages long. Did I mention it was14 double sided A4 sheets? Seriously, these teachers think we have no life out of school.
"Don't go too far Ami. Mama's gonna blame me if you get hurt." I called out to her before she ran to the park and began exploring who knows what 5 year old kids explore.
"Kay!" she shouted back to me. I saw a bench nearby and decided to sit on. I rested my back and stretched out my legs and hands. I looked up at the sky; we probably had about an hour before my mother comes back from work. She worked 6 days a week, only resting on Sundays, at a bakery. It didn't give much pay but she told us there was. What she doesn't know is that I knew it wasn't. I mean, how can you expect to pay all the bills, the groceries, the rent, our school fees and all our random needs with just $10 an hour? When I asked if I could work as well to help she insisted that I didn't need to. And why did Ikuto say that she hadn't told us something about her anyway?
"Yo. Why are you sitting here?" speaking of the devil...
"Why can't I sit here? This isn't your bench; it doesn't have your name on it."
"Well..." Ikuto said, "One, I have more claim over this bench since I was the one who sat on it first."
"Pfft." I scoffed, "What sort of reason is that?"
He sat down next to me. I scooted further away from him in case he tried to do anything. "Secondly, I meant why you were here by yourself."
"My sister's here with me." I answered looking the other way purposely to ignore him.
"You're sister? Oh that short brown haired girl..."
"She's only 5 and you expect her to be as tall as you?" I scoffed.
He shrugged and rested his hands behind his head. "So…where is she anyway?"
"She's in the playground with the other kids." I rested my face on my upright hand.
"Either she's not there, or I don't recognise her." I saw him shrug again from the corner of my eye.
I sighed, lifted my head up and looked over at the playground about to point to her. "She's..." I frowned, "not there..."
"I told ya," he smirked "you just didn't believe me."
"She's not there..." I repeated staring at the same spot.
"Yeah... I kind of figured that out already." he said slowly.
Where is she? I swivelled my head around looking for some sign of her. Any sign.
"Oi, Amu." he said.
Please come out Ami, I pleaded silently. I searched the entire playground with my eyes, staying at the same spot for a few seconds expecting her to come bouncing out from behind.
"Hello? Earth to Amu?'
Ami... where are you? I closed my eyes, imagining what could have happened to her. What if she had been kidnapped and the kidnappers had left a note telling us to pay a 20 digit number amount of money to have her back?
"Daddy's little girl? You there?"
Or worse, what if she was hit by a car and the driver had sped off, too scared to take responsibility of her death. An image of Ami appeared. Lying dead on the road, soaked in her own blood, her eyes staring lifelessly up at the sky. I shook the image out of my head.
"Helloooooo?
I'm just imagining things, what happened to Papa wouldn't happen to Ami. Never.
I suddenly felt something come in contact with my lips. I sprang my eyes open. Something blue was obscuring my view. I blinked, trying to get a clearer view. The blue thing hadn't moved. Dammit I wanted to see who the hell dared to throw a stress ball at my face. I blinked again. Is a stress ball supposed to be warm and...wet and... soft? Wait blue... why does this blue look so familiar...
It hit me. Or rather the realization of what was happening slapped me.
"GET THE HELL OFF ME YOU PERVERTED BASTARD!" I slapped his face. Hard. The blue thing finally moved away. Thank God for that.
"WHAT THE FRICK WAS FOR WOMAN!" he stood up, hand over his cheek where I slapped him.
"You know what!"
"I was waking you up from la-la land!"
"There was no need to ki- to do that!"
"What else was I supposed to do? Slap you awake?"
"You could have poked me gently." I emphasised the last word.
"I did and you still were off in la-la land! I was going to tell you, your sister is up on that tree!" he pointed to one of the many trees.
"She's what!"
"I said she's u-"
"I heard what you said!" I interrupted him. "My sister is stuck up on a tree!" I was practically clawing at his shirt, panicking so much.
"How do you know she's stuck?" he asked, pulling my hands off his shirt.
"She's stuck." I gripped on harder.
"Okay, okay. Just ring the fire brigade or something, they'll help her down."
"She's only 5! She's freaking out up there!" I screamed in his face.
He winced. "You're the one freaking out…fine, I'll get her down then."
I watched him head over to the tree, straightening his shirt out at the same time. I followed him.
"Onee-chan! Help! I'm stuck!" Ami yelled from who knows how many metres high above the ground she was. I felt dizzy myself looking up that high.
Ikuto took off his jacket. I frowned. "What are you doing?"
"Saving your sister's ass." he muttered.
"You're not really climbing that far up are you?" I asked incredulously.
He shrugged, "If a 5 year old can do it, why can't I? Besides weren't you the one who were telling me to go save your sister?"
"I did?"
"Girls." I heard him mutter. "After all you do for them..."
"What?" Did he just say...
"Nothing." he muttered again before placing both his hands onto the branch above his head and then swinging his feet up.
How did Ami get up there anyway?
I watched him climb further up. His hands would grab onto a higher branch and then he would swing his legs up again, he did this all the way to the top, where Ami was. He swore once though, when his shirt got caught on a branch, he had to rip the fabric to get free, but then when he yanked his arm up, he hit another branch causing him to swear colourfully once again.
After 10 minutes of watching him climb, he finally managed to get back down holding on to Ami. She ran to me and started crying onto my jeans.
"Um... thanks Ikuto." Man did that sound weird. Since when do I thank him for anything? I knelt down and patted Ami's head. Looking over her shoulder I saw that Ikuto was still in the same position as before when he landed down. He was inspecting his hand; I saw a hint of blood. "Ikuto, you're bleeding."
"No, really?" he asked sarcastically.
I walked over to him, knelt down, and grabbed his hand, inspecting it. Back at home when we were little, if our mother ever saw us bleeding, it would instantly mean a Winnie the Pooh bandage.
"You know Amu, if you wanted to hold my hand you could've just asked." he said whilst smirking.
"Shut up, not everything is about you." I muttered, wetting a tissue and gently dabbing it the blood away. (A/N: no idea where she got the wet tissue, we can just use our imagination :P)
"Huh… just a few second ago you were shouting at me, and now you're all over me." Ikuto mused.
"I am not all over you!"
He raised an eyebrow. Okay I guess I sorta am, but that's only because I'm cleaning his hand. Nothing else. And I was only shouting at him because he kis- HE KISSED ME! My hand moved away from his automatically, and came in contact with his face once again.
"Hey! Now what was that for?"
"F-for kissing me!"
"Who cares, it's not like it's your first time… it isn't right?" He added when he saw I wasn't moving.
"Of course it wasn't! I've been kissed before!" Well, that is if you count your grandma's dog licking your whole face. No way was I telling him that though.
"It was just a kiss anyway, like I said, who cares." He rubbed his red cheek.
Who cares? I do! Every kiss that a girl receives stays in their memory! Especially their first one! I nodded instead, still glaring at him.
I felt a sudden throb in my chest. What was that?
Monday- School
"So... Hinamori-san, just to let you know…Ikuto-sama, Kukai-sama and Nagihiko-sama are all off limits for you." Saaya, a girl who happened to be in every single one of my classes, announced.
What the heck? I got dragged away from my lab bench just so she could say this?
"They're all taken." She folded her arms.
"Uhuh…" I glanced back at the bench where Nagi was waiting for us. We were paired up as lab partners.
"Did you hear me?"
"What?" I asked.
"Ikuto-sama, Kukai-sama and Nagihiko-sama are all taken." She pointed her chin out.
"Oh yea? Are you dating all three of them at the same time?" I scoffed.
"N-No, just stay away from them! Or else I-"
"Whatever." I walked back towards the lab bench.
"What did she want?" Nagi asked.
"I dunno, wasn't listening half the time." I helped him pour the acid into the test tube.
I sat down at our table, Rima and Utau sat on the complete opposite side of it and glared at me at annoyance. I was spared from their silent harassment when Nagi, Kukai and Ikuto walked up to our table. They looked unusually happy.
Rima and Utau changed their expressions immediately. "Hey, what happened?" Utau asked.
"Our sport class gets to go to camp next week." Kukai explained.
"So what?" Rima asked, "We already knew that a few weeks ago and you guys weren't as happy as you are now."
Ikuto smirked. He and the other 2 guys looked as if they were 5 and were just given the best present ever.
"What's so good about that?" I asked. "It's just camp."
"It's not just camp, Amu-chan." Nagi told me while Rima glared at me. "It's camp. No school for 1 whole week, instead we get to head off to the beach, our whole class."
"And get this…" Kukai paused as if for a dramatic effect, "the teachers decided we were responsible enough to not need to supervise us."
"Wait." Rima interrupted them. "So no teachers are going?" she sneaked a glance at Nagi.
"Nope." Ikuto said, grinning. "We get to do whatever we want for 5 whole days and 4 nights."
I rolled my eyes, shesh that's all he ever thinks about.
"What's wrong Amu? Jealous of the girls in our sports class?" he teased.
"Pfft! As if! I'll rather jump off a bridge." More like Utau and Rima are jealous…
"And I'll be there to catch you." He continued teasing. My heart fluttered for a second. I fanned myself with my hand, it was hot here in the cafeteria.
"I'd rather you don't, there would be a reason that I jumped in the first place." I commented and then picked up my bag heading off to my next class as the bell rang. I saw Nagi follow me out and he jogged up to catch up to me.
"What do we have next?" I asked, since we figured out we were in all the same classes as each other, other than health and sport."
He checked his timetable and moaned, "Health."
"How fun!" I said sarcastically.
Nagi sighed, "At least we have a different topic. Mental and Physical Diseases is a more comfortable subject than uhh… Reproduction."
I nodded in agreement. When I walked into the classroom the teacher was already writing stuff up on the board. I sat down at my seat ignoring glares from the sensei and Rima, I stared at the board not bothered to take notes.
'Diseases' she had written on the board, underneath she wrote a list; 'Melanoma, Lung Cancer, Leukemia, Breast Cancer…'
"So what are some symptoms?" Inoue-sensei asked.
A few of the girls shouted out answers to her. "Weight loss.", "Unusual bleeding or discharge.", "Fevers.", "Feeling weak or tired."
"Good, good." She nodded and wrote them on the board as well. I stared at the clock for the rest of the lesson, watching the seconds tick by.
The rest of the day went by as usual, walking with Nagi to class, Kukai high fiving me and Ikuto teasing me in the hallway.
Finally the bell rung for the end of school, saving us from another monotone lecture in Language. I waved bye to Nagi before sprinting out the door. Mum had sent me a text saying she was going to the doctors again to get a blood test so I would have to pick up Ami. I was nearly out of the gates when two figures blocked my way. I sighed when I saw who it was.
"Hinamori… why is Kukai always around you?" Utau asked menacingly.
"Nagi too." The shorty, Rima added.
"You don't deserve to hang around them. You-"
Utau was cut off by another voice, "Hi Utau and Rima!" a little boy had ran up to us. He had yellow eyes and his hair was blue, just like Ikuto's.
"Yoru!" Utau exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"
"Ikuto nii-san's picking me up today!" He smiled happily.
"Huh…" Utau said before turning back to me. "So, Hinamori-san as I was saying before I was interu-"
"Hey Yoru what cha doing here?" Kukai walked up to us, swinging his bag over his shoulder.
The little boy, Yoru, turned to him, "Ikuto nii-san's picking me up!" he said again.
Kukai frowned. "Okay… he's still at his locker, I'll go with you to find him." He gestured to Yoru who skipped up to him and they both headed back to the building.
"So…" Utau started again, "as I was saying, you sho-"
"Hey look who it is! Hoshina and shorty!" Ikuto slapped the back of Utau.
Rima's eyes narrowed, "I am not short."
"Sure you are!" Ikuto laughed.
"Urghh! Stop interrupting me!" Utau shouted in frustration, her hands in fists.
"Hey!" Ikuto took a step back and lifted his hands up. "Just because I'm not Kukai doesn't mean you should shout at me."
"Feel free to move out of my way anytime." I rolled my eyes at them. "It's not as if I'm late to pick up my sis."
The 3 of them turned to face me. "Aww does daddy's little girl be good and pick up her helpless little sister?" Ikuto asked, pretending to care.
"For the last time, do not call me that you idiot." I glared at him and pushed through them. Finally, I'm out. I started down the road, where the kindergarten was. But once again, before I even took a step, someone stepped in front of me.
LPB: not very exciting either BUT it will get better when we reach the plot hopefully, yet again.
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