Chapter 3


"You saw a guy on the main grounds?" Sango asked, her mouth slightly agape in shock.

I nodded furiously, studying my notes for philosophy as Ochiru-Sensei was lecturing our history class.

Sango continued to gape in my general direction in a very fish-like manor. "Are you sure it was a guy?"

I nodded offhandedly again, flipping through more pages and engorging my brain with their contents, which I was pretty sure I'd forget in the next three minutes.

"Oh, but when I looked again it was the statue of Nuriko Kagiya." I said airily, ignoring the sharp snap of Sango's mouth as it closed bluntly.

"You need to get more sleep." Sango stated, shaking her head.

I looked up from my philosophy notes at her.

"Can I get that in writing?"

Sango flipped her ebony tresses and sniffed, ignoring my question and answering with one of her own.

"Were you up reading again?"

I slouched guiltily in my chair and kept my gaze glued to my notebook.

"Maybe…."

Sango continued to stare at my slouching form.

"And what book were you up so late reading?" She inquired innocently.

I clamped my lips shut tightly ensuring no vital information could pass through. Her heated gaze became hotter, smoking me out and wearing down my determination….

"Okay, fine!" I whimpered, "I cave!"

Why was I such a spineless buffoon sometimes? I growled inwardly. I really needed to work on that.

"I was reading Twilight…."

Sango's sharp brown eyes narrowed.

I flinched, "Don't hurt me! I can explain!!"

Sango tapped a finger on her folded arm.

"I definitely want to hear it!"

I felt beads of sweat begin to form on my obsidian colored bangs.

"Well you see, Ayame and the other girls in third hour were all reading copies and when they discovered that I hadn't read it…." I shivered remembering the predatory glint in every girl's eyes as they all turned their heads in my direction at the exact. same. time. It was like they were connected or something!

"I just grabbed Ayame's copy and began to read it for protection!"

Sango tsked sympathetically, "The zombies got to you too, eh?"

I gulped, "Did I mention the glowing red eyes and my needing protection!?!?"

I looked down at my desk, gazing at all the carved names of girls that attended this class. I noticed a small cartoon carving of Ochiru-Sensei with his mouth open the size of his head in the middle of a lecture. I snickered covering my mouth so he wouldn't suspect. I snuck a glance at him. He wouldn't notice anyway; the balding man was so deeply in a lecture that an atomic bomb couldn't shake him out of it!

A small twinge of pain shot down my spine as the point of a lead pencil was pressed into it.

"Are you laughing at me Kags?"

I turned slightly in my desk, fixing my white tie.

"No, I just saw something funny carved into my desk."

She looked at my desk then back to my sheepish grin.

"Did you read the whole book?" she asked bluntly.

My fingers paused mid-tie.

"You did, didn't you?"

I met her hard gaze, my sheepish grin growing ever so wider. She looked away in disgust to give Ayame a dirty look across the room. Ayame waved back innocently from her desk, her red curls bouncing slightly.

"Revenge is mine!" Sango muttered under her breath.

I felt the blood drain out of my face. Man was Sango was Anti-Twilight! I felt the urge to protect Ayame begin to take over as Sango's aura became darker. A strange sensation began to bubble in my chest making it's way into my throat causing my tongue to buzz.

Oh no! I thought panicking, not now!

I looked about wildly for some duct tape or super glue. Anything to keep my mouth shut to stop the onslaught of words that were stampeding towards my lips inside of my mouth.

There was nothing. Failure!

"It wasn't that bad!" I blurted out so quickly that it came out more like: "Itwasn'tthatbad!"

Sango though, understood it. I could tell by the way her left eye began to twitch.

"Stop. Rewind, and repeat." Were the three words she bit out forcefully.

Maybe she didn't understand. Sigh. Or maybe she just didn't believe me.

Oh shoot.

"Sango, I just started to read it for protection, but it really was interesting! The Edward character sounded like a hot piece of work with his golden eyes and super human strength and speed…"

I faltered for a moment, remembering the boy that was suddenly on the main grounds then was gone in a blink of an eye…

I pushed the thoughts aside. I'd been reading too many fantasy novels! Things like that didn't happen, despite the wishes of the entire female population. I returned to my sentence, hoping that Sango didn't notice my hesitation

"Anyways, it was a pretty good book. You should give it a chance."

Sango slowly let out her breath, ruffling her bangs slightly.

"Kags, vampires do not exist!"

"I know that!"

Sango gave me a look.

"Look. I will admit, extremely good looking men saving girls from eminent death is very attractive to read and at times I wish it could be real, but I am completely sane and living in the real world!"

The look continued and it was driving me absolutely insane! Sango sure was on one today.

"I'm serious!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands up in exasperation. My pencil went flying and hit the whiteboard with a loud smack! Half the class turned to look at me; I in turn looked at Ochiru-Sensei. He was still going.

Safe!

My ever so rude best friend and roommate snorted quietly, eyes full of mirth.

"Alright, fine. But don't think for one second that I'm going to read that book!"

I shook my head solemnly, "It never even crossed my mind!"

My best friend leaned in closer to my desk, "So they really had red eyes?"

My gray eyes widened in excitement and I nodded, recounted my terrifying tale to her as Ochiru-Sensei droned on through the early spring morning.