Disclaimer: I do not own Flame of Recca; they all belong to Nobuyuki Anzai. The ones that are mine are Aurora, Cassandra, their friend(s), and teachers, etc.

Chapter 3: Ice Cold Thoughts

It was like a flash out of a nightmare for Tokiya, yet he dealt with it. And Aurora was his nightmare. The one thing that he wished for right now was that she didn't talk to him, because she made his mind think some inappropriate thoughts…such as the so-called feelings that he didn't have for her at all.

She smiled as she sat down next to him; they were in math again with Akira sensei. "So how was your night Mi-chan?" She asked while he stared at her as she called him by his nickname that she came up with at the spur of the moment.

He then glared at her in his usual manner, but didn't reply.

"Oh, come on, what's with that look Mi-chan?" She continued, but that wasn't it, because her scent that smelled of berry swirl was starting to irritate him to the brink of insanity.

He smirked for her benefit, while his eyes shone like the bottomless ocean. "It's nothing," he answered finally with his voice dripping like pure cold frosted sugar. And that gave her the hint that he was irritated for some reason.

She didn't question him any further for the rest of the day, and he was slightly pleased, well someone could say that, because he had a smirk on his face. This only lasted until after lunch, since Cassandra slammed his locker door against his face again, but she wasn't going for that this time, and she hit him directly at his right temple with such force that he had a headache combined with the pain. It got him sent to the nurse's office the second time in two days…that got Aurora to talk to him again.

She just looked at him as he walked in with an icepack pressed against his temple and smiled like she knew that he was going to get hurt again. "So did sis do this to you Mi-chan?" She asked just to make sure.

He tried to glare at her, but it hurt just trying, so he settled for an ice cold stare. "Yes," he confirmed as he put the ice on his desk and laid his head down, because the pain right now was excruciating.

"Did you do anything to get her upset again?" Aurora questioned as she started to rub his aching temple. It was quite soothing and the pain went away quicker. But I won't admit that, he thought to himself.

"No, I didn't do anything of that sort," he confessed through gritted teeth as he looked directly into her eyes. And he realized that when he stared into her eyes that they were comforting, in a way. I won't admit that either, as he reasoned with the thought in his head.

I wonder why she did that if he didn't do anything to make her mad; Aurora questioned herself as she tried to think of why she would do this. She could only think of two reasons, it was either Cassandra was still mad at him or she was doing this for some-one's benefit, but who could it be for: her or Tokiya? It still didn't make sense, but she decided to ask Cassandra about this later. But the thought was soon forgotten as she stared straight into Tokiya's cold blue eyes.

After classes, everything was back to normal, well almost everything, because once Tokiya reached his house, he started to think about why Cassandra did that if he didn't do anything to make her mad. And he started to think about Aurora…

Why do I keep thinking about her? He wondered as he reread the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer. He actually liked the vampire Edward Cullen; it kind of reminded him of himself. And Bella…she reminded him of Aurora. Cassandra made him imagine an over-protective version of Alice, it suited her, and he had to laugh.

"What's making me think of her?" He wondered aloud to himself as he went to go and take a hot shower, he really needed that. It helped him relax and took away the stress that he was feeling. Plus, it helped him not think of her for a while. Still as his thoughts wandered, they led him back to her, her beautiful smile, laugh, dark eyes, and calm yet quiet personality.

Focus, he repeated to himself as a mantra in his mind as images of that girl just wandered aimlessly with his thoughts. And he wasn't giving into the emotion everyone called love; he never would, not even if it killed him.

He changed into a plain white t-shirt and black jeans, and proceeded to blow dry his waist length hair. What is it about her that is so special? He questioned his own mind and sanity at the moment.

Besides love isn't really something that I can feel, he reassured himself that much as he retied his hair. Or can I? He mused. Damn, she even makes me double guess myself, he swore that she was the cause of all of this doubt.

But thankfully, she's not like me, and yet she's like an angel, he smiled at the thought. "Wait did I just think that?" He asked himself.

"Oh, shit, I'm really loosing it," he muttered under his breath-swearing, as an image of Aurora in her school uniform made its way into his train of thought.

"Better make myself some coffee to help me calm down," he said as he walked to the kitchen and turned on the coffee machine. Ironically, coffee doesn't make him hyper, but it does the exact opposite, it helps him calm down…weird.

Aurora finally stepped out of the shower and as she blow dried her hair, and changed into blue jeans and a plain white t-shirt. And that was when she started to sneeze nonstop as if someone was talking or thinking about her.

"Hey sis, are you alright?" Cassandra called up to her sister at the bottom of the stairs who was wearing a plain red t-shirt and black shorts.

"Yeah, I'm fine, it seems that someone's talking about me," she answered back as she walked down the stairs.

"Do you have any idea who would be talking about me?" Aurora inquired to her sister as Aurora helped Cassandra cook pasta for dinner.

"No, not really," she lied. But I think that ice block is thinking about you, she thought to herself once they sat down to eat.

Tokiya then sat down to finish reading Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer after dinner when he started to sneeze, and he knew that someone was talking about him. Great, and I know that Cassandra's the one talking about me, maybe she realized that I was thinking about her sister, he cursed the thought in his mind.

As he lay in bed, Tokiya tried to get some sleep, but he knew that it wouldn't come at all. What is it about her that makes me get so attached? He questioned for the tenth time in his mind as he tried to lock away all of the emotions that she made him feel.

But finally sleep claimed him into the void of pure darkness.

But little did he know that his life was changing…