Chapter 2 here hehe... Okay, I think the story was boring and now i'm trying to make it interesting LOL... And somehow i think you guys got confused at the first chapter and that the shifting of scenes was so fast... Sorry about that...
Anyway... here's the second chapter! Hope you like it :D
Magnet
Chapter 2
"Len!", I heard the kids yell his name. I looked at Len and saw him rubbing his forehead with his fingers. Obviously he didn't like those kids who are now pulling him and asking him to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Mary Had A Little Lamb.
"Those kids are so cute!", Kahoko said beside me. I looked at her, she was smiling and somehow she looked like she will burst into laughter any second.
Wondering, I said, "You mean, Len is so cute".
She looked at me with a surprised expression then she blushed. "I think I should help him now", she said. She headed towards Len. "Wow… how did he knew?", I heard her mumbled after her knowing that I can't hear her anymore. Too bad, I have senses that are sharp enough to notice the little things.
Okay, it was already an hour since I called Kahoko and Len from the music room. I should be looking for someone to do my plan, but, who? I think a kid is good enough for the plan. Hmm… that kid would be good but he's busy… and I need someone that won't hurt Len. I looked at every kid inside the room, half of the number of kids here is playing with the annoyed Len and the cheerful Kahoko, and some of them are with Shinobu Ousaki and the orchestra club members. I don't want to disturb them but I need someone before the lessons over.
"Sir…", I heard a small male voice call, then suddenly I felt someone tugging my pants. I looked down and saw a little boy. He had light blue hair that is really near to white, his eyes had the color that is the same as the clear sky, and he looked like a little angel.
"What?", I asked. I saw him flinch then he took a deep breath. Did I just sound cold to him? I know some people say that I looked like a cold person at the same time an angel, which I don't get why they say I looked like one.
He showed me a music sheet. I took it and looked at it. "Do you want to play this?", I asked him. I wonder why he wants to play something that is hard at the same time for the piano; his instrument is a violin after all.
He smiled at me and said, "I want you to have it".
I stared at him and thanked him.
I turned my attention back to the kids who are gathering towards Shinobu, he was saying something about the difference between a viola and a violin. And after a few minutes I realized that the little boy that gave me a music sheet was still beside me, staring at me. I looked back at him.
"You're not human", he said in a calm manner. I stared at him a little more. How did he know that? I know I'm not human and I don't know what I really am.
"What are you trying to say?", I asked him.
He smiled again and I can feel his happiness rising. "I found you! After all the searching I've done! At last I found young master", he said.
Okay, he just called me young master just like how Senri and Raven calls me. The first time I met Senri and Raven was three years ago, at my graduation, both called me young master. After that meeting, I didn't talk to them and just ignored them completely even though I'm surprised that they called me young master. They followed me everywhere I go, I even tried running away and hiding from them, but sadly, they found me. After three months, I decided to ask them what they want with me because they were following me everywhere, their answer was they want me because they want to serve me, I can ask them anything. I got annoyed once and had asked Raven to go kill himself, and he really obeyed that! He took a knife and nearly had cut himself, luckily I had stopped him before he had cut himself, I asked him if he was crazy and his answer was it was because I said so. Ever since then I didn't dare ask them to do something for me or for anyone. I asked them, sometimes, who told them to look after me but they always answer, "That's classified".
"What are you talking about?", I asked, trying to be innocent to what he was saying but I knew that he would end up like Senri and Raven.
"My name is Iku Clarkson, I will be your servant!", he said cheerfully.
"No", I said coldly.
"Why?"
"No"
"But you accepted Senri and Raven!", he said and pointed out on the window. So he knew Senri and Raven.
"I didn't, they just did what they want to do", I said.
"But you need a kid right now! I'm here!", Iku said. Now that he mentions it, I nearly forgot my plan.
"Fine", I said and told him everything he needs to do. Just this once isn't bad, right?
Len and Kahoko were together talking to each other. I gave Iku the go signal and then he started running around the room, just like I said. Some kids followed Iku which I think that my plan will end up the way I didn't want it to be. I gave Iku a thumb up and then he started running towards Len's back. And with Iku's jump my plan will end up the way I want. Iku jumped onto Len's back making Len lean forward towards Kahoko.
The next thing we knew was Len and Kahoko's lips were touching, they were kissing. Both had a surprised expression and their faces turned the same color as Kahoko's hair. After a few seconds they took each other apart, about time, it took them nearly ten seconds!
Well, my plan failed… it turned out into a kiss than a hug, but a kiss is much better, I think. Iku apologized many times already yet Kahoko and Len didn't notice the poor boy. Iku smiled before he started heading towards Shinobu Ousaki to apologize as well.
I wonder what Len is now thinking? Good thing my ability to read minds is off or else I'll be hearing jumbled thoughts.
On our way home, Len made a scary expression. Ever since the kiss, he suddenly turned cold to everyone and ended up making all the kids scared of him.
"Sulking over a kiss won't help you two", I said at both Kahoko and Len. We three were sat at the back seats of the car, Raven was driving. Before we went off, Len and Kahoko had made me sit between them, now I feel awkward.
"I-I'm not sulking", Kahoko stuttered.
"Then why are you two so quiet?", I asked. No one answered.
When we arrived at home, mother and father were both playing music. As soon as they heard me enter, mother stood up from her piano stool and started running towards me then gave me a super tight hug. Kahoko and Len was right behind me both expression blank.
"What's wrong Kahoko? Len?", mother asked. Somehow, her expression's creeping me; her eyes are twinkling in happiness. I bet she's thinking of how to put Len and Kahoko together. She wanted Len to end up with Kahoko since the first time she saw Kahoko from the second selection of the music competition in Seiso Academy.
"Nothing", both replied in unison.
Mother looked at me and looked for answers from me. "Yuu?", she asked me. Len glared at me while Kahoko blushed. I don't know which side to choose… Len or mother… so I looked at Kahoko, but it didn't help me choose who's side I should take.
"It doesn't concern me mother so ask them", I told mother. It did concern me 'cause I was the one who started it.
Kahoko looked at me then to Len and mother. "Len and I… kissed accidentally… that's all", Kahoko said blushing. How honest of her. Len slapped his forehead with his hand; I knew he was thinking that it'll make mother jump to conclusions.
"Accident", Len said.
I stared at him for a while. "My doing", I admitted. I don't know why but I have this personality of being honest even if it'll give me harm.
Len and Kahoko looked at me, my parents looked at me, they said, "How?".
I looked up at the ceiling for a second. "I… the kid… I don't know how to explain", I said. It started with a plan, yes, but the kid thingy will make me look like I did something bad.
Len gave me a deadly glare while the rest gave me a surprised reaction. Before they can talk I decided to go upstairs to my room, "I'll be at my room", I said.
At my room, I took a bath, changed clothes then went to bed. I laid there for an hour without doing anything or even thinking. Tomorrow I will be going to the university where Kahoko Hino is studying, not that I'm worried about that. Thinking of Len's glare, I surely hope that he's not that mad.
After a few minutes later, I felt that someone's hesitating behind the door. "Come in", I said. Len opened the door and went inside my room. He sat on one corner of my bed and stared at me.
"Thanks", he said. And that's what I didn't expect, after that glare he stabbed me with? I wouldn't have thought of him thanking me. I wanted to laugh at him but it's good I didn't.
"How about Hino? Have you told her?", I asked.
He blushed, I don't know how many times he did this day, and said, "I can't… it looks easy but hard".
"How can it be hard? I know all you have to say is 'I love you', what's hard about that?", I asked. I don't have much experience when it comes to this kind of things but I have received confessions from girls. Last year, almost each day I received a total of five confessions per day, and I don't know how many hearts I have failed to answer. I never felt love like how Len feels for Kahoko, and I never looked at any girl before, maybe because of my attraction to learning than girls.
"I don't know how made it so hard… but once you got to that point where you wanted to tell her, it'll make you think of all the things that can happen. I had thought of our friendship when I thought of confessing to Kahoko", Len said.
The way Len looked made me accept the fact that it was really hard. It had been years since he realized what he felt for her. I remember a time that looked like Len's soul was taken out from him; it was the time when he heard the news about a guy named Ryoutarou Tsuchiura confessed to Kahoko. He didn't know what Kahoko had answered to the lad but it made him look miserable, I even heard his thoughts saying that why wouldn't Kahoko Hino answer the lad when Tsuchiura was the guy that always made Kahoko feel safe and looked after her while Len didn't.
"That hard…", I said. The room became very quiet the next few seconds. "Good luck, Len, I think I won't experience that kind of love, especially when I'm like this. I like books than girls", I said. Really sure about what I'm saying.
"You will… I loved music than girls before. Even if you don't talk much, unless the person is someone you know, likes reading books and learning, cold to some people sometimes, and so quiet… even if you're like that, falling in love is inevitable, there's always a time in a person's life when he does. Maybe your time hasn't come", Len said. I can't believe that this great violinist, who was once called an ice prince, is telling me things about love.
"I still can't think of a time that that will happen to me", I said
Len looked at the time from the wall clock then said, "I heard a rumor". He lay down beside me. "Is it true?", Len asked, looking at me.
"What rumor?", I asked.
"About the fact that if you smiled at a girl that means you fell in love?", he asked. I remember that rumor, after that rumor most girls had tried on making me smile, they looked very annoying. He smiled at me and said, "I believe it. You don't smile often, it's rare seeing you, the last time I saw you smile was when we were young", Len said.
I looked at Len. "That rumor is just a rumor, it's not true. I don't smile because it's a bad idea… just like the fact about me not talking louder", I explained.
"Well… anyway, you can tell me anything you want… I'll believe that rumor", Len said then stood up, "Goodnight". Len left me.
It was near midnight and I decided to sleep. After closing my eyes, that dream came to me, the nightmare that I was trying to get rid of.
"I'm scared", a little girl said. She was sitting in one corner of the room, hugging her knees.
The young boy just stared at her. He was holding a scythe that was shaped like a bat with the bigger wing being its blade.
"Why are you scared?", the little boy asked, smiling.
The little girl looked at him with a surprised expression. "P-please don't come near me", the little girl stuttered, her whole body shaking from fear.
They were both in a small, windowless room. The room was dark and was only illuminated by a small candle. The little girl wore her little light blue night gown while the little boy wore a black coat with a red ribbon tied on his neck.
"Why not?", the little boy asked. The little girl closed her eyes. The little boy suddenly became by her side in just a second and whispered, "I like you".
The little girl screamed as loud as she could but no one heard her.
The room became quiet after a few seconds. The little boy stared at the body that was covered in blood; the little girl was not in one piece anymore. The little boy laughed…
I woke up and found myself panting. It was only a dream I reminded myself. That dream of a girl that was covered in blood, smiling at me, and me staring at her… my hand was covered in blood as well, I don't know what happened in that dream but I'm positive that in that dream I was the one that created the mess. I shook my head to clear my thoughts but it still came to me, it was really fresh in my mind, I can even smell blood. I had that dream ever since I was six. There were times that I don't dream but whenever I sleep and had a dream, the same nightmare came to me.
I stood up from my bed and took my coat. I decided on taking a walk outside the house, maybe near the beach. The sun was not up yet and it was still dark outside. I don't fear the dark, nor dead bodies; in fact I don't know what scares me, except for that dream.
At the beach, I sat on a bench. I tried remembering what happened in my dream, all I can remember was that the room I was in was covered in blood, a little girl with a long black hair was covered in blood and even I was covered in blood. That dream was full of blood and somehow it made me thirsty. I looked up in the sky, still thinking of why is that dream always the dream I had and never changed. It did change before but it had gotten much worse… I was drinking the girl's blood and that made me not sleep for days.
I have this thought that I might be a vampire, I even searched for what characteristics does a vampire had. It made me look crazy. I haven't tried drinking blood before, and I haven't experience getting thirsty with blood. I can't turn into a bat, that's for sure. All I know is that I'm not human; I already knew that before the Tsukimori's adopted me. I can use magic which is not usual for an ordinary human and when I was young, before the Tsukimori family took me, I jumped from a roof of a second story building and had survived without any scratch. What am I really? A demon?
"Umm… Hello", I heard someone say, making me return back to reality. I looked at the person. She was wearing a jacket and underneath that was her night gown. Funny, we both are in our night clothes even when we're outside. She was the same girl I met at Seiso Music Academy.
I stared at her wondering what she was doing here. If I remember correctly, she said that no one cares about her, now I wonder why she said that.
"I'm sorry for earlier and thanks for waking me", she said in a low voice. I can't stop staring at her, there's something that she has that I can't pinpoint.
"Ah! Sorry… did I disturb you?", she asked. I shook my head. I patted the chair beside me motioning her to sit beside me. I don't know why though. She sat beside me and stared out on the sea. The sky was still dark and the street lights were the only lights that were on.
"It's very nice here at dark", she said. I closed my eyes and concentrated at my surroundings other than her. It was a bit chilly and it was quiet, the only sound you'll hear are the waves and some vehicles that are passing far away from the beach. I agree with her, even if it's a bit cold it's still calming to be here.
"Why are you here?", she asked me. She didn't look at me and continued to stare at the sea. I have no intention of answering her.
After a few minutes I felt my companion fell asleep, her head on my shoulder. I opened my eyes and she was really asleep. I don't know what to do and I want to go back home. Is it okay to let her sleep here? Of course not! I can't possibly leave a young maiden sleeping here on a bench, especially outside here in the public. After a few seconds of thinking, I have decided on taking her with me back home if she won't wake up. I tried waking her by patting her right shoulder but she said, "Five more minutes", and continued sleeping. That means I'll be taking her with me. I carried her, bridal style, which i think that was really awkward and took her back to the Tsukimori mansion.
At home, I took her to my room and laid her gently on my bed and covered her with a blanket to make sure she's warm. I can't believe myself for bringing a girl here in my room. I went out of my room and decided to go to the house's library and read some books since I can't go back to sleep.
~Morning~
"Yuu wake up! It's already morning", I heard mother knocked at my bedroom door then enter. Oh boy, I forgot about the girl in my room. I threw the book aside and started running towards my bedroom.
"Yuu?", mother's voice sounded surprised.
"Mother what's wrong?", I heard Len asked, probably beside mother now.
"Yuu turned into a girl", I heard mother say. What a weird thought, I nearly tripped. Why is it this house needs to be this big? I'm glad that I can hear them despite that their a bit far away.
By the time I reached my bedroom, mother, Len and father were inside staring at the girl. "I'll explain", I said at the door.
They all looked at me. "Yuu, you're acting vary weird these days", Len said, "First, acting cupid now taking a girl in your bedroom? What's next?". Yes, I feel like I'm acting weird for some reasons. I never concern myself with other people but now?
"Forget everything", I said and explained how she got here in the first place leaving the nightmare aside.
I looked at the wall clock and saw I have an hour left to prepare and go to Seiso University. I shooed them outside my room and start preparing myself forgetting the girl inside my room. Good thing there's a bathroom inside my room.
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