I have stopped because it was fun lol stop write in situations like this ( ^_^ ) But well, here's the officially encounter/meeting/talk/ (Choose one^^) Between Anthy and Utena^^ I know, my writing still bad as aways, but I still learning^^
Chapter 5: Suicide attempt
Anthy then looks back to were she have came, and seeing nobody that was there, she slowly places her hands on the barrier, and after to remove both the shoes that she used, the girl of green eyes then moves away the dress and goes up, jumping for the other side placing her feet in the tip of the hull, while her hands held in the white barrier. Anthy then inclines her body forward. Just release her hands from the metal and a step in the invisible, would be the end of all her suffering.
"Don't do this!" A feminine voice said.
When quickly she looked at her back, Anthy comes across with a taller girl, probably much more taller than herself, with a white skin that because of the cold night, became completely of pale color. Her hair was short with a pink tone that if was another color, probably the girl with green eyes would have confused her to be a boy. Her eyes were clear and deep of a beautiful blue color, that in some way, they were familiar. Anthy then remembers the girl who she had seen during that afternoon. Utena approached cautiously to the young woman with green eyes, looking to not scare her so that an accident would not happen.
"Go away!" Anthy said firm and in an authoritarian tone that made Utena stopped to walk in her direction. "Don't come closer!"
"Come on! Give me your hand and I will push you back here!" Utena said cautiously, starting once more to walk slower to the girl with dark skin.
"NO! Stay there! I'm serious! I will let go." After that, Utena stopped walking, and after some seconds thinking, she held old piece of paper in her hands and showed that she would trash it in the water. Making this, Utena slowly came close to the barrier, still, some few steps away from the other girl.
"Don't jump." Utena said again while she looked at Anthy direct in her eyes before then looks at the night sea.
"What do you mean Don't jump.?" Anthy asked while she looked at the girl with blue eyes. "Don't think that you can tell me what or not to do! You don't know me!"
"Well... You should already have jumped." Utena smirked.
"Go away! You are distracting me." Anthy said while she came back to look at the water.
"I can't. Now I'm already involved." Utena said while she supported her back on the barrier and started to remove her coat and her boots… "If you let go the barrier, I will have to jump too to catch you."
"Don't be ridiculous." Anthy said while she seemed to think about something, before turning her face once more towards the pink-haired girl. "You would die."
"I swim well." Utena answers smiling while she finished to remove her boots.
"The fall would kill you." Anthy insists while she divided her attention between the sea and the other girl.
"It would hurt, but it would not kill me." Utena said, finally looking at Anthy that had her head towards the sea. "To say the truth, I am more worried because of the water, is very cold."
Utena then started to remove a second coat that she was dressing, being now only with one simple dark blue jacket. Anthy observes then, her eyes showed an internal conflict with her desire to jump in the sea and what Utena have said, what made with that the girl of blue eyes smirk. Anthy finally then asked.
"Very cold?"
"Freezing, perhaps 2º Celsius." Utena answered while she turned around and supported her arms in the barrier, too looking at the sea. "You… You already have been in Wisconsin?"
"What?" Anthy asked, confused for the question.
"The winter is very cold there. I grew there, close to Chippewa Falls. I remember that when I was just a child, my best friend Kei and I, during the winters, we went to fish in the ice on the Wissota Lake." Utena said while a simple smile appeared in her face, when some memories from her past started to pass on her mind. "You knows, ice fishing is when…"
"I know what ice fishing is!" Anthy said without patience, don't understanding very well how the subject of her suicide comes to stop in this point.
"Sorry." Utena said, looking at the girl with green eyes. "Is that you don't seem to be the type of a adventurer girl. At last, I fall in the fine ice, and I know what I say, freezing water, as the water of the sea of this night, it is like a million of swords entering in your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. At least nothing beyond the pain.
Utena said while she closed her eyes for some seconds, remembering the ice accident, when then she finally opened them and once more looked at the sea. Anthy was with her green eyes on Utena, thinking if she really should try to commit suicide in this way.
"That's why I don't want to jump in the water behind you." Utena finally says, this time, her blue eyes had stopped on the green eyes. " But as I have said, I don't have choice. Just hoping that you will think again about it, and you will pass the barrier and come back inside of the ship in security, releasing me of this responsibility."
"You are a insane person." Anthy finally said, looking again at the dark sea.
"Everyone says that, but with all the respect, Miss…" Utena said while she walked calmly and stopped on Anthy' side, without making movements that showed intentions to pulls the girl back to the inside of the ship. "… It's not me who wants to jump from the ship."
Utena said while gently she pulls one of her hands towards Anthy and lightly touched one hand of the girl with dark skin, without any brusque gesture.
"Come on! Give me your hand. You don't want to do this." Utena said calmly and with an extreme patience, while Anthy slowly looked at the taller girl with uncertainty in her eyes.
After some seconds Anthy finally frees one of her hands from the barrier and reached for Utena's pale hand, who held it firmly. Slowly, Anthy turned her feet and then, turned her body around, facing the taller girl who takes her other and starts to help the girl with dark skin to scale once more the barrier.
"My name is Utena Tenjou."
"Anthy Himemiya Ohtori." The other girl said and Utena smiled.
"I have to ask you to write this for me." Anthy laughs while she looked in Utena's blue eyes, and with the distraction, her foot slides from the barrier and Anthy then falls from the ship.
"UTENA!" Anthy screamed, and then the strong arms of the girl with blue eyes take both of her wrists, preventing the girl with green eyes from falling in the sea.
"I caught you! Come!" Utena said while she tried to pull Anthy on inside of the ship quickly.
"HELP! PLEASE! HELP ME!" Anthy screamed again in panic, unconsciously attracting the attention of sailors and employers of the ship that were close to the place.
"Himemiya! I caught you! I will don't let you go! Now, tries to go up and return to the ship!" Utena said and Anthy then sees an incredible determination in the blue eyes, and immediately Anthy puts her trust in the taller girl who she had knew for just a few minutes.
In determined moment, Utena supported one of her feet in the barrier and with a push she brings Anthy up, and hugging the girl with green eyes, Utena pushed her own body back, bringing the girl with dark skin once more inside to the ship. However Utena lost her balance, and the two of them falls on the ground, the taller girl in Anthy's top.
Utena had her face so close to Anthy's form that any movement from both of the girls, they lips could be touched. Anthy could feel the wires of pink hair that falls Utena's head and gently stroked the dark skin of her own face. Her green eyes were fixed in the blue eyes on her front. The pale figure of Utena during the cold night became so unreal that makes Anthy unconsciously raises her hand to stroke that unreal face. However she stops when Utena moves away when the sounds of steps could be heard in the place.
"What the…" One of the sailors murmured when he sees the scene. He observed the trembling form of Anthy that looked at him like if she was frightened, and the parts of clothes that Utena had removed and trashed in diverse corners of the place.
Utena stands up on her feet again, however not fast enough to escape from the sailors that had immediately held her in a brusque form, moving the girl with blue eyes away from Anthy that at the moment was helped to stand on her feet for another officer.
"This is unacceptable!" One of the officers said while one man was arresting Utena that only remained quiet, rolling her eyes and looking at Anthy that had a blanket covering her body while other man was giving something warm to her to drink.
Soon more people had appeared in the place, two officers of the ship with the figures of Akio Himemiya Ohtori and Saionji Kyouichi. Akio observed the scene while Saionji pushed the officer that was with Anthy, hugging her.
"But what happened here?" Akio asks while he approached to his sister side.
"He was trying to rape the young woman!" An officer said while he pointed to Utena and then to Anthy, shocking to all everyone, but more the two girls.
"'I'M WHAT?" Utena cried out, her wide and shocked eyes looked at the officer who had finished to speak, and then she looked at herself, dressed in man clothes, whispering. "Oh shit…"
"YOU! How do you DARE to put your dirty hands on MY fiancé?!" Saionji said fuming while he looked at girl like if she was an insect that should be quickly killed. "Look at me while I am talking with you, trash!"
"Saionji…" Anthy whispered, trying to stop the man who brusquely interrogated Utena, however her voice leaves extremely low.
"What where you doing! ANSWER ME!" Saionji asks one more time, and seeing that he would not receive a reply, he raised his hand to slap the young "man", but Anthy's voice stops him.
"Saionji stop!" Anthy said more firmly while she rushed to Utena's side. "It was an accident!"
"An accident?!" Saionji asked sarcastic.
"Yes! A stupid decision, in truth!" Anthy said smiling while Utena looked at her confused. "I was inclining to see the ship helices and I fall. Tenjou saved me, pulling me inside of the ship before something bad could have happened, almost falling together with me also."
Saionji then, even not very convinced for history, smiled and looked at the others.
"She only wanted to see the helices." Saionji said and Utena looked at Anthy with thankful eyes.
"As I said, women and machines do not join." One of the officers of the ship spoke.
"Then the young "man" is a hero! Very well my son!" Another officer said and Anthy smiles, continuing.
"And still, this in case could not be considered as a rape, right Tenjou?" Anthy said while she observed amused to Utena that then smirked. "After all, SHE is a GIRL."
"GIRL?!" Shocked eyes then turned towards Utena, observing the figure with blue eyes with more caution until then gasps could have been heard between all. Utena only rolled her eyes while she said low.
"Of course I am. Why would I want to rape a girl if I am already one?" The officer next to Utena then freed the pink-haired girl wrists.
"Then this is completely a great mistake." Akio said, coming close to Utena "I apologize for our so fast reactions about your person, Miss…?"
"Utena Tenjou…" The girl answered quiet and then another officer approached.
"But at last… Now that everything is fine again, why don't we come back to the hall and to the wine?"
"Yes, let's go back!" The others had agreed and then they had started to move away from the pale feminine figure that started to pick up her clothes from the ground.
"Let's too go back inside, you are freezing!" Saionji said while he pushed Anthy to the entrance of one hall.
"Perhaps something for the girl?" The officer said for Saionji that stopped and looked at Utena already fully dressed. He and Akio approached to her and Anthy's brother said.
"We really feel sorry about everything, and are thankful for what you did to my sister." Akio said while he takes an amount of money from his pocket and offered to Utena. "I ask you to accepted this."
"Thank you, but I refuse. Just be able to see the lady safe is already sufficient. If you excuse-me now, good night gentlemen." Utena said while she looked one more time to Anthy and starts to walk to her cabin.
"Mrs. Tenjou." Akio voice sounded again and Utena turned to look at him. "Perhaps you can join to us for the supper tomorrow night. I ask to, at least, let us have the honor to have your company and talk about your heroic act between us."
Utena was surprised by the invitation coming from the high society, as soon as the girl just stood, looking at them while they waited for a reply. Utena then looked at Anthy who were too with her green eyes on her, strangely hopeful as if they also waited a positive reply.
"Alright, thank you… " Utena answered and Akio smiled. Such a strange smile that make Utena look at him cautiously, thinking. "What is he planning?"
"Excellent! Is combined!" Akio then turned toward Saionji and Anthy. The man with green hair had a mad smile in his face.
"This will be interesting." Anthy hears the commentary and after look at Utena one more time, she left the place followed by all of people in there. Utena remained quite in her place for during some minutes, looking at the nocturne sky before then finally she decided to come back to her cabin.