Sorry guys! I was really busy with homework and crossfire :P so yea... But heres the new chapter I hope you like it. :)
This is normal talk and this is a flashback or when Ritsu is thinking.
I took my time getting to the calendar hanging on the plain wall of my room. Tomorrow, huh?
I spun my head in every direction letting out a depressing sigh.
Well this is going to be a pain in the ass.
Everything was scattered. Clothes, Mangas even pieces of food. The only decent spot in the room was near the door, although, even it was filled with empty suitcases.
So I decided to gather all my clothes and neatly fold the ones I needed, putting them inside the suitcase. Finishing that, I quickly swept through my room with a wet cloth. Right when I was done, as if psychic the phone rang right away. I flipped it open and put my speaker towards my ear
" Hello?" I asked, not minding to check the caller's ID.
" And where might you be, Ritsu!" Mio gave out a yell which seemed like a roar, making me jump and pull the phone away from my ear. Gently putting it back I asked, "What are you talking about , Mio?"
" You do realize it has been 30 minutes that you're late," her voice carried a scolding tone from the other line, trying to keep herself calm.
I couldn't quite understand until the clock hanging opposite to the wall with the calendar came to my view. " Oh fuck!" my voice vibrated throughout my room.
" Don't tell me, you forgot," she plainly stated, as if expecting it.
" No, no, no! Of course not! Ugh-umm it was just I was cleaning and I slipped, and I lost my conscience and... my memory?" I nervously began to laugh while scratching the back of my head.
" You're so... you're just...ughh...you do realize the rest of us were here waiting for you for such a long time and - that's it were going without you, hmph."
" She...hung up," I gulped as I stared at my cell phone, completely blown away.
" Shit!" I began to quickly press the buttons on my cell after finally snapping back to reality. It took a few seconds before someone answered, and when they did I triumphantly yelled out, " Yui! Where are you guys at right now!"
" Ricchan? Oh were at the amusement park right now. Where are you?"
" I'm already dressed, so I'll be there in 20 minutes! Stall everyone!" I quickly shut my phone and dashed towards the door, cracking the wooden floor with the impact, hearing the squeaking noise of it travelling throughout the hallway.
It was finally summer, that hot indulging weather. A competition for many, actually. It sometimes gave you an impression as if you were in a stove, burning up.
So, since I wanted at least some wind blowing on my body, I only wore a T-shirt and shorts and my sneakers of course - I'd have to run as much as I could to get there as fast as possible.
I finally got there, sweat covering my face and body. As I hastily swung my hand towards my knees, and bended my back, I began to pant like a crazy dog. Hearing a familiar voice screaming my name from afar, I looked up, squinting one of my eyes.
" Ricchan, you finally came," Yui said while waving her arms back and forth," a little bit longer and I wouldn't have been able to stall."
" Hahaha, good job, I'm just happy you were able to stall for this long," I said while I stretched my back.
I finally cooled down and was able to get into an upright position. I put my arm around Yui for support and wobbled towards everybody. " Hey, your president is here."
Mio sighed in defeat, " I knew Yui was stalling for you. Why did I even bother?"
" Senpai..." Azusa sighed and walked away with Mio. Mugi joined up after giving me a courteous smile.
I leaned forward with Yui still in my arm and ran towards them, slowly loosening the grip from Yui, I wrapped my arm around Mio and put my face close to hers. " Hahaha, well you know how it is Mio, with all the moving." I gave her a pleading look.
" Oh stop it, Ritsu, you always do this. And especially when you're leaving..." Mio said while shoving my arm away, and I could almost feel a hint of pain in her voice. I left her for a moment, to rethink that what I had just done, was horrible. Mugi sensing my demise of the situation walked over and put a hand on my shoulder.
" Ricchan, don't feel too sad, Mio is just really sad that you didn't take this...last time- at least until you return- to meet with us more seriously."
" I know, Mugi, I know." I could only nod with seriousness in my eyes.
I began walking towards where Mio was with Mugi and that's when I noticed a stand with balloons. As if a light bulb appeared over my head, an idea sprung into my head. I quickly grabbed Mugi to my side and began to whisper into her ear. Not waiting for her to answer I sprinted towards the stand, setting up my plan with the owner. He took a large balloon from the back of his stand and gave it to me.
It sure was large, longer than my height, heck it was longer than my dad's height, and boy was he tall.
I ran towards an open zone in front of the Ferris wheel, the first roller coaster Mio wanted - more like pleaded to go to -and waited for them to reach the top.
Wait for it, wait, wait, go!
The balloon flew away from my hand as I released it up into the large atmosphere in above it, it was being caressed by the wind which was gently taking it to the top. I finally sighed as I saw Mugi did what I told her: she gave Mio awareness of the balloon by nudging her shoulder and pointing at it with her index finger.
Mio wasn't surprised at first, as her eyes weren't locked to the flying object, but as the purple balloon came to her view, her eyes widened. She stared at it and back to my smiling face. The angle I saw Mio at was slowly disappearing due to the movement of the Ferris wheel so I gave the balloon a last stare and ran towards Mio, I want to know what she would say about: " I'm sorry for being stupid."
I came towards her and tried to make eye contact. Not losing any second I asked hastily, "So? How was it?" I looked at her with enthusiasm.
She turned to face me. " Well the balloon does include facts about yourself." She smirked.
I started waving my hand viscously after I understood what she meant and in disagreement yelled, " Hey! That's... well practically not true." I just continued to blabber random things I didn't take record of until I finally said something that they took notice of, I held-up my hand and pointed towards the fastest and highest rollercoaster around.
"Let's go on that ride." My mouth hung open as I raised my head up in awe.
Mio's eye's widened and I could feel her shivering behind me. I forgot about her for a second there, but now I could sense her fear miles away. This will make the ride more tempting to go on. I sneered at her over my shoulder and turned to face her so my large grin was the only visible feature on my face. " Hehehehe, Mio~ let's take the first row for this ride."
" I-I most d-definitely w-wont," she stuttered while trying to give me a courageous look.
" Scared?" I asked in a teasing tone.
" I-I'm n-not I just don't w-want t-t-to."
" Hehehe, I kno-" Not allowing me to finish, Yui plunged her body on both of us and embraced us tightly with her two arms. Mio growled at her, while I laughed with Yui's words. " Awww, come on Mio-chan~ it will be fun."
Mugi joined in to cheer us on. "Mm," she nodded. " let's give it a try, Mio-chan."
" Mugi..." Mio's eyes sparkled.
" No, I'm with Mio-senpai on this one...maybe we shouldn't go." Azusa said from the sidelines while clenching her hands together.
As if snapping back to reality Mio agreed with Azusa, took her by the arm and rushed to get away from us. I marched behind them with Mugi and Yui as I sighed knowing my plan failed. But my grin came back as I saw a haunted house nearby, telling Yui to stall Azusa and telling Mugi to accompany me, I created a dominating master plan. My eyes gleamed as Mugi wondered what I had in mind.
" Ehm," I coughed from behind Mio to get her attention. " Let's go there, Mio." I looked towards the haunted house filled with spider webs, zombies, skeletons and for most - complete darkness.
" Don't even try, Rit-" Mio was suddenly interrupted by an exited Mugi. " We should all try going there, Mio-chan."
Good, good, Azusa is distracted by Yui now. And Mugi will surely have an impression on Mio. Hahaha, all that's left is...
" And if anything Ritsu-chan will protect you!"
"Hahaha, exa- wait what?" my eyes widened and I gave Mugi a surprised reaction.
That was unexpected. I thought to myself while scathing my cheek at the thought of... protecting Mio.
" You don't want to?" Mugi looked over her shoulder while winking, which slightly stunned me.
" I will, I will." My voice shouted cheerfully. My fist punching the air.
Mio pouted and looked at the haunted house again, her face filling with a creeped out expression.
" Fine... I'll go... but, were all going together, okay!"
" Without question." I smiled. " But, ugh Azusa and Yui went somewhere for now... so it will just be us three."
A sudden phone call came from Mugi's direction as we were closing distance with the haunted house. Creeped out like hell, Mio jumped up, clenching onto my T-shirt.
" Hahaha, it's okay, it's okay." I patted her head slowly, like comforting a little kid.
" Yes? Ahh, Alright I'll be there." And with that the conversation on her cell phone was over, after telling us that she had to leave because of an emergency, saying she will be there early in the morning at the airport to see me off, she was gone.
With a swish of the wind, I looked at Mio while continuing to smile. " Well, I mean it will be the two of us."
Mio looked up as if she was sick and looked at me with her half-opened eyes. "Marvellous."
" Oh, come on! I'm not gonna scare you." I puffed up my chest. " I'm gonna protect ya."
Her eyes narrowed. " I don't believe you."
" Gah." I touched my heart and looked at her with tearful eyes. " That hurts, Mio-sama."
" You're such a child..."
" I am not," I giggled and grabbed her hand, before she decided not to go.
We were finally in Mio's nightmare. There were so many noises: yelling, squeals, the funny thing was that Mio was the only person making them.
Man, sooo cute. I said as I stared at her flushed face with fear in her eyes. I better do something before she starts crying.
And I did. I wrapped my arm around her shoulder and placed her closer to me. Now the color of our cheeks matched. And not only was it more warmer, I couldn't even concentrate on the zombies popping out that tried to scare us out. All I felt was Mio, all I heard was Mio, all I could see was Mio.
We continued walking without talking to one another, and I noticed Mio stopped screaming, yet her glowing redness from her cheeks wasn't gone. And her eyes were averting mine the entire time.
Ahhh, I hope she's not mad at me.
My heart was throbbing and I couldn't manage to take a breath without that tight pain in my chest.
" A-are you okay?" I asked Mio.
" A-ah yeah. I am." she gave me a quick glance and went back to staring at darkness. But, what she didn't expect was that within the midst of darkness, there came a moving figure that made her jump right at me and scream. I was startled at first but than I began to chuckle. The silhouette shuddered from surprise and quickly merged into the dark shadows.
" Hahaha, Mio, maybe you should work at this place, you'll definitely scare people away." I continued to laugh.
" Oh shut up." She let go of my arm and walked away from me in a further distance.
We finally reached the exit and I slithered towards her.
" Aww, Mio... you know I was kidding." I began to get closer to her, trying to catch her palm.
" Geez, your hand is cold, you must have been really scared, ne?" I told her once I felt the sting of coldness running through my palm.
She didn't speak. " Aww, Mio... don't be mad."
She suddenly turned her eyes at me. Her look was so agonizing, so magical. I got Goosebumps and felt the chill on my skin. It made me want to talk to her kindly, almost in a whisper, to not break her gentle posture.
" It's not that." She bit her lip. " I- you are..." I felt that I couldn't interfere, I gave her time to continue.
"... Did you finish packing?"
" Yeah." I knew that wasn't what she wanted to ask, so I made my answer short, I wanted to hear her out.
" It's been so fast, hasn't it, Ritsu?"
" It has," I said while staring at her. " But," I continued while beginning to walk, " I made happy memories with you guys like I wanted to. New memories. Fun memories. I enjoyed every second I've been with you, Mio." I scratched my cheek not bothering to look back at her. " Hahaha, man, look at me talking as if I'll be dying in a few seconds. I said this many, many times, ne? I will be back in a year. So wait for-"
A sudden plunge from behind made my body vibrate. Her touch ran throughout my body. Mio leaned on my back, caressing her body against mine. " Mio..." I turned around and wrapped my arms around her. Maybe it was the setting sun that made her cheeks glow crimson red, but I didn't care. This moment was as magical as the red hot and glowing orange colors that saturated the atmosphere.
"... just a bit longer."
I closed my eyes. " Sure."
Taking in full breaths of Mio's scent. Having a secure feeling of her being within my grasp.
Ahhh it feels like I can just melt into this moment... I don't want it to be over... just a little longer, please.