Naraku No Hana

Chapter 6: Together Again

"So many fears were swimming around and around in my mind,
Who would have dreamed the secrets we would find/
I've found a world where love and dreams and darkness all collide,
Maybe this time we can leave our broken world behind/"

-Evanescence "Together Again"

This update has been inspired by my three loyal readers TheGirlWhoQuestionsSleep, Hartfairy, and my good friend MissPhantomAndErik'sGirl. You guys have been a great encouragement to me with your continued support of me and the other story I've written. Without further ado, TO THE STORY!

I headed back home after I had a row with the dumb digital clock in my office back at Nerve. I clutched in my hands a small bag of make-up that I'd gotten from a nearby Sephora store during my lunch break. (Really, you do NOT want any chapter coverage on that little visit.) I'd never really put on make-up before, so I got as little as possible to the store clerk's disappointment.

Anyway, I headed to the bathroom and followed the directions on the back of the packaging, putting on as little as I possibly could. When I had finished, you could barely even tell a difference than when I'd gone in there. 'Waaaaaaste of money...' I thought grimly.

'Oh, shush, now,' started Malice 'You've done a LOVELY job. Just look how beautiful you are.'

'Quit trying to butter me up.' I started, 'I know what you're trying to do. Not going to happen.'

Malice growled and I swore I could hear someone stomping towards the bowels of the house. (Hehe... bowels... o3o). Anyway, I grabbed the hair bands from the counter and did my hair up in two low pigtails, kind of like I started doing when I was 15, and looked to the clock...

I gasped, it was five till seven, I only had a little more than half an hour to get to the mall food court (Not to eat, of course, to meet up with Nny).

I grabbed my small purse only containing my wallet and cheap cell phone, which buzzed. I was puzzled; my phone had never made that noise before. I took it out and the little screen was all lit up with a small orange envelope, writing beneath it reading new text message.

I opened it, and it said "Just leaving house now. Will meet you on the way out. J.C'. Funny thing is, I didn't know what to do next. I just walked out of the door since I figured it was easier than messing with an overpriced gadget. I walked a little ways out, looking at the prickly, gnarled bushes the owners obviously hadn't been taking care of. Goosebumps sprung up on my skin as a light breeze blew past me, shaking them too. Something shined dimly beneath the one on the right. I looked at it with interest, what could it be?

"Jenny! Hi!" Johnny said happily.

I looked up from my curiosity point to see him. It looked like he'd tried to fix his appearance just the slightest bit. His hair was much less unkempt than it usually was, and his shirt was a little less stained than his others were, and it looks like he'd at least taken a nap. He was also smiling really widely, so wide it was almost hurting my teeth. "So, are you ready?" He asked.

I smiled and nodded, off we went.

After a showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, we somehow ended up on a hill, sitting on top of a car that was abandoned there. We looked down at the city, honestly, from that height; it looked like a huge amount of different colored fireflies all gathered in cleaver randomness. We were still a bit giggly from the movie (if you've ever seen it, congratulations, you are now officially cool by MissMewRingo standards.), and were still sitting there cracking jokes like stupid teenagers.

The topic was: (drum roll please) Stupid People Aka "Here's your sign" stuff (Bill Engvall +500 cool points if you know who he is) "Yea, like the other day when I got my phone, the bag is still in my hand, some guy asked," Nny put on a fake, dumb sounding country accent, " 'you jus buy that there phone?'" He giggled a little before switching to his regular one, "I said, 'Nope! Just stole it, the bag went with it!' HERE'S YOUR SIGN."

I was laughing so hard at that point (believe me, we had been listening to other comedians on the car's radio, so we were already laughing, one joke from Nny wasn't going to make me go nuts.) And I just had to open up about my trip to the store and I did pick up this product, because I didn't know what it was, "I saw this tube of Preparation H and it says in bold letters Do not apply this orally. Can you imagine the letter they got?"

This time, Nny was the one laughing in tears "Like, 'Dear Preparation H, I ate this WHOLE, DANG TUBE, and I've still got these Hemorrhoids! Man, my mouth's so small... I can't eat a jellybean any more! But I can whistle really good!'."

"Nice one!" Nny said happily

"Ha-ha! +500 points for poor grammar! And another 500 if the audience is laughing as well!"

"What?" he asked

"Oh, nothing. It's another joke."

"Then if they're checking their inbox for this and enjoying it as much as we are, they must be pretty awesome."

"Yea..." I said, smiling really stupidly.

Brief Intermission...

MissMewRingo would like to apologize for the poor fourth wall jokes and for taking one of mister Engvall's jokes and writing it out verbatim. I need something to fill up space, so there it was. I am sorry, now please continue on reading.

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"So...there's... um, something I want to say..." Nny began shyly.

"What?" I asked, moving closer.

He blushed really really hard, "Well, um, I'm having a hard time finding the words... I've been wanting to see you again for a long time and I always thought it was just for apologies sake... but now I'm thinking that there's another reason. I'm not too sure what it is. God, what do I say, I mean... You are Beautiful..."

I'm sure I looked like someone dunked a bucket of deep red paint all over my face by that point. Me? ME, beautiful? I couldn't believe what he was saying.

"I... I'm happy right now. Good lord, you've made me happy!" He exclaimed.

"Well, I think we can both be happy." I said, smiling widely.

What happened next was marked down then as the happiest moment in my life so far! (I mean, when you get a doll house for Christmas when you're six, that's heaven.) We were just leaning forward towards each other, and then, it happened so fast, my hand slipped, and that resulted in a full-on KISS!

If you've had your first kiss, you know what I'm talking about... If you haven't and you than here's the feeling as best as I can put it in words. When it's happening, you feel nothing until two seconds after you split up, then you just feel all this warm happiness inside you that just HAS to come out. That's how it went for me. Johnny was just staring into my eyes, and they were about the size of dinner plates. We were just stuck there for what felt like an eternity until we both just parted.

"Well,... are you happy?" He asked, blushing.

I nodded, afraid to speak, "You?" I asked breathless. He nodded too.

I waved to him from my front porch, we'd been silent the whole way home. As I looked over my shoulder I could swear he was skipping home. I giggled to myself, and went inside. Then I was starting to think, Maybe everything I know is a lie...