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When Five Fell:
Kaien's story
I met her in our digital art class. I needed the class to help me sharpen up on my digital art skills. She was the teacher's assistant and I was just a student.
Apparently, she had taken the class last year and the teacher loved her so much, and she didn't have any other options so she just took the assistant position.
When I first looked at her, I knew she was the one, the one to become my new project for my photography class.
My photography teacher said to pick a subject and take pictures of it for thirty days and to assemble a portfolio of said subject. A person, place, thing, etc. it didn't matter to my teacher.
I remember asking her if I could take photos of her, to which she happily agreed. I guess that's when my infatuation started with her.
I smile as my finger presses down gently on the capture button of my camera; we're at the Karakura mall and she's doing different poses while standing on the fountain's rim. She's laughing the whole time, which makes me content, knowing I can make her smile.
"Alright beautiful," I start as I capture my almost forty fifth shot of her today, "Ten more shots and we're done." She knew I had to take a large amount of photos every time, and she would just sit there, look pretty, and do what she needed to do.
I take the last shot I need for today and she hops off the fountain rim, her white skirt flowing up a little bit as she lands gracefully on the ground.
She walks up towards me and tugs on my shirt, almost as if she were a little kid.
"Kaien, I'm hungry, let's go get food!" She asks and I smile as I ruffle her hair and we walk together to a little ice cream store, her favorite ice cream store.
We look at the big menu and I nudge her side.
"What does my little model want today?" I ask and she rolls her eyes, but I can tell she's amused.
"I want vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry." She comments and I shoot a death glare at her which makes her smirk.
"Choose one flavor; I don't have all the money in the world to spend on ice cream for you." I growl and she arches a brow and crosses her arms on the chest. But I know secretly, I'd spend all of my money on her if I could.
"Unless you want your model to quit on you right now, you're going to buy me the ice cream, because we both know that if I leave now, you're going to get a big fat F on your collage." Rukia blackmails and I snarl at her as I order what she wants and she just hums happily as I order my ice cream cone.
"You're lucky I brought enough money to satisfy you." I gripe and she smiles as she takes her cone and starts working her tongue over it.
"It was only five dollars for both of us, you're such a cheapskate." She comments as we sit down and I start slowly on my cone.
"Whatever, for Saturday, the Karakura beach at Sunset, I heard is absolutely gorgeous, we should go for your next shoot." I suggest for our next shoot. We meet on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Even so, we still see each other about every other day during the week due to our class in Digital art.
"What should I wear for our next shoot?" She asks me as she drags her tongue across the chocolate and it makes a heavy imprint.
"It doesn't really matter to me as long as we get good photos." I reply and she just smiles. Her pink lips lightly sucking on the strawberry flavor, I finished my cone by then, she was almost done with hers.
I examined how she ate the cone; I wondered what she would taste like if I kissed her now? I know I can't, she probably doesn't feel the same. I'm enticed by everything she does. I lift my camera and take a couple of photos of her eating her ice cream. I don't know why, but I feel like every time I press the capture button, I feel like she knows exactly what to do.
I look at my watch and I see its 3 P.M. it's almost time for her to go away, once again away from my grasp, and also, another day where I don't confess my growing feelings for her.
"Oh, it's almost 3!" She comments as she flips out her phone and I narrow my eyes at the Chappy chain on her phone. I know who got it for her, stupid Abarai, everybody knows that he's in and has been in love with her for the longest time. He's her best friend though, been sticking by each other's side since five I think.
I'm surprised she doesn't know that he's in love with her, but that's just her I guess.
Her phone rings and I see an unfamiliar number on her screen and she picks it up excitedly. She talks for a bit and then hangs up.
"I've got to go Kaien." She says cheerily and I get up as well and I shuffle for my car keys.
"I'll take you home." I offer as I always do, and she always accepts.
"Oh you don't have to, someone's picking me up." She says, I stare at her with widened eyes, she always goes home after our shoot, and now she's going to somewhere else? I feel my heart kind of dying as I realize she won't be sitting my passenger seat today.
"Oh really now, who's picking you up, your brother?" Her brother would probably never pick her up in a million years, he's always busy she says. So who could it be?
"It's just a friend." She says and I smile at her gently as we walk outside to the Karakura Mall Parking Lot and we wait on the side of the road.
"You don't have to stay here and wait with me." She says as she tugs on my arm, I look at her and shoot her a smile.
"Nah, it's okay, I want to make sure you're safe." I say as we both sit down on the sidewalk, our feet against the heated red line that had the inscription of No Parking.
"So, is the beach on Saturday okay for our next photo shoot?" I ask her and she smiles at me and nods.
"Of course it is. What time will you pick me up?" She asks me and I smile coyly at her.
"The usual time." I respond and soon a nice, red looking car pulls up and she smoothes her dress out and waves bye to me as she gets up. The window rolls down and I see him.
Kurosaki Ichigo.
I saw her get into his car and then they smoothly pulled out of the parking lot, I looked at my camera and sighed as I got up.
-Saturday-
I watched her pink lips envelop around the green straw in her Starbuck's drink. I narrow my eyes, I know that stupid Hitsugaya punk bought it for her, like he loyally has been for the past couple of months, I know he's in love with her too. Yet, I can't blame them; she is a pretty amazing girl.
Her light aquamarine dress gently wraps around her thin knees and her shapely thighs.
"It's almost sunset." I say out of the comfortable silence that wraps around us. She smiles as she perches herself on top of a large boulder. Her veinte Starbuck's cup right besides her and I can practically smell the peppermint off of her lips. Wrapping an arm around her right leg, she tilts her head and smiles.
"Are we going to start now?" She asks me as I see the sun slowly drifting into the horizon and I nod as I lift up the camera around my neck.
"Ready my little model?" I ask her and she gives me a crude, manicure, middle finger before we both laugh.
We shot on that boulder for a while before I look at the sun and realize the lighting was perfect. I told her to stand on the sand with her shoes off and to begin posing. I loved the way her feet had a light dusting of sand on them, how the light sea breeze whipped her hair and her dress back, and the lighting made her eyes shine like stars.
It was perfect, and I found myself secretly wishing to kiss her right now. It'd be the perfect moment too, in the sunset.
Her phone rings, which ruins my fantasy of kissing her right.
"Hello?" She answers, and before I know it, she holds up her index finger, telling me to wait, and that's what I do, it's what I've been doing. It seems natural to wait for her now.
"Oh, I'm at the beach, with Kaien." She stops and pauses, her frown turning into a grin. "You're jealous aren't you?" She laughs into the phone and I arch a thin black brow. I wondered if she knew that my aqua colored eyes were dilated on her.
I look down at her arm and see a familiar leather bracelet attached on her wrist. That bracelet was from me, she liked it so much that I gave it to her. That bracelet was really special to me; it was the bracelet my grandmother gave me right before she died. My grandfather gave her that bracelet when they got married.
She flips her phone shut and she looks at me with eyes gleamed with happiness.
"I have to go now Kaien." She says quietly to me and I pretend I'm looking through the pictures we got today.
"Do you need a ride home?" I ask her as I gently release my camera and I feel it hitting me in the chest slightly.
"Yeah, I do, would you be okay giving me one?" She asks me with her gloss lips smiling at me and I smirk as I walk towards her and hook an arm around her shoulders as we walk off. Yet, I still don't feel her holding onto my hand with hers. Her hands were preoccupied with her phone.
-Next Wednesday-
I sighed as I readjusted the drape over my camera as I took a picture of her. It was Wednesday, and it was raining pretty bad today, and she happens to love rain, and so do I. We thought it would be the perfect scenery.
Her pale hands gently gripped the handle of a clear plastic umbrella that had bunny ears, and little bunny designs on it. Her eyes were looking down on the wet ground beneath her black ballet flats. Her skinny jeans gently outlining her perfect and slim waist, the royal navy blue v-neck she had on conformed to her curves, and the light brown leather jacket she had on kept her warm.
I asked her to just do whatever she felt like doing, which she had always done on the photo shoots, and everything just seemed natural to her.
As the quiet click of my camera button went off as I took yet another photo of her, she changed poses and I was attentive on catching all of them.
I ran a hand through my somewhat damp black hair and I heard her cell phone ring again and she looked at me and I nodded, letting her know it was okay to pick it up. I scrolled through my photos and deleted all of my blurry ones of her. Shifting my black umbrella handle to fit snugly against my body and my elbow. She was talking to him again and she was laughing with him.
I knew this would be the last Wednesday I'd have with her. It was almost nearing two weeks before my project was due, and we both knew that I had enough photos to make the album.
On this Saturday, we were going to go to the bridge and take a picture there to finish off everything.
She snapped her phone shut and she walked towards me and she gently shook her umbrella so that all of the water snapped away. She closed her umbrella and she stuck her hands in her pockets.
"So, are we done for the day?" She asked and I had finished unbolting my camera stand and I began putting away the equipment.
"Yep, do you want me to drive you home now?" I asked as I wrapped up my camera and put it in the bag I brought with me.
"Not today, someone's picking me up." She responds as a couple of stray drops of rain hit her hair as she runs a hand through them.
"Going out for a date?" I tease as I grin, but secretly, I'm hoping she isn't. I don't want her to go out with anybody; I want her to be mine. I was planning on confessing too her soon. She chuckled as she rolled her eyes.
"I might be, it's just lunch." She responds and I hike up my bag as I smile at her. But on the inside, I'm dying that someone else got to her first, and I know who it is.
"Come on, I'll wait for him with you." I say as I hold out my hand, wondering if she would take it, but instead, she lowers it and smiles at it.
"Come on, let's go then." She says as she walks alongside me, with a bright smile on her face.
All I could think about how rejected I felt.
-One week later-
I finished laminating the last page of her album and I sighed as I leaned back on my bed headboard and I looked at her face. I sighed as I looked at my clock miserably and looked around my room.
My room had been scattered with pictures of her and I got off of my bed and felt my feet hit the carpet of my room. I put my hands on my hips and I flip back to the front of the book and I realize I never took a cover photo for her.
I sighed again, knowing it was hopeless. I didn't have any way to contact her except for calling her, but I knew it was hard for her to pick up nowadays. She ended up dropping out my class a couple of days ago, saying that she'd like to have a little more time on her hands to rest, but I knew it was a lie. She was trying as much time to spend with Ichigo Kurosaki, the boy I hated so much.
Now, because we didn't see each other for photo shoots, I had no excuse to talk to her, but maybe the cover photo would be okay.
I grab my camera and I grab my backpack as I head out for school.
I get to school and I see her standing in the parking lot. She's wearing an off the shoulder top with black shorts. I walk towards her and right before I can yell out for her. I see her prop herself on top of a familiar red colored car. She's sitting on the hood of the car and she was leaning back, almost as if she was posing. My eyes scanned around and I felt my heart sink in a little bit.
Ichigo Kurosaki had one eye opened as he took a photo of her and he smiled as he dropped the camera around his neck and went up to her. He planted his hands on her sides and he leaned in. They exchanged words and soon their lips met, her arms wound around his neck as she deepened the kiss. Her smooth pale legs wrapped around his waist loosely as they broke apart and he touched her lips with his thumb. I was about to turn on my heel until she saw me.
"Kaien!" She yelled as she waved me over and I put on a fake smile once again as I go over and she smiles at me.
"Kaien, this is my boyfriend, Ichigo." She chirps excitingly and me and Ichigo exchange a fierce glare before we gentle up our expressions and shake hands.
"When did this happen?" I ask and she looks at me with those big smoldering eyes that I fell in love with.
"It happened about three days ago." She tells me as their hands intertwine and I feel jealousy wash over me.
"I see," I start, when all I feel like doing is screaming out that I love her, and she should've been with me, not him. Instead, I smile, "I need one last picture for the cover." I say as I hand the finished album and she peruses towards the first three pages and then closes it.
"Okay then, just take it now, I need to go to class." She tells me as Ichigo backs away and I put my camera to my face and I smile at her. "Ready?" I ask and she gets into a pose, I feel sorrow burst into my body as I press the capture button, all ounces of happiness gone. I fake a smile as I look at the perfect picture. "I'll see you around?" I ask and she nods.
"Definitely, bye Kaien, it was fun working with you." She says gently as she hops off of Ichigo's car and lunges into his arms as they laugh and kiss each other. I look away and walk in another direction.
-One week later-
I stood by my teacher as he flipped through my album.
"This is impressive Kaien, it's your best work, and these are magnificent." He points out as he looks through it. I look at all of the photos and sadness fills my eyes.
"Thank you." I say politely and curtly and the teacher just keeps on going at them.
"These are intimate frames, is she your girlfriend?" He asks and I look away and I flip open my phone to see her on my wallpaper.
"No," I start and the teacher shoots me a curious brow and I look at the door where I see her and Ichigo walking by and they laugh. "I wish she was though." I say sadly and the teacher closes the book and hands it back to me. I take it with regret and still looking at the now empty hall way.
Author's note; I'm so tired, I couldn't wait to get this finished! Thank you guys for reading this, and I think this will be my longest one for a while and I thank you guys for reviewing this! So, I'm really tired, I started school and it's okay, so I guess updates will be coming in REALLY late than they used to be.
So I'm going to shower, and go off to bed. Goodbye everybody!
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