Chapter Six
It was lunch time and Shizuo, Shinra and Noelle are all up on the roof, enjoying their bento and listening to each other's aimless conversations. For a surprise, Noelle made a boxed lunch for Shizuo, who accepted it with a blush on his face, barely muttering the words of gratitude. It was simply delicious; the taste brought back the memories of eating together with Kasuka. The brunette was happy that he liked it, no scratch that, he loved it! While the potential doctor whined to them why wasn't he given a boxed lunch too, Shizuo did his routine every day at lunch: staring at her while drinking milk. It wasn't creepy in a way; he just wanted to observe her. She never ceased to amaze him and she always did a good job in balancing school life and her social life. In fact, in his mind, she's perfect in every way.
"Are you going to participate in Culture festival, Noelle-chan?" Shinra attentively asked the brunette, who sunny smiled him. "Yes of course! I love those cosplay cafes. It will be wonderful!" She sighed happily, dreamily gazing at the sky.
"Cosplay café? Oh, you mean those maid cafes right?" Suddenly Shinra grinned at Shizuo. "Shizuo! Since our class is gonna be a café, I think Noelle-chan would want to dress up as a maid!" At this, the blonde choked in his milk as his face began to brighten itself red. The thought of Noelle in a maid outfit will be so…
"Ohayo goshujin sama!"
Standing before him is the human doll, Noelle, in a maid uniform. The color in his cheeks raised the magnitude tenfold.
"Would you like to be spoon fed, goshujin sama?"
Before he knew it, she's sitting on his lap, too, very too close for comfort, spoon and bowl of something in her hands. She's smiling as she dipped her spoon to get a sample. "Say aaahh!" She cooed as he automatically opened his mouth, just as the sexy maid stuffed it in. Her whole body rested against his, he could feel her chest bulging from her uniform…
"A-ano… You have some rice on your lip. I'll lick it for you."
Oh, so it was rice porridge, wait, what-?!
She reached up from her spot, legs between his as she neared her face. Her tongue lightly glazed over the spot near his lips, until he felt his arms wrapping on her tiny yet slim waist, and was actually craving for a kiss, a deep, passionate ki-
"What the hell am I thinking?!"
The two snapped as Shizuo suddenly got up and banged his head to the concrete ground. "Shizu-chan!" Noelle scrambled from her seat and kneeled before him, trying to get a good look at him. Shinra, too, bounded to him and tried to check his friends. "What on earth were you doing? You gave us a fright..!" Panting, Shizuo let out deep breaths and felt something thick trickle down his face. His eyes widened at the sight of blood, oozing slowly yet surely from a deep wood cut open from his forehead. Hearing his raging breaths and seeing the scarlet liquid drip from his head, the brunette slowly backed away, her eyes bulging from her sockets.
"B-blood… S-S-Shinra! We need t-to take him to the c-clinic!" She said hurriedly, looking scared all of a sudden. Shinra helped Shizuo up and issued him to go to the nurse's office. But the blonde didn't move. His coffee brown eyes were transfixed on Noelle's green ones. "Shizuo! You need to go-!" Shinra tried to usher him but he shook his hand away and neared the girl. He kneeled down so they could be on the same level and threw his arms around her petite body. He could feel her tense up but she hugged him back.
"Are you scared of blood..?" He whispered to her very softly so that she could only hear. He felt her nodding reluctantly.
"I'm afraid… I don't want you to get hurt…" His shoulder moistened as Noelle brought up fresh tears. "I don't want to be away from you…"
Shizuo said nothing, only listening to the muffled sounds of her crying. Gently he pulled her up to her feet and smiled ruefully.
"I'm not going anywhere."
The only sound left is the school bell, ringing nonstop, for the end of lunch break.