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Tsuikiko feels a hot ache in the back of her throat. She wants to cry, but that means that she'll lose to him and that's the last thing that she will allow. She still out of breath from the assault. She stops running when she makes it outside. The cool air ripples her dress around her. She sits on the steps of Tora's school and pushes her whispies behind her ears. "Oh god," she sighs. She runs her hands over and over her collarbones and bites her lip. She can feel the moisture travel to her eyelashes, but refuses to let them flow. She was going to leave this ball with one thing; dignity. She pushes herself of the stairs and tugs off her shoes. She smoothens out her dress and begins the long walk home. 'Igarashi does not have the capability to weaken me,' she tells herself.
She hears honking behind her and jumps. She yelps in shock. "What?!"
A white BMW pulls up beside her. She finds herself go into fight-or-flight mode. 'If that's Igarashi, I'm plunging this heel into his eyes,' she thinks to herself. The window rolls down after an agonizing second and Raito looks up at her.
"Raito?" She relaxes.
"Why are you walking home? The ball isn't over." His voice holds concern and worry.
"Uh," she swallows, "I'm just…tired." She fakes a smiles and hides the heels behind her back.
"C'mon, Tsuikiko." He pats the seat beside him and pulls the handle so the door cracks open.
Tora said those words to her, only with command. Raito was practically asking her the favor. He wanted to drive her home and spend at least a little more of this night together. He spoke the words with a softness that Tora could never muster and she found her breath hitch.
She smiled at his kindness, "Thank you, Raito."
She pulls open the door and sits in the seat Raito made for her. She looks over at him, but finds him looking out the window. She cocks her head to the side. One of his elbows are propped on the armrest with his hand covering his mouth. The other is wrapped around his torso like a glove.
"Raito?" She scoots a bit closer to him and he scoots further away.
"Please, d-don't look at me," his voice pleads. His whole face is bright red and is burning up. The blood is boiling under his skin and flinches when she runs a hand through his hair. She giggles a small sound and returns to her normal positions and looks out her window.
Raito loses oxygen as he sees the girl's face illuminated my the moon. Her sharp features are smoother in the light and her hair looks like a dark shade of blue. Her dress is now teal and hands are folded over her tiny lap. A smile plays along her lips as she thinks about the boy sitting next to her, unaware that he's staring. He resists the urge to brush his hand across her cheek and release her hair from her twist. He ruffles a hand through his hair and sinks back into his seat and shakes his head with a grin
Tsuikiko's place isn't very far from the school, but the drive seems like a lifetime with the tension in the air. They pul up to the curb of one of the side entrances and Raito lets out an inhale he has been holding. "I'll walk you to you're apartment."
She looks down at her fiddling fingers and nods. She takes her clutch from beside her and Raito jumps from his seat to open her door for her. He offers a hand which she politely takes. He doesn't let go of her hand until they're standing on the doorstep.
"Um, thank you for the ride." Tsuikiko rocks back and forth on her heels.
"N-no problem." He can't make eye contact or else he'll blush.
She rummages around her clutch before pulling out her set of keys. She looks at him with a shy smile and pushes open the door to the dark home. She starts stepping inside, but turns around to face Raito. With speed, she gently pulls on his tie and gives him a kiss on the cheek. She releases immediately and takes safety by binding behind the door with her head peeking out.
"Thank you, Raito."
Raito's face flushes a deep shade of crimson and gives a small wave of two fingers, standing still, shocked. Her dimples flash and she slowly shuts the door.
"Why did I do that?" She grumbles, sliding down the door.
The next morning hold the same routine: get dressed, ride to school, avoid Tora, go to class. The first class has just ended and Tsukiko slams her textbooks closed. Tsuikiko remains in her seat for a while contemplating on last nights event. She slowly raises her head. "I need caffeine."
She pushes out of her chair exits school.
The cafe is small, clean, and modern. "I'll have a vanilla latte, please." She orders her drinks and melts into the upholstery. She pulls her phone from her bag and checks the time. A message was waiting for her. Igarashi. She buries her phone back into its pocket and takes deep breathes. The waitress carefully places her mug on the table and bids a hurried goodbye. The door of the cafe swings open and Tsuikiko's eyes flick over. A tall blonde girl struts in and removes her sunglasses.
'Don't I go to school with her?' Tsuikiko thinks to herself.
She shrugs and pays closer attention to the scolding liquid her mouth.
"Excuse me, but may I sit with you?"
Tsuikiko raises her eyes. The girl is standing above her with a gentle smile.
"Uh, yeah. Sure…" Tsuikiko places her mug down and cautiously watches the girl make her way to the seat across.'
The strange girl holds her head on her chin and smiles at Tsuikiko, saying nothing.
Tsuikiko blinks uncomfortably. "…can I help you with anything."
"Nothing in particular." The girl continues smiling.
Tsuikiko squirms under the stare. 'Another creep?' She thinks to herself.
"It seems you don't recognize me?" The girl cocks her head to the side and pouts.
"I'm afraid not." Tsuikiko says.
"Rain. International pop star, commercial model, main character on Nothing's Alright, face of Truly Cosmetics?!"
"Oh, I just thought your locker may have been close to mine." Tsuikiko twiddles her thumbs awkwardly.
Rain stared at the girl, amazed. The first thought that ran through her mind is that she might have not been the girl she's been looking for and turned out to be some homeless girl, the second thought was her fame was starting to decline, and the third was that this girl was plain stupid. "Tsuikiko, right?"
"Yeah."
"You're different than the other girls Tora's screwed with," Rain explains with that same smile.
"If you're here to ask me about that asshole, then ask a member of his fan club." Tsuikiko gets up and throws a couple of bills on the table.
"Well, it seems you're in no mood to talk about escaping his grasps, but whatever. See you on Monday." Rain laughs and leaves before Tsuikiko can barely mouth what the fuck.
More boring weeks of school pass and the school gathers in the gym. There has just been an announcement for a mandatory assembly. Tsuikiko sits in a seat next to a large, dark, tanned, and quiet boy. He reminds her of herself somehow. She never sees him speak to anyone and has never raised his hand. Really, he hasn't talked at all. She has no idea what he sound like either. He had at least a good foot on her and she craned her head up to watch his upcoming reaction. She elbowed him. "Do you know what this is about?"
The boy looks down at Tsuikiko realizing she's talking to him. She resembles a puppy with her eyes staring up at him.
The boy cleared his throat. "I don't know." He said it in a manner to let her know not to talk to him.
They were both silent with the noise of the rich kids making it comfortable. She felt the silence grow sharper and elbowed him again. "By the way, what's your name?"
The boy stared and stared. Tsuikiko kept her eyes on him, forcing him to answer.
"…Shidehara." He sighed and crossed his arms.
A couple of seconds went by and Tsuikiko started up again, "And the rest?"
Annoyed he clicked his tongue and faced his whole body toward her, placings his elbows on his knees, leaning forward. "Shidehara Genji."
Tsuikiko prepared to offer him her name, but Satan appeared on stage. Numerous cheers from the crowd erupted and she growled in her mouth. She bit her lip and felt the urges of stabbing someone rush through her.
"Thank you all for appearing today. As you all know, I am Igarashi Tora, school president," he paused for effect, giving cue to clap, "I am here to announce exciting news for the upcoming school year."
Tsuikiko's ears perked up and she sunk back in her chair.
"We usually go to Chubu for a camping trip, but not this year." The crowd leaned in toward the speaker. "This year we are going to Okinawa for a whole week."
The whole gym screamed and girls already were pulling for their roommates. Tsuikiko rubbed her temples.
"This trip is for all third years and," his eyes scanned the gym, finding Tsuikiko," select second years."
A chill ran down Tsuikiko's spine. She began to think of all the nasty activities that Tora would set up for the trip, but smiled. This trip was not required. She could opt out of it. She could spend the week in normal second year classes and make friends without Tora bothering her. This was perfect.
"This is also worth some class credit. Those who are not to attend will most likely have their grade dropped."
Her mouth dropped up. Since when have field trips been mandatory?
A hand tapped her shoulder. "You going?"
She looked up and saw Genji.
"Of course. It's worth credit," she said through gritted teeth.
Genji pulled his hand back slowly and watching her out of the corner of his eye.
A.N.
I'm so sorry that I've been away for basically a month. School started up again it was extremely stressful. I haven't posted on any of my other stories either, so I also apologize if you read those too. I hope your enjoyed this extremely short chapter and like the new character. There isn't much we know about him yet, but I have things in mind ;) Message or review me suggestions to how I should make his character. The original way I wanted to make him was kind of like a less dominate Tora, but that would be too similar. Is there a new love triangle? Square, perhaps? New Chapter should be up by next week cause I'm working on it. Write a review on what you thought and follow for more updates. Love you guys for sticking around!
~Luna Restings