Hey everyone...
So, I edited some stuff with this story especially with the pairing. I just realized that I sucked royally in the grammar and I didn't know then that the tense is supposed to be past tense.
I didn't edit everything, mind you. I'm a loyal slacker so I guess you could see that in the story. I think I started in chapter 2 with the major editing...
Anyway, I've written two new chapters after a very long hiatus (sorry i didn't warn any of the guys waiting for almost a year-major problems came up in my family and school). Second year high school was hectic in Phil-Sci. At least in my third year this year, it won't be so hectic.
I'm done with promising you guys for a certain time for my update. I'm done with breaking my promises. I can't even tell you guys how sorry I am.
Since those who had been waiting for this story to update probably got sick of waiting, I'm just going to say sorry and i hope you'll forgive me. To those who had been reading my stories and making Story Alerts and some even gave a few reviews, thanks a lot. I really appreciate it.
P.S. : This note is just going to repeat from the first chap until the 22nd chapter of my story.
Chapter 14 – The Disgusting "thing"
"Ugh," I groaned. I looked up at the person I bumped into and I swore I felt my body become cold. He was wearing a leather jacket and black slacks with a white polo underneath. His hair was the same as always and his crimson eyes were just mesmerizing as before. Now, those very eyes look surprised and now cold.
He offered me his hand and I grabbed it since I was still weak from the fall. He lifted me up and released my hand immediately as if it was a disease-infected thing or (insert twitching eye) the disease itself.
"Thanks," I muttered and quickly turned away to escape from the place. But, his voice stopped me.
"Are you in a hurry?" his voice demanded. "Equinox?"
Gah! Of all the days he had to go here, it's today! And most importantly, of all the disguises I could wear, it had to be Equinox!
I turned to look at him with an amused face.
"Are you turning holy, Natsume-san?" I countered and he only smirked.
"Not in a million years," he replied huskily. "But you didn't answer my question."
I rolled my eyes. "Not so much. But I only came here to light a candle and skedaddle to wherever our manager is holding our meeting." It's pretty easy to lie these days.
He only raised a perfect brow then smirked. "Good."
Oh, no. That does not sound good. I bet there's something going on in his player head.
"Want to walk with me?" he asked. "It's a nice weather outside."
Now what do I do? If I accepted, he'd probably get the info outta me (I took out the "crap" from Futon's words since I don't want to copy). But if I declined, he'd probably be more suspicious. Ugh, it's giving me a headache. Since I could lie perfectly (most of the time), I decided on the first one.
And what's with the proposal? Even though he's hiding it well, I could tell that he wants something from me that I'm sure as hell I'm not going to give easily.
"Sure," I said and walked out of the place with him by my side. Don't get me wrong, I'm still calculating my moves here.
As we exited the church, the morning breeze immediately whipped around me and I loved it. It's very refreshing to be out in the early morning.
Today was supposed to be random. I woke up this morning with a sudden urge to go to a chapel—the one in a cherry blossom park. I didn't know why but that chapel irked my memory. Now it just led me to the worst of the Dark Sky members.
We walked and walked and walked around the big park. We didn't mind being in public since the public wasn't here yet, so it's safe to walk around without worrying about the paparazzi. Apparently, this is all too sudden; Hyuuga taking me to a walk? Now what's in that brain of his right now…?
I cleared my throat. "Any particular reason for this walk?"
He shrugged. "Maybe…." He dragged the "maybe" meaning there was a reason. He stopped at a nearby bench and sat on it. His eyes told me that he wants me to sit on it, too. Ugh, what the heck is this guy thinking now? Fine, I went to the bench and sat on it but I sat as far as possible from him. I then decided to start a conversation.
"So," I started. "What brings you here? I mean, I would have imagined you to be snoring on your bed right now."
He looked at me with narrowed eyes and I gulped then turned my eyes to the other direction. Okay, so the almighty Natsume Hyuuga didn't snore.
"Okay, maybe not snoring," I mumbled.
He just put his fist below his chin and rested his elbow on his leg.
"I came here to pray something," he muttered. "How about you? I would have thought you already had zoomed to outer space to rock out."
It's my turn to narrow my eyes at him. "Ha ha, very funny."
"Nobody's laughing," he retorted.
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever, I just came here to visit. We're gonna get out of this place tomorrow early in the morning so don't worry about us getting the spotlight."
He looked at me with a raised brow. "You're one cocky girl."
"You're one annoying jerk," I retorted with a fake smile. He only smirked. After that, I stayed silent and just listened to Nature's sounds.
"There's a girl I know," he began to say. "And she's sorta like you."
Well that surprised me. I mean, Hyuuga plus a girl equals to nursery room.
"Oh," I said. "Can I meet her?"
He sighed before replying. "She's dead," he mumbled a bit coldly. That took me aback.
"That's why I come here," he continued and he lied back. "I prayed to see her again. But, the God I know has some twisted sense of humor." He grimaced and scoffed.
My eyebrows knitted together. "What do you mean? Did you get to see her in your dreams or something?"
He snorted. "That's not the only thing."
"Nightmares?"
He looked away and I only nodded understandingly but at the same time amusingly.
So the coldest person ever to walk the Earth has some crush on a girl who died. That's very cute in a way. But, it's also sad because maybe that's the reason why he's so cold and dead inside.
"What happened?" I felt the need to ask so I did.
"She got in a car accident when she was 8 and I was 9," he said simply. I felt my breathing stop. She's too young!
"It hit her hard," he continued. "It even threw her more than 5 feet."
"That's—" I tried to say but I couldn't. There's something in it that makes me want to cry.
"Awful isn't enough," he inserted. "I saw it all happen in front of me."
That was when I felt time stop. Natsume Hyuuga just had a terrible sight of a dying friend—a childhood friend for this matter!
"I-I'm sorry I asked," I murmured as I placed my hands on my lap. "I didn't know it had a terrible story."
He snorted as if it was nothing. "Don't be. I know she's now happy."
I only nodded silently.
"Now," he began tauntingly and I felt my previous feeling return. "Since she's sort of like you, tell me, do you think she'll like me?"
I gaped at his calm and bored face. "What are you asking me? Like I'd know what she's thinking?"
"Do you need some hearing aids or you're naturally smart?" he sarcastically replied.
I puffed a breath. "Fine. She won't because you're an arrogant jerk."
He only raised an eyebrow and looked away. "If that's how you think," I heard him mutter. His voice sounded sad for I bit there… Nah, just my imagination probably.
That's it; I've had it with this guy. He probably planned it all along to soften me up then go attack me like a bulls eye. I'm outta here.
"Since I have a meeting to go, I must hurry off," I said and started to stand up. But then again, he reached over and grabbed my wrist forcing me to sit down.
"What the heck is your problem, dude?" I yelled at him as I tried to pry his fingers off my hand.
He only smirked. "Now tell me, what is your real name?"
"Do I need to answer that?" I growled at him as I gave up knowing he won't let go.
"Every question has an answer," he quoted amusingly. I swear I saw his eyes had that irritating glint.
"Then my answer is that I don't give my answers to people who are jerks!" I yelled and he only stared back mockingly. He seemed to get more elated by this.
Hyuuga still held my hand like a handcuff so I just let him be. Since I didn't want to kick butt right now because I wasn't not in the mood, I just looked at my left where the cherry blossoms were filled with pink.
"I forgot to mention," he said. "You're formal today."
I looked at him angrily for half a second and looked at what I'm wearing: a white, long-sleeved cashmere sweater with a black, collared polo shirt inside, white slacks and black strappy flats.
"And what does that suppose to mean?" I snapped at him. "You think I'd wear a micro-mini-skirt and a tube? Or a ragged pair of dirty jeans and spaghetti strapped tank top? What do you think am I? One of your slutty images of a girl or those girls with no sense of fashion in the occasion?"
He smirked at me and pulled my wrist making me move closer to him. I know I could easily get out of his grip but Aniki's voice spoke to my head, "Don't show what your capable of unless in dire situation. Don't show off; it'll only be your downfall."
"No," he said. "I actually think you'd prefer those kinds of clothing knowing I'm here."
"Okay that's it!" my voice erupted, finally snapping. I used an escape method to slip my wrist out of his grip and ran away.
"No, wait!" He easily caught my wrist again. He pulled hard and I was forced to face him and fall since I slipped.
Then, -
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"What happened?" Anna asked. "Why'd you stop?"
"Yeah," Nonoko agreed. "To tell you the truth, it's getting juicy."
"You probably slapped him or punched him," Yuu guessed as he rubbed his chin. I love you, YUU!
Sumire gasped. "Or… you fell on his—ow!"
I flicked her forehead by reaching over the table before she could speak any further.
Hotaru only rolled her eyes. "Idiots."
They all turned to her and I glared at her telling her to keep quiet. "It takes one to know one," I quoted her darkly.
She ignored me anyway. "It's very obvious what happened," she muttered. Their faces are getting excited with the fact that's about to be blown.
"You. Kissed. Him," Hotaru syllabicated and my mouth fell in horror.
"That's not what happened!" I argued. But it's just plain darny because my voice sounds defensive to me.
"Then what happened?" she taunted and I shrunk in my seat as I mumbled, "Nothing."
She smirked in victory.
Okay, okay, she got me! Damn you, Hyuuga.
"I think Ice Queen just hit the bull's eye," Yuu said as he dug in his pancakes. Being the guy in the group, he didn't mind things like kisses. Probably.
Hotaru arched a brow. "I think you mean the jackpot," she corrected and I swear I saw her background turn into green with yellow money signs on it.
Money-loving, disgusting-crab-brain-eating, cruel friend, I thought before I felt a sharp pain on my head and my world became momentarily black.
"I could hear your thoughts," she snapped as she blew off the smoke emitting from the gun and dug in her bacon and eggs. As my vision cleared, I saw crab legs on her plate. What kind of addiction is that?
Then, her mouth full of breakfast, Permy held up both her hands like a traffic enforcer.
"Back chu da tupic," she tried to say and swallowed swiftly.
"Mikan, Mikan," she continued while clicking her tongue. "What happened could be easily forgotten. But you should have told us—moi—that you just had your first—"
I cut her off. "I get it. I don't wanna be rude, Permy, but really, I don't want to hear one of the taboos in my life." I shuddered for emphasis.
She only sighed with an amused expression. "I knew you'd say that. So… what're you going to do now?" she asked and inserted a forked-up bacon to her mouth.
I mimicked her actions with the final piece of my egg. "Stay away from him, blackmail him, turn his life into miserable hell, or in short, how about I just kill him here and now?" I growled as I chewed my poor eggs to mush.
Anna and Nonoko giggled at some joke I didn't hear but I was sure it was about the topic, Yuu only chuckled as he finished the last of his Milo, and Permy just shook her head with a sly smile on. Hotaru, being Hotaru, just read the newspaper since she was already finished with her breakfast.
Then, out of nowhere, she tossed the newspaper with a thud and took out a strange device. It has a cylinder-like shape that could fit easily to someone's pocket. On top of it was a bulb-like glass and below it was seven buttons. There is a green, circular button, a red circular button, blue triangular buttons facing upward and downward, white, triangular buttons arranged exactly like the blue buttons, and a violet button shaped into a P.
We watched in amazement as she pushed the red circle button and a laser scanner appeared out of the bulb-like glass. She slowly ran it up and down an article and turned the laser scanner off.
She sighed before explaining our silent questions. "The Scanner."
"Used for scanning and previewing later," she continued in the same stoic voice. "The green button is for preview, the red button is for scan, the blue buttons are for zooming, the white buttons are for scrolling the memory, and the P is for picture. It could take pictures of your last scanned object and put it for safe-keeping. It also has a touch-screen feature if you're too lazy to push a button. If you want one, it's only for three hundred thousand Yen. Very cheap."
Remember watching those anime shows? Those scenes when the cartoons have a comical sweat drop off their head? We don't know what they felt but I'm pretty sure we're going to need the sweat-drop moment.
Yuu was the first one to recover. "And for what reason are you showing it?"
"There's an article I want all of you to read," she replied. "Rather than cram yourselves in the event of reading the newspaper itself. It's a sickening picture," she added when she saw our disbelieving faces.
Typical Hotaru.
She pushed the green button and out came the article.
STAR NEWS: THE JUICY OUTBREAK
Band-beauty seen with Mr. Adonis
(Picture underneath shows Equinox, guitarist and singer of Blue Moon, with Tsubasa Andou, Top Model of All-Time after last night's concert in the Konja Bar)
Yes, you've seen it, alright, ladies and gentlemen. Our own Japan's Beauty just got caught with Tsubasa Andou, the hottest (by far) guy in the whole world! Our reporter also said that Dark Sky attended the Blue Moon's concert! Natsume Hyuuga, the fiery hot leader of Dark Sky, is said to have his eyes on Equinox! But don't get too jumpy there, folks, because after the concert, Equinox ran into the arms of someone anonymous. It turns out to be Tsubasa Andou who disguised himself to be able to watch the concert without getting trampled by Mr. Adonis-crazy fans. (Picture underneath with Equinox hugging Tsubasa with Natsume)
Oooh, that's going to be one of the sweetest things I've ever seen. Anyways, if Natsume Hyuuga INDEED had his eyes on the prize, well, sorry to say Mr. Hottie, dear Equinox has grown up and taken. But may the best man win, eh?
Another report said that Band-girl was already hooked-up with Mr. Adonis even before the concert! Is it hidden for personal reasons? Or did they just want to get to know each other without interference? Well the latter reason is already out because we'll be watching these two lovebirds out.
We hope to get more of the Juicy Outbreak.
-Cool Blue Sky-
I swore my mouth hanged open like a Venus Flytrap.
Oh no…
Hotaru clicked her tongue. "Oh yes," she said before smirking. "I wonder how Hyuuga's going to react with this…"
Again, I say, oh no…