Shizuku's POV:
"Please forgive me Daisuke..." I said, mainly to myself, seeing that he wasn't able to hear me. As I ripped the blankets off of him, but to on avail, he didn't budge, just as I expected, but that's why I had come up with another method to wake him up after his somewhat endless slumber.
I took the cold cloth that I was holding, and removed the ice cube that I was keeping in there. With one hand, I held the back of the sleeping Dai's shirt, and with the other hand, dropped the ice down his shirt. As soon as I did, ducked down to the floor, as if I was setting off a bomb.
Within a matter of seconds, he shot out of bed with a shocked expression on his face, and started looking around the room. At that point, I lifted my head up from the floor, and he automatically spotted me. Although, he didn't look as angry that I thought he would be. It was more like he was very confused... And just kept staring at me until he reached down his shirt and pulled out a slightly melted ice cube that I recently put in there.
"Good morning!" I said sheepishly, before fully standing up and on an instinct, smoothed out the skirt that I was wearing. And suddenly, I found the sight of my black snow boots very interesting. Or, I was just kind of nervous of what Dai's reaction would be on my strange method for waking him up.
"Shizuku...?" He said hesitantly, which caused me to look back up with a stupid smile on my face. "Is there any reason why you put ice down my back?" He asked very calmly, before finally climbing out of bed.
"Well... ummm... you weren't waking up... and breakfast already started a couple minutes ago..." I told him, and he started scratching his head in embarrassment, although I don't know why.
"You didn't have to wake me up... I mean, if you hungry, you could have gone down without me."
"What? Oh, I couldn't do that..." I told him, "Because honestly, I couldn't care less about breakfast, although I thought it might bother you if you missed a meal..." Which was true, because the way I was raised, there wasn't much food around, so I never needed much to eat.
"Okay, but still, couldn't you have at least done something a little less drastic that putting ice down my back?" He asked, and I shook my head no, seeing that I had already tried every other trick that I knew. Which mainly just involved shaking him, and screaming very loudly, although I don't think other people would have appreciated hearing a girl scream at her room mate at 7 in the morning.
"How about you go get changed, and I'll wait in the hall outside the room." I told him, and he nodded in response.
A few minutes of standing in the hall later...
"Alright, I'm ready!" Daisuke said after emerging from the room, and I just smiled as we walked down to breakfast together. And in a chance of conversation, I told him how I was trying to wake him up for about ten minutes before I was resorted to using the ice.
"Oh really? Wow, I don't know why I was so tired..." He told me, followed by a half-hearted laugh, and I couldn't held myself from giggling as well.
"I don't know, maybe Dark transformed last night and made your body really tired..." I joked, although, as soon as I said that, his smile faded, and he looked more serious. Did I say something wrong?
"Now that you mention it, Dark did say something about transforming last night, although I had no idea what he did..." And at that moment, we had arrived in the small dining hall that the school had reserved just for the students. I was actually kind of glad, because this gave the both of us a reason to drop the recent subject. And in front of the dining area, there were two people waiting for us.
"Well you two sure are late this morning... Just what exactly were you doing up there?" Riku teased, although I thought it was best if Daisuke answered instead of me, because I wasn't completely sure if she was joking or not.
"Oh, I just overslept, and Shizuku was waiting for me. Riku, Satoshi, were you two waiting for us?" He asked, addressing the two of them who just nodded. And it wasn't long until Riku pulled Daisuke to their own table, which left me standing awkwardly with Satoshi, until he took my hand and led me over to another empty table, where I sat down with him.
"Do you want anything? Because I can go and get it for you." He asked me, but I just barely shook my head, since I really didn't feel the least bit hungry.
"I'm just going to get some water..." I told him, and I started to get up, but he quickly sat me back down, and gave me a look that said, 'I'll get it for you', so I reluctantly stayed at the table when he went over to the spread out on the other side of the room. I thought it was really kind of him to get it for me, although I don't see what was the big deal about me getting up to get my own glass of water.
"Shizuku, I have a question..." I heard someone ask me from behind, and when I turned around, I saw a somewhat concerned Risa staring me down. She quickly took Satoshi's seat and looked at me worriedly, and I waited to hear her question. "So, what's going on between you and Satoshi? Are you two dating or something?" She asked me, and for a second, I just stared at her with slightly shocked eyes, and I felt a bit of warmth rise to my cheeks. I coughed a little bit, but answered her just the same.
"Um, I-I'm not sure what gave you that intention, but no, we aren't dating..." I managed to choke out, but she didn't seem very convinced, and after what seemed like forever of her just staring at me with my still slightly shocked expression, her face lit up and she started squealing in what seemed to be delight. What is going on?
"You like him, don't you!" She silently screamed, slamming her hands on the table which gave me the most confused and slightly embarrassed look that I've ever had in my life. It's not like she had said it loud enough for anyone else to hear, but it was still enough to make me slightly fluster.
"W-What are you talking about?" I asked, probably sounding quite scared, because I really was. Because I have been able to observe in the time I have been here, Risa can tend to be a bit... how would I put it? Over dramatic about matters, and that kind of over excitement did not settle very well with me, and it sort of made me feel uneasy.
"You know what, I bet the two of you make a super cute couple!"
"Risa please..." I tried to persuade her, but her mind was set up in this fantasy that I couldn't interupt.
"The two of you aren't very social, but that just means you are more meant for each other! Like Mr. Dark and I will be together some day!" Oh, there she goes again, at least maybe she will go on a rant abnout Phantom Dark instead, because I really wouldn't want to hear much more about "me and Satoshi" as she was calling it.
"I know! After breakfast, you are going to come shopping with me, Riku, adn Ayumi! it will be fun! And I'll help give you a whole new look!"
"I'm not sure I want a new look..." I told her blandly, but of course she wasn't listening to me, and then she went around the table and hugged me, which really made me tense up, it was just a small one around my shoulders, and she was still giggling. It felt really wierd with her hugging me out of nowhere, but I took a deep breath and realized that it wasn't too bad.
"See you later!" She squealed once again, and ran in a different direction, and passed Satoshi, who was walking back here with a tray, and stopped for a split second to watch the running away Risa.
"Was there anything that she wanted?" He asked me as he sat down, and handed me a glass of water, I was about to answer but then he also handed me a plate that contained half a waffel.
"I told you, I really didn't want anything. I wasn't really hungry..."
"You should eat something, it's not healthy if you don't." I could see his point, but I was about to protest back, "Anyway, have you seen the waffels? There is no possible way I could be able to finish one." He said with a slight smile, so I thought it would be best to just eat it.
"I'm only eating this because I want to!" I retorted, and tore a small piece of it off with my fork, and stuffed it into my mouth. I hardly doubted that I would eat more than half of it, because to me, having breakfast in the morning just seems so... strange. But I heard a faint noise of chuckling from Satoshi, before he bit into his own half. "What's so funny?" I asked him inbetween small bites that I ripped with my fork, and he gave me a type of mischievious smirk.
"I don't see why you have to be so defensive all the time." He told me, and for some unknown reason, I felt the smallest amount of heat rise to my cheeks, and I looked down at my plate, avoiding eye contact. And as I stared down at that white plate and munched on pieces of dough, what Risa was saying before kept replaying over and over in my head. I had convinced myself that I liked Satoshi, because no other answer seemed to fit on how I was feeling about him. It was queer to describe an unknown feeling as love, but whenevr he held me close, I always knew that I didn't want him to let go. And even if I just thought about it, my heart was throbing inside my chest, and I felt afraid that he could possibly hear my heart beat, although the thought would seem highly unlikely.
"Shizuku, I was wondering... If you would be interested in visiting some of the local museums today with Daisuke and myself." Satoshi suddenly asked me, and I started t feel bad that Risa had already decided that i would spend a day with her and the other girls. Mainly because I wanted so very much to walk through the museums with the two of them.
A commitment is a commitment, whether spoken or silent... I told myself, because I was very tempted to tell Risa that I had other plans and couldn't go, but then again, she did ask me first...
"I-I'm sorry Satoshi, but Risa already asked me to spend the day with her." I told him, and looked back down at the plate, which still held about three fourths of the so-called breakfast, and it was then when I finally decided that I couldn't eat another bite of it. I felt a certain sickness in my stomach, although I knew it wasn't just from eating food, because I knew that i probably just let Satoshi down.
"Oh, that's alright. I understand how Risa can be, we can do it another time this week." When he said that, I had a sudden urge to smile, and I was about to tell him how I was grateful, but there always had to be something standing in my way...
"Shizuku, let's get going!" I heard Risa say before she started to practically drag me along with her, and I was just barely able to tell Satoshi goodbye before she pulled me out of the hotel and over to where Riku and Ayumi were already standing.
"Hey Shizuku, so you're joining us today?" Riku asked me, and I nodded, ad at which point I was able to break the grasp that Risa had placed around my right arm. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot.
Risa's POV:
I could barely believe that Shizuku agreed to come along with us after all, and I couldn't wait to go and take her shopping! I remember on her first day that we went to the mall, but all she did was look at a book store. And now, I had a chance to help her, and I was going to take it! Because I wanted to be happy like I am with Mr. Dark, after all, Riku seems to like her, so why shouldn't I?
"Okay! First of all, we are all going to a dress store! I mean, at the end of the week there is that big dance right?" I said, and the three of them agreed. I saw Shizuku pull out a tourist map and started looking for the nearest store. Within a matter of seconds, she pointed in a single direction, and the rest of us followed her. After a couple of blocks, we arrived at a nice little boutique, and I decided that this would do.
I'm not sure how much time we spent there, but it seemed like hours. It was a lot of fun to go shopping with other people once in a while. Ayumi and Riku used most of their time pointing out rediculous looking dresses to make fun of them and laughed. I was mostly looking for my own dress, even though I wasn't sure if I would even go to the dance or not. It would be kind of embarrassing to show up without a date, and the only guy I would want to go with would be Mr. Dark, although I don't even think that he knows that I'm here.
During shopping, I took a quick glance at Shizuku, who was just quietly looking through the racks, looking a dress for about 5 seconds, then moving on to the next one. She didn't really seem enthusiastic, but she was smiling most of the time, so that's good I guess.
For most of the day, we traveled to a bunch of different stores, but in the end, none of us bought a thing. It wasn't really a successful shopping day, but it was still fun none the less, and I'm almost certain that everyone had a good time.
"Hey, how about we head back to the hotel? It's really freezing out here..." Riku sugguested, and the three of us quickly agreed, but after about ten steps, I heard Shizuku gasp, we all turned to her, and she looked like she was frantically searching her pockets.
"Sorry, I think I left something in the last store, I'll be right back, but can you guys wait over there?" She asked, and was pointing to a part of the mountain's edge that was guarded by a railing. I nodded in response, and she ran back from the way we came.
The three of us left rushed over to the side of the cliff, and our boots crunched in the snow that covered the ground. The sun was starting to set, and we all had to admit that it looked really pretty, and it was nice that is was just us girls, and I didn't even see anyone else around. But it was a really nice feeling just standing there, and I think we did just stay in that same spot for about five minutes while we waited for Shizuku to come back.
I started to hear footsteps behind us, so I turned around because I thought it would be Shizuku, but instead it was some guys would looked like they were in their early twenties or something. I don't know if it was the way they were smiling, or how Riku was glaring, but just those guys coming near us gave me an uneasy feeling.
"Hey, you girls look like you're from outta town... How'd you like to spend some time with a couple of locals?" One of them said, while the other put his arms around Ayumi's and my shoulders, and we both squealed in fear. The guy's breath smelled like he had just gotten out of a bar, and he didn't really feel like he would be letting the two of us go anytime soon. The other one was walking up to Riku, who was telling him off, and screaming at him how the two of them should leave us alone, although I don't think he was listening to a word she was saying, and kept walking closer to her.
I was really scared, and Mr. Dark is still in Azumano, he wouldn't be able to save us, although I knew if he were here, I just knew he would rescue us. But suddenly, I heard the guy that was holding Ayumi and I groan, and he let us go, holding his head in pain. When I looked behind him, I saw Shizuku with a snowball in her hand, and she chucked it at him, this time hitting him square in the face, and he fell to the ground.
"You two should go get help..." She said, refering to me and Ayumi, and the two of us started to run, although I felt as the other guy roughly grabbed my arm.
"Where do you think you're go-" He didn't finish his sentence as Riku threw a snowball this time, hitting him on the back, and as soon as his grip lossened, I ran. I don't know what told me which direction to run, but Ayumi and I ran as fast as we could, and when we got near the museum, the two of us couldn't believe our luck, as we saw Daisuke and Satoshi there. By the time we got near them, the two of them were looking at us weird, as I tried to tell them what happened.
"Riku and Shizuku... I think they're in trouble!" Ayumi said before I could manage to. And I swear, I had never seen the two of them run so fast, Satoshi getting farther than Daisuke, but it also make me think at the same time... Does Satoshi like Shizuku?
Shizuku POV:
The guy that Riku hit with a snowball got up, and watched Risa run away. And when he looked back at Riku, I swear I knew that kind of rage, I had seen it before with my father. It was the kind of firey eyes that he always shot and me right before he would hit me, or worse.
I could of called it paranoid, or perhaps an instinct that I had, but I felt that he was hiding something in his pocket, the same pocket that he had reached into as he started to walk towards Riku. I felt scared, and although she didn't look like it, I could tell that she was too.
My body started working on its own, and before I knew it, I was running over to her, and pushed her out of the way as the guy pulled the switch kinfe out and sliced my arm instead of Riku.
I felt the pain in an instant, and fell onto the snow with a thud, as a worried Riku was hovering over me. Unlike myself, she was crying, as I held my wound, as crimson blood poured out of it, the deep gash starting to numb out into extreme pain. I wanted to cry with her, but I couldn't, the pain couldn't make me shead tears. The snow around me was quickly turning from white to red as Riku started sobbing, and I was burying my face in the ice to try and ignore my arm, but I was losing blood too fast, and too much of it.
I heard Riku saying my name, but she sounded so distant, and I gripped onto the cut more as the blood poured out, and I did the only thing I thought would be right. I smiled at her, because I had a feeling she wanted that, and I knew that it could be very possible that I would die on this very spot. I mean, accidents kill people, like my father when he crashed the car when I was with him. It would have been right if I had died right along side him, but I had lived for another four years, and that seemed like enough for me.
I was starting to pass out, although I wanted to spend just a little more time with my friends, because I had given up the hope of living, because I could tell that my blood wouldn't stop running out, that was why Father never gave me large cuts, because he wanted me to live. But this time, it was too much, I was going to die, and I was glad that I could save Riku, and I was lucky to have so many friends, and even what I had called a crush.
And as I looked though my eyes for what I believed would be my last time, I could have sworn I saw a flash of blue.
A/N: Okay, first of all, I really hope you guys could review, because my friend says that my writing is too long and boring for anyone to pay attention to, that and she said that she could get more reviews than me because her story is better than mine, and I want to prove her wrong. DX And yay for summer! Expect updates~ :D