Ok, this chapter was getting wayyyy too long, even longer than it currently is, so I decided to split it up and break it into two (or maybe three) chapters. Also, I've focused too much attention on Takuya and Izumi and I want to give some attention to the others as well, so Takuya's plan would be put into action in the next chapter or two. Sorry -_-'
My OC's were starting to look like cardboard, so I threw in a flashback within a flashback of one of them. Warning: That flashback contains serious PG stuff. Not any lemon though, I don't like lemons so I refrain from writing any as well and neither do I want to change the rating of this story. But if you get uncomfortable, skip that part.
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Chapter 6:
Heart Broken in a Flash
Takuya
17th April 2008, Thursday
Nakatsumaki (the 11th graders), Ise section:
Ok, things are going very much weirder than expected. My plans keep backfiring on my butt. If I carry on like this, JP and Zoë will become the next Romeo and Juliet, without the dying part, and it'll be all thanks to me.
I have to think of something. I do have a new plan, but for that I'll need the help of Joanne, and I'm not keen on doing that. But I fear to approach the ex Warrior of Fear. As always I'd have to tolerate thousands of questions thrown at my face, most of them useless. I swear, she was less annoying back at the Island of the Lost Digimon when she started that Great War.
Maybe I can get Myakka also, but for some reason, Zoë gets pissed off when she sees any of us asking her for help when we already have her. Her words not mine.
Luckily, I had seen Jo sitting with Kōichi in the break, who just now happened to be sitting right beside me. I can catch her after school if I want.
I'll have to catch Kōji. Because I don't really want to approach Joanne and her endless probing. But then again I also don't want to ask Kōji of all people for help. I figure something just has to give.
I tap Kōichi's shoulder. He looks up at me, annoyed, as if I had just disturbed him making love or something. I can't believe kids like Kōichi even exist, who actually LISTEN to the teacher droning on and on and copy notes.
Thank goodness he doesn't actually force me to sit in the front row with him anymore, like that time in seventh grade when his glasses had broken and had taken an entire WEEK to fix. Those so weren't good days, as I actually had to WORK then. The only times I'm forced to move to the front row is when the teacher is forced to move me.
"What is it?" Kōichi asks.
"I was just wondering… Are you and your brother free today?"
"Oh no, we're busy, we have an appointment with the Legendary Warriors to fight the Royal Knights along with them this afternoon. Of course we're free dumbass."
Jee. Why does he have to get this pissed? And dumbass again. I can't say I'm not used to this, but I STILL hate Kōji for making me known as "dumbass" in the entire frikkin SCHOOL.
And it's not like he doesn't already know whatever it is the teacher's even blabbering on about!
"Ok, then I'm coming over."
Guess I should back up Kōji anyway. I already have somewhat of a plan in my mind, even if it's not as good as my previous ones.
"Since when have I ever stopped you from coming over Takuya? You're confusing me with my gay twin again."
"Believe me; I'm NOT confusing you both. And he's NOT my gay partner." Sheesh, I'm forced to clear this up EVERY time but at least Kōichi could cut me some slack, but nooooo! People actually think he's NICE when he's so NOT. No wonder he gets all the girls.
K.I.L.L.S Corridor:
Just as Kōichi and I were waiting for Kōji to join us outside the school after his kendo practice, I saw Joanne leaving with Li. I figured it was a do or die thing. If I keep thinking about it, I might never get it done.
"Hey. Jo!" I called out. For the fun of it, I'll keep tabs of the number of questions she asks and prove my point of how annoying Jo is. I'll bet with myself. If her number of questions will be less than 10 in the five minutes I'll be holding her up, I'll kiss Kōji. (We're NOT gay partners. At least I'M not even gay.)
She and Li both turn to look and come join us.
"Hey Kōichi," they both call. Joanne has this wicked grin on her face which was really annoying Li for some reason. She pushes Jo forward and she stumbles towards me.
"Yeah, what's up Takki boy?" Question no: 1
Did I mention I hate the name Takki boy too? Sheesh, what is with everyone deliberately ignoring my likes and dislikes and spoiling my name with Takki boy or dumbass or whatever?
"I have a kind of favour to ask you," I say, leading her away from the two of them.
"What kind of favour?" Question no: 2
"Well, I'm working on this poetry for my English assignment, and…"
"What's the topic?" Question no: 3
"I'm getting to that. You see, it has to be a Shakespearean poem and I need to get a theme and everything and I'm not really good at the romantic stuff."
"What do you have in mind?" Question no: 4
"I just told you, I have no idea."
"Why don't you actually get a head start on your homework for once?" Question no: 5
She also has the habit of acting like a stuffy know-it-all sometimes. It's coz she remembers stuff which happened such a long time ago, she'll shove it down your throat when you try to argue with her or try to prove her wrong. And notice she hasn't once replied like a normal person. Since she's Joanne, it's more than a force of habit of hers to reply to a question with a question of her own. Not to mention a stupid question.
"I actually am getting one," I reply patiently, because seriously, we've had a whole lot of practice dealing with her and I certainly don't want to get in an argument with her.
"Shakespeare didn't write only romantic stuff. Why does it have to be only romantic?" Question no: 6
"Because, I figured that's not what most guys will be writing, and…"
"And so you want your work to be a bit different. Cool. So where do I come in?" Question no: 7
"Well, like I said, I'm not really good at the romantic stuff, so I want your help in composing a poem which isn't too cheesy that it'll make me a laughingstock in front of the guy community."
I already am, all thanks to Kōji (it's ALWAYS Kōji) but she doesn't need to know that. And it's not like the guy community would even know anything about it.
"And I know that you aren't good at the romantic stuff as well, but you're into writing, and I don't want to ask Li either, coz she'll blurt it out to the whole group, especially Zoë."
"Why would you want to hide it especially from Zoë?" She says suspiciously. Great. Leave it up to her to evolve from annoying times 10 to annoying times 20 within 20 seconds of having a conversation with her.
Oh, and not to mention, it was her Question no: 8
"Because… Zoë will make fun of me."
"And you don't want to look bad in front of a girl coz of your mountainous male ego, I get that. Don't you think it should subside, seeing as you are asking a girl for help?" Question no: 9
Seriously, talking to her is tiring. I want to end it as quickly as possible.
"So you think you can do it?" I ask her.
"Well yeah, I'll see, sure."
"Good, let's go back, and remember, not a word to anyone, not even Li!"
"Ummm… Ok."
Just as we almost reach Kōichi, Li and Kōji, who had joined them, it suddenly hits me looking at him about the bet I made with myself. She asked only NINE questions! The good thing about making bets with your own self is that no one knows when you lost them or when you bet yourself with. Thank goodness! Even THINKING about Kōji makes me sick.
Just when we had almost joined them, Joanne asked, "When do you want it Takki boy?"
SHEESH. Even her normal tone is loud, or they wouldn't have heard it. But they did.
"Want what?" Kōichi and Li ask together.
"Hahahaha, Takki boy," was all Kōji said, proving my point that he's not normal.
"None of your business," I snapped.
"Printout of his English homework," Jo replied.
Grrrr… At least they let go of the topic. So I guess Jo is a good liar, no matter how annoying.
Not to mention, I won that bet against myself. Joanne just asked her Question no: 10. This means I don't have to kiss Kōji at all! See, I'm so confident in myself when I take up bets.
Kōji
I make my way to where I see Kōichi and Li standing. I would've thought he was waiting up for me but that vulture was relaxing his eyes while doing the job. I seriously don't know what to say. You'd think he'd get one of his infamous migraines by concentrating on something for so long, but apparently a girl's chest doesn't count. Having your brother look at your best friend like that in front of you is weird, and it's too awkward to say something about it to him as well.
Kōichi looks up as I come. I scold him using only my eyes like we normally secretly communicate in front of others. He behaves at once. For someone he claimed he didn't like, he sure had a hard time looking away from her boobs, aside from the fact that she's wearing that sheet strangling her neck and covering her chest like usual. Not to mention Li herself. I've tried so many times to indirectly hint to her that he isn't interested and has his eyes on somebody else. Either she's too dumb or too stubborn. Wonder what she sees in him?
Li looks back to see why Kōichi suddenly stops talking and greets me with a hug. I can tell Kōichi's jealous.
I wink at him over her shoulder. I thought you don't like her.
Kōichi fumes at me. I don't. So shut up.
I grin. Then why do I smell something burning?
Kōichi gives me a death glare, clearly stating I'm going to kill you. But just then she pulls away.
I see Takuya talking with Joanne a bit far.
"What're Takki boy and Jo talking about?"
Kōichi shrugs. "He didn't say. He has some sort of favour to ask her."
I laugh. "A favour from Jo? If she asks less than 10 questions, I'll kiss Takuya."
"Ok, I could live my whole life WITHOUT having that picture in my mind!" Li scolds me, shivering violently. "And besides, Jo's really nice."
I shrug. She is nice; Kōichi and I mostly hang out with Li and Jo, if Aqumi isn't freaking me out too much that is. Like today at break, it was really freaky. Instead of saying upfront to her, I had to actually text Li - from where I had to sit next to and endure mad Takuya making my time hell - to stop making googly eyes at my brother. She acted like she never saw my message, even though I specifically remember her looking at her cell.
Jo and Takuya come join us. Joanne jogged up even more in my opinion when she called Takuya Takki boy. Takki boy was looking like he had just lost a bet and had to do something gross for losing it, like cleaning his own shit for once.
Apparently Takuya was coming back with us, so I dropped my pace and let Kōichi and him pass me by and fall behind. Li and Joanne are matching my pace. I saw this as a good opportunity to reprimand Li.
"What do you think you're doing?" I ask of her.
"What?" she panics. "Nothing! No way am I thinking about you and Takuya… I mean Takuya and you…"
"You know what? I don't even wanna know about it! I'm talking about you and Kōichi."
I look at her meaningfully. She went into defensive mood at once.
"It's not my fault Joanne left me all alone with him! It's not like I told her to."
"And you loved every second of it bitch." I shake my head. "What part of "he's just not that into you" don't you get?"
"None of it," Jo says wisely.
"Look, I'm saying that for your own good. He tells me everything and I happen to know he has eyes set on a girl, a girl who doesn't happen to be you."
I know that may have come out a bit harsh, but I didn't want her to get her hopes up and see them get crushed again. She was a ridiculous "the One" dreamer and I would rather have her die an old spinster lady and remain a ridiculous "the One" dreamer than running after my brother and having her heart broken. Again. Kōichi isn't the type to use a girl, but Li's the type who'll think he's her future husband even as she's getting ready for her first date. That's how much we all know her.
I'm not really the type to play matchmaker and have my name dragged in the middle and getting blamed for every fight a couple has. So the next best thing to do is to try and knock as much sense into a person as possible while remaining the good guy. It's not like I'm GAY or anything, despite what some people apparently seem to think.
"You know what, he's right Li," Joanne says. "But if you want it, go for it anyway. I'll be rooting for you."
"Can I speak now?" Li says angrily.
I study her. She is blushing, something she claims she is incapable of.
"Look, I haven't decided anything yet ok? It's just a stupid little crush thing. I'll grow out of it. But let me enjoy the moment as long as it lasts."
I open my mouth to argue, but she raises her hand, silencing me.
"I'm not looking for a relationship. For God's sake it hasn't even been a fortnight since I broke up."
That's a sad tale. Li had something going on with a boy back in Pakistan named Zuhair. Li's family being old fashioned and already disapproving Li's close friendships with boys, she was risking her very life by carrying on a relationship all because of her the One nonsense; she had loved him just coz he had claimed to love her and did practically everything for him. She thought she was being a feminist when she reached for the bills, but in truth, he had been ripping her off.
It's the first time in the thirteen days she's been here that she's even mentioned it. We had respectfully kept quiet about it, because we felt when she'll feel like telling us, she will. Not even Joanne knows the full details. I can proudly say I'm the only one who does and has been sworn into secrecy.
The asshole had been also against her idea since the beginning of coming to Tokyo to finish high school. Li had told us it was all coz of his fear of long distance relationships not lasting and that. But Li found out from one of her friends that that was not exactly the point.
Flashback:
Two weeks ago:
My phone has been vibrating since the past hour practically. I was ignoring it.
"Kōji, tell whoever is calling to fuck off!" Kōichi was saying from his futon. The vibration had even woken him up.
I let it continue vibrating. Right now, nothing was more important to me than my sleep.
"Kōji!" Kōichi yells. "Tell the person to fuck off before it even wakes up ka-san!"
I finally woke up to check it. It was an international call, and maybe because of the time difference, the caller didn't know that they had woken me up at near seven o clock in the morning on the last few days of my vacation. This was no excuse whatsoever. I picked up the phone, fully intending to yell at the person. But before I could even say a word, I heard a voice full of pain call my name.
"Kōji? I've called you like a hundred thousand times. Why weren't you answering?"
"Li? Is that you?"
"Yes, it's me," she says. She starts sobbing hysterically.
"What's wrong?" I say, wide awake now. Li never cried.
"I… I…"
"What is it Li? Tell me. Is it your family again?"
"N-no."
"Zuhair?"
At his name she cried harder. I swear to kill that bastard for whatever he had done to make her cry like this.
"Kōji he… he…" She launches into a story which was making no sense whatsoever.
"Wait wait Li, sorry to interrupt but back up a bit. Tell me from the very beginning so it all makes sense."
"Ok. I'll tell you from where Jason and Joanne tried to knock some sense into me. Jason started by saying…"
A week earlier:
"I have something very important to tell you Li," Jason said as he, Joanne and Lili were having lunch together.
"Yeah, that's practically the same thing you texted me this morning," Li says. "How's Dolly btw? Hurry up! Oh sorry Jezy, I was calling the waiter, I'm starving! This is supposed to be fast food! There's nothing fast about it!"
Joanne shakes her head. "There she goes again hurrying through her food so Zuhair won't have anything to complain about. For Allah's sake Li, Jason is like our BRO, and he has been your brother since a hell of a lot before Zuhair came along! He has no right to be telling you not to talk to him anymore!"
Li looks at her, uncomprehending. "Wait. What?"
"That's the thing I wanted to talk to you about," Jason says, looking angrily at Joanne. Jo raises her hands in surrender.
"Ok, what is this Jezy? What's this about not talking to you?" Li asks.
"Apparently, your boyfriend doesn't like it when you talk to me. He doesn't appreciate our friendship."
"But why?"
"Jeez Li, he's being over possessive. He thinks just coz you have guy friends you must be fucking them all."
"That's his problem. I've already changed so much for him; I'm not bending myself according to each and every desire of his. He has girl friends, friends who are girls I mean. I don't forbid him from talking to them, so neither does he have any right to do this to me. Anyone want more fries? I'm thinking of ordering some more."
"There she goes changing the topic again," Joanne says.
"Look Li," Jason says. "Open your eyes. Single girls and guys who aren't serious about their commitment can never be friends."
"Get out!" Li says. "He's serious. He says I love you to me like around ten times a day. We're going to consummate our relationship. We're going to get married after I finish High School."
"Li, saying I love you just to get in your pants doesn't count, especially with your sex-after-marriage thing," Jason says. "You don't know what assholes guys are."
"You can't be serious! We'll be each others' first, it's only natural he wants it."
"But he doesn't care about what YOU want!" Jo bursts angrily.
"He's a liar Li; all he does and says are big fat LIES to control your moves because like a dumbo you are, you've showed him you'll always try to fit according to his needs. And Li…" He drags his chair closer to hers and holds her hand. "Please don't hit me when I say this, but you've GOT to know. You won't be his first… And you won't even be his last."
There was silence as a waiter puts down their plates in front of them and takes the dirty dishes off their table.
"What are you talking about," she states, her voice dangerously soft.
"And the reason is you why he doesn't want to let you go to Tokyo. He fears he'll lose the chance to get laid every now and then."
"But he doesn't get laid every now and then."
Jason shakes his head. "That's not what he says. He says he's done you so many times he can fit his whole hand down your… Forget it, that's disgusting guy talk I don't want to pollute your ears with. And let me tell you that isn't the kind of language a guy uses about their future wife, especially with other guys. And he doesn't even know me. If you want proof, I'll show you his text messages. Stop holding on to him just coz he's your first boyfriend and you think it's something special."
Lili is spooked and she tries failingly to hide the fact. "So he has a knack for a big mouth. He's just saying that to everyone so they'll stay away from me. This… this doesn't ex-exactly prove anything."
"Stop trying to tell yourself you'll be his first Li. It doesn't so much so matters that you won't be, but I can tell you with absolute certainty you won't be his last either, because he isn't gonna wait forever for you. Like last week, Sarah's neighborwho happens to be my friend told me that he saw Zuhair sneaking out of her house when her parents weren't home…"
"How dare you!" Lili shouts slamming the table. "How dare you speak about my-my future husband like this! You're just jealous that things between you and Dolly aren't working as well as before!"
"Don't bring Dolly into this," Jason growls.
"You know what? I practically can't care less Jimmy-son! I mean Johanson!"
"Jason," he corrects.
She gets up, reaches into her bag and slams a hundred rupees note on the table and storms out with her bottle of Coke, her plate of masala fries remaining untouched.
Later that night:
"Zuhair, I have something to tell you and you need to know."
"Before you do, hear me out. When you take a step out of Pakistani soil, our relationship will be over."
"What?"
"Yes, that's right. Let me say this straight once and for all. I can't wait for you any longer. I'm a guy for God's sake."
"But we agreed that…"
"And it's not like I don't have options Li. For example, this girl at my office, she's confessed to me that she loves me and told me I could do anything with her. But I told her I'm already committed. I'm rejecting everyone else coz of you."
"You should. That's what a commitment is all about."
"And in a commitment, you're supposed to compromise, and I haven't seen you doing that once. I want sex and you aren't giving it to me. And I've told you so many times I don't like you talking to other boys either."
"I'm sorry."
"You don't even know if you like sex or not, coz you haven't had it before. Yet you're so determined."
"Have you?"
"Of course not. By the way, when will your parents be home?"
"Not for another half hour. You better go."
"Ok, but I want a goodbye kiss first. You can give me that, can you?"
Lili closes her eyes and let him kiss her. He explored her mouth with his tongue, almost sucking her breath out. Li forced herself to think she was enjoying this, when in reality, all she wanted to do was hurl.
She felt him taking off her shirt and then unclasping her bra. He then threw her back on the bed they were sitting on and let his hands and tongue roam all over her body. He rested them on the waist band of her trousers and started pulling them off as well.
"What are you doing?" she demands.
"Nothing," he promises. "I'll do nothing."
Re-assured, she let him take off her entire clothes. He ran his tongue down her stomach and below her waist.
"Don't do it," she says, contracting her legs and trying to push him away with her knees. He didn't budge. Again, she forced herself to think she was enjoying it.
When he pulled away, he quickly took off his clothes as well until Li could see him standing up firm and erect.
"Wh-what are you doing?"
"Nothing, I promise."
He took her hand and made her rub. Then he took her other hand as well and went on more forcefully. When he finally couldn't take it anymore, he forced her mouth open by the jaws.
He was choking her. She couldn't even cough or breathe. Tears fell down the corner of her eyes and just when she felt she couldn't take it any longer, he stopped. Judging by the look of it, he hadn't let it loose inside her mouth. She was glad. He did care about her after all.
He then lay on top of her and started running his finger down.
"Don't do it!" she says loudly grabbing his hand, but not so loud for she didn't want to attract any neighbours.
"I'm not doing anything," he says, almost groggily. He then lifted up slightly and made a sudden jerky motion which made her vision black.
"DON'T!" she tried to scream, but he locked her lips with a forceful kiss.
With each motion of his, Lili's vision gave new shades and patterns of black and purple. She started scratching his back to try and pull him away, but he only groaned in pleasure. The pain was unbearable. She thought her waist would break open.
As he was moving inside her, he finally starts shaking and pulls out, letting loose on her thigh and gasping loudly against her chest.
Lili was staring at the ceiling, motionless with barely enough feeling in her lower body, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
He got up and pulled on his clothes, looking in triumph at the droplets of blood tracing down her thigh. She hadn't moved a muscle. When he was clothed, he leaned over and kissed her softly.
"See, it wasn't that bad now was it?"
Lili didn't say anything. In her mind, she was making herself get up and ripping his body apart. But she didn't have enough strength to get up at all.
"I'm leaving now… your parents will be back any minute… You better put your clothes back on and uhhh… clean up." He kisses her again. "I love you."
And he was gone. She pushed herself up, crying as pain shot up her body. She stumbled to the bathroom and cleaned herself, putting her clothes back on with trembling hands. A task which would've taken her a minute took five. She stumbled through the house and grabbed a wet cloth and rubbed the semen and blood off the sheets.
The bell rang and the door started banging. She had forgotten to unlock the door. Putting on a straight face and trying to walk normally, almost falling down twice, she opened the door for her family.
"WHAT?" I yelled at the phone. Kōichi jumped and glared at me sleepily.
"Kame Kōji, tell the person to FUCK OFF ALREADY!"
I ignore him. Li is sobbing so hard I felt tears stinging my eyes as well. She was goddam raped, and she can't even tell anyone to do something about it.
"Th-that's not all Kōji," she cries. "The next day…"
She couldn't even get up from the bed. Her body was sore all over. She had barely gotten any sleep, and when she was lying awake, she had gotten it in her mind to believe that maybe this had been for the best. Maybe now his lust had been satisfied and their relationship will take a new turn.
She decided to call Jo or Jason, forgetting about the fight she had had with them the previous day.
She called Jason first.
"Hey!" she says cheerfully when he answered.
"Oh great! I was about to call you myself."
"Really? Why? Something happen?"
"You sure bet so. Yesterday when you wouldn't believe me, I decided to do a little digging by myself, and you know what I found?"
When she didn't say anything, he continued. "Last year, around that time when you wouldn't go to second base with him, he told you he's leaving the city forever because his parents are calling him back, right?"
"Yeah…"
"And he told you he had a ticket booked and everything. And then that night, when you let him go through second base as a goodbye thing, and then finally told him not to go, he cancelled the flight at the last minute right?"
"Yes…"
"Well, guess what Li, my friend Asim who knew him back in high school, has a father in the National Airlines. He checked the entire registry the whole day yesterday and there was NO record of there ever being a ticket booked by him in the last year at ALL. Sure he found a record from two years ago, but that's it."
"So what you're trying to say is, he made that all up just to get me to bend over?"
"It sure looks that way."
"Has it occurred to you, that maybe…"
"They erased the record after he cancelled the ticket? I asked my friend the same thing, and nope, they don't just erase the records. And even a computer whiz like Tommy won't be able to get away with hacking their system without breaching their security alarm."
"Thanks for telling me this Jason. I gotta go now."
"You ok?"
"Sure. Oh wait, can you give me this guy Asim's number? I might wanna ask him some stuff."
"Sure if you say so. Look Li, I don't mean to upset you. I'm just trying to help."
"Yeah, ok."
"Bye."
She hangs up. New things are coming to light which have very easily destroyed her visions.
After two days, she finally got up the courage to call the number.
"Assalam- Alaikum," a deep male voice answered.
"Walikum-Assalam," she replies. "Is this Asim?"
"Yes this is him."
"I'm a friend of Jason's and I'm calling to inquire about a person he asked you to research…"
"Oh you must be Lili," he replies easily. "Jason said you might call."
"Well, yeah. You knew Zuhair back in high school right?"
"Sure did. He was kinda famous amongst the girls for being the nice, sweet, emotionally tortured guy. But his real fame was amongst the guys for luring the girls by acting this way and being one of the most successful players in the school."
"Can you please elaborate?"
"He lured all girls practically the same way..."
Then Asim was listing all the exact things she had gone through herself. Lies to bend and change a girl according to his wishes. Manipulating their every move by playing mind games. Threatening to move away and breaking up and even saying another girl has offered him her body etc etc, this was all actually blackmail when a girl was reluctant to move to further bases .
"He also never waited for only one girl. He juggled many girls at the same time. Whenever a girl was holding him up for having sex, he never really had a problem with it, coz there were always two or three girls as back-up who were giving him that at the same time. He just had to keep on charming the reluctant one and wait patiently."
All the while she had been listening, tears had been pouring incessantly down her face. When she spoke, her voice was completely calm.
"Thanks for telling me this. What about his academic side? He told me he scored second position."
"Of course, and I went bungee jumping off the Statue of Liberty. He was a dropout. He never finished high school. He told everyone that it's because he's going into his father's business, but the truth is, his father doesn't have any such business. He's just sitting at home under his father's money doing nothing, uneducated and unemployed. He even got the girls to pay for him and swindled them out of their jewellery which he sold and passed out the money as his own. It was the biggest joke."
The biggest joke was she had been taken for a complete fool for a year.
"Thank you, you've been a lot of help Asim. Allah Hafiz."
She couldn't talk to him a second longer. Her sisters asked her what was wrong, but she just shook her head and snapped at them. They soon went away, muttering "PMS".
She was numb. She was heartbroken. She had been tossed, turned and flipped around like a pancake. Three days passed by and she wouldn't receive anybody's calls. She read the text messages just to see how much amusement they would offer her.
"Sarah thing turns out true. I saw him today with my own eyes. Reply soon. Jason."
"Jason says he saw your bf and Sarah doing unspeakable things! Are you alright? Answer my call! Joanne."
"Baby, lets meet tonight at my place after your family's asleep. My parents are out. We'll have fun."
Oh, she'll meet him alright.
When everyone slept, she prepared to sneak out of the house. She remembered an anime she had watched called School Days, and she took a butcher knife with her. She felt the anime didn't have much brutality. She fully intended to castrate him for what he had done to her, and she had always had a thing for steel.
She caught a taxi as she had never really replied him to come pick her up so he thought she wasn't coming. And her city wasn't like Tokyo, that you can roam around completely safe in the wee hours of the night. She had heard horror stories from the time she was a toddler about girls getting raped. Well, it had happened to her, and she wasn't scared now. The driver thought she was a prostitute wandering alone and tried to flirt with her and touch her. She took out her knife and pretended to study it. The driver saw it and immediately behaved. Now he was thinking she was a psycho murderess on the run.
She reached his house and saw a light on in a room. She approached that window and opened it carefully from outside. She saw him making it with a girl and so busy was he that he did not notice her sliding the window open or even dragging the curtain open a little at all.
She went to the main door and rang the doorbell. She waited patiently as she heard shuffling and the door finally opened. He had only bothered to wear his bottoms. His eyes widened out of their sockets when he saw her standing there on his doorstep with her long hair opened and tangled, half on her face and half whipping behind her, and her face so somber and dead looking. She gave every appearance of a witch who had appeared on his doorstep out of nowhere. She pulled her hand back and went straight for his bare chest with her knife. He caught her wrist before she could really do anything. She then picked up her other arm and slapped him with all her might straight on his cheek. He was caught off-guard and stumbled, holding on to the door ledge and letting her hand go.
She turned and ran away. She ran and ran until everything around her was a blur until she finally fell and lay there, surrounded by emptiness and crying her heart out finally. She needed someone, but not Jason or Joanne. She couldn't face them. She didn't want to call Izumi to hear her reprimanding her for being unable to be the one in control and letting him do everything with her body. She wanted a person who would quietly listen to her speak and let her cry on and on and offer a sympathetic shoulder. She took out her cell phone...
"... and called you," she finishes.
I didn't know what to say. Sure I've heard of these kinds of situations before, but never to one of my best friends.
She had stopped crying but her voice is still unsteady. I consoled her and talked to her for the next hour till her balance ran out. I made her carry herself back home. As over there it was somewhere around 4, she said the streets were relatively empty and she talked to me as she walked back home.
"Not a WORD about this to anyone, ok Kōji?"
"No problem," I promise. "Including Kōichi?"
"Including Kōichi," she affirmed. "Especially."
She still cared what he thought of her, even after all that has happened to her. When the call ended, I looked at the time. 8:15 am. I was going back to sleep.
"Who was it? One of your Chinese friends? Did you tell em you're in Japan now and to fuck off?" Kōichi asks groggily.
"No, it was our Li," I say. "She found out her bf had been lying and cheating on her."
"Ouch!" he yawns. "So what's the story?"
"Well, she…" I saw that he had fallen asleep again. It was time before I go to sleep as well.
End Flashback
We had reached the rail station. Kōichi and Takuya had already gone on much ahead of us and were boarding the Akasaka bound train which will take us to Kōichi's area.
"It was a terrible experience for me, and no way in hell I'm falling so easily again," Li was saying. "So for now, I'm just testing the surface."
I decided not to argue with her. "Sure, but be careful Li. None of us want to see you get hurt again."
"I know," she smiles at me. I smile back, like sharing a secret, which we were.
"Ummm... Kōji? Hate to tell you, but if you don't make a run for it, you're gonna miss your train," Joanne says, pointing towards Takuya and Kōichi, who were calling out and waving at him madly from the train.
"Oh fish!" I yell, running across the station. "Wait! Don't close don't close!" I yelled uselessly at the automatic doors which would close any second. People inside the train who saw me running stood aside in case I had to make a dive and fell down and broke my nose instead, but someone was there to pull me inside just as the doors close a second later.
"Arigato," I huff, gasping.
"Kōji saying Thanks?" I hear a very unpleasantly familiar voice. I look up to see the person who had helped me in was none other than Takuya.
"Mina-san (everyone)! This guy who always has a stick up his ass is saying thanks! To me, his best friend! Because I helped him in!"
Everyone looks with varying expressions. I recoil backwards in terror. Takuya. It's ALWAYS Takuya. I turn around and start banging the closed doors.
"Open up! Open up! Let me out!"
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