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Moemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia

Chapter 5

"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air! I never thought I could be so free-e…" I sung, walking into the dorm room, all smiles.

"Hey, what're you so happy about?" Keith asked.

"Well, you know how you're virgin?" I asked, smirking.

"Yeah, so?" Keith asked. "What's wrong with that?"

"Well, I just lost my virginity." I gloated.

"What?" Keith asked, springing out of bed. "With who?"

"I'm not telling!" I said, smirking.

"It was Rythmi, wasn't it?" Keith shouted. "Darn it, I wanted to be her first! Damn damn damn!"

"It wasn't Rythmi." I said, smiling. "It'll be the last person you expect."

"No way." Keith said, shocked. "No way."

"Yep." I said, nodding, proud of myself.

"You actually had sex with PETAL?" Keith exclaimed, and I was surprised he didn't wake anyone else up. "You mean she's actually female?"

"Apparently." I said, nodding. "I was as surprised as you were."

"Damn it." Keith said, frowning. "How could you beat me at lying with a woman?"

"Because girls you're a jerk and girls think I'm a sheltered baby." I said, smirking.

"SON OF A BITCH!" Keith shouted, pulling his blue blanket over his head, going to sleep.

"G'night." I said, climbing up to the bunk above him, drifting off into a deep sleep.

I received very mixed signals in class the next morning. When I sat down next to Petal, she turned away, blushing.

"Hey, Petal…" I whispered, reaching to touch her arm, but she flinched and pulled away from me. Petal than proceeded to lay her head down on our desk (even though I knew she wasn't sleeping) in order to stop from talking to me.

I got up after class let out for lunch and headed off to the yard, but I was accosted by some of Petal's friends.

Soon enough, I found myself tied up and on the side of the building, three girls standing over me.

The leader, who had black hair with violet highlights, looked down at me disdainfully.

"We know Petal went out last night." The lead girl said, frowning. "And we know you two met up. Now, she'll barely talk to us. What did you do to her in order to change her personality so drastically?"

"I didn't do anything!" I said. "I swear!"

"Really?" The lead girl said, frowning. "Because she was going out to confess to you. And you didn't do anything like turn down her confession, did you?"

"No, I would never!" I exclaimed. "I-" I cut myself off before I said anything else, clamping my hand over my mouth.

"You what?" The girl asked, her frown maintaining its' downward shape.

"We… sort of… had sex…" I admitted, looking down, blushing.

"Oh…" The girl said. "Oh!" The girls, a little embarrassed at this (though no more embarrassed than I was) ran away, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

I decided that the best thing to do was a direct confrontation. I went to go find her, and I soon enough found her sitting underneath the shade of a large tree, eating her lunch silently, solemnly.

"Hey, Petal?" I asked, sitting down next to her. She turned to face me and frowned. She packed up her lunch, stood up, brushed herself off, and headed somewhere else.

Fortunately, I was taller than her and caught up with her soon enough, but all she did was quicken her pace from a walk to a fast walk.

Oh, and just FYI, her legs might be short but she can run like the wind.

I eventually caught up with her, and I stood facing her, panting, out of breath.

"What do you want?" Petal demanded, tears welling up in her eyes. For a second I thought she was going to cry again, but she blinked away her tears and her face was back to its' stoic indifference.

"I want to know what's wrong." I said, putting my hand on her shoulder.

"Nothing's wrong!" Petal said sharply, her icy expression melting away. She knocked my hand off of her, and she stared at me, her brown eyes full of sadness and fury.

"Obviously something's wrong!" I shouted, grabbing her shoulders. "What is it?"

"Let go!" Petal shouted, struggling against me.

"Not until you tell me what's wrong!" I shouted. "I want to know what I did!"

"It's not what you did…" Petal said, finally giving up and letting her tears streak down her face. "You were perfect…"

"Then what's wrong?" I asked. "If you're not mad at me, then you need to open up to me!"

"I am mad at you!" Petal exclaimed. "Last night, you were supposed to reject me or disappoint me in some way! But you were perfect!"

"What wrong with that?" I asked, as she raised her hands up to wipe away the tears.

"Because! -hic- I can't be with you! I can't!" Petal cried. "-hic- I can't let you get to close to me! If you do, then you'll end up hurting me in some way! -hic-"

"No." I said, shaking my head, pulling her close to me, hugging her as close to my body as I could. "Don't worry. I won't go anywhere. I'll stay with you for as long as you want."

"-hic- You dummy…" Petal said, laughing a little. "Quit saying such corny things -hic- all the time."

I laughed a little at this, and I just continued to hug her, patting her on the back occasionally, until she had finished crying her tears out.

"Ding-Dong!" The bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. As I stood up, I realized we were pretty far from the school. We were sitting in the middle of a grassy field next to a large cliff edge, and we could see across the ocean from here. I looked and saw the steps down to the statue a few yards away, and a ways away from that was the school-yard.

As I started to leave, I felt a hand wrap around mine.

"No." Petal mouthed, shaking her head. She pulled me down on top of her, and we lay in the grass for a while, just laughing.

Back in the classroom a while earlier, Ms. April was scanning for Petal and I.

"Kellyn and Petal aren't here?" Ms. April asked, looking at the empty table. "Oh, well, they're not very intelligent anyway. They're just bad students. Okay, class, for this lesson…

Are teachers really allowed to say stuff like that? The entire class thought, staring at Ms. April, sweat-dropping.

Yes, Petal is upset about having guys stolen from her as well, just like Leaf. Don't you just love the relationships between the Green siblings?