Hey guys! I´m so sorry that it took so long, but Life Is Strange Finale happened and I´m still not okay! Anyway, here´s another chapter for you! I´m pretty tired so I will leave it at that. Mistakes I made in this chapter will be corrected later... Have fun!
Chapter 14 – Girls night!
A big sigh escaped my lips, while I walked to the center of Inkopolis City. As soon as I had gotten home from my little school trip, I had gone straight upstairs to my room and straight into bed. I was literally wrecked but after a couple of minutes of silence, my squidphone immediately started to ring. Of course Sakura was the one calling, because she wanted to hear every single detail about my little trip. So yeah, long story short my best friend kind of forced me into meeting her right now.
As soon as I finally got to our meeting spot, the pink Inklinggirl rushed towards me and rapidly hugged the hell out of me.
"Ugh.. I´m so tired! Couldn´t this wait until tomorrow?", I whined.
"Are you serious right now? Girllll ~ You went on a vacation with a boy who might like you! Hello? Of course this can´t wait! So spill the ink already!", Sakura lightly hit me on my arm while saying this.
I scratched my head:" There isn´t really much to tell. I went to school, like super early. Then we drove to our hotel. After that we went to a museum, walked around the sideseas and went to bed."
"Boriiiiing! I need details and pronto."
I started to blush:" Alright.. Fine.."
So with that I told her every little detail what had happened between the bright blue Inklingboy and me, starting with the weird conversation in front of the school gates and ending with the incident with his camera.
"Not much to tell!? Are you squidding me?"
"Alright, alright. Some things did happen...", I shyly admitted.
My friend gave me a knowing grin:" So what do you plan to do? I mean, after what you told me, I don´t really think that he is playing you anymore. Maybe he knows you from the past or something like that?"
"No, I don´t think so.. I would´ve recognized him. But maybe I do know his brother.. He said to the camera 'Do you remember her?' after all..", I said my thoughts out loud.
"And again I have to ask you what you plan on doing with this kind of relationship. Girl, he is obviously flirting with you!"
I shrugged at this:" Maybe I misjudged him. Who knows? One day we might be friends instead of rivals."
After I said this, Sakura looked pretty dumbfounded.
"W.. What? Did I say something wrong?", I asked confused.
The pink coloured Inklinggirl just facepalmed herself and answered:" Sure. A friendship with making a lot of baby squiddies sounds fun."
"B...Baby squiddies? Are you nuts?! Only because he is flirting with me doesn´t mean that I would...", my face turned beet red. "Sure, he is kind of nice and I am curious about him, but I am not in love with him or something!"
"Sure you aren´t..", my friend´s grin only got bigger.
Before I could say anything about this, another Inkling interrupted me by saying:" I´m sorry, but I´m on Suzu´s side. This guy seems pretty keen, not to say that you should watch out after Inklingboys in general.."
I immediately turned my head to the voice´s direction, only to be greeted by a familiar cute face.
"Tsubasa? But what are you doing here?!", I almost screamed in surprise.
"Hey there. Oh nothing, just making my daily rounds in turf war.", she gave me a smile.
Because Sakura looked pretty confused, I first had to introduce them to each other. After some words here and some words there, the three of us landed inside of a café, talking throughly about my 'love life', wether I wanted to or not.
"I don´t know.. The more I learn about this guy, the more I dislike him. And he seems kind of mean..", Tsubasa commented.
"Mean? Why that? He was nothing but kind to me the whole time.", I argued.
"Well, he obviously knows how important it is to you to win in turf war. So why the heck does he always beat you? If he liked you, wouldn´t he, you know? Let you win? Only to make you happy?"
"Excuse me, but I don´t see why a guy who beats you in turf war fair and square is mean. He is obviously just better than Suzu and I don´t think that our girl would like him to let her win, am I right?", Sakura replied.
"Thanks for rubbing it in, Sakura. But yes, I do agree. I wouldn´t want to win like that.."
"But still.. What I´m saying is that you should be careful nevertheless.", the blue Inklinggirl pouted.
I patted her head, saying:" As I said, I am NOT interested in him like that."
My best friend didn´t believe my words anyway, but luckily this conversation finally found an end and we spend the rest of the afternoon with getting to know each other better. Not so luckily though, instead of finally going home to get some rest, my friends dragged me to go to some place in the late evening. It was some kind of an restaurante, where you could get anything you want. From eating dinner there to simply drink some cocktails, this place offered everything you´d want. That´s why it was so popular among older and younger Inklings, I guess.
So instead of sitting in the café, me and my friends now sat around a table, waiting for our non alcoholic ink cocktails to arrive.
While waiting, I used the time to actually look around this place. It was pretty dark in here, with only a few red lights flashing now and then through the room. The restaurante also had a little dancefloor, where younger Inklings were dancing at their heart´s content. When my brown eyes specifically scanned the dancefloor, my gaze immediately hit his. There he was, the topic of the day dancing with another Inklinggirl. As soon as I realized what I was seeing right now, I immediately felt a sharp sting in my heart. Different emotions ran through my veins at this very moment, some of them wanted my eyes to fill with tears and others wanted me to rush over to that son of a squid and beat the hell out of him!
"Suzu? Is everything okay?", Tsubasa asked, while shaking my left shoulder at the same time.
I snapped out of my confused trance and answered bitterly:" He´s here. Dancing with another girl."
"Who? That Shiro guy? Where is he?", Sakura asked calmly.
I pointed to the direction where the two of them were dancing.
"Hey, Shiro Masato! Over here!", Sakura started to scream.
My eyes grew bigger when I realized what was going on. As soon as my brain reacted, I halfly stood up from my seat to be able to shake my friend by her shoulders, reluctantly screaming:" Are you crazy?! You can´t just call him over here?! What do you think you´re doing?!"
But it was too late. A little bit surprised, Shiro still saw Sakura waving him over, so he and his partner made their way to us. However his surprised face was soon replaced with a smile on his face as soon as he had spotted me.
"Suzu! I didn´t think I would meet you at a place like this."
"Yeah, I see that..", I responded coldly, while eying a certain someone who stood next to him.
Why did I act like this?
Shiro must have noticed my glance, since he answered:" Oh, may I introduce you to Genevieve. She ´s an old childhood friend of mine. We lived in the same town until I moved back here." He now turned to his friend and lightly hit her arm:" I still can´t believe that you also moved to Inkopolis!"
In return the purple coloured Inklinggirl gave him a sweet smile. So sweet that it made me want to puke.
Why did I think like that?
"Why don´t you two join us? My name is Sakura by the way and that is Tsubasa. We´re friends of Suzu."
While me and Tsubasa glared at her, Shiro and Genevieve seated themselves next to us. So Tsubasa me and Shiro´s friend sat next to each other, while Sakura and Shiro sat opposite of us, making me look straight at Shiro. GREAT! Shiro immediately flashed me a smile, so in order to get out of this awkwardness, I fastly changed the topic.
"So, ummm.."
"You may call me Gini.", Gini smiled.
"You two are childhood friends, Gini?"
"Yes, after Shiro and his family moved to New Ink, we soon became friends. We also went to school together, until he had to move back. But we were inseperable, right?"
Did she just give me an evil smile, or was it my imagination?
"Well, I wouldn´t call it like that..", Shiro scratched his head.
"Oh, don´t be so modest, Shi-chan! Anyway, as I wanted to go to a certain school nearby, I figured that it would be the best to move here as well. So yeah, here I am, showing Shi-chan all the cool places I discovered so far!", the Inklinggirl kind of showed off.
They seem to be pretty close..
After that we were covered in an awkward silence. While I was dumbfounded looking at my hands, Sakura seemed to eye all of us closely.
"So, you know this place?", she suddenly asked.
"Umm, well yeah. I was here once before.."
"Great! So you could easily show me and Tsubasa the way to the toilets, right?"
"Ugh, it´s not so hard to find..."
"Awsome! So could you please lead us the way, we are right behind you!", Cupidgirl said, while jumping out of her seat.
You could see that Tsubasa and Gini followed my best friend unwillingly. But nevertheless they still did what they were told. Even my desperate glares couldn´t stop them now. Awsome. Just awsome. Just what the hell did Sakura think she was doing by leaving me alone with HIM?
Suddenly I kind of got nervous. I knew that he was looking straight at me and still I tried to avoid his gaze..
What do you want from me?
"Hey, why don´t we dance while they are gone?", Shiro asked out of nowhere.
"Huh? Uh.. I don´t think that this is a good idea. I can´t really dance and I don´t want people to make fun of me because of that..", I stumbled.
But Shiro didn´t care. He just took my hand in his and lead me towards the dancefloor.
"Hey! Didn´t you hear what I said?"
"I did and I think that it was nonsense."
As soon as we reached the middle of the room, the Inklingboy started to move his hips in rythm of the song, while moving his arms perfectly to the beat. Slowly my movements matched his, so that we were in fact dancing.
My cheeks lightly blushed, when I said:" Don´t you think that your petite girlfriend will be jealous?"
Shiro grinned:" I don´t have a girlfriend."
"Well, you two seem pretty close to me. Are you sure you want to take the risk?"
Suddenly he moved closer to me, his hands resting on my hips, whispering:" I will take any risk which will bring US closer.."
I gasped at the sudden closeness and his response.
Not knowing what to do myself, I teasingly rested my hands on his chest, whispering as well:" When will you finally stop playing around with me?"
His eyes changed from playful to serious, as his face moved closer to mine, saying:" I never played with you.."
Uncontrollably my eyes slowly began to fall shut, while I started to feel his breath on my lips..
"Shiro! Come on, we have to go!", Gini suddenly shouted out, disturbing our almost second kiss we would have shared.
Reality hit us hard, as we slowly moved away from each other.
Embarassed I looked down at the floor and then again at Shiro who was about to leave.
I don´t want you to leave..
Pretty embarassed himself, Shiro first placed two of his fingers on his mouth, pressing them against his lips, only to use the very same fingers seconds after that on mine, giving me an indirect kiss goodbye.
"See you tomorrow.", He whispered one last time before he went home together with Gini.
My cheeks now being beet red, I kind of stumbled back to my friends.
"Not in love, right?", Sakura beamed in awe.
"Just shut up.."
