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Chapter 15 – You change me
Full of exitement I placed my bag near my desk and started to prepare our classroom for the day. Even though I didn´t sleep that much last night, I was wide awake. I found that pretty odd to be honest and also the fact that I was being nervous for no reason, made me feel a little bit worried. At that time, I didn´t understand why I was feeling like that..
Anyway today it was my turn to clean the classroom and to take care of the plants we had in class, so logically I was the only and also first person in our classroom. When I was done with sweeping the floor, I filled a little watering can with water and made my way to the windowsill where all the plants were placed. Ready to do my last task for the day, suddenly another student arrived. Pretty surprised by the early squid, I turned myself around to find a tired looking Shiro, lazily waving his right hand at me. Immediately I turned beet red, so in order to hide my face from him I quickly turned around again.
Of course it had to be him! What the squid was he doing here so early in the morning?!
"M.. Morning. A little bit early for you to be here, isn´t it? I thought you didn´t like to get up early?", I stumbled.
"Hah. So you noticed that I lied to you the other day?", he simply said.
I didn´t really know what to say at that, so I remained quiet.
"Do you.. umm.. need some help?"
"No. I´m pretty much done with my chores."
When I was done watering the plants, I turned myself around to bring the watering can back to it´s place, but was interrupted by Shiro standing right in front of me.
"You aren´t mad at me.. You know.. Because of yesterday, are you?", he asked while scratching the back of his head and looking away from me.
"No.. Why should I be?", I asked confused.
As the Inklingboy finally turned to face me, another student opened the door to our classroom.
"Awww, interrupting the love squids again! I´m sorry!", Lukas beamed.
Shiro grinned at him:" Are you jealous or are you doing this on purpose?"
"Of course I´m jealous! Everyone acts so lovey dovey around me and Mari still ignores me.."
I raised an eyebrow at that:" You like Mari?"
Lukas sat down on his chair:" Well duh! But I know she´s all over Shiro.."
"You don´t have to be worried. I´m not interested in her.", Shiro simply stated.
"Obviously.", Lukas grinned back at him.
That statement made me look at Shiro. So maybe he was interested in me?
Not long after this, all our other classmates arrived one by another, so I hadn´t really the chance to talk to Shiro again. So I sat myself down on my chair, waiting for the teacher to arrive.
Mrs. Anderson of course arrived in time and soon she began with the lectures. But before she did that, she had to announce something special.
"Good morning everyone. Before we start I would like to talk about something important. As you all know, you´ll get a new teacher called Mr. Squiddle for history class, so I thought it would be nice of you, if our class would prepare a little welcome party for him."
Every single student groaned at that.
"Luckily two students already told me that they would love to organize everything for the party. So once again I would like to give my thanks to Shiro and Suzu.", our teacher smiled brightly.
My eyes grew bigger at that sudden announcement. I sure as hell didn´t remember to volunteer in such a matter! Shiro seemed to think likewise, since he raised his voice to protest, but as soon as his voice came out of his mouth, our teacher shot a death glare at the both of us. Finally I realized that this was our punishment for breaking the rules at our little trip, so we hadn´t really a choice in this matter, or had we?
So after school me and Shiro had to stay longer in order to organize the little party for our new teacher. In order to be able to talk better, we moved our desks closer, so we could face each other while we would discuss the matter.
"Great. Now do you have any ideas?", Shiro asked a little bit annoyed about our punishment.
"Hey, don´t give me that look! It was your fault that we got caught in the first place!", I argued.
"Well, I didn´t ask you to defend me in front of the teacher."
I sighed in defeat:" Let´s just hurry up, so we can go home as soon as possible.. So obviously we will hold this party in our gym, since there is plenty of room for such an occasion. The fact that we should offer some food is pretty obvious as well, so I guess we should ask some of our classmates if they could bake something.. Or bring coffee or something like that.."
"What else?"
"I don´t know! Don´t you have any ideas on your own?", I hissed.
"Whoa, calm down.. Maybe we should play some music?"
"Maybe.. But there´s something missing.."
"Like what?"
"I don´t know.. I can´t put my finger on it.. But something special is missing.."
"Perhaps we could offer some splatter shots? Ink is always good."
"If we would do that, it will get pretty messy..", I commented.
We sat there in silence for a while, when suddenly Shiro came up with an idea.
"I think I have an idea!", he beamed.
"Okay. Out with it."
But Shiro didn´t answer me. Instead he jumped from his seat and took his jacket.
"What are you doing?", I asked confused.
"My brother invented something pretty cool we could use. Well, he didn´t invent it because the former species who lived here also had something like that, but I think you will like it!"
"Umm, okay?"
"But in order to get it, we have to go to the town center. Are you coming?"
Still confused, I also grabbed my jacked and followed Shiro to the center of Inkopolis.
"Where are we going?"
"To the studio.", he simply said.
"The one where Callie and Marie work?", I blinked.
"That´s right. My brother works with them and he invented that thing so they could use it on the upcomming splatfest."
"But it´s already eight pm! I doubt that they still work at this hour..", I argued.
"So?"
"Umm, we can´t ask for permission?"
"I don´t want to ask for permission."
I immediately stopped in my tracks, almost screaming:" You want to break in?!"
Quickly Shiro put his hand on my mouth:" Geeze Suzu, can´t you be a little louder?"
I pushed his hand away from me:" Are you crazy?! We can´t just steal from them! We will go to prison! I already got in trouble because of you, too! Didn´t you learn your lesson?!"
"I´m not stealing. I´m just borrowing a few things of them.", Shiro said calmly.
"Yeah, like that bubble maker, which I still have by the way!"
"Great! That means we can play with it again someday!"
I blushed at that.
We finally reached the entrance of the studio.
"Can you give me your hairclip?"
"You are serious, aren´t you?"
"You don´t have to go, if you don´t want to. But you seriously don´t have to worry. I know what I´m doing. It´s not like it is my first time."
"You´ve already done this?!"
"Just to watch them filming stuff.. You know.. in order for me to learn something from them."
I just looked at him with wide eyes. I sure as hell didn´t expect Shiro to do forbidden stuff like this. Sure, he did steal that bubble maker and according to him he isn´t stealing stuff from the Squid Sisters, but still..
Shiro just rolled his eyes and opened the door without my hairclip.
"So some of them are still working.. Better for us, I guess."
I stopped him from going inside by placing my hand on his shoulder.
"We can´t just walk in! This is forbidden Shiro! I don´t want you or me to get into any trouble!", I looked at him with a serious face.
Shiro gave me a smile:" They just don´t have to see us. You trust me, right?"
I didn´t want to do this. My mother didn´t raise me to do forbidden stuff like this! I was supposed to be the perfect Inklinggirl who obeyed the rules without questions.. But I went in with him. I don´t know why. I was scared to death. But I still followed the Inklingboy, him grabbing my hand in his.
So we both went inside the studio, being really careful to not be seen by anybody. We stopped in our tracks when we had reached a little room, where the stuff which Shiro had seaked was stored. He stuffed some of the colorful painted sticks, which looked a little bit like packaged candy, into his bag and after that we made our way back to the entrance. That was until we heard footsteps, coming dangerously near us.
Shiro practically shoved me into a corner, so the other person wouldn´t see us, making him standing dangerously near me. My heart was beating so fast and I couldn´t help but look at his face, while he looked after the other person. His face was so close to mine!
Maybe I could..
"Hello? Is anybody here?", Marie asked.
We tried to be as quiet as possible and not to move an inch.
"What are you doing hun? Let´s go home!", Callie said.
"I swear, I heard something.."
"Come on, it´s only the two of us silly. You promised to cook dinner tonight, so hurry.."
"If you say so.."
We stood there in silence for a little bit longer, just to be sure not to get caught.
"That was close..", Shiro said, while turning his face to me, only to be greeted by my beet red face, inches apart from his own.
As he could read my mind, he slowly bend his head down, placing his lips on mine. My eyes falling shut, it felt like an eternity until our lips parted again, making us move back to the outside.
