Chapter 4 Saionji's girlfriend

Miyu woke up with a start. She looked out of the window and couldn't tell if it was morning already. She looked at her alarm clock to confirm, yup its 4 in the morning. Her mind went back to the dream that had awoken her, a very strange dream indeed. She had dreamt of Kanata Saionji carrying her in his arms and that he was caressing her cheeks. All of a sudden blood rushed to her cheeks making them warm.

What a strange dream she thought as she went to bathroom to shower. She appeared with a towel wrapped around her damp hairs and sat down to complete her assignment. She began to write but instead found herself staring at the blank paper as the events from yesterday flashed through her head. Somewhere deep within her subconscious mind knew that it wasn't a dream, that it had been real but she was too stubborn to acknowledge any gratitude towards him not wanting to change his arrogant image. She thought of the strange feeling she had felt at his touch. His touch had sent chills down her spine and had made her mind restless, something she had never experienced before. Something that was difficult to fathom. No wonder she had been in such a rush to escape from that class yesterday. He's driving me insane.

"What am I thinking?" she berated herself and prayed to god for an hour of lucidity so that she could complete her assignment.

As she was early today so she walked over to school & was among the first ones to arrive. Staring at thin air from her window seat she felt the soothing quiet of school unlike the usual commotion.

"You're early today, don't like staying at home?"

Miyu recognised his voice instantly, not a good sign she thought. Hard to believe as she merely knew him from like 2 days.

"So are you" she said turning towards him.

He really is handsome. How could someone look like that in a plain school uniform was something beyond her ability to comprehend just a plain white button down shirt and dark navy blue trouser with maroon tie & yet he managed to look like a movie star as he moved to sit on the desk in front of her.

"Did you sleep well yesterday" he asked.

Never better, not to forget the dream! She thought but she didn't have to mention that in front of him & to hide her embarrassment she snapped "Since when did my sleep deprivations become your matter of concern".

"Hey I am just trying to be friendly here" he seemed surprised by her retort. She felt guilty for being rude, after all he had rescued her & dropped her home. God knows what might've happened if he hadn't been there. She was being a jerk now.

"Sorry, thanks for helping me yesterday" she said softly and smiled at him.

Heck! How did she do that, she looked so genuine, so cute that his mind went blank for a moment.

"No problem" he mumbled trying to hide his reaction. Miyu grinned at him. This time he was prepared & looked outside the window just in time, before her smile could cloud his mind again.

"I wanted to give you this book, I'm sorry I forgot it yesterday. Did you complete your assignment?"

"Yup I did but how do you know about the assignment you're not in my class" she asked him.

"Mizuki was desperate enough to make sure you get this book yesterday that he pleaded Santa to stop by your place to hand it over. Despite the entire work load he has, he remembered to hand it down to you. That explains the importance of the book which obviously means an assignment because isn't every book precious when it's about assignments" he explained.

Miyu was surprised, he had actually bothered to think about such trivial matter, No wonder he's smart.

"Are you thinking of becoming an Analyst or something" she asked him. "Honestly did I sound that good or rather I take it you are easy to impress. I mean anyone can do that, anyone with subnormal intelligence but normally people don't pay attention to trivial facts around them" he said.

There he goes, back to being that narcissist jerk "How can you say that Mizuki was busy, knowing him I can tell that he was just being his usual self, helpful as always" she asked annoyance clearly dripping from her tone.

"Mizuki isn't the only class president in this school. I know he is busy because I've got the same work load".

"Then why are you loafing around, don't you have anything to do" she said clearly irritated.

"I finished my work ages ago" he said trying to keep a straight face amused by her sudden petulance.

"Why don't you go back to your own class then? Thanks for your help but I can take care of myself and now on you don't need to bother yourself with helping me again" she snapped at him.

"For your disappointment we have math now so you'll have to bear with me" he replied amusement dancing in his chocolate brown orbs. Miyu shrugged her shoulders indicating that the conversation was way over.

'She is cute when mad' he thought and made his way back to his seat.

He wasn't trying to jerk around but then she brought the worst out of him another reason why he needed to keep his distance from her. Usually girls would do anything just to catch his attention but Miyu on the other hand was oblivious to his charm even when he was kind of trying to impress a bit. Obviously she is not like the rest. His cool attitude annoys her instead of impressing her and her expressions are priceless. He thought it was worth it to piss her off just to see the slide show of emotions on her face starting from irritation leading down right to when she wants to strangle him. God, she was getting under his skin without even trying but he couldn't let this go on, no he couldn't go there again.

Miyu was muttering words similar to jerk, idiot, self obsessed when Nanami greeted her. "Good morning Miyu, You're unusually early today. Did your parents kicked you out" then she stopped abruptly realising her comment was too direct for her since she always end up being abandoned by her parents and spent most of her time alone. Nanami started to apologise but Miyu wasn't listening. She kept staring at the seat in front of her, usually occupied by Nanami whose previous occupant had somehow managed to annoy her even before her day began and funny how the present occupier was following suit, she laughed at the irony.

Aya and Nanami looked bewildered by her lack of speech and asked her if she was alright. Watching her best friends' worried faces made her guilty for ignoring and it wasn't their fault that she wanted to strangle a certain brunet.

"I'm so sorry guys, it's just that something" or rather someone she thought "was bothering me".

"It's alright Miyu, thank god I thought you were losing it, laughing to yourself like that" Nanami said.

"What's wrong Miyu, you can tell us, maybe we can help" Aya asked her. She was the compassionate one among them.

"It's nothing but I've one hell of news for you guys" and she told them everything from yesterday leaving out that Kanata had carried her in his arms, it was too embarrassing or maybe not even real to share. Judging from their faces which had not even a trace of surprise, she suddenly felt an urge to defend herself and said "Whatever you guys are thinking but one thing is certain, Kanata and I are completely off limits, opposite poles of a magnet - which attract" Nanami added drily.

"Excuse me, Are you Miyu Kouzuki?"

Miyu looked up to a beautiful girl she had never seen before. Unsure of what this girl wanted from her she replied with a slight nod. "So you're the girl who challenged Kanata" she asked her. "Yeah" okay where is this going now she thought.

"Listen you stay away from Kanata. I'm his girlfriend & I don't want you anywhere near him in 100 meters of radius, you get that. If I ever spot you near him then that won't be good for you" she gave her a warning look & moved back to her seat. Miyu was tongue-tied and stared at her like an owl. Then her eyes darted to Kanata who looked irritated sitting right behind his girl friend next to Santa. She burst into laughter and Aya & Nanami gave her a look that said maybe Nanami was right about Miyu losing her mind.

"She's so funny. What makes her think that I'm after that jerk and seriously, 100m radius! Is she dumb, we're in the same class right now! What? You don't think that's funny?"

"Miyu it's about time you know about Christene Hanakomachi, Kanata Saionji's girlfriend" Aya told her. She looked so serious that Miyu stopped laughing.

"Oh by the way, she wasn't bluffing. Christene is practically capable of doing or rather destroying anything when it comes to her trophy boyfriend Kanata" Nanami said gravely.

Their grave faces made her shiver as she thought of yesterday's endeavours, nothing was funny anymore. Christene Hanakomachi turned out to be the only successor of Hanakomachi corporations, zillionaire parents, characteristically very kind & friendly but she is extremely possessive about Kanata. She has an inexplicable tendency of destroying (and then repairing it later) anything whenever she spots Kanata with any other girl. Rumour has it that her tenacity was holding him back from breaking up with her.

Great! This is just what I needed, an extremely over possessive girlfriend of a jerk whose mere presence pisses me off, seriously I doubt if I like Heiomachi anymore.

Miyu knew whom to avoid and she was extremely well at the job. She didn't need any drama and kept out of his matters as much as possible. But avoiding him wasn't an easy task. They were both equally good in studies and sports. Eventually after realising this his fan club stopped bugging her and she was glad. She hated him & the feelings were mutual. They hardly talked, avoiding each other as much as possible. They could never have a straight conversation without arguing.

Sadly there were times when she was utterly confused and didn't know what to think of her current position. He annoyed her and she couldn't hate him more but his absence always made her anxious. She had no idea how it was even possible but she was always somewhat eager to talk to him even if they wound up arguing later. Her heart raced whenever he was around. She had no idea why was she behaving like that around him so she kept it to herself trying hard not to be anywhere near him but it was difficult and sometimes impossible as they had to often work together since their teachers preferred them over others. Despite that they were still where they had started, he was still a jerk and she still hated him. Sometimes she thought if she was doomed to cross paths with him despite her efforts to stay away.

As she sat in the playground beneath a tree with her friends who were discussing about some ongoing sale she found herself looking over to the boys practising basketball faraway. Her eyes like always found the only person she was entitled to avoid. Looking at him strangely made her feel as if she had some sort of connection with him tugging at her heart. Okay that was straight from some romantic novel but really she did feel strange around him, good strange.

Flashback

Damn! I'm late again. God I need to wake up early from tomorrow or I'll land in trouble for consistently being inconsistent. Miyu ran to her class mentally berating herself. "I'm so dead today". She ran faster now. "That's the shortcut, I can cut the time" she took a sharp turn from the corner. She crashed into someone and losing her balance prepared to hit the floor closing her eyes shut. Instead she found herself being whirled around as she fell on someone, strong arms snaked around her breaking the impact of the fall. "Oh god I'm so sorry" she opened her eyes to look and a familiar pair of brown were eyes staring back at her. Time froze and the world shrank in the background as she lay in his arms, her face right in front of his. She took in his stark features as he stared at her. His face was too perfect, too handsome to be real. His exquisite deep brown eyes made her feel like she was drowning into them. She snapped back to reality suddenly realising the proximity; his lips were merely millimetres away from hers. "um thanks" she said as she stood up and felt Kanata's burning gaze on her back whole way as she hurried to her class. She opened the door to find her sensei half way through introducing the topic and apologising she went straight to her seat.

Her attempts to avoid him were costing her great measures of self control. "Miyu do you want go shopping, I definitely need a new dress" Aya asked.

"Sure, when" she asked. She was running short on novels and the idea of shopping was a welcoming distraction. The idea of buying new books made shopping very much inviting & she felt excited about something in a long time. "This Sunday then" Nanami said happily.

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She imagined herself strangling him. She closed her eyes and sighed deeply, praying god for some composure. "I fell, he caught me. End of story. Would you care to explain the intimacy in this situation" she replied, her voice shook with anger.

"You don't want to know" he replied, his voice strangely cold.

How dare he say that? How can he be so rude and impassive? She was starting to believe that he was nice despite of his stoic demeanour. Despite of behaving like a cold hearted arrogant bastard he seemed like a caring person in his own way. Past these days she had been thinking of him a lot, trying to figure out her feelings for him.

'I wasted my time thinking he could be a better person. I was a fool to think that. I know now how I feel for him, pure hatred and nothing else. Someone who can't respect girls can never be a nice person'.