Secret of the Goddess
Chapter 3
The pastel colored wisp was curled up on the bench and crying. That wisp was Kanon. My brain automatically began to generate reasons why Kanon would be hiding during one of the biggest concerts of her life. The most logical reason was that there was some type of danger and Kanon was hiding in order to escape, and the flickering lightbulbs on the street gave her a "wispy" effect. If there was danger, then it was in my best interest to hide as well. I crawled under the bench across from Kanon's and was planning on staying there until help came. It never did.
The only person that came was Katsuragi. He sat on the bench to my left and chatted with Elsie, but did not notice me nor Kanon. Then, I heard a noise. It sounded like it was saying "Toradora" repeatedly, and I realized that the sound was accompanied by the flashing of Elsie's hair clip. It seemed that I was not the only one alarmed by the noise. Katsuragi and Elsie moved towards Kanon. She became slightly less "wispy" and more visible. Katsuragi crept up to her and they babbled on and on until Katsuragi made a move. At that point, I realized that there was no danger, help was not coming, the wispiness was not an effect, and Katsuragi had just kissed by the biggest idol in Japan. I was about to crawl out from under the bench, but realized that by butting in on the conversation, I would make Kanon late to her big night. So instead, I stayed put and watched Elsie take off and capture the creature that had shot out of Kanon. "Loose soul in custody!" she exclaimed.
I waited for Katsuragi and Kanon to leave then jumped out from under the safety of the bench and yelled, "Elsie! Come back!" She looked in my direction for a split second then flew away.
I got home very late that night, so I did not make as much progress on my dating sims as I wanted to. The whole find-out-what-is-going-on-with-Katsuragi thing was making me get farther and farther away from my goal. I would have normally played thirty dating sims a night, but for those few days, I had only been playing about five. I needed to end this. I could have just given up and let Katsuragi keep kissing one girl and cheating on another, but then I would be left with sorrow, guilt, and an urge to solve my ultimate curiosity.
The next day at school, I attempted to get an explanation from Katsuragi. I chased him after first period, but I did not catch him. I tried again at the end of lunch, and I had gotten close enough to say, "Katsuragi, you need to stop cheating on girls! You are leaving them so depressed that they won't talk about it."
"This isn't what it looks like." he pronounced with his charming deep voice. He quickly scurried on to third period and left me there with the most idiotic look on my face. I felt a deep and passionate anger at that moment. I could not believe that he would leave me hanging like that, so I decided to go relax at the library to clear my mind. I skipped class, but the teachers had gotten used to me doing that. I sat in a corner of the library and began to read a catalogue for gaming devices. I skipped third and fourth period. When class ended, I slowly crept out of the library.
I had not noticed that I was still holding the catalogue until a young girl's voice stuttered, "No t-taking books f-from the library without ch-checking them out! It… its, Its disrespectful."
"Oh, sorry," I stammered. "I forgot that I was holding…"
I trudged over to where I had grabbed the catalogue. The girl began a different conversation. After a minute or two of silence, I heard her yelling, "You're stupid!" in an angry yet soft voice. I wondered who else would be in the library at that time, so I slid behind a book shelf near where the voices were coming from. It was a male voice. A familiar male voice. Katsuragi.
I remembered that I was still holding the catalogue, so I went and put it away. I quietly slid it onto the shelf and sat on the floor adjacent to it. I waited for Katsuragi to leave, then ran up to the girl. I whispered, "You have to be careful with Katsuragi. I have seen what he is doing and you do not want to be part of it. He will make you fall in love and then break your heart." In response, she simply sat there with her nose in a book and did not acknowledge my presence in any way.
Before I left the library, I looked at the list of Library Club members. I knew that it would be helpful to know the girl's name if I was going to help her. One of the pictures was of a girl wearing two baby pink ribbons in her hair. The librarian was wearing bows just like that, so I assumed that it was her. Her name was Shiori Shiomiya. As I walked home, I brainstormed ways to get Shiori to listen to me. Book worms and gamers never really got along with each other, so that was out of the question. If I joined the library committee, I would be able to talk to her before, after, or during meetings. The problem was that I did not want to be stuck with having to attend meetings once a week when I should have been playing games.
I figured that maybe I could ask to join temporarily and only come to one meeting, or I could make them kick me out. I was normally not the mean and rude type, so I did not think that I could get kicked out very easily. But judging by the fact that I was about to join a club of book worm, I had a feeling that I would make it out somehow.
The next day I asked the leader if I could come to their meeting. She gave me an eager okay, but I had to contribute something to the meeting. I made a list of ideas that I could suggest to the library club. My favorite ended up being the library having a special area designated to CD's, DVD's, and games, so that modern techies like me could have our own place to enjoy. I was sure this idea would be a winner; great enough to let me withstand my position in the committee and inch closer to Shiori's bubble.
{[Hello! I will be at camp for a while so my next chapter will not be out for at least another two weeks. Sorry! Also, my apologies for taking forever to upload this chapter. I have not had internet for about three weeks… Anyways, please follow this story and if you are enjoying it, leave a like! If you have any advice for me, please leave a comment. ~aph fish and chips]}