note.
Thank-you for all the kind comments and well-wishes. I think returning was a good idea. I've had some family losses during the time I was gone and writing had been the furthest thing from my mind unfortunately.
track 58.
After what Naruto had said, all that ran through his head day and night was Sakura. But not how Sakura would normally appear to him. Not all bright and colourful and saturated. Instead it was always against dim navy. Like his sheets. He admitted bitterly.
Staring at the pale pink of her hair in class, Sasuke tried to look somewhere else but found his line of sight attached to her like a magnet. Feeling a buzz shiver through his desk, he looked down at his phone - expertly hidden behind the combined height of his books and pencil case - 'Message from Sakura' it read. He swiped straight away, Sakura wasn't the type to go on her phone during lessons if it wasn't something important.
[ Why are you staring at me ? ]
He ran a hand through his face and heard her stifle her laughter. How did she know? Sakura was definitely some extra-terrestrial being with eyes at the back of her head or sixth sense abilities or something. It would surely explain her inhumane strength - another message interrupted his train of thought.
[ So you were staring then ? XD ]
Dammit.
[ I wasn't staring ] He texted back.
[ You forgot a full stop. ]
She replied lightning fast, as if she needn't even think of her reply. Sasuke supposed that she really hadn't, she was annoying the way she needed texts to be punctuated. Said they were a modern replacement for letters due to their convenience and not to dumb people down but limiting their language abilities to colloquialisms and non-standard grammar. Didn't seem to hear him when he said emojis weren't part of such movement though.
[ No need to be shy. I'd stare too. ;3 ]
[ I wasn't staring . ]
Sakura ignored him completely, typing away even before his reply. [ Well , I did try to do something to my hair today but failed spectacularly . But thanks for noticing anyway . ]
Did she? He attempted to make his gaze less noticeable as he scanned pink locks again. Noticing the slight frizz at the ends, likely made by over heating them with something over and over, he realised that Sakura really did just try. She'd done a decent job of taming it, but now that she mentioned it - her hair did seem a little more unruly than normal… Messier in a way...
Which brought him back to his previous situation of despair and shamefulness.
Why did she have to make it look like she just rolled out of bed of all things? And today of all days?
[ I tried to do the messy waves that all the models seem to have . You know the ones where they look like they just rolled out of bed ? Failed though . ;D ]
Sasuke was drained at this point. Problem was, he couldn't decide whether it was because he was incredibly turned on by everything his girlfriend seemed to do these days or because she was so blatantly and obliviously making it worse.
Only one thing was apparent. Leaning back onto the wooden chair, he sighed as quietly as possible to not disturb the rest of the class.
Sakura is so annoying.