Note: Bored and if this chapter sux i'm sorry!! OH! and the points of view switch:(
The bell that hung from the door of De La Morte Cafe rang and i heard the crowd hush. The click of boots rocked the tiled floor and the bench of the counter slid out. Four soft feet flew onto the counter and the cafe filled with a loud purring as the crowd's noise filled the room again as if on the flick of a switch.
I sat on the bench of the men's locker room and stared at the floor holding my shirt in my hands. Last night i couldn't sleep at all. That damn boy! What the hell was he thinking?! He... but i didn't even want to think about it! The feeling of his lips on my cheek lingered as my mind flashed back to that moment after school. I blushed at the thought and shook my head. "No. I shouldn't let that little--"
"Hey,AKeno!" Kagan yelled from the door.He gave me a confused and frightened expression. Then he looked down at my chest and blushed a bit.
"Yes?" I asked as i looked over at him.
"Were you just talking to yourself?" He asked as he arched an eyebrow.His eyes darted from my face to my chest.
"Um....yeah,"I admitted sheepishly. There was silence between us for a moment.
"Well anyway. There's this really hot girl at the counter. She's...requesting you for some reason though i don't know what she sees in you!" Kagan laughed and when i didn't join him he turned his laughing into a spasm of coughing."Just kidding." He left then and the door swun back and forth.I sighed and pulled my shirt over my head and tied my apron in the back. I looked in the mirror and rearranged my spikes. It's true that i didn't care what people thought of me but I cared if i looked like a dirty slob.
I opened the door and left the locker room. I looked down at my heavy combat boot and brushed off my black apron. As I looked up i gasped!Shiji Koza, in all his girlish apearence, was sitting dantily at the counter sipping a chocolate milkshake.
I was about to walk in the other direction, when Kagan ambushed me.
"Hey Akeno! That's her! Isn't she cute? Next time you pick up a girl, count me in on the fun!" He elbowed me in the stomach and shook out his arm as if it hurt. Well i don't work out for nothing, I thought.Hey but wait! Has this guy seen me?! I'm not exactly the guy girls approch willingly!My mind flashed to the sean of Amber giving me chocolate yesterday. Well, let me refraze that. I'm not some guy sanegirls approch willingly!Oh well.
I walked over to the counter where Shiji sat.
"What?" I asked. he must have some good reason for asking for me.
"Oh hey,Akeno!"He thrilled in his girlish voice. But you could abviously see that he was a guy. Or maybe just a girl with a flat chest...
"Don't 'Oh hey Akeno' me! You called me over here. What do you want?"I asked. Okay. Maybe i'm being a little mean but he didn't seem fazed. In fact he blushed.
"What?!" I asked.
Shiji gave a little snicker and looked over his shoulder. Then he looked back at me and looked down to cover his face in the lime green and black stripped gloves he was wearing. In fact, his outfit was less than anything a guy would wear. Short black shorts with crossed silver studded belts, long green and black stripped stokings that were tucked into black combat boots much like my own, a black ripped hoodie with the sleeves torn off with crosses stiched into the fabric, and a hat that looked like it had cat ears. And of course that white bandanna that he never takes off. Is he a cross-dresser or something? I wondered. Back to reality.
"Oi! What's so funny?!" I asked, getting fed up with his game.
"Seems as though your regular cusomers are shooting icy daggers at me! I think they think i'm a girl!" he burst into laughter. Well what do you expect dressing like that?!I thought angrily. but I looked behind him anyway, and sure enough all the girls(even the ones with guys with them) were glaring at Shiji like he was a terroist!I looked down at Shiji.
"hey! if you want to make them really mad, come here!" And before i could do anything, Shiji yanked on the collar of my shirt and blew into my ear. he smelled like bitter chocolate. I pulled back and pinned myself to the other end of the counter.
"WHAT THE HELL??!!" I nearly yelled, but fortunetly, the anger screams of the girls got in the way of my own. Am I relly that popular?I wondered.Heh. I dout it in that way...
"hey Akeno, please go get me some chocolate covered strawberries!" Shiji said. Well at least he ordered something. I ran back to the kitchen to get away.
**SHIJI**
I giggled and sipped my milkshake till i felt a hand land on my shoulder. A girl with fake blonde hair spun me around, me still holding my milkshake and sipping intently.
"Hey,bitch! What do ya think your doin'?!" He hissed in my face. She smelt like fake strawberries and it made me gag.
"Oh, whatever do you mean?" I asked, fakeing innocence(just like her).
SHe growled. "I mean! What's with you all over Rem-kun??!!" The gils in the back all echoed a "yeahhhhh" in unision.i just giggled agin.
(*authors note: 'Kun' referrs to a boy who is familiar!!*)
"Don't talk about him like your so familiar," i said and gave them my best icy glare which make the blonde step back. "I bet you don't even know his favorite colour!"Wellll...I don't either but it's best not to tell them that, i thought.
The girls shriked. "You piece of--" and then it happened. The girl was bumped from behind and fell into my chest. I could feel her eye widen and she immediately stood up straight. "OH MY GOD!!" She shrieked!
"Jeez what's wrong, Sam?" another girl asked.
"She's--I-I mean He's a crossdresser!! No! A trans??!"She shrieked as the other's gasped. I just sat there and siped my drink. I get this all the time. Even from my own family.
"Wrong," I said between sips.
They all gave a collected "HUH?"
"I said 'wrong'. I'm a guy, yes. But i'm no cross-dresser or trans. If you haven't noticed. My cloths don't have to be girl cloths. I refuse to wear skirts so i'm no cross-dresser and i don't see how thses cloths could be girly in anyway." I closed my eyes as i sipped. Okay, that last one was a lie.i thought.
The girls seemed to freeze. "You've got to be kiddin me," a girl in the back said. And at that moment, The doors to the kitchen opened and i spun around, back to the counter.
**AKENO**
I sighed as i came out of the kitchen with the tray. Damn, we didn't even have chocolate covered strawberries on the menu and it seems Mr. Flint chose today to be a romantic! he even put hearts on them!Geeezzz, i thought and sighed again.
I looked up to see everything the way i found it.Good. The last thing i needed was to have the place torn up by angry females. I put the tray down in front of Shiji and he looked up. His eyes sparkled green."is that all?" i asked.
"Oh yes--"He stopped short as he glanced at the treats. "AWWWWW! Akeno! I didn't know you felt this way about me!" I arched an eyebrow as a fork cam flying in the direction of Shiji's head. I cought it before it touched his hair and put it on the counter. He looked down at it and back up at me. I wonder what that was about,I thought.Maybe...I didn't leave it all as i left it after all.I smiled to myslef.
"Hey i wasn't the one to put those things on them," I said. I started to leave when Shiji caught my sleeve. I looked down at him and he was looking up at me with big, round eyes."Thank you so much!!"He said.
Just then, something sharp dug into my back. No, somethings sharp dug into my back, ripped into my shoulder, and pounced onto the counter.
"What the--" i began to say when i looke down on the counter to see a big gray cat purring next to Shiji's arm. "Hey! No pets in the dinner!" I said.
"You...don't like cats?" he asked.
"No," i said simply.
Shiji looked like a kicked puppy but somehow i didn't feel sorry for him...um...well. Shiji looked up at me with the biggest eyes i've ever seen and looked as though he was about to cry. My words got stuck in my throught. And that's when i noticed that his face was next to mine. He had been leaning into me. I was about to pull away, when something icky and wet splaced over his head and onto my face.Ewwww...what...was that? I thought.
Shiji gasped like a fish as he removed the stuck-together strads of hair from his eyes. There was a girl in back of him with a glass in her hand and that's when i relized that the girl with the blonde hair had dumped Shiji's milkshake onto his head. And...for reasons i couldn't fathom, i was really mad...and so was she.
"You think you can just do that in front of me??!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. "AKENO-KUN IS MINE!!"
Silence passed throughout the cafe.
"Um...yours" i asked. "And who...are you again?"
Her cheeks flushed and she ran over to me and grabbed my apron straps. "DAMNIT AKENO!! i sit in here everyday just waiting for you to ask me out!AND WHY DON'T YOU??!" she screamed in my face. Now i was mad.
"Excuse me, but i'm not looking for a tender relationship,"I said in an icy voice that would have frove california if it were possible. She looked at me like i had just slapped her. tears welled up into her eyes and she ran out of the cafe as a whirl of paper flew out of her pocketbook. I raised an eyebrow as i snached one of them from the air. I flipped it over to realize that it was a picture of me. In fact, as i flipped over more, they were pictures of me everywhere in town, even near my own appartment!! Yeah, like i said before. No sane girl would approch me willingly. I thought.
Shiji bent down and picked some up."Wow, can you say "Stalker"?" He said and some of the girls snickered. I looked up at Shiji and felt pitty. his hair was matted down with chocolate and his cloths were stained. i know i'm going to regret this...damnit!!I bit my lip and stood up.
"hey, Shiji. Come on fallow me!" I grabbed his arm and led him back to the locker room. I threw a towel in his face and grabbed my bag out from my locker. Kagan was in the back smoking so i said a rushed, "hey i've gotta go." and i didn't even wait to hear his answer.
I turned the corner and walked into my apartment building. We climbed up the stairs till we got to my door. I opened it and Shiji walked in. By this time he had his eye closed and was putting his hands out blindly. I was about to help him when he tripped into the arm rest to the couch and fell with a little "ahhh!"
I sighed and walked over to the small table and sat as he was trying to sit up. I removed the towel from around his shoulders and wipped around his face, careful not to hurt his eye. "Oh, arigato!" He said meekly as he grabbed the towel and finnished himself. When he was done, he gave me the towel and smiled. I gave a weak smile. he looked around and asked,"Where am I?"
"Your...at my place," i sighed. I looked around and glanced at Shiji who was a sticky mess.Ew.
"Hey, um. I don't mean to sound rude, but could i use your shower?" He asked. Well that was surpriseing, but i don't want to see him like this, I thought. "It dosn't seem likey that we're going to school anyway."He continued.
I nodded and he got up. I was about to when his hands came to my shoulders and kept me down. before i could say anything, i felt it. It was rough and wet. his tounge on my cheek. He liked from the corner of my lip to the center of my cheek. I stayed still out of shock. he let go and danced over to the bathroom door like he knew where it was. he stopped at the door and looked over his shoulder. "You had some chocolate on your cheek," he said before dispearing behind the door. I got up shakily when i heard the water runnning.
"I knew i was going to regret this," I said under my breath.
OH! geez!! but that's not the problem! here!! Shiji Koza, a boy i don't even know is in my appartment!! I got up and ran to my room, something i haven't done since i was four.
Chap.4/end
Sorry to end it now. I promise there will be more continuing where this left off but i need to think. hope you like and sorry again if it sux!
