Hot Gimmick Fan Fiction ❯ Something to Fall For ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Something to Fall For

 

By: RisuBento

 

Chapter Two: Uh-oh…

 

Disclaimer: I own nothing in regards to Hot Gimmick or Miki Aihara. But I 'do' own the plot.

 

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"See you later Akane!" I yelled, waving to my younger sister, before heading off to my high school.

 

Poor Akane. She and Subaru were in the middle of a break----a LONG break. And let me tell you…IT'S DRIVING ME INSANE!

 

Akane has been coming home in tears for about a week now, saying that she misses him but is too afraid to confront him. So…she comes to me and asks for "LOVE" advice.

 

All I do is pause, quirk an eyebrow, before sighing. I've told her that I have no experience with relationships----and that she'd blunt yet so…sweetly (note the sarcasm) pointed out that I'm still a virgin---and that she's better off asking someone else.

 

She WON'T leave me alone. So I try my best, giving her advice---from some teen magazines I read (but I'm not telling her that)---and calming her down enough to think things through. When she finally agrees that I'm right---in some things---she gets up and locks herself in the bathroom and takes a long bubble bath. Which tends to get in the way of the rest of the family's need seeing as how it's the 'only' bathroom in the complex.

 

Whatever.

 

Anyway…

 

I wanted to get away from the apartment early this morning so I could go down to the public library for a while. I want to research something. It's been on my mind since…since my 'fiasco' with Ryouki…

 

That was about 4 months ago…I haven't been able to get out of my "Johnny Raincloud" mood since then. I've noticed it as well. My moods have been…dark. I sometimes find myself thinking about things that I would have NEVER thought before.

 

Things like…death. I've begun to right poetry…just letting my mind and feelings blab themselves onto the paper. It scares me to think about things like that. I didn't think it was anything 'too' important until I read an article in a newspaper about a congressman's son had committed suicide and had been suffering from depression for a long time.

 

Depression.

 

I didn't know anything about it.

 

I was curious. I 'knew' that depression had to do with many things…sadness mostly. That's why I was going to the library. I wanted to learn more about it.

 

I haven't been the same since I was 'freed' from Ryouki's blackmail. At first it felt nice to be able to go anywhere, with anyone I pleased, without having Ryouki breathing down my neck about it. After a few weeks though…I'd begun to feel empty. Almost like I was missing something.

 

My mom was asking me the other day if I was feeling fine. I told her I was after I'd looked at her strangely. She then mentioned, with concern, that I'd been acting strange lately---almost as if I was upset about something.

 

I shrugged it off with an "I'm okay…really. You worry too much mom." But deep down I knew that there was something inside of me that wasn't right. I just didn't know what.

 

So…to the library we go!

 

Er…that sounded kinda stupid. Whatever.

 

I was walking around a corner when I suddenly ran into someone. I stumbled back and they stumbled forward, falling on top of me onto the ground. I gasped and cringed at their weight on my lungs.

 

"Well, well…Narita Hatsumi…" Came a deep voice I'd hadn't heard in almost 4 months. I went stark white, and my body froze. My eyes almost popped out of my head.

 

Ryouki Tachibana.

 

I screeched really loud and shoved him off me, to which he reacted by grunting and stumbling to his feet, all the while sporting that cocky smirk of his.

 

We stood looking at one another for a moment before I finally came to my senses and turned to walk away. Until he grabbed my arm and swung me back around and tightly in his arms.

 

I felt my face heat up as I was squished against his chest rather tightly. I yelled out to let me go and struggled in his grip.

 

Then he was kissing me.

 

I gasped against the rough shock and wasn't able to move. My eyes…I SWORE they were the size of hubcaps…

 

When I wasn't responding, he grew angry and kissed me harder, making me cry out when his teeth cut into my lip. I struggled and fought against him even harder. When he finally pulled away, his smirk was replaced once again, along with my blood, from my lip, smeared upon his lip.

 

I reacted in just the way I'd seen in the movies---I reeled my arm back and I slapped him---SO HARD. So hard in fact, that he'd stumbled and actually fell to the ground. He looked up at me with wide, shocked eyes, his hand reaching up to clutch his reddened cheek.

 

I didn't know what hit me until I was also stumbling to the ground, clutching my newly slapped and reddened cheek, and looking up in the angry red face of Mrs. Tachibana…

 

Shit.

 

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