Story: Purely by Chance --Revised-- (chapter 2)

Authors: XxDollXx

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Chapter 2

Title: 02. Lovers Tiff

We were allowed to come back Friday after our fight and by then there were whispers of us going around the school. “Did you hear? Two girls got into a fight on the first day!” “I hear the cat kicked the dogs ass!” “I heard she was a Chihuahua.” “I heard it was a tiger.” “That poor puppy!” “Dude that tiger’s an asshole.” “I heard that the dog busted into the classroom and started beating her up.” “I hear the dog was a Rottweiler.” “I heard the cat tried to get the dog’s clothes off mid-fight.” “I heard she left topless.” It was a list of little whispers that got kids staring hard when we came back to verify the validity of the rumors.

I felt my face burn as I was inspected and probably had some guys wondering if I had really walked out topless... I only noticed how bad it was when I saw her walking through a crowd of students and they parted like the red seas. She still held her head up high though… She was pretty tough. I looked towards her chest, looking for the necklace she said she would be wearing. In hindsight, it probably looked like I was looking at her boobs to everyone else… I wondered how easily it would get broken.
"Yo! Cat!" I called to her, not knowing what else to call her. Over the course of my suspension, I decided to apologize to her in the midst of my video game haze. She ignored me and kept walking. Um, what was her name...? "Teriyaki!" She abruptly turned to me looking like she was going to unhinge her jaw and bite my head off. "That is not my name!" Hey, I was trying. "Well then do you feel like reminding me of what it was?" She was already agitated with me. Her fists were clenched, and her lips were pursed. "Tereya! T-E-R-E-Y-A, Tereya! Get it through your thick head, mutt!"

I held my hands up in defeat. Seriously had she done nothing but plotted my demise over her suspension or what? "Okay, okay, Teriyaki." She hissed at me. "TEREYA!" I pursed my lips and held in a laugh. "Okay. Tereya. There, better?" She ignored me, turned on her heal, put her nose in the air, and then plugged it. "Eww... that smell..." she mumbled. “And by the way, I thought you should know I was lying. You’re the ugliest thing I've ever laid eyes on." She walked away, leaving me to stop dead in my tracks.

I felt something in my chest hurt, like it did when you couldn't breathe when you were crying. That tight feeling, the feeling that makes you cry harder. Why did it hurt this much...? Nothing usually got to me, so why did this bother me? Was it because I stayed up losing sleep over this thought, and she goes and shoots me down...

Why does this hurt so much...?

---Purely by Chance---

I ran in the classroom, late obviously. I really better not make this a habit... "I'm sorry Mr. Takemaru! My parents went out of town for work, so I had to get here myself, and we live on Takegawa, so..." He stopped me mid-sentence. "It's okay. Just take your seat, okay?" I nodded, feeling like he wasn’t too happy with me and had me on a list of kids to keep an eye on... Fuck. Tereya was at the farthest desk to the left, somewhere in the middle of the row. Not quite stereotypical main character in an anime, but pretty close. We sat at opposite ends of the room from each other. We weren't allowed to sit anywhere near each other for the entire school year. “…What did I miss?” I asked Michiru. He had taken to talking to me for whatever reason. It had happened when he was passing papers and he handed me a small one with the stack. It said “You were right to bite her” in really awful handwriting. It was a cute gesture though. I had shot him a smile and we had lunch after that.

What Tereya said to me was over a week old thought- three weeks actually. It's still bugging me... I felt pathetic for letting some random cat’s opinion of me bother me so much, but… I used music to drown out the feeling, but whenever I saw her… Well I couldn't have a pair of headphones on all the time now could I- especially in school…
" And by the way, I thought you should know I was lying. You’re the ugliest thing I've ever laid eyes on."
But...
“I said that she had wonderful blue eyes that were highlighted by her chocolate brown hair.” She cut in. I turned to her, with a slight gape in my mouth and a persisting flush. She had to be lying. No way. She was a fluent, poetic liar. “And no, like I said before, I’m not lying.”

I couldn't tell or not if I was blushing at the memory of Tereya and me lip locking. I put my head in my hands and slouched a bit. "Urusai, are you okay?" The teacher asked me. "Huh?" I looked up at him. "Your face is red, are you okay?" I guess that answers that. "Uh, n-no... I uh..." I glanced over to Tereya, who was writing with her left hand, and her other one carefully gripping her necklace as she concentrated on her work. I saw her mouth something and then smirk. Probably a smart remark. My thoughts quickly went back to earlier thoughts. It had been bugging me so much...

How could someone lie like that...?
How could someone treat someone like that...?! I could still hear her repeating those words in my head... I had no good things to say about myself as it was, and to keep thinking about what she had said wasn't helping. I put my hands over my ears and put my head down on the desk. My face felt hot again and my lips tingled at the better memory. No, no, NO! I have to pretend that it doesn't bug me, that I'm perfectly fine! (Yeah, right. If that's the case, then how come all eyes are on me or about me and Tereya...? I even heard a rumor that I was the one who kissed her because I was a total Yuri and I thought Tereya was cute. And to top it off, somehow it got out that I though her ears were cute.... why couldn't someone defend me and say that I was lying? Why couldn't someone say that she was Yuri and not me...? Because being a dog is like being the rabbit to a tiger on a food chain to cat’s social status...)
"Urusai?" I lifted my head quickly and took my hands off of my ears at the same time. I shook my head. I think I might have been a bit dizzy from running here because my head was reeling.
LIE!
I stood up and almost tripped over my own fee like a moron... "I'll take her." I looked over at the person who just said that. No, No, no. Okay, just no. I'm not going with her. "Unless, you don't want me to take you." Her voice was taunting, practically daring me to dismiss her offer for the worst. She walked over to me and said "Don't get me wrong, you just seem like you need to say something to me. You keep glaring at me, and I highly doubt I need that… That look of wanting something." She stared at me, probably wanting a response. She rolled her eyes after a minute or two, then grabbed me by my arm and said "Let’s go. We won’t fight, cross my heart." She said, making an X mark over her necklace. Oh, the irony.

We walked down the hallway for a while, and then veered left when the nurses office was the other way. "Um, could ya' let go- and aren’t we supposed to go the other way?" Did she not give half a flying fuck about more rumors starting? She was still gripping my arm and silently kept pulling me along, and only when we reached the end of the hallway did she let go. "And uh, just curious but..." She raised her eyebrow. "What?" She asked with a sigh, probably annoyed at my growing list of questions. The passiveness of it seemed worse than her anger- like I wasn’t really worth her time. "Are you... Are you bipolar?" I blurted out. "...What...?" She asked, narrowing her eyebrows and looking slightly disgusted with a mix of contempt. Okay not what I was going to ask... But she kinda scared me away from my original question, not gonna lie. "Uh, well, you just... I mean... No, wait maybe that was just really good acting... Or maybe...Yeah that's got to be it..." I grumbled to myself, making the same excuse I had kept using while it had nagged at me. But that was the same excuse that made me really question her- the same excuse that didn’t work… "...Huh?" She asked me, adding lost to the list of expressions she had earlier.

"Well, uh when we were in the office, you..." I started before she cut me off. "Oh that? “Just play that part you were given”- it’s something my mom would say a lot. It didn't mean anything to me if that's what you were hoping for." ...She must have heard that rumor too... “That was all you wanted to ask right?” Tereya turned on her heel in a way that made her hair wrap around her like a golden dress for a second, then she began to walk away, me not far behind.
Was I stupid or just plain dumb? Of course it didn’t… Like seriously if it did wouldn’t she be just as nervous around me as I was her? Wouldn’t she… God I’m so stupid I felt like crying… "...Hey..." I looked up as she turned around, a big grin on her face. "Are you hot for girls?" My eyes got wide, and I felt hot from anger. How... dare she...! I jumped on her. Maybe because I didn't want it to be true, or even just being asked about it directly like that bothered me… So I just got really pissed. And the only reason why I even said all of that about her is because she-! When I had jumped on her, she fell and hit her head. Her eyes widened at the sound of a crushing noise between our chests. "Get off, Get Off, GET OFF!" She screeched, her eyes instantly welling up from the panic I had just thrust onto her.

I jumped off of her and stared at the broken glass between us. She gasped, placing a hand over her mouth as she held back the tears. Oh, wow! Heartless people can actually cry, say what now?! Wait- OH shit no this was bad… Really fucking bad oh no, oh fuck, shit, oooohh man there are no words for how much shit I’m gonna be in because of this… I broke it- I broke the cat's necklace that would require me to marry her… I was still a minor! I still had my whole life ahead of me! I didn't want to marry her! I didn't even like her like that! I mean yeah I kinda made a big fuss over her, but that didn’t mean I wanted to marry her! "It was an accident! I didn't mean to..." I muttered biting my lower lip and staring at the floor. "I-I'm sorry..." I stammered. "Sorry!? You ruined it! I don't think you understand what. That. MEANT! You stupid fucking dog!" that was the first time I had heard her curse. "I don't wanna be with a girl! And you at that!" She hollered at me. "I-I'm sorry..." I mumbled pathetically. "No you’re not!" My head jerked up in anger at her declaring what my emotions were and weren't. "Yes I am! I'll prove it! I'll... I'll..." What would I do...? She hissed at me. " “You'll - you'll” what now? I can't hear you!" She hissed again. Ugh,... she was right...
"I'll... I'll um..." I started panicking....
"...Your parents are going out of town for a while, right?” She said randomly, her tone calming down- something about that seemed scary… I nodded to her question. “You can follow me around and do as I say until I find a way to fix this or until this all blows over- How's that sound?" I nodded feverishly- if that was all... "O-Okay!" It didn't sound that bad... But god, oh my god kill me, was I wrong...

---Purely by Chance---

"Hey, Uru." I looked up from my homework on the table. "What Nii-san..." I grumbled, sounding tired. Homework did that to me- I feel like you could tell a person wasn’t really human when homework didn’t do that to them. "Mom and dad said that you got into a fight, first day." He smirked as he opened a can of soda while half in the fridge. He had just gotten back from a trip he had been on over the summer, procrastinating because he likes school as much as a person likes being poisoned. "I wonder where I got that from..." I accused, rolling my eyes. Nii-san was always fighting, kicking some dudes ass, getting suspended, and he also took fighting classes, like karate or kickboxing or something like that. I really didn't care because I wasn't interested and they all sounded the same to me really.

He closed the fridge and wandered over. "…So, tell me something, Uru. I've heard rumors about you.“ Oh, please not those rumors, please not those… Nope. Okay door is this far away if I run now- ”Sheesh, I'm gone for a couple a weeks, and that’s what I hear?" He asked, shaking his head. I looked up from my homework, eyes wide, ears perked. "W-What'd you hear…?" There were a lot of them… But now I was worried as to what one he managed to snag.

He pulled out a chair from the other end of the table and sat. "I'm surprised you haven't heard." I have, I just wanted to know what you heard… "The person people are gossiping about usually doesn't hear what they're saying. Tell me." He laughed slightly. "True." Although I have. I don’t know who invented that bullshit lie- er, wait... I meant generally. Of course they always hear it! …Maybe the people talking? To ironically spare their feelings or maybe just make themselves feel better about talking shit? "Is it about this chick named Tereya?" Yes. "Head of the nail."
"Nail on the head, bro." I corrected. He shrugged. "I know what I'm talking about. Anyways, I heard two." Her said holding up two fingers and closing one eye. I played it off like I wasn't that interested, although I was in the utmost. I wonder if I’ve heard both of these… I turned my attention (or at least a nano-speck of it) to my homework. "Well, the first one is about you jumpin' on the kitty girl ‘cuse you wanted som' of that." I stopped writing. "Where'd they get that idea?" I asked, seriously appalled at that. I didn’t even know her like that! What the fuck!" 'Cuse you bit her ear- or so I heard." The subject of me and Tereya was very touchy one- or at least with me it was. I was shaking 'cuse I was so pissed. I didn’t want that from her! And I highly DOUBT that she wanted that from ME.

"And the other one?" He stared at me for a minute. "...Don't think your gonna like it."
"Probably won’t- if I did that’d just be fucking weird now wouldn’t it?" I sat back in my chair, my eyes locked on my informer. He stared for little bit longer, then said; "I heard that you’re like her work hound..." I put my books, pencil, pen, papers and other school crap in my bag, then slung it over my shoulder. "That one’s true." His jaw gaped open. "I'll be going over to her house in a bit, so if you want me home, call. Don't go sniffing me out, okay?" I walked upstairs to my room, leaving Nii-san to sit there with his mouth as a flytrap.

---Purely by Chance---

I went upstairs to my room, locked my door, then tossed my bag onto my bed. I crouched down and dug around under my bed, pulling out a box, taking a notebook out of it. It wasn’t anything spectacular- you could probably find the brown and black design anywhere if you felt like looking. I usually didn’t write a lot in it. Just things like “today breakfast was xxxx” or “I got that new game I wanted, xxxx”- things like that. I only wrote a lot when I was feeling really stressed out or wanted to sort my thoughts out onto paper.

I took out one of my favorite pens, opening it to the newest page as I sat on the edge of my bed. Yes, pen. I feel like you should always write in pen with a diary because it's how your feeling- you shouldn't have to correct it. Even “diary” entries were short for me- I mean highly doubt anyone sits there and writes five pages about the same thing for a half hour.

Dear book with my expression scrawled onto it,

I... I'm going to see Tereya today. I'm going to her house! I'm kinda scared to be alone with her though... After what happened last time... Plus I shouldn’t be excited but like… I get to see her room- I think. I wonder what it's like... A neko's room... huh... I bet it smells like her... For a neko, she smells alright I guess... oh whom I kidding, who's gonna read you? She smelled amazing! Perfectly wonderful... oh goddess... Her smell reminds me so much of
her… and her smile... Thinking about it makes me happy... I honestly don’t think it’s Tereya that makes me feel like this- it’s the feeling and person that it reminds me of… And her ears are adorable! I feel bad that I bit them! I bet you she would be so cute if she were to blush! I never really got a good look at her face whenever she did and besides, if it was fake or not, I couldn’t tell. I swear I’m just gonna flop over and squeal right now, she’s too cute and I hate admitting that…
I honestly kinda wanna go, but that's only because I'm getting myself all hyped up about seeing her, when truthfully, I know it‘s not gonna be that much of a big deal. Maybe I’ll even regret it. It’d be nice if we at least got along! If she wasn't agitating! If she wasn't such a
bitch!
...If I'd of been on time instead of hitting the alarm clock button again and again...
...If I'd of ran faster...
If I'd of just not said anything to her... then I could have done something later like "Hi, I'm Urusai. I was wondering if I could..." If I could what? What exactly would I say? Would I even want to be friends with her? Do I even now...? (Well, yeah. And that’s only because she smells like
her- so technically... I don’t.) And what about her response...? Would she even say yes to being friends with a dog- with me....? Why am I so worked up over her anyways? I just went through a flurry of emotions just now over a CAT! Over TEREYA!
And yet I still... I can't get my face to stop blushing whenever I think about when she kissed me, I can't get my heart to stop aching when I think about what she said to me...And… She... Fuck I can’t see right now my eyes are too blurry right now… She used me to get out of trouble! She used me... I can't write anymore... she had used me and now she was doing it again! She was using me for whatever she wanted because I didn't want to get in trouble!

Wait… What was she gonna tell her parents...? What was she gonna tell mine...? What were her parents gonna tell my parents when they found out?! Oh no...I started to cry...
....
....
....
.... I have to stop... I can't go there all teary eyed. I have to go there, with my stupid smile to cover up how scared I am- how worried I am... How much I really truthfully do want a replay of that one day in the office, with no comments afterwards...
And you can bet that wasn’t going on paper.

I put my diary away and turned my radio on... "Put your swords away, I'm already down
The higher we both climb the further we fall
Now were under looking up into the floor
And burn each other though we're dying for more
We're stuck on this dysfunction we love it to our death…
You can take your love away, but don't you ever leave me alone
burn the ghost we carried home and
Come on touch me show me your imperfect too...
" I sang, as I got dressed into a pair of black skinny-jeans with a white t-shirt. I listened to the song a few times to calm down and decided to sit on my bed. I closed my eyes for a minute, humming.

[End notes: Tereya Nekoura's theme is "Kuroi Torikage" by Kanon Wakeshima.
Her favorite sport is tennis.
Her favorite color is teal.
Her favorite food is cream puffs.
Her favorite video games are “The Witch’s House” and the “Xenosaga” series.
Her favorite books are The Night World Series by L. J. Smith.
She can play the violin. She’s a soprano. She likes horror movies with plot, not gore. She likes various types of mythology. She likes acting and has a dislike for sweets, preferring spicy food- the opposite of Urusai. She adores small cafés and diners.]

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