Long Awaited

Reiya chewed on her blueberry flavoured bubblegum continuously in class. She felt herself yawn and stared at the teacher with her hazelnut brown eyes. She balled her fist in stress.

Why can’t I understand chemistry!? It’s the only thing I suck at!, she thought.

“ Makihara-san, do you understand this? And stop eating bubblegum in my class!” Taiki-sensei scolded her gently, “ You may be one of the best students but not in my subject. Seriously, what did I ever do to deserve this?” He added with a sigh.

Reiya could only smile sheepishly.

“ Well, Taiki-sensei, what do you expect from a tomboy like her?” A guy behind her said.

The young 16 year old turned around angrily, “ Shut up Koushiro-kun. At least I’m positive I won’t get STD’s”

“ Excuse me but I’m not that kind of playboy who sleeps with girls just like that. I have class.” The jet black hair youngster retorted.

“ Be quiet both of you!”

“ Yes sir”

“ That’s more like it”

Yusuke Koushiro was the son of a CEO from one of the top companies in Japan. However he prefers not to be in his father’s shadow. He is a ladies man, but even so, he’s a playboy that every girl should stay away from. Every girl that he has dated cried for he dumps them in such a cruel way. Just by saying 2 simple yet hurtful words, “ You’re stupid”.

Taiki-sensei sighed once more. His class was filled with weird students and he had to face that fact.

--

Reiya sat with her 2 best friends at the marble outdoor table in the school garden. Her burgundy button-up school shirt had two buttons undone and her white neck tie loose. She was feeding herself with the food that had been placed in front of her by Miyaki’s guard.

Her blonde haired friend sighed, “ Rei, eat slowly or you’ll choke.”

“ That will never work, Miya” Ayane said as she braided her auburn long hair.

Reiya just nodded with a smile.

“ I wonder when you’ll change though” Ayane wondered.

“When cats have horns” Reiya said herself.

Her friends could only sweatdrop.

--

Taiki-sensei sat on his table, crossing his leg the next day, “ Ok class. Get in group of 5. You’ll be doing a project”

Miyaki smiled and immediately dragged her friends over to Koushiro and his best friend, Ryota. Koushiro just smiled and shook his head. He knew that his best friend was crushing over the hottest girl in the school and vice versa but what was he to do; both were utterly dense to notice. His sepia brown eyes moved over to Reiya who huffed and sat in the empty seat beside him. “ Stupid chemistry project. You’re going to do all the work”

“ Well, it’s not like I want your help” Koushiro said.

Taiki-sensei noticed the pair and just scowled before explaining about the project.

--

Even though given two months to complete and send the project, Koushiro thought that should at least spend 4 days a week doing it. At least they’d relax earlier, to his idea.

For the first week they’ve only been researching.

For the second week, they’ve been piling up the information they needed and during this faithful week, Reiya had received a news she thought she’d never hear. She was to move school to overseas. She had to leave her 16 years in Japan to follow her parents to Germany. Miyaki and Ayane was the first two to know, but then they were the only ones who knew when and to where she was moving to.

For the third week of their project, both Reiya and Koushiro finally got along. Thank God, prayed Taiki-sensei.

After a while, like many stories, hatred turns to love. Well, it goes the same here, for now.

Koushiro realised that as much as a tomboy as Reiya acted, her figure and looks did not match. Her raven shoulder length black hair was held in a high ponytail by a thick black rubber band. Bright playful eyes moved left to right, reading the book. Her elegant left hand steadied her head as she focused while her right hand splayed on the two pages of the opened book, slim fingers guiding her once in a while. The school shirt that she still wore hugged her curves perfectly, showing every guy what they wanted. Her smooth legs were crossed, causing the school pleated skirt to be shorter than it was suppose to be, showing Koushiro her milky firm thigh.

However, those images of Reiya were shattered when out of the blue, she threw the chemistry book she was reading across the room.

“ I DON’T UNDERSTAND A FREAKING THING!” She screamed in stress.

Koushiro could only sighed at the girl, “ May be I should teach you a few stuff before you ruin our project”

Reiya looked at him, expression saying ‘ no duh’.

“ First of all, go get that book back!” Koushiro ordered her as he pointed over to the book sprawled on her black carpeted floor. He heard her scowl as she got up.

When she sat back down, Koushiro took the book from her, “ First all, what’s the meaning of chemistry”

“ A subject filled with complicated equations and long difficult names of substances that can help us do experiments” Reiya lazily blurted out.

The young boy’s left eye twitched. He rolled up 4 pieces of paper together and with it, he hit the member’s head.

“ Ow!”

“ Chemistry is the study of the composition, structure, properties and interactions of matter!”

“ Got it” Reiya mumbled as she massaged her head.

They continued for several minutes with Reiya constantly got hit, and Koushiro constantly get yelled by Reiya until the three other members finally decided to join them.

“ Well, aren’t you guys getting along great” Miyaki said sarcastically.

“ I see that you and Ryota-kun is getting along a LOT” Reiya smirked, not a hint of sarcasm was noticed, only the truth.

Miyaki and Ryota had entered her room holding hands and from the looks of it, neither of them seems want to let go.

“ Thank you for finally joining us” Koushiro spoke up.

“ Sorry we got held up by the librarian. She needed help with a few books. Such useless assistants she have” Ryota said as he said down on the sofa they were gathered.

“ I see. Let’s continue where we all left off” Koushiro said, acting like the leader of the group. He then turned his head to Reiya, “ You, in the other hand, understand and do the chemical equations! It’s not as hard as biology and physics”

Reiya rolled her eyes but did what she was told.

--

Sepia brown eyes glanced at the door from the bed. Koushiro smirked as he could hear Reiya’s voice coming from the hall. He continued his work as he waited for the unlady-like girl to enter but as soon as she did, she yelled at him for asking her to come on a Sunday evening. She rambled on for a few minutes and finally stopped when the young man threw his pillow to her head. She huffed and sat on his bed beside him, muttering incoherently. After a while, she finally asked, “ Where’s the others?”

“ They called the last minute saying they can’t come. So thank you for coming. I appreciate it” Koushiro answered as he arranged a few papers on a black cardboard.

Reiya just shrugged and took the laptop beside the cardboard and brought it closer to her. Seconds later, Koushiro had the urge to slap the girl’s head when he heard her playing on his laptop. He looked at her with a frown but it soon disappeared as he saw her laughing, though it sounded like a cruel laugh. Koushiro could merely chuckle and this action had made Reiya stop and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. She closed the laptop and looked at him, “ What’s so funny?”

Koushiro just smiled and shook his head. Reiya’s expression was the same. She looked at him curiously before forcefully taking a piece of paper from his hand, “Smart in chemistry but suck at arrangements.” She rearranged the information on the cardboard, not letting Koushiro to help.

14 minutes later, Reiya sat up straight smiling proudly at her work. “Look much better and easier to understand”. Koushiro agreed to it and thank her for coming.

“ Oh yeah, Reiya, when are you moving?” Koushiro asked but in actual fact, he didn’t want her to leave.

Reiya’s smile faulted and she just shrugged. She fell backwards, resting her head on his midnight blue covered pillow, “ anytime. That’s what I was told”

“ You don’t really have to leave you know. You can go against your parents once in a while,” He muttered. Reiya laughed whole heartedly as she sat up once more, “ I doubt it will change their minds. Never thought that you’ll --,”

Reiya was cut short by Koushiro’s lips crushing against her. She was shocked at his actions but as his right arm went around her waist, she slowly closed her eyes and went with the moment. The kiss went slower and more passionate causing the guy to lie her down on his bed. Soon, his lips left hers and trailed down her neck, muttering once, “ I want you”. Reiya felt a tad pain causing her to let out a sound she thought she might never hear. Koushiro’s left hand immediately shot up to her mouth, shutting her up. He went up to her right ear, and whispered huskily, “ Don’t be too loud. The maids and butlers might hear you”. Reiya could only nod, closing her eyes.

Reiya panted heavily. Koushiro laid beside her, caressing her cheek, “ You’re not mad right?” “ Though you usually think like an adult, you tend to lose that and realise that you….and me still have teenage hormones” Reiya said. He chuckled and kissed her lightly on the lips. She sat up, pulling the covers over her chest as she looked the ground of her left. She gritted her teeth and looked at Koushiro who just smiled, “ you’re doing that all over again. Arrange it like I did. It’s your fault you didn’t put it away earlier.”

Reiya got out of the bed, putting on her clothes. Checking her watch, it was already 9pm. She frowned. “ I’ve got to go. Too bad this is going to be a one-night stand”. Koushiro’s smile disappeared, looking at her in confusion. She just smiled and leaned in, giving him a kiss. “I’ll remember this day though. See you tomorrow morning.” Before she could go any further, he grabbed her wrist, “ Woah. Hold on, I never meant this night to be a one night stand. I’m not that kind of playboy. Actually when you look back, I can’t really be categorized as a playboy”

The hazelnut eyes girl seemed surprised but covered it with a scowl, “ Idiot. Now what type of tomboy do you take me for? Hm.. I hope no one knows of this”

Koushiro smirked, “ You just act tomboyish but you’re not. You dress like a girl. It’s just your personality.”

Reiya stared at him and sighed, “ I seriously got to go. My driver will be here in a few he said.”

“ This is not a one night stand. Repeat after me” Koushiro tightened his grip.

“ Ouchhhh!! I can’t say it if you’re hurting me!” Reiya slapped his hand. He let go automatically not realising what he had done. Reiya rubbed her wrist and started walking away, “ See you tomorrow, Kou-chan!”

Koushiro looked at his palm before tightening it into a fist as he cursed, “damn her! I’ll get you tomorrow!”

--

The classroom door slammed open early in the morning. Koushiro entered with a cold expression. He scanned the class and when he saw the girl who left him the night before, he stomped his way towards her, slamming his bag against her table. Reiya looked up and raised an eyebrow, “ well well well, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed today?”

“ you!” He pointed his finger but Reiya put it down saying it’s rude. He growled and she smiled at him but even so, her eyes showed something else and before Koushiro could say anything, the girl interfered, “ I’m leaving today to Germany”

Those words struck Koushiro like a thousand swords. He frowned a little, standing in silence for a couple of seconds before saying, “ I don’t care. We’re done with the project anyway”

Reiya chuckled, “ Thought so” However, there was a tint of disappointment in her as he said that. Koushiro nodded as he rummaged through his pocket for something. When he finally found it, he dangled it in front of her face, “It fell off from your phone last night”. It was a keychain made from smooth wire mesh and was artistically bent so Reiya’s name seen and ended with a shape of a wing. “ Keep it. For memories of the girl who acts like a guy”

Koushiro gritted his teeth, “ I don’t want it”.

“ Suit you then” Reiya muttered as she took it from him. With that the boy walked to his seat behind her but his eyes never left her.

Miyaki and Ayane grinned and bent down to Reiya’s head level, “ Oh, so even without us, you still stayed with him last night huh?” Miyaki said. Reiya nodded, “yeah, and no thanks to you. We arranged the information already”. Ayane narrowed her dark brown eyes, “ is that all you did?”. Reiya didn’t want to say anything and luck was on her side, the teacher had already entered, causing everyone to enter.

Both Reiya and Koushiro weren’t paying attention to what the teachers been teaching. Koushiro was contemplating about the girl in front of her that will be gone in a few hours to some foreign country. He didn’t want her to leave. Not yet that is. He wanted her to be with him. She was like a drug to him. Once was not enough for him. He wanted to touch her lips again. He wanted her in his arms. He loved her for being different!

He looked up at the clock. It’s just 1pm. School ends at 3. Therefore, I have a few hours until she leaves, which might be in the evening, He calculated. However, he’s calculation was wrong. He may be one of the smartest but he’s still human. He realised that he doesn’t really know what time she’ll leave. That was until someone entered the room and called for her. Reiya nodded and packed her bag. She stood up and was about to head to the front of the class when Ayane stopped her, “ Will you be heading straight to the airport?”

“ Yes. My flight is at 2.45.” Reiya pulled her friend into a big bear hug. “ I’m going to miss you guys”. She went over to Miyaki and did the same thing. Miyaki wiped her friend’s tears, “ Oh Rei. Don’t worry, will you? It’s not as if we can’t just fly there. I am part German you know.” Reiya nodded and went to the front. She bowed to the class and bowed to her English and class teacher, Aino-sensei. She was about to step out of the class when she stopped and smiled, “ You guys better don’t forget me!Don’t be a stranger!”. With that the class said goodbye but all was quiet after she left, so Aino-sensei started to continue her teaching. Despite that, Koushiro paid no heed to her. He was tapping his foot in irritation. He massaged his temples and finally made up his mind. He slammed his palms against his table, standing up and running out of the class but not before saying, “ Damn her!”. Aino-sensei was shocked but sighed. Seconds later, Ryota, Miyaki and Ayane followed suit by running out of the class. Aino-sensei rubbed her forehead in a circular motion, “ All of the best students skipping class!What a day”

“ We’ll go in first, dear. Don’t be late” Reiya’s mother said. The daughter nodded as she drank her ice-blended café latte. She stayed behind until it was 15 minutes till her departure. She stood up and left the café, heading towards her boarding gate. Reiya was already a few metres away from the gate when she stopped. She looked at her passport and sighed. Taking one step forward, a hand rested on her shoulder, causing her to turn around. “ Sorry miss, but you dropped your boarding pass”. Reiya smiled and bowed in thanks. She sighed again and began her way but again something stop her by grasping her right wrist. She turned around and soon her lips were enveloped with a kiss. She felt herself smiling and wrapped her arms around the tall guy. Reiya broke the kiss and smirked, “ I thought you didn’t care?”

The spiky haired boy ignored the comment and held out his palm, “Give me the keychain”

“ I thought you didn’t want it” Reiya teased as she put her hand into the pocket of her skirt. “ Oh shut up.” Koushiro muttered as he took it from her. Reiya laughed lightly and kissed him on the cheeks, “ Don’t stick to it too long. We’re just 16. We’ll find someone else eventually. Throw it if you must for I won’t be coming back here anytime soon. Not even for holidays.”

“ I can go to Germany and meet you”

“ You don’t know where I live” She patted his cheeks. Reiya looked at his lips but before she could lean in, Koushiro had beaten her to it by placing a gentle kiss on hers. Reiya could only smile slightly before turning around, continuing her way to the gate. Koushiro still held her hand but slowly as she moved away, his palm became empty.

--

Author’s note: Sorry if there is a typo or anything. It’s my first time, so please no flames. I was just wondering how my story is like, whether it’s good or not.