My Everything

The Eighth Chapter.

Disclaimer:

Characters and anything with the manga "Special A" do not in anyway belong to me. Everything belongs to the people who own the legal papers to say they own them. I'm just having a bit of fun with some spare time.

Why couldn't life just be simple.

Simple like those people over there. That girl and boy sitting smiling on that park bench beneath the shading trees. Happy just being together, equally.

I like you.

I like you too.

Let's go out.

Can it be that simple? Can it be that simple?

Hikari. Kei.

Why can't it just be like that for us?

Looking at that couple I couldn't help let out a small chuckle. It was an empty laugh. No, it was filled with disbelief that I could even consider for a second that we could be like that couple talking on the bench. A sad laughter. An angry laughter. With the beaten posture, the slight moistness beginning to wet my eyes and the small trickles of laughs that escaped my mouth; some could look at me and think that Kei Takashima had finally cracked. He had finally decided to show some sort of emotion outwards, even though the expression was somewhat maniacal and beyond everyday.

He was human after all. He wasn't just some perfect being that was moulded to be the next figure head of the Takashima group. He wasn't just this empty shell of indifference to the rest of the world. There are things in the world that can make him crack. There are things in the world that can break through that invisible exterior shell of repelling air to really touch and prod whatever is in the inside.

There are things, however insignificant that particular person may seen in the grand scheme of the world.

How did she get under my skin like this?

That girl. One girl. The girl.

Nothing in my life had before done anything thing like this to me. Never had such an effect. Never so effective at manipulating my normal trains of thought and actions into unforeseeable tangents and planes. Nothing before could have had me pitifully staring up into the blue sky with the excess moisture that was building up in the corners of my eyes. No one ever caused me to question myself and drop my mask to be playful and tease, and even more so to worry.

But she had always had this effect on me. From the time I first got hit with the electric touch and the refreshing scent. From the time she wouldn't back down from a challenge. From the time that she was the one refreshing person that treated me differently. From the time she called out my name with her confident voice "Takashima!".

"Takashima, Takashima, Takashima!"

Her smiling face and sweet voice resonated in my mind. Turning around and around, until I could have become drunk off the images and sounds. Maybe I was drunk; intoxicated by the presence of Hikari in my life. I had fallen. Fallen from that perfect image that was Kei Takashima. Fallen because of her, down to her simplistic level where only the present and no burdens of a huge corporation existed. And it could not be denied that I had fallen deep; into the deepest hole that Earth could provide.

Sighing I decided I should probably go to the computer lab. That was probably what it looked like I was doing anyway. There was some paper work that I could do for the company anyway. It would keep Grandfather happy and unsuspecting if I continued to do more than the standard amount of work. I shouldn't be sitting here and letting myself get lost in thoughts about her, bringing to the surface emotions that I didn't express as even a child. Yes, I must plunge myself back into that monotonous world to balance my mask again.

Slowly I got up from my dusty seat out side the green house. I knew that I could only look wistfully at her form afar. Even with that, just been able to be near her, I should be happy. It was a rare freedom to be able to attend school and interact with other kids my age. Dusting off the seat of my pants and blinking away the residue emotion that was left, I looked up away from the couple at the park benches.

"Takashima? Where are you going?"

Immediately I was faced with the petite being that I had been worrying about this whole time. Her face was full of curiosity as she blinked at me. I was frozen.

"Aren't you going to the green house today? Akira made some really nice tea today. You know the one that changes colour? Her magic tea that brings happiness. And the cookies she made smelt really good. I'm just hoping that Tadashi hasn't inhaled all of them by now."

She's back. And like nothing was wrong. Like she hadn't disappeared suddenly from her usual spot.

"Hikari, where did you just come from?" I managed to choke out in my shocked state sounding completely normal in my indifferent voice.

Showing me a text book she hastily replied, "Oh I just needed this book so I went to the library and borrowed it. I thought I had my copy in the greenhouse but I think that I left it at home after reading it last night."

"Oh."

And with that she happily went though the glass door with her book.

I looked up towards the sky again.

She was only gone for a couple minutes to get a book she left behind. Nothing personal about me. Really nothing to do with me at all. Just to get another textbook to add to her pile. And she walked past with blissful ignorance.

Kei Takashima, when did you become this pathetic.

it was a fast update right? ^^

thankyou again to everyone that reads my work XD

it makes me so excited that people do read it and like it.

I would like to wish everyone a happy new year and happy valentines day.

Hope you all had a good one ^^

ahh i dont know where this is going to lead too.

Maybe i will write a new chapter tomo. I would like to try writing in hikaris perspective as well.. .. hmmm anyway give me your thoughts ^^