I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't post anything ReinAi related during Valentines
Happy Valentines“An-o…Tanaka-san…please accept this chocolates…” A small girl stuttered shyly, shaking like a leaf and bowing her head, she reached out hands in which she held a heart-shaped red box.
“Thank you,” Grinning smugly, the older girl took the box and winked at her kouhai making her feel even more nervous. She then turned on her heel and quickly ran to her friends who were impatiently waiting for her report from the accomplished mission.
Reina just observed from afar the highly enthusiastic group of girls as they were talking in their high-pitched voices about her. Gradually, the smile on her face was replaced by a serious expression of cool calculation.
“Eri,” she called her friend who immediately appeared behind her back and collected the chocolates, throwing them to a large backpack. “How many we have already?”
“Ehm…let me see…” Eri dived her head into the backpack to count how many boxes it already contained. “Ten,” she answered after a while.
“Just ten?!” Reina snapped at her friend scandalized as if she was the one responsible for such a result. “Second break passes and I got only ten boxes? Last year we had already fifteen?!”
“Maybe your popularity is falling…” Her friend muttered under her breath.
“What did you say?” Reina glowered, leaning closer to her friend.
“Not-thing…” Eri squeaked fearfully. It was better not to mess with Reina when her plans were going awry.
“Good,” she smirked but then something alarming drew her attention.
At the opposite end of the schoolyard some small commotion was taking place. A bunch of first years gathered around one girl, jostling and shouting something. Reina peered to see who was the girl that suddenly gained so much attention. However, even after she caught the girl’s image, she still didn’t recognize her.
“Eri, who the hell she is?” She tugged her friend by the collar, pointing at the mysterious girl.
“Ah, you don’t know her? She is the new transfer student.”
“And?” Reina waited for further explanation as this wasn’t enough satisfying especially, that the girl seemed to be depriving her of the half of her “fan base”.
“And…she sings in a choir….” Eri said the only thing she knew about the girl yet Reina gave her a doubtful look.
“Are you making an idiot of me? You want to tell me that some choir girl is responsible for the sudden fall of my popularity?”
“So you do admit that it’s falling…” Eri murmured to herself but her friend must have heard it as a wicked glint appeared in her eyes again.
“Don’t even start…” she said through her gritted teeth. “She has to be special in some way…” Reina pondered, peering at the group of girls that seemed to grow bigger and bigger.
“Then go and ask her what is so special about her…” Eri suggested with a slight mock in her tone as she was already fed up with her friend’s moods.
“Yeah, that’s a good idea,” Reina admitted, patting Eri’s shoulder and marched toward the informal assembly. Standing just behind it, she loudly cleared her throat and in an instant all girls went mute as they saw her.
They all started to retreat from Reina’s path as she slowly made her way to the girl in the middle. “You will go with me,” she announced in a plain tone, grabbing the stunned girl by her wrist.
As they found themselves at the back of the school, she abruptly flung her aside and pinned to the wall.
Girl’s eyes widen in shock as her assailant leant closer to her, scrutinizing her as if she was some peculiar species out of this world although it was the other party who definitely looked out of place…Her skirt was way too short and had sliver chains attached on each sides. The sweater with school logo was replaced by the black leather jacket and her hair was dyed deep red...
“Hm…you are quite cute…” Reina finally spoke up after a long silence.
“Thank you…” Despite feeling uneasy, the choir girl felt obliged to thank for the compliment.
“But nothing out of ordinary,” Reina added offhandedly and this somehow threw her off balance as well as the sudden question… “So, why so many girls want to give you Valentine’s chocolates?”
Girl blinked and gently pushed away Reina as this invasion of her private space lasted long enough. “I don’t know…” she honestly admitted but gained a suspicious look anyway.
“How much you’ve got already?” Reina continued her interrogation as something was definitely fishy about this.
True the girl was pretty but Reina knew that it wasn’t enough to be just pretty. In order to be popular you had to stand out, you had to do something that would be remembered by everyone, something that would create legends about you…
Reina wasn’t stupid…the girl was definitely hiding something before her…
“I don’t have any…I didn’t accept them…” The questioned girl was visibly becoming irritated by the situation.
“Why?” Reina asked baffled.
“I can’t accept them knowing that I can’t return their feelings…”
Reina made a face as if she just heard the strangest thing anyone had ever said to her. “Feelings? Those are just chocolates.”
The choir girl snorted laughter. “You would be surprised how many meanings girls attach to those chocolates…”
“Meanings…? Man, you are strange…” Reina looked at the girl mistrustfully.
“You know, you are quite cute too…” The girl smiled but Reina just frowned in response though one could notice a pink hue on her cheeks. “You are Tanaka Reina, right?”
“Well, yeah…”
“Is it true that you’d beaten a girl so hard that she lost her sight and you went to reformatory afterwards?”
“Ugh…” Reina made a wry face hearing the famous rumor which seemed to grow bigger as last year it said only about some girl being beaten by her…Now the girl already lost her sight, so next year she will probably die…
But this was the price of popularity. Not everything what people said about you was necessarily true or pleasant. Reina also knew better than anyone that people liked to judge after appearances…So, there were those who admired her distinctive fashion sense but also those who feared her because of it, imagining God knows what…
Dye your hair and decorate your skirt with a chain and people will think that you just came out of prison…
“I didn’t beat anyone, okay?! Nor was I in a reformatory,” she defended herself fiercely.
“Okay, I believe you,” smile on girl’s face spread even wider. “I have to go,” she said, hearing the bell announcing the end of break.
“Mhm…” Reina nodded with disappointment. After all, she still didn’t know why the girl was so popular. “Hey, wait! What’s your name?!” She called after the girl.
“It’s Ai! Written with kanji for love!”
“Ai…” Reina muttered to herself, observing the girl as she ran back to school.
Who would have thought that a choir girl could be so intriguing…?
♥ ♥ ♥
Being lost in thoughts, Reina almost bumped into Eri as she entered the classroom.
“Reina! Look what I have!” Eri squealed, grinning excitedly from ear to ear. “Ta-da!” She took out from behind her back a red box of chocolates.
“Wow, awesome, chocolates…” Reina said sarcastically. “In case you didn’t notice I got ten of those,” she waved dismissively.
“But those are special!” Eri didn’t lose anything from her enthusiasm despite her friend’s coldness. “Michishige-san gave me them! You think she likes me?”
“I don’t know! Those are just damn chocolates! You will eat them anyway!” That whole chocolate talk was getting on Reina’s nerves.
“Right, I forgot that you don’t even remember who gave them to you,” Eri retorted bitterly, adopting a stern look.
“Tsk…” Reina huffed, glaring as she took her seat.
After lesson was over, she went to the school’s rooftop in order to consume her gifts in peace and silence. However, after second box she started to feel sick…
“Had too much of a good thing?” She suddenly heard an amused voice and felt even worse.
“What are you doing here?” She glowered over the intruder.
“Hey, I’m your senpai, you know? You could show me some respect, especially after how you treated me earlier.”
Reina rolled her eyes. “You should have protested back then now it’s too late.”
“Yeah, I know,” Ai grinned and sat next to the girl. “Where is your friend?”
“Her long time crush gave her chocolates, so she went to talk with her,” Reina said in an emotionless tone. “By the way, want some?” She handed her a box of chocolates.
“No thank you.”
“Oh come on, there is no “meaning” behind it. Just take it!” Reina insisted, annoyed by the girl’s attitude. Here she was acting all nice and civil and the other didn’t even appreciate that.
“But I don’t like with alcohol filling…” Ai calmly remarked and Reina felt like an idiot yet hid well that fact.
“I have with strawberry filling too…” she muttered, taking out another box from the backpack.
“Strawberries are okay,” Her senpai took one of the heart-shaped chocolates. “Mhm, good…” she winked at her
almost seductively.
Reina raised her eyebrow doubtfully. “Don’t do this…” she sighed resignedly.
“Do what?”
“Don’t hit on me…” Reina gave her a knowing look and Ai lowered her head in a gesture of a total defeat. The girl had read through her quicker than anyone.
Damn, it never went as she planned! She still needed more practice…
“Okay, point for you,” she glanced upon her and smiled. “You know, I often see you here when I have choir practice.”
“Here? Oh right, the windows of the music classroom look on rooftop,” Reina reminded herself how often she stood here, listening to the music coming from the classroom.
She liked singing herself but singing to someone’s dictation wasn’t really her thing thus she never entered any music related club.
“You are always alone when I see you here…”
“Oh no, no, no. I know what you are trying to do,” Reina moved aside a bit, giggling.
Ai just stared puzzled, wondering just how much chocolates with alcohol filling the girl had eaten.
“Now you are going to insert a talk about how lonely and unhappy I must be, caring only about my popularity. Well, the truth is that I carefully choose friends and Eri happens to be the only person whom I trust, okay?” She chuckled and took another chocolate.
“Actually, I wanted to ask if your friend is afraid of heights…” Ai said, trying hard not laugh.
“Really?”
“Yeah…”
In the end, both girls burst into laughter.
“But your version was cuter…” Ai said, wiping off tears of laughter.
“You know, you are quite funny as for a choir girl,” Reina admitted, gazing at the smiling girl. She noticed this earlier just didn’t want to admit, guess out of jealousy… but the girl had a really charming, lovely smile…
“Thanks, and you are quite nice as for a yankii,” Ai nudged her playfully.
Reina rolled her eyes, hearing the word yankii being mentioned. But she also had labeled the girl so it seemed they were square…
“Sooo have you gave anyone chocolates?” Reina asked curiously.
“You think that I would hit on you if I gave anyone chocolates?”
“Right…” she giggled at her mistake.
“And what about you? You take chocolates but do you give any?”
“Not really…you know if I really liked someone I would give them something, let’s say…more permanent …” with that she ate up another chocolate.
“That’s why you accept them, because you know that there is no true feeling behind them…”
“There is just their desire of giving me chocolates but you know…when they give me them, it means they are on my side that they don’t believe in those stupid rumors, so why shouldn’t I take them? The more I have them, the more people know the true me…”
Ai had a strange feeling that despite the popular belief, Reina neither was vain nor cared only for popularity…
“So it’s more like caring for your reputation than for your popularity?”
“It’s more like I’m trying to fight my reputation,” Reina chuckled, “but I do admit that I like to be in the centre of the attention and I can’t help it,” she shrugged nonchalantly.
“Maybe if you didn’t wear these clothes, it would be easier to fight that
yankii reputation of yours,” Ai suggested, tugging her leather jacket.
“Oh please, just admit that I look hot in them,” Reina leant closer to her, smirking temptingly. Ai had to admit that the girl was much better in this than she.
“You know…” she drawled quietly as somehow the atmosphere grew more intimate. “I don’t think I have anything permanent which I could give you but…” she wasn’t allowed to finish as Reina cunningly used the situation to sneak her tongue into her mouth…
Being taken aback at first, it took Ai sometime to properly respond and begin the battle for dominance since after all, she was the senpai and she also had a reputation to defend… She wrapped her arm around girl’s waist and pulled her closer to deepen the kiss. A quiet moan escaped Reina’s lips and Ai smirked smugly at the back of her mind…
“Well…”Reina gasped for air as she pulled away, “it’s okay…just ask me on a date…”
“A date with a choir girl?” Ai asked, raising mockingly her eyebrow.
“Yeah, it may improve my reputation,” Reina stood up, reaching her hand to girl. “As well as yours…” she added, sticking out her tongue.
“Hey!” Ai gently whacked her shoulder.
Reina just giggled, taking into one hand her backpack and into second Ai’s palm. Smiling at each other, they left the rooftop.
“Ah!” Ai suddenly shouted as they were on the stairs.
“What?” Reina asked confused.
“I forgot something!”
“What?”
“Happy Valentines…” Ai said simply, squeezing gently girl’s palm.
Reina shook her head grinning. “I told you that already but I will repeat this, you are strange…”
“Oh please, just admit that you like this about me…” Ai said, mocking Reina’s nonchalant tone and leant forehead against hers.
Finally Reina realized why the choir girl gained so much popularity…she was simply too adorable to resist…plus…she was a damn good kisser…
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