Forbidden Blue (On HOLD)

Chapter 3

We saw Roan in the middle surrounded by a gang of people, as usual, most were girls. “Hey!” he shouted when he saw the two of us walk in. We went over to him. “So, how was it? He didn’t try to kill you with his penetrating glare did he?” He said, impersonating Sensei’s hard stare with an uncanny similarity.

“Not quite,” I said, thinking about whether to tell him or not.

“Don’t be so modest,” Midori said and elbowed me in the ribs, “You’re going to be so happy with him Roan.” She said mysteriously.

“What? What? You can’t just let her say that and then not continue…” he complained like a five year old child.

“Well, I’m not sure if I should tell you…” I said vaguely.

“Aww, c’mon!” he whined pitifully, looking at me with puppy dog eyes that he’d used to get his way with countless girls.

            I laughed at him, “Not the puppy dog eyes, no, save me!” I yelled in mock horror. He stopped them and looked at me blankly. “Okay, okay, well, erm…” I got slightly self conscious at that point as I noticed that most of the eyes in the room were looking me way.

“Oh, why are boys so stupid! You like being the centre of attention when it’s about something pointless like entertainment or making a fool out or yourselves, but when it comes to something actually worth shouting about, you go all quiet and shy! You’re all hopeless.” Midori said, exasperated.

“Fine, fine, there’s no need to be like that,” I said and kissed her on he forehead, “I’ve got private lessons with Sensei.” I said quietly without taking my eyes of Midori’s, the whole room fell into a hushed silence, I looked at Roan, slightly worried for some strange reason.

“Well then,” Roan said loudly, a slight gleam in his eye, “This is cause for a celebration… Let’s PARTY!” A cheer rang through the common room; Mine and Roan’s parties were legendary, even though I say so myself; everyone wanted to get into them, but it was strictly on invitation only.

I smiled at Midori as we watched Roan organise the usual people into doing different jobs, “Right, it’ll have to be tomorrow night now, it’s too late to do it tonight, let’s get started people. Jobe…”  I watched him tell Jobe what to do and smiled as the ‘regulars’ began their jobs.

The people that were always invited were my group of friends, well our group of friends, Roan’s and mine; There was always Jobe, Kristian, Orion, Craig, Joshua and Leon for the boys. For the ‘regular’ girls there was usually Jamelia, Yaoi, Zana and Heath and then in the last year or so Midori and her friend Arian. Roan usually invited some more pretty girls and then some more boys. The smallest party we’d ever had was about fourteen; just the regulars, the most we’d ever had was over a hundred, I’m not completely sure how many exactly, but a hundred is where I lost count.

I left Midori helping Arian and Heath sort out invites and walked over to Roan, “Anything that I can help you with?”

“Don’t even try it.”

“What do you mean?”

“This is your party, I’m not letting you lift a finger.” He said smiling at me.

“But I always help arrange them,” I said pulling a face, “it’d feel wrong if I did nothing.” I frowned and looked out over all the busy people setting things up for the party.

“I’m sorry but I’m putting my foot down, think of it as punishment for throwing my sword half way across the combat field yesterday.” I could see the gleam in his eyes as he smiled at me. I smiled back sheepishly and said nothing, knowing that it would be hopeless, once Roan had set his mind to something it was almost impossible to change it.