Info-chan x Rival-chan: That One Day

Part 4- Place to Escape

The golden haired girl weeps in agony. She keeps crying over on a red haired girl who she does not even know. She may never know that she's a foe or an ally. She just cries and cries with her head over the other girl's lap. The red-haired seems confused.

"I can take this video to go hold against her to show every people and hold it as black mail. I can also add this to the newspaper for the school," Info-chan thought.

Somehow, she stopped her thoughts. She rested her head onto the back of her seat.

"Why are you crying? Can you stop that? The peaceful room suddenly turned boisterous and I'm doing work here."

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry ! I'm sorry! I just don't want to go out ! I feel safe here... Somehow," Rival-chan replied.

"I'm who is nicknamed Info-chan. Have you heard about the rumors about blackmail recently? "

"Yeah ? "

"The rumors are true. I am the blackmailer of this school.. I can hold anything against you !" Info-chan raised her voice slightly to show a little bit of haughtiness in herself.

When Rival raised her head to look at Info-chan, her eyes widened as she saw Info-chan's serious and angry-looking face. Although, it does not seem to frightened her but just surprised her. That was the moment she stopped crying.

"Why aren't you crying?"

"I somehow do not know, I feel relieved when I saw your face. You're mysterious, you know that," Rival said in slight amazement.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You somehow try to act mean or you kind of do not make sense right now at times," Rival replied.

"Wait how?"

"You tried to make yourself look bad just now but you're really nice... Rather mysterious too, I say." She replied, "I cried all these time and embraced you without even thinking and cried on you.. Yet you did not even said anything.. If you were mean, you could had kicked me out by now."

Info-chan never caught that she did that either. She realized that Rival was right, she turned her chair, facing back into the computer screen. She directly rested her head on the table in thoughts of why she felt relaxed as soon as Rival rested her head, crying on her lap. She sighed. She turned to look at Rival once again and their eyes met. Rival smiled and she zoned out as soon as she saw the smile Rival made.

"You know ?" Info suddenly said.

"Yeah?" Rival still smiled.

"You're kind of cute ?"

Rival's face turned from a huge smile to flustered looking face. She blinked so many times and not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Ah- uhm. Yes- I mean No, what are you talking about all a sudden and this is - uhm- uh- the first time I ever .. Get flustered when someone says that.. My parents always say I'm cute even though I'm not really but it's different to this.. " Rival shyly replied.

"Be that way... I mean with the look on your face earlier: you smiling and now flustered. It looks so cute on you.." Info-chan reacted, "wait what am I saying.. This is unlike me really.. Don't believe this me directly.. "

"What do you mean ?"

"I come home late due to school. I work on newspaper articles and try to scoop new scandals or chatter from school to bash people in my articles. My reputation is low and who cares. I'm not into people anyways. I rather shut myself up alone in the classroom and work on my stuff than just be with "friends" that ends up fighting, harming each other. Rather than that, I just want to be in the place I call my own: Info Club. Fighting and harming each other for selfish reasons? Why don't I just do that for them. I could make business out of it like blackmailing. .. Well that's what is always for me.. All they know is I'm a dirty monster hiding in this school that sends blackmail to students and invading their privacies without their permission. Don't get into a mess with me.. I have outside sources with me you don't even know and plus, I'm always alone.. Always been.. So what now?" Info explained.

"Well as for me.... I always get bullied. Even though I never did anything. Just cause I get shy or embarrassed easily.. I have no friends either.. they think I'm so vulnerable and naive, which maybe true but I did nothing wrong. I do not know what I was supposed to do. Everyone even thought I'll be causing mischief to them or taking the people they like from them. I did nothing wrong .. Yet people still pluck faults from me that I didn't even know existed... WHY DOES PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE TO POINT OUT MISTAKES ON SOMEONE AND FORGET THE GREAT THINGS A PERSON DOES.. I'm stuck within a dilemma... " Rival ranted.

Info-chan fell silent. Finally after a moment, Info stood from her chair and looked at Rival who is on the floor with her knees on the floor, looking down.

"Stand up," Info commanded.

"Huh?"

Rival got a little confused on what Info tried to say. Info-chan then went close to Rival and picked her up to stand. She leaned in to get her face close to Rival. She closed her eyes and leaned in forward even more ..

"From now on, you do not need to stay outside.. from now on.. This is your place ..it will be just you and me.. where it's peaceful and there's no one who can bother, you won't be alone," Info-chan replied softly.