If Jealousy Could Kill

Chapter 13: Alterations

“How am I supposed to cook you breakfast if there’s nothing in the house?” The three girls heard the high pitched yell come from the kitchen. The three of them turned around just in time to see Tomomi poke her head out of the kitchen, a frown sprawling across her face. It was rather hard to cook when the people you’re cooking for wouldn’t go shopping.

“Blame Rina, it was her turn to do the grocery shopping,” Haruna said, pointing a finger at the younger brunette beside her. Rina gasped in fake hurt, slapping Haruna on the shoulder.

“That’s not fair, Haru!” she said.

Rina was in a lot better of a mood today. Or, at least, she seemed like she was in a better mood. She wasn’t moping around the house today like she had been and she was playing around a lot more often. She was even joking around with Tomomi and Haruna had noticed how Rina had kept herself away from Tomomi for the last few days. Haruna was more than glad to see that Rina’s mood might be improving. Although, she was still going to interrogate her about what was wrong when Tomomi and Mami left.

“There has to be something in the house,” Rina continued, this time turning to talk to Tomomi. Tomomi couldn’t say she felt overly comfortable around Rina today. Rina did seem a lot happier so Tomomi wasn’t expecting her to lash out but then again, she hadn’t been expecting yesterday either. The uncertainty is what scared her the most. She had never expected something like that to come out of the sweet and soft Rina.

“Hmm… Well you two have eggs at least.”

“Then just cook those,” Haruna said, turning back around towards the TV. Tomomi sighed heavily at Haruna’s comment. There were just these certain times where Haruna’s “I don’t care” attitude was annoying, and this was one of those times. She was such a difficult person.

“I’m okay with that,” Mami piped up from where she was sitting, leaned against the couch that Haruna and Rina were on.

“I think that would be good,” Rina agreed, giving Tomomi the best smile she could manage. Tomomi nodded to the younger brunette before disappearing back into the kitchen. Rina wanted to sigh in relief now that Tomomi was gone again, but she knew better. If she did that then Haruna would question it and she didn’t want to explain all of that. For right now, she just wanted to enjoy having Haruna away from Tomomi and back with her.

Rina was trying to keep herself cheerful and so far, she was being successful at it. She’d let out most of the emotions she’d been holding in last night so it was much easier for her to keep the cheerful attitude up than it was yesterday. She was thankful that Mami had come over when she had; it felt nice to have someone to cry to. She just hoped that Mami would keep it all a secret from Haruna like she had promised she would.

“Sunday television is really horrible,” Haruna mumbled. Rina looked over at the girl who was busy flipping through the channels for who knew how many times now. Her eyes drifted down to Mami who had her head leaned back against the couch now, the bored expression taking over her features.

“Why don’t we play a game then?” Rina suggested when she had seen the bored looks on both of her friends’ faces. Mami let her head roll to the side to look at Rina while Haruna just continued her task of trying to find something to watch.

“What did you have in mind?” Mami asked. Instead of answering, Rina pushed herself off the couch, making her way over to where one of the tables in the living room sat. She pulled open the drawer to the table, grabbing the small box that sat inside of it.

Rina made her way back over to the couch, taking her seat again before she extended the box out to Haruna. The older girl looked over raising an eyebrow at what Rina was trying to give her.