My Tsundere

• Sidestory: Rinna •

three years after Taileen left...

I felt kind of dizzy.

We were celebrating our graduation from high school. Drinking a couple of glasses of beer, some drank champagne, some vodka.

I drank a few cups. About three to four, and I'm already dizzy.

"Trence, Trence, Trence!" I heard them cheering. I looked his way, drinking straight from the bottle. There were three empty bottles there.

After finishing it, he raised his fists up to the air. "Yeah!!" They all shouted.

He went to my way, swinging left to right. He sat next to me, in a way that seemed as if he fell rather than sat.

"You're drunk," he said.

"The irony!" I replied while laughing. I'm dizzy, but completely sober.

He gave me a lopsided grin. "Not at all."

This made me blush. Seeing his grins had always made me blush.

I faked a cackle and tried to act bossy by rolling my eyes. "Whatever. Come on, get up and go home!"

He laughed. "Alright, boss!" He gave me a salute.

I helped him up anyway, placing his arm around my shoulders. "Drinking four bottles doesn't make you cool, mister."

"You say that, but... I'm sure you're...one of the people..cheering me on."

"Nope!"

I helped him go to his apartment. When we reached the house, he suddenly pointed to the house next door.

"That house...it was once a house of someone...I loved."

I felt a tug in my chest. Right...

He suddenly placed both of his hands on my shoulders. "This woman..I'm holding right now...is someone...who..helped me....become who I was again....through the...hard times."

I became confused.

"That house...right there?"

He pointed the house to the left. My new apartment..?

"It's the house of someone..spesh...,"

He suddenly collapsed at me. "Hey! Hey!!"

- - - -

"Hi...ya!"

I dropped him to his bed and after that, I stretched my arms. "Ugh, finally."

I heaved a sigh and took off his shoes. They didn't smell bad at all. To be honest, he didn't even reek of alcohol but, rather, he smelled a lot like lavender.

I was about to leave him be when he suddenly held my pinky finger.

He groaned a little. "Hey...don't leave me. I..I'm all alone right now..," he said in a soft voice.

"Well, your mother and father are working and will come back tomorrow, as you said."

He chuckled, his eyes opened quite a little. "Sure they, are..but Rin.."

Oh wait, he's not imagining I'm someone else?

I laughed softly. "What?"

"I'll be lonelier...if you leave as well."

He suddenly grabbed my hand and yanked me to the bed.

"Hey!"

"Ack!" He suddenly shouted.