This continued until Friday. Tina had had enough. More than enough. She was getting exhausted of making people cry.
She walked into school one day and saw how the crowd had visibly shrunk since the beginning of the week. She went to the headmasters office and walked in.
"Excuse me sir, can I use the microphone thingy?" she asked as politely as she could.
"What is it for?" he asked arching a brow towards her.
"People are saying stuff about me so I would like to tell everyone the truth."she said honestly.
He sighed and nodded waving her to the microphone.
She tapped it to check it was working and heard the sound from outside. She cleared her throat and leaned forward to speak.
"EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP SAN AND I AREN'T DATING, YOU THINK I'D DATE AN IDIOT LIKE HIM?! LEAVE US ALONE AND MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS! THE PICTURES DON'T MATTER WHAT MATTERS IS THAT YOU GUYS ARE ALL UP IN MY LIFE AND I WON'T HAVE NONE OF IT SO BACK OFF!"
Then she stepped back, smiled at the teacher, and walked out.
When they were back home and on the sofa chilling she saw that all the messages had stopped.
"That message in the morning must've got to them.
"Still, we need to be careful, any wrong moves and the pictures will be back and so will the rumours.
He nodded. "But I think your remark about me being an idiot is highly unnecessary."
"I know, I just felt like it." she grinned.
He got up and chased her around the house. The mansion was filled with shrieks and laughs until they collapsed on his bed, exhausted. Their faces were red and their breathing heavy. But their eyes twinkled and their smiles were genuine. San closed his eyes taking a minute to rest and she stared at him. His perfect jawline, his soft lips, his calm eyes, she took in all of his details and smiled softly.
"Am I that handsome?" he asked, his eyes still closed.
She started blushing, "What? No! I was just looking out the window." she made up an excuse.
"Come on, we both know I'm a much better view than that."
She scoffed, "No you aren't"
His eyes opened and he looked at her, "Yes I am."
She rolled her eyes, "If you say so."
She then yawned.
"Tired?" he asked.
"Well we just did a few laps of the whole damn house of course I am." she pointed out.
"Fair enough let's go down and eat something." he said.
"I can't get up."
"Seriously?"
She nodded. He sighed.
"Well there's nothing I can do."
"Bring my food here." she suggested
"Nope. Come on I'll help you up." he held out his hand for her. She took it and he pulled her up.
They walked downstairs and he grabbed the phone while she sat on the sofa. They ordered in and ate while watching a movie. She yawned, stretching and taking her rubbish to the kitchen, depositing it in the bin. It was late and she knew that, way too late to be healthy. She poked her head in the living room to see San sleeping. His head lying on his shoulder in a way that would cause his neck to ache in the morning. She walked in and poked him repeatedly, too tired to speak.
"Hmm?" he groaned, rubbing his neck as he sat up.
She pointed at the clock. As soon as he nodded she was out and up in the room, snuggled up in the covers getting warm and cosy.
San sat up, rubbing his eyes before stretching and leaving his rubbish, going straight to bed. He slid in and immediately drifted back to sleep.
The next day the two teenagers were bored out of their minds, especially Tina who was looking for new opportunities ever since leaving her parents house.
"San can you drop me off somewhere?" she asked him.
His eyes never left the phone screen, "Sure, where?"
"I don't know," she shrugged, "Somewhere fun I guess"
"You're the one who wants to go, you decide."
"But I don't know any fun places to go!"
"There's tons, there's the amusement park, the farm, the zoo, the art gallery, the museum - any of them - the VR place, the cat café, the café with the dogs in it, and the list goes on..." he said, finally putting his phone down and looking at her as she thought about which of his options to choose.
"But I wanna do all of them..." she mumbled.
"We can, maybe not right now though." he suggested.
"All right then, let's go... to... the... cat café!" she decided.
"All right. Hurry up." he said, getting up and going to get changed into something decent that he wouldn't mind being covered in fur.
When he went back down she was waiting by the door, obviously excited. They started walking to the café. Once they walked in, she squealed seeing all the cats. He chuckled and walked to the counter, ordering their usual. He went back holding the warm drinks in his hands and saw her sitting on the floor and playing with a fluffy grey tabby. He cleared his throat and she looked up at him, jumping up and dusting herself before taking her drink gratefully.
"What is it?"
"The usual." he shrugged.
She smiled, taking a sip.
He shrugged again and walked over to a table, sitting down and placing his cup on it. Suddenly, a fluffy white cat was held up in his face. He recoiled, startled, before composing himself and glaring at Tina.
"Look!" she giggled, "Isn't he cute!"
He softened, seeing her smile like that, "Yeah..." he said, not to disappoint her mood.
"Don't tell me.." she gasped, "You're a dog person!"
"No not really, I just don't like it when animals are shoved in my face, you know?"
"Oh, yeah sorry."
She continued running all over the place, petting all the cats and squealing in delight. He just watched her, waiting for her to get bored. But she didn't. Instead, when he saw that it was lunch time, he pulled her out by the arm. She resisted, obviously, before giving up.
"San!" she whined, "I was having fun in there,"
"Well, it was getting darker, if you're like this in the cat café, I don't think you can go to the zoo or farm."
"No please! I've never been to a zoo or farm before, or a cat café. The experience was new," she explained.
His eyes widened, "...Never, been to a zoo...?" he echoed.
Her cheeks suddenly reddened and she looked down embarrassed.
"That's it, tomorrow's planned. Zoo. You need to go to a zoo. If you don't go to a zoo you haven't lived a life. You are dead."
"All right thanks," she mumbled, still embarrassed.
(A/N) I've actually never been to an actual zoo before either, hehe. So does that make me dead?
-Aurora
