Risky: A Chrono Love Story

|Chapter 1|

Please read the Author's Note if you haven't.

I think it's time that the real party got started.

Our gazes fell upon the long table. "Classic Mahogany, make good use!" Yumozuki exclaimed cheerfully. The table was covered in a light coat of dust. Runa grabbed a clean white cloth and wiped the dust away.

"Well that was pretty disgusting," commented Chisaki. Was his name Chisaki? I didn't pay too much attention to the introductions. Yomozuki gave him a dangerous glare, but he made nothing of it. This guy has got some nerve.

"I'll be your dealer for this round! I'll be one hundred percent neutral, so I will not tolerate cheating, or be on anyone's side! This deck has 20 cards, so there's about a 30% chance that the Fool will be played during this round!" Runa said happily.

Runa was a small girl. She wore an orange rabbit kigurumi and possessed long platinum hair. She had piercing purple eyes with long lashes. She always had a lollipop in her mouth. She like the flavor orange.

Kirari was at an average height. She had two braids that went around in circles at the sides of her head. She also had platinum hair, but had fierce blue eyes and lip gloss that matched her eyes.

"I will flip a coin. If it's heads, then Y/N will go first and bet if the ending sum is negative or positive. If it's tails, Kurono will go first and bet if the ending sum is negative or positive," Nemoto says out of the blue. Runa nods her head, agreeing with the idea.

The coin was tossed into the air. The man in black catches the small piece of copper in his right palm and flips it over to the top of his other hand. He shifts his right hand away and reveals the outcome.

"Tails! Kurono, what's your bet?" Runa asks.

"I will bet negative," Hari answers. Runa nods her head.

"Okay! That means Y/N's bet is positive!" Yomozuki exclaims. She shuffled the cards and then laid them out on the table. "Alright, Kurono! Choose your card!"

Hari walks towards the table and looks at the variety of cards. He picks a card just one to the left of the middle and flips it over.

"The clown," he says plainly. "Faced towards me, worth 10 points."

"Okie-dokie! That means Y/N is in the lead with 10 points! Choose your card!" Yomozuki shouts. She sits on another office chair and spins around.

I walk over to the set of cards and choose a card on the far left. "The Traveller. Faced towards me, 16 points," I say. The score was right now 26. If this keeps up, I'm going to win the million yen!

After some talking and another two rounds, the score is 2. This is bad. It was right now Kurono's turn, and I was really nervous. At this point, he could actually win. I bit my lower lip, trying to relieve the anxiety that was piling up.

"The River; Not faced towards me. 20 points," he says slyly.

"WHAT!?" I shout in disbelief. Besides the Fool, I didn't know that a card had such value! My only chance in winning is to get the Fool facing towards me. There were 15 cards left on the table. There was also a 50/50 chance that the Fool will actually face in the winning driection. It's a one in thirty chance, come on. I'm definitely going to loose this...

"Maybe you should give up and hand over the million yen," Chisaki says bluntly.

I scowl at him, pissed off. "I'm not giving up until the match is over! You hear me?" I snap at him. His eyes widened a little, clearly taken back at my response. Nemoto also seemed quite shocked.

"Alright! The score is negative -18! Y/N, this is your final turn, this is on you!" Runa says cautiously. Although she said she was going to be neutral, it doesn't hurt to warn a player once in a while. She did it many times. Not only with me and Kirari though. She did warn complete strangers sometimes, even when she didn't have anything to do with their match.

"Alright..." I say. I walk around the table, getting a good sense of the cards. I put my arms down on the Mahogany table and stare at the cards. 

"Choose and get it over already! We all know that you're going to loose anyways!" Nemoto laughed. I scowled at him. His plain, dark brown ones which were tinted with his glasses met my infuriated E/C ones.

Looks like the normal cooling-and-collected Kirari has lost it too. "Will you shut it," Kirari stated cooly, but her tone in voice didn't sound too friendly to me. I've known Kirari for four years, so I knew that this isn't like her.

"We'll see about that," Nemoto says as he pushes his glasses up. He kind of reminds me of Manyuda, another member of the former student council. He didn't follow through with us on Gamblerama though.

I knew that Kirari didn't like people- especially guys- who acted smug. Nemoto fell into that category explicitly. He was the complete opposite to what Kirari expects in a man. She "tched" and regained her focus on the match.

I looked down at the table. 15 cards, and such a slim chance of getting an 18 or higher. Even if I get a card of a value higher than a 18, it still has a chance of facing away from me.

This is why I love gambling so much. The adrenaline, the anxiety, the feeling. In one single round, you could loose it all, or gain it all. It's exhilarating.

I go with a simple choice and pick the card closest to me. I flip it around and...

It was the Fool.

Oh my gosh, I don't like revealing the most exciting part of a plot too soon, so I'll make you guys wait for the next chapter.

And by the way, I'm actually a pre-writer. I write out several chapters at a time but post them separately. This way, when I feel lazy, I can just publish a chapter that has already been written out. I'm just a lazy potato.

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