Moonlight Dances

Chapter 18: Threat?

(Jesus I'm having a horrible time making ideas for these chapters without putting too much Ryushot. Lemme just say y'all gonna get a whole chapter for them one day and I swear that's the day I lose all of my sanity and make a sex joke. Im not kidding, there was gonna be one last chapter but it didn't make much sense. Improv is kicking my butt rn. But I'm still not planning.

Can I just say, I'm extremely excited to write the wedding in about seven chapters. I have a whole dialogue ready.)

Bubbly Idiot: I had fun

Tam tam: I'm glad

Bubbly Idiot: Did you? You looked kind of dead

He is dead...

Tam tam: You had fun so I had fun

Nejire gasped. He only had fun because she did? That was so cute! Kinda weird since they weren't dating, but cute! But she felt bad. He only found it fun because she was smiling. She probably bored him.

Bubbly Idiot: Imma be busy so I won't be near my phone for a few hours.

Tam tam: k

Nejire put on her leotard and tights before getting ready to go. It was Thursday. That meant ballet class. As she got ready, she could see her bridesmaids dress hanging in the closet. She grabbed her leotard and tights and began putting them on. Her nude ballet slippers were hanging from the doorknob.

She wandered down the stairs to greet her mother and father. Her mom was yelling at her brother about something and her dad was trying to calm them down.

"We'll talk about this later!" Her mother hugged.

"What'd he do?"

"That's none of your business." Her mother gritted her teeth. Nejire remained quiet for the rest of the drive. Her mother wasn't one to get angry, but when she was, boy did things get heated. She was sweet as honey but everything was horrible when she got angry. Jesus, she might've broken a window if she hadn't been held back by her father.

When she got to the studio, Ryuko was there and she actually looked well rested. Her eyes didn't look absolutely dead.

"Hey Ryuko!"

"Hey." She threw up a peace sign and thinned her lips.

When Nejire joined the class, Momo waved over to her.

(Ochako and Tsu aren't bridesmaids cuz I refuse to give a certain character lines and I don't think crepe pink would look good with the other's hair.)

"How'd Ryuko and her fiancé meet?" She asked. She had been curious and didn't want to ask Ryuko because she'd most likely be hit with the 'none of your business' answer.

"Oh. Some flower shop or something." Momo lied. Well, it wasn't really a lie since Ryuko never told anyone the real truth. Well, she told her brother. She only told him because Taishiro would actually understand.

(Y'all want a first meeting? 👀 I do-)

Momo continued her stretches in silence while Nejire continued her stretches while talking to Momo.

"How's Tamaki?"

"You saw him yesterday."

"A lot of things can happen in one Night. There was some criminal running from the cops as well." Nejire said. Ryuko looked at her with a curious gaze.

"You were there?" Ryuko asked.

"Yeah, I was with a friend and some guy pushed past us. They didn't look like cops. Maybe that was a gang. Woah, that would be insane!" She gasped. Ryuko blinked.

So Nejire saw the incident. Jesus Christ. What if she found out that person wasn't a criminal? What if she found out she was marrying a person who killed a possibly innocent group of people. Huh. That would be a big issue if she didn't understand. Still could be a problem even if she did.

"Well, they must've done something horrible. If not, that's just wrong." She said. She knew what was going on. "Get back to work girls." She said, trying to finish the conversation. Nejire and Momo nodded. This would go on for another few hours.

By the time it was over, Nejire had to ask to ride with Ryuko. Her mom was busy yelling at her brother over something and Nejire didn't have a car. Ryuko was honestly glad to.

"I gotta stop by my home real quick, it's not far from the studio." She said.

"Oooh! Can I come in? I wanna see Aurora!"

"I forgot you loved her." Nejire gasped at Ryuko's comment. She was slightly offended that she forgot.

"I named her!" She was playing around with the fake shocked thing. She hadn't seen Aurora since she was a kitten. Well, physically. She got that picture of Aurora a while ago, but she was making a weird face so that didn't count!

"Sure whatever. It's only twelve? My fiancé is home so say hi to him or something." She said checking her watch. Nejire nodded and walked inside her teacher's home. Her fiancé was in the living room, playing with Aurora.

"Hey." He said. Nejire waved back.

"This is Nejire. She's an old friend. I'm just grabbing my Wallet." She said. Nejire looked at Aurora and kneeled down. Cats weren't like dogs and wouldn't come running to her just because she sat down. Aurora hadn't seen her in a while and probably forgot who she was.

"Hey Aurora!" She said. Aurora climbed out of his arms and crawled into hers. "Sorry."

"It's fine, Ryuko's told me about you. You named her and all." He said, holding his hand out as a greeting. He wasn't much taller than her. His hair was silver and his eyes were a hazy blue, almost grey. "I'm Shinya." He said with a dead pan expression. The only hint of emotion was in his small smile. It looked forced but still genuine.

Shinya was definitely a handsome man. He seemed like a less extreme version of Ryuko. He was definitely a quiet person, and she got that just from looking at him. She got a weird feeling though. Like he was dangerous. Maybe it was because of his sharp eyes.

"I'm back, cmon Nejire."

Nejire's heart pounded. Ryuko noticed the shocked look in her eye.

"Lets go Nejire." She said and waved to her fiancé. She took Nejire's hand and walked outside with her. She was scared of him even though he had done nothing wrong. As if it were some sort of foreshadowing that Shinya was dangerous.

She wouldn't voice her thoughts for Ryuko's sake. It was obvious they loved each other with all the stuff around the home. Pictures of them together, Aurora being able to trust him, and a bunch of other things that proved their love was real. Until he seriously did something concerning, she would trust him.

Ryuko drove her home to a house. A home would be a place where her mother wasn't shouting at her brother for several hours. A place where she could relax, even talk to her parents with disrespect as long as they knew it was a joke.

"Wanna go out for Ice Cream?" Ryuko asked. Nejire nodded. She didn't wanna be there. With how long her mother was shouting, her brother must've been smoking weed or something. "Great. Let's go." Ryuko said.

Bubbly Idiot: hey Tam tam!

Tam tam: hey.

Bubbly Idiot: my mom is big mad

Tam tam: oop

Oh hell no. Tamaki the innocent bean did not say 'oop'. He was too pure for that evil word.

Bubbly Idiot: who taught you that?

Tam tam: Momo

Oh. Momo was a veteran Vsco Girl when she got bored. Made sense.

Bubbly Idiot: dont say it again or imma get a chicken nugget

Tam tam: o o p

Bubbly Idiot: OMG TAM TAM NO

(But like, I'm not kidding about making that whole Ryushot chapter. It'll probably be the chapter before the wedding. So :/.)