A Date

The feeling of someone blowing at her neck made her heart skip a bit, she throws her eyes open to see Zane before her, his curly hair neatly styled and trimmed glowed pretty in the sun light from the window above her head, what more was his eyes, it was so captivating.

She couldn’t believe her once messy head and chubby cheeked friend could transform this much with age, his green eyes glowing with a bit of yellow, long lashes covered the corner giving his stare a more in depth feeling.

“Oh my god Zane” she kicked violently at his side causing him to immediately curl up squinting in pain. He grabs a side pillow and throws it on her face before skipping away from the bed.

As he recovered, two pillows came hurled at him none missing. “Ah, what gives Rissa”

“You scared the shit out of me, I thought some woodland creature had tracked my scent and was out to hunt me down”

“Does any woodland creature look like this?” he cupped his face in a cute but annoyed way. She shook her head at him with a faint smile.

“What kind of absurd dream is that anyway?” Zane asked grabbing the pillows from the floor.

“The ones I get”

“And why do you_”

He noted the dull expression she had suddenly put on, looking at her cautiously he came closer to her side.

“I am smart”

“Yes you are”

“So you don’t hide things from me”

“Guess if you are all that”

“You feel weak because you haven’t shifted”

“Oh my God, Joseph the dreamer?”

Zane raised his brows amused and smiled. She kept her head down as she thought. He had hit the nail on her strong skull, she had theses occasional night mares of her defenseless self and she had it more frequently after full moon.

“You overdramatic…mph! ”

Zane struggled to come up with a proper insult but he couldn’t. Clarissa stared widely at his helpless face and couldn’t help but laugh at him.

“You pathetic meat head” she slapped at him.

“You skinny meat head”

“Really?”

“Hey don’t look at me that way, you know I was never good at lashing out”

“And you never changed”

“I didn’t , but I can fight”

“From what I remembered, I always won at everything”

“Not this time”

“Oh really, let’s have at it”

“Whoa, I don’t want to hurt Rissa”

Before he could complete his statement, Rissa threw a kick towards his head, his eyes flew open from the sudden kick and he braced himself for the hit.

***

“How lovely it is to see you after… so long” Clarissa’s father said and the man he spoke to gave a little smile. They stood over at the sit out staring at the light from the large window.

“How is Clarissa” Mia, Zane’s mother a chubby four eyed lady in her fifties asked.

“She is healthy, shocked by the amount of weight she’s lost and why she has to school so far”

“Well, she wanted to be in same school as her best friend Issei”

“And that is great News! Mia” Rina, Clarissa’s mom said wide eyed. “But for some reason no wild her been sparked from Issei’s time with her, she still has her head in the book and has no fun. OH am I so glad Zane is home, the sound of their chattering is music to my ear”

“Music indeed” Clarissa’s father spoke looking up towards the stairs suspiciously, “What the hell are they doing up there anyways”

“I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about” Zane’s dad spoke also looking upward, he held a vital position in the council of the Blue Hive, second in command to Clarissa’s father.

“ We have a lot to talk about” Clarissa’s father suddenly spoke moving to the couches where the women sat.

“We noted movement along the areas of our territory much beyond which is permitted, very close to the school” Jerry spoke

“Has there been any reaction from the group” Rina spoke up and they turned to her, she knew her husband was one to react to any slight error on the side of the Blood Moon, she couldn’t tell if they deliberately wanted to spite her husband.

“Nothing yet” Jerry responded

Mr. Mark shook his head, “Does it matter? They are in MY territory and infiltrating our schools! Who is in charge of enrollment, My daughter cannot be in danger!”

“Mark please calm down, let’s do this rationally, you are heated now for the safety of Clarissa but let us resolve this as adults”

“Rina, I don’t want to hear any of this from you! The fact remains that they crossed the boundary”

“All I’m saying is as long as they haven’t done anything rash, we should resolve this reasonably”

“Identify their numbers and arrange a meeting with me and that bastard immediately”

Mr. Mark spoke and Rina looked to Jerry who called in an attendant waiting at the door.

“There is nothing to worry about now My Lord” Mia finally spoke causing all attention to move towards her as she continued.

“Zane is no push over, he has been training for years and would be of use to the protection of your daughter”

Clarissa stared at the ceiling, her back ached and she was sweating so much in her night wear, hair in a mess was scattered around Zane’s feet as he loosely held her hand.

“Give up, 9 to none is pathetic, you want to make it a round figure”

“Shut it!”

“Ok”

Zane fell quiet without a thought, his eyes quietly watched her as she breathed heavily calculating how she could take him unaware, she had tried 9 times to have his back on the floor but she found hers perfectly fitting the floor.

He had gotten way stronger and that was for sure, way faster and smarter, it upset her so much how much she had been failing.

She pulled her hand out of his and stood up quietly.

“You’re right” she spoke taking her grey eyes to view his, stepping closer till their toes touched. She stared at him, his face suddenly going red as he averted his gaze from her.

“W-what are you-“

Clarissa goes quickly into a crouch as she threw her legs to make him trip, immediately taking caution, Zane took large steps away from her.

“I almost had it!”

“but you didn’t”

He responded amused, before heaving.

“The scores are debatable Zane, I wasn’t fully awake”

Clarissa rolled her eyes for her own lies, her phone suddenly buzzes on the bedside and she walks over towards it.

“So… how has your years been? Fallen for some foreign woman?”

“What about you?”

“I asked first, not that I’m interested but… for a friend “

“Oh really, no I haven’t but I’m also not available to be auctioned off by my friend to a stranger “

“Issei is my best friend, no stranger!” Clarissa pointed out staring sternly at him.

“Who is Issei? I am not interested is some blind date”

“Your lost because she is a good kid!”

Zane shrugged uninterested which pinched Clarissa of words she wanted to tell Issei.

“Rissa, I actually have something important to tell you”