A Release Of Tension

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Alone at a table you just feed yourself the spaghetti deep in thought.

Three hundred dollars. Your first guess would be Amelia. Except you can easily debate against the reasons why she would do it.

You stop for a second and then continue on to your second guess....Keiko. With perfect timing you hear the slight tap of a bento box against your table on the right. It pulls you from your current thought process. She sits down next to you and just coughs a little, her eyes scan the walls awkwardly.

"Sooo~....hooooow's it gooooo~ing?" Keiko says trying to act normal. Her hands start to open her box and she reveals her lunch, burritos and salad. Weird combo.

You actually think that she's a more likely suspect to the three one hundred dollar bills. Her family is decently well off as her mother runs a local shop downtown where Keiko works and her father teaches boxing around the same area. They're a humble family. It wouldn't be impossible for Keiko to get three hundred dollars and she would be generous enough to lend you any amount of money you ask for. But the biggest evidence is the envelope, you opened it but didn't check the contents....no way she gave you three hundred dollars did she? In the confession letter?

A hand grasps your shoulder, it's Keiko again.

"_Helloooooo~!!!!???? _Earth to Jun!~"

"Oh- sorry....daydreaming again....Err- What'd you say?"

Apparently she's been talking to you this entire time while you sat there staring at her. You need to stop being so deep in thought, you always zone everything out.

"C'mon man~....ughhh....ahem-....forget it. I-I'll ask again later." Keiko groans a little and stands up, her hand still on your shoulder. "Later as in before you leave, I'll talk to you at the end of the day okay?"

Keiko pats your shoulder and then begins to mess your hair up by ruffling it. She has a confident look on her face that reappears. For a moment as you watch, sunlight streams in through the windows and cover her in this warm golden display. Her eyes shine and a feminine beauty radiates from her. Then she turns and walks away with her lunch box, smiling.

You've been charmed. Never would you think that the tomboy you've known all your life was capable of looking this....mature and beautiful. This is the girl who confessed to you....You're one lucky man.

Keiko walks by Amelia who your eyes lock onto instead. Looks like she's recovered from your little session together.....shit. You're going to be having fun with Amelia while dating Keiko? You run a hand through your hair. How should you even begin to tackle this? Turn down Amelia now and make her hate you for the rest of her life? It's going to be hell if this happens. The other option isn't good either, keep your relationship with Amelia and tell Keiko that it's not working? That would no doubt create a rift between you two.

Amelia sits there with Casey who is again going off about her own stuff to Amelia. That girl sure does talk a lot considering how quiet she is with everyone else. Regardless....how about a bit of teasing for your precious step-sister? You'll find a solution....right now you should just be you.

You close your box and get up to walk over to Amelia and Casey. They're both turned away so your approach was easy. From what you can see she's having a pepperoni pizza slice, some tacos and a bottle of soy milk that she's currently sipping on.

"How's the milk? Sweet and creamy?"

You say appearing right next to Amelia. She looks up at you and immediately does a spit take. A large spray of soy milk flies out to cover her food and she begins to uncontrollably cough having some go down the wrong tube. Dejavu.

"COUGH....COUGH- YOU!- COUGH."

"A-Amelia...!" Casey says with a worried tone.

Amelia coughs loudly, a few students nearby turns to look and Amelia embarrassingly bat her eye away. The look on her face shows that she knows what you're doing. You snicker at her just to rub it in. She grits her teeth angrily before she swipes a backhanded fist at you, in which you dodge out of the way and she just boils up even more.

"F-FUCK YOU!!! DIE!!!" Amelia screams.

She grabs her pizza and violently chucks it. You attempt to dodge again but with all the flying sauce and pepperoni it is near impossible to do so. The sauce splatters onto you. It hits you in the stomach looking like a blood splatter.

"Ah fuck! Really!?" You shout and begin to dart away to get cleaned, hoping the sauce don't stain your uniform. Your mom is going to kill you if it does.

Amelia shouts at you and puts up a middle finger in your direction.

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