"What's going on here?"
Sapphire Birch clutched the lunchbox and stared straight ahead. It was a fine day, the sun was not too far high in the sky yet. The usual complaints about this place were that either it was too sunny or too cold to be sitting out. But Sapphire (being the tough one she was) didn't mind all that, it was her personal spot, and hers only...until today.
"What are you doing in MY lunch spot?" She fumed, storming up to said intruder, who didn't seem fazed in the least that the strongest girl in the entire school (proven during a tug-of-war game) was glaring at him with utter contempt in her eyes, and baring her fangs just a little.
"Your spot? Well, I don't see your name on it." He waved a hand dismissively, taking a drink from his juice box. It was peach-flavoured tea, to her disgust. "I happen to have gotten here first, sucks to be you?"
"I've been eating out here ever since...ever!! Everyone knows that!" Outraged, Sapphire yelled at the well-dressed boy in front of her. "Oh I know, you must be thinking all those barbarian jokes you throw at me about 10 times a day just weren't enough to piss me off, aren't you?"
"They're nothing compared to the 12 sissy and homosexual jabs you took at me Wednesday of the second week of last term!" The boy, known as Ruby-sigh-he's-gorgeous-isn't-he via just about every other girl in her class, retorted defiantly.
"Who remembers such a thing like that!" Sapphire screamed, frustrated, "And isn't the sun bad for your skin, pretty boy?"
"A little vitamin D is good for all of us, not that a barbarian like you would know." Ruby replied without showing any inclination to move.
Sighing, Sapphire decided she could not go without her lunch any longer than usual, but it would be unthinkable for her to forsake her territory and find another spot to eat simply because pretty-boy happened to show up. No, she will not bow her head to him! This is a declaration for war!
Plopping down not-too-far from pretty-boy, she began to unpack her lunch, and trying her best to ignore him as she ate her very plain rice balls. Ruby, with the straw of his peachy drink still in his mouth, opened an eye curiously.
"You know," He said "Rice balls are best when they have something in the middle."
Sapphire stopped in mid-chew. That was random. She didn't know what to say in response, plus she was still angry at him--wait, she was perpetually angry at him, ever since first day of school. So she kept silent and chewed again.
"When I was little, I hated the bland taste of rice," He continued, not seeming to notice her passive-agressive behaviour. "But mother told me that when you get through the bland rice, there's a secret treasure in the middle that is your reward."
"...and..." Unable to stand being silent, Sapphire asked impatiently when she swallowed. "What has that got to do with anything at all?" Her rice balls were plain, but she liked them that way anyways.
"Nothing." He shrugged, "Just, contemplating."
"That's what makes you such a woman." the saber-toothed girl snapped.
Ignoring the comment, Ruby fixed his red eyes somewhere far off. "So I began to like eating rice balls, because I wanted to find out what was in the middle, even though I hated rice."
"I don't understand why people would hate rice." Sapphire picked up another white bundle, and furrowed her brows. "Why are you talking to me anyways? I thought you hated my guts."
"Well," the boy with the strange cap turned his attention back to the ungraceful-eating girl. "You're better compared to what I have to put up with in the classrooms."
"I thought you liked the attention." The girl made a face and proceeded to chomp through the second rice ball.
"Not really, see, even though tempura and udon I do like, but nothing compares to the excitement of digging through rice balls to find the center."
Sapphire chewed vehemently, then swallowed, thoroughly confused."What's with your obsession about food?" She asked one last time, annoyed, before packing up her lunch box. "I know! You must be jealous because I had rice balls." She feigned a sigh of defeat, "Fine, fine, fine. I'll give you one tomorrow if you beg really, really nicely."
"I hate plain rice." He said, getting to his feet. "Especially if I have to look uncouth eating it like you do, barbarian."
"If there's a 'proper' way to eat rice balls then I'd like to know!" Sapphire lashed back. Gee, what was with this guy?! One minute he's telling her his childhood stories, then he was insulting her?!
But he was already gone.
Sapphire humphed through her nose, at least that ordeal was over. She probably won't see him again tomorrow, she hoped.
---The next day---
Sapphire nearly dropped her lunchbox when she saw that familiar figure on the roof again.
First, how did he get there before her when they're in the same class?
Second, what was he doing here, again?
"Yo," He called out, grinning that grin the other girls describe as drop-dead-gorgeous but makes her want to punch his lights out instead "I'll still take up on the offer of the rice ball if you don't mind."
"I thought you hated rice balls!"
"Oh, but I like the excitement." Ruby grinned devilishly again.
"Bring your own!"
"But you owe me one."
"Sin--Since when?!"
"Since yesterday."
"I thought you refused!"
"I never said 'No'..."
"RRRRrrrrgh!"
The string of bickering from the rooftop did not stop until lunch hour was over.
The End!
