N X Touko Unexpected Love2

His long green hair is what caught my eye. No chinese man or woman would dare dye their hair green.
He was sitting far away from me, also over looking the river.
Slumped in his chair, relaxed and comfortable, drinking a hot coffee his eyes were on the river.
His face was handsome, his eyes I saw were also green. He wore a black top with a white jacket over it and white trousors.
How can he not be hot in that jacket?
I realized I'd be staring at him for too long and I casted my eyes back to my tea and my half eaten muffin. I took another couple of bits and let my tongue play with the flavours until swollowing.
I took the risk to gaze at him again but my eyes fell onto an empty table.
Quickly scanning the cafe I saw no sign of him. He must have left.
"Dam." I said quietly under my breath.

I got back home about 3 after wondering about town, hoping I'd spot the guy again, then realising what I was doing, felt stupid and came home.
Discarding my torn and muddy bag and replacing it with the new one, I went into trhe kitchen and started making dinner. It was Wednesday, I always cook on a Wednesday and today I decided on chicken wrapps and chips. Simple and easy.
Mum and dad came home at their normal time and unfortunatly, the school had rang to say I never turned up at my other classes.
"Where were you?" My father demanded as we ate.
"Town."
"Why?"
"Because I was."
"Why Hilda?"
"I went to buy a new school bag because my other one got ripped so I couldn't carry my things."
"How did it get damaged?" My mother butted in, wiping some sauce off her mouth.
"I dropped it into some mud and then the zip got stuck. When I was trying to open it, the bad ripped cuz of the water damage to it. I told you not to buy those cheap ones Dad."
My father's fist came down onto the table. "Don't lie! I saw the bag in the bin Hilda."
I stayed quiet, waiting for him to calm down.
"Is someone bullying you?"
"No."
"Hilda?"
"I can handle it."
"So its true?"
Keeping my mouth shut this time.
"Hilda?" My mom spoke this time.
I got up and walked over to the sink and began washing up my plate.
"You will answer us Hilda!" My father's voice began to grow frustrated. I sighed.
"Some kid named Li and his gang are annoying me thats it."
"This looks like bullying to me."
"Yeah and what are you going to do? Go down to the school and have a word with the teachers? They aint going to do anything."
"Yes they will dear. The teachers can make sure that this kid Li-" I cut off my mother's ranting.
"The teachers can't watch my every move and keep an eye on Li and his gang. They will find a way to get me because the teachers cant spy on us and they are busy, as teachers always are."
I stormed upstairs into my room and before I slammed the door shut I screamed. "I HATE THIS PLACE! I HATE CHINA!"

The next few days were the same as ever.
Lesson, next lesson, lunch, lesson, lesson, lesson, home. The days just blurred together.
Li and his gang didn't touch me Thursday as they were skiving school and Friday they managed to corner me against a wall and make taunts. I let them. Not caring. A teacher walked past and the boys ran.
All bullys are cowards I know that for a fact.
The end of Fridays were the best days ever because it was the weekend now. I had no homework as I had done it in the lessons so I knew I could relax.
I decided to go back into town and go to the cafe again and have a nice hot chocolate.
Sitting down in my usual place, I was reading the english copy of a newspaper when something bumped into my shoulder and a hot liquid spilled onto my blue and black stipped top.
"Augghh!" I screamed as the heat burned my skin.
"Oh I'm so sorry! Are you ok?" His voice was close but I was too busy using my tissue to wipe my top. I saw it was tea that had been spilled onto me.
"Shit shit shit thats bloody hot!"
His laughter is what made me look up and I nearly fell back as I realized how close we were.
His face was close to mine and his green eyes staring right into my own. My cheeks went red and I looked back down to my ruined top.
"Sorry for the language." I apologized and threw the tissue away in the bin behind me.
"No I'M sorry for spilling my tea on you." He laughed again.
"Its okay it was an accident."
"You're clearly not chinese... Mind if I ask where you're from?" That caught me. He just asked the question straight out.
"Oh...Um no I'm not. I'm from Britian." I sat back down.
"Mind if I join you?" His smile made him handsome and charming.
"Oh yeah sure."
"And I'll buy you a free hot chocolate to make up for it." He replied as he took the seat opposite me.
"Thanks."
"I'm N by the way." He put his hand out to shake.
"I'm Hilda. N, thats a stange name."
"Yeah it is." He laughed and he caught the attention of a waitress. "Can I have another herbal tea?" When she walked off N turned back to me.
"Short for anything?" I asked and took a sip of my drink.
"Yeah but I don't tell my name to just anyone." The way he said it surprised me; his tone was sad.
"Oh." Sensing it wasn't a happy topic I moved on.
"So why are you in China? You're obviously not chinese, what with the green hair."
He smirked.
"Yeah I've been here for 2 years now. My father wanted to live here and I was forced to move. I've taken a liking to it."
"I've been here only a few months. Father was transfered."
"You seem unhappy." I looked at him and I saw he was leaning towards me, his hand under his chin.
"Yeah I didn't go quietly. I had fights and rows with my parents. I didn't want to leave my friends."
N looked at me with sympathy I could tell.
"Tell me about your friends." Again, he caught me off gaurd.
"Why?"
"I'm curious."
For what seemed like hours I told N everything. About Cheren and Bianca and my childhood with them. How my parents forced me to leave. How I was being bullied in my school. N sat there and listened through it all, asking only a couple of questions and taking sips from his new herbal tea.
"Wait what school do you go to?"
"Li-Chow High."
"I'm starting there Monday." His smile was wide, his eyes pleased.
"But you said you've been here 2 years. Aren't you at school already?"
"I'm being moved, I used to go to Xia-Mai school but I got kicked out last week." He laughed to himself.
"What did you do?"
"Beat up this brat who was snobby and he kept taking the mick outta me. So I broke his nose and threw him across the room."
Immidietly I stared at his arms to try and imagine him actually doing that. His arms looked muscular underneath his grey t-shirt.
"Wow. Remind me to never get you angry." I laughed at myself and went for a drink and realized the cup was empty.
I drank it already?
"Didn't I say I owe you another hot chocolate?" His smirk was wide and he ordered me another one.
Just as the waitress set it down his phone went off.
"Hello?" He said as he answered.
"Oh hi dad... Yes I'm at the cafe... No I was just-" His dad cut him off. "Okay... No its fine I can do that... Okay. Bye." He slammed his phone shut and muttered something under his breath.
"A problem?" I questioned.
"Yeah, father wants me back. Family business." He got up and picked up his jacket off his seat, something which I didn't notice he had with him.
"You have a family business?"
"Yeah my dads high up."
"Whats the business." N's expression changed; he became hard and firm.
"Sorry Hilda its a sort of private thing."
"Oh okay." Realizing my tone was unhappy I quickly added in my best happy voice "well never mind I was just curious."
N smiled and all his hardness vanished.
"So I'll see you Monday?"
"Yeah looks that way."
We shook hands once more and he headed off down the road.

I sat there happy and content for another hour, sipping the hot chocolate knowing I was now going to have a someone at school I could talk to and hang out with.
The sun was low in the sky before I decided to head back.