Incompitable

Chapter 9

I fixed the strap of the new dress Rui gave me. It was a soft yellow halter dress that fell to my knees. "It was so nice of Rui-chan to give this to me..." I said to myself, tying the ribbon that was in front of the dress around my waist.

I looked down at myself and smiled. I hope it looks nice... I sat on the edge of my bed and glanced at the night stand in between my bed and Len's. There were a few songbooks; "Fire Flower", "Soundless Voice", "SPICE!", "Adolescence"... There were a few others, but I've never heard of them, except for Adolescence. I know that one... "Adolescence"... Len knows it too, huh? I looked at the white headphones next to the songbooks and the pair of glasses neatly folded to the left of them. Hm. I have nothing to put on this night stand... I placed my hand on my headphones that I wore. I slowly pulled them off my head and placed them to the right of the lamp. I smiled and nodded, my hair falling down easily. But as I nodded, though, my bow fell out of my hair, and onto the ground.

"Oh!" I gasped and bent down to reach for it. I grabbed it and heard the door open. "Huh?" I looked up and saw Len across the room in the doorway. He looked...different, and his shirt was buttoned real low... "Oh, Len?" I said, sitting up fully, and he walked over to me. Actually, it wasn't really walking; it was more like staggering...

"Rin...?" Len mumbled, standing in front of me. I stared at him blankly. Len's face is very...red, and he looks really worn-out...

"Yes, Len?" I answered calmly, but suddenly, Len grabbed my arms and pushed me down onto the bed. What the-!

"Huh-Len..?" I said, startled, and he stared down at me, his glacier-blue eyes piercing. This is the same position as earlier today...with Gakupo...!

"Rin...can I tell you something...?" he asked, his words sounding slightly slurred, and his breath smelling weird and kind of gross. I twitched my nose and frowned in disgust. Len...? What's he doing?

"Uhh, I guess, but what're you doing, Len?" I tried to move my arms, but he had successfully pinned me down. My heart started to pound, and I felt weird inside, again. How many times has this happened before...? And why...?

Len then bent his head down so close, close enough so that his lips barely touched my right ear, and then he said:

"Rin, I love you." Len whispered, his breath tickling my ear, and his voice sounding loud and clear to my ear.

"What-" I gasped, my face showing shock and confusion.

Len "loves" me? What does that-

Before I could finish my thought, Len did something strange. Something that made my heart jump and beat faster; my skin crawl and shiver. He grabbed my face with his hands and kissed me, on the lips, hard and passionately. I flinched, and gripped the comforter with both of my hands and tried to shake away for some reason; I don't know why. Len was too strong; he held my face firmly between his two hands and had locked me in a kiss that was too hard to break.

"Mnnngh...!" I moaned as he lifted his face from mine, a trail of saliva linking our lips, our faces flushed deep red, and our breaths heavy and fast. "Len...?" I gasped, confusion spreading across my face. At this point, I panicked; my mind was too jumbled to think, my heart was beating too fast, my skin felt like it was emitting too much heat, and I liked the feeling, yet I didn't like it, and-

I was scared.

I didn't understand the feeling. It was too confusing for me to comprehend. How can you like something but not like it at the same time? I don't understand. Len said he "loved" me. What does that mean?

"Rin..." Len mumbled, and then fell on me; his head nestled under my arm.

"Ah-Len?" I shifted up a tiny bit, forcing Len to roll over next to me. I looked at him, the warm sensation still lingering on my lips, and my face still hot and sweaty. "Len?" It looked like he had fallen asleep; his face still considerably flushed and innocent, his lips moist, and eyelids closed as if he has been asleep forever.

I stared at him, forgetting all that had just happened. What had gotten into Len? He...he's never acted like that before... I ran my hand over his soft, golden blonde hair and sighed, thoughtfully. Maybe he was scared.

"Have you ever seen a computer, Rin-chan?" Ted asked me the next morning.

"Computer?" I repeated, and he nodded.

"Yup! It's wicked nasty!" He grinned, and I formed an 'o' with my mouth. Whatever that means... "Wicked nasty"...?

"Um, okay." Ted led me into the family room and pointed across the room a gray box-ish thing sitting on a desk.

"Is that it?" I asked. The box had strange blinking green lights and stuff. It was weird…

"Uh-huh!" Ted walked over and pressed a button. "It's super cool- and helpful." I started to walk over to the computer. I glanced around the room and saw Luka sitting on the black couch, reading a book called Synchronicity. She looked really interested.

"So, Rin-chan, where's Len-kun?" Ted asked as I stood behind him.

"Um, well, when I tried to wake him up, he said his head was killing him..."

"Oh," Ted answered, "Sounds like something you'd say while having a hangover."

"A what?" I asked, and he shrugged.

"Never mind, okay, Rin-chan, hold on. This thing ain't turnin' on." He clicked a button again, and I looked over his shoulder.

"Ohh, what?" I said, and he looked at me.

"Hey, can you plug it in?" he asked, nodding to the space below the desk.

"Ah, okay..." I crouched down beneath the desk and looked at all the wires. Oh wow, there's so many! I wonder which ones-

All of a sudden, I felt a large pain in my head, and it throbbed and felt like electricity was running through it, stinging and zapping anything it touched.

"Unngh!" I grunted, and grabbed my head. Ow, ow, ow! What is that? It hurts so much! "Oww!" I stood up and stumbled backwards to the wall, the pain lifting, but still excruciating. It's like the world's worst headache...!

"Huh, Rin-chan?" Ted turned around and ran over to me. "Rin-chan, what's wrong?"

"Ah, ah, ah! It hurts...!" I cried, clutching my head, as if it would make it feel better, but only to have the feeling of pins and needles strike through my brain and everything inside of it. Then, Luka hurried over and gripped my shoulders.

"Rin-chan, Rin-chan, calm down." she told me, but I shook my head, making the pain just as worse. Luka stared at me surprised for a quick moment, but then turned all serious.

"Ted-kun, take Rin-chan to her room." Luka ordered, and Ted nodded very fast.

"Ohh..." I moaned, as he took me into the hallway. It hurts...it hurts so much...

Luka's POV

That's strange. I wonder why Rin got that random headache. It happened so suddenly, and it occurred by Ted-kun's computer. I walked over to the computer and observed the wires. Many were laid across the ground, some draped across the legs of the desk.

"What could have caused it?" I lifted one of the wires and held it in my hand, rubbing my thumb across the rubber covering. "Wait. I've been getting hints." I said to myself, and stood up, dropping the wire to the floor. "Rin doesn't grow physically nor does she have a tracker system. Those are two things- different about her." I ran my fingers through my bangs and sighed. "And now...she reacts to electrical currents. It must be that; she is a robot after all." I looked up and heard Rin's faint groans from her room.

"I don't want to, but the only way to be sure is to..." I turned to the window that allowed visibility of the pool outside.

"...test my theory."