Untitled Ch. 4
By Blankman

"Ehehehe," Chunli laughed nervously. "Ryu...so...what brings you here?"

"You know perfectly well why I'm here!," he said firmly.

"Why, whatever do you mean?," Chunli asked. She had tried to sound sincere, but it it came out a little over dramatic.

"I...," Ryu started, then slowly turned around to see Ken, Eliza, Dan, and Cammy, huddled together at the door. They had been laughing and whispering amongst each other, but that soon died down into a hushed silence as he glared at them. They stood in complete silence for what seemed to be an eternity, but could have only lasted a mere ten seconds, when Dan spoke up.

"She saw you nude, Ryu?," he asked. "Hahaha...(choke)...talk about your BARE necessities."

This time they all began laughing, to the point of insanity. All, except for Ryu, who simply slammed the door in their faces. He now turned around to face Chunli, whose laughter had now subsided. She searched his eyes for some sign of mercy...none. She gulped as he walked towards her.

"Listen to me, Ryu, I can exp..."

"I can't believe you, you couldn't even keep a secret for 15 minutes."

"Uh I...I didn't tell anybody," she panicked. "I don't know how they found out," she lied, "uh...girl scouts honor!"

"You never were a girl scout, were you?"

Chunli looked down and bit her lip in shame. "No..."

Meanwhile...

Ken, Eliza, Cammy, and, Dan had gathered outside the mansion and were standing underneath Chunli's window.

"Hey studmuffin!," Eliza whispered, "could you give me a boost."

Dan stepped forward and was suddenly pushed aside.

"She means me, you moron," Ken scolded, as his wife got on his shoulders. Eliza placed her hands on the windowsill and peered through the glass.

"Pssst!," Dan hissed, "what are they saying?"

"I can't here what they're saying, the window is shut," Eliza hissed back.

"Then what are they doing?," Ken whispered.

"So far, Ryu looks pretty P-d off," she said quietly.

"Hey guys, why are we whisperin', when the bloomin' window is closed!," Cammy put in.

Inside Chunli's room...

The stood there in a hushed silence. Ryu had his back turned to her, refusing to speak.

*I've got to think of something*, Chunli thought, *fast*.

"Ryu?," she asked as she stood up slowly.

"What is it," he snapped, still with his back turned.

Chunli smiled and promenaded across the room to where he was standing.

"Don't you think they might get the wrong idea?"

"Wrong idea about what,?" he inquired.

"About us...," she said seductively, as she ran her fingers up his spine, "alone...in a bedroom."

The tiny hairs on Ryu's back stood up as he froze. She walked around to face him and wrapped one arm, loosley on his shoulder and used the other to feel his muscular chest and finally let it settle on his other shoulder. She slowly moved her gaze to look up at him. *So far, so...*, she forgot what she was thinking as she looked into his enigmatical, big, brown, eyes. *They're beautiful*, she thought. Even though Chunli had started the seducing, it appeared that the windows of Ryu's soul seemed to be seducing her. They both felt their heartbeats quicken, threatening to explode at any minute. Chunli could see the tenderness in his eyes, amongst the confusion of not understanding what was happening. Ryu looked down at her studying her exotic features from her long, dark eyelashes to her red, voluptuous lips. For reasons unknown to him, he longed to touch those lips with his own. They slowly gravitated towards each other. Their eyelids gradually lowered as they came closer, and closer, and closer...

AAAAH!!!. Both were awakened from their trance, and turned towards the window,(where the scream had come from),to see a bewildered Eliza looking back at them.

Chunli walked up to the window and pulled it open.

"Eliza?," she asked curiously.

"Ehehe," Eliza laughed nervously, "hi you guys!, we...uh...just wanted to say hi...um, we'll be going now, bye!," she said, as she got off ken's shoulders.

Chunli turned around to see Ryu shaking his head in disbelief.

"I can't even trust my own friends anymore," he said. "And you," he said, pulling Chunli towards him, "you can't even have an argument without cracking a joke here and there; everything's a big joke to you!," he continued, "what are you afraid of?"

Chunli was silent.

Ryu softly let her go, grunted a little and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

*What are you afraid of*, Ryu's voice echoed in her mind.

*I'm afraid...*, she thought,as she sat down on the bed, "...I'm falling in love with you.