Rainbow

Chapter Three: Unbalanced life.


Dojima woke up to birds chirping away outside of her bedroom window. She groaned, as each sone the birds made, was like a needle stabbing her in the head. She rubbed her face, cursing the damned feathered things for waking her up so early. She looked at the clock on the side table, and saw it was just a little past six in the morning.

She sat up, then felt a huge wave of dizziness and extreme nauseousness hit her all at once.
“ Damn!” She spat, holding her head. “ I feel like total crap!”

She found that she was having the mother of all hangovers, as every part of her body seemed to ache like she was eighty years old or something. Even her tongue felt like something very furry had just made it’s home right on it. She made a face, as the she noticed the taste of old wine was still on her breath.
“ This is just too gross.” She said to herself, trying to ignore the taste that lingered all too strongly.

She tried to get the muddled feeling out of her head, while she wondered just how she got home the night before. She rubbed her head, while looking around herself to get some resemblance of what had all happened.

The very hung-over woman found herself still dressed in her shirt and panties, and all of the other clothes she had worn the night before were folded very neatly beside the mat. She snuffed. She knew she had help getting home last night, knowing that she always had made a habit of sleeping in the nude, not to mention that she was not as neat as her folded clothing was.

She pulled herself out of her mat and grabbed a silk robe she had hanging on a hook near the door. She put it on rather slowly, as the room seemed to spin for a second or two.
“ I must have really drank a hell of a lot!” She said to herself, steading herself with a hand on the wall.

She fixed the robe around herself tightly, and went to see if her unknown helper had stayed the night somewhere in her place. In her mind, she thought that someone had actually stayed the dight due to the state she had to have been in. She did not this for sure know, but she had a hunch that someone did keep an eye on her, especially with how drunk she had gotten throughout the night. She had really did a number on herself, she thought to herself.

In the stillness of the front room, she found a lone sleeping figure that was curled upon the hardwood floor. She moved so the pale light of the rising morning sun through the front window would show her who it was that was asleep on the wood floor. She moved quietly as she could in her condition, wanting to see the face of the person that had helped her out the night before.

It was Robin who was curled up on her floor, the dusty red overcoat the girl wore always was being used as a blanket. The girl seemed to be sleeping as soundly as she had, her breathing was slow and deep.

Dojima suddenly gasped, as the whole night’s events came rushing back to her in one bright flash of instant reality.
“ I have to explain things to Robin, I think...” She said in her mind, rubbing her head as stress welled up in her. She sighed. “ Dammit...I’ve done it this time... Should have told things before all of this happened.”

She moved to the kitchen to make coffee, knowing very well that she will need a few cups of it to simply make her pounding headache bearable. She left the girl sleep, not wanting to have to explain herself while her head was pounding like if someone was dribbling a bowling ball off of her skull from the inside.
“ Note to self... no more fucking wine!” She said to herself, trying to lighten the situation up for herself.

The blonde Hunter was just about done her first coffee, when Robin stepped into the kitchen. By the look of confusion and fear that were held inside those green eyes, the girl was still thinking on the night before. Dojima knew she was doing just that.
“ Morning...” Said Dojima, nervously.

The tawny haired girl looked at Dojima, her eyes darting between her, and then away for a moment to gaze out of the kitchen’s back window.
“ You can grab yourself a coffee, if you want.” Said Dojima, watching the girl fidget as she stood there. “ I left out a mug that you can use on the counter there.”
“ Thank you...” The girl replied meekly, putting her gaze to the floor as she moved to where the coffee pot was.

The young girl chose to stand next to the counter as she sipped slowly on her coffee. Her posture was very stiff and she did not move an inch to go and sit down at the table. She was so very quiet, even for Robin’s standards. The woman looked at the young teenager, and knew that she had really freaked her out.

Robin stared at Dojima for a while, her mind now filled with the events of the night. She could see that the woman seemed to be a little under the weather, knowing very well that the alcohol was the big culprit for her state. She tried not to think on the other things, but it was clear that her mind was having a heyday with it already. It continued to replay things over and over again.

Dojima finished the last half cold sip of her coffee and sighed. She turned so she could look at the youngest hunter, and regarded the girl for quite awhile.
“ I want to thank you for the help getting me home, Robin.” She said, knowing she had to start the conversation in someway. “ I guess I got more than just a little plastered last night.”

Robin nodded, her face growing crimson red as she still was trying not to look at the woman.
“ You are welcome, Miss Dojima...” She said, her voice very soft.

The blonde woman could see that the girl was avoiding her eye contact at all cost. She sighed but still did not turn away. She kept looking at the girl, and saw that the normal emerald eyes of her’s were not sparkling like they usually did, a stare of confusion was clouding them.
“ We have to talk, Robin... about last night.” Dojima said, nervous about what she had to explain.

Robin’s face flashed white, her eyes went down to study her cup she held with great interest. She said not one word, simply blankly studied the handle of the mug like she was looking for any flaws in the pottery.

Dojima noticed how it was affecting the girl, but knew the only way to clear things up was to speak up.
“ I think I need to explain quite a few things about last night to you.” Said Dojima, amending her way of approaching the subject.
“ What needs to be explained...” Started Robin, her voice quivering as she spoke to the woman. “ You thought I was your boyfriend, you kissed me... you made a mistake when you did....”
“ I sort of felt you up too...” Pointed out the woman, with a small smirk of admittance.

Robin seemed to shiver with the words, but her face showed no other reaction on it’s smooth surface.
“ I... It was all a mistake, I know that now...” Robin sputtered, still not looking up from her mug. “ I am not mad about it.. you were drunk... I understand that you made a mistake like that when you had too much to drink.”

Dojima stood up and walked over. She took the mug out of the girl’s hand and set it on the counter. She moved the girl to face straight at her, then got the girl’s green eyes to look up at her.
“ It was not a mistake, Robin...” Said Dojima flatly. “ The first thing to explain is that I never have been with a man ever...”

Robin’s eye widened, a few beads of sweat collected quickly on her forehead.
“ W...What?” Robin sputtered loudly, her face was shocked and all the color drained from her cheeks.
“ The first thing I need to explain, to make you understand the other things... is that I am a lesbian..” Dojima continued slowly, her eyes trying to gauge what the girl was thinking.

Robin seemed to nearly collapse, her legs partially giving out as she stood there. She steadied herself against the kitchen counter with a hand and gaped at the woman with eyes as big as saucers.
“ Pardon me...” The young hunter said sharply, her politeness coming out of reflex.

Dojima kept her eyes locked on to the girl’s, as she readied herself for more of her explaining.
“ I like women, just like men do... I date them and everything.” She said, then hating how jumbled it had came out of her mouth.
“ But... your dates... you said...” Sputtered Robin, her mind racing to grasp the lady’s words.

Dojima nodded, seeing that the girl was now totally confused and very flustered. She took a deep breath, and knew she needed to clarify other things, before going on with the other stuff.
“ Robin, I may have been not telling the whole truth to you guys at the STN-J... about my ‘dates’.” She said, as clear as she could put the words. “ I let you think that they were with men I was dating... in fact I like women.” She explained, as simply as she could think of to so. “ That is the deepest, darkest truth I have... the single thing that not too many people know about me...I am a gay woman.”

Robin backed up a little bit against the counter, staring at her friend with a very blank stare. The girl seemed unable to take a breath for a second, her upper lip shook as her mind tried to process what she had heard.
“ Then... you were... you did...” She stammered.
“ I made a ‘pass’ at you...” She said boldly to give the girl the words, seeing the facts registering in Robin’s mind. “ I was drunk and did that because...”
“ I felt strange when you did that...” Said Robin breaking in to Dojima’s words, now leaning a little further back from the woman. “ I... I mean... I never had anyone touch me there... I... then you...”
“ I know it unnerved you... but I need to tell you the truth that I have been hiding away for so long also....” Dojima said, trying to get the words out of her head. “... The truth is that I have been interested in you for a long while, attracted to you and...well, I did what I did in my state because of what I had been feeling towards you and...”

Robin heard the words, and her heart seemed to beat harder. The words were right there, Dojima was attracted to her, and last night was not a mistake other than she had acted on them. She felt herself shaking, unable to think. Her body instantly reminding her of what it felt like when the lady’s hand had been caressing her womanhood, the feelings that shot through her when Dojima delivered that kiss... everything.

Fear gripped Robin, and she quickly pushed her way passed the woman who was still trying to explain herself to her.
“ I... I got to go..” She said, as politely as she could at the moment. “ I.. I am glad I could help, but I got to leave now!!”
“ Robin wait...” Pleaded Dojima, seeing the girl’s turmoil in her eyes. “ You don’t have to be scared of me...”

She turned away from the lady, as she started walking faster.
“ I got to go...” Was all the girl could muster out, a tear was flowing down her cheek by then.
“ Robin...please...” Said the lady again, as the girl scurried from the room.

Dojima could see the tear flow down the ivory of the girl’s cheek, and her heart sank. That was not the reaction she wanted from Robin, not one little bit. She hurriedly tried to catch the now almost running girl, but the girl had already left the kitchen in a few strides.

The darkly clad girl retrieved her coat from the front room floor and quickly rushed herself to the door. The girl said nothing as she sprinted out of the house, pulling the door shut with a bang. Just like that, the girl was gone and left the robed figure of Dojima to stare at the now closed door. The house seemed to be deathly still now.

Dojima stood there looking at the door that Robin had raced out of for a few moments. She lowered her head and rubbed her furrowed brow.
“ Fucking shit, shit, shit!!” Spat the lady, her own tears starting to fall. “ I really have done it now.”

She turned and headed back to her bedroom. She needed to get cleaned up for work, trying to catch up with the terrified and confused girl would be futile anyways. She knew that the young girl was probably long gone by the time she had slapped on some clothes and finally got out there.

She shook her head and hurried herself, still spitting swears at herself.