She was enchanted with the music and the lyrics. Even though, she's clogged up into a small area for indie band performances, she remained standing unto her place and stared up to the band that is currently performing.
She was practically enchanted with the vocalist, as if the lyrics coming out from his mouth were magic spells to leave the fans to crave for more. As the vocalist walked around through the stage, she followed his every movement. On how he swings his microphone around, how he makes the audience participate by jumping and shouting like maniacs, how good his voice is and how good-looking he is.
When the moment, he had met his eyes upon her, she swore that her heart stopped beating. She was entranced to those deep sapphire eyes.
She had fallen in-love with the SPICE! 's vocalist, Len.
My Boyfriend's A Rock Star!
— Captivated —
Kagamine Rin just sighed as she opened her locker door. It was filled again with dirt and crumpled papers. She just shrugged it off, as if there was nothing else on her locker, and pulled out her outdoor shoes.
"Kagamine-san!", a boy with a neatly-combed blond locks wearing thick black frames glasses runs out to her. As Rin would call out his name, somebody has decided to trip him along the corridor. "Be careful next time, loser," he said while snickering and returning back to his own business. The boy just stood up and dusted his uniform and proceeded to Rin.
"Are you okay, Nobita?" Rin asked him.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for the concern, Kagamine-san," He chuckled nonetheless, "and my name's Kagamine Len. Please remember that, Kagamine-san."
Rin bonked out her head playfully and stuck out her tongue, "sorry about that, Kagamine-kun. It's just that you look like Nobita from Doraemon." Len looked down to Rin's dirty outdoor shoes, his head downcast and had this sorrowful expression on his face. "I'm so sorry. It's all because of me, this form of bullying happens to you."
"It's alright, I'm used to it." She scratched the back of her head. "Besides, I think people shouldn't bully weak people, you know?"
Flashback – a few weeks ago
Rin was about to go home along with her friends, when she noticed that there's a group of girls around the school's secluded corner forming a circle with someone inside it. Her friends called out to her, but Rin went to the girls and stopped them. She noticed that they were bullying a boy that looked so weak, and seems like a nerd.
"What the hell is your problem, bitch?" Faruda Ayame asked her arrogantly. She seems like the leader of the girl delinquents around her. "You have no business with us, only the boy. So, get out, so you could stay out of trouble."
"You know what? Why don't you go and beat up someone the same size, huh?" Rin retorted back. She couldn't handle bullying. Her friends were shaking in fear for their dear friend, as if telling Rin to come back with them and escape safely.
"So, you've got the guts, eh." Ayame said, motioning her head towards the girls. They were ready to beat her up, but before they could land a hand on her, she swiftly went into Ayame's front and slapped her hard on her face. Ayame was indeed shocked, and so is everyone around them. No one dared to defy her.
"You'll remember this, bitch. I'll make your life miserable during your stay on this school!" Ayame clutched her face and pointed a finger upon Rin. With that, she fled along with the other girls with her.
She turned her attention towards the boy who meekly met with her face, "t-thank y-you." Rin helped him up and said, "you should not let those people bully you again. You have to stand on your ground and be strong." She waved him off after hearing her friends call her name and went home together.
The next morning, she found that her locker was filled with letters like "loser" and her indoor shoes were practically dirty. She just shrugged it off and proceeded to her classroom. When she entered, everyone looked at her for a short period of time and avoided her gaze, as if she was an eyesore. Rin shrugged once again and proceeded to her desk finding out that there were a lot of writings consisting of bad words and negative comments. She went to her friend, Keiko, to ask what's happening and why is she receiving this treatment.
"It's because you helped Nobita yesterday," Keiko said while averting her eyes towards Rin, "and please don't associate yourself with me anymore, I might be the next victim if you keep on hanging with me."
Rin was entirely shocked.
End of Flashback
She went to the school's rooftop and sat on the floor, sighing. The boy was with her, his head still downcast and had this sorry expression on his face. "I'm really sorry about it, Kagamine-san."
"You could call me Rin," she said at him, "no need to be so formal with me. I feel embarrassed upon it."
At the same time, Len grabbed something from his pocket, "here, you could have this melon bread," reaching out a melon bread. Rin flustered but accepted it, "how about you then?"
"Don't worry about me," he smiled sheepishly, "oh, I almost forgot! Here take this!" Len shoved a paper on Rin's hand. She just looked at him with a curious look while he just smiled. As she looked at the paper, Rin noticed that it is a ticket in a band performance.
"I can't believe this!" Rin exclaimed, "you have a ticket for SPICE!'s performance. I'm such a big fan of them. Thanks Kagamine-kun!" She smiled at him.
"Glad you liked it!" Len beamed at her, showing his perfect set of whites. Rin couldn't help but feel grateful on this nerd. Heck, who wouldn't be thankful for someone who gave you an entrance VIP ticket to your favorite indie band?
Then, there are group of guys who appeared as delinquents came to the rooftop. The leader of the group started shouting someone's name, "Kagamine Len! Come here, you dork! Where's my melon bread I ordered you to get for me?"
Rin looked up at her half-eaten melon bread and stared at Len worriedly. Len stood up and mouthed, "it's okay" and went to the group of delinquent students. She just stared at them blankly. She couldn't help but to giggle softly at his antics.
"Like, this is so awesome!" Rin said to herself as she entered the venue to her designated seat. She couldn't believe that Kagamine Len guy would have a VIP ticket of the most famous indie band, SPICE! "How did he managed to get a ticket of this anyway?", Rin asked herself. She used to stand behind the general patronage area, wherein she would deal with all the people trying to get a glimpse of the band. "Oh well, might as well to thank him tomorrow!" She giggled to herself.
As the lights went out, the audience began shouting and cheering, until the band appeared right on stage. There, Rin saw again the vocalist that captivated her. She turned her full-attention on him, not minding everyone else on the stage. With her sapphire orbs, she looked at the blonde vocalist with full intensity. Her heart stopped for a moment when she saw that he looked at her then back at the audience.
Could that be her imagination? She wondered.
As the band sang countless rock songs, it immediately switched into the soft strumming of the electric guitar and soft clashing of cymbals. "Hey, isn't this the first time that SPICE! sang a soft song like this?", one of the people in the audience said, having Rin hearing it, she also wondered why the band turned a ballad song into the stage when they're all-known for the rock music.
Rin felt her cheeks heating and her heart pounding so loudly when she saw that the vocalist is staring at her intensely for a few minutes and turned back again to the audience. Some of the audience started to cheer so wildly, even a ballad song turned into like rock music. After the song ended, he spoke.
"You might be surprised that we made a ballad song, huh? It's for a special guest of mine," he smiled. The crowd went wild wondering upon the guest he spoke about. Rin couldn't help but to blush at the words he spoke. It feels like, it was pertaining to her. But, of course, she didn't get her hopes too high, because she thought for a fan service.
The next day, as Rin was about to take her indoor shoes, she spotted the guy who gave her an opportunity to experience her best night ever.
"Last night was awesome, thanks for the ticket Kagamine-kun!" she chirped at him. He just smiled at her. Looking closely, Kagamine Len was good-looking. She was out of her trance when she heard he asked him something, "how was the concert?"
"It was awesome! Though, I'm quite surprised that SPICE! would pull out a ballad song like that. It felt like the vocalist was singing a love song to me," she laughed.
When Rin turned to Len, she saw his serious face. She could feel that her face is heating up, because this nerd guy is really good-looking especially when he's staring seriously.
"It was a song for you, Rin" he said in his deep husky voice while approaching her. Rin was surprised so she took a step backwards as Len continued advancing towards her. She was backed up against the wall and trapped against him.
"K-K-Ka-Kagamine-kun…?" she chirped helplessly. This is a different person, she said to herself. As Len tried to bring his face right in front of her, she couldn't help but to blush as red as a tomato. She hypothesized that, this nerd boy can be the vocalist of SPICE!. On how their eyes are exactly the same as the vocalist, on how he unleashes his pheromones like on-stage, on how he licks his lips as he advances towards her.
Their eyes are locked into one another, both leaned closer wanting to close the gap between their lips. As if, they're captivated into each other's magic spell.
"Oh! Nobita and Kagamine-san are making out!" a random guy suddenly popped out of nowhere, which caused the two to blush madly and Rin took this as a chance to push Len away, "w-w-w-we're n-n-n-not d-d-d-doing anything!" she retorted and started running to her classroom.
'That was my chance, talk about timing!', Len mentally slapped himself and formed a glare to the random guy that just appeared and proceeded towards his classroom. The guy turned into ghost white and collapsed to the floor as soon he saw Len's glare. 'Don't underestimate those nerds', he probably thought that to himself.
LONG Author's Note:
Now, that's the end of Captivated PART 1. Stay tuned for the second part. For those who might find this oddly familiar, it's kind of based to a manga that I recently read. But no worries, I'm adding my own touch on the second part.
I'm still having second thoughts of leaving this story as a two-shot or continuing writing a series of stories. Well, I'm having a poll on my profile, so please do check it out.
So, why don't you leave a review for me so I'm motivated for the second part?