The Anime Man and I [DISCONTINUED]

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Hearing the familiar voice, you had frozen and opened your eyes then stiffly looked up to his face. You stretched your both hands and touched his face. You pinched it, really, really hard to make sure that it was not a hallucination made by your creative mind due to the dire situation. And as you confirmed it was the real person, the weight that was in you has suddenly disappeared making the tears you don't want to come out starts to stream down in your face. You felt your knees soften due to relief, if not by his quick reflexes, you would have collapsed in there.

"Thank you." You tried to speak louder but you could only manage to whisper it.

"Did you just say something?" You didn't respond and just stayed silent because of the overflowing tears that have been coming out nonstop, "why are you crying? Are you hurt?" the tone of concern was visible in every question.

You sob, "n-no...I'm not hurt...t-thanks to you..." you tried to speak straight but you just can't and couldn't help but starts crying like a child as you didn't hesitate to hug him so tightly as if your life had depended on him if he didn't saved you there. "Joey... Thank you."

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"You were what?!" You got startled by Joey's sudden loud reaction when you had told him what actually happened back in the train.

The two of you are now out of the crowded place already instead the both of you are in a quiet park near to your apartment. The tears have now subsided but you were still sobbing a little.

"I-I was rubbed behind... on my bottom..." you trailed turning your sight at the ground.

"You were- why didn't you told me earlier? I could have done something about it!" the loudness in Joey's voice will obviously be heard if there were people around. It's a good thing there isn't.

"It's oka-," You tried to calm him down.

"It's not okay! How can you say it's okay? You're a girl for Pete's sake!"

"I'm okay with it...and he just...he just touched my butt, that was all." You are now flushed, you really didn't want to say it again but you got provoke since Joey is making a big deal out of it. Well, yes, it was a big deal in the first place but it's already done. All you can do was be careful next time by boarding the train. "It's okay because... because nothing more unthinkable stuff happened..." tears starts to threaten you to flow again, "since you were there to save me." You heard him sighed while you turn your back around him so that he couldn't see you wiping your tears away but you were startled when you felt him lean his head behind you at your shoulder.

"I'm sorry for shouting at you," he sincerely apologized even though it was not needed because you can understand why he suddenly acted that way, "I just got worried. What if, I didn't decide to follow you? Who's going to save you then? And actually everything was entirely my fault, if I just agreed to you to sit next to Shine, those things shouldn't have happen. We are probably in a restaurant right now eating." He sighed once again as you were just listening in every word he said because you don't know what to respond at all. "I know you were really down by what I did inside the theater and also what happened outside considering Shine was there. You shouldn't think about what Shine had said earlier. He was just so shock that he couldn't say anything appropriate in the situation." He said as you still stayed silent. "Hey, say something, you know it's embarrassing just me talking here."

"Um..." You started a bit hesitating, "what are you talking about Shine had said? And where is he anyway?"

END OF CHAPTER

A/N: Okay guys, the chapter had exceeded 600+ instead of 300+. This is supposedly about two chapters already but I can't cut it because I have to adjust in the following chapters if I did and it'll cause another effort to fix the upcoming chapters so... hopefully you enjoy this extra long chapter? :) And hey, stop cursing the cliffhanger. Their my best friends. :D Though this chapter doesn't seem to have the kind of cliffhanger. So hopefully you're satisfied with that. XD