Chapter 1: Prologue

'Thoughts'

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point of views or P.O.V.

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"Are you a cold-blooded human being Micah-chan???"

The sound of Ai's voice is still ringing on my mind while I'm walking on the street from the grocery store where we previously, coincidently met each other. She's with her mother but she drastically left her just to be with me and talked nonsense. As we were wandering around the grocery store and as I was inspecting the item that I'm picking, she saw a guy which she considered as 'handsome'... I chewed her off and told her that that guy is just the same with those guys on the road and doing senseless activities like bullying or something then she shouted to me that exact words still revolving around my thoughts... am I really cold-blooded? WHAT DO THEY THINK OF ME...? A REPTILE[Shouting

I'm Micahyla Hagiwara, 14 years old, 9th grader in the school which is very famous with its tennis team, which I don't even know it exists inside the campus, -- the Seishun Gakuen or in short Siegaku. To tell the truth, I really don't care or have any business with that stupid tennis team but unfortunately...one of my best friends has a crush on one of their regular members and matching with some bad luck, it just happened in a blink. WHATEVER[Shouting again

I have been living alone in our 2-story house for almost 6 months. Since then, I'm already in-charge of taking care of the house, managing the 4-room boarding house, doing all the household chores and everything. Because of my obligations, I don't need time to fool around or mess up. I need to concentrate on my studies and on my studies only. No boyfriends or crushes or things like that... they are just a piece of waste. That's why I don't know how to look with guys; I saw them like they just have the same faces... ugly! I'm emotionless (with exceptions of those negative emotions like anger, etc), sometimes numb, cold-hearted or cold-blooded, lonesome, insane, sadists, selfish, rude, don't care of others' business and all the bad things and attitude you can give.

In school, I just only have few friends because of my unfriendly attitude but still I have 3 desperate best friends. It's Ai Hirayama, Ame Shimizu and Tsubasa Mifune. Ai is the bubbliest of us; she's the joker of the group but also the most emotional. She wants all of us to be happy especially me, she said she is challenged by my personality to make her jokes funnier [and cornier than ever. She is a superstar aspirant and loves to dance. She also wants to look at those guys with big bodies, as what she said. But her crush for this time comes from the tennis club... I think it's that guy with red hair and a band-aid or something on his cheek. Ame is a bit bubbly and a bit serious or something like that. She can hang with Ai at the same time hang with me & Tsubasa, the serious ones. She has a golden voice that can blow anyone when she's already singing. She's also an intelligent student but I think she's just not interested to study. Her passion is in fashion-designing. She's really a good designer and she was taken once by a prestigious boutique to design a gown for them. Tsubasa is serious but she can laugh all the way with Ai. She's smart and we're always competing for the top 1 rank on the whole 3rd years. She's the one who can be with me seriously, not like Ai or Ame that are always noisy and fooling around like drunken men. Though we compete, we forget it after the class. She sometimes calls me as 'the-girl-who-don't-know-how-to-smile' and I think she's right. like me, she doesn't wants to talk about boys... we're allies when Ame & Ai want to debate about things like that, that's why they are always defeated. Tsubasa talks like a lawyer and she has many reasons on her sleeve that's why it's not shocking that she wants to be a lawyer someday.

Ai -- brown shoulder-length hair and always in two pigtails clip with butterflies. She has also brown eyes. She's always on the mood & don't know how to care about problems. You can immediately notice her because she doesn't know how to shut up.

Ame -- light golden hair 1 inch after the shoulders. She always hangs it freely with a pink headband. Have black beautiful eyes. She's the singer of the group and the trend-setter of the campus. Because she's a fashion-designer, she's always updated with the latest fashion which our classmates furiously want to be keep inform.

Tsubasa -- long light brown hair which is always in 2 braids resting on her shoulders. She's wearing oval framed eye-glasses which add her genius looks & her eye color is hazel green. She always looks calm and approachable that's why I hate sometimes when all of our classmates are thronging to her, we're just seatmates and they always hit my chair.

Me-- long black hair [longer than Tsubasa's which always end up in ponytail or just simply clipped in circular motion. Have blue emotionless eyes which usually dull. Always looks frowning or serious. Some of my classmates are afraid of me which makes them respect me. Always aiming for the top rank of the whole 3rd years that's why I don't let my grades go down.

(You'll just know them better when the chapter progresses...)

The 3 of us are in the science club, since freshmen I've been joining the science club though science is not one of my best subjects... I just like to put some chemicals on the test tubes and observe it. Since I don't like to be a leader and to add my responsibilities... they just nominated me in the auditor position. Tsubasa is the president, Ame is the vice and Ai is the secretary. Our science club instructor is Ms. Kimiko Mizuno, they call her as Ms. Kimiko but I call her as Ms. Mizuno. She has different moods which make us wonder, sometimes she's very kind but sometimes she's so strict. That's why luck is very important in the science club.