Chapter 1

The First Two New Students

It was a busy day at the Alice Academy and surprisingly, Mikan Sakura was early for class.

"Morning everyone!" The brunette greeted.

"Morning Mikan," Yuu replied. "You're early today."

"Yup!" She answered. "HOTARU!"

BAKA BAKA BAKA

"Stay away from me, idiot," Hotaru said coldly.

"You're such a meanie Hotaru!"

"You're too loud Polka Dots," A certain raven-haired boy said as he entered the room, followed by his best friend, Ruka Nogi.

"Oh, good morning Natsume and Ruka!" She said as if nothing ever happened.

"Good morning Mikan," Ruka said.

"Hn," Natsume replied. He walked to his seat and started reading his manga when Mr. Narumi came.

"Okay class, settle down. We have two new students today. They come from the Philippines. Please welcome them!" He announced. Then two girls walked in. The first one was about the height of Mikan except she was slightly taller than her. She had shoulder-length hair while the other new student had the same type of hair as Hotaru except she was quite tall. She wore glasses and looked happy for some reason. Both had natural black hair.

"Class, I'd like you to meet Nikki and Pacheco." The girls stepped in front and smiled.

"Hi! My name is Anjelika Louise Pacheco and I'm eleven years old! My alice is weather-control. The weather depends on my mood," Anjelika said, then grinned. "Nice to meet you!"

"And my name's Christine Nicole Cadiz, but everyone just calls me Nikki. I'm eleven going on twelve. My alice is that whatever I write comes true, only if I want it to," Nikki said, then smiled sweetly. "I also have a strange sixth sense where I could tell a part of a person's personality. For example: Anjelika is too friendly with other people but is mean to me."

"That's because you're short!"

"I'm not short! You're just taller than me! Meanie!"

"Ugly!"

"Pig-face!"

"Butt-head!"

"Argh!" Nikki shrieked. "Anyway, just a reminder to all boys out there: STAY AWAY OR SUFFER." Nikki's happy mood suddenly changed into deadly. But when she faced the teacher, she was back to normal.

"Where can we sit, Mr. Narumi?" Nikki and Anjelika asked.

"Well, Anjelika, you sit beside Hotaru, the one who has an emotionless face, and Nikki, you sit beside Natsume. He's the one reading a manga. You'll be in front of Mikan. She's the one with the pigtails."

Anjelika immediately got to her seat and started talking to Hotaru about something (probably asking to learn how to blackmail). Nikki, on the other hand, stopped by Natsume before taking her seat. She was staring at him until her stare became a glare. (A/N: Ooh! Rhymes!)

"MENACE TO ALL WOMEN ON EARTH!" She said all of a sudden. Natsume just blinked and continued to read his manga. Nikki took her seat and acted like nothing happened. Everyone had eyes on her.

"What?" She asked, looking all innocent. Then Mr. Jinno came in. He started teaching about this and that, etc, etc.

Fast Forward!!!

It was already lunch time, and Mikan decided to talk to the two new students.

Mikan's POV

Anjelika seems busy with something, so I'll talk to Nikki first. I turned to face her and she was writing something. I couldn't see what it was so I looked closer. It looked like she was writing a story. It read:

There once was a young girl name Yukino. She had a special power of drawing things that come to life. No one knew about it except for her parents. One day, she was found out and taken to a school for people like her. She had to leave her friends and family. "I don't wanna go!" She shouted. Tears were flowing down her eyes. She tried reaching out to her crying mom and dad. Her brother had his eyes on the ground, hiding his emotions. "Mom! Dad! I don't wanna go! I wanna stay here with you!" Before she knew it, she was knocked out.

She woke up, finding herself in her room. "Was it all just a dream?" She asked herself. Suddenly, the door opened, revealing a girl she didn't know. "Hi! My name's Kyoko! Welcome to the Alice Academy!" The girl called Kyoko said. I looked at them. "What am I doing here?" I asked them. "Why was I taken here? I wanna go back home where I belong!" She started crying again. "I know that I have this kind of power or whatever you call it but I never wanted to have it to go to this school…" Just then, Kyoko hugged her. "Shh, it'll be okay. I've went through the same thing as you have. Cry all you want," She comforted. And Yukino just cried.

The next day, Yukino was as energetic as she could be. She went to talk to Kyoko. "Hi Kyoko! Listen, thanks a lot for comforting me back there. I hope I can do something to help you," She said. "I know! I'll treat you to something!"

"Oh, okay. Thanks!" Kyoko said. They spent the whole day together going around the Academy. Yukino now had a friend she could share her feelings with.

The story ended there. I wondered why she stopped writing. I looked up and saw she was staring at me. I laughed nervously realizing that she noticed me reading. She just smiled at me.

"You must be Mikan, right?" She said. "My name's Nikki. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too! I'm Mikan Sakura," I replied. "You really have a nice story here!"

"Oh, I wrote this yesterday. I'm just continuing it," She said. "This actually happened to me, you see. Except, there wasn't anyone like Kyoko there to comfort me." Her eyes looked so sad. I couldn't do anything to help her. She was the Yukino in her story.

"But it's okay! I'm just happy that my best friend is here!"

"Your best friend? Who is it?"

"Oh, it's Anjelika Pacheco. I'm the only one who calls her Anjelika, though." I was surprised. Earlier, she acted as if they were complete enemies. Pacheco kinda reminds me of Hotaru, except she smiles and Hotaru doesn't. I don't know how they became best friends. Oh wait, their friendship is like ours (Hotaru and Mikan).

"Hey, why don't I show you around? I can take you to Central Town!" I suggested.

"Central Town?"

"You get to buy all kinds of stuff there! They also have something called Howalons! They taste really great!"

"I'd like that. Let's go then!" She said.

End of POV

At Central Town

Mikan and Nikki were looking around. Nikki looked like a little kid being amazed by everything around her.

"Hey! There are the Howalons!" Mikan exclaimed. They went and bought some.

"Mmm! I love these every time I eat them!" Mikan said.

"It tastes like heaven!" Nikki said. They both had starry eyes. While they were continuing talking about the wonder of Howalons, they bumped into two people and landed on the ground.

"Ow…" Both Mikan and Nikki said.

"Watch where you're going, Polka-dots. Looks like you have a new partner now. Isn't that right, Flowers?" Both Mikan and Nikki turned red in anger, stood up and shouted.

"NATSUME YOU PERVERT!!!" Everyone turned to their direction and stared at them.

"Hn, whatever. Let's go, Ruka," Natsume said. Ruka nodded and muttered a sorry then followed Natsume.

"MENACE! PERVERT! DISGRACE TO ALL SOCIETY!" Nikki said as she continued shouting.

"He's such a pervert, that Natsume. Lucky Ruka isn't like him, right Nikki?" Mikan said. Nikki didn't answer. She had a red face and was looking down.

"Nikki? Are you still angry with him?"

"Huh? Uh- Yeah! Of course I am! I can't forgive him for what he did!" Nikki's eyes turned from angry to flaming.

"Uh, okay then. Anyway, let's look around some more."

"That was a nice day! I hope we can do it again next time!" Nikki said.

"Yeah! That was fun!" Mikan replied.

"Well, I'll be going to my room now. Thanks a lot Mikan! See ya tomorrow!"

"See ya, Nikki!"