Hey everyone...

So, I edited some stuff with this story especially with the pairing. I just realized that I sucked royally in the grammar and I didn't know then that the tense is supposed to be past tense.

I didn't edit everything, mind you. I'm a loyal slacker so I guess you could see that in the story. I think I started in chapter 2 with the major editing...

Anyway, I've written two new chapters after a very long hiatus (sorry i didn't warn any of the guys waiting for almost a year-major problems came up in my family and school). Second year high school was hectic in Phil-Sci. At least in my third year this year, it won't be so hectic.

I'm done with promising you guys for a certain time for my update. I'm done with breaking my promises. I can't even tell you guys how sorry I am.

Since those who had been waiting for this story to update probably got sick of waiting, I'm just going to say sorry and i hope you'll forgive me. To those who had been reading my stories and making Story Alerts and some even gave a few reviews, thanks a lot. I really appreciate it.

P.S. : This note is just going to repeat from the first chap until the 22nd chapter of my story.

Chapter 1 – Fun?

Mikan's POV

I woke up just to find the sky turn gray. Great. It's raining. As much as I wanted to go back to sleep, I went to the shower and continued my morning duties. After I put on my black contact lenses and ate my breakfast, I changed in a black pair of slacks, a polo that reaches to my elbow, big-and-round glasses with black rims, donned my checkered jacket and wore my black Crocs. Yup, you guessed it right, I was a geek. But one side-note, this was just a disguise. Anyway, this, me in my disguise, pushed me to start my normal day. The rain had stopped momentarily but the sky was still gray. No need for an umbrella today (hey, it rhymed!).

I then took my bag, locked the door of my house and walked to the bus stop. Well, you really couldn't call it a bus stop. It's just where we, my schoolmates and I, waited for the school bus. When I reached the bus stop, everyone backed away from me as if I'm the A(H1N1) virus in the flesh. As usual, people didn't want to get near my kind because they might get the W(EIRD) virus (seriously, they should watch it because they might have the D(UMMY) virus). Sigh, if only they knew…

Anyways, while I was complaining in my head, a girl with pink hair tied in a pony tail, khaki pants, green and red checkered blouse, and glasses as big as mine stood beside me. She wore a black jacket.

"Hey, Anna," I greeted.

"Oh, hey, Mikan," she greeted back with a smile.

Introduction time! Anna Umenomiya was a nerd (obviously) and she's one of my loyal and cute best friends. Yeah, you could say we're on the same category.

"Where's your sister?" I asked looking around for another girl.

"Well, she said that she'll just wait at the next stop. You know Nonoko… she already said that we had to keep our image," she said the last sentence with a voice that barely reached the whisper level. Thankfully, I wasn't deaf and I wasn't bringing those iPods and listening to it to max volume like those so-called "elite" people (who are, by the way, staying about 15.96 meters from us).

"Sigh. I'm thankful that we only have to wait for about 7 hours and get to do something 'fun'," I whispered adding little quotation marks at the word fun. Only 6 of us knew what it means.

And, as if on cue, the bus arrived. As usual, Anna and I were the last ones to ever set foot on it. We came in to be greeted with glares, sneers, "accidentally" stretched foot (which we "accidentally" stepped on. The person then said a string of profanities), and blank stares. The only one who greeted us with something warm was a boy teen who had blond hair neatly combed into a geeky form, a short necktie, a polo-shirt with collar under his checkered sweat shirt, black slacks, and shiny shoes. He wore a blue jacket with a white hood. Good thing he (safely) sat at the back while he motioned for us to sit beside him.

"Greetings, Mikan, and to you, Anna," He formally said while bowing his head a little. When he looked up, he smiled sweetly and warmly. Despite the cold atmosphere (literally and metaphorically), he managed to give out something warm. And again I say: we're on the same category.

"Good morning, dear Yuu," we said altogether.

We then sat beside him (rather forcefully because it seems the driver hated us that he moved the bus causing us to almost bump our heads to the chairs) and we chatted in very, very low voices (if in music, pianissississississississimo, if not pianississimo. You get what I mean, right?) because we didn't want someone to eavesdrop on our conversation.

Introduction time! The boy here is Yuu Tobita. He's another person who's my best friend and part of the word fun. Apparently, he's just another guy who was discriminated. Ugh, thinking about Yuu being like that was freaking me out.

"Hey, Yuu, you're having a new language, eh? What's with the 'greetings, blah, blah'? Don't you think it's a bit formal than usual?" I teased. Yes, I talked like this. No, I didn't swear unless I got really mad and angry. Maybe drunk but I don't drink.

"Yeah, Yuu. You usually say, 'good morning to you both' but that's an improvement, I think," Anna chimed in.

"Well, let's just say that I am better than you (pointing at me) at being geeky and (pointing at us) acting. Let's just hope that I won't become a pedophilic sycophant for Shakespeare. I, for one, don't want to have a case for treason due to my change in language. Oh, by the way, Anna, it's 'I think it's an improvement' not 'it's an improvement, I think'. It's rather informal to say so," Yuu stated.

Anna and I shared an eye roll. Really, his use of language only proved him wrong about being a Shakespeare sycophant.

"I only said hope not that I don't want to," he explained in his teacher-like voice after realizing we were staring at him with small smirks.

"Aw, don't worry, we'll get ya enough fun to prevent that," Anna said while patting his arm.

I noticed while Anna was patting Yuu's arm, Yuu blushed like crazy. Then Anna saw what she was doing. She withdrew her hand and blushed the same way Yuu was. Hehehe, I think I heard wedding bells. I then thought of something that made them snap out of their trance.

"Hey, if you're rivaling tomatoes, you win. Congratulations. But if you guys are flirting with each other, go get a room," I mocked. I couldn't hold back the mischievous glint in my eyes.

"N-no, we a-ar-aren't!" they said and blushed scarlet. Geez, they're hopeless.

"Oh, really…doesn't seem like it. You know what people say when it comes to love? 'Denying is the first stage'," I quoted. "Anyways, you're stuttering. It makes it more inevitable," I added leaving them speechless. But I hated myself for mocking them.

When they were still recovering from my rather inescapable truth, I looked through the window. The rain was just turning into a light mist so I could see that we're near the next stop. I could have just slept, but I had an important task to do (which must be done every day). When we arrived, people filed in the bus like a stampede, racing to get the better seats (and I say a big ugh). But, of course, nobody sat at the back where we're sitting rather comfortably.

I then saw a girl with midnight blue hair and dark blue eyes hidden by a hood, with dark eye shadows, dark pink hoodie, baggy pants, and a pair of dark colored Converse. She nodded slightly to our group which we returned swiftly.

She was followed by a pretty normal girl. The girl had hair perms with dark green highlights (although, those highlights were natural since birth), mossy green eyes, a Guess shirt with a "Stay Out" print in metallic design (black), a Nike jacket (white with red linings), faded blue jeans, and a pair of black Sketchers sneakers. She, too, nodded at us slightly and we returned.

Okay, so that's five down and one to go. It was a thirty-minute drive from here to school, so I slept dreaming of making a change in school. When I opened my eyes, we were at the school gates.

Was that better than the first time? I hope so...