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CHAPTER ONE: A MEETING

Haruhi Fujioka is a girl who lived by herself ever since her mother died. She inherited her face from her mother who used to be very popular and legendary among gangsters in the city. But she was raised very delicately and she turned out to be a fine girl. She did the chores and the cooking all by herself as her mother taught her to be independent. But one thing her mother forgot to tell her the day she died, a small thing called love...

It's a very sunny morning and depressingly, the first day of school. She had to go to school and show her face to the world again. The thing is, she is a little famous around the city. She was born famous. That's why she despised public places where people can see her and also she has social problems. Haruhi had inherited her mother's face. It is this kind of face that has something unintentionally written all over it that says: "Hey, look at me and I'll rearrange your face!"She was really planning to have a full face transplant but she can't afford it. The second she took her face off the mirror, she noticed the clock. It was 7:50 a.m. Haruhi stifled a yawn. 5...4...3...2...1...

"WHAT?" she exclaimed. If she isn't in school by five minutes, the school head will surely scold her heavily for not meeting the expectations of the school and punish her. "Why does that school have to be too strict?" she complained as she ate her breakfast.

Haruhi rushed in the bathroom to have a quick bath and then she made her lunch, then she ran out of her apartment with the old landlady saying goodbye. She even forgot to comb her hair.

That school is for rich kids mostly because the enrollment fee is so expensive. But they have everything a public school could dream to have. That's why that school only gives out one file of scholarship to one person every five years. You don't have to pay for everything if you passed their test, which is like hell. That's why Haruhi is thanking heaven for her brains and the fact that she is the only one who received scholarship from that school in 50 years. But a thing about that school, they'll be hard on you if you're a scholar .The last guy who got the scholarship didn't last long.

3 minutes, she thought. She made sure that her body is running 90 KPH. The road to the school seemed endless until she caught sight of the bright yellow gate of the school. It was slowly closing. She ran and ran and ran until her vision blurred. Finally, one more big leap...

Unfortunately, the gates closed. She wanted to climb over it but she almost forgot that the gate had electricity running through it and the walls were too high. She started to lose all hope but a voice said:

"If you're a delinquent, you should've opened that gate by now." it came from a boy that wore a uniform of the school. Delinquent, one of the words she doesn't want to hear just because of her, you know, face.

A student, she thought. He had wavy, blonde hair that almost reached his shoulder, a few inches shorter, and a pair of squinty eyes that glow unnaturally indigo.

Haruhi's first hello was:

"You are small."

"Don't call me that!" The boy immediately reacted to her greeting..

"Well, you are."Haruhi muttered.

"Are you going to open that?" he asked. "I'm late."

Haruhi's eyes narrowed, trying to decipher what it meant. It's not that she's dumb but what did that boy mean about opening a gate that can electrocute you for 10,000 bolts with a single touch? Could it be that that boy is a delinquent too? Haruhi eyed him closely.

Are there any delinquent dress code? Well, he's wearing complete uniform, just enough hair cut, no hair dye, and no earrings and any other accessories. Is he carrying a lethal weapon? For now, he's carrying a small, black leather backpack not capable of concealing any big and long weapons. So it's not a pass, he still might be hiding some knife or anything somewhere, maybe in his sock. Does he have some unpleasant manners? Delinquents usually have rough manners, sometimes ending a conversation with a fight, but this guy is rather sly and cocky, which Haruhi finds annoying. So there's still a small chance that this guy is a gangster or something.

"What's with that look." he shrugged. Then he sighed again, this time he looked annoyed. "I got to do everything, huh?"

Then he started walking towards the gate.

"Kid, wait up! Don't touch that gate!" Haruhi called after him but it was too late. The boy crouched like a panther in its hunting trip. Then he ran towards the gate and he kicked it with great power that the campus wall nearly cracked. The weirdest of all is that the gate that was made from titanium alloy, the one that's used for space shuttles, groaned and fell apart.

"You were saying, kid?" the boy said, almost growling.

Haruhi stared back and forth at the beat-up gate and the boy with disbelief. Then the boy left. As soon as the boy disappeared from her view, Haruhi ran inside the school. She went through mazes of beautiful gardens with sweet smelling flowers where bees and butterflies thrive. She also saw the Yellow bell, her mother's symbol. They had statues that looked like Greek gods and stuff.

After 10 minutes of wandering around, she decided to rest under a tree, totally lost. She was 15 minutes late; the orientation for the freshmen must be starting. Haruhi was sitting under a tree, looking pretty hopeless, when a student fell from above. Haruhi's heart skipped a beat when it fell just inches next to her. Then she checked the body, definitely a student.

"Sir, "Haruhi poked his head with her finger. "Sir, wake up."

The moment she spoke, his eyes opened. He sat up and yawned hugely, and Haruhi yawned, too. He had wind-blown black hair, soft gray eyes, and a dreamy expression.

"Sir, are you alright?"Haruhi asked."You fell down pretty hard."

"I was asleep." He replied, looking at her blankly. Then he started lying down again.

"Wait, sir!"Haruhi said before he crashed."I'm lost; could you please tell me where the Gym is?"

Too late, the guy already fell asleep. He looked so peaceful, the way he snored, and curling up like a child missing his blanket. The surrounding is not helping her situation, too. The sun is up but you couldn't feel the heat, thanks to the tree, the wind is gentle yet cool, and the way the flowers smelled so sweet. Haruhi could understand why the guy slept here. It's like a sleeping paradise. She was so enticed but she managed to jolt back to reality. She shook the boy so hard he almost head-butted her when he got up.

"Sir, Wake up! Don't you have classes today?" Haruhi shouted.

The guy woke up, glaring at her. Haruhi stopped shaking him.

"So annoying, where do you want to go?" He complained meekly.

"To the Gymnasium, sir."Haruhi answered. Relief was shot in her veins as they stood up and followed a path. Haruhi noticed his tall stature. He might be a senior.

"So you're a freshman?"The boy asked.

"Yes, sir."Haruhi answered awkwardly.

"Stop calling me sir, it's embarrassing." He said."My name is –"

Then he pointed at a building."That's the Gymnasium, an orientation is being held there today. You better listen to what they're saying. It ought to keep you from getting kicked out."

Haruhi turned to say thanks but a horse pulling a cart full of hay passed by and, what the heck, the guy was sleeping on it. Haruhi felt like this school may not be normal judging on what kind of people she met earlier and how unnatural the place looked. She ran towards the building. On the way, she saw some notice board which indicated on what class you belonged to. Haruhi checked and saw her name in Year One: Bellona. That's weird, she thought. The other sections were: Nemesis, Hecate, Aeolus and Iris. They were all the names of Greek gods. But as long as Haruhi remembers, Bellona is a Roman goddess. The other year levels also have the names of the Greek and Roman gods. Though the graduating year have the coolest of names: Zeus, Ares, Athena, Artemis and Hades. The orientation is starting so Haruhi ran in the Gym. All of the students were lined up according to their section.

When she found her class, she quickly put herself at the back of the line, not wanting to draw attention. Of course, the moment she showed up, everyone avoided her. She was THE scholar, anyways. Haruhi ignored them.

After orientation, they were sent to their classrooms. They were about 20 for each class. She was about to go to her seat but something bumped her from behind. She turned around but she didn't see anyone or anything. But her classmates wore a very scared expression on their faces and they started to back up. Haruhi looked down and she saw the boy she met earlier.

"That girl is going to dead meat." one of the boys whispered.

"Hey, shouldn't you apologize to me?" the boy said. His face looking very annoyed.

"I was going to say it, kid." Haruhi replied. "Patience is a virtue."

Everyone seemed very shocked at Haruhi's reply. But before she could even look at the boy again, something grabbed her shoulder and pushed her down. The next thing she realized is she is down on the floor with the boy staring at her angrily.

"Apologize to me, now", he said with a serious expression. "And patience is not one of my virtues."

Haruhi stood up and said:

"I said I was going to say sorry, but now look what you've done!" Haruhi pointed at her sprained ankle; red and bruised because of her run earlier that has now gotten a lot more painful. "You should be the one apologizing." The boy, whose name must be Tamaki, looked a lot more annoyed.

"You dare talk back to m-.." he trailed off. A teacher was standing behind him. And it wasn't just any teacher; it was the school head himself.

"Do we have any problems here?" he said, with a smiling face yet trembling a little.

"Uh, what do you mean, sir?" Haruhi said nervously. "No trouble here."

If the school head found out that they were arguing, something bad is going to happen. Tamaki snarled at the school head. But Haruhi pinched his arm hard.

"I suppose this was only a false alarm. You better take care of yourself, Haruhi. That's all. Good day." the school head impatiently pointed out. Then he left abruptly. Haruhi didn't really understand what the school head meant but Tamaki clearly isn't a normal boy.

Somehow, the school head looked a little young, maybe 35, about the same age as her mom was.

If it wasn't for Haruhi's one and only best friend, her high school life would've been boring. Renge is Haruhi's childhood friend, which meant her ONLY friend. She had wavy brown hair, almost to her waist and brown eyes. Ren, as Haruhi calls her, is a very eccentric girl and has a lively attitude that can make anybody around her smile. Even Tamaki did, though his smile was a little creepy. During the 10-minute in-between class break, Ren played around and told stories about her trip in Egypt. She told Haruhi that she should've joined her during summer.

"Sorry, I have worked to do in that family restaurant and also in that Library."

"You ALWAYS have work. Don't you ever have a vacation?" Ren grumbled.

"Well, I liked that library", Haruhi said, keeping her eyes on a book.

Ren groaned. Then she left Haruhi reading another book.

When the orientation was done, it was finally lunch break. Renge and Haruhi brought their lunch on the school's "secret garden", which was a really nice place to eat lunch. Snobbish kids don't really like to explore. They just want to sit down and laze around like they always do. Renge and Haruhi were silently eating lunch while sitting on the grass until a dark shadow blocked their source of light.