Cheshire Smile

by August Harry

Friendships are great. They provide you over time with familiarity, comfort, and sometimes excitement in life. But if a friendship leads to something else, something beyond what it is, what would you do? Or what would Harumi do? Is there right or wrong in it? This is Harumi's take on it.

1. Chap 1: Intro

A/N: Starting off with a new story, this is just the intro.!

My dear friend, Aihara Yuzu, who I have a thing for, is currently my best friend. It has been a few months since we first met, and I remember the day clearly. The first day of school, I wanted to look good. Our school regulations are very strict and students are so boring that they actually diligently succumb to the lifestyle that school claims to be proper for students. Well, I did not agree with that. Normally I wouldn't go this far but I did manicure AND pedicure and took my sweet time to do the styling with hair-dryer. It was the best I could do, as a protest, to show that I am in control of my school life which I really was not. But that did not stop me from trying! The beginning of the school year, the spring semester, drops of sakura flower petals were sitting on passengers' heads and shoulders.

"It's going to be a fantastic day, I can feel it!"

And that supposedly fantastic day started with an unusual sight. But Harumi started hearing cacophony coming from a crowd. There was indeed a commotion at the school gate.

"Huh, are you, all on your high horse, the student council president here? What did I do wrong? This is my first time being here, I couldn't have known the school regulations!"

'Wah, is that girl talking back to the Aihara Mei the ice princess? She's got some nerve! I can't say I don't like that, though,' thought Harumi. It really was an unusual sight where Aihara Mei goes out of her way to give a speech to a mere delinquent student (that was also rare in this school, by the way) and the transfer student seemed to be resisting, how amazing! And then, I heard a loud uproar. And it was none other than Aihara Mei, hugging that transfer student?! What the hell has gotten into her? Then I saw a cell phone taken away from the blonde. 'Oh, so she was just taking away the cell phone. Wait, that still doesn't legitimize the hugging!' And next thing you know, the girl lost strength to stand on her own feet and fell down on her knees in shock. To no one's surprise, indeed. 'This is going to be interesting,' she thought to herself.