My So-called Fairytale
My So-called Fairytale
For the past few days, our heroine has been busy with her books. It made their class quieter than usual, without her piercing high greetings and trying to hug her best friend add the fact that Hotaru Imai even needed to find another guinea pig to test her inventions.
Mikan Sakura chuckled then lightly as she draws attentions from her classmates; it was the first sound she just made for this week. Oblivious of the stares given to her, she continued on silently with her reading. Having enough of the silence, Hotaru, though would not admit out loud, was missing the loud mouthed idiot.
To a certain mind reader, he was getting a major headache hearing all their thoughts at the same time and having the exact same words was like shouting to him; and so fainted.
The following day, Kokoro returned with two ring control devices on him, so his alice wouldn't go haywire and read everyone's mind, though he can still do it but through his will. The class was gossiping on what could have happened to their own nullifier; they all stopped chatting when the infamous black cat entered, known for having both intelligence and brawns, with his collected pheromone best friend trailing beside him, carrying the young Hijiri who was as cold as Hyuuga.
It was still early in the morning as the students were still getting ready for their first period, pretty early that some were even sleeping and drooling on their desks. Twenty minutes to go before class starts; a surprise to everyone when our very own brunette was early, once again for her class, silence besieged them as she, and once again was unaware of it that they all were staring. She did though, had caught Koko looking her way, "Good morning," he smiled, waving at her
"Good morning, Koko-kun," she greeted back and returned to her book as she sat down; they all stared at her. She then sighed and let her book rest on her desk, they all thought she's gonna stop reading, and how wrong they were, she opened her bag and took out a book and another and another; Realizing that it was an invention of the one and only Hotaru Imai.
Invention number 0397: The Universal ounce bag
You can put anything in it and carry it weightless. Only 9999 rabbits. Sold only by Hotaru Imai of middle school branch class 2-B.
"Imai-chan, aren't you worried at all?" Iinchou asked her as she makes a new invention
"What?" she says,
"About Mikan?"
"Why would I, does she look troubled?" she stopped working, looking at their class representative, "she's quiet, happy and she now loves and is obsessed with books, and there'll be no more annoying idiots on rampage," she shrugged, getting back to her contraption
"Ah," the blonde sweat dropped at her answer but nevertheless, stopped asking her as their first period began. The inventor then made an insensible glance at her best friend and back to the board as Misaki-sensai began lecturing.
Class ended fast for Mikan, it was funny and ironic on how Emma turned to a frog. She mused on E. D. Baker's fiction: The Frog Princess.
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Mikan looked up as she saw her friends, Anna and Nonoko, enter her room. "Hey, guys, what are you doing here?" she asked, "and you should have knocked, or I would have mistaken you two as some kind of buglers or something,"
"Sorry Mikan," Anna says
"But we did knock, we were standing outside your door for whole five minutes," reasoned Nonoko as she eyed her new book
"You did? I'm sorry then, Nonoko-chan, Anna-chan," the brunette smiled, "I must have been, preoccupied,"
"Are you alright, Mikan, you've been distant this past few days, even in lunch, you're so quiet," Mikan was touched on how concerned her friends were and gave them a reassuring hug saying that she was fine
"Of course I should be quiet; I'm reading a book after all,"
"But you've never been a fawned of books, you usually fall asleep reading one," Anna says, looking at Mikan's new almost full bookshelf
"But people can change, right," she shrugged
"Of course, I just hope you wouldn't be so engrossed with your books that you'll forget about us, your friends,"
"Yes, yes," nodded Mikan as the two left and she resumed reading.
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Yuu and Koko walked into class together, talking about their assignment as they were interrupted when a fuming brunette ran pass them; "You know what happened, Koko?" Yuu asked the mind reader
"Kind of blurry, something about Natsume and books," Koko shrugged
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"HYUUGA!" Mikan stomped near their Sakura tree as Natsume raised a brow, his hands in his pockets.
"Quit shouting, little girl," Natsume yawned as Mikan clenched her fists white
Flashback
Mikan hummed a silly tune and entered her classroom, unaware that only the flame caster was there. She took her sit and continued reading Pride and Prejudice. Abruptly, Natsume plopped his feet on the desk, getting her attention for a moment.
"Natsume," said a startled Mikan, "when did you come in here? I didn't hear the door open, nor creak at all,"
"Hn, you wouldn't know even if I slammed it, when I think about it, I think you wouldn't even know if the building was on fire as long that it didn't concern your precious books, book worm," he looked at her, boring into her eyes
"Natsume, don't be so nasty in the morning," she began, "you're being that cold bastard again," she smiled as she failed to notice the small blush on his face, "these books would be trash if you compared it to anyone especially to you," she grinned, remembering she read a line just like it
"Really?" he raised a teasing brow, "then it wouldn't matter that I already burned your bag and books," he smirked as Mikan looked at her backpack that was now in ashes
"A-ah, Na-nat-su-me!" she felt anger boil in her, when she looked at the sit beside her, he was gone, "I fucking swear, I'll kill you, you good for nothing wretched bastard!"
End of Flashback
"YOU BURNED ALL OF IT, YOU SICK BASTARD!" she cried, glaring intensively at him
"So, you did say I was more important, than those books," he smirked
"Why you! I was quoting a line, damn it!" she screamed
"So now you say books are more important, than your friends?" he says as she looked at him,
"I didn't say-" she tried
"But it's what you mean," he cut in as silence overwhelmed them, "you're an idiot,"
"No, I'm not!" she neared him and poked his chest, hard, "I'm tired being an idiot, and it's why I'm reading,"
He clicked his tongue in mockery and he looked at her lazily, "Oh yes, reading romance novels helps a lot,"
Her face shaded to crimson as she glared harder, "I don't have time for this, and a guy like you wouldn't understand a girl's dream,"
"Oh, you mean prince charming and happy ever after?"
"Of course," she crossed her arms, pouting unknowingly that he finds somewhat cute
"Those are fantasies, not reality," he poked her forehead
"I can dream, can't I!" she shouted,
"Imaginary prince charming? That's new," he scoffed
"Shut up! You bastard will never understand a thing about my feelings, in fantasies, you can have anything you want, but reality, a cruel bitch and they take everything, but you wouldn't know that, you're not a fucking sore loser that has low IQ and an ugly… girl," she rephrased what he always called her
"You're saying I'm handsome then?" he smirked, "And that you're an idiot?"
"You're an arrogant bastard; you feel so high and mighty that you don't feel other's feelings, you're selfish, ignorant, a narcissist and heartless, you don't care about anyone but yourself!" she cried, "Unlike you, I don't know where to get the money to pay for those books,"
"Do those books make you happy?"
"Yes,"
"But it's temporary,"
"So what, it makes me feel happy,"
"Are they that precious?"
"Yes, of course it is, more valuable than you!" she shouted, "I would choose those books than even being with you!"
"Alright then," Natsume answered after some time and pivoted around, walking away
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"Mikan, are you alright?" the doppelganger asked as she saw the glum face of her junior
"Ah, yes, Misaki-senpai, I'm just tired," she made a fake yawn as Misaki bought it, nodding before using her alice and began practicing
Mikan spaced out as she sat near the window; she felt bad saying those words to Natsume. 'I should apologize, she thought,' then again changed her mind, thinking it was the jerk's fault for burning those books, now she has no books to read and how was she gonna explain to the library that the books were burned?
Why can't Natsume be like Landon in A Walk to Remember or Eadric in The Frog Princess or like Luke in Shopaholic? Or a knight with a shining armor ready to comfort me anytime and ready to fight just for me? Why can't be my life be like a fairytale? Wait why him-
"MIKAN WATCH OUT!" Tsubasa shouted as Mikan turned around and saw some kind of warp hole nearing her and then next thing she saw was a blinding light.
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I know I haven't yet finished my other story, Learning to Live. But I've been itching to write this story, it just pop out of nowhere in my mind before and I'm having another writer's block again in my other story. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this story, I'm having a hard time to describe the beginning of the story, but Natsume and Mikan had a fight and when Mikan's in danger, Natsume will be forced to come and save her. I hope that's clear.
Please review; as I've said before, criticisms are welcomed, because failure makes you want to improve!
-ROCKERFAITH:D