Pichi Pichi Pitch
Chapter 1
Lucia stared into the ocean, she sat down and continued to stare out into the sea. Why did it have to happen now? She thought. She was referring to the events that had happened, and those about to occur.
Earlier: "Lucia come down here for a minute please." Her older sister Nikora called. "I'm coming." Lucia said as she ran down the stairs. "What is it?" She asked as she entered the dining room. "We have good, but sad news." Hippo said. "We got a letter from the kingdom requesting that we leave for home immediately." Nikora finished. "We have to go back? Now?" "I'm afraid so, we'll leave day after tomorrow, so I'd get packing." Hippo said. Lucia ran out of the room.
"I have to go back now? I guess it's no surprise, after the battle with Gackto, and peace returning to the sea, I have to go." She said to herself. "Lucia!" She heard someone call, she turned her head to see Rina and Hanon running to her. "There you are Lucia, Nikora said you ran off and we've been looking for you." Rina said. "Yeah, we heard about your summons, we got one too." Hanon said. "So tomorrow after school we should say goodbye to everyone, then we can pack and the next day we go home." Rina said. "What're we gonna say to Kaito and everyone?" Lucia asked. "Let's just say we're moving across the sea, it's at least half true." Hanon said.
"I guess that's the only excuse everyone will buy, I mean they'll probably ask why all three of us are going. But I'm sure we'll find a good reason to go." Rina said. "But what about Hamasaki, and Nagisa, and Kaito." Lucia said. "Well, I like Hamasaki, but this is a good reason why I thought love with humans was a bad idea, it makes it harder." Rina said. "I like Nagisa even though I pick on him sometimes, but I guess I've learned to love him." Hanon said. "But Kaito still doesn't realize you're his mermaid, does he?" Rina asked.
"No, but I tried so hard to get him to accept my human form and then sooner or later he would realize it. But if I leave, there's a possibility that we won't come back, and I keep getting scared of the fact that we won't acknowledge I'm gone. That he'll still only think of my mermaid self." "Well, maybe if you find a way to give him a hint, then maybe he'll realize it." Hanon said. "But if he does realize it, then it will be even more hard to leave him." Rina said. "Oh yeah, I forgot that part." "But then I'll feel better about leaving, because he'll know, and we might even come back soon, when construction's done." Lucia said with a smile.
"Someone call the coast guard, Lucia's smiling!" Hanon said and they all laughed. "Come on guys, we gotta go home, we'll get this mess straightened out tomorrow." Rina said as she stood up. "Yeah, we got school, so we gotta get ready for our very last day of school." Hanon said as she and Lucia got up as well. They walked home and the sun set as they entered the house and ate their dinner and went to bed for an early rise for their last day of school.
"Lucia. Lucia! Wake up!" She heard someone call, she slowly opened her eyes, and Hanon was standing at the edge of her bed. "Come on Lucia, I'm not waiting for you to get us late again. You be ready and downstairs in ten minutes, or I'm leaving you." Hanon said with a smile as she left the room. Lucia quickly got up and dressed in her uniform, brushed her teeth, grabbed her bag and ran to the door. "This is our last day here, so get all your goodbyes out today." Hippo said. "Right." All three said as they ran out the door and dashed to school.
The bell rang as they sat in their seats. I can't keep running to school like this, I'm no athlete, I should get up earlier. She thought but then she remembered that she wasn't coming back to school. The teacher walked in an called the class to order, but Hanon got up and whispered something in his ear. "I see, Lucia, Rina come up here please." He said, and they did as they were told. "You three are moving, across the sea?" He asked quietly so the other students couldn't hear. "Yeah, they live with me and my sister and we have to go across the sea and start the new job my sister and me were offered." Lucia said, she hadn't come up with a better excuse.
"I see, well, we better tell the other students." He said and all three stood in a line and faced the class. "Class unfortunately this is the last day these three will be with us, they are moving across the sea." The teacher said. The whole class started whispering small questions and comments and Rina looked at the back to see Kaito with a sad, and confused look on his face. Lucia wouldn't look at him for fear of bursting into tears. "You three may sit down and we'll begin the lesson." He said.
All three took their seats and class started, Lucia just stared at the front and pretended to listen. Like she or any other mermaid would have a use for geometry in the ocean, or would she ever see it. Nagisa was in their class and Hanon avoided looking at him too, Hamasaki was in the class ahead of them. The hours flew by and before they knew it, it was lunch time. Thankfully for Lucia, Kaito's friends distracted him long enough for her to grab her and and Rina and Hanon and get out of the room. They all went to the roof, the safest possible place they could go.
"You know you can't dodge him all day, you gotta see him later after school." Hanon said after taking a sip of her drink. "I know, but I don't know what to say, besides, I feel to pressured here in the school zone. Too many people have stopped us in the halls asking about our leaving, you know that, and I can't take the pressure from so many people asking me. If I tell him a reason I'll end up blurting out something stupid." She said, her head was hurting form all the questions people were asking them. "Well, what other things could you possibly say? Almost everything you say is stupid." Hanon said.
"Hey that's mean Hanon!" She shouted. "I wouldn't shout if you wanna avoid being found." Rina said, "And besides, you don't have to say anything, as long as you know Kaito will acknowledge the fact your gone." She said after sipping her drink. "What do you mean?" They both asked. "I occasionally looked at Kaito and saw a sad look on his face during class, and when we stood at the front of the room." Rina smiled. "So you don't have to worry anymore." She said and Lucia smiled.
"Hey, Kaito!" He heard someone call, he turned around and saw Nagisa running up to him. "Are you looking for Hanon, Lucia, and Rina?" He asked as he stopped in front of him. "Yeah, but I can't find them, the only place we haven't tried is the roof." "We?" He asked. "Yeah, Hamasaki knows about it too, I just told him. Come on, lets try the roof." He said and the began to go to the hall with the stairs that led up to the roof, and began to go up them. "Hey, listen!" Hanon said. And they heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"It's gotta be someone looking for us, good thing we're behind the entrance so we're hidden pretty good." Lucia whispered. "We'll sneak back downstairs when they aren't looking." Rina whispered. Then they heard the door open, and several footsteps walking farther away from them. "I don't see them, maybe they left campus." They heard a voice say. "Nagisa." Hanon whispered. "Shh, Hanon." Rina said. "I guess so, you check over the edge to see if they're in the front, I'll check behind the door." They heard another voice say. "Kaito." Lucia whispered.
"Come on, we gotta go." Hanon said and they quietly got up and walked around to the side with the door. They saw no one was there so they snuck in and quietly ran down stairs."I don't see them Kaito." Nagisa said. "Neither do I, I guess they hid themselves pretty good from all the crazy girls asking them questions." He said. "Yeah, actually this place would've been a good place to hide." Nagisa said and then the bell rang. "Come on, let's go back to class, we'll talk to them after school." Kaito said and they walked down stairs, and walked back to class.
"That was way too close, I thought for sure they were gonna see us, or hear us leave." Hanon said as they gasped for air, they ran all they way back to class. "Yeah, I thought I was gonna panic and make a sound." Lucia said. "Well, at least they were in good positions for us to escape." Rina said. "Oh man, I think I'm gonna end up a professional runner, I keep having to around and run away from people. Not to mention the fact that I get a lot of exercise in my legs from swimming." Hanon said. "Yeah, me too." Lucia said.
"Alright class the bell has rung, take your seats." The teacher said and everyone took their seats, and Kaito and Nagisa had entered just as the teacher called the class to order. "Maybe they were here the whole time." Nagisa said. "No, I checked here every time I passed." He said and they sat down. Lucia was still breathing heavily for air, and Kaito wondered why. Oh man, I can't breathe, I gotta stop running around so much. Hanon and Rina were still breathing heavily too. "Lucia, while we were running you dropped this." Hanon whispered as she gave Lucia the key chain Kaito gave her for her birthday.
"Thank you." She said with a smile, she loved her key chain so much, it was one of her treasures. She placed it on the zipper of her bag and continued to pretend to listen to the teacher's boring lecture about their History lesson, the only history she'd ever need to know was about the ocean's history seeing how she's a princess. Hours later. "Okay class that's the end of class, when the bell rings you may go. Lucia, Hanon, Rina, I hope you enjoyed your stay here." He said, then the bell rang and all three zoomed out of the room.