#4: Mikan Sakura's personality is a lie. Her happy, bubbly, stupidness is only a facade created to please her grandpa and her other family. But with every passing day, keeping the mask intact is becoming more and more difficult, as people insult her, make fun of her, and are just plain rude. And when the mask breaks, no one can put it back together again.
Well… here it is! First place in the poll: And so it shattered. I'll be typing up the first chapter of To Not Be Real soon. =D
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Note: everyone is 15 in this =3
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, it is not mine T-T
Chapter 1
Mikan POV
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I sat up tiredly and looked at the glowing red numbers on my alarm clock:
8:20
There was only 10 minutes until school started and I knew I would be late as usual. I smirked.
'Perfect.'
I jumped out of my bed and went to my closet to get my uniform and begin my daily routine as Mikan Sakura, also known as… the bubbly idiot.
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"Sorry I'm late!" I apologized worriedly, throwing the classroom door open and running in. My ribbon was tied as though I had just done it on the run, and my pigtails were messy, like I had gotten ready in a hurry. Just like I needed it. My first period teacher for today turned to look at me with disgust.
Jinno.
I resisted the urge to glare at him and make a rude comment and listened to his daily rant about my tardiness.
"Late as always, Sakura," He began as usual, sneering my name. "1 week worth of detention after school. Starting today- sit down for now."
"But I-!" I began, trying to sound sorry.
"Sit. Down." He ordered.
Head down, I walked to my seat, my façade looking ashamed and embarrassed.
"What an idiot!" I heard one girl whisper.
"Stupid." Said another.
Someone stuck out his or her foot out to trip me. I fell down and tried to ignore the laughter from my classmates and the smirk of satisfaction on Jinno's disgusting face.
"Oops." I said, chuckling. I put a big smile of my face and waved to my "friends". They ignored me, but I continued on.
'Remember Mikan, this is for oujii-san.' I reminded myself.
As an adopted child, I had to be exactly as my guardian wanted me to be, otherwise I would get sent away and be back up for adoption again. When I was adopted at the age of 4, Oujii-san was looking for a sweet, bubbly, and happy girl, I became and would continue to be one.
'You can do this Mikan. Don't let it all fall apart.' I chanted to myself. But it was getting harder and harder everyday to keep my mask intact. All of the teasing and insults were wearing my mask down; cracking it and making small pieces fall off. Soon, it would fall apart completely.
"Good morning Natsume." I greeted the bastard fire caster cheerfully. As usual, he glared at me and made a rude comment.
"Hn. Get the hell away from me, stupid. You're annoying."
I couldn't help the small turning down of my lips, making my usual sunny smile a little darker, but it went unnoticed. I continued on forcing myself to keep up the facade as I once again was insulted and made fun of.
Crack!
"Good morning, Ruka-pyon." I greeted, turning to the blonde boy. I sat down in my chair.
"Good morning Sakura." He replied with a sweet smile.
'At least someone here isn't a complete ass.' I thought dryly.
I sighed as I began listening to Jinno's stupid ramblings as he taught Math class. After about 10 minutes, I took my pigtails down and began to re-do them.
"Sakura!" Jinno called. I looked up to him.
"Yes sensei?" I asked sweetly.
"Answer the question on the board. You have 1 minute."
I walked up to the large black board, hair still down, and looked up at the board.
If f(x) = x4 - x + 2, then f(-x) = ???
Though the question was many levels higher than what he gave to any of the other students (the ass), I knew the answer in 5 seconds. It was easily -x4 + x - 2
But the idiot Mikan wouldn't know that.
I stared at the black board, feigning confusion, until Jinno impatiently said, "Your time is up. The answer?"
"Uh… umm…." I began, scratching the back of my head, blurting out the first number the idiot would have thought of. "42?"
Jinno snorted and rolled his eyes. "You imbecile. Get out of my classroom. You are a pathetic excuse for an Alice and a human."
"But, Jin-jin-!" I began. But the steaming, red-faced toad lover cut me off.
"Don't you ever call me 'Jin-jin' Sakura." He said angrily. "Leave. Go back home to your pathetic home and town and dying grandfather. No one wants you here or needs you. Go. Now."
CRACK!
I stood still, feet glued to where I was standing. I was shaking, trying with all of my might to keep the mask intact. I looked up, a smile pasted on my face.
"What do you mean? Hotaru, Natsume, and Ruka-pyon don't want me to go. They're my friends." I said, barley managing to keep it all from breaking. "Right?" I looked to the three. Hotaru was working on an invention, Natsume was reading a manga, and Ruka-pyon was sitting there petting his bunny. I looked down; eyes wide, my bangs were covering my face and they cast a dark shadow on my features.
All of them were ignoring me.
And the mask shattered.
It completely fell apart and was destroyed, breaking into millions of pieces like shattered glass. All of the pent up emotions inside me came rushing out: Hate, anger, annoyance, hurt, embarrassment, loathing, but most of all… a suppressed fury that rivaled a caged lion. I began to shake badly and as I clenched my hands into fists.
Jinno smirked. "You see? No one wants you. So get out before-"
"Shut the hell up." I snarled.
"What?" Jinno's voice was incredulous. The entire class gasped. I heard Hotaru stop her project, Natsume and Ruka looked up, surprised that I would have ventured to go so far.
I snapped my head up, glaring at him. My eyes were hard and my face was smooth and cold. Smoothing the loose hairs that had fallen across my face, I placed one hand on my hip.
"What?" I question lightly. My voice was ice and steel. "Can't believe that Mikan Sakura would defy or insult you?" I let out a dark laugh. Some of the students shivered. "I said shut the hell up, you asshole."
Jinno roared in anger and sent out a powerful, large bolt of lightning, straight towards me. The whole class gasped, and I heard two girls let out a muffled shriek, thinking that Mikan Sakura was done for and would soon be a sad pile of ashes on the ground.
It was just about to hit me, when it disappeared 3 inches from my body.
Everyone went silent and Jinno stood there gaping. I smirked and sent it back towards the toad freak tenfold.
Hitting him square in the chest, Jinno was thrown against the blackboard, creating large cracks in it, and slumped to the ground, clothes charred and as he twitched from the shock and pain.
I walked up to him and my smirk widened. "Sorry Jin-jin." I mocked in an icy tone. I then turned to my classmates; they all stood there, eyes as wide as saucers, and completely still, afraid to move lest I do the same to them. I would have, with a savage pleasure, but I had to stop myself from exploding. Except… I wasn't sure I wanted to.
"Well?" I asked boredly. "Are you going to do anything, or let him die? He has 7 minutes at most if you don't get him to the hospital wing." No one moved. "Fine. Let him die, I never liked the man anyway." I said, shrugging my shoulders.
Making sure to step on him on the way, I walked over Jinno and to an open window and climbed onto the window seal. All eyes followed me.
"Ja-ne." I clipped. I then jumped out of the four-story classroom and landed on the grass with a soft thud. I dashed off into the forest.
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