A/N: Hi, after struggling between the decision of life and death, I'm back with a new multichapter story.

Feel free to skip to the story instead of listening to my ramblings m(_ _)m

It's been abt 2 years since my multichapter story hasn't it. I hadn't been able to get in the mood of writings long stories because of circumstances in life and been only posting one-shots over the period of time, but i'm back I guess?

Also, wonderful stories like Otonokizaka Private Academy(OPA) and The Knight and The Maiden had inspired me lots that I'd managed to come to writing at all.

If you have been following my stories since my LL one-shots, thank you and hope you enjoy yourselves throughout this brand new story!


Prologue – A Fresh Start, or is it?

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Hands in her pink hoodie, zipped up half way to just right underneath her chest, Nico walked started her short journey to the bus stop that was a 10-minute walk away from home. With her earphones plugged in, she hummed softly as she walked through the blocks of houses that were void of people at this hour. Leaving early for school wasn't what she normally did as she wouldn't want to lose on sleep yet her she was at 7.30am in the morning, heading to school. She wasn't so happy that she had to leave early since it was the first day of the semester and she needed to gauge the time she needed to reach class on time. It was an inevitable thing if she wanted, in the future, to be able to reach time right on the dot and not way before. She had to experiment on leaving at different times of the day during the first week to plan the best time to leave for school for the rest of the semester.

It was crazy that she was working hard at such a thing yet she couldn't be bothered with other stuff that needed more improvement, such as her lack of social relation that was surely inevitable in school when projects happened. And especially at the school, she would be attending as of today.

Furrowing her brows, Nico shook away the thoughts that invaded her mind upon remembering what she found out about the school back when she had received her acceptance letter for it. The school was famous for its use of modern technology and she was content with that part of it since she was technologically adept. An advanced learning of such, provided students with equipment that helped with learning more efficiently was a great choice in that sense.

However, it didn't stop there. The fact that the college utilised laptops for advanced learning were a single part of the system. Another part of it was that they courage students to be doing projects as a group and as such, Nico cringed heavily upon seeing that information and internally started cursing at the screen.

What terrible luck she had.

And it was because of that she was reminded of the past she had tried so hard to forget. That night, she had a dream of that incident that happened back in high school.

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"Gross."

"What."

'Ugh. You don't have to say it so bluntly.'

"What? Are you a kid or something?"

'So what if I am.'

"An Idol? You must be kidding."

'What's wrong with aspiring to be one.'

"Grow up. It's impossible for you."

'Shut up. It's none of your business.'

"Hahaha. Did you hear? She uploaded those covers. She thinks her singing that great.'

"Yeah. How did she even have the cheek to be uploading anything of that quality?"

"So laughable, isn't it? She should just give up on singing."

'Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.'

Jolting up from the bed, Nico was soaked with sweat despite the air conditioning. Looking down at her hands, she saw them trembling. Her heart was racing, she felt it hard to breath.

"Stop."

A weak, low voice sounded.

She clenched her fists tight, shutted her eyes as she curled herself up, knees up to her chest.

'Stop.'

She mentally repeated.

'Stop.'

She wasn't merely referring to the trembling of her hands, she was talking about the voices in her head that kept sounding. The impact of the nightmare was heavy on her. Those voices that shouldn't even exist resounded repeatedly.

'Stop.'

It was only getting harder and harder to breath. Clutching onto a hand full of the bedsheet underneath her, she gripped tightly as she clenched her teeth and rested her head on her knees.

Drip.

Tears started rolling down cheeks, her tears coming into contact with her cold skin.

Drip.

"Damn it."

She muttered under her breath, hoping that the anxiety would disappear as quickly as it came.

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Upon stepping in campus ground, Nico was amazed at fresh sight of the buildings in front of her. It was a new environment, so it did make her feel nervous about walking around in it. Avoiding taking too many glances around as there were small crowds of people around and she didn't want to make eye contact with anyone by accident.

Luckily for her, it wasn't all that crowded because of how early it was to be in school, even for the seniors.

Slipping her hand into her hoodie's pocket, Nico drew her phone from it and checked the time.

8.10 am

20 more minutes till class.

That was sufficient time for her to be strolling to class and not be late.

Tapping her screen and opening the browser in her Note 5, Nico scrolled across the loaded page and searched for the schedule for the week and double checked the classroom's location.

It didn't take her long to find her way there as the map posted up in the grand hall way leading to an intersection that led to different buildings was clear with the landmarks. Not to say, it was pretty a small school compared to others so it wasn't all that complicated to figure out the directions on the map.

Arriving at the building her classroom was located at, she walked up to the lift lobby, pressing the up button then waited for a lift. Less than a minute later, a lift was available and she entered it, searched for the buttons and hit the 5th floor button before hitting the close button. The lifts close slowly start to close when it opened in the middle of closing completely. In came a person, whose face she didn't care to look at or acknowledge as there obviously wasn't a need to; it was a mere stranger sharing a lift. At least that was what she thought when she realised the person hadn't cared to hit any button in the lift and ended up on the same floor and it didn't stop there. Walking out of the lift, Nico walked out and looked up for the sign that led to her class and rounded the corner for it also realising some presence behind her.

Making it to the front of her classroom, she entered it in a heartbeat and the person behind her followed in.

That was the first meeting she had with Toujou Nozomi, whom at that point of time she hadn't really noticed or cared about other than acknowledging the fact that she was in the same class and was the first person she met and knowing her name when their very first class had commenced with a brief introduction of one's self.

-End of chapter-


A/N: I have a few chapters already planned so look forward to it. But don't get your hopes up too much since I don't know how frequently I can/will be updating due to college life. Though I've written this story sort of to help myself cope with college by giving myself something to work on, I can't guarantee much.

There are plenty more story ideas popping up in my head every now and then and it's kinda distracting but I'll try my best to get this one done/prioritised first! The updates will probably be once/twice a week depending on my schedule.

Feel free to predict events of the story.

Well, until next time!