School or Library

The sun was up. The little blonde Stellar was on her stool, painting a portrait of scenery with basic colors, like she always did every morning, if she woke up early, and got herself ready for school every time her father called for breakfast. She ran every time she goes downstairs, that, her mother always warned her of that. Her father always greeted her with a bright face and called her Dandelion. "You should have named me Dandelion and not Stellar." She would react that made him chuckle.

Her seat was always on the end of table across her father's chair. Beside her was a baby chair for her younger brother, Cloud, which she called Clown. She mistakenly heard Clown the first time her parents spoke his name and it continued as days passed. Breakfast serving was always beacon, milk, eggs and bread, but, Stellar didn't grow tired of it. She loved beacon and eggs. Her mother came home late, from somewhere, for breakfast.

"Have some breakfast." Her father would wrap his free hand around her mother's waist. "I will." Her mother said as she kissed her father. It was just like their daily habit, which, Stellar found this gross and always reacted about it and made her parents laughed.

At school, she stayed alone the most. She scared other kids with her voodoo dolls, which she intentionally made for scaring, her scissors, or by her killing words. She felt kids were only nice to her because either, their parents said so and that she was the daughter of two heroes from the uprising under by President Coin's command and an acquaintance. Everyone was fake, she thought.

The teacher took the class attendance of the class. After she called the sixth's name, she shook and skipped to the next name and Stellar always noticed this.

After the last period, Stellar's teacher requested her something that she didn't usually do. Meet a person.

"Who?"

"Leo Malfoy." The boy who never went to school since the first week of school.

"The blonde cold boy with narrowed eyes and with psychological problems?"

"No, he's no psycho."

"Only tell me that if he'll never brutally hurt kids when he's mad or upset."

"He never brutally hurt kids! He just fights for the helpless ones. He's just a normal boy, Stellar. Listen, you'll just have to make him to go back to school." The teacher said.

"Why when he doesn't want to?" Stellar asked.

"Because his parents asked me and I couldn't turned down their offer. Will you do it?"

"Why not you?"

"I tried to. But, he won't." The teacher shook her head. "Maybe, a second try would do and you'll do it."

"Why me? Why not Charlemagne, or Fred, or Eli?"

"You will know after you meet him. Please, I'll give you a reward if you do it."

Stellar saw her teacher's eyes with desperate eyes. "Fine."

She packed her things and found a textbook that she borrowed from Charlemagne.

"Charlie." She called. The red-headed girl, Charlemagne, responded in high notes like she usually did, "HIII!"

"Thank you, by the way, for lending me your book." Stellar handed the textbook and Charlie retrieved it.

"No problem." She said in high notes with a big smile.

Stellar turned her attention on her things when Charlemagne spoke. "Are free this afternoon?"

"No. Teacher asked me to do something."

"What?"

"I'm going to the Malfoy's."

"Can I come?"

Stellar didn't want any company, but, "Sure."

Reaching the residence on the top of the hill by walking only took twenty minutes, but, the girls took haft an hour to reach the top. It was a cold weather so they didn't worry to sweat, except for Stellar who don't sweat easily. But still, they're catching their breath.

"That was kind of far." Stellar said.

"Yeah…And the gate is very huge. They might have a very big house." Charlemagne's eyes were widened as she said it while catching her breath, too.

"Maybe it's only the gate is huge and inside is a bamboo house." Stellar slowly got her breathing normal.

"No, Malfoys are really rich. I believe they own a manor. Don't you know?" Charlemagne said.

"Pfft. I don't mind things I don't care. You're still catching your breath like we walked a mile."

"Aren't we?"

"We just walk almost haft a kilometre."

"Oh."

" We just need to press the doorbell right?"

Charlemagne nodded.

Stellar pressed the doorbell, then, a voice of a man spoke that startled the girls. "Who might you be?"

"U-um. Stellar Mellark and Charlemagne Weasley." Stellar replied.

"Why did you drop my Rose?"

"Just keep quiet. We're here for Leo Malfoy. We're his classmates and our teacher asked me to see him."

"No weapons?"

"No." Stellar shook. "Why would we bring weapons!?"

"Stellar got sharp scissors!" Charlemagne said.

"Charl! I have scissors but it wasn't with me." Stellar explained.

"It's very rare of you."

Stellar frowned at Charlemagne that made her gulped and covered her mouth by her fingers.

"Very well. Please do come in." the voice said and the gates opened.

"Thank you!"

The girls went in and were fascinated by the beautiful place and the mansion. There were bushes of flowers on grasslands, tiles circling the fountain.

"They must be too way classy." Charlemagne said.

"At least, it's not bamboo."

Stellar was about to knock at the door when it opened and a man with silver hair showed. "Good afternoon. I'm their butler, Sean. Please do come in." He made way for the girls to come. The girls' eyes widened when they saw the big chandelier above them.

"Please wait for Sire Leo in the living room this way." The butler took the girls to the living room. "Please take a seat, Sire Leo will be here any minute. Would you care for drinks?"

"No, were fine. Thank you." Stellar replied.

The butler took a bow and left.

"It's real classy." Charlemagne said as they took a seat. "It's very big in the inside. It's like castle! It's not bamboo, Stell."

"Charlie. Please keep quiet." Stellar said.

"And."

"Charlie!" Stellar whispered.

"Who are you?" a voice of a boy said.

The girls turned their back and found a dashing blonde boy in white shirt and black pants.

"We're Charlemagne Rose Weasley and Stellar Mellark." Charlemagne said.

"I can tell that you're the red-headed Weasley."

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Charl. You're the only little red-head girl in town." Stellar explained.

"Oh." Charlemagne calmed and Stellar shook her head down.

"I'm Leo Malfoy." The boy said.

"We sure knew."Stellar said.

"What do you want?" Leo asked.

"Pictures of unicorns." Charlemagne replied.

"Charl! Be serious."

"They're in the library. Sean will take you there."

"Oohh. Adventure." Charlemagne was taken by the butler upstairs were the library was.

"What about you? You don't seem to have any interest of unicorns."

"You sure knew."

" What do you want?"

"You."

"What?"

"The teacher asked you to come to school."

"I have no other reasons to go there."

"Don't you want to learn?"

"I can do self study. We got all kinds of books and it's wider when it comes to knowledge."

"But, it's really different from school. You'll get friends there."

"I have friends. We usually play a lot."

Stellar remembered the boys with him when they're going to the arcade. "Those boys who took advantage of your money?"

"They're not. I'm the one who personally pay for them, without charge."

"Yeah. That's what they took advantage of. They're messing up with you."

"Who are you to say that?!"

"The student that was asked by the teacher to make you to come to school."

"Then, tell her I won't."

"Why are you like that? I was just trying to be nice."

"Look, I don't want to go to school, and you're not my parents that force me."

"I never said I'm your parent. Fine, I'll just take that red-head with me and go home. And I'll tell the teacher that you won't ever come back." Stellar stood up and was about to go when he spoke.

"No one liked me there."

"It's because their afraid of you with… certain reasons."

"Why aren't you?"

"What's the reason for me to be afraid?"

"Because...I-I'm a-"

"Street fighter? Or Malfoy? You maybe the son of a man who used to be part of the bad gang in the uprising, but, that doesn't mean you and everything had changed. Your father chose a good life and made peace with everyone. Charlemagne, who was the daughter whom your father bullies and her mom who was being watched by your father as she suffered, wasn't even afraid to go to your library with a butler who works for you."

"She's crazy. She doesn't care on what is happening."

"No, because she knows. She may be annoying and troublesome, but, she's not a fake like the others. She stays where her heart thinks." Now, where is the point going? She thought.

"Little unicorns are so cute!" Charlemagne and the butler were back. "I want to ride on a unicorn."

"Go to the amusement park." Stellar said.

"They're fake. I want the real ones."

"Charlie. There are no unicorns in this world."

"Phooey." Charlemagne pouted.

"I tell the teacher that you won't come. But, it's all up to you." Stellar took Charlemagne's wrist and went off.

"Is there any problem, sire?" the butler asked.

"She's lovely." Leo murmured.

"Pardon?"

"Can you prepare the things I need for school? I'll be going tomorrow. And also dinner, I'm starving."

"Yes, sire"

"I'm sorry I did an unsuccessful task." Stellar apologized.

"It's fine. I know you did your best. He's just so hard. His parents talked to me to may be convincing him to go back. They tried to and the staffs, but, his just hard-headed they say." The teacher said as she wrote something.

"But, why me?"

"It's because you speak your simple words that ends to maybe another point that hit others."

"Should I take that as a compliment?"

"Yes. Here" The teacher passed an envelope to her.

"What's this?"

"It's your reward."

"But, I didn't-"

"You did your task and as I promise, I'll give a reward."

"But, I didn't make him, I didn't accomplish my task."

"Just think of as an advance Christmas present."

"It's really a pleasure, but, I can't accept this." Stellar returned the envelope. "I'm going to the classroom."

"Okay. I'll be there. Oh, can you please help me with these. I need to return this in class."

Stellar took the haft of the pile of papers on the table and the teacher took the other haft and both of them went to the classroom.

"Just place it on the table."

Stellar did what the teacher told. Both of them noticed Leo on his seat, beside Stellar's, and Charlemagne, whose seat was in front of Stellar's, was talking to him.

"But, I still be looking forward for the Christmas present."

"I-I'll remember that." The teacher said. "Now, everyone take your seats."