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Don't Trust Me
Chapter One: The Party.
It was typical of his class to gamble so openly in front of the helpless teacher. So typical, he thought, gulping down his can of Coke. Drinks weren't supposed to be brought into the class, but everyone broke the rules anyway.
He slammed the can of Coke down on his desk as his current girl toy Luna Koizumi purred, "Natsume, are you free tonight? I think it's been a while since we hung out at your dormitory!"
He vaguely remembered nodding his head and Luna giggling in euphoria, just as the DM (Discipline Mistress) stepped into the classroom. Silence hung in the air, and out of the corner of his eye, Natsume saw one of his gang members, Mochiage, chuck an eraser at the class nerd—the only one actually willing to listen to the teacher.
Mrs. Norman, the vice-principal, cleared her throat. "I'd like to see Hayate Matsudaira in my office, please."
He watched as his good friend Hayate rose from his seat and followed Mrs. Norman out of the classroom, inwardly wincing. Mrs. Norman could be a right bitch if she wanted to be. Natsume's right-hand man, Ruka, turned around in his seat to look at him, "Dude, do you know why Koko was caught out?"
Natsume frowned at Luna as she swooned a little at Ruka's deep voice. "Who knows?" He shrugged nonchalantly. Ruka raised an eyebrow and resumed his bantering with a girl seated next to him.
Mikan Sakura was not happy. Her best friend Sumire Shouda had ditched her for a date with her boyfriend, while her other best friend Hotaru Imai was serving detention in the evening. That meant she was left without any friends to accompany her to Wakako's big party that night. Damn it.
Cursing under her breath as she strode down the hallway purposefully towards her dormitory, Mikan blamed Lady Luck. I wonder if I'll see Tsubasa-kun at the party tonight. Mikan blushed at the thought. She'd met the black-haired and blue-eyed boy back when she was a new transfer student, and he had helped her up when she fell down in the corridors, her books flying out of her arms.
Tsubasa Andou had won her over with his kind gesture and big smile. Not that she would ever admit it to Sumire or Hotaru. But Mikan had a feeling the all-knowing Hotaru would probably already be aware of her major crush on Tsubasa. Ah, forget it. School has already ended for today, and the night is young! Her mind sang as she danced down the corridors.
Hayate leaned back in his seat, looking nonchalantly at Mrs. Norman, whose face was red from all that shouting she'd done in the past two hours. "…and vandalizing that telephone booth, too! One would have thought you've learnt your lesson from the school pillar incident—you're the most terrible juvenile delinquent that I've ever had the misfortune to discipline!" She finished off her lecture with an aggrieved air.
"May I go now?" His unperturbed expression infuriated her even further.
She snapped, "I have yet to assign you your punishment!" So get on with it, he though, folding his arms. "You are to go for detention for 3 months, and clean the boys' toilet on the 2nd floor for a week!"
His eyes shot open, horror emptying his mind of everything else except for the punishments. "What the hell?" He demanded, knocking his chair over as he stood up.
"Perhaps you should have thought of the consequences before stirring up so much trouble." Mrs. Norman said stiffly, "This punishment will take effect immediately. Detention would be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the evening. Please head over to Detention Room 2 at 5 p.m. sharp. Thank you." With that, she stalked out of the office, head held high.
Out of irritation and anger, Hayate kicked the desk. Shit. This means I'll be missing the opening of that big party tonight.
Picking up his cell phone, he dialed into it. "Hello, Kitsuneme? Tell the guys they don't have to wait for me to go to Wakako's. I'll be late—detention tonight with the DM."
"Got it."
Kitsuneme pressed the 'end call' button on his mobile phone and called over his shoulders to Yuu Tobita and Mochu, "Dude, Hayate said he'll be having a date with the DM tonight till 7 p.m.!"
Yuu nodded, "I got the memo."
Mochu merely plugged his ear piece into his iPod.
While he watched Natsume talk on the phone with Luna, Kitsuneme inserted some coins into the drink machine and pressed the button for iced green tea.
Ruka felt his mobile phone vibrate in his pocket as the gang took their time walking out of the classroom block area. Fishing it out, he saw on the collar ID that it was his girlfriend, Karin Sakayuki.
He answered the call. "Hey."
"Hi Ruka. We're going to Wakako's party tonight, right?" Came the sweet voice of his girlfriend of two years.
"Yeah. I'll pick you up at 5:30 p.m., 'kay?"
"Mm, okay. I'll see you then. I love you!" Karin blew a kiss to him over the phone and hung up.
"Love you too," he muttered, switching off his phone.
He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around to see a grinning Koko. "Was that Karin?" Ruka nodded.
"Man, you don't seem all that in love with her. Tell you what, why don't you give her to me?" Koko teased, and Ruka scowled at him.
"What, give her to you just so you and the guys can nag at me again to get a girlfriend?"
Ruka supposed Koko was right. He wasn't really that in love with Karin. She could have cheated on him and he wouldn't have felt a thing—well, except for a blow to his pride and how everyone would laugh at him, but that was another matter entirely. In fact, he'd probably only asked her out to get the guys off his back.
This revelation left a sour taste on his tongue. It made him feel like a bad guy, and he didn't like it. Not on one bit.
Natsume watched Ruka's expression turn troubled and was about to ask him what the problem was when his cell phone rang. Loudly. Irritated at being cut off even though he hadn't asked the question yet, he picked up to hear Luna's voice.
"Hey Natsume." She cooed, "What time are you picking me up tonight?"
"I'll meet you at your dorm room. Six o' clock. Don't be late. You like steak, right?" He replied a little curtly.
"I like anything that Natsume makes!" Luna giggled girlishly. Natsume wondered why he'd dated this girl who had no personality in the first place. Oh, right. She has the curves.
"Okay. I'll see you. Bye." He hung up before she could reply.
Turning around to face his friends, Natsume told them, "I'm not going to Wakako's party tonight. You guys don't have to wait for me."
Koko raised an eyebrow. "Whoa. I thought you would've treated this as an excellent opportunity to hook up with new chicks."
Ruka chimed in, "Yeah, that's pretty rare for you, Natsume. Have you finally decided to officially declare Koizumi as your girlfriend now?"
"I'm having dinner with my girl toy in my room. And to declare Koizumi as my girlfriend? Are you out of your mind, Ruka?" The crimson-eyed boy scoffed. "I'm breaking it off with her this week." He was a heart breaker, no doubt about it. Natsume Hyuuga was the biggest player that the Alice Academy had ever seen.
Hotaru Imai was pissed. And even that word was an understatement to describe her feelings at the moment. It wasn't her fault that she retorted back to the damned Mrs. Reed when the teacher had practically humiliated her in front of the class—all because she was able to solve a stupid question that was out of their syllabus.
That retarded woman had all but accused Hotaru of cheating when she was the only one in the entire level who managed to get full marks for the math paper, because that tough question was in it. Mrs. Reed was unreasonable and irrational. She'd told Hotaru all sorts of demoralizing things (such as becoming a toilet cleaner or road sweeper) and Hotaru didn't even see how those were even related to the matter of cheating. The woman had lost her marbles. Then the purple-eyed girl was escorted to the DM's office and Mrs. Norman blew her stack when she heard Hotaru had been rude to the teacher, and what Hotaru hated the most was that the DM didn't even bother to hear what Hotaru had to say in her defense and immediately issued her with a detention. Alice Academy had the most unreasonable school authorities Hotaru had ever seen.
"Your detention would be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the evening. You're to go to Detention Room 2 tonight. Please be punctual." Was what the Discipline Mistress had said to Hotaru before shooing the latter out of her office.
Hotaru had immediately whipped out her phone and informed Mikan that she would be unable to attend Wakako's party till 7 p.m. thanks to her detention.
And now she was sitting at one of the tables in the detention room that she'd randomly picked, waiting for the detention teacher to arrive as she texted Mikan on her iPhone.
TangerineLoves: So are you at detention now?
TechSavvy: Yeah. The stupid teacher hasn't arrived yet. :(
TangerineLoves: You know, I really wish you'd be able to come to the party D: I mean, Permy's not coming too. So that means I'm going alone. :(
TechSavvy: She's not coming? Since when? I thought she said she was looking forward to going.
TangerineLoves: Nah. She ditched me for a date with Akio, her latest boyfriend. :
TechSavvy: Well, it's not like it's that bad to go alone to the party.
TangerineLoves: What do you mean, it's not that bad?? I might get hit on!!
TechSavvy: Then don't go, dummy. Mrs. Reed is on my list of the Most Hated Teachers of The Year. God, that woman's so irrational.
TangerineLoves: What are you talking about?! I HAVE to go! I need to see someone there! Whoa. Doesn't that make her the first teacher to make it on that list? I remember you only had a 'neutral' list and a 'like' list for the teachers.
TechSavvy: Who do you have to meet? And yes. She is. Did I tell you what happened yesterday night Permy dragged me to the mini-bar at Central Town? The one that allows minors, but only those who are above 16 and who show their identity cards can drink beer?
TangerineLoves: Oh, yeah, she was going to bring me along, but I had to meet Fujioka-sensei. What happened?
TechSavvy: Remember that guy I told you about, the one who was trying to get off with me at the bar when I was texting you?
TangerineLoves: Yeah. It's not like you to beat around the bush like that, Hotaru. What happened?? O.o
TechSavvy: That guy told me I had nice legs and he KISSED me. I tried to beat him up, but he managed to dodge and get away with it. I'm still seething. But I was partially comforted that it wasn't my first kiss. GOD.
TangerineLoves: OMG. Are you, like, freaking serious?! He kissed you?? That's one heck of a brave dude! Wait a minute. HOTARU! You had your first kiss already? You never told me that! Who was your first kiss??
TechSavvy: And he even wolf-whistled and called me "Cool Blue Sky". What a weirdo.
TangerineLoves: Hotaru! Don't change the topic! Who was your first kiss??
Hotaru rolled her eyes at her best friend's text message. "Like you didn't change the topic when I asked you who you were going to meet at the party." Just then, before she could hit the reply button to Mikan's message, the door of the detention room was pushed open and someone stepped in.
A wolf-whistle sounded in the room. Hotaru froze.
"Hey pretty chick. Nice to meet you again."
She whirled around to see the guy from last night. "It's you?!"
Hotaru's cell phone dropped to the ground, and she felt horror fill her mind.
Meanwhile, her cell phone was vibrated repeatedly as it lay on the ground.
TangerineLoves: Come on, Hotaru! I'm your best friend! You have to tell me!
TangerineLoves: Hotaru!!
TangerineLoves: Hotaru, are you there?
TangerineLoves: Hotaru? ...
Mikan couldn't believe it. Hotaru had actually kept a secret of her having her first kiss from her! She repeatedly sent Hotaru text messages, and even attempted calling her, but only got a voice mail message. Hotaru must be ignoring me again, Mikan thought, sighing. But then her eyes lit up, and she jumped to her feet, and exclaimed loudly, "BUT I'LL GET IT OUT OF HOTARU AT THE PARTY LATER! I DEFINITELY WILL!"
With her goal set in mind, Mikan decided to go the party, although she would have to be going alone. Pulling out all her dresses and skirts and blouses, she posed in front of the mirror as she held them against her body to see which one fitted her best. She always did enjoy playing dress-up. Suddenly, a loud ringtone sounded in the room, and Mikan picked it up to see Sumire's number on the caller ID.
"Hello? Permy? What's up?" Mikan said cheerfully as she picked the call up.
"Oh my god! Mikan, you won't believe this shit! My Akio was detained by Jinno because he didn't finish his homework! That means he won't be able to make it for our date! This is the worst day of my life!" Her friend wailed at the other end of the line.
"Really?!" Mikan said excitedly, "Does that mean you can go to the party tonight?"
"Oi! Can't you even pretend to be sympathetic for me?" Sumire complained, annoyance tainting her voice.
Natsume stood before Luna whose legs were both in plaster casts, an irritated expression on his face. "You got injured on the night when I got everything prepared and ready for a romantic dinner?" A vein pulsed in his temple.
"I'm so sorry, Natsume-kun!" Luna said, as she attempted to sit up on the hospital bed she was lying on, but failed in her movement.
"Whatever. I shouldn't have wasted my time." He rolled his eyes and walked towards the door. "I'm breaking it off with you." Luna widened her eyes, and reached out towards him with her arm.
"No! Wait, Natsume! This can't be! I-I can still make it! Natsume!" She yelled, but the door to her ward had already closed.
The said boy made his way out of the hospital in Alice Academy, and called up Koko's number while he was at it. "Koko. I'm calling off the dinner at my room tonight. Ask the guys to meet me at my room. What time's the party starting tonight?"
"You're coming? Awesome. Hey, what happened with Luna? The party's starting at 6 p.m." Koko's delighted voice came into Natsume's ear.
"I broke it off with her. She was annoying me anyway."
"Not to be offensive, dude, but seriously, I'm glad you ended it with her. That Luna was one bitchy girl."
"I know that." With that, he hung up on the call and stored his phone away in his pants pocket. And there'd better be some hot chicks at the party tonight. A smirk came onto his face.
To be continued…