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Chapter I: The Garden

"Zzz… Zzz…"

"As you see, there is a town right here- Wait. Who's that?"

"Shhh! Someone's sleeping, Miss! It's Rin. Hahaha…"

The teacher turned to face the students and hit her forehead. "Again? For God's sake, this child… Kagamine!"

"…"

"RIN KAGAMINE!"

The girl woke up. "IS THERE A FIRE!?"

The teacher got angry. "You slept again. As a punishment, you have to write 'I won't sleep as long as school's starting AGAIN' for a hundred times. Outside. Now go."

"What? But, Miss, I-"

"No excuses! Go."

Rin groaned as she walked to the door. "Okay. Fine. I'm sorry, Miss. I'll do it now."

February 1st 2011. It had been three times Rin slept on the class when school is starting. Everyone always asked the same thing: Miku, Teto, Neru, Haku, Meiko, Kaito, and Gakupo. Including her own twin brother, Len. Why Rin slept on the class lately was nearly unknown, even by Len himself. Rin always answered she got tons of paperwork, she had to sing for tons of updated songs, and she had to sing for the Append version. Well, actually…

January 31st 2011. 9 PM. As usual, Len got sleepier and sleepier. 180 degrees different with his twin sister, Rin, who was still energetic to do her activities. Actually, she felt really sleepy inside, but she had tons of work she had to do at that moment.

"Fine. I'll sleep now, Rin. Good night," Len said. He went to his room and slept well.

He never wanted to leave his sister work on her own, yet Rin still forced him to sleep first. After Len went to his room, she felt the urge to check on her garden. Everyone who saw her garden would say it was so wide, wide enough for many people to sleep there. Even wider than the twins' house. Unfortunately, her flowers withered so fast. That was why nobody would come to see her garden. Rin had done everything, since Len never cared so much, but the result stayed the same.

"Why? Why!? Why my flowers never stay like this? Argh. I hope they stay beautiful forever," Rin said angrily. "I bought much fertilizer. I even bought the flower-growing spray but I got nothing!"

Rin looked at the night sky. Her forehead creased, showed that she was thinking very hard. "I think I have to find some kind of flower… A different kind of flower that could stay the same forever. Hm… Five beautiful colored petals. Five… Colored…"

"Are you done yet?" the teacher asked.

The girl showed her paper with a big grin. "Done, Miss. Plus signature."

The teacher took her paper. "Good. Anyway, may I know why you slept on the class lately?"

Rin looked to the other side. "Um… There were so many updated songs for me to sing. And the Append version also. They kept me up at nights."

The teacher's face seemed pitying her. "That's…such a work. But at least, you have to watch your time. It would affect your grades if you get sick. Anyway, your grades are doing great. So, keep it up, Rin."

"Thanks for the advice, Miss." Rin smiled and went back to the classroom.

RIIIIIING. The break time bell rang through everyone's ears. All of them rushed out from the classrooms. Some had a chat with others, some had lunch together, and some played together. Not like the others, Rin stayed on her classroom to do her works given by her teacher, which should be done when she was outside the class.

Suddenly, a loud girl's voice came from the door. "Rin-chan~ Are you there?"

"KYAA!" Rin shrieked. "Argh, you can just go inside, Miku-nee! What was that for!?"

"I'm sorry. Hehe. By the way, what are you doing? This is lunch break, right?" Miku asked.

"I slept again today."

"Again? AGAIN? You really worked hard for the updated songs, didn't you?" Miku's eyebrow raised.

The blonde girl shrugged. "Yeah, so how am I gonna do? I'm being forced here, you know…"

"Ughhh. Ganbatte, my sister!" Miku showed her puppy eyes while comforting Rin, which made her felt a bit disgusted.

"H-hey! Don't give me that look."

Miku helped Rin to do her works while lunch break was still going. Sometimes Rin used her chance to be given the answers by Miku. It was not that she didn't understand the subject. She was just very lazy to do her school works. Especially if she had to give complete answer. It felt like getting hit by a truck, then being thrown to the space, getting hit again by a meteor, being thrown to the sun, and BOOM, you were burned to death.

Okay. I think that was overly said.

School was finished. Len walked to Rin's classroom and called her. "Rin, let's go home."

"Eh? Don't we have plans with the others?"

"Ah, about that, they can't come up. They have something to do."

"Oh…" Rin was disappointed. "Okay then. Let's go home." She then walked to the door and went home with Len without saying bye to the others.

The next day at school, Rin met her friends to make some plans regarding their holiday. They were very excited to have holiday in their hands. Even so, it was a bad news for Rin. She should be taking care of her garden, yet her friends forced her to come. Rin then promised she would come with them.

"You sure you'd come with us?" Len asked.

"Hmhm. My garden is out of luck. The flowers have withered so fast. I'm getting tired."

"Well, it's a good choice you come with us. Perhaps you could relax a little."

Rin nodded to her twin brother. "Yep."

Teto was having a chat with Rin when suddenly, someone who was in the same class with Teto called her from the door. "Teto! Our homeroom teacher called you! Hurry up to the classroom!"

"Ah, okay! Coming right up! I'm sorry, guys. I have to go back now. Bye!" Teto said then rushed right away to her classroom.

Unfortunately, something fell out from Teto's bag. Rin saw it. Only her. She took it from the floor and it turned out as a magenta-colored nail polish. I know this nail polish. She must bought it from the shop across the mall, she thought.

As the bell rang again, Rin and her friends went separate ways toward their own classroom.

Rin's homeroom teacher gave the students paperwork again. About half an hour later, Rin finished her works, but her friends hadn't finished yet. She was bored. Then she took Teto's nail polish from her bag. She agreed to Teto. That nail polish was so pretty. No wonder Teto's fingers were very beautiful. Five magenta-colored nails, so tapering, and- Wait. Five… Colored… Like a flower… Ah, what did I just think about?

"Teto!"

"Ah, Rin! What's wrong?"

"Um, this," Rin said while taking Teto's nail polish, "you dropped this when you were running to your classroom." She gave it to her.

The magenta-haired girl was shocked. "Oh, dear! Thank you very much, Rin! I've been looking for this everywhere in my bag."

"What's wrong if you lose it?" Rin asked curiously.

"I bought this from the shop across the mall. It's so expensive, you know?"

Rin's gaze locked at the nail polish. "Eh, really? No wonder it's so pretty."

"Hmhm! Look at my fingers. The nail polish gives me a glamour aura and our fingers will look very tapering. Try it, Rin!" Teto immediately try the nail polish on Rin's fingernail, followed slightly with "Eh!?" from Rin.

Teto gave a big grin. "Pretty, right?"

Rin looked at her own fingernail. Flowers… Colorful…

"Er… Anyway, I have works waiting for me. Bye, Rin!" Teto smiled and ran.

"Oh, okay. Bye!" Rin said.

After school, Rin was looking for Teto to go to the nail polish shop together. Suddenly, she heard Teto's voice, followed with Neru's and Haku's on the other side of the wall.

"Ugh, I hate it. Since the beginning I talked about this nail polish, Rin's gaze was locked but she didn't say anything. I think she did that just to make me happy," Teto said.

"Hm… Perhaps she was jealous of you because you have this expensive nail polish?" Haku asked.

Neru said while playing with her phone, "But are you guys sure she was just acting all along? Doesn't her gaze always locked when there's something she likes?"

"But she would talk about it all day long! It happened when she found her favorite anime, right?" Teto shouted.

"Well, you're right, though. Perhaps there's something going on in her head like Miku-nee said. She also hates it, though," Neru said.

Haku nodded. "Miku also told me that. Fortunately, she found your nail polish anyway. What if she didn't?"

Teto laughed. "Oh, guys, I don't care! I can buy it again."

On the other side, Rin was shocked to hear that. She doubt her friends would talk on her back like this, but what she heard is what she heard. They… Why they think like that about me? They don't even care about me, she thought to herself, feeling disappointed of her friends.

I'll take their hands and arms. I'll plant them in my flower pots as beautiful and special flowers. I won't ever care about them anymore.