My fourth story, this one just popped into my mind. I don't wanna lose the ideas inside my head that's why I started typing it. Well, I just hope that you will like this one. Okay here goes another story brought to you by lemennair214…Enjoy reading!
"The Predicament of Oblivion"
Chapter 1
The Façade of Solitude- A Cold Princess
Another quiet, normal day. That's how the students in the academy could describe it but not for a sixteen year old girl. It was her first time to set foot in Japan. She was there not for a vacation not even for business matters. She was there to go into an exclusive school for those who are just like her.
"Miss Minami, we are almost there. A few more kilometers and we're in the academy." The driver looked at her at mirror. He addressed her by her surname. He used to be formal with her.
She didn't respond but instead she let out a sigh. She doesn't really want to go in that school. She had never experienced going into schools for she got her private mentors. Yes, indeed her life could be considered as that of a princess. Always served. Always guarded. She had grown tired of all the attention given to her.
The driver simply shook his head. He knows what she feels right now. He set his eyes on the road and focused on his driving. After a few more minutes, the black car entered the gate of a big institution specifically the Alice Gakuen.
Mr. Kimura stepped off the car and opened the door for his mademoiselle. The girl quietly stepped off and looked at her new surroundings.
A blonde-haired guy approached them with a big smile.
"Welcome to Alice Academy. You must be the girl the head master told me to assist. I am Narumi. I will be your homeroom teacher. I'm so please to meet you Minami-san." He beamed at the girl in front of him. The head master had told him to be extra pleasant with the girl. "She must be an important person." He thought.
The girl just nodded at him. She didn't bother to say a word.
"Ooh…too quiet huh." He thought. "Ah well, let's go. You still have to meet your new classmates. You will definitely like them." he stated hoping that he'll get her to talk but much to his chagrin she just stay quiet.
They stopped into an empty room. Narumi let the lass change into a middle school uniform. After a while, she stepped off the room.
"You look cute wearing that uniform." He complimented as he scanned her appearance.
The girl just nodded at him. They started walking off.
They walked silently into the hallways. Well, the hallways are empty. All of the students were inside their rooms. Classes would be beginning.
"Okay here it is. Just wait here till I called up to you, okay?" he said at the girl beside him. She just nodded. Narumi then entered the room.
"Attention Class-B. I just want to inform you that you'll be having a new classmate. Well, she's from England so be nice to her." He said to the class stopping them to do their stuffs. "Okay, you may enter now." he called outside.
A pink-haired girl entered the room. Her locks were tied into a ponytail using a red lace ribbon and then the strands of her hair were braided. (If you can't imagine the hairstyle, just try to think of the beautiful white-haired captain from Full Metal Panic). Her long bangs were parted into the left using a red flower hairpin.
She wasn't the girl the class expected to enter the room. They were expecting for a loud-mouthed brown-haired girl, Mikan Sakura, the former no star, the clumsy energetic girl, the girl who was requested by the head master to transfer into the Alice Gakuen in England. Narumi said that the new girl is from England thus making them to expect that she had returned. But to their disappointment, a pink-haired girl had arrived. They weren't really disappointed by the arrival of the new girl but they really miss her. Although according to a news delivered to them by their homeroom teacher, the girl died two years ago. Still they waited for her to come back. Thinking that the news is just a mere joke. They knew her so well. She may have requested the higher-ups of the England campus to tell them that she's already dead. That idiot wanted them to miss her so much.
She isn't the type of girl that you will not notice. Truth to be said, your eyes would be locked on her once you had taken a sight of the lass. There is something about her that caught their attention. Her presence had made the flame caster to look up from his manga plus the invention prodigy also stops screwing up her new invention.
Something made them look at her. Well, they don't think that she's got the Human Pheromone Alice. But they just can't stop looking at her. It may be her eyes. Her emerald eyes. Her lifeless eyes may be the one that caught their attention. Her eyes were just plainly looking at her new classmates. Her eyes gave her the mysterious aura. It turned her into someone. Someone that you will definitely want to know very well. One will definitely want to discover the reason behind the sad look in her eyes. Indeed, she's the misty girl. Given that she's got the body that guys will go gaga for, she will definitely be a school item.
Everyone observed her and notice that she's not even moving from her position.
Narumi felt uncomfortable by the sudden silence. He tried to speak up.
"Well, Minami-san why don't you go tell them something about yourself." He eyed the quiet girl beside him. Well actually, he can't also stop looking at her.
"Ohayo minna-san. I am Haruka Minami. I actually grew up in England. So I'm not familiar with the place." She said briefly.
Even when she spoke up, her face showed no expression at all. Well, her face was really like of a very cute doll. But just like a doll, she's lifeless. She's got no emotion.
Everyone stayed quiet. They were literally looking at her. They expected her to smile. But even her voice showed coldness. The silence was cut off by the flame caster.
"Hey you haven't told us your alice!" he said not bothering to look at her. Well, actually he's peeping from his manga.
"Oh…I got the Wind Alice and Alice of Botany." She plainly said.
"So that's why she got those earrings." He thought as he noticed the flower-shaped earrings that was adorned by pink gemstones. He clearly knew that those earrings were controlling devices. "Huh? What's that?" he stammered upon noticing a mark placed on her right cheek.
Well, it isn't really a mark just like that of Tsubasa's. This one was different. It could be said that it is a face painting. Her right cheek was painted with a red flower with its vines stretching into half of her forehead and chin. The sight of the mark in her cheek made her look cuter. She even look liked a fairy.
He wasn't sure if that mark has something to do with her alice. But he can never refute the thought that the mark isn't there for no reason.
"I got to know who she really is."
"Ah…Narumi-sensei. Can I know where I am supposed to sit?" she asked.
"Ahm..let'see. You need to have a partner since you're new here…Now, who shall be your partner? " He replied while holding his chin.
A guy from the backmost seat raised his hand.
"I'll be her partner." A cold voice surprised everyone.
"Okay then Natsume-kun will be your partner Haruka-san." He beamed at the pink-haired living doll. "Class, I need to attend a meeting. Be good with her."
Haruka walked towards the seat beside Natsume. (The seating arrangement isn't like that of their elementary days.) Everyone just stared at her. She walked gracefully and smoothly. Not even making a sound but of her footsteps. She's way too refined for a young girl of their age. Her scent filled the nostrils of her classmates.
"Ohh..she smells like fresh flowers." Koko whispered to his seatmate.
"Roses and lavender." Mochu said.
"No. Jasmine and lily." Koko said.
"No. Her scent isn't that one." Yuu meddled.
"She smells like cherry blossom." Ruka said.
"Yah." Iinchou agreed.
"Oh…looks like another celebrity was born." Sumire whispered to Anna and Nonoko.
The two girls just nodded at they took glances at the doll-like girl who is quietly reading a romance pocketbook beside the flame caster.
"Hey. Mind greeting me or introduce yourself to me?" he derided her.
"Ahhh…but I had just introduced myself in front of the class." She merely gazed up from her book.
"I wasn't able to hear you." he replied boldly.
"How is it possible? You've even asked me about my alice." She replied as her eyebrow twitched into a curve.
"You're voice is too soft." He replied defiantly.
"Okay then…I am Haruka Minami. Alice of Wind. Happy now?"
"Much better." He smirked. "Whoah, this girl got some attitude."
The girl started reading again. Natsume watched her at his peripheral vision when a seaweed-haired girl approached his seatmate.
"Hello there Minami-san. I am Sumire Shouda. I am the official president of Natsume-Ruka Fans Club. Nice to meet you! Oh by the way…I got the Alice of Dog and Cat Physicality." she beamed at the new girl.
The sakura-haired girl looked at her.
"Nice to meet you too Shouda-san. You got a weird alice." She replied meekly. Her face was devoid of emotions.
A vein popped into Permy's head. She tried to think of something to get even with the new girl.
"So tell me. What's your star ranking?" she asked her. Thinking that she's got a higher rank than the new girl.
"Star ranking? What's that?" she replied completely oblivious of star ranking.
The class suddenly turned at her with quizzical look.
"Hey Koko. Go read her mind." Natsume called to the mind reader in his mind.
Koko started reading the girl's mind.
"She really doesn't know her star ranking. It's the first time she heard such word." Koko announced to the whole class.
"Huh? He's reading my mind?!" she stammered in her mind. But her face was completely emotionless.
"Yes. I can read your mind Haruka-san. That's my alice." Koko replied at her.
"You got the Mind Reading Alice?" she asked him.
"Yah. By the way, I am Kokoroyomi. It's nice to meet you Haruka-san." He smiled at the girl.
"Nice to meet you too Kokoroyomi-kun." She replied casually.
A blonde guy with eyeglasses approached the new student.
"Hello Haruka-san. I am Yuu Tobita, the class representative." He beamed at new girl.
"Ooh…Hello Tobita-kun. Or shall I call you Iinchou?" She said nonchalantly.
The eye glassed-boy nodded. Next came the cooking expert and the chemical girl.
"Hello Haruka-san. I am Nonoko Ogasawara. I got the Alice of Chemistry." Nonoko smiled at her.
"Hello Ogasawara-san."
"Ahmn…Hello there Haruka-san. I am Anna Umenomiya. I got the Alice of Cooking." Anna smiled weakly.
"Hi Umenomiya-san." Thinking that everyone had greeted her, she started to face her book again.
"Excuse me Minami-san. I haven't introduced myself to you. I am Ruka Nogi. I got the Animal Pheromone Alice."
"Ohh…hello Nogi-kun." She replied stubbornly. "Is there anybody else?" she asked.
"Anybody else?"
"I mean…is there anybody else who's going to greet me? I'm kinda haggard right now. The trip had consumed my energy." She replied without even bothering to look at Ruka.
"Whoah…This girl is really cold. Does she really think that she is that beautiful, huh? Well I'm much more beautiful than her!" Permy is starting to wear her patience thin. She clenched her fist, ready to give her a lesson.
"Wait Sumire-san. Hold up! You can't hurt her! She may be really tired of the trip. Just understand her." Anna said while Yuu and Nonoko hold Sumire.
"Okay." Permy said weakly.
The class suddenly got quiet upon hearing a loud bang.
"Hey you new girly! Don't you spoil around! Don't you know who the queen of this room is?" Hotaru stood up. Threatening is present in her voice.
Everyone sweat dropped. They all know what the new student will experience. She will suffer from the range of the fortified baka gun!
Hotaru set her gun ready to fire. She aimed it to the new girl.
"Hotaru to you have to do it?" Iinchou asked her.
"Hands off me Yuu or you want to be the first one to experience the rage of my newly improved baka gun."
Yuu released her. The invention prodigy shot her gun.
Everyone closed their eyes. They feel pity for the new girl. But when the smoke created by the explosion was cleared, they were surprised to see that large vines shielded the new student.
"This girl got a powerful alice. I got to look over her." Natsume thought upon seeing the sight of the large vines.
To be continued…
Hello there my most valued readers! Hope you like this one! This one will surely be filled with twist and turns. So stay tuned! I just hope that you like my newest fanfict…
I really have to make up with you guys. That's why I added an extra effort in making this chapter longer. I hope that you will forgive me of the late update.
Well, I really need some reviews…so please submit your reviews…I'm begging…hehehe…Thanks for reading!
Please also read my other stories, The Missing Piece of His Heart, Made for Each Other and It's All About Love…