Zwei High

Chapter 1 – Roman

Roman yawned loudly while walking down the sidewalk. He pulled an all nighter playing his recent dating sim game, but the result was worth it. A small smile formed on his lips as he recalled the night journey.

"Finally! I got Mitsu to be mine! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

A look of shock, confusion, and scared faces came from the people around him as he suddenly realized that he wasn't at his apartment. A bit of red came up on his face as he hid his face behind his hat as he continued to walk. A small sigh then came out of his lips.

"If only I could stay inside. I don't even want to work! No no Roman! Think of all the money that you'll get out of this and all the new games and figures you can buy!"

A little laughter came out again as he suddenly looked a bit energized now. Roman has been living by himself now for eight years. During that time he's been getting money from his parents to barely live on. But that won't be the case anymore.

Now that he's twenty-five years old, he finally got his Bachelor's degree in English a few months ago. Deciding that he didn't want to spend too much energy or effort with his degree, he decided to become a high school teacher. He figured that it would be an easy cinch while getting payed.

Today will be his first day on the job. How he got hired and was able to pass all the training requirements, nobody understood except for Roman. Even then he didn't understand. All he knew was that he got the job and that's all that mattered to him. That was the only time he's been energetic outside of his anime figures, games and shows.

"I have to admit I am a pretty good actor. Hmm maybe I should have been an actor instead! Nah. That would take too much work or effort."

Roman was getting close to the school now. All he had to do was introduce himself today, let his students know what to expect and let them do whatever they want for the rest of the class time while he plays on his handheld console. Everything will go perfect! No one will bother him, he can sleep during exams and even assign whatever homework he wants to! (Under the guidelines of the school's course).

"Absolutely nothing can go wron-Huh?"

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw a little bit up ahead a girl stuck in a tree. It looked like a student of some sort. How a student got up there he had no idea, nor had time to worry since school was almost about to begin. While Roman did pull an all nighter to finally get his dream girl to fall in love with him, it also meant that he barely slept and almost overslept if it weren't for his "waifu alarm clock" to wake him up.

As Roman finally got to the tree, he got a better look at the student. It looked like she's fifteen feet off the ground. How she got up there Roman had no idea. She looked a bit scared but that wasn't the thing that stood out to him. Her right side had pink hair while her left side had brown on it. His stomach growled a little bit at the sight of her.

"Why is it that I want ice cream all of a sudden?"

While in a daze thinking about ice cream, the little girl up in the tree finally spoke up.

"Ummm c-can you please h-help me out? I saw a kitty stuck in this tree and I had to help out but now I can't get down…"

She gave a smile and a little laugh as her phone went off. Surprised by her cat notification noise, she pulled out her phone to see what the commotion was about.

"OH NO! CLASS IS ABOUT TO START IN TEN MINUTES! I'M GOING TO BE LATE ON MY FIRST DAY OF CLASS! I'VE NEVER BEEN LATE! OH THIS IS HORRIBLE! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?"
Tears started to come out of her eyes now as Roman was trying his best at figuring out what to do.

"Calm down there miss..?"

"I-It's Neopolitan X-"

"Ok! Ok! Neo! Look I'll just call you that because saying Neopolitan is a mouth sore. Anyways, the point is that I'll get you down from that tree; so don't freak out and everything will be alright!"

At that moment, a little gasp came out of Neo's mouth. Why was this man being so kind and caring when he could have gone after her little tangent. Why was her chest suddenly becoming tight while her face started to blush up? Could it be heart burn? Yeah it was probably that. Neo took a note to get to the nurse's office to get checked up when break comes around.

"Alright, now take a deep breath and jump off while keeping your eyes closed. Everything will be fine." Roman said.

"O-Ok!" Neo responded back as she took a deep breath.

"Whatever you do, don't look at the ground." Roman finally said as Neo jumped off.

"Wait what?" Neo said as she opened her eyes and saw the speeding ground coming closer and closer to her.

"AAAAHHHHHHH! I'M GONNA DIE! I'M GONNA DIE!" Neo screamed while frantically flailing arms around.

"It's okay! I got-BLEEEEGGGGGHHHHHH! You…" Roman coughed out as Neo, who reclosed her eyes for the impact opened them back up.

"H-Huh? I-I'm alive…I'M ALIVE! OH THANK YOU KIND MISTER! Um mister…where are you?" Neo asked while looking around to find her hero.

"D-Down here…" Roman muttered while Neo was perfectly fine while sitting on his chest.

"GAH!" Neo cried out as she suddenly jumped off while her face had a heavy blush on it. "I-I'm sorry!"
"No! No! No! It's all good! I needed that to wake me up anyway haha! And besides…I'm glad that you're safe."

A smile formed on his lips while everything around Neo zoomed out of existence around her while the only thing she saw was Roman. Her breathing was getting heavy, her chest tightening up again, her heart beating going crazy and her face was red.

"Why is this feeling coming back? Is it heart burn again?" Neo asked to herself.

Every time she looked at Roman, she could feel herself going crazy.

"I've never had symptoms like this before! But what is it that's making me feel like this!"

Just then, Neo remembered something she asked her father way back when she was a little girl.

"Daddy, how did you know that you were in love with mommy?" Young Neo asked.

"Well sweetie it was when my chest felt tight, my breathing was getting heavy, my heart felt like it was going to come out of my chest, and I could feel my face getting redder every second!" Her father said with a proud look on his face.

"Heehee daddy's funny!"

"Um Neo?" Roman asked as Neo suddenly realized that Roman's forehead was on hers.

"W-W-WHAAAAT!?" Neo shouted as she jumped back a bit.

"Oh sorry about that. It looked like you were in a trance or something so I had to make sure you weren't having a fever. You do seem fine though, but I don't know why your face is so red."

Neo gasps as the shocking truth finally came to her. She was in love with this man.

"Anyways, I have to get going now. I have stuff to do." Roman said as he was ready to limp off.

"WAIT!" Neo yelled as Roman turned back to face her.
"Um…yes?"

"W-Will I see you again?" Neo asked as the thought of never seeing him again was crushing her.

He took a good look at Neo and remembered that she looked like a student who would go to Zwei High as he smiled.

"Yeah I'm sure of it."

"A-Alright then! I'll see you later!" Neo said as she ran past him and into the school building. A big smile formed on her face before she gasped and got depressed.

"I didn't even ask him what his name was…"

A sigh came out of her as she walked into the classroom for English. Neo always was a fan of English class and the class as her first day of school every day of the week, she couldn't be happier. She tried to spot any seats open as she saw one that was two seats by the window. As soon as she plopped down on her seat, she suddenly felt an arm loosely around her neck.

"It's good seeing you Neo! Never expected to see you here in my class!"

That voice was instantly recognizable to the small girl as she looked up to see a big smile on her best friends face.

"Hi there Yang! I never thought you would take English class in the morning as well!"

"Ha!" Yang laughed. "I took this class since I know I can just fall asleep while the sun's rays warms me up nicely!" A proud look came on Yang's face as she puffed out her chest like she was a genius.

"Yeah that is like you Yang." Neo gave out a nervous laughter, not knowing whether or not she should be worried for her friend.

"Anyways have you heard?" Yang asked Neo.

"Heard what?" Neo asked in confusion.

"That this school got a new hot teacher! I know it's weird that I would know that since we're freshman and all, but I got my sources."

A small wink came out of Yang as Neo was still in thought about what her friend just said. Could it be that orange hair man who she just met? Nah it couldn't be. He didn't really look or seem like the type to teach.

"But what is his job then if that was the case?"

Before her mind could get lost in thought, the bell rang and the door opened as a voice was heard out of the doorway.

"Alright class, settle down and listen up. Starting today I'm going to be your teacher. I hope we can get along well with no troubles happening okay? Good."

Neo's mind couldn't believe it as her face had the same shock value. Standing in front of her was the man she spoke to earlier as he wrote his name on the whiteboard.

"My name is Roman Torchwick and you can call me whatever you want as long as it's appropriate." Roman said as he started class.

"So that's his name…Roman" Neo said to herself as hearts started to form in her eyes. This was the man whom she fell in love with. "Yang was right…he's definitely hot~"

Meanwhile while this was all going on, Yang had a confused and disgusted look on her face. "He isn't hot! He isn't hot at all!"