Geeky Attraction
Author's note/This is an AU story. There is an 'Alice Academy' of course, they just don't have weird powers. It didn't really go with the plot, you know- Oh, and I'm changing between Natsume and Mikan's PoV's! I thought it would be fun if you could see the happenings from his side too. I mean, you always sympathise with Mikan and everyone goes on and on about what a jerk Natsume is- let's make this interesting, shall we? (Mischievous laughter... trying to, anyways -,-)
Summary/I was sick of being blamed for things that weren't my fault; no, in fact, I was sick of being blamed for things that were Natsume Hyuuga's fault. As soon as these sessions were over I'd get my revenge.
Full Summary/As arch enemies, and on different sides of the social ranking, you'd think Mikan and Natsume would stay that way until graduating and then forget each other's guts for good. But when they ripped the last straw, the teachers now wants to reunite their two most intelligent students in a dangerous game of their own prejudice and pride. Can they succeed in their task or will it's result be making things worse than ever?
Rating/T+ -(With all the cursing and sexual stuff, eh? ;))
Genre/Mainly love with hints of comedy, drama, and slice of life.
Words/1890
01:
SORE ENEMIES
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Mikan's PoV
I sighed. Some people were just plain cruel, and that was that.
I'd been telling myself this for the past half hour, but it had yet to make me feel any better. It was the truth, for certain, but why did they have to lash out at me? Because I was a bookworm? Or was it jealousy of my close friendship with the chairman's daughter? Perhaps they simply had no reasoning other than that I was there, beneath them and vulnerable to their practical jokes. The last one was the most likely, sadly; I could almost forgive them if they had a reason, yet how could someone who was just recklessly rude be worthy of my forgiveness? That just didn't seem right.
And why did they always have to direct their taunting at me? There were over a thousand other kids at Alice Academy. . . surely, one of them could serve as the butt of a joke every once in a while? A selfish thought, yes, but a true one as well.
It wasn't as though I was a complete lunatic, just because I wasn't popular. Actually, I was just fond of reading, and liked to be the best (A feeling which I, by the way, shared with the popular ones) expecially in school. That was why I was studying! There was not anything weird about it.
At least- that's what I think.
I had always hated the LSR. Latter of Social Ranking. Get a grip. Yet a whole lot of the students in the academy liked it. And on top- the populars. The boys and girls everybody idolized, the ones you'd give anything to talk to, be with, get attention from. But they were TABU for normal students. Off-limited, superior, greater.
But, of course, there was one whom I loaded the most among them. One, who called himself king, one who thought himself to be better than everyone else, one who was filthy rich, arrogant, and who's ego was so thick, you wouldn't even be able to breathe standing in a radius of two metres from him. He was a git. He was annoying as hell, and he was proud of it.
Natsume Hyuuga. Oh, what I wouldn't give to watch him swallow that sly tongue of his!
Let's rewind and see what happend.
On my way to class I'd noticed this huge gathering of students in the locker room area. Where my locker room was! A goosebump later, I'd shoved my way to the front of the crowd. I saw Hyuuga look mildly surprised as he saw me but then his face split into an evil smirk. Of course.
"Ah, geeky girl. Like my handiwork?" he asked me openly smirking.
I pretended to scan the words he'd written, but was really trying not to cry when I saw what he had done to my poor locker. "Well, it's ok I guess. It's what to expect from a person with no creative sense whatsoever. I'd say it's quite charming, really. Considering who's behind."
"That's because you'd adore anything I do, bookworm. Just don't start kissing it 'til I'm gone," he sneered.
"I feel so sorry for you," I said calmly trying to stop my growing anger from taking control of my voice. "You don't see anything besides your own nose! What do you do in your free time, Hyuuga? Besides looking at yourself in the mirror?"
"That wouldn't be something you'd know anything about, I suppose." Hyuuga drawled arrogantly giving me a scanning-through look.
"Just because I'm smarter than you, you don't have to act like a spoiled little child that thinks he can get whatever he wants if he cries long enough, Hyuuga!" I sneered back in anger.
"Oh, what made you think I thought that? The day you're better than me is the day hell freeze over," Hyuuga's cold eyes met my furious gaze. Seriously, I HATE this guy!
"I hate you, Hyuuga! Leave me the bloody hell alone!!" I wasn't crying yet. I never cry in front of that guy. But I really wanted him to go because I knew I would start crying soon.
"I would if you didn't always get in my way, you nerd." He stated. Hyuuga took a quick look at my locker and then kicked it full force. Needless to say, it was completely messed up now!
"You prick! You bloody prick!!" I yelled at him as he walked away with his friends not sparing me a glance.
My dislike for Hyuuga runs so deep in my veins, I just want to scream my heart out, kick him, throw sand in his eyes!... Just, whipe that smirk of his face once and for all!!
Actually, I had a Crush on Natsume Hyuuga one year ago. That was before he opened his big fat gob.
No really. It's not that I loved him or anything. It's just that you can't help but admire his looks, and intelligence- that's before you get to be on his death list, of course. Back then I remember being quite heartbroken with the fact that he was so popular. The Prince, as he liked to call himself. Now all this information may be a bit hard to take in but basically I was a bookworm Crushing on one of the populars and the popular one happened to be Natsume Hyuuga, and he happened to hate my guts.
Which I took little pleasure in finding out.
Natsume's PoV
My friends and I set off in the direction of our next class, laughing and joking with each other. The conversation was pretty pointless by the way. We weren't intending to bring about any cosmic displeasure or dare the wrath of the gods. That sort of thing generally doesn't tend to be something one does intentionally, in any case. Few people wake up and ponder ways in which they might manage to get themselves smitten by a lightning bolt.
Though I would have delighted in the sight of Mikan Sakura with her perfect hair completely fried with the electricity and her eyebrows smoking.
For now, however, her hair still remained perfectly in place. "It's no wonder she doesn't have a boyfriend," I sneered as I adjusted the strap of my bag, speaking about the infuriating bookworm we had just parted ways with.
"I don't think there's a girl at this school I would want to go out with less then her," Mochu remarked, then paused, quickly trying to retrace his words and assure himself that they did, indeed, make sense. He nearly tripped over his own feet. Apparently thinking and walking at the same time was a feat a little too advanced for his limited cognitive skills. Ha-ha.
"Not even Hina Makihiro?" Koko asked, referring to a girl that was short, fat, currently stuck wearing braces, and had a right eye that tended to drift in toward her nose every now and again.
Mochu considered this a mount. "Well, maybe if it was just a snog. But to have to sit and listen to that chatterbox Sakura drone on and on about books and stuff? I think I'd rather date that Makihiro then."
"Really?" Ruka sounded surprised. "Sakura is not that bad, you know. It's because you don't like the fact that she's intelligent." He paused to imitate Sakura's girly voice, "'What do you do in your free time, Hyuuga? Look at yourself in the mirror?' -You didn't find that amusing at all?"
"Not really, Ruka," I snapped at him shooting the other two deathly glares when the corner of their lips twisted slightly.
"Aw, come on Natty, admit her looks aren't completely lost-."
"Why are we even having this discussion?" I demanded, disgusted with the turn the conversation had taken. I quickened my pace, taking the lead a step or so ahead of my companions.
"Still a little sensitive over the whole "Romeo" thing?" Koko asked smugly, thwacking me across the shoulders.
"Sod off," I hissed.
"What was that? What do you mean "Romeo"?" Mochu demanded, hated being left out of what appeared to be a very intriguing matter.
"Nothing," I insisted, trying to instil enough fear through the sheer force of my gaze in Mochu's general direction as to silence him.
No such luck.
"Koko laughed so hard he nearly burst into tears." Ruka said, "One of his date's friends overheard some middleschool girls talking about Natsume and his fighting with Sakura and one of the girls said that she thought that, of all the people at Alice Academy, the two of them would be most like Romeo and Juliet, if they ever managed to fall in love, because of their different families and the social tension and everything."
Mochu eyed me critically a moment. "You would be the worst Romeo ever, hands down."
"Thanks, Mochu."
"They were just some stupid middleschoolers," Koko shrugged, "I'm sure the one who dreamed up such a notion was just weird in her head. You know, too many romantic novels and stuff."
"I should hope so. Romeo and Juliet were both complete morons, and their tale is more tragic stupidity then it is romantic," I said as we rounded a corner. "Not to mention the fact that Sakura's a self-righteous little bitch."
"And the whole 'I hate you to the very depths of my soul' thing you two have going on," Ruka added completely unfazed.
"I don't care what these starry-eyed twits say about love," I said with a cold certainty, "You love those who are worth your notice. That bookworm has nothing to offer me."
Mochu and Koko nodded their approval. I smirked, a steely look of superiority as we entered the Dining Hall.
"Nothing in this world could ever make me feel attracted to Sakura."
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Author's note/ I know this isn't the greatest first chapter... but I had a pretty hard time getting this story going! But I promise, It'll only get better from now on. XD
