Chapter 1
I'm drifting asleep again, aren't I? I know it because, suddenly, there are dancing hippos playing trumpets behind the teacher. Oh sweet Jesus. Len, why did you go to sleep at 4 o'clock in the morning last night?
"Miss, may I be excused to go to the bathroom?" a sickeningly sweet voice asks. I glance up quickly to make sure the teacher isn't glaring at me and turn in the direction of said voice.
Standing up at her desk is Rin, the school's biggest slut. I can see all of the boys drooling. I'm not even joking. Mikuo sits beside me a there is drool coming out of his mouth.
The teacher nods at her and Rin skips out. I do mean literally. Her skirt is hiked up way too short, so skipping is lethal. I look back down at the doodles on my page before I can see anything that might spoil my innocence.
Finally, the bell rings. I stand up quickly, grab my books and leg it out of the room. As I walk into the cafeteria, I eye the coffee machine. Maybe one quick cup. I shake those thoughts of doom and walk over to my group of friends. Miku, Luka, Kaito and Gakupo. We've been friends since forever, when we were in preschool. It's noice having friends so close.
Luka looks up from her book when I sit down and smiles. She turns her head to face Kaito as he babbles on about something irrelevant. Luka clearly thinks so too as she raises an eyebrow but let him talk.
"Hey, Len. Did you see Rin in class this morning?" Miku asks, giggling. I shake my head, recalling that this morning I was 10 minutes late because I overslept, tripped on the stairs, slipped on the wet floor and then burst into the classroom, only to indure many looks of pure confusion, joy, amusement and one of anger (from the teacher). I then fell asleep in the back of the classroom. Yeah, this morning really wasn't to great for me.
Miku rolls her eyes. "Oh yeah, you fell asleep." Crap, she knows.
"Anyways," she continues, "She kept dropping her pencil on the ground and then leaning over the table to reach it. That girl knows no shame!"
"Can we please stray off of the topic of Rin? It puts me off my sandwiches," Luka says, using her fancy vocab to impress people. Well, she doesn't do it intentionally but it doesn't help Kaito's drooling. He thinks no one knows that he likes her but it so goddamn obvious!
"Len, have you decided who you're doin' the history project with?" Gakupo asks.
Shit! I forgot about that. I rub the back of my head awkwardly. "Um... No?"
Gakupo rolls his eyes as if he expected that answer. "Well, Ice-cream and Tuna are together. Me and Leeks are together too. You're going to have to be put with whoever the teacher chooses," he says, using everyone's nicknames. His is Eggplants and mine is Bananas.
We eat our lunch, sharing stories and laughter. Suddenly, the room goes quiet and everyone starts to stare at the door. I look over quickly. Walking in is... Rin. Rin and her gang of whores. Haku, Meiko and Gumi. But Rin rules them. They buzz around her as if she's a flower and they're a load of bees.
I roll my eyes and look back at my friends. Kaito and Gakupo are also staring at her. Miku glares a glare of death at Gakupo (she can be really scary when she wants). Luka picks up her book, frowning and muttering something like: "Tch, typical."
Rin and her friends walk over to a table and sit down. I can see some of the boys trying to discreetly leave their own table and sit with them. I have to laugh at them. People can be so desperate.
Miku finally loses her cool and punches Gakupo. Hard. "Wake up, Dipshit! God, you're my best friend, why are you staring at her?!"
Gakupo shakes his head and wakes up from his daydream. He looks over at Miku and grins at her. "You jelly?"
Miku wrinkles her nose and turns her back to him, facing me. "No, stupid!" Her face is going red. She sneaks a look over at Luka and Kaito. Kaito's trying to play it off as if he didn't stare at Rin for two minutes but Luka is having none of it. When ever he asks her something, she replies with, "Go google it." She only uses that sentence when she's pissed.
The bell goes and everyone stands up and starts to leave. Luka grabs her book and stomps off. Kaito follows her, trying to apologize. Gakupo rolls his eyes and follows them.
Miku grabs my arm, links it around her's and we walk to class. Five seconds is all it takes before Miku launches into her speech.
"I hate her so much! She's such a slut! Why can't all of those boys see it! My brother is always drooling over her, following her like a lost puppy. It's sick! Why can't there be more guys like you Len? You're so understanding and caring and... and... stuff! It makes me sick to my stomach!"
I let her rant, responding with the occasional "Mhm" and "Yeah" and "I know" and sometimes just nodding. Miku's so caught up in her hatred for Rin she doesn't notice.
We finally get to history and I remember that I don't have a partner. The teacher's going to have to pair me with someone.
When we walk in, Kaito is still trying to apologize to Luka. Gakupo waves Miku over and I go to sit at my desk at the back. The teacher walks in and claps her hands.
"Okay! Everyone get into their pairs and decided on a topic for the history project!"
Everyone but me, Mikuo, Rin and a girl called IA pair up. Wait RIN doesn't have a partner?! Is this some kind of practical joke or is the apocolapse happening?
The teacher comes over and claps her hands. "Okay," she says, "Well, it's an even number so that's good... Let's see..."
Please put me with Mikuo, please, please, please, please...
"Mikuo, you go with IA and Rin and Len, you two can work together. Chop chop, time waits for no one!"
Mikuo shoots me a dirty glare and walks off to his table with IA, leaving me with Rin. Wait...
RIN?!
