It's Just Hormones.
Chapter 1.
Sun-Sun sat in the classroom, the temperature a little bit high as she could feel the heat of the rays pouring onto her clothes, the warmth really bugging her. She really hated days like these, a clear sunny sky, bright atmosphere and warm laughs resonating between friends around the room, it all sickened her.
She let out an exasperated sigh, her posture upright, back straight, sitting in a way that everything was uniform and proper in terms of etiquette. She was always like that, for more reasons than one. One could say it was a habit of hers and another habit would be that she always covered her mouth with her hand which was draped over with excessively long sleeves.
She wore a pure white robe every day, unless of course she decided to go out. The white robe was what she wore to school, she had dozens of them in her closet, and the look it adorned was formal. The style was…unique, similar to a kimono but not quite, There was a back collar that was snug around her neck for starters, the sleeves were much longer than a regular kimono and they had slits on the sides of them. The outfit itself reached down to her ankles and around her waist was a black cincture which held a criss-cross design. Down the center of her outfit was a black stripe that reached from the collar down all the way down, keeping vertical symmetry.
She scanned the room slowly, not really catching anything interesting until the distinct sound of a desk toppling over startled her slightly. She diverted her attention towards the particular direction, seeing a circle of students forming around the scene, and saw that violence was possible if she did not intervene.
Being the class representative, it was her duty to keep students in order, she half expected who the perpetrator would be. She stood up gracefully, yet hastily, her hand still covering her mouth while the other was resting on her abdomen, her usual position when she walked. She began to stride over to the incident, the sound of commotion and banter filling the room as her quiet black flat heeled boots gently tapping against the ground. She could already hear the loud yelling and curses as her lips curved downward into an irritated frown.
The consistent screaming easily drowned out the sound of her movements, though she barely made any sounds when she moved anyway, she could hear the argument from 10 feet away, and that wasn't good for a classroom environment. She pushed through the crowd with relatively no effort, eyeing one specific girl, the one she dubbed as it.
"Watch where you're walking shit head!" Sun-Sun scrunched her nose in distaste as she heard… it. That voice she heard almost constantly, the voice of the one she hated most, more than she's ever hated anyone else in the entire school. In a matter of moments, before the other could retort back she stood in between them.
"What is the meaning of this?" Sun-sun eyed the two carefully, shifting her attention between them carefully. One was dark skinned, tall and lean, bearing an athletic body… The way she was poised made her look incredibly aggressive. Chest up, shoulders back, hip jutted out, and an expression on her face that almost looked like a snarl.
The other girl she barely knew, but saw her around often. That girl was timid looking, Sun-Sun noted how apprehensive and scared the young girl looked as she sighed and shook her head, knowing that the commotion probably wasn't even a big deal. As Sun-Sun had spoke, her voice was soft, yet harsh at the same time, the melodic sound of her voice was…calming…at least to one of the students, the other, was infuriated by it.
"Well what the hell does it look like?" She looked over at It again, A dark skinned girl who looked…brutish to say the least, and moreover, had a look in her eyes that would kill. Mila-Rose, Sun-sun thought grimly. Mila-Rose's voice was the complete opposite of Sun-Sun's; it was hard, rough, and demanded authority.
Sun-Sun narrowed her eyes at the female, watching as Mila-Rose's scowl became even more furious, intimidating almost, at least to the bystanders, Sun-sun wasn't intimidated in the least. "It looks like your acting like the monkey you are." Mila-Rose glared Sun-Sun, her shining green eyes gazing sharply at her, grinding her molars together as Sun-Sun could easily tell she was agitated.
"What are you trying to say, huh?" Mila-Rose was one of the girls in the school who's reputation preceded her and was known as a violent and angry person, yet Sun-Sun did not care in the slightest. Mila-Rose was much taller than Sun-Sun, and had an athletic, capable body; Sun-Sun knew that much for sure, considering Mila-Rose was a star player on almost every sport she played on for the school.
Sun-Sun just stared at her, her violet eyes showing nothing but amusement, Mila-Rose was furious, she couldn't believe how this pale girl could get under her skin so easily! Mila-Rose grabbed a fistful of fabric on Sun-Sun's chest, reeling her fist back as she glared menacingly at the girl, expecting her to panic or beg her to let go, she would've been satisfied with that.
But no, Sun-Sun just stared at her, her hand still covering her mouth in the most innocent ways, it was impossible for Mila-Rose, she let out a cry of anger, right about to swing at Sun-Sun until the door opened and walked in the teacher, whom sensed that there was a commotion and immediately yelled at the students to get in their seats, Each and almost every student obeyed, except for two.
The man before them was taller than Mila-Rose, whom was indeed, very tall. He was lean and slim, dressed in black dress pants and a white long-sleeved dress shirt. His posture similar to Sun-Sun's but in a more sophisticated way rather than a formal way. He looked over the class room, his eyes sweeping over each and every one of his students until they landed upon the unfortunate "couple".
"Mila-Rose, Sun-Sun. May both of you, please, give me a legitimate reason as to why I shouldn't assign you both to detention together?" The teacher's voice was calm, smooth, and yet at the same time had a tone which made even Sun-Sun's skin crawl. The teacher pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration; it was constant with the two of them.
"Ahem...Aizen-Sensei, Mila-Rose was acting recklessly again, and I had to do my job as class representative to assess and calm the situation…" Sun-Sun spoke out calmly, her voice sounding much like a teacher's pet; Mila-Rose could have sworn she heard a slight mocking tone in Sun-Sun's voice.
"That's pure bullshit!" Mila-Rose shouted angrily, Releasing Sun-Sun's shirt and turning towards the teacher, "She's just trying to play goody goody so she can get me in trouble!" Mila-Rose clenched her teeth and balled of her fists, acting rather elementary all while Sun-Sun was secretly grinning in amusement behind her hand.
"I've heard enough of your excuses, Mila-Rose." Sun-Sun snickered at that almost silently, but it didn't go unnoticed by the teacher, "You too Sun-Sun, I shall be assigning you both detention, your constant bickering like a teenage couple has disrupted my class too many times, you shall attend afterschool detention." At the mention of 'teenage couple' Mila-Rose and Sun-Sun heard ghosts of laughter from the students seated behind them as she knew immediately that gossip will spread...
Teenage couple? Both Mila-Rose and Sun-Sun thought in horrible disgust, "There is no way that I could ever be caught in a relationship with a gorilla such as her!" Sun-Sun had obvious hints of disgust in her voice, staring sternly at Mila-Rose, who in turn glared back at her. "I could say the same for an emo bitch like you!" Mila-Rose retorted. Sun-Sun's eyes widened and she let out an audible gasp, "I'm not emo you dumb gorilla!". Mila-Rose grinned and loomed over her, overshadowing her, "So you admit your a bitch?"
"That is enough!" Aizen had accumulated too much stress because of these two, he was angry, and no one has ever angered him enough to make him yell, now Sun-Sun and Mila-Rose were cowering under his glare, "Both of you, leave this classroom now, you will be in detention the rest of the day, and if I even hear that the both of you tried to skip out on it, I will fail you both. No buts, no excuses. Go."
This time, Mila-Rose and Sun-Sun obeyed, not saying a word as they trudged out the room, Sun-Sun having the honors of opening the door as they left. She shut it silently once they were out, not wanting to anger their teacher any further. Now all that was left was… Sun-Sun glanced at the clock, 9:43 AM…Sun-Sun's eyes widened considerably, 5 hours and 12 minutes with it!
Mila-Rose saw Sun-Sun's eyes widening, and she was curious, she didn't pay attention to what Sun-Sun was looking at. "What's the matter, did you realize you left your razors at home?" Sun-Sun turned her face towards Mila-Rose violently, seeing her little grin made Sun-Sun beyond agitated, it was bad enough she had to spend more than 5 hours with Mila-Rose, but now she was already opening her big mouth again so soon?
"No, I just realized how much you resemble a filthy, hairy gorilla!" She glared at Mila-Rose, daring her to say another word. Mila-Rose's grin fell and was replaced with an angry snarl, "Why you emo little-" Mila-Rose grabbed a fist full of Sun-Sun's dress, pushing her up against the locker with a loud bang as Sun-Sun gasped trying to straighten up to cope with the pain, already feeling the ache in her shoulder blades. Both of her hands fell, placed at her sides in temporal surprise as she stared at Mila-Rose.
Anger was visible her violet orbs, which dissipated quickly as she realized how close Mila-Rose's Face was to hers. Mila-Rose unaware of how close they were, continued to finish her little speech, "You emo bitch! You're lucky we're in school, or I'd beat you until your much worse than a bloody pulp! Do you understand me?". Mila-Rose stared intently into Sun-Sun's violet eyes, her anger suddenly starting to lessen the more she looked into them and realized just how close they were.
Her grip loosened significantly, but not letting go as she could feel Sun-Sun's warm breath brushing across her cheek, her facial features softening as the frown was now just a thin neutral line. Sun-Sun was feeling a similar experience, just as how Mila-Rose was staring into her violet orbs, Sun-Sun was staring back into Mila-Rose's, the deep green orbs somewhat captivating her as she too could feel Mila-Rose's warm breath on her face.
Sun-Sun began to explore Mila-Rose's face with her eyes, implementing every feature her eyes laid upon into her memory, even her scent, which was laced with cinnamon…Probably Mila-Rose's shampoo... She found that Mila-Rose's face was flawless…her eyes began to wander, looking now at her brown, fashionably messy hair, it looked soft, yet wild, it was perfect, it brought out Mila-Rose's proud, flawless face. Sun-sun was lost; she couldn't stop indulging in the appearance of the one she supposedly hated the most and she couldn't understand why…
Mila-Rose, too, couldn't stop examining every feature of Sun-Sun's pale petite face, taking in Sun-Sun's minty scent, it was fresh, so strong, it calmed Mila-Rose significantly, her eyes glazing over every detail of the young female's skin, finding that it was flawless as well; she had the urge to run her finger along her porcelain skin, to feel how soft it was as Mila-Rose gulped hesitantly. She quickly adverted her eyes towards Sun-Sun's black hair, which looked like fine strands of silk, unlike her own wild, fiery hair. Sun-Sun's hair looked well taken care of, well kept, and it framed her face perfectly.
Sun-Sun was the first to break the strange trance as she gentle tore away from Mila-Rose, prying her self free of her grip as she turned her back towards Mila-Rose, an odd sensation in her chest as she did so. Her heart was beating rapidly, she could feel it in her throat. It made her a bit dizzy as she raised her hands to her cheek, feeling that it was hot. She was blushing madly. It was…unfamiliar… She awkwardly covered her mouth again, unable to even speak as she tried her best not to look at Mila-Rose. She began to walk towards the detention room uncomfortably, a picture of Mila-Rose's face permanently indented into her mind.
Mila-Rose only looked at Sun-Sun's back as she walked, her mind drew blanks, and she couldn't remember what she was supposed to do, all she remembered was that she had to be somewhere with Sun-Sun, so she followed her quietly, which was a first… The tension around them was thick and awkward, near unbearable, if it weren't for the fact that they were somewhat scared of their own reactions towards the unlikely situation beforehand, they would be bickering at each other again.
Soon enough, they had reached the detention room, the tint of red on Sun-Sun's cheek had died down, and her heart was beating at a steady pace. It's just the heat…Sun-Sun tried to convince herself, more so console herself. She took a deep breath to calm down abit before opening the door, noting the Mila-Rose had caught up with her already, she also noted how Mila-Rose was almost staring at her.
None of them made a move to talk, let alone insult each other. Sun-Sun just walked across the room to the farthest chair in the first row nearest the window, sitting quietly while Mila-Rose for some unforeseen reason sat next to her on her right. The teacher inside just looked at the two of them as they entered, sighing and shaking his head, frowning. He turned his head towards Mila-Rose, "It's no surprise that you're here..." He then turned towards Sun-Sun, "But why are you with her?" The man's eyebrows were somewhat raised to exemplify his curiosity.
Sun-Sun looked at the man, his silver hair was relatively short, his bangs somewhat covering his eyes, which were squinted into slits. She just sighed and shook her head, still a bit shaken from before. "Gin-Sensei…Aizen-Sensei sent me and Mila-Rose here for disrupting the class…" Mila-Rose glanced over at Sun-Sun, a bit confused that there wasn't an insult in that sentence.
Gin just leaned back in his chair, his feet crossed over the desk as he placed his hands behind his head, "Just don't make too much noise in here…I don't want them to think I'm slackin off ya know." Sun-Sun nodded, her hand still over her mouth as Mila-Rose stared at her. Gin took note of that and grinned inwardly, though keeping the lazy persona on the outside as he tilted his head back and sighed.
After about half an hour, they were both beginning to feel back to normal, the abnormal attraction between them gone; though Mila-Rose was annoyed at the fact Sun-Sun hadn't moved her hand at all. She couldn't shake the fact that she wanted to secretly see Sun-Sun's entire face again, it was like an unbearable itch that she had to scratch.
"Why don't you ever move your hand away from your mouth? You're always like that!" Mila-Rose folded her arms irritability, regaining her old fiery self as she glared at Sun-Sun, "Are you hiding something from the world or something?" Sun-Sun was bewildered at the fact that Mila-Rose was starting on something so trivial, but was slightly offended at her childish accusation...though it was an expression, she was still offended.
"No, I am not hiding anything you ugly gorilla, in fact I'm probably perfect, unlike you." She just sneered at her and turned her face away, looking out the window in a 'Hmph!' like manner. Sun-Sun was really getting on Mila-Rose's nerves. Gin had left the room already, claiming he'd be back in 10 minutes, that he had to get some files.
This change of heart was certainly unexpected; Sun-Sun was smart enough to realize it and wanted to expel the thought along with her change of heart as soon as she could. Her mind was against the idea of even becoming friends with Mila-Rose, but something else was telling her otherwise.
Mila-Rose, on the other hand, didn't even know it was a change of heart, she however, did know that she felt different about Sun-Sun, it was a weird territorial feeling, Instead of facing the problem head on like Sun-Sun, she was going to completely ignore it and continue on with her life, that was her initial plan.
"Your perfect right? As if! Your just a nerdy emo bitch. I would pulverize you if i could, but I don't want to ruin that cute little face of yours." Mila-Rose was speaking on impulse and she hadn't realized what she just said until it was already spoken. Mila-Rose cursed mentally, apparently the incident out in the hall was effecting her subconsciously as well..
Sun-Sun did not take what Mila-Rose had said seriously and passed it off as sarcasm even, "Sure... A gorilla like you is only good for destruction anyway." Mila-Rose was ticked off even more at that, but was glad Sun-Sun hadn't caught what she said. Mila-Rose just rolled her eyes, wanting to think about what she said more deeply, she didn't want to take chances and let anything slip out towards Sun-Sun.
At that moment the door swung open and in popped Gin with a gigantic stack of papers in his hands, towering over him as he looked to be somewhat struggling with them. However, his gaze was towards them the moment he walked in, Sun-Sun thinking he may have heard their bantering as she glanced over at Mila-Rose, whom was just resting her cheek on her palm lazily, eyeing the clock.
Gin shrugged and just walked over to his desk and plopped the papers down on it with a rather loud slam, taking out a pen from one of the drawers and began marking each and everyone. Sun-Sun just sighed and turned her head towards the window, resting her gaze upon the scenery outside all the while Mila-Rose's gaze rested upon the uncovered side of Sun-Sun face...
After 4 uneventful and annoying hours of near silence and bickering quietly to themselves, a collection of more students came, some of them leaving 30 minutes after they had came, other staying as long as they did. One girl was particularly interesting...a girl with long green hair and a very bodacious figure... She only interested Sun-Sun because her voice was incredibly childish. She had learned her name through a short conversation between her and Gin, apparently it's 'nel'.
"Hello Gin-Sensei! How are you?" Nel greeted in the bubbliest, childish manner Sun-Sun had ever heard from a high schooler. Gin turned his attention towards the green haired girl as a friendly smile formed on his face, "Hello Nel, what brings you to this place?" Gin had already finished marking half of the papers in the giant stack that he had brought in earlier.
"PDA... I hugged a student too tightly and almost suffocated them...But i didn't know! It was an accident!" Nel had a pouty look on her face, apparently she was upset, but Gin just shook his head passively, "Alright, alright, take a seat Nel. I thought you understood the new rule already." Nel just did as instructed, not bothering to speak anymore as she sat there with a smile on her face, though the smile was probably just on her face for no reason.
Sun-Sun ignored Nel completely the rest of the day, which was quite easy, considering Nel barely talked to anyone in the room, but it was really annoying that she was so hyper, she was literally bouncing in her chair the entire time, it was aggravating, but she caught Mila-Rose staring at her a few times, which caused an unfamiliar feeling pass through her chest cavity...Jealousy? But unknown to Sun-Sun was that when she wasn't looking, Mila-Rose would be staring at her face for the longest time.
Gin had released them both, allowing them to go home, the first thing they did was ignore each other, walking back towards Aizen's classroom to pick up any homework that might be due next week, being it was Friday. Being the class representative, Sun-Sun knew Mila-Rose had decent grades, but she also knew her own were on top, she was the smartest student in the class afterall.
After that task was done, Sun-Sun walked the opposite direction of Mila-Rose, they lived on the opposite sides of town, Mila-Rose on the middle-class side, and Sun-Sun on the rich, though most of the stores were located in the neutral center in between the two, thus eliminating the societal hiearchy ordeal. No one really much cared for money, except for a select few because the social classes in the country had very, very mild socialism.
Sun-Sun had never had such an eventful day such as this in her life, ever. She sighed deeply, leaning her head back on her pillow. Her own bed, which was normally very comfy, was uncomfortable due to uncertain thoughts floating around inside her head. She bit her lip and turned on her side restlessly, facing the blank wall beside her as she closed her eyes and began to re-run that unfortunate event in the hallways earlier today.
What scared her most was the fact that she found Mila-Rose…beautiful…breath taking even, and her sweet scent, cinnamon, she felt like she wanted to bury her face in the crook of Mila-Rose's neck and indulge in her sweet scent, the intoxicating fumes making her heart pound through her chest as her mind turned to mush… Opening her eyes quickly, she banished the thought from her mind before it got too complicated.
Sitting up, she found that she was sweating, her night gown was sticking to her back as realized her heart had been pounding rapidly…She placed her hand on her forehead, breathing a bit heavily… She could feel that her was skin moist with sweat. She shut her eyes, trying to relax her body, opening them again as she looked down at her blanket. "What's wrong with me...?"
Mila-Rose too was up that night, glancing at the clock, it read 1:27 am. She sighed, shutting her eyes, yet unable to find the will to sleep, her whole body was feeling awake, and the only thing in her mind was Sun-Sun, how she looked when she was right in front of her, in her grasp, it was near intoxicating what Sun-Sun smelled like, the scent mint was so strong. Mila-Roses eye brows scrunched together, she was mad, not at Sun-Sun, but at herself…She was feelings things she wasn't supposed to, it was unacceptable, especially if she harbored those type of feelings for Sun-Sun...
Sun-Sun's face was haunting Mila-Rose's mind, how innocent and mischievous she looked. And her lips, the first time Mila-Rose has ever seen Sun-Sun's lips, they were so small, so delicate…she just wanted to kiss her… Mila-Rose bit the inside of her cheek painfully, breaking herself from the trance, finding that she was blushing and her heart beat had already begun to beat faster.
That night, both of them got barely any rest…and they both came up with the same conclusion, the most obvious conclusion, a conclusion that was most logical, that anyone would have guessed.
It's not love, it's just hormones.