Ring Ring Ring. The incessancant ringing of his alarm, brought Kuon back from the arms of sleep and plunged him into the realisation that spring break was over and school was destined to start within a few hours.
Too lazy to move out of his bed, he reflected on what he had done in his spring vacation, other than receiving his college acceptance forms from the colleges of his choice and hiding them from his fastidious father, he had spent the remainder of his time at the houses of his best friends Yashiro and Kijima.
Wrecking mayhem across the city of California, as many of the graduating seniors in years before them had done. They had pulled every trick out of the hat to make just their year extra special, whilst making sure that the possibility of them getting caught for their 'heinous' crimes was zero.
His mind wandered back to his college applications, getting increasingly aware of the fact that he would have to choose from one of his acceptance applications pretty soon, as school was only a few months away from ending.
Though for Kuon deciding which college to go to was the hard part, he had gotten close to 20 college acceptance forms, all from prestigious colleges that anybody would be lucky to get into. Him being the soccer star, class president, and honour student of his high school, he knew he was bound to get into at least a dozen colleges of his choice.
But the more choices he had for colleges the harder it got for him to pick one. He had no idea what he was supposed to do. He was scared of disappointing his father's expectation for him to follow in his footsteps and attend the college his father had been admitted to years before.
His father Kuu Hizuri was not an ordinary man, he was a man of countless achievements, he had already developed a multi-million dollar company by the time he was a second year in College and by the time Kuon was born, his father had transformed the company into a global icon.
Therefore his father had attributed much of his personal triumph to the college he went to and had since then looked forward to the day that he would part ways with his son to send him to the same college that he had achieved success at.
However, Kuon was reluctant to not consider all his other college choices and go for his father's favourite, in doing this he knew his father Kuu would take great offence.
Kuon never wanted to hurt his father, as well as being a genius his father had the inexplicable habit of regarding Kuon much too highly. Thinking of his son as a stroke of genius, Kuu piled expectation onto Kuon to the point that he had pressured his son to the breaking point in middle school. Unaware of the effect his hopes were having on Kuon, and only doing it out of parental love; he wasn't a bad parent by any means, just a rather silly one.
Deciding to get up and start the long day, Kuon got up to have a long hot shower, to commemorate the starting of the school year. By the time he had made it down to the breakfast table, Jelly, Kuon's sweet but slightly boy and makeup crazy sister was at the doorstep tying her shoe laces.
"Hey, Kuon. Ready to go yet, sleepyhead?" Jelly teased, whilst chewing on the piece of toast clenched between her teeth.
Kuon glared at her, "You know how I'm dreading confronting Ruriko," Kuon shivered at the thought of his tedious girlfriend.
Now, it wasn't that Kuon didn't feel affection for the girl; it was just that Ruriko had the inexplicable habit of being a gaudy melodramatic bitch at times. Ruriko was both self-centred and snobby in both senses of the word. She knew she was the hottest and most popular girl in the school, with C cup breasts, a killer smile and a long pair of legs, she was also daddy's little rich girl; what didn't she have? This knowledge in turn only added to her already over inflated ego, and at times she was much too hard to handle.
Last year, Kuon and she had become a couple before spring break had begun. She thought this was very fitting as the most popular boy and girl in school SHOULD be a couple. Kuon on the other hand had just entered the relationship for the superficial thrill of the moment. Now looking back at the moment he regretted it very badly.
Over the holidays, Kuon hadn't seen Ruriko because she was supposedly partying it up at some kind of resort in the south side.
Yashiro had told him that the resort was flooded with celebs at this time of year. And, that Ruriko and her friends were planning to go and hook up with some idols. Kuon knew that if Ruriko was bored of him already, then she'd definitely try to break up with him. But, breakups and Ruriko were two things that did not mix well. All of Ruriko's past breakups had resulted in very embarrassing and public incidences for all her past courters. Kuon was hoping that if he simply avoided her for long enough then, she'd get the message and leave him alone, but he knew better. So he was going to rip off the band aid in one quick movement rather than prolong the social pain he was going to be put under.
'Well, you are the one who entered into the relationship; you know how Ruriko can be. ' Jelly responded, completely unsympathetic.
'I know, I know. I have to deal with the consequences of my actions,' Kuon responded childishly.
'Good, now that's settled, let's go!' Jelly replied grinning cheekily, grabbing hold of Kuon's hand and leading the less than pleased boy out the door.
