"Shit. . ." Naegi muttered as he began walk briskly down the hallway to the lecture hall. He took a quick glance at his watch and began running when he realized that it was already 9 am, which meant that he was late for his first Biology class of the semester.
I knew I should have taken the 3pm class instead of this early damn class. He mentally said to himself as he finally reached the lecture hall. He pulled out his phone to check where his room was before taking a deep breath as he straighten his shirt to look more composed. As he stood in front of his room, he waited for the professor to busy himself before quietly opening the door and slipping into the room.
He was hoping that he could just enter quietly and slip into a seat without the professor noticing him, but he had no such luck.
"You're late, Mr. Naegi." The professor spoke firmly as he looked at him.
"I- I'm sorry, Sir, it won't happen again." Naegi said nervously, trying his best to crack a small hopeful smile to lessen his anxiousness.
"That's what they all say," The professor sighed and returned a small smile before assigning him to his seat. "Take a seat next to Ms..." He paused and grabbed the seat plan from the teacher's table.
"Kirigiri."
The professor lifted his gaze off the seat plan and pointed at the empty chair in the third row next to the violet haired girl who's seating by the window.
"Thank you, Mr… uhh…"
"Hokuto," The professor smiled and Naegi immediately thanked him once more before walking over to his designated seat.
As he put his bag down under his chair and sat down on his seat, he looked to his side and noticed that the violet haired girl was silently staring outside of the window with a stoic expression on her face.
The girl immediately noticed his gaze and looked at him, keeping her stoic expression as she asked, "What?"
"Nothing, sorry." Naegi said with a nervous smile.
After his reply, the girl took her gaze away from him and cupped her face as she diverted her attention to their professor. Naegi couldn't help but to be curious about her, there's something about her that piqued his attention, he wasn't sure if it was because of the girl's peculiar demeanor or maybe... the sadness in her eyes.
"Uh… Kirigiri-san, right?"
The girl looked at him from the corner of her eye before quickly averting her gaze back to the professor as she said, "Introductions can wait, we're inside the class. You should listen."
"O-okay." was the only word Naegi could utter as he focused his attention back to the professor, who's orienting the whole class about the subject matter and the syllabus.
While listening, Naegi couldn't help but to take a quick glance of his seatmate from time to time. He wanted to be friends with her, there's just something about her that makes him feel as though they need to know each other for some weird reason he couldn't explain.
"Hey," He heard a whisper behind him. He looked over his shoulder and saw a boy with spiky brown hair calling for his attention. "Makoto Naegi, right?"
His brows furrowed slightly as he muster a nod, "Yeah."
The boy smiled. "I'm Hajime Hinata, I've heard about you. You're the transferee, right?"
Before Naegi could even answer his question, Mr. Hokuto took their attention by calling them out, causing the two students to be startled in their seats. The two apologized and listened attentively after, being called out.
"Hope everyone had a great time with me today," Mr. Hokuto smiled and then followed murmurs of agreements from around the class. "See yo – oh, I almost forgot!"
walked over to the teacher's desk and pulled a stack of paper from his leather briefcase. He then started distributing the paper, giving each student a copy.
"The science week will be held a month from now, and I want you guys to create a project that has something to do with our subject. The best project in my classes would immediately have 20% in their class standing this semester. And oh, the department of Chemistry and Biology would also choose the best project among all freshmen students and the best one would also receive a cash prize."
Noise started to build up as students finished reading the paper of mechanics that was given to them. Everyone started to look for a partner and started to converse about the project they'll do. Naegi looked around and saw that most of his classmates - even Hajime, already have a partner except for him and Kirigiri.
"Uhh. . . Kirigiri-San? Can we be par-"
"Do I look like I still have another choice?" She spoke silently, cutting him off. She then looked at him before her eyes wander around the classroom. "Everyone already has a partner, except for the two of us." Naegi then heard her whisper something unintelligible as she looked away and trained her gaze back to the window.
Naegi gulped, and was quite taken aback from the coldness in Kirigiri's voice. Does she hate me? What did I even do? He thought to himself as he looked at her worriedly. Heaving a sigh, he mustered his optimism and cracked a smile as he said, "I'm glad you're my partner, I hope we can get along, Kirigiri."
Before the violet-eyed girl could even respond, the school bell rang and right off the bat, the girl stood up and picked up her things before stepping out of the room.
Author's Note : Hi guys this is my first time to write a fan fiction, so I hope you guys like the first chapter. I'm sorry if there's grammatical error and such as English isn't my mother language.