Appreciate Your Friends

by Sonnerman42

Appreciate Your Friends is a story about a group of friends who undergo a life changing situation and all want to handle it differently, the story contains lots of surprises as you read on, and hopefully will want to keep on reading. The story could somewhat resemble an anime most people have watched but as it further is delved into it will look less and less like said show, enjoy!

1. Chapter 1

A story solely written by me and edited by me, I'm not a writer that makes everything so predictable, so enjoy. -S

Day 1

Mangetsu awoke to the alarm clock ringing it's fourth snooze, "ALRIGHT ALRIGHT." Mangetsu got up and checked the time, 7:23. He stretched a bit and went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, after brushing he looked at himself to check if anything was wrong with how he looked, his dark blue eyes that looked as if they were the deepest parts of the ocean stared at his unkempt hair and decided whether or not he should keep it like that. After a couple minutes Mangetsu came to the decision that he should just keep it like that, as it would have taken too much time for him to fix it. He got dressed in his school uniform and with his backpack he left his house. Mangetsu checked the time once more on his brand new iPhone 6, 7:45. He had 15 minutes to get to his school on a 15 minute trail. He did not want to be late on his first day of school on his last year for sure, it would leave a terrible first impression.

10 Minutes Later

Bam! The sound of Mangetsu running into someone a little smaller than him with light brown hair and plain brown eyes made. "Oww.." The boy rubbed his head and got up, "Watch where you're going!" Mangetsu looked at him wondering who this guy thought he was and said, "Uh, sorry. I was trying to catch up to some friends on my way to school.. It's the first day and all." The kid stared at him as his eyes brightened, "Yes! I've been looking for the way to the school all morning, do you go to Nakashima High School?" Mangetsu blankly looked at him as he stood up, "Yeah.. It's just a couple minutes from here, you're new obviously so I won't ask that, but what's your name?" The boy grinned and said, "Shouta's the name and math's my game!" To which Mangetsu gave him a 'you're dead to me' face. Shouta laughed and said, "Just kidding! I suck at math!" Mangetsu began to walk as they were talking, "Yeah, come sit with me at lunch and I'll introduce you to some people I guess since you're new." And they walked to the school from then on chatting it up.

1st Hour - World History

Mangetsu had just finished completing his work when Miharu came to him, Miharu was the prettiest girl in the entire school and Mangetsu's best friend. "So what're ya doing?" Mangetsu flipped the finished paper over and looked at her, "Nothing now. What's up?" Miharu hugged him and asked, "I'm sick of boys looking at me like this.. I wouldn't be single if boys were just respectful and would stop." Mangetsu laughed out loud, "Please that's like one of the many reasons you're single." Miharu punched him on the shoulder, "So why were you late today?" She said not surprised, "Oh I met this weird kid by running into him, I was gonna introduce my friends to him and maybe you could leave the pretty girl table for like.. a couple minutes and come meet the guy, he's new to the school." Miharu thought about it for a second and shrugged, "Why the hell not? I'll meet the new kid." Mangetsu laughed, "Cool. Meet us where we usually go." Miharu nodded and then the bell rang.

2nd Hour - Trigonometry

Mangetsu sat with his head down on his desk not wanting to look at the horrid scene they call an education at the front of the classroom, a boy with glasses and short black hair shook Mangetsu, "Wake up this is actually interesting." Mangetsu nodded his head as he groaned, "Why would you do this to me Takumi.. Don't make me suffer.." As a worn out Mangetsu was quickly falling back into oblivion, a loud smack on his desk made him jump up, "Holy shit." Mangetsu said as his knees hit the desk. He looked beside him where the sound came from and saw a ruler connected to an extremely curvy woman in clothing that barely revealed any cleavage, as if it was meant to tease men with, she had long blonde hair and eyes the color of the sky. "Have you been listening, Mr mmm-" "Mangetsu." Takumi said to her. "Thank you, Takumi! Alright now Mangetsu, please stop falling asleep in my class and pay attention to my introduction!" She said this and walked back to the front of the room, to which Mangetsu's eyes followed. Takumi laughed as he looked at Mangetsu's silent expression and they both went back to work for the rest of the hour.

3rd Hour - Physical Education

Mangetsu sat down on the floor next to his peers like children, "The first day of school is really boring" whispered one student to another. Mangetsu looked around to see if he could find any familiar faces, he counted three. 'Iwaji, Shouta, and Aya.' He thought to himself. Iwaji was a dark brown haired boy who spiked it up any day he had the time, Aya was a small-breasted brunette girl who has been dating Takumi for 2 years. Mangetsu did not get the time to socialize as the lecture from the teacher lasted the entire hour.

4th Hour - Anatomy

One of Mangetsu's favorite classes due to the excessive amounts of dissection they did in the class, or so he heard from a graduate last year. The teacher began it's lecture as well and looked around to see only one familiar face, one he did not want to see. It was Aria, Takumi, Iwaji, and Kentaro's ex-girlfriend. She had overly dyed hair that was at the moment blue, and wore a lot of makeup. Mangetsu groaned aloud and knew that this was not gonna be a fun year for him until the teacher spoke up, "Now this is a new student to our school, everyone make sure to introduce yourselves to him." Mangetsu then looked up to see who the new student was, it was Shouta. Shouta eyed the students and was nervous as he said, "Hi.. I'm Shouta." The teacher noticed he was nervous and told him, "Alright we'll let you introduce yourself to individuals near the end of the class, why don't you take a seat by Aria?" Shouta nodded and saw Mangetsu sitting at the other side of the student and waved at him. Mangetsu looked at him with disdain and thought to himself, 'Hopefully he doesn't talk to her.. Or I'd probably not interact with him at all.' And he then took the time to plug in his earphones while the teacher went on to introduce herself to the class. It was now near the end of the class and Mangetsu got up to see Shouta, "I'll be waiting for you at our table in the lunchroom, you'll know it when you see it." And Mangetsu went off to the lunchroom as the bell rang for lunch.

5th Hour - Lunch

Mangetsu was the first to sit at the only brown table in the entire cafeteria of white tables, he sat down and pulled out his phone waiting on his other friends as he did not feel like getting lunch just yet, a mistake he would later on regret. After a couple of minutes Shouta came to the table first and asked, "Where's everyone else?" To which mangets replied with, "Just sit down and wait." And not a minute later a group of people all had their food and were heading this way. Shouta was shocked to think Mangetsu had so many friends with the kind of personality he had. They all sat down and Mangetsu stood up as he pulled Iwaji up, "Iwaji, this is Shouta. Shouta, this is Iwaji." The two shook each other's hands and Iwaji sat back down to eat. Mangetsu then pulled up two darker skinned boys and said, "This is Kentaro and Cai, Cai is Kentaro's little brother." Cai grinned brightly while Kentaro shook his hand and they both sat down. He pulled up a shorter blonde haired girl and a black haired girl and said, "This is Ayumi, and this is Yuki.. They're sisters." They waved not wanting to shake his hand and sat back down. As time went on Mangetsu introduced just about everybody else and then Miharu came to the table to introduce herself, Shouta blushed and could only stare at her, "I'm Miharu." She said and shook his hand, "I-I'm Shouta." He said and looked down as if he was unworthy until Mangetsu whispered loudly into his ear, "It's ok, she has a lot more flaws than you can see." And everyone laughed as Miharu got mad at Mangetsu. The rest of lunch was happy and full of laughter. The TV's in the lunchrooms all changed directly to the news and then a news reporter said, "This is Channel 9 News and this is an important nationwide broadcast to any and all people of Japan, an outbreak of a deadly virus has spread, as you can see we have one of these contaminated in this bench here and... oh, It seems he's died.. We don't know where this virus has come from or how it spreads, but currently we have found two cases of it and that's it.. Lock your doors and refrain from opening your doors to anyone, be sa-" when suddenly in the background the seemed to be dead patient sprung from the bed it was locked on to tightly, and came and bit the doctor in the room. The students could hear the screaming of the news reporter as the cameraman dropped the camera to run away, the doctor that had been bit all of a sudden came back to life as well and started running towards the way the cameraman went and then the TV's shut off. It was silent for two minutes which would be one of the most peaceful moments Mangetsu and his friends would have in a long time, all the students suddenly went crazy and needed to go check on their families and hide with them, some teachers felt the same. All the students at the one brown table sat in shock staring at eachother.

Day 1, Part 1 End.