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Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice. Only the OCs are mine.


Chapter 2

A mass of pink hair on top of a head poked outside the dorm room to check for any intruders, occasionally muttering hellos to the other student residents passing by her room. She cursed her luck as she solemnly carried out her duty as look-out, observing the hallway and after making sure there are no authorities for the umpteenth time, she put her head back inside before shutting the door.

Anna rushed to Mikan's side, frantically letting her two roommates know that they are safe, "Mikan! Nonoko! No one's around, hurry up before they come to check on us. And it's just the electricity in our room that's out, what's even going on?"

Mikan gave a side glance at one of her best friends and continued to help the other roommate, also her best friend, with the electric panel before moving aside and letting the dark blue-haired girl take over the job. Fixing panel boards isn't exactly under her skill specialties but hey, she still tried. Although all three of them are under the same program- Computer Science, her expertise lies elsewhere, more so in computer software engineering and game designing. But mainly playing on the computer. She grinned at that thought.

"It seems that the circuit have blown out," Nonoko stated matter-of-factly, her hands working in between the wires.

Anna's eyes widened at the statement and to prove just how shocked she was, she dramatically gasped out loud, "But I was only baking in the small oven! And it just blows out? Will we get in trouble with the dorm supervisors?"

Mikan watched the poor girl lower her head in mock shame as Nonoko berated her for not being cautious, "Couldn't you have calculated the amount of current you'd need before baking? With all of us on our laptops and the chargers taking over the outlets, plus the sheer amount of pastries I see on your desk which means you've been baking for a while now, of course the circuit would blow out. We overused it. YOU overused it."

"Oh please! I'm in Computer Science, not Electrical Engineering. It's rubbish to calculate like that," Anna retorted weakly before she whined, "What do I do noww? I haven't finished baking yet and it's not going to turn out well at this rate."

"What else can you do? Share the other pastries with me," was Nonoko's simple reply. Mikan giggled at that and earned herself a glare and a promise of no pastries for the day from the girl beside her. "Oh and you too Mikan! You've been playing nonstop since 11 a.m. and it's been 6 hours already. You two don't know when to stop." Said girl's head shot up at hearing her name and she flushed slightly, pouting when she noticed Anna poking her tongue out playfully at her.

All of a sudden, the lights came back on and Nonoko closed the panel board, flashing a victory smile at the girls before heading back to her own desk. At the same time, Anna cheered and ran back to her desk where her mini oven was at to make sure the fluffy goodies are baking once more. Mikan hopped back to her laptop and attempted to revive it, her brows furrowing deeply when she noticed the laptop wasn't even charging despite the cord being plugged. She simply assumed that the device overheated due to the long hours of her gaming and hadn't the time to check it since she was dragged into the whole circuit-blowing-out fiasco by Anna.

What the hell?

Mikan stared blankly at her laptop and then quickly tried to assess what had gone wrong. Flipping her laptop this way and that way, she couldn't figure out the problem externally and let out a huge sigh of defeat. She then warily put her laptop back down on the large table in the middle of her dorm and just looked around, not knowing what else to do. Lies. No, she does know what to do. She's just too lazy to check the internal system and fix it. Plus, that would take too long. I have a duel in about three hours dammit.

"Oh, this is great! They're back to baking again~ Ahh, our first year is already ending and I still don't have a boyfriend! This is no wonder the girls in comp science and engineering have such a hard time getting boyfriends. What do we even need those boys for when we can handle all the electric work ourselves? We have girl power."

Mikan could hear all of Anna's babbling and called out, "Anna deary, first, it was Nonoko and I who did all the work. And it's no one's fault that you don't have a boyfriend yet. Secondly, my online friend asked me for a picture of myself and I just suddenly disappeared. He's probably thinking I have something to hide! You literally hauled me over to fix your problem and I haven't gone back on to give a response yet."

Anna turned around, looking at Mikan with an expression contorted to one of confusion and then her eyes twinkled in slight recollection. "Ohhh, you mean that dude, whatshisfaceagain...Celeb Reo something, right? Your online hubby in the game? Wahh Mikan! You're already in a-"

"Hold up girl. How do you know that?" Mikan cut her off mid sentence and pointed an accusatory finger at her roomie, "You've been peeping at me playing the game, haven't you?"

Anna pushed away her finger, all the while sporting a sheepish smile. "A-ah, don't worry about the details Mikan. Anyways, are you going to show him your picture?"

"Of course not," was Mikan's curt response. "We're only a couple in the game so we could do the couple quests together. It's just...I don't know, showing my picture is weird? I don't know this guy at all. But at the same time, it's even weirder to immediately log off, which in my case, was accidental. He must think I'm hiding something for sure."

Nonoko suddenly spoke up from her side of the room where she was feasting on Anna's baked goods, "What are you going to say to him then?" Seeing Nonoko's consumption rate in just a matter of few seconds, Anna shrieked, "Wahh! Don't finish all of them!" The girl was practically devouring the entire plate, for goodness' sake!

"I have to come up with an excuse, but now, I need double the excuse for suddenly 'logging off' and my goodness! This laptop. Just. Isn't. Working," Mikan grumbled and looked ready to smack her laptop down after studying it in her hands once more.

Then she heard it. A squeak. From no one else but the person donning a pink cotton candy colored hair. Mikan looked at Anna and eyed her suspiciously, trying to see through her and Anna finally caved in while backing away simultaneously. "M-Mikan..actually, um..I..yesterday, I borrowed your laptop and accidentally dropped it. I forgot to tell you and ah..oops?"

"You've gone and done it again, good job Anna. You're like a magnet for problems," came Nonoko's dry humor. She then sighed, ducked out of the way and climbed on top of her bunk bed, a routine she knew all too well.

Not a second later, the room was filled with running, chairs crashing on the floor, random objects being knocked down, Mikan shouting at Anna and Anna screaming out apologies. After playing Tom&Jerry and making a mess of their cute dormitory, the girls called truce on the condition that Anna accompany Mikan to get the computer fixed.


The walk from Alice University's Female-Only Dormitory to the electronics store situated near the school campus was short and when Mikan spotted the shop a few distance ahead of her, she ushered Anna towards that direction hurriedly.

"What's the hurry, Mikan? You dragged me out so fast that I didn't even finish baking," Anna inquired while struggling away from Mikan's constant nudging and pushing. "And speaking of those yummy treats, there's a new cafe that opened up not too far from here, let's go check it out after we drop off your laptop?"

"Ooh sounds good, but that'll have to wait for another time. I have to use the computer later so I won't have time to go to the cafe or wait for the tech guy to finish fixing my laptop. I'll just buy a motherboard and fix it myself when we get back. Super cheap," was Mikan's response, her time managing skills and frugality shining through. If only those skills of hers would activate when it came to her studies and buying junk food. She sighed to herself, self-pity washing over her for a split second before it disappeared just as fast as it came.

Anna spoke up again, "Why the rush though? Is it that urgent?"

"Well, of course! A scholarly and aspiring Computer Science student like me cannot be away from the computer for even a day! It's my soul mate for life." Mikan lied through her teeth light-heartedly but needless to say, she wanted nothing more than to get her laptop fixed so she doesn't miss the duel. At any rate, she doesn't have much time left, having wasted over an hour cleaning up the room under Nonoko's sharp watch. Mikan winced at the memory. Never again. That girl looks like an angel but she's a devil sent straight from hell.

"Oh puh-lease, Mikan!" Anna exclaimed, seeing right through her bestie. "You and 'Scholarly' doesn't mix. Girlie, you can't hide ANYthing from me, I can already guess with 140% accuracy."

Mikan giggled at that and let her know that she has agreed to a duel challenge that she cannot possibly miss, to which Anna responded with a knowing smile, "Ha! I knew it!" The two girls chatted pleasantly the rest of the walk to the store, not noticing the stares of several students passing by; the attention specifically directed towards the brunette with long, wavy hair that reached just past her waist.

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