Me: Howdy! Here's a slightly better version of 'My Lotus Flower'~ I well put more work into this story so it'll going to be a while for me to update and for my good friend to beta it cause she's busy with her own stories too so please be patent.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything! I just own my OC's like; Momoko, her dad, and mom. Kasumi belongs to my lil sis "AverieArtina" on here and DA. Enjoy~
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My Lotus Flower
Chapter 1: Locker's Are Evil
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I sit on my bed that the moving guys put in my new room, which is next door to Shiori's house...lovely. I eventually go from sitting to laying on my stomach, reading an interesting book. A demon and human fall in love, but the demon has enemies that use the human. In the end, the demon dies for the human he loves so deeply. It was a cute story. I'm taken away from the good book when Dad knocks on my open door. His hair is brown, and his eyes are green. He is wearing his uniform. He works for the police here. He asked for the transfer, and his boss was okay with it. Dad is a detective. He's good at his job, though, always figuring out murders and other things.
"Hey kiddo, got everything unpacked?"
I sit up, closing my book, but not before I mark my place and set it down on my bed. "Yep, what are we eating for dinner?"
"Your favorite, of course. Pizza!" I love Pizza, and Dad knows that we don't eat it everyday. Just some times. I'm not some pig! I just can never gain any pounds no matter how much I eat.
"Yes! I love you Dad!" I stand up on my bed and jump in his arms. He didn't expect it, almost falling backwards, but he catches himself and chuckles.
"Now, now, you're not two years old, kiddo. I can't hold you like I always do." I land back on my feet again, giving him a pout. "Don't give me that look. You're fifteen years old. Act like it. Now, before I forget, tomorrow after school, Shiori and her son Shuichi will be having dinner with us, so be nice, all right?"
I grew annoyed, hearing she'd be here tomorrow, but I would deal with her for Dad. "Whatever. I'll be nice to her."
"That's my little angel." He starts to ruffle my light blue hair, making me pout and embarrassed.
"Daaaddd!" I whine. "I'm not little anymore, so stop calling me that. And stop missing up my hair!" I give him a annoyed look, but he just chuckles.
"Anyway, here," He hands me a bag with stuff in it. "That's the school uniform. I had enough money to get you in the same school as Shuichi is. You have to get to know him more since he'll be your brother. He's a nice guy, so please be nice. No getting into trouble."
"I promise, Dad. No worries, I'll be super nice to Shuichi."
He gives me a look that says 'Seriously?' "I don't think you should be super nice, hunny. It'll probably probably creep him out."
Well, there goes my fun. Darn. "Okay, not super nice. Just average nice. Now call in the pizza already! I want some pizza in my stomach."
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I hate uniforms, especially the ones with short skirts. Seriously, I think the school people are perverts. I try to figure out how I should put my long, light blue hair in a ponytail. It makes my dad annoyed, saying I should just put it in a normal ponytail. He mumbled something about me being just like mom. I grab my school bag, kiss my dad on the cheek, say bye, and walk outside of my new house into a new world. Dad did hand me the directions to the school, which I found out was called 'Meiou High School'.
I frown, looking at the piece of paper. I forgot...I have horrible sense of direction! Oh well, I'll just ask people around. Thankfully, I asked one person and find the school building. Thank god! I hate to get lost. That's embarrassing. The lady at the front office gives me another piece of paper, telling me all my teachers must sign it and hand it back to her. I also got a locker of course. I hate opening them. They don't like me! They fight back, and they even taunt me...So right now, I'm staring at my new locker, a stare down. I just hope it'll melt with my fiery glare.
I pull out the combination that was on a piece of paper and start putting in my numbers. I pull on it and...It doesn't budge. I do it again, and it still doesn't open. My eye twitches. I'm so mad at it I give my locker a good swift kick. Bad move on my part. Right when I kick it, it flies open, hitting me straight on the nose. Hard. to my annoyance it slam shut locked again. I curse, holding my face and feeling if I was bleeding, but thankfully, I wasn't bleeding. Damn locker.
"I will get you open, locker...one way or another!" I swear I will open a locker...
"Um, excuse me..." I stop what I'm saying to my locker to turn around and see a guy with red hair, with green emerald eyes. Damn, I feel like a freak compared to him. I need to get contacts to hide my eye color.
"Y-Yes?"
"Do you need help with your locker?" Wow, he's even nice, kind of like a gentleman.
"Yes! Please open my locker. It's been fighting me for like...2 minutes now. I don't want to be late for my first class here."
"I see. I would be happy to open it up for you," I hand him the paper that had my locker combination, and I'm so angry it opened up for him! I always get the evil locker that hates me "There you go. If you're new, let me introduce myself. My name is Shuichi Minamino." He puts his hand out for me to shake, but I'm to shocked and surprised.
"You're Shuichi Minamino?!" I put my hands on my cheeks, pushing my cheeks to make me look like an idiot.
He chuckled, smiling. "Yes, what's your name?"
"...Wow, so my wish did come true!" He looks at me confused. "My name is Momoko Amagi. My dad is marrying your mom, Shiori. So we are like step-siblings." I grab his hand in mine, shaking it with a bright smile.
He is surprised, but he smiles softly, shaking my hand back. He lets my hand go. "Mother told me all about you and your dad. She told me she always wanted a daughter to gush over." Darn, guilt is pouring into my heart, but I push it aside.
"Oh? Then I hope we all can get along at dinner tonight."
"Yes, oh that reminds me. May I see your schedule?"
I shrug and hand it to him, watching him look over it and hand it back to me with a small smile.
"It seems you only have one class with me, sadly, but if you want me to, I can show you to each of your classes."
Wow, my stepbrother actually wants to help me? I feel so happy. I already feel like he's my real brother! I give him a smile. "Sure, that will help me so much because I have horrible sense of direction. The last time I got lost was when I was three, and I was lost in a forest. It was not fun."
"The first class we both have together is this way."
I follow Shuichi, but when we pass girls, they give me those stares like they want to pounce on me and ripe me in pieces. I shiver just thinking about it, so I stay close to Shuichi, but not to close to make him feel uncomfortable.
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Lunch Time
Time flies by fast, so right now, lunch starts. I happily hum a song while walking to the cafeteria, hearing everyone talking happily. I get in line to get myself some food, but every time I try to grab something, some girl snatch it from my hand. What did I do? Soon, I just give up on eating anything and walk to a empty table, sit down and bang my head on it.
"...Ow..." I knew I hit too hard but I didn't care, at the moment I was hungry.
"Momoko? Is everything all right? I came over here and saw you bang your head on the table..." I lift my head to look at him, about to say something, but he looked at me with wide eyes.
"What is it? Do I have something on my face?" I touch my face, feeling something wet on my forehead.
"You're bleeding. Here." Before I can tell him I could go to the girl's bathroom, he starts dabbing at my forehead and wiping the blood that's rolling down my face off.
"Thanks, Shuichi. I didn't realize I hit my head so hard...Dad's so going to lecture me when I get home." Shuichi chuckles.
"I can see him doing that. Here, I have a bandage with me." He puts a small bandage on my forehead. Now I'll probably look even weirder...
"Thanks again, Shuichi." I touch the bandage gently.
"It's no problem, Momoko. You're going to be my sister, and a brother's job is to look after his sisters." When he says that, I just want to cry and hug the guy. He's super nice, but all I can do is cry on the inside and bear it.
"You're so nice, Shuichi!" I start to sniff, actually crying now since his smile killed me.
"M-Momoko! I'm sorry. D-Did I say something wrong?" He comforts me, not even knowing I'm crying because I'm happy, overjoyed. I feel horrible about him and his mother. I'm the horrible stepsister! Aw, I just made myself cry a little harder.
I feel a hand gently grab my upper arm and drag me outside of the school so know one would hear. I hiccup from crying, trying to sooth myself. It kind of works.
"What's wrong, Momoko? Did I say something wrong?" I wipe the tears away to look into his emerald eyes, seeing the worry in them.
"N-No! I just can't believe I'm going to be related to a nice guy. I don't deserve to have a super nice brother like you. Compared to you, I'm a horrible stepsister!"
I pout when he goes from confused to laughing at what I said. He stops laughing and apologizes to me.
"I'm sorry, Momoko. I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing at what I thought of you and your father."
I blink, tilting my head sideways. "What you thought?"
"Yes, I was thinking of what type of person you and your father were when mother told me about you and your Father. I was hoping you weren't some fangirl, but now I know your not a fangirl, which I'm grateful for."
"Seriously? You're handsome, but I don't get crushes on my stepbrother. It's kinda gross in a way...no offense to you."
"None taken. Anyway, were you crying only because you think you don't deserve me as your brother and you're a horrible sister? How so, if I may ask."
I sigh. "I thought horrible things of you. I kinda thought your mother was taking my dad away from me...I'm such a bad person. You're really nice! I'm a horrible person!" I wave my arms around my head like an insane person.
My arms stop waving, Shuichi stopping them. He smiles gently down at me...Damn it, I'm still short. I stop at Shuichi's chest. Not cool. He lets my arms go, letting them fall back to my side.
"You're not a horrible sister, Momoko. It's normal to think bad about people at first, but you have to get to know them to know the truth."
"I'm sorry. I overreact sometimes." I feel stupid now and embarrassed.
After School
I walk home, happy that school is over today. All those girls were freaking me out with all those stares. What's their problem? I sigh, pushing a piece of my hair behind my ear and thinking about tomorrow. I was happy to see Shuichi. He's such a wonderful, nice, sweet guy, and he's going to be my brother. That's some huge points there. I stop walking suddenly, looking across the street through the zooming cars to see a weird, dark figure staring at me, hands in his pockets. He's tall, but what freaks me out the most is when the dark figure smiles, showing fangs. I gulp and quickly run the rest way home. I can't tell anyone. I don't think Dad would believe me if I said some creepy guy with fangs was watching me. I guess I'll just have to keep it from Dad...for now.
When I got home dad left me a note on the refrigerator, saying he had to work really late tonight and the card was on the counter, if I want to walk to the store to eat. But remembering that dark figure creep, hell no! So I just went snooping in the refrigerator finding some left over pizza and happily heat them up and ate them, after I finished I did my teeth, face then I brush my hair. I made sure the front and back door were locked, even the windows I do not want that creep to sneak into my house while I sleep.
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Me: I added more to the end and added little things here and there to make it look better, any way...ciao~