A/N: Layla x Sora pair will be the death of me, probably. Back when I was in high school, I grew to love this series. Honestly, up to now, a wave of nostalgia swept me over everytime I watch this anime. However, in the series, they were completely close friends. But there was something about their bond that no one can ever understand around them. I really love them to end up together or rather make their relationship into something far above friendship level. I had to unleash my fondness with these two characters by writing a story about them. Again, just to remind you, Sora Naegino here is a male character. Have fun reading!

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"Here you go! I hope you'll love the room that I assigned to you." Sarah Dupont, the one who manage the dorms, merrily gave the key with a number 25 engraved to it to Sora.

"Thank you, Ms. Sarah. It's nice to meet you. I heard so much about you from my uncle."

"Oh, I hope it was all positive stories about me." She giggled, rather loud while playfully hitting his arm. Sora chuckled along with her.

Sora then realized how Ms. Sarah was the contrast of his uncle. She was so lively with so much energy within her while his uncle was so gloomy. He wondered how they became friends.

"If you need anything, don't hesitate to talk to me, alright? Kalos give me clear instructions to take good care of you." She beamed, Sora nodded with a soft smile.

"One quick favor tho, I hope my rel~"

"You're relationship with the owner will be kept a secret, don't worry. You can trust me." She winked, Sora let out a sigh of relief by what the gleeful blondie had said.

"Thank you. Well, I better rest. It'll be a brand new day tomorrow." Sora waved his good bye with a wide grin forming on his lips as he entered his room.

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Sora yawned as he was on his way to his first class, he better be on time at his second day at the school. He doesn't want to give a bad impression to everyone.

But luck wasn't really on his side again this day. He wasn't aware on where on earth he was. He sure had the idea that his Biology class was located at the Science building to the South Wing but right now, he wasn't sure anymore.

"Why the hell this school has to be this big?!" He shrieked, a bit frustrated because he was kind of not used to the whole place. It's not possible to memorize it all in just one day, plus, him being a newbie, he doesn't have any friends in the country.

"Having trouble at your second day?"

Sora scratched the back of his head and turned to see the most emotionally distant human being he ever met in his entire life.

"Why? Are you going to help me? Or should I say mock me for being stuck in this situation?" He snickered, his voice full of mockery.

Layla's eyes twitched. It's too early to be grumpy but the guy had the guts to irk her. She spent the night thinking on how to avoid Sora and yet the moment she saw him in a distress state, her ego couldn't let it go so she approached him unthinkingly today which confused her by her own behavior.

"No. I'm busy. I'll better leave you with your misery as your companion."

Sora pressed his palm over his chest, feigning a bit hurt by her words but she bore no expression which gave him drive to annoy her more.

It's Showtime, he smirked.

"Common! Show some emotion woman. You don't have to be stiff all the time."

"Why do you always speak to me like you hate me?" He trailed behind her as she walked, clearly annoying her until she explode.

She paused. "I don't hate you."

She breathed heavily. She somehow knew that this guy won't easily back down which stunned her for the slightest moment because no one ever had the courage to talk to her and pester her like this. Everyone seemed to be very cautious around her. But not this guy, he doesn't know when to stop.

"Do you like me then?"

She stilled, turned her head to his direction as her eyebrow went up.

"What makes you think that I do?" She challenged but her confidence suddenly vanished into the thin air as soon as his brown eyes reconnected with her blue eyes.

This weakness seemed to be effective when their eyes meet. She appeared to be drowning in the depths of the way he looked at her and she hated that.

It was like two opposite poles that his eyes attracted hers, resulting to a very unexplainable paralysis.

"If you don't hate me… perhaps you like me? He whispered his lips almost two inches away from her that his breath was slightly brushing against her own.

She began to blush at the unforeseen closeness. Her heart began to abnormally beat as it increased its pace.

When did he got so close to me like this? She wondered.

She instantly took a step backward because of his invasion to her personal space. All she wanted to do was to escape this embarrassing situation with him.

Layla cleared her throat to regain her composure. She can't understand herself right now because she's reacting way different from what was normal for her.

"I'm late for class, you dimwit." Layla grumbled and made a run without giving him a short glance.

Sora Naegino grinned widely in victory as he waved his hands at her retreating figure. "You're slowly showing emotions, my goddess."

Maybe going here wasn't so bad for Sora at all.

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Mr. Oswald left the room right after they heard the bell rang, indicating that it's break time.

Almost the entire homeroom from female population squealed in delight upon having a class with the most attractive Literature teacher.

Leon Oswald was very popular among teenage girls in the academy that some of the girls would ogle at him and during class hours they would just stare at him all throughout the class.

Sora yawned for the nth time of the day, before two girls approached him.

"You're Sora Naegino, right?" A girl with an orange pigtail verified, along with a boyish girl standing beside her.

"I am. Hi! And both of you are?" He greeted, though unsure of whom he was talking to.

"I'm Mia Guillem and this girl is Anna Heart." Mia introduced.

"Yo." Anna simply said.

"Hello Mia and Anna, what can I do for you ladies?" He playfully curtsied, causing Mia to stifle a laugh and make Anna amused.

"Well, I see that you're new here and we actually saw your exchange conversation with our president yesterday at the theater. You're actually the first one to boldly talk to her that way and it really got me curious about whom Sora Naegino is." Mia said, clearly interested to him.

"Yes dude. It's totally refreshing to meet a person like you. Do you want to join us for lunch?"

Sora's lips formed into thin line, curving upwards. He was glad to have new friends in the academy.

"I'd love to."

The three left the room while they animatedly talk to each other like they were friends already for a long time.

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Yuri sat across Layla with his tray of food at their usual spot. It's as if they had branded the table as theirs so no one really had the guts to sit there.

He stared at Layla and began to wonder about his partner's behavior ever since yesterday. It was not the typical Layla who would focus only on her this and doesn't particularly give time to some random stranger.

"You're bothered. What is it?" Yuri asked. He started to munch on his ham sandwich while Layla was idly stabbing her salad.

She shook her head. "I'm just thinking on how to bring the play into another whole new level."

She looked at him briefly before dropping her gaze back to her salad, not admitting to him that she was thinking about Sora.

But Yuri knew that it wasn't really the principal reason for her preoccupied mind. He had known Layla since grade school and when Layla doesn't want to talk, no matter how you squeeze her out she won't tell a thing. So he decided to respect that.

He gave her one of his soft glances. He can't deny that after being rejected by Layla for three times, he was still in love with her and no one can stop him from loving and caring for her.

Layla was just Layla but he somehow felt threatened by the new kid in town because the newcomer was making his Layla exhibit emotions that he himself failed to do a thousand times.

From afar, Yuri's eyes caught sight of Sora along with Anna and Mia that he chose to keep quiet as he ate his lunch. Layla on the other hand, kept on thinking her another encounter with Sora earlier.

I don't hate him but I don't think that I like him either. He's trouble for me. I should've avoided his eyes. It's as if it has hypnotic powers sucking me in. his brown orbs, so deep that I thought I'd drown. No, no, no, Layla. Stop thinking about him, you should focus on your upcoming play. She shook her head hoping that it might help to remove his annoying face inside her brain.

"I need to be alone. Finish your meal, Yuri."

"But~"

Layla shook her head at him and left the table. She needed to breathe. She has to find Sarah because she's the only person who can calm her at this rate. She was like a sister to Layla, indeed.

Sora finished his food and he was sipping on his chocolate drink when he saw Layla on her way to the exit doors of the cafeteria. He's looking intently at her while mentally mumbling to his self.

Turn your head Layla. Turn you head here. If you do, you're mine. He prayed over and over as if he's doing a ritual. This would be fun if she actually looked here.

Layla walked straightly even though she's a little bit disoriented and she doesn't know what came to her that she turned her head on her left. She paused, her eyes rounded in surprise but she immediately recovered as she put her stoic face on again.

Stop looking at me, you dimwit. Her eyes said to him and it seemed like he read her message through her blue eyes.

Gotcha, my goddess. He grinned, purposely trying to annoy her.

Then Layla did the least expected action from her. She stuck her tongue out at him in a not so obvious way before exiting the area.

Sora laughed, causing confusion to his two companions. They both gaped at him for suddenly laughing for some unknown reason.

"What so funny?" Anna raised her eyebrow in questioning.

Sora vigorously shook his head while laughing, charmed. "Nothin', I just saw something amusing."

"Amusing with my ice queen." He mentally said this part to himself.

Day by day, it was becoming interesting with Layla the walking ice glacier in his life.

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To be continued…