I stared at the girl, being at a loss for words. I was just about to mutter a sorry to her and get up when she smashed her fist into my face and screamed out in panic.
"What the heck was that for?!" I hissed, pressing my palms against my now injured cheek.
"I'm so sorry! I-it's just that my dad always taught me that when this sort of thing happens I should react fast!"
"What sort of thing? I didn't do anything!"
"How did we end up like this then?" She gestured to me straddling her, I didn't realize we were like this so I kind of panicked and tumbled backwards, hitting my head against a light post in the progress. I've been getting hurt left and right since I met this girl, she must be full of bad luck or something, that or it's just me.
"I'm sorry about that. It wasn't my intention to even fall on you, honestly," I mumbled apologetically. The girl stared at me wearily, it made me a bit self conscious the way she just stared at me and didn't say anything.
"What were you doing falling? Did you trip out your window or something?" Is this girl really that naïve?
"No, it's none of your concern. Now if you'll excuse me, I think you've caused enough bad luck for me."
"Wait!" She suddenly clutched my hand to keep me from leaving, "I need help!" Help? What could I possibly help her with?
"Look I don't think I'll be of any help with whatever it is you need, now bye."
"No, no, it's really simple! You see, I'm running away from home!" Why is she saying it like it means nothing? Is she not right in the head or something? Running away from home isn't exactly simple. "And I need a place to stay so I was wondering if you knew any places for cheap." I took a good moment to look at the girl to see if I really did end up making her hit her head. The fact that she was running away from home would explain the giant backpack though.
"Okay, okay, can you please explain to me why you want to run away from home? Because it's not really my place to help you run away from home, I feel like it would actually be kind of illegal in someway."
"Well it's kind of a long story, can we discuss this somewhere else and not in the middle of the sidewalk?" I almost forgot where we were, I'm surprised no one was around to see me fall or anything now that I think about it. That or no one really cared, still you'd expect some sort of reaction.
"Uhm, sure I guess. Follow me, my apartment is in this building."
"W-wait!" She gasped all flustered up.
"What is it now?"
"I-I don't know how I feel about going into a boys apartment by myself, I mean it's so immoral! Plus I just met you, you could be a dangerous person!" Is this girl for real? I'm trying to help her and this is the kind of reaction I get? I guess I could see the way her thought process worked, the way she said it did make me sound kind of shady.
"You don't have to tell me anything and I don't have to help you, it's up to you. I promise I won't do anything though." She looked at me skeptically and sighed.
"Fine if you really insist," I really don't. "Then I'll take your invitation, but keep in mind I have a scream so high pitched that it'll make your ears bleed!"
"Yeah, whatever, lets just get this over with." I led the blonde up and through the small apartment complex, I noticed her look around the building in amazement. Had she never been in an apartment complex or something? This place isn't exactly all that special.
"Well this is it," I stated swinging my white apartment door open for emphasis, the room was the same as I left it.
"Ew, what's that smell?!" She shrieked plugging her nose, I didn't think it smelt that bad. She seems like a person who exaggerates things though. "Did something die in here or what?"
"Sorry, I'm not very good at cleaning and stuff. I guess that's why teenage boys like me need mothers."
"What about your mom?"
"It's a long story, if we ever met again then I might tell you. Anyway, just try to ignore the smell and tell me about your little situation," I don't even really care, I really just want her to leave. But if I help her just a little then maybe it'll make me feel just a bit better.
She stepped over a red shirt that was flung lazily onto the floor and sat on a clear spot that wasn't actually covered in clothes or the occasional convenient store food trash.
I took my place comfortably on my futon and waited for her to start talking. But we just sat in silence while she looked around the room showing all these wierd and different faces as she glanced at different things.
"So are you going to tell me what's up or..." She faced me as my sentence drifted off and had some sort of light bulb moment as her eyes brightened.
"So what's your name? I think I should know your name before I tell you anything!"
"Um, It's Kagamine Len, what about you? I think I should know the name of the person in my apartment."
"It's Kagamine Rin, isn't that funny? We have the same last name! It's almost like fate!" She exclaimed excitedly, it's a wierd coincidence, but fate is taking it a bit far.
"I think you're getting a bit off topic," I pointed out as she went on about all these other things like fate and destiny and all that junk.
"Sorry, anyway I'll get started with what happened. Okay, so my mom and step dad have been pestering me about going to real school instead of being home schooled like I have been for almost my WHOLE life! And 'ya know that's kind of unfair of them to force me to go to school with other people because I'm a really shy person in front of new people!"
"You sure weren't when you met me. In fact, you flat out punched me."
"You're different, you deserved it, so it's okay! Plus, you seemed kind of depressing and anti-social," Even if it's true, she doesn't really know me so it got me annoyed.
"And how could you tell that?"
"Well for starters, your hair is super long! So long it covers your eyes, which is very bad for your eyes by the way, which means you don't care much about appearance. Your eyes also look kind of dull, like you have no life in them. It's kind of depressing, I wouldn't want to hang around someone like that! And you have this frown that seems to permanently be there. You either don't have friends, or not very good ones." This Rin girl certainly doesn't follow the quote "Don't judge a book by its cover,". Even if all of it was true.
"Can you just continue with your littler story?"
"You're the one who interrupted me! But anyway, they enrolled me in this school without even telling me! It got me really mad of course, my step brother tried to calm me down and convince me that it would be okay and stuff because he goes to regular school too, but still! I know all the stuff about school! There's bullies, evil teachers, hard work that can cause failure, and sometimes this leads to kids committing suicide! It's really scary, I don't want to deal with that and I don't see how anyone would want to," Rin grumbled.
I'm surprised we can see eye to eye with at least one thing.
"Look," I sigh "I'm not going to sugar coat this for you or anything, school can be hard. And it can be all those things. And it happens to a lot of people; believe me, I know. But for others it's not such a bad place and they somehow, someway, make it good for themselves. You seem like the kind of person who would be okay with it."
"Y-you think?" She stuttered, going a bit pink in the cheeks. So she actually had a side that was innocent and kind of cute?
"Sure, you may be loud and say whatever you want, but some people actually like that strangely enough. I'm not going to make a promise that it'll be okay, but you won't know until you try, 'ya know?"
"T-thank you so much, you've made me feel so much better. I think I've changed my mind- about going to school that it. You really know how to make someone feel better!" I feel like the worlds biggest hypocrite right now.
"I think I better go home before my family starts to really worry," Rin sat up from the one clean spot on the floor and lugs her oversized bag onto her shoulder.
"Yeah, whatever. Have a safe walk home," She starts for the door while I just sort of stare at a spot on the floor, waiting for her to leave. She's about to walk out the door when she stops for a moment, making me curious to see as to what she's doing. She just stands there in the door way though.
"H-hey, do you mind if I come back sometime soon?" Come back? Why would anyone want to even see me again? It's normally the opposite.
"Do whatever the heck you want," I sigh, but she gets this really goofy smile plastered on her face as she skips away without another word. Once she closed the door all the light from the hallway left and I was back to my dark room.
Once she left I felt oddly alone, so I turned on the TV to fill the void. It didn't help much, it's been a really long time since I've felt this alone. She's just a stupid and naive girl who's easily swayed by words. Maybe it's the fact that I know someones coming back this time, but I've learned from experience you shouldn't be easily swayed by words.
But surely enough, the next morning, there she was at my apartment door all dressed up in her school uniform. It was a school uniform I recognized, it was a school on the other side of town. Not too far from mine, but far enough.
"When you said soon, I didn't think you meant the next morning," I grumbled still feeling sleepy.
"Sorry, but I needed to see someone before my first day and my brother couldn't help with the fact he had student council. Why aren't you dressed to go to school?" Rin studied my appearance from head to toe, I was still in the clothes I had on yesterday and I didn't even want to think about what my hair looked like.
"Maybe," I yawned, "What time is it?"
"Last I checked it was a quarter after seven. School doesn't start till eight for me. What school do you go to anyway?"
"I go to Izumi, why?" I asked wiping away the sleep in my eyes.
"Your school starts the same time as mine, Adachi Senior. Why aren't you ready yet?"
"Oh, I don't think I'm going today. I don't really feel like it, you have a good first day though-"
"What kind of lame excuse is that?" Rin barked, "After that speech you gave me yesterday, I'd expect you to go of course! Come on," She grabbed the sleeve of my hoodie and into my apartment.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Getting you ready for school! Here," She flung my school uniform at me, "Go change in the bathroom. And do something about that crazy hairdo you have going on! I'll wait out here and walk you to school when you're done." Is she for real?
"What if I don't, huh? I don't have to listen to some girl I just met!" I scowled at her and she scowled back.
"You can do whatever you want, but I'm not going to school until you do!" I don't remember her being this stubborn yesterday, I would feel bad if she missed her first day of school though. I clutched my school uniform angrily and stomped into my bathroom without giving her another look.
After slamming the bathroom door, I tugged the uniforms brown corduroy pants on with a bit of struggle, maybe I've gained some wight? After all I don't do much, I mean, when's the last time I actually had gym class?
After placing the navy blue blazer over my crisp white button up shirt and adding my black tie I deemed myself done.
Stepping out of the bathroom I noticed Rin collected all the trash from the ground and started picking up dirty laundry from the floor. "What are you doing?"
"Cleaning this pigsty, I don't think it's healthy to live in this kind of filth. Are you rea- you didn't do your hair!" Rin whined dropping all my laundry in an irritated fashion. "Come over here and let me do your hair!" She grumbled, grabbing my sleeve. I yanked my way out of her grasp and growled at her a bit.
"What are you my mom?" I barked, but that didn't break her. She simply pouted in this childish way where her cheeks got all puffed up.
"I'm just trying to help! You're acting like a child, just let me help, please!" She cried, tugging at my sleeves. The way she was being was really annoying, but she's as stubborn as mule. To help the process move along faster I plopped down where I was standing and complied. "Thank you," She sighed.
I couldn't see, but I heard her dig through her bag for a moment before I felt a brush gently go through my hair. I yelped every once in a while when the brush got caught in tangles from time to time, but it felt weirdly nice to have my hair brushed through so gently. Just when I thought she was done, I felt her take a big chunk of my hair and tie it, "Are you putting a ponytail in my hair?"
"Yeah, you have so much of it, you'll look like a girl if you keep it down the way you do," Well that hurt my man pride a bit. Once she was done with the pony tail she appeared in front of me and examined her work. "Something doesn't seem right," Rin got this wierd smile on her face as she reach for my bangs and roughly rubbed my scalp.
"Rin! What are you doing?" I smacked her hand away.
"There all done, you're welcome!" She smiled. I glanced at myself in the back screen of the TV and I honestly didn't look all that bad. Getting a hair cut is one thing I don't have to worry about now.
"Now it's off to school, I've got a half an hour to get to school and the building is a bit further than yours."
"Why did you come over here if you knew it was going to be further anyway?"
"I guess I just wanted to see someone, both my parents were busy when I left so I was a bit lonely."
So a girl like her does get lonely, she seems like the kind of person without a care in the world. But I guess everyone feels alone from time to time, some just more than others.
"I'm sorry if I was being annoying earlier, I guess I didn't have any right to tell you what to do, huh?" You got that right, "I guess it's just that, after you told me all that stuff I imagined you to be this person who was awesome at school and stuff... what am I saying? Maybe you just didn't feel like going to school this one day. Anyway, sorry I made you get up and stuff." Taking a look at her she really did look guilty about what she did which made me feel kind of bad too.
"No, it's fine. I need that push, it's kind of nice to know someone cares a little, so thanks," I feel a little awkward complimenting her randomly like this, I almost question if that was the right think to say. When I look over at her though she's smiling.
"Really? You mean it?" Oh goodness, is she trying to make me feel awkward?
"I wouldn't have said it if I didn't mean it," I grumble walking ahead of her. We walked in silence until we got to my school building. I could already hear people talking about me and I haven't even walked through the school gates.
"I guess this is where we say good-bye then," Rin mutters, drawing circles with her right foot and hands stuffed in her skirt pocket.
"Yeah, I guess so. Good luck at your first today."
"T-thanks, I'll try. Is i-it okay if I come over after school again today? Both my parents will be at work and my brother doesn't come home right after school."
"I don't care, do whatever you want," I mutter, she looked genuinely happy though as she skipped off into the direction of her school without another word. Why does this girl like to be around me so much? It's not like I'm an interesting person.
"Hey, you're Len Kagamine, right?" A voice suddenly appeared in front of me. It was a guy with wierd green hair, he was in my class. I think his name was Gumo? You know, it's sad when your own classmate doesn't really know who you are and you don't know them either.
"Yeah, I am. Do you need something?"
"The teacher needs you right away before classes start, that's all," And as soon as he came he was gone, just like most people.
...
"Len-san, please have a seat." My teacher gestured to one of the unused chairs at a teacher's desk. All the other teachers were most likely preparing for class. He looked really worried about something, which wasn't a good sign for obvious reasons.
"So what did you need me for?" He was silent for a while, trying not to make eye contact with me, which got me really annoyed, "Sir?" I asked harsher than intended.
"Sorry, but I apologize to inform you that the school board has come to the conclusion to expel you due to lack of school say attended and work being turned in. I thought they would give you time to catch up but... I'm sorry things have turned out like this. We've informed your guardian, but he was too busy to come down today," He sighed. I feel like I should be more disappointed but I'm not, I feel like a lot of stress was just lifted actually. No more listening to people talk behind my backs and no more feeling lonely in a place full of people.
"I do have some good news though," How could there be good news in this? "The near by school, Adachi Senior, is willing to take you in if you're willing. They believe in no one being left behind," He handed me a pamphlet with a picture of the school on the front and a few more than happy students. "I think you should take this chance, these kinds of things don't happen too often. I'm sorry things turned out like this, but hopefully it was a bit of a wake up call. You can go now Len-san, and good luck." My now former teacher dismissed me.
I began my walk home as the first bell rang, a few students lingering in the hall ran to get to class on time. That's one other thing I won't have to worry about either. Unless I do decide to go to this school, what was it called?
I took a look at the pamphlet. It was a neighboring school called Adachi Senior... isn't this the school Rin goes to?
Sorry this took so long to update! I was at girls camp, and so no technology or let alone internet for a whole two weeks. But any who, thanks to all who reviewed! I really appreciate it, I didn't expect 7 reviews on my first story so thanks so much! I'll try to update as fast as I can while I still have time to over the summer! I've got a convention coming up August 9-11 though and I've gotta work on my Twilight Sparkle cosplay, but I'll try to write in between!
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