Hi everyone thanks for the comments. chapter 2:
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"Ohayo Momo-chan!" Senna called as Momo walked down the steps of the dorm.
"Ohayo Senna-chan," Momo smiled and replied. The two girls started walking down the street to their school.
At the school gates Rangiku and Orihime met up with them.
"Ohayo Senna-chan, Momo-chan!" Orihime called as she ran up to them. The 4 of them walked in the gate and began making their way across the car park. There a few other girls met up with them in the car park and the group of girls chatted to each other as they walked towards the main school building on the other side.
"How was your first day Momo?" Rukia asked.
"It was pretty good actually," Momo replied.
"Do you like Sereitei Academy Momo-chan? I hope you do and stay because we all love you!" a cheerful girl called Yuzu said.
"Yes, I love this school Yuzu-chan," Momo smiled and replied.
Suddenly a loud vroom was heard as a slim grey Ferrari drove in through the school gates. The crowd of students standing around in the car park immediately parted and moved out of the flash sportscar's way. Many students, mostly girls, squealed and rushed over to the shiny Ferrari as it's driver backed swiftly into a parking spot.
"Ugh." Senna rolled her eyes in disgust while Yuzu just looked away and tried to ignore the car. The rest of the girls walking with Momo glanced over at the car briefly before continuing to walk towards the school building. Momo looked at her new friends confusedly and then turned to stare at the crowd that was beginning to form around the car.
"Who's that?" Momo asked Rangiku who seemed the least effected in the situation.
"Don't mind them," Senna scowled as she began walking faster pulling Momo with her.
"He's the school prince-" Rangiku started saying.
"-ice prince if you ask me," Tatsuki interrupted.
"Anyway, he's a genius - straight-A student, top in all the advanced classes, parent's are loaded, major chic-magnet – I mean, seriously, I swear some of the female teachers are after him too..hmm what else.." Rangiku continued to say.
"Yeah, apparently now girls go after obnoxious jerks with cold attitudes" Senna added on.
"-and pretty eyes…" a blond girl called Mikka sighed dreamily. Senna shook her head irritated.
"and a great voice," Rukia contributed.
"Ugh, not you too Rukia!" Senna whined.
"Hey I didn't say I liked him, but you have to agree he's an amazing singer," Rukia replied.
Rangiku started to talk again. "Oh yea –and he's a great singer, plays piano and guitar, writes songs…incredible soccer player and-"
"-and apparently he's 'too cool' for the rest of us mere mortals. Plus since he's the perfect musician so he's off limits to us creative-people coz' there seems to be an unspoken of feud here at this school between the muzos and arty people." Senna finished off. "Come on let's get to class."
Later that day during break…
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" a horde of screaming girls ran past Momo and nearly shoved her against her locker as she tried to close it. Momo looked over at Senna quizzically.
"Fan-girls," Senna said to Momo who then cocked her head to the side in confusion.
"of the 'Ice Prince'," Senna added.
"Oh," Momo seemed to understand.
"Damn, how the heck are we supposed to get to class through this," Senna gestured to the huge bunch of girls blocking up the hallway. "EXCUSE ME! COMING THROUGH!" Senna yelled as she weaved her way through the horde of girls pulling Momo along with her.
When they finally cleared out of the crowd of girls, Momo looked back to see a black haired girl coming out of the crowd, her hands were wrapped flirtatiously around a taller boy who's face Momo couldn't see clearly but she assumed that he must've been the 'prince'.
"Oh, and here comes her royal slut highness too," Senna said as she rolled her eyes at the scene.
The girl had her hair tied up in a short high ponytail. She wore her already short school skirt extra short so it practically just covered her butt. Her white school blouse was also extra tight and had a few of the bottom buttons undone so it showed her belly button. The girl's top buttons were mostly undone as well, with the shirt collar pulled back so that it was more than revealing. Her tie was dangling loosely infront of her half undone shirt.
"Her name's Kurosaki Karin," Senna said.
"Is she…" Momo started to ask.
"Yeah, Kurosaki Yuzu's twin sister. The complete opposite to Yuzu though. " Senna said. "Oh, and those fake blonds there," Senna pointed to 5 giggling girls that walked with Karin and the 'Prince' as they made their way through the crowd of girls.
"Just, stay clear of them and you'll be fine, their like the 'Plastics' from Mean Girls. Ugh. Looking at them just makes me wanna puke." Senna carried on saying.
The 'Plastics' all had chunks of makeup applied to their faces. They all had their hair bleached and had fake tans too. They were all very attractive and wore their uniforms skimpily just like Karin.
"Sluts." Senna muttered under her breath as they walked past her and Momo. The 'Prince' made his way out of the crowd screaming girls that were practically jumping on him.
Momo found herself marveling at his handsome features as he came into their view. The Prince was tall and had messy white hair, he wore his shirt with a few buttons undone showing a small part of his sculpted chest and had his tie slung loosely around his neck.
"Oh, and there's the Prince." Senna said sarcastically.
Momo thought the tall boy looked very familiar. Then he turned his head around so his face was visible to Momo. Momo's eyes suddenly widened.
"His name's Hitsugaya" Senna started saying.
"…Toshiro…" Momo finished for her as the Prince's mesmerizing aqua-teal eyes looked in their direction.
"…Momo-chan? You know him?" Senna said, surprised.
Momo's head was getting dizzy and she was starting to feel lightheaded as a gush of memories flowed through her mind. "Uh-umm, sorry Senna-chan, I-I think I need to g-go to the n-nurse." Momo stuttered.
"Oh god, Momo-chan you look horrible, we have to get you home." Senna said.
"The dorm's not opened during the day though…"
"Don't worry you can stay at my house for now." Senna said as she walked Momo out of school, down the street, to her house.
In the afternoon…
Momo woke up on a comfortable bed in an unfamiliar room.
"Hey, Momo-chan you woke up," Senna said smiling. Momo smiled back weakly in return.
"Oh, sorry Senna-chan," Momo said. She looked around the massive bedroom filled with expensive interiors. Senna's family must've been extremely rich.
"Don't worry 'bout it, it's fine, my mom's a doctor so she checked up on you awhile ago. She said that you're fine."
"Arigatou Senna-chan." Momo said as she got off the bed and sat on the couch next to Senna.
"No problem," Senna replied. "Ok, you have got to tell me what that was all about."
"Oh, that." Momo answered glumly.
"…Sorry, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I was just being nosy-"
"No, no, it's fine, it's just that umm…it's a long story…" Momo said.
"Well, I'm a good listener and school's already finished anyway – you sure sleep for a long time ne Momo-chan." Senna joked.
"Eheh…ok, well…" Momo started to tell her story:
"My parents weren't exactly that rich and they always seemed to have relationship problems, they would fight and make up and fight and make up so it wasn't exactly the most stable environment for me to grow up in. So for my sake, they sent me to live with an old friend of my grandmother's when I was about 6.
The old lady was very nice to me and she was like the granny that I never had. She lived in a cottage in the countryside near a forest and a stream. A month after that Granny told me that her grandson would be coming to live with us too. And her grandson was umm…"
"…Hitsugaya Toshiro..?" Senna asked unsurely.
"Yeah. I tried to be nice to him since he was Granny's grandson and all but he was always really cold towards me. He never talked to me, only scowled at me and teased me occasionally. I hated him for doing that but I kept being nice to him anyway because I didn't want to get sent away from Granny just because I couldn't get with her grandson.
Well, anyway, I also kinda felt bad for him because all the other children in the area were scared of him, and I gotta say, I was too at first. No-one wanted to talk to him because of his cold attitude and his glare scared off some people. None of the parents liked him either so they wouldn't let their children talk to him even if they wanted to.
One day at school we all had to get into pairs for a semester project. Well, no-one wanted to be his partner. One of the parents even told the teacher to just fail him straight away because he didn't have a partner. So then I volunteered to be his partner. After that the parents started to feel better about him and the other children would talk to him occasionally.
Well, he wasn't really any different towards me but he was nicer than before and he even said 'thanks'. One day I was getting bullied by a few older boys and one of them tried to steal my lunch. But then he came and beat them up and…saved me.
That afternoon, when he bandaged my scratches I realized that he had actually been putting up a cold exterior but inside he was a caring person. He opened up to me after that and told me how his parents were extremely successful business people and didn't have time to look after him. That's why he was staying with his Granny.
Over the years we grew closer, he was my bestfriend. He could play guitar and sing back then too. We used to eat watermelons and watch the sunset when we were little. He would also play the guitar and sing for me and Granny would listen sometimes too. We stayed that way for 8 years. We practically spent our whole childhood together.
It was perfect until his mother had settled permanently in the country. She was still busy but she wouldn't have so many business trips overseas anymore. So she came and took him back to live with her. 2 weeks before he left, he taught me to play the guitar. And that was when I realized that I had…fallen in love with him.
Well he promised to write and call and visit but he never did. He didn't even send one letter or even make one phone call. I guess I was hurt, really hurt. I used to cry myself to sleep sometimes because I missed him so much.
A year later, my parents broke up. Officially. So I had to move back to live with my mom and stay with my dad during summer and other vacations. Well, after that I knew there was no way I'd ever get to see him again so I gave up on hoping and tried to forget about him instead. There was a bit of heartache since I fell in love with him but it hurt me even more since he was my bestfriend."
"That bastard! How could he do that to you!" Senna screamed.
"Senna-chan, it's ok, it's been 3 years already." Momo tried to smile but couldn't.
"…Momo?" Senna asked cautiously. "Is that why you…don't believe in love?"
"No, I've never believed in love."
"Why? –actually, you don't have to answer it you don't want to. I'm really sorry, I've sorta made you tell me all this." Senna said apologetically.
"No, it's fine Senna-chan, I actually feel better now that I've told you all this. Thank you for listening." Momo smiled and carried on to answer Senna's question.
"Well, actually the reason I don't believe in love is because of my parents. They both loved each other a lot but they also hurt each other with love too. So I guess I could say I've seen what love can do to you. I remember my mom crying for weeks and sometimes even months on end. My dad would never smile and he was never happy but always got mad at himself. I saw how bad heartbreaks could be so when I was very little I decided that there was no such thing as love and that I would never believe in it or …fall in love."
"But Hitsugaya…" Senna started to ask.
"He was…the only exception."
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