This is the second chapter, normally I won't upload so fast but because the first chapter was so short I mad an exception :D
(I do not own code geass)
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I'm Selenia Shinozaki, well actually my real last name isn't known so I took the last name of the one who is taking care of me.
-Ashford Academy-
"Shirley! Where are you, goddammit!" I came in the student council room, I was panting because I was running to find Shirley. Now she sat there looking at me with an innocent, as if she didn't know that this year's spent money wasn't counted yet. "Shirley why didn't you tell me this? The account book has to be delivered to the principal tomorrow! It normally takes us three days to do this, no wait, correction, it takes ME three days!"
"Well sorry then I'll get the other members to help you, I'll go search for them just a sec, okay?" Shirley looked at me with big eyes and I sighed before I accepted her offer. "Sure, I'll wait here then. Get them here as soon as you can, okay?"
Shirley grinned at me "Sure I'll go looking for them right now" she walked out the door and yelled "Bye Selenia, Have fun!". I jumped out of the chair, realizing my mistake of letting her go, and ran to the door as fast as could. Shirley, however, had already run too far so I yelled "I'm going to get you for this Shirley! don't think you can get away with this!" I returned to the chair and sighed once again as I took the account book out of my bag while cursing myself for not seeing this 'why did I even believe her?' Of course Shirley wouldn't be helpful when it came to things like this, let alone help with it.
I searched for a pen and my calculator in my bag, then I started counting all the things we earned and spent last year. I didn't double check the numbers –which I normally do- if I counted something wrong I would blame it on Shirley. A few hours of hard concentrating later, I was –finally- ready and I was on my way to give the account book to Mrs. Einstein.
The school hallway looks different when it's night, everything is dark and looks odd or rather scary. I was walking faster than I normally do and when I was looking behind me I bumped into someone, I admit I gave a little 'eep' when I saw there was someone else in the corridor.
"Selenia, what are you doing here this late? Oh, is that the account book? you finished it already?" Miss Einstein looked pleased when she saw the account book, to think I was scared of her only mere seconds ago. "oh Mrs. Einstein, it's just you! I finished the account book a few minutes ago, I was on my way to put it on your desk. What are you still doing here?"
"How wonderful you already finished the book, I was just correcting some tests and homework assignments. It's a lot easier to concentrate here than at home," she looked a bit confused and was fidgeting while picking up the book which had fallen while we bumped into each other. "well then," she continued "good night Selenia. Enjoy your weekend!" she walked away and waved at me with a smile and the corners of my mouth tipped up as well. I shuffled to the dorms and tried not to wake the other residents with my footsteps, the doors and walls weren't very well isolated, they say they're going to renovate the dorm rooms this summer vacation while a lot of students are at home. Then again they have been saying for several years…
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The next morning
It was harder to get up than other mornings, I wonder why? Perhaps all the deducting and adding up numbers in the account book hadn't done my brain any good. As usual I didn't have any plans for the weekend and went reading and napping on the roof, but my nap was rudely disturbed by a loud car pulling over in front of the school gates.
I looked down and saw a fancy limousine, a guy –my age I think- came out. He looked up and I think he must have noticed me, 'cause a few moments later he came to the little garden on the roof. He didn't look like a pureblood Britannian, he looked like a half-blood, half Asian was my guess. He had brown and curly hair and warm dark brown eyes, he came over to me with a very warm smile. Like we were friends already and not mere strangers.
"Hello I'm Shin," he started "shouldn't you be at home right now? I mean you can visit your family in the weekends right?" I observed him very closely and waited a few seconds to answer "Look who's talking, you're here too, no? you could be with your family too right now" He looked at me, surprised, maybe my voice had been too harsh.
Yet he didn't look insulted, he chuckled "touché, but I'm here to look at the school. I'm going to transfer here the day after tomorrow." A transfer student in the middle of this semester…how odd.
"Welcome to our school then Shin, by the way I'm not 'you', I'm Selenia" I smiled at him, he didn't look like a bad guy. I continued "so Shin how old are you?" I tried to start a conversation since my nap was interrupted anyway and I had already finished the book I was reading in. "I'm sixteen, I moved here from the homeland and you? I mean Selenia?" he answered.
I chuckled "I'm 16 years old as well, with a bit of luck we'll be in the same class" I looked up at his face and smiled, I must have looked pretty stupid because I was squinting my eyes because of the sun. I kept the conversation going "so you came here from the homeland? I thought only old Britannian nobles lived there. Since they can't stand living on equal standing with the previous numbers."
He looked a bit startled, maybe he didn't expect my condescending tone. Yeah, I admit, I can't stand the nobles of an empire that used to be. They live in the past, unable to accept the changes in this new and brighter world. If there was something threatening the obtained peace, the nobles were ranked number one.
He gave me an answer to my question "um, yes indeed, a lot of nobles live there. My family isn't what you can call poor either…"
I looked at him with a sharp glare and saw he wasn't very comfortable with our conversation anymore, good. "well, can assume that you're a noble too then, Shin? What's your last name?" now that I had asked him his last name, he looked as if he was struggling with something: to tell or not to tell. Why he would doubt about telling me his last name? I had no idea.
"Sorry, I'd rather not reveal my last name for now, what's yours?" I looked at him, thinking, he didn't tell me his last name, yet he expected mine, weird. "My last name…how funny you'd ask, I don't have one." This is how you create awkward silence. I hate awkward silence so I spoke again "but of course on paper there's a last name needed, mine would be Shinozaki."
Shin sighed before speaking again. Had I said something wrong?. "Seems like your situation is as difficult as mine, Selenia." The look in his eyes was warm and sad at the same time, he tried to smile but it didn't reach his eyes. More awkward silence…I felt the urge to change the subject. I stood up and walked to the edge of the roof and leant on the banisters while feeling Shin's gaze on my back.
"Nice weather, don't you think?" I asked while stretching above my head. I had forgotten that I wasn't wearing my normal school uniform, but a tank top and a pair of jeans. While I was stretching my entire lower back was exposed…oh no. A mistake, a small one, on moment of being forgetful, that's all it was…but still. Shin stood beside me in a second and I knew he'd seen it.
"What's that mark on your lower back?" he asked as I turned away from his hand examining my lower back. Not able to hide my panic, I glared at him "it's just a birthmark" I growled "nothing else."
"That's definitely not a birthmark, is it? I recognize this symbol, the symbol of geass." He'd said it so matter-of-factly that I was taken aback. Geass, my secret exposed in a second…to someone I just met of all people! For a moment I just stood there, staring at him. I started to stammer"how…how do...you…" he finished my sentence for me "know?"
I nodded fiercely and practically started begging "please don't tell anyone, promise me you won't okay? I don't even know how to use geass, so please" I was out of breath when I finished my sentence.
Shin looked confused at me "you don't know how to use it?" I shook my head and Shin sighed, he looked so tired all of a sudden, even older. Then, for a split second I could see pity in his eyes "I'm sorry Selenia, but it's my duty to report this. I report to Zero, you see? And he told me that if I ever saw the symbol of geass then I should drag that person before him. That is what I, Shin Kururugi, have to do."
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