Warning… Mild
~X~ Just Getting Warmed Up ~X~
"You must be the new teachers arriving today, Mr. Mihael Kheel and Mr. Matt Jeevas, correct?" She spoke in Japanese, though their dialect was a bit different. It wasn't hard to make sense of. She shook their hands, appearing to be a little above Mello in height wearing geta's. She then looked at Andréa, whom stood the same level as she did with Matt and Mello, upper chest.
It was a tad awkward for the guys since she was dragging out their acquaintance but Andréa didn't seem to show any signs of unease. Just keep professional, or at least, she was too mesmerized by her exquisite kimono garb.
"And you must be Miss Andréa De La Rosa." She rolled her tongue in a whisper like tone, eyes trained on Andréa. The shorter woman was pretty sure she was the only one who noticed it. The woman took Andréa's arm, trailing up as if appreciating her and smiled as she brought it to her lips and kissed the much paler woman on her hand.
The three looked at her in shock. Well, Mello took it with charm. The school was international right? European customs probably rubbed off on them.
"Here in Hindima, we treasure all women. So please, boys, I hope you do respect our young girls and women."
"Got it Matt?" Mello silently teased. Matt fought the urge to "greet" all the ladies in audience. Andréa took her hand back, if not too gently. She started laughing, a bit nervous, glancing at her cohorts.
Now she's nervous? Matt and Mello looked at her with eyebrows raised, obviously wanting to see how she would play out her response. It would be an understatement to say the pair besides them has never seen their counterpart so fazed. "I- I don't really have that preference."
Matt really wished he had his goggles instead of these glasses he had to pair up with. Mello had to swallow down a chuckle.
"It is alright, please, o not misinterpret my actions. That was simply a greeting. Rest assured it is given from natives of this island."
"What's a goodbye then?" Matt asked, the girls behind them laughed as if amused.
The tall woman walked back to her students. "I, Aki Tachibana, headmistress of Razme's Young Woman Leadership School, and our student council, welcome you to our school." She spoke in Japanese.
The girls, Matt assumed were the "student council," behind her bowed. "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!*"
The trio bowed back and said their thanks.
"Please, come this way."
Matt's eyes scanned over the girls as Aki lead them up the cobble stone path. Poppies, lilies, roses and tall grasses lined the side of the trail as they headed up. African, Latin, European; girls of all races were here in traditional Japanese clothes, on this island, attending this very favorable school. He was pretty sure Aki was either Caribbean or just from California with that tan and a good accent cover up. The whole school seemed like a good deal. What was so bad about it?
Matt couldn't even begin to figure it out.
{-}
Their schedule for the rest of the week looked like this:
Thursday (day of the arrival):
Day 1_Tour of the school
"And here is the cafeteria. Those doors," She pointed to a pair of grey grand doors at the end of the room, "Lead to the backyard. The ladies go outside to enjoy themselves if they please. If the weather happens to turn on us," She pointed to the right where three doors stood. "They can entertain themselves in those rooms for dance, games and entertainment." To the left was the kitchen.
The cafeteria was a large space, not over exaggerated but it was extremely clean, light shades of green, yellow and blue which made the room feel warm and cozy rather than an eye soar and cozy.
The school's colors were a light green, blue and white and the building was a mix of First Romanesque and Sukiya-zukuri styles. The outsides were made of stone and the roofs of the building were triangular shaped. The tallest part of the building had a glass dome in the back. The inside structure of the school was really just long halls; each column was for the next grade and within those columns, class one, two and three. Some rooms were traditional, Japanese styled with sliding doors. Others were Western styled with chairs and desk and knobbed doors.
The second floor, reachable by escalator or stair, consisted of the gymnasium on the far right and the auditorium on the left.
"When you head down the right, where the gymnasium is, you will find club rooms and the swimming pool."
In the middle was a large Japanese room divider but the inside was not see through. Tachibana explained it was a mini green house. They all immediately suspected something until she pushed aside the door and inside flowers bloomed and flourished, most of them had gotten into the floor boards and they towered. They saw how it was connected to the backyard. There were holes in the wall that lead outside and down.
"We had built over such wonderful land, so we chose to keep part of it alive and thriving." She explained. The headmistress is tall, dark, sharp, enchanting and now considerate for the environment? If that wasn't enough to sway Andréa and her fake denial Matt really underestimated her.
The ceiling was the dome they saw on the outside.
When they heard something thud as if shutting, the three looked towards the right of the holes in the wall where a student stood. She looked towards them and immediately bows.
"Good afternoon, headmistress." She got back up, showing that she was holding a flowering pot. Her eyes went the three besides her and she bowed in respect.
Matt couldn't take his gaze off her eyes. They were grey, cloudy even. It contrasted from the lively green environment around her but her outfit complemented with her skin; pale skin. Her hair was a thick mass of white curls, clothes white with exceptions.
There was a pause as the headmistress didn't speak and the girl shifted. There was another two girls who emerged from the room the other girl came from. All they could hear was, "Nia! Nia, sweetheart where are you?"
They came up and bowed in respect before standing beside the much smaller girl.
"I'm sure you heard of our new teachers, darling." The girl solemnly nodded and the other two enthusiastically greeted the two.
"Ami James," One said.
"Desire Casey," The other said.
"Nia River," Tachibana turned back to the three, "Is our star student. She will be attending as a senior with these two ladies. It just may be that you end up in Mr. Kheel or Mr. Jeevas's homeroom class."
The girl shifted her plastic pot and nodded.
"Uh, actually… Matt… and Mello are fine, really. Formalities are not, you know."
"Mr. Matt and Mr. Mello… I suppose it is Ms. Andréa then?"
The shorter woman snapped out of her daze from staring at Nia and looked the headmistress. "Oh, yes, if you please."
"My, you three sure are youthful, aren't you?" The girls agreed and they went to Nia, trudging her along to a desk where they tended to flowers.
"Well, you don't seem to be much older than us." Andréa halfheartedly assured.
"I would like to think not."
"I am, completely sorry, but please is the school uniform?" Andréa took her shoes off and trudged over the girl. She was shorter than Andréa and deathly pale. Actually, it wasn't as if she was pale, she practically had no color.
"Is she…" Matt turned around to the girl, "Are you albino?"
The girl looked up and shortly nodded. She looked like she was covering her fidgety mode as well as she could while Andréa looked over her and the two girls.
Andréa really observed the younger girls outfit. It was as if she was cosplaying. The top of her dress was a puffy short sleeve white sailor shirt with a blue collar and below was a blue skirt. On top of the skirt was a white apron that was tied to her waist with a green ribbon. Andréa unconsciously neglected the fact that her skirt was more of a mini skirt. Blue, white stripped suspenders connected it all. A green ribbon stood out in her hair. Her legs were bare and the last article of clothing on her body was dirty socks.
"You are so cute! I can just eat you up!" She turned to the headmistress as she held Nia's hand up.
"You and the whole student body, Ms. Andréa." Ami said and Desire giggled besides her.
"This is really amazing! How were you able to think of this?"
"A colleague of mine did when we were working on the school. It is the summer wear for the junior class. You are just about ready to give up the outfit, aren't you Nia?"
Mello looked at the whole affair with bored eyes but Matt kept looking at the girl and her fidgety movements. Her cheeks had been were red and small beads of sweat went down her forehead but she was calmer now and she tried to handle Andréa and her interest in their floral endeavors. Her arms were tinged a bit red and her legs too. Her long legs… She shifted so her back was to Matt.
"Headmistress, look at what you're students have been working on!" The women walked over to them, besides Andréa who was beyond elated.
Nia shifted again, taking Matt out of his trance. He looked up and met her gaze.
He looked up. He almost deserved it, the look she gave him a bit fearful but she glanced back at Andréa when she asked her a question. She then looked back at Matt, deadpan but then smiling a bit as she mouthed: Pervert.
The older man took it as a sign to leave.
Unfortunately, they couldn't find anything remotely suspicious about the area.
Find a hotel to lounge at for the time being
"We still haven't prepared your rooms so stay at the hotel in town. We've paid for your stay." Tachibana showed them to the hotel, closest to the academy.
"Is there anything going on that we don't know about?" Andréa asked, coming out from observing her room.
"Today, the girls at the school are actually celebrating one of our founders birthday." She referred to her kimono. "It is actually too late to bring you three along, but there is always a next time."
That's if we actually stay that long. Mello cringed at the thought.
"The staff has a meeting this Saturday. There is also a party at the school tomorrow. Come if you please. You will be able to mingle with the other teachers."
Friday:
Shopping
"Andréa, why did you need to drag us out here?" Matt whined.
"Look, I hate shopping too but I have to get something for the party and you both need to as well. So suck it up and at least prepare to survive the perfume department."
Go to the party.
They did go and it was a pretty large bash. Andréa went crazy over the different uniforms and Matt had a grand time trying faun over what was under the uniforms. Mello decided to check around. Of the teachers, only two were men; of the guards, two men. There appeared to be only two men in each staff department.
Andréa came back, Aki and a student trailing besides her as they met up with Matt and Mello. "Good night."
Andréa looked at her as she left.
"I thought you were experimenting, and now you don't swing that way?"
Andréa pursed her lips as she looked away. "I changed my mind."
"Poor Halle."
Saturday:
Go to the meeting
All that they discussed were the lesson plans and everyone was pretty impressed with what Mello and Matt were actually capable of.
"And you two are only in your early twenties."
"How about you, Andréa?" The bust science teacher asked.
"Oh, I'm twenty-three. I always have to look after these guys."
"That's nice; you guys are all so young. The head mistress is only twenty-five. It's a miracle you guys stumbled across this school."
They had received ID's and room keys.
Matt and Mello looked at the short woman.
"What? If you want the best information, you have to go get it for yourself."
Aki came back as everyone left the meeting hall.
"I hope you'll be able to find your way through the school and to it with ease."
He woke up to his alarm but drifted. His snooze came on and his jumped from his sheets.
No! No! I overslept!
He had dressed and walked out. When he got down stairs the hotel the desk manager looking at him funny but he realized that it wasn't the same person he usually saw during the morning. He stopped in his tracks and looked outside. It was dark and scenic.
It was dark.
"What…?"
His watch beeped and he gazed at it and paused.
5:00 A.M.Sunday
{-}
9:45
It really happened this time. He wasn't expecting this at all. Well, he probably should have.
He forgot to reset his alarm after Mello messed it up and the dude had totally got him a hangover. The guy didn't even bother to wake him up. His stuff was gone meaning Mello had taken the stuff and went on ahead earlier. He rushed as he refreshed and saw Mello had the decency to get him a dress shirt, work approved shoes and black pants. He bet Mello purposely give him these a size smaller. At this point he didn't care.
By the time he had gotten to access gate he decided to take no BS. He flashed his tag and ran in and to the school.
"Hey, get back here!" But he didn't stop. He had already memorized what he needed to know so ducked into the forestry when he recognized a short cut.
He'd met up with a gate and looked inside making sure he knew where he was, the backyard.
Luckily, there was a stump and a branch to latch onto on the way up. This made it made it easier to get up the metal bars but the hard part was avoiding spiky tops.
When he finally got over them, he held on and landed but tripped on the ground since it was slippery. He ended up landing and yelled out. It almost over powered the other people who shouted.
He sat up and looked down at the person he fell on. He gulped.
"Nia? Are you okay?" Someone yelled, approaching the back.
The girl… the boy…
"What?"
Matt couldn't avoid having seen it. The watering pot flew out of hand and it mostly got on the young student. The skin beneath her became more tangible as it stuck to her clothes. Her? Then again there was that that bulge. There was no way that was a girl's part.
"Nia?" The voice was closer.
He wore a different uniform; Matt was glad that the skirt was longer. Quickly the boy places his skirt back in its place, gets up and fixes himself, pushing Matt behind the bush, shushing him.
The girl who was calling comes around the corner and gasps.
"Nia, what happened to you?"
"I tripped." His voice was no longer pitched to that softer girlish tone but it was still light and bland.
"And you are all wet…" She girl approaches and a silence lingers. Matt's ears twitches when he hear a smacking sound… like a kiss. He was sure he heard the girl moan too. She moaned.
No way. No way!
"Aw, you did this on purpose, didn't you Nia? What, are you feeling neglected down hear."
They sounded like they were moving closer. It was probably from careless moves like, Nia wanting to get back. But he knows Matt is there.
Is he trying to get Matt caught?
Matt held back the urge to smoke or mess with his hair.
Nia's breath hitched and he let out a desperate inhale. "N…no."
"What do you mean, now? You look so delectable. You know you do." Matt jerked as he attempted to get up to help Nia but he stayed down. It was too risky to mess up any further.
Is she a bully… is she blackmailing him?
If the kid really was getting bullied, Matt would like to at least try to help the high school before the school year is over.
There was another kissing sound. "Do you want me to stop?" Nia's voice was strained he repeated his no but the girl didn't seem to let go. The girl suddenly yelled and a loud thud sounded. She was pushed away from him.
"Did you just…" There were more sudden shuffling sounds and Matt heard Nia silently groan in pain as another person dropped to the ground.
"St-stop,"
"No," A sharp slap echoed. "Not even a single please? Learn your place, low rate. How can you possible take up Hime-sama's place being as disobedient as you are?" The girl growled.
Nia let out a sharp cry but it got muffled.
"Will you apologize?" A brief silence followed, their harsh breathing filling the space.
"Pl-please I'm sorry. Please stop," It was broken cry. It made Matt flinch.
The girl sighed. "Very well; consider me more merciful than any other girl who would have stumbled across you. But not as merciful as your client."
"There is a client?" Nia whispered, confused.
"Yes, school hasn't officially started yet. The miss requests for you to get a school year start. She wishes good luck upon us all of course so you'll need to give a blessing. And I know you will take it because you care about us. Right? You love Hime-sama as much as we do." The girl sickly sneered, as if she knew what the boys answer was anyway.
There was a silence.
"Aw, don't make that face." She laughed. "It doesn't fit one as lovely as yours." Nia hissed.
"Does it hurt?" There was another silence that Matt assumed Nia was answering with.
"Fine then, let's go and prepare." Matt heard their footfalls get lighter as they left and Matt looked up.
The larger girl was dragging Nia. He turned around and looked at Matt, worriedly. His face was flushed, hair disheveled and his right cheek was pink. He had red marks on his wrist and dirt stains on his arms and probably more on his chest. Matt couldn't tell what he was feeling because his face was stoic. He mouthed to Matt: "Leave." They then disappeared around the corner.
Matt checks his time.
5:50
"A client?"
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MY EYESSSSSSSSSS.
TOO much PC time.
*Regarding, Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu… that is hard phrase to decipher and it could mean,
"Please take care of me" or "Please to meet you" or "Please form good relations with me." In this case, I'm using "please take good care of me!"
So, don't stress over it. I should be xD
Why does this feel so short? Idk, but I just have author-ly instincts to end it here so next part, here you come!
Anyway: Any reactions?
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