My Long Lost Girlfriend
CHAPPIE 2: Clumsy
Ten minutes left and classes would soon end. The teacher is discussing something about Physics that I quite don't understand. Boring. Boys yawn sleepily. Girls chat in a loud whisper. Merely few of them were paying attention to the lesson. However, at the back of the room was a girl dreaming about someone…
-Mikan's POV-
Huh? What's happening? It's so dark in here. After a moment or two, a light appeared at the other end of the dark pit. I heard footsteps coming towards me. "Mikan" someone whispered. "Mikan…" I heard it again. The voice was silently pleading. Then, "MIKAN!" it shouted, panic in his voice. Yes, he, it was from a boy. Where are you? Who are you? I don't know why but it sound so familiar. A shadow came into view. I run towards it but every time I nearly reached it, it goes away and away from me… wait! Tell me, who are you? "Wait!" I shouted. It sounded more of a command than a question. Then before I could ask again, darkness engulfed me.
-NORMAL POV-
Mikan Sakura was in the middle of her dreams when the bell rung. She woke with a start. Sound footsteps can be heard in and out of the classroom. "Finally, you're awake," a dreamy voice stated. The brunette girl didn't respond. She's still wondering about what her dreams meant. "Earth calling Sakura!" Anna declared rather annoyingly. Mikan rolled her eyes, and then said "I'm here." Umi sighed.
"You're unbelievable," she said exasperated.
"Why?" Mikan replied.
"Duh! You're always asleep in class, and I'M HUNGRY!"
She stifled a laugh. "Oh, ha-ha,right… Come on!"
The two ladies hurried towards the school canteen. Mikan kept glancing at her pink watch in her left wrist to track the time. 26…25… she counted the minutes left for lunch. The school canteen is two blocks away from their building so it always took time for them to reach the canteen. But there's always a shortcut to get there. It's a steep pathway between two buildings but only a few pass there so it's usually empty. They chose to take the shorter way to the canteen so they would get there faster. But before they could reach the other end of the pathway, three girls blocked their way.
"Whoa." gasped Umi, almost tripping off. Oh not now, I'm really hungry. Sakura thought. Inoue Karu. Luna Koizumi. Ray Kaname. Just seeing the face of the three annoyed her already.
"Well, well, well, look who're here." scoffed Inoue.
Mikan looked at them sharply and said, "What do you want? We're in a hurry you know."
"No-" Ray was about to answer but she was cut off by Umi.
"We don't have time for this," stated Umi then looked at Mikan,
"Come on." She nodded.
They walk passed the three but before the auburn lass could completely pass through. "Ouch," she lost her balance. Luna perceptibly tripped her.
Fortunately, Mikan managed to turn around so instead falling on the floor on her back; she knelt down with both her hands pressed against the concrete floor. Consequently, it did created a small shade of purple on her left knee. A bruise, yes. It's small but painful.
"Hey! What's wrong with you?"demanded Anna, ready to pounce on the three like a crouching tiger.
Mikan stood up from the floor as fast as she can to stop her friend from running havoc. She knows exactly the thing that gets in Umi's nerve – it's when someone hurt her.
So before she could strike back again, Mikan grabbed her friend's arm and told her, "It's okay Umi, I'm alright." She inhaled and closed her eyes to cool herself down.
"Okay fine, I'll let this slip, but the next time you do this again to her, I'll rip your head off." She said threateningly to the three wicked girls before walking away with her wounded friend to the canteen.
-Mikan's POV-
After strolling for a minute or so, we reach the school canteen finally. Auspiciously, Anna didn't notice that I was limping. The bruise hurt eventually even it's just small. I've got some scratch in it too though so it throbs in pain. I'm a fast healer so I didn't worry about it too much.
"Hey, we're here!" shouted Nonoko, waving her hands up in the air.
"What took you so long?" asked Yu.
"Oh, we just had a little commotion on the way so we're late. It's nothing important." I answered before the lass beside me could.
"Okay then, come on let's eat!" invited Anna.
I'm so glad I have friends like them. They're a really good company. They're real. We're seven in our group excluding me – Koko, Yu, Ruka, Nonoko, Anna, and my best friend Hotaru and Umi who will soon transfer to another school.
Kokoroyomi is a really funny man. He could get along with almost everyone in our class. He moves quite girly sometimes, so I think that's one reason why he's closer to girls than to our guy friends.
Yu Tobita, often called Iinchou, is the Class President of our section. He has dirty blond hair with his bangs swaying to the right. Also he has large brown eyes with long eyelashes. He has glasses and wears the school's uniform properly: a white long sleeved shirt paired navy blue vest, blue coat with a logo of the school on its left breast pocket, navy blue checkered tie, dark blue checkered pants and a pair of black shoes. He's my first friend here in the academy.
Ruka Nogi, the animal-lover, always holds his bunny. He's pale-skinned, tall, has a blonde hair that was parted in the middle. He has cerulean eyes that made him look cool and innocent. He's quiet, kind and a real definition of a gentleman. He has a secret crush on my best friend but Hotaru doesn't know it yet.
Anna Umenomiya is a pink-haired girl that stands almost 6 feet tall. She has tantalizing azure eyes which will tell you that she's kind. However, if you try to hurt her friends, she will surely turn into a tiger, ready to pounce at enemies. She is Nonoko's best friend. She loves to make food and often cooks delicious dishes for us. Like Nonoko, she is a cry-baby. Whenever, one of them cries, the other one would too. She's in love but she's not telling me who it is yet.
The violet haired girl of the group is Nonoko Ogasawara. She is small compared to Anna's height. She is a very eager person and a fighter. Also she has several tantrums some times. She loves handling chemicals, that's why she works hand in hand with Anna; they love experimenting. Also, she is often seen drawing anime characters and is making a manga.
Hotaru Imai, being my best friend, is like a sister to me. Even though she always calls me idoiot, she's one of the most important people in my life. She has short black hair and striking amethyst eyes and she's a bit taller than me. Hotaru is the daughter of the owner of the largest gadget company in the world. She always makes pretty dresses for me. She is addicted in making silly inventions that helps her to earn money and triggers her laziness. However, her inventions do us a lot of help most of the time. She currently likes someone secretly who is one of my close friends too.
Last is Umi Furuma, a tall girl, who has long thick straight blue hair and sharp gray eyes. She hides secrets from me but it's okay; I would know her secrets too from other sources though. She's one of the rare persons who would listen to you even if you talk so much from dawn to till twilight. However, she won't stay with us for a long time because she will go to another country to manage her family's business.
The bell rang after 15 minutes, just in time we finished our lunch. We rushed to our classroom again to attend our next class, Advanced Chemistry. Luckily it's not a boring subject but either way, I could still feel sleepy that time.
"BBBBRRRIIINNNGGG!" signaling that classes were over and students should go home now. Anna and Nonoko left the room early because they still have works to do. Hotaru and I walk alone together to the locker rooms. After getting necessary things, we headed off to the gate.
"Bye. See you!" we separated our ways at the front gate and bid each other goodbye. I watched her limousine disappear from sight before I started walking.
Since it's still early, I decided to take a stroll at the Rose Lake Park first before heading back home. Tall Sakura trees and swaying rose bushes greeted me as I pass through them. Roses are in full bloom as well as the other flowers. The lake from my view shines like there were thousands of sparkling jewels floating in there, shining from the rays of the sun.
There's a big Penguin slide at the middle and four red circle tables with red chairs surrounding the slide. Two elegant brown benches can be seen at the lakeside and on the side of it is a green oak swing that complements the benches, facing the beautiful lake.
I can see clearly the orange red color of the lake as it reflects the suns color. Whenever I'm here, there's a weird feeling inside of me that it seems I've always been here long before. I guess it's just an effect of the lake to the people who looked at it. There's something in this lake that makes it special, I just don't know what it is. I wish I'm here all the time.
Out of the blue, the image of that peculiar dream entered my mind. It was so odd. I wonder who that person is. His voice sounds very familiar. Then I heard footsteps behind my back abruptly pushing away the dream on my mind. Focusing on the sound behind me, I wonder what or who it might be. I froze in place as I heard it come closer to me. Oh my goodness, not a ghost please. Hope it's not a killer too. I don't want to die yet. I closed my eyes not daring to take a single peek as my body stiffened. I'm scared. Definitely. The sound stopped right in front of me. It was a deafening silence. I can't stand it anymore.
"Boo…" it whispered right beside my ears."Aaahhh!" I shrieked at the top of my lungs.
The voice giggled then laughed so hard so I decided to open my eyes. As I took a good look on what or rather who is in front of me, I found myself staring at the most beautiful guy I've ever seen. Yes, it's beautiful, not handsome.
I felt like I could spend my time staring at him without any hesitation. He's so cute, laughing right there at the floor, clutching his stomach. He has well-built body. He also have thick eyebrows, red lips, curly eyelashes, perfect white skin, raven hair, and his crimson eyes that compliments his Godlike features.
His eyes were so tormenting. Hey you shouldn't think of that, remember he had just scared you to death right? So I shook my head to stop whatever I'm thinking and made myself think that I should be annoyed by now. Abruptly, he stopped laughing and looked at me intently. Innocent hazel met stunning crimson. I blinked to stop myself from daydreaming again.
"Did I scare you?" he asked with amusement in his eyes.
Duh, don't I look like one? "Isn't it obvious?" I replied hastily.
"Why did you do that?" I asked annoyed.
"Oh, I didn't mean to do that. I was just going to come near you but then I noticed you froze in your seat. Hardly breathing." He answered like an attorney ready for execution.
"I thought you're scared, so I played the game." He added wisely.
"And what's that game?"
"It's to scare you out of your mind." Then he burst out laughing again.
"Anyways, I didn't expect you to act like that." He told me eating his words which made it hard for me to understand what he had just said.
"Sorry," he mumbled.
"What?" I asked pretending I didn't hear it.
"Nothing," he replied.
"She's beautiful but she's deaf" he whispered talking to himself. I guess he didn't notice that I heard it. I don't know I should thank him for saying I'm pretty or if I should be more annoyed than ever because of the word 'deaf'. All of a sudden, he gawked at me and said,
"You're THAT girl" pointing out the word 'that'.
"Huh? I don't think I've met you before." I stated, thinking hard what's he's pointing out. Though, he really is familiar. Weird.
-Flashback-
Hotaru and I together with Anna, Nonoko and Umi, planned to eat lunch and go shopping at the Town Square one Saturday morning. It's a way of spending quality time together.
I was heading to the food court to meet them. There they were, at the middle of the area waving at me. I waved back. My stomach was already protesting for food by the time we've finally decided what to eat. I'm in charge of taking orders that day so I ordered our food and pay for it myself. I'm going to be broke if this continues. We had three roast beef, chicken curry, crabs and rice for our meal and pineapple drinks and chocolate cake with cherry on top for our dessert.
I'm carrying the tray containing our meal and drinks to our designated table when suddenly I lost my balance, falling sideways. I shut my eyes tight.
SPLASH! There goes the food. What have I done? I opened my eyes only to see that I'm on top of someone. Oh shoot! Realizing that I'm nearly embracing that person, I stood up straight, bowing my head from embarrassment. The food and drinks spilled all over to THAT person's body.
Oh no! I'm dead! It's a guy and he's face is red, all red, from anger I guess. "Sorry" was all my mouth could utter. Looking at him again, I got a close look on his face – crimson orbs and raven hair.
-End of Flashback-
"Oh, I'm so sorry about that." I said sincerely.
"Hmm... sorry is not enough for what you've done." He replied.
"But it's an accident… and I thought you already forgot that…" I reasoned out like a little child caught sneaking on the kitchen, red-handed.
"What's done is done… you better pay for it, little girl," he replied sarcastically. He's getting on my nerves. "And I still haven't forgotten that…" he reluctantly added.
"Okay fine, what now?" I answered sarcastically.
"To be fair, you'll do me a favor…" he said, rubbing his chin. "Oh, as long as I ca-" he cut me off before I finished my sentence.
"No, you'll do whatever I want, whether you can or not." He told me rudely.
He's soooo rude! "That's unfair!"
"What's unfair? I haven't told you the favors yet…hmm, let's see."
"Ugh! Fine…" I mumbled defeated. He's a certified arrogant.
"I can use her body even…" I heard him say talking to himself. My face turned red as a perverted thought came onto my mind.
"NO WAY! You Pervert!" I bellowed.
"Huh?" he uttered, looking innocent.
"No way will I ever do THAT!" I said so fast almost eating the words. He's such a pervert!
"I haven't even said anything yet but then you're complaining. Hmm, didn't know you have such mind…" he said smirking, raising his left eyebrow. Whoa, incredible, he can raise his eyebrow. My face turned red as he said that, obviously embarrassed.
"Okay, here's the deal," he said pausing for a moment. I looked at him. My heart's pounding so fast.
"You'll be my servant and you have to do seven things for me." He stated nonchalantly. What?
"Hah? Are you serious? - ouch…" I said, standing abruptly then stumbled to the ground.
My knee hurt from my sudden movement. I clutched my knee where my bruise was and sit properly at the swing. I glanced at him and saw that he's alarmed from what's happening to me.
"What happened? Are you alright? Let me see." He asked me and freed my hand from holding my knee. He suddenly looked enraged.
"You're wounded. Why didn't you tell me?" he asked full of concern. Why would I tell you?
"It's far enough from my brain to torment me and it's not that big. I'm fine." I stated partly telling the truth.
"Even if it's just small, you should have told me. I'll cure it for you." He said loud enough for me to hear. Oh God. His face's full of warmth, concern and sincerity. How could I refuse? Before I could answer, he already put a bandage on my wound.
"Want me to walk you home?" he offered. A smile crept on my face. Sure. He didn't know me yet it seems like he knew me all along. It's just a small bruise and he made it sound like this was a big deal.
"I can manage. Thank you." I replied curtly. He nodded. An awkward silence filled us. He broke the silence first.
"Don't forget our deal. Bye." He said nonchalantly walking away from me.
"Don't be too clumsy little girl, you might hurt yourself more." He added abruptly and waved his hands goodbye. "Bye." I whispered. Guess he's not that bad after all.
-NORMAL POV-
Mikan watched the guy fade from her sight. She walked away as fast as she could when she thought the guy was gone. Her mind wondered what would happen when their deal started and if she would meet that guy again to fulfill the deal on the first place. Crimson eyes and raven hair flashed on her mind as she think of what happened earlier. Taken away by her thoughts she didn't notice that someone with crimson orbs was peering over her as she walked home.
~End of Chapter 2~
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