"Do you now understand why this is something that you mustn't do?" Mephisto said to Rochelle.
"No." she said while diverting her eyes.
"Well, beating up almost all of the girls in your dorm and nearly destroying the whole bathroom isn't acceptable." He said. Rochelle could tell that he was getting annoyed.
"Now I understand that you have a condition. Have you been taking your medicine?" He asked. She didn't respond.
"Am I talking to myself?" he asked.
"No, sir."
"Have you?"
"Yes, sir." She replied.
"Well maybe we should have your dosage increased. It doesn't seem to be working." He said.
"That won't be necessary, sir." She said. Mephisto laughed.
"Is there something you find funny, sir?" She asked him coldly.
"No, but you don't have to say sir after every sentence." He said before having a sip of his cup of tea. "For someone on a fuse as short as yours, you're very respectful." Rochelle furrowed her eyebrows.
"That's just how I was raised, sir," she began. "And for the record, I don't like you. At all." Mephisto laughed again.
"Well that was out of the blue!" he said. "It's okay. I get the feeling that not many people do, but at least you were honest enough to admit it. Oh, one last question." She raised her right eyebrow.
"Have you met Rin Okumura yet?" he asked.
"We have all of the same classes, sir. Including in Cram School." She said.
"Well, what do you think of him?" Mephisto asked with a freakish grin on his face. She frowned in disgust.
"I'm gonna kill him." Rochelle replied.
"Well, I thought you two would be great friends!" he said.
"Well, you thought wrong." She said. "May I leave now?"
"Yes, and your punishment is to clean the girls' bath for a whole month. Understood?" He asked while leering at her. She nodded and left the office without another word. He took another sip of tea.
"Hmm, not even the slightest objection…""A new student?" Suguro said.
"Yeah, and I heard it's a girl," Shima said. "I hope she's cute!"
"You think every girl is cute." Rochelle said. She had become a decent acquaintance to the Kansai trio for the sole purpose that Suguro didn't like Rin either. In grammar school people always say to become friends with people who share like dreams and ideas. For the first time she could remember, she was actually going by the advice that someone gave her, but it wasn't necessarily for a good purpose.
"You think everything that moves is cute!" Shima said, teasing her. "Especially Okumura Sensei." It was no secret to the three that she had a thing for their teacher, or the fact that she was the biggest tsundere in the history in the world. Well, not entirely. Most of her inside matched the outside; hard as rocks. Even so, that couldn't get past her love, passion and obsession for absolutely anything she found to be cute. Paintings, clothes, stuffed animals, everything cute.
"Do you want me to knock the wind out of you again, or do you want me to aim my elbow higher and break a few ribs. It wouldn't be the first time I've done it," she said while covering her already pink face. Shima chuckled awkwardly.
"Now, now Ro. You wouldn't do that… would you?" he asked out of fear. She simply looked at him and he began to chuckle nervously again. The door opened.
"Okay settle down class," Yukio said as he walked in with a girl close it foor. She was wearing a kimono and had medium-length blonde hair. Her round face was slightly pink, which brought out her green eyes. Every single nerve in Rochelle's body jumped.
"Oh my God! She's soooo cute!" she screamed in her head. Shima patted her on the shoulder.
"She's so cute!" he whispered. "Makes you wanna die, doesn't she?" Rochelle didn't fully turn around, but still punched him in the face.
"Now, Rochelle. Please omit the violence." Yukio said while pushing up his glasses. He must've known that drives her crazy because every time he did that she would comply with whatever he said. If he told her to jump off of a building and pushed up his glasses while he said it, nine chances out of ten she would do it, and ten out of ten if he smiled while saying it. Rochelle shifted in her seat and paid attention.
"Class, this is Shiemi. She is your new classmate." He said. The said girl bowed slightly.
"It's nice to meet you all!" she said timidly. When she got back up she looked in the first row and smiled.
"Rin!" she said happily. Rochelle frowned at the sound of his name. Shiemi walked over to the empty seat beside him and sat down.
"What's the deal with those to?" Suguro said under his breath, which is exactly what Rochelle thought. The thought that anyone could like such a pompous jerk made her sick to the stomach, or maybe it was something else.
"You monster! No one will ever love you!""Ngh," Rochelle gagged. She began to feel dizzy and her vision blurred, but she shook it off and proceeded to pay attention to class.
"Okumura!" this was the third teacher today to have to wake Rin up. Sure, all throughout her life people had called Rochelle a lazy bum or a thug, but she always paid attention in class and passed all of her tests. She was a living and walking contradiction.
"Okay class, I'll be passing back your tests now." Yukio said as he stood in front of the class with a stack of papers in his class.
"I know I passed this one!" Suguro said. "I studied hours."
"Really?" Rochelle asked. "I didn't study at all." She sat in her seat casually as she chewed on her bubble gum, which surprisingly, none of the teachers had told her to throw away. The teacher called up the students one by one, and when it was Rin's turn, Rochelle discovered that he only got a 2. She laughed at him hysterically.
"Damn, you is stupid!" she said between laughing.
"Are." Yukio corrected. "You shouldn't be calling people stupid when you're making grammatical errors such as that, no matter how stupid they may be." Rin frowned at his younger brother.
"Suguro." Yukio called. When he got up, he muttered something to Rin, which Rochelle couldn't quite make out. She could tell, however, that it made him angry. When Suguro got his paper, he showed it to reveal that he had a 98.
"Good shit Bon!" Rochelle cheered.
"The swearing is unnecessary." Yukio said calmly while pushing up his glasses once again. "Suguro, very well done." He said while smiling. Rin got angry and yelled at him.
"How the hell did you get a 98?" he asked angrily.
"Because I'm actually serious about exorcism qualification!" he yelled back. Yukio nodded in agreement and called Rochelle to the front of the class. He handed her the paper and smiled.
"Excellent work!" he said. "I'm very proud of you." She rubbed the back of her head modestly with a blush spread across her face. She then looked down at the paper, and much to her surprise she got a 100.
"Woah!" she yelled. "Hey Bon, Dumbass, check this out!" she held up her paper so they could see.
"Wow!" Suguro said in surprise. Rin seemed even angrier.
"You just passed because you've got the hots for Yukio!" Rin yelled. He was absolutely right. She had no problem paying attention in class when Yukio was teaching.
"Cram it dumbass!" she shot back. Suguro stepped in.
"Everyone else is working their asses off!" he said. "All you ever do is sleep in class. At least Rochelle pays attention." After he said that, Konekomaru and Shima stepped in and pulled him back while Yukio pulled Rin back.
"You're absolutely right Suguro. Please tell him more." He said innocently, causing Rin to get mad and question whose side he was on when the bell rang.
"Well, that's all for today class!" he said as everyone was walking out, he placed a hand on Rochelle's shoulder.
"You shouldn't be chewing gum in school." He said. "Go spit it out."
"And here I thought I got off the hook."
"Now why can't I run with the boys again?" Rochelle asked their Cram School gym teacher.
"Well, I'll be using the faster Leaper for the boys." He said to her.
"Now why is that?" She asked angrily. "If the toad is on a chain and it's about to get me then jerk the chain back!"
"My goodness. There's no getting through to you is there?" the teacher asked. She gave him a look that said "No duh!" so he finally gave in.
"Okay then," he sighed. "Rin, Suguro, Rochelle, you're up." He said. The three slid down into the pit.
"Now then, this isn't just a footrace." The teacher said. "Try to subdue the Leaper as well." The three of them weren't listening. They only wanted to see who could run faster.
"You havin' trouble keepin' up shorty?" Rin asked her.
"Kiss my ass bitch!" she said while trying to catch up to him. They were neck and neck, but it didn't really help Rochelle so much that her legs were so short. Just as she was about to give in, Suguro dropkicked Rin in his back.
"Damn!" She yelled while unconsciously sliding on the back of her heel to come to a complete stop. She could hear the loud jerking of a chain and realized that the teacher had to stop the toad.
"My bad!" she yelled while shooting him a goofy thumb's up. He shook his head and ran down to stop the fight that Rin and Suguro were having.
"Beat his ass!" Rochelle yelled out, cheering Suguro on, but the teacher stopped the fight. He then took Suguro off to the side and spoke to him. Rochelle noticed that while they were talking, he stopped to look at Rin.
"I wonder what they're talking about." Rochelle thought as Suguro angrily trudged back.
"Next up!" the teacher said and Shiemi and Izumo slid down into the pit while Rin, Suguro and Rochelle climbed back up. When they were back on higher grown, Rochelle spoke to Suguro.
"Well Bon, what did he say?" She asked him curiously.
"He said that I shouldn't associate with Rin because I'm an honor's student and Rin got in the school because he has 'baggage'." He said angrily.
"Baggage?" she echoed. She looked at Rin for a split second, but then turned back around when she heard someone falling. It was Shiemi. It didn't really help that she was wearing a yukata, but Rochelle doubted that it would make much of a difference if she wore one or not because she couldn't run too fast and was really ditzy. The teacher yelled at Shiemi for not being dressed properly and sent them back up. A cell phone rang.
"Who has their cell on in school?" Suguro said angrily, when the teacher answered a cell phone.
"Meh, grammar school was like this too." Rochelle said while sitting on the ground. After the teacher spoke on the phone for a few more seconds he turned to the class.
"Okay everyone, the rest of this class will be a study hall!" he began. "These Leapers can read one's emotions and attack when they see weakness, so stay out of the pit until I get back." The teacher then dashed off while saying "I'M COMING MY CUTE LITTLE KITTY!"
"Is it even possible to have a study hall for P.E.?" Izumo asked no one in particular.
"And did he just say 'My cute little kitty'?" Shima said. Rochelle shook her head.
"This is supposed do be a sacred school!" Suguro stated angrily. "Only the extremely motivated should come!" That one was directed at Rin.
"Look, you just need to chill, and besides, how do you know I'm not motivated." Rin asked.
"You don't act like it in class." Suguro shot back. Konekomaru and Shima tried to tell him that he was being childish and unreasonable, but he didn't listen.
"If you're motivated then prove it," he said as he pointed down to the toad. "With that! If you can go down and touch it then you have what it takes to be an exorcist. These kind of demons can read emotions. A true exorcist wouldn't waver over small emotions. If you can go touch it and come back then I will acknowledge you as a potential exorcist."
"Fine then, I'll do it." Rin said. "Is that what you expected me to say? What if I accidentally get killed? I can't die now. I have the same aspirations as you ya know? I can't be killed over petty stuff like this." Suguro had a confused look on his face, and then looked at Shima, Konekomaru, and Rochelle.
"Which one of you told him?" he asked the three angrily. Rochelle threw her hands up in defense.
"I ain't said shit Bon." She told him. He then looked directly at Shima, who began to giggle nervously.
"Aspiration my foot! You're just scared!" he said.
"Say whatever you want." Rin said calmly. Suguro clenched his teeth before sliding down into the pit. As he neared the toad, Izumo began to laugh and make fun of him. He suddenly paused.
"Oh shit." Rochelle said under her breath, and almost like she was the toad's cue, it roared loudly. The students on the pedestal gasped but Rin didn't hesitate to jump into action. He jumped between Suguro and the toad. The toad picked Rin up in his mouth and amost everyone was positive that Rin was a goner, but he told the toad to let him go and much to everyone's surprise it did. When he was back on the ground, Rin turned around to face Suguro and they began to have a heated argument.
"They'll be good friends." Rochelle said.
"Do you think so?" Shima asked her. She nodded.
"People with the same dreams and ideas always tend to get along well." She sighed.
"I might have to find some new friends…"