CHAPTER ONE

Having a co-ugly best friend

I am the infamous slut, Natsume Hyuuga, heir of the multi-billionaire Hyuuga companies. I was born with the brains but not with the looks. I have a perfect face, though. I have a messy raven hair same as my dad. The only thing that seems to be ruining my face is this stupid freckles and pimples in my head. If it weren't for my title, I would be thrown in the garbage dump of insufferable insults.

Since I'm an incredible fast-learner, I was homeschooled. But ever since that old man hits something hard on his empty head, I swear I don't know what happened, he decided me to enter Third Grade at our own all-for-elites school.

He's actually dumb, you know! Did he really mean it? I perfectly know that he knows the reason why I hesitated and keep on arguing about that matter. But he's really a hard-headed freak or he just wants to see his only son and the future bearer of his companies suffer. He's truly a demon that is inside a fake angel suit. He's always pretending to be high and almighty like some powerful god or something. Tch. How pathetic and lame could it be?

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Today is June 1, XXXX, my first day of school and my damn first step of going to hell. I moaned when the alarm clock woke me up followed by my personal maids. Like sh*t, won't they for once stop taunting me? Having them follow me every second of my life is a big pain in the ass. I mean, they're so plastic when that old man and hag is there but when they aren't...

They were laughing following behind me towards the bathroom with a towel on their hands.

"Ha-ha, you know? If it weren't for his title and our debt to his parents, I swear I wouldn't dare serve an ogre," one of them spoke which I badly wanted to pulverize ever since she first took a step in my territory, my house, my mansion, my castle!

"Yeah, me too, ha-ha," the others replied in unison. Well, I guess, I don't need to crush just one but five.

After I put on my uniform, I gave a death glare at the foolish maids who teased me a while ago before going inside my own limousine. I smirked when I felt like they were gulping and looking at each other with bewilderment and fear the moment I went inside the car.

It took about half an hour ride from my estate to my private helicopter and another half-hour ride to the other side of the country. My place is located somewhere at the southernmost part of the nation, where there's a very big piece of land far from the pollution in the city proper. Yapp! That whole hundred or more acres of land is all mine, I mean, ours-my family. Meanwhile, the school is located in Tokyo, capital of Japan. More or less, the distance from here to there would be (600) six hundred miles. So, it makes sense why I was a few minutes late at school. I would put all the blames on the maids which are in fact true. They were so busy chatting and making fun of me that they lost track of time.

When I was still in the school gate, ahead of me, I spotted a very beautiful girl. She has gray or was it black hair? I couldn't tell. I think I'm in a spell. She's really like a goddess. She has natural red lips or was it her lipstick? But isn't she still too young to use make-up? Besides, it's forbidden; rules, you know? Anyway, she was laughing with her friends while pointing at a certain auburn-haired girl whose face I couldn't see clearly since she was facing down.

I didn't know what got into me but I got out from the car and walked confidently at their direction. I had an eyebrow tilted upwards as I grabbed the beautiful girl's hand. She spun around at the same time as their friends. Sure I was dumbstruck.

"Hey, look! Mr. Frog Prince here came to rescue her princess Ugly Duckling," she yelled to her friends. I was hurt by that. They started laughing at me. Those bitches especially when...

"Natsume?" the brunette said or more like asked as she made eye-to-eye contact with me.

"Mikan?"

Is it really her? Well, I haven't seen her since I started homeschooling. That was like more or less four years ago. She's the daughter of my parents' business partner. Well, more like her father owned, like mine, a multi-billionaire company. He was always right beside us in terms of commerce, trade, etc. But our parents aren't rivals or enemies; instead, they're partners for already quite a long time. They were like together, hand-in-hand, in overpowering and overthrowing other companies.

"Natsume Hyuuga?" she confirmed furthermore.

"Yes, it's me, idiot!" I think hearing the word 'Hyuuga' brought down chills to the three girls since they glance awkwardly at each other before excusing themselves to leave.

It took for us a while to compose ourselves. I mean, we haven't seen nor played at each other for quite a while already. And I guessed she has the same fate as I have. There were a lot of pink spots around her face and blackheads near her nose. Imagine me, the not yet famous prince personality, with those stupid freckles, etc. on my face times two that to her.

We walked silently down the path walk. We decided to ditch homeroom and all those introduction part because we knew that if we were there during the 'my name is... Nice to meet you' part, you know what would happen. Laughters everywhere!

"Hey," I said, finally breaking the silence.

"Hey"

"What's up? I guess you-"

"Yeah! I got teased up pretty badly. The one earlier with those girls was just a minor one"

"Wait! You mean-"

"I'm homeschooled since four years ago until dad convinced me to study here"

It makes sense, if the others already knew how important she was, they would just leave her alone. Wait, what did she say again? Damn! Could this be a sign- No! No! She's just my friend. No way would this girl be my parents talking about the perfect match for me that would also be studying at this school as my classmate. Surely, maybe she would be since we have the same face-err-same condition, etc. But I couldn't accept it. Besides, they said my classmate. Maybe and hopefully we're in different rooms. I really couldn't treat her more than just being my childhood friend.

"Hey, Natsume"

"Yeah?"

"I guess it's best if we return to class now? What's your room? I'm in 2-B," WTF! Great, just great!

I sighed inside so to avoid questions, "same"

"Really? It's great. Hey, how about you and me being best of friends again like we used to before since-"

"Sure" I didn't want her to say the last sentence. I perfectly knew what she meant. No one would make friends with us and we were correct. So, we have no option as to who to socialize with but each other.

When we entered the room, I could tell by the looks of my classmates that they were all holding on their laugh. If it weren't for that blond guy teacher telling them that we're the son and daughter of Mr. Hyuuga and Mr. Yukihira, we would be dead meat of insults.

The teacher explained some things that we missed during homeroom like having a partner. I felt like everyone already got one so I have no choice but to partner up and be seated next to her. The rest of the time was fine, I think. Well, at least she made a friend with two twin sisters named Anna (I called her pink girl) and Nonoko (no comment) and she introduced them to me.

The two were nice but my instincts tell me that they were just using Mikan to get famous. I mean, though she seems a little hideous but her family was on the Top One richest company all over the world chart. Of course, beside them is ours. So, those damn plastics seem like not just using her but me as well. But I guess I should stay shut for a while and observe them before I skip to any conclusions. But I'm a little bit concerned already especially towards Mikan because even once, my instincts never betrayed me. And I don't want to see my new-slash-old best friend get hurt most importantly in a matter of friendship again.