NATSUME'S POV
I'm so excited to see her again! Though of course I won't show it... It's been 10 years since I've seen her, you know?
My mom transferred me to this so called Alice Academy, it was a school for rich, good looking and smart kids. Also, Ruka's studying there, that's why I'm pretty sure that Ruka was so happy when he heard I will be studying there.
I excitedly got ready for school. I wore a black plain shirt, jeans and black high-cut. I stuffed my phone and ear phones in my bag and went out of my room.
I quickly ate breakfast and rode on my sports car before my douch bag father could call me. I quickly texted Ruka.
To: Ruka
I'm on my way to the academy, are you sure she'll be there?
From: Natsume
I sighed, what if she doesn't come? All my effort will come to waste. I then heard my phone rang. I quickly took it out and read the message.
To: Natsume
Definitely. Are you excited?
From: Ruka
I inwardly groaned at the thought of even telling him I got so excited about this. Now, what to say... what to say..
To: Ruka
Not really. I just don't want to waste your expectations. Anyways, how are you and Imai going? Still together?
From: Natsume
To: Natsume
Hotaru and me are good, though we did got into a little fight but Mikan fixed it for us. I'll just talk to you again later..
From: Ruka
I arrived at the academy, I saw Ruka with Imai by the Academy's parking lot. Where's Mikan? I thought she'll be here already?
I got out of the car and walked towards the couple, "Hey!" I called. They turned their heads and saw me, Ruka gave out a smile while Imai still has her stoic face.
"You're 2 minutes late." Imai told, no, scolded me, I inwardly snorted. She never changed. "Where's Polka?" I asked. Imai smirked, "She's not yet here, can't you see?"
Then my phone rang and I inwardly groaned. Who would be texting me at this moment?
To: Natsume
Dude, I heard you transferred in our school? Text me in what class you're in, k?
From: Koko
To: Natsume
Can't wait to see you dude! Text me?
From: Tsubasa
To: Natsume
Hey there bad prince, wanna go out some time?I heard the news flying that you just transferred in Alice Academy. Text and call me, xx!
From: XXX XXX XXX
How did they know I was transferring? Is it my father's doing again? My privacy's ruined again! Tch. He doesn't even have the right to do this!
"Who's texting you?" Ruka asked, I looked at him. Was he expecting someone? Was it Mikan he was expecting? Was Mikan the unregistered number? Tch. Mikan won't text me such things anyways.
"Just Koko and Tsubasa, why?" I said. He rubbed the back of his nape and smiled sheepishly, "He was was expecting that you received Mikan's number, guess the message failed." Imai spoke for him.
Suddenly a hand was on my shoulder and I can hear heavy panting from behind me. "Gomen. So how many hours or minutes was I late today?" A female voice asked, the voice sounded so angelic. Does the owner of the voice sing or something?
I looked at Imai and Ruka, they had a shocked reaction on their faces. Wait, wait. Is a ghost or something behind me?
"Mikan.." Polka's name escaped both Imai and Ruka's lips. My eyes widened and I turned around to meet face to face with an angel.
She was wearing a long sleeved shirt that reaches until her elbow, it was color red, tight jeans that has a dark shade of grey. Some sneakers that's color red too and putted her auburn locks into a high pony tail. I sense a change in her... what is it?
"Hello? Am I even talking to anyone?" She asked, waving her hands at our gaping faces. We all snapped out of it, Imai was the first one to speak, "See? Feels better, right?" Polka beamed at her then smiled at me. "It does. Say, you're Natsume, right?" She asked me.
I smirked, she remembers me at least. "You care?" Her smile got even grew wider and she hugged me. "You are Natsume! I missed you!" She said, I inwardly smiled. I missed you too, I wanted to say. But I couldn't, way too cliché for me.
She pulled away and frowned. "You changed." She stated, her frown deepened as I averted my gaze. She noticed my changes. "Not really. You changed yourself." I said, looking anywhere but her eyes.
"I have changed a bit." She said then faced me to her, looking through me. "You've changed more than I did." She said in below a whisper and I heard her, I didn't look her in the eye.
"Let's go, I don't want to be late for my first day in this academy." I said, I quickened my pace as I left. She catched up and walked beside me.
"Have you found your lost dream?" She asked while we were already walking in the empty hallways. "Dream?" I ask, what does she mean by my lost dream?
"You forgot? Oh well. Anyways, how's Aunt Kaoru?" She asks, dismissing our earlier topic. "She's good. She misses you actually, she's been whining about not being able to contact you in anyway she or I can." I groaned, remembering her shouting at me because she can't talk to Polka. It gives me the shivers.
The girl beside me just gave out a light giggle and smiled at me, she handed me a piece of paper. "This is my number, tell Auntie to call me whenever she feels to." She said, I was shocked, she really wants to talk to my talkative mother?
Well, I do have a benefit on this. I get to keep her number. "Natsume? Are you coming?" I didn't notice that she went ahead of me. I inwardly smirked at the thought of pissing her off by calling her from time to time.
MIKAN'S POV
We entered the classroom, all eyes were on us. Some boys were having hearts on their eyes, girls were drooling dreamily and some were fixing theirselves to look pretty and whatsoever. "Where's the teacher?" Hotaru asked, she was behind me and Natsume.
"Narumi-sensei's coming in at about 5 minutes." I said, Natsume raised a brow at me and I just smiled sweetly at him. Hotaru and Ruka sat down on their seats, beside each other.
After exactly 5 minutes, Narumi-sensei entered with a twirl and I was just beside Natsume, accompanying him.
"Ohayou, Minna-san! Ah! Our new student's already here!" Narumi-sensei exclaimed at us, he then looked at me and I just smiled at him, he returned the smile and went to where I was.
"Mikan-chan, it's a good thing you're back." He said, making my classmates gasp. I guess they were shocked that I was the nerd that they've despised.
"Arigatou, Narumi-sensei." I said, "You know, you can call me papa." Narumi-sensei told me softly. Suddenly Luna butted in, "Sensei, you forgot the new hot student. Don't give too much attention to that girl now, she doesn't need it."
"Ms. Koizumi, I believe that you don't need to dictate me things I need to do, and believe me Ms. Koizumi, this girl does need my attention." Narumi-sensei said, giving a stern look at Koizumi, "Narumi-sensei, it's alright. Let's just introduce the new student now. Afterall, Koizumi-san has a point. Let's just talk later, Narumi-sensei." I said, smiling at him.
His stern gaze softened automatically and told me to sit down on my seat already. I obediently followed his order.
"Uh, please introduce yourself." Sensei said, he looks like he's in another world. I looked worriedly at him then gave my attention to Natsume as Natsume spoke.
"Natsume Hyuuga, 15 years old just like most of you are. I transferred to this school due to some circumstances." He said and bore his crimson orbs to mine. "I hate noise and I like taking challenging challenges." He said and looked away from me and looked at Narumi-sensei.
"I'm done introducing myself, so stop your daze." He told sensei. "Huh? Uh, yeah, um... your seat is beside... Mikan-chan... please sit down and free period.." Narumi-sensei said and exited the room, still in a daze.
My phone suddenly rang, I quickly was fishing it in my bag. Panicking, for it won't stop ringing, my classmates are already looking my way with an annoyed expression. At last, I found it! I took it out and read the messages.
To: Mikan
Hey, did you hear? Natsume's coming! Text me if you already saw him.
From: Tsubasa
To: Mikan
Mikan, Natsume's back! Are you in the same class as him? Text me if you are!
From: Koko
To: Mikan
Tch. You just took of your ugly glasses, that's why they're giving you attention. Once you put it back, they won't care about you anymore. And one more thing, bad prince's mine, back off. Such pathetic situation you're in.
From: Koizumi
I sighed, here we go again. I quickly texted back Koko's and Tsubasa's text but I casually ignored Koizumi's text.
To: Tsubasa
I've already seen him, we're in the same class actually. Why are you not present for home room anyways? Misaki's looking for you.
From: Mikan
To: Koko
We're in the same class, why are you and Tsubasa not present for home room anyways? Sumire's looking for you.
From: Mikan
I closed my phone and took out a book entitled, 'A Big Change'. I was so engrossed with the story that I can't hear anything anymore. My eyes hurt a bit, so I marked the book, closed it and closed my eyes for a minute.
NATSUME'S POV
I saw her reading a book, she's always been addicted to books. Though, why is it that she reads like it's very relatable to her life?
I just silently watched her read, suddenly she closed the book along with her eyes. I stared at her face for a while, why does it look tired? How many things did I miss in her life?
"Polka, what book were you reading?" I asked her, she looked at me and smiled. She handed me the book, she knew me too well. She still remember that when I ask what book she's reading, I want to read it too.
I took the book and read it's cover, 'A Big Change' was the title. I looked at her still smiling at me. "Oi Polka, what's this about?" I asked her, she looked at me skeptically. I shrugged and read it's summary.
I was a nerd back then, people would always make fun of me, torture me, abuse me. My parents dislike me, they never showed any love for me. I was all alone, until a handsome guy noticed me, we didn't have a good impression on each other at first but as days go by, he started to become close to me. We started hanging out and such, he comforts and protects me when people hurts me. suddenly, fate played a trick on us, we were separated from each other. Years after, he came back but... why doesn't he remember me? I'm Hanna, read my story to find out if I'll be forever forgotten or get my happy ending.
"You can borrow it for a while, if you like to read it." She said softly. I nodded at her and stuffed her book in my bag.
After Narumi-freak's free period, a stern looking man entered the room. What caught my eye was a frog was on his shoulder! What kind of freaking' teacher is this now?
"Ah, Hyuuga. I'm Jinno-sensei, I'll be teaching you mathematics. Since you're new, I'll let you listen to the discussion first." He said, eyeing me like I'm a prey.
Mikan quickly got out her notebook, listening attentively in class and is taking down notes from time to time. I, on the other hand, took out my manga and covered my face with it, I'm slowly drifting into a deep slumber when- "HYUUGA!" A loud voice called me.
I took my manga off my face and looked at the person who called me, disturbing my nap. It was that frog freak. "HYUUGA, I TOLD YOU TO LISTEN TO THE DISCUSSION, NOT TO SLEEP IN MY CLASS! NOW PICK, YOU'RE GOING TO BE TUTORED BY MS. SAKURA OR GET OUT! WICH ONE, HYUUGA?!" He asked in a shouting manner, his orbs showed flames of anger towards me.
I shrugged and pointed at Polka, "Huh?" She asked, she wasn't listening to the freak's lecture on me but she was self-studying? Who in the world does that?!
"So you pick Sakura, eh? Alright, after school, you and Sakura will be left behind and she'll teach you the lessons you missed and the lessons you didn't heard earlier." He said, calming himself down.
DING! DING!
The bell rang, signaling that it's already break time. Students came rushing towards the door, soon enough the classroom was almost empty except for two people who decided to not move.
"Natsume, why am I going to teach the discussion earlier?" Mikan asked Nastume, the lad grunted, "Frog freak saw that I was taking a nap in his class, he lectured me and let me pick to get out of the class or be tutored by you on the earlier discussion." he explained to her.
"Jin-jin said that? Oh well, you're great in studies anyways. See you later at dismissal!" She stood up and left the room. Natsume just lazily stood up, stuffed his hands in his pocket and also left.
