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Chapter 2: Getting familiar

"Natsume."

"Hold my heart with you. And with this, the tradition for love alice stone exchange is complete!"

"With this, in the future, we will be happy together! Forever..."

"A proposal...?"

Miyuki woke up on her bed, shocked about her dream. She cupped her hands onto her cheeks; it was hot. The thought of such a weird scene made her blush harder. Whose voice called out proposal? And why of all names did Natsume's name get into her subconscious?

Miyuki assumed it was because she was annoyed at him yesterday for being unnecessarily mean.

She, liking Natsume? There was no way...they had only met for a day. Confused, she was too tired to think about it any further and soon drifted back to counting sheep.

.oO0Oo.

Since breakfast, Miyuki decided in her mind that she felt most comfortable around Hotaru, so she stuck to her like glue-Miyuki didn't like to be alone and wanted a close companion.

"What are you looking at," Hotaru asked Miyuki with a poker face.

"Your purple eyes are so pretty! And you're so smart too; the opposite of me," Miyuki replied with awe.

At her previous school, she had many classmates who got along with her although no one ever approached Miyuki further after the incident where she had accidentally lit someone's pencil case on fire. But it just so happened that she transferred schools after the teacher found out about it a few months later, since the class was too scared to talk about it.

Koko approached the two with an interested expression after reading their conversations.

"Yo newbie, which elementary school did you go to?" Koko asked with his usual grin.

"One near the suburb I lived in, why? And don't call me a newbie!" he ignored her second statement.

"You look like someone we used to know." he said, tilting his head to one side.

"Really? I'm glad, what were they like?" Miyuki's curiosity had grown in her head. She waited for Koko, anticipating an answer from him.

"She was stupid and had the same dumb smile!" Koko ran off with laughter before Miyuki could throw insults at him.

"Hotaru, when he said 'we', he meant you too, right? The last sentence before he ran off couldn't have been true, ne Hotaru?" she pleaded, tugging on Hotaru's skirt and blinking back her non-existent tears.

"You said you were stupid yourself when you talked about my eyes," Hotaru replied swiftly as if Koko's accusation was Miyuki's fault. She picked up her finished tray and left Miyuki behind with a gobsmacked face.

.oO0Oo.

Miyuki was never good with the teachers; in middle school before she moved to Alice Academy she'd always be caught on the verge of sleeping; which didn't help the low marks on her test papers either. Through numerous experiences though, she found a way of avoiding questions whenever the teacher picked on her.

"Tachibana, come up here to answer this equation." Jinno hovered his eyes to see Miyuki clutching her stomach.

"Jinno sensei, may I please go to the infirmary? I don't think my food went down well…I think I might vomit—" Miyuki made a plausible noise from her mouth which put Jinno off. He reluctantly permitted her.

"Okay okay fine, hurry it up! You're disturbing the whole class here and wasting precious learning time. I won't let you off next time Tachibana."

"Thank you sensei!" Miyuki held her act until she was 10 metres away from the classroom to stay safe and headed for the infirmary.

I guess it's a free period for the rest of Jinno's class, she thought. Miyuki found the sign labelled 'infirmary' and quietly clicked open the door, looking out for students. It seemed vacant, so she dived straight for the bed.

"Ahh~! Free at last," Miyuki sighed with relief. She rolled onto her stomach and relaxed herself in the cushiony mattress.

"Oi, strawberry fields, I'm trying to get some sleep here."

Miyuki jumped with surprise and instinctively let out a shriek. "Hey! Who is that?" She scanned her eyes around the room to find Natsume on the other side of the curtains next to the bed.

"Natsume? I didn't know there was another bed here…Also where'd you get 'Strawberry fields' from?!"

"Someone was being too noisy so I was intending to burn off the intruder when I saw them with their skirt flipped up," Natsume said, irritated he had been awoken but satisfied he had company. Although he didn't show any signs of satisfaction of course. Natsume liked to keep his cool in front of everyone; except for his important ones.

In this case, she was just a transfer student who reminded him so much of Mikan…wasn't she?

"What a pervert, you didn't have to look there!" Miyuki whined.

"Anyhow. Natsume has the fire alice? Since you said you were going to burn me," She recalled.

"Took you a while, moron."

Miyuki ignored him. "What a coincidence! I have the fire alice too~ We were made to be partners I guess," she smiled.

"Hn." was all Natsume muttered before the bell rang to signal the end of the school day.

.oO0Oo.

So, Strawberry Fields has the fire alice… Natsume thought. He switched the light off in his room and climbed onto bed.

It's impossible to let go of my memories of Mikan; but ever since she came along, I can't stop thinking about their resemblance.

Natsume smirked. "A unique transfer student." and drifted off to sleep.

A few doors apart was Miyuki's room, also in deep thought.

I still don't get how I could've dreamed of proposing to such a pervert!

Miyuki fell asleep with confusion in her mind. Truthfully, she couldn't remember what elementary school she went to; and since she transferred, the back of her brain was telling her that she was missing something.


I'm sorry =A= That's what I have to say to you guys if I disappointed you D;
I'm not used to writing stories with chapters, so I'm slowly getting used to writing more and more each chapter. Is this still too short? I'll strive to make them longer every time ^^; But thank you for reading all this way! :3