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Chapter 3 – The Student Council Member pt.1

It's already pitch black outside and I still can't sleep. Curtains closed, lights out, warm favorite blanket and my snuggly teddy bear doesn't seem to help at all. This is the first.

What's happening? That's the question. Insomnia issue never troubled me before, but now it happens. I try to get a comfortable position from turning my body from side to side, to bury my face against the pillow. But I'm still conscious.

When I closed my eyes, all the events from this morning till I got home from the hospital are replayed inside my head, like a videotape which refuses to stop play backing. Showing a short flickering scene and shift to a different one before it finishes. I begin to wonder, is this how an insomniac feels everyday? To have moments, including the unwanted ones to be played as if his or her life is in a film? Now I feel sorry for them and that point I realize overthinking can affect your life.

After quite sometime, the playbacks start to fade, I guess my brain is now too tired to project those things and decide to let me doze off. My eyes now peacefully closed and I'm ready to go to dreamland. Good ni—

RING! RING! RING!

My eyes shoot open. Reflexively grab my cellphone on the desk beside me to kill that ringtone which was brutal enough to wake me up mercilessly. My head turns dizzy from the sudden wake.

Since I'm fresh again now, I pull my phone and discovered that someone sent me a text message. I know it's not good to have your eyes looking at the blinding bright screen in a dark room, but when there's a text message waiting to be read beside you, it's hard to resist.

My eyes search for the name of the sender at the top screen and it showed: 'From: Len'

I should've known.

Even though I was pretty annoyed for him to text in the middle of the night, but I can't help pressing my phone to read the content.


'From: Len

Hey, u goin to school tmrw? Can u give me d notes I'm missing? And oh, yeah, don't forget to come to visit me after school. We're goin to have some fun. See u my maid =D'


Ugh, seriously? That is the important text that worth my sleeping deficiency to return?

And why do I have to come to visit tomorrow?

Annoyed with a low groan, I claw one of my pillows and send them flying out of my bed, hitting the wall in a perfect shot. It calms me down a bit. Don't know what to do next, I drop my head tiredly onto the foam mattress.

Stupid Len.

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Thanks to him, now I'm having some dark circles under my eyes. They aren't very dark but they're noticeable. Today is freakin' Monday and it's not a good day to snooze around in a middle of class. And also, it seems like the news of Len hospitalized are spreading around. All my classmates are bussing around with his name to and fro, especially girls.

"Len broke his leg?"

"He also had his arm fractured."

"I heard from someone."

"I hope he's fine."

"When he'll be back to school?"

"Should we visit him?"

"You had trouble sleeping last night, Rin?" Miku gets up from her seat and parks her hands on the edge my desk, snapping me off from eavesdropping.

"I… I'm just tired." My words are flying with yawns now.

"You need to go to the clinic?"

"I don't think that's necessary."

Miku lowers her head so that she can get a full view on my sleepy face. "But think about your health, too. Lack of sleeping isn't good."

"I can hold on till school's over."

She looks a little worried, maybe I don't look as good as I thought.

She pulls her face away, "Well, just don't push yourself, okay?"

"I'll try." I said as I tried to stretch a smile.

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The school is over. Now I can go home and nap without being caught by the teachers.

I probably wouldn't stay awake if it wasn't for Miku and the rest of the gang, with their jokes and teases all afternoon. But when we parted as we say goodbye, the sandman returns. Crap.

I continued slurping the ice cappuccino I bought from the school canteen along the hallway and sometimes my eyes closed for a few seconds before opening them again to refresh myself. But it turned out to be a bad idea. Really bad.

When I was shutting my eyes, I'm not aware to the people in front of me. Suddenly, a harsh bump interrupted my seconds of peaceful darkness. I open my eyes and find a boy standing there.

He's taller than me (of course), has the same blond hair (neat but still categorized as messy) as mine and several hairpins securing his fringe from covering his face (which I wonder why he'd do that since he's a boy), and his face is rather arrogant for me. But what makes my eyes shift is the shiny glass badge sitting on his green wool vest next to the school logo. A student council badge. He also wears an armband, which tells me that my guess is correct.

To make the matter worse, I realize that I've spilled my drink all over his vest and made him drop his now caffeine-soaked books.

I cringe and apologize to him. He seems expressionless and instead of giving a feedback, he just crosses his arms. His sharp eyes turn to me.

"It's your fault for dropping my books and drench them and my vest. So you take them."

Pursing my lips, I hurriedly crouch and collect the cluttering books. In my head, my thought resonates,

'What is it with this guy? He's so insolent.'

I take all of them and give them to him, who was still waiting impatiently.

"I'm still not letting you go for this." He mutters.

"I'm sorry?"

Not clearing his statement he just turn his back to me after receiving the books and walk away.

"Tomorrow, come to the Student Council room after school and I'll give some instructions there."

"But—"

"Deny and I'll leave a bad report on you."

He walks so fast that I lost sight of him before I could argue and left me alone.

What just happened?

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Walking home from school now feels like a chore for me. With my head hanging down and the slow walking makes me look more like a broken-down zombie than a regular midschool girl. The image of the rude senior boy is floating in my mind. Are all student council members behave like that? If they do, I'm starting to dislike them.

But I feel something in my head is missing. What could that be?

Now I remember.

I was so sleepy the whole day that I forgot that I have to go to the hospital to visit Len.

I don't think I could make it. I'm super drained and the only thing I have in my head is having forty winks as soon as possible. Besides, it's obviously too late to go there. So I fish my Iphone out (yes I have two phones) and text him quickly,


'To: Len

Len, can you video call me? Like, right now? I don't have enough credit to call you.'


It only takes like six seconds for him to video call me directly. I myself don't expect it to be that soon.

"Hey Rin~" For a second I almost believed his face merged with my phone screen. His camera is only an inch away from touching his nose.

"Gah!, you're too close!" I blurt out as I move my phone farther to recover from the shock attack.

He adjusts his phone with a sneer, "Sorry."

"Uh, okay, anyway, I can't make it today."

"Whaddaya mean?" He raises his eyebrows and then squints his eyes, "Is it me or you look more like a human panda today?"

"No, it's just lack of sleep." I'm starting to have an urge to yawn again.

"You weren't opening 'some' websites at night, weren't you?" His expression turns more to a naughty suspicion.

"Of course not!" My eyebrows knit themselves in objection. The area around my nose suddenly becomes warm.

"Heheh... Just kidding."

"Jeez, it's your fault anyway for texting me at midnight! Not to mention I have trouble sleeping yesterday." A huff ends my sentence. Before Len can say something that will eventually make me forget the reason I want him to call me in the first place, I continue, "Oh, just forget about that. I wanna tell you I can't come visit you today because as you can see, I'm so tired because I didn't sleep well last night."

I thought he's going to force and accuse me for giving such reasons so that I can avoid seeing him, but like always, he responds the opposite way I'm thinking.

"Owh, it's okay." He smiles, "But you have to come when you feel better." He pauses for a second, "Tomorrow?"

For some reason, the half of me is relieved for him letting me go, but the other half feels sorry for him. The thought of him waiting for me to come to visit him from morning or the loneliness he's having right now in the moment might be the right reason for it.

Again, I'm overthinking about him. I feel like cursing to myself.

"Uh, yeah, that's cool. Tomorrow is fine."

Just as I said that, I remember something happened earlier. The point when the student council boy told me to have an appointment tomorrow. That senior with the jerky attitude which irks me like hell.

"Rin?" I realize Len's still talking to me, "You okay? You spaced out."

"Nothing… just thinking about a member of the student council."

Len tilts his head, I bet he has no idea what I'm saying.

"Who?"

And so I told him. The whole 'cappuccino incident' story.

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"And before he left me, he told me to come to the student council room and wait for his instructions. That's just so annoying and I mean, he can be a member of a student council, but does he really have to act that way?" My head heats up in the slightest thought of him.

I notice Len looks serious and uncomfortable, as if something from the story bothers him.

"Can you define his appearance?" he asked, he sounds more like interrogating me with that face of his and the current tone he's using.

"About five foot tall, short blond hair with hairpins, blue eyes and last but not least, arrogant face." I said bluntly and flat.

I wait for Len's comment, but nothing comes out from him. He just stay there, frozen. His face looks more intense than before.

"Len?" To be honest, his gaze kinda makes me worried.

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Evening falls just in time when I reached home. The sky is no longer light blue and had transformed to purplish orange. My legs now feel like boiled noodles, which is ready to be consumed any minute. After I went to my room, I throw my backpack to the floor and throw myself onto my bed that I so desired before. My exhaustion and sleepiness get better of my mental urge to change my school uniform into casual clothes. If my mom's here, she would be likely to yell at me for not changing my clothes before touching my clean, made bed. Which, she assumes, it can cause bacteria and dust particles from outside the house that can infest my bedroom. And eventually, it can make me sick.

Mothers, you know.

My eyelids are getting heavier and heavier by the minute, but I can stop thinking Len's last words before ending the conversation.

*Flashback*

"I know it sounds unreasonable but I really suggest you to ignore him. I want you to go directly to the hospital after school, got it?" Said Len, no smiles, giggles, or even amusement fill his face. It's the first time I see him like this. He looks rather intimidating.

"He said he's going to tell on me if I don't go there tomorrow."

"I'm telling you, he's not someone who you want to get involved with." His voice becomes stern and deep.

"Can you please tell me at least why?

"I swear I'm going to tell you tomorrow. The whole thing. Just don't go there. Promise?"

*Flashback ends*

What is it? What is it about the guy that makes Len anxious? I wish I knew. The more I think about it, the more curious I get. Rivalry maybe? Len seems like wanting me to avoid him as much as possible. But why he's not telling me the whole thing?

Something must've happened. And the only way to find out about it is to search for it.


Note: How r u guys? Having the holiday fun? Man, I got mentally tired from the Semester exams... But that's a life of a typical high school student .-. Sorry for the late update hehe...

That's not all. I'm gonna have Prelims in Jan (Wish me luck) and homework for all subjects which I have submit the moment I return to school. Fun times, eh? *crying at the corner of the room*

Anyway~

Bet if u'r a Vocaloid or a Fanloid fan (at least) u must've guess the cocky boy :D (Hint: Manly hairpins) *getting hit for spoilling* And yeah, Len's making a little appearance in this chapter (but he'll be back in the next one, promise)

If the story's not good, I'M SORRY! *hiding under a rock* My vocab's kinda down these days and I'm trying to regain them back as soon as possible TTATT or it's just I'm not good with words .-. I'm busy making fanarts too.

Again thank you for your reviews and I decided to reply them on the chapter instead of PM. Sorry for being so chatty.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays =D