The Orphan Flower

Kouji

Orphan?

Unanimous

Just lonely

It's life

Kouichi: Why are you doing his name first?!

Kouji: I'm older

Kouichi

Orphan?

U don't know

I don't know

Cheerful

Happy

Irritates people around him

Kouji: nice

Kouichi: hey!

Back to the story

"You look exactly like me!" pointed Kouichi

Remaining calm, Kouji looked at him "I guess I'm flattered you want to be like me" making the class laugh

"Students! Settle down! Kouchi sit down!" yelled their teacher

He nodded and sat back down in his seat glaring at Kouji at the same time. "Who is this weird idiot?" he thought

………………..

"Kouchi!" yelled his friends as he looked at them tiredly

"Why didn't you tell us that you had a twin?" asked Tomoki excitedly

He put his hand in a time out sign "Wait, wait. First, I don't have a twin brother. Second, if I did, I wouldn't want to be a twin with that idiot"

"You're right, I don't want to be a brother with an idiot with you" responded Kouji out of nowhere

He turned to him and pointed at him "YOU!"

"Congrats. You finally figured out who I am" Kouji sarcastically commented

The others in the hallway couldn't help it but laugh as they were passing by. "Oh Kouichi, you can be such an idiot at times" a girl announced

Izumi looked at the familiar gang "Oh don't worry" she said turning to her friends "It's only the wanna-be dorks"

"Nice, well unlike you guys who are the wanna-be normal kids" laughed Mimi

"You guys really irritate me when you do this" Kouji muttered walking away from the fight. Everyone looked at him and each other and began to walk towards their classes.

"Well at least that stopped them" Juri smiled

Rika paused "Well that's true….but it's kind of strange about Kouichi and Kouiji.

They're look alikes, and about the same in one way"

"HE AND I ARE NOT THE SAME!" Kouichi objected

"They're the same" they laughed

……………………………….

Outside

"Class, I want all of you to come one by one and pick a piece of paper with a number on it, that way, the person with the same number as yours, is obviously going to be your partner for this project" the teacher cheerfully announced going around to each student as they picked numbers.

Juri picked a number and looked at it "5?" she asked

"Hey, that's the same number I have" smiled Takato

Nervously she nodded and looked down "What should I say?" she thought as everyone began to listen to the directions. Later, everyone sat in different areas on the ground with a clipboard in their hands.

Takato sat down across from her "Do you want to start first?" as she nodded and read every question to him, as he answered. When it was time to switch, he began asking her questions.

"Are you new here?" he asked

She nodded "Yes, I am"

"What school did you used to attend?"

"It used to be a school in the orphanage, before they needed to relocate it"

He looked at another question on the paper "Are you living with your parents? or are they apart?"

She paused for a moment "I….used to live with both of my parents…I was younger at the time so I don't remember much, but……..I know that they didn't get along well….and……." she tried to explain. He reached his hand out to her but she quickly looked at him and smiled weakly 'I'm sorry, that's all I remember… um… let's go to the next question"

He nodded "I had no idea…" he thought

………………………..

"Hey Kouichi, how did you do with your partner?" Izumi asked

He glared at her "Don't. even. start."

Rika crossed her arms and sighed "He and his partner didn't bother asking a single question to each other. All they did was have a comeback war."

She looked at Rika confused "What?"

"I mean, his partner was Kouji"

"ah, I see" she nodded as she began to burst out laughing "I can really imagine that!"

"Hey! It's not funny!" he yelled

……………………………….

"Kouchi, will you please get the mail? I think I forgot to get them" his mother asked

He stood up from the chair and opened the door. "There's nothing to do anyways" he muttered looking at the mail.

"Geez, I can't even go home without seeing you here" a familiar voice sighed

He faced the person "Kouji? What are you doing in this apartment building?"

He rolled his eyes "I live here" and pointed at the door right next door to him"

"No way! I have to live right next to you?!" he exclaimed

"What's all the commotion about?" two adults asked at the same time opening the doors to look at the boys.

"Uh, hi mom!" Kouichi nervously greeted

Kouji looked at his dad "Sorry, about that"

The two parents became confused and looked at each other. Kouichi looked over at the man and his eyes widened "Dad? is that you?" he asked

The man looked at him along with Kouji "You look just like my son…" he responded

His mother quickly took Kouichi and announced "Sorry, it's getting late" and slammed the door behind them. She sighed and looked at Kouichi "I don't want you getting near them again" she ordered

He looked at her confused "Why? Wasn't that dad?"

She looked at him "O-Of…course n-not, you've probably mistaken him as someone else" and walked into the kitchen.

He stared at her "Is there something you're not telling me mom?"