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Chapter four

"Stop sulking, it's annoying" said Hotaru firmly. She was sitting in front of me in the 'Alice Café', the name used here to address the lunch room. I sighed for the nth time already.

I can't believe this. The whole female population here is actually taking about their Natsume-sama's rumoured girlfriend! Guess what the rumours say. They say that she, his girlfriend happens to be an ugly model or something who went through a plastic surgery and she herself had claimed the so called title. The poor Natsume-sama had tried to pry her hands off from him, but she clinged on to him like a LEACH! Come on! Nevertheless their Natsume-sama who has a kind heart had accepted the girl's declaration to save her from humiliation! Who the hell came up with all this rubbish? "They just insulted my appearance saying I had done a plastic surgery!" I repeated out loud. Hotaru rolled her eyes while telling me not to mind what the others say. But hey, these people should have a limit. To even say that I clinged on to him was pathetic. And the thing about Hyuuga's 'kind' heart, made me feel like puking. Seriously! He was the one who used me as a get-away method and now I'm also being insulted.

"I knew this would happen". I heard Hotaru say. What did she mean by that? I looked at her only to find her in deep thought and for some odd reason she was also smirking. I sighed again while banging my head on the table. "Um… excuse me Sakura-san would you mind if we sit here" I heard and there in front of me stood two girls. They looked quite alike and at the same time quite different. Wait, am I seeing doubles? I nodded anyway and they sat down. "I'm Anna Udenomia" the one next to me said. "And I'm Nonoko Ogasawara" the one next to Hotaru said. "Hi" I managed to say. "Hotaru told us a lot about you Sakura-san!" Anna said enthusiastically. "She did? And please call me Mikan" I added while smiling brightly again. For a while there I forgot that I was even sulking in the first place. And for that little lunch break the four of us hit it off together.

Suddenly in between one of our conversation's the peaceful atmosphere in the lunch room turned berserk. I was the only one surprised about it because Hotaru and the others didn't even seem to be bothered by it. "Why are they screaming?" I asked out. "Take a wild guess" Nonoko said. Could it be…?

And there at the cafeteria door stood a familiar figure. He wasn't the only one surrounded by all those girls. With him, there was a tall guy with dark blue hair and a star tattoo under his right eye, two almost identical looking figures, one with a muddy brown hair and the other with a sandy brown hair, a guy with spectacles and Ruka-pyon?! All six of them sat on a table far off to the middle from where we were sitting. For some odd reason I found it hard to take my eyes off Hyuuga. I'm probably that frustrated about the turn of events. Yes, that's it. Anyway I somehow managed to tear my eyes off him and at the very last second I thought our eyes met. Impossible. I'm really going insane. 'Don't let him bother you Mikan, just stay out of his way and you'll be fine' I told myself.

Natsume's POV

The morning classes ended faster than usual. Maybe because I enjoyed watching how frustrated my new seatmate was. I was reading my manga while the substitute taught something. Even if I've never paid attention in class or hardly attend classes I've got the highest marks in our grade. So to put it simply I'm a born genius.

Lunch break; the other thing I hated the most. Just as we entered the Alice café, like always all the stupid girls tried to choke us to death. Tch, typical. We walked towards our table and sat down. Tsubasa, Koko and Kitsume were talking about a prank they did while Yuu silently ate. And Ruka for some reason was staring at…. the weirdo, my seatmate. I too looked at her only to find her averting her gaze. Come to think of it, I still can't shake off the feeling that she's awfully familiar. Hey don't get me wrong, she's not even attractive yet I observed her from the corner of my eyes just so I'd get rid of this weird feeling. I normally don't remember random girls, if you know what I mean.

Usual (Mikan's) POV

The next subject after the break was P.E. Anna and Nonoko were in a different class than the two of us so they headed in a different direction. It didn't take long for me and Hotaru to get dressed in our P.E. uniforms, a red short and a white T. Unlike my old school which has track events for P.E, this school has soccer. To say that the gym was huge would be an understatement. It was gigantic. It had two football grounds inside. TWO!

"Mikan" I heard Hotaru's voice. This time it sounded concerned and serious. I turned to her side. "Are you okay with this?" She asked.

"Huh?"

"I mean, You playing football?" Her face was occupied with an emotion I couldn't read.

I gave one of my best smiles again while nodding and started to walk in front of her towards the gym. She stayed for a while before starting to walk behind me.

:-:

Two classes had combined P.E lessons so only eleven girls and eleven boys from each class get to play. So while the girls were on one field, the boys were in the other. All the others were instructed to sit on the bachelors and watch. Each team consisted of students from both the classes.

I was put in as a midfielder. Soccer of course wasn't something new to me. I was in the soccer club during elementary school and middle school. Our club even participated in the district finals football match a couple of times. Me being the only female player those days was not at all challenging. I'm not boasting or anything, but I was even their ace striker. That was just until I quit soccer when high school started. I looked at Hotaru who was standing in the opposite side of the field. I couldn't help myself from giggling at her face which was frowning. She never liked soccer back then too. She thought it was a pointless thing to run around chasing a ball. That's why she joined our soccer club as a manager instead. She was also the one who handled all the financial affairs in it.

"Ok everyone gather around." I heard someone say. She was fairly tall with pink hair that flowed up to her shoulders. If I remember correctly, she was just now appointed as our team captain. "I'm Misaki Harada a forward and I'm the captain for today's match" she said while smiling. "Don't expect me to run after that stupid ball" a girl with strawberry blond hair said to Misaki while looking at her well-manicured nails. "Yes, Luna is right. I'm not doing anything either" Permy said. Misaki rolled her eyes and nodded. Seriously? I was going to ask them why they were even here in the first place, but then again it seemed like signing a death wish so I talked with Misaki instead. "Are you ok with that?" I asked. She shrugged and said that it was always like that. I introduced myself to her and we talked for a while before the warm ups.

:-:

It's been a while since I last kicked a ball aiming somewhere so it felt weird. I wasn't even sure of the amount of power I should put into it. Urgh, not playing for a while sure can make you forget a lot of things. My aiming was pretty bad too, but it was way better than some other girls aiming. The gym was as always noisy filled with cheers for the players. Anyone could tell that they were all cheering for the guys that played in the other field next to ours. I didn't have a time to check who were playing there as they came to the field after our practice match started. From the loud voices I could tell that there must be at least one of the guys from the Alice café earlier.

Our match was half sided each. What I meant was only half of the players in each side were actually helping out to bring the ball up, so the score was 0 – 0. Even Hotaru was standing in one corner staring blankly at me. The match was quite intense, maybe because there were only a few of us trying desperately to keep the ball in possession. I soon received a pass from Misaki and there weren't any functional teammates in my front. I looked around and the closest person to me was that girl Luna, who was standing a good twenty feet from behind me. Someone from the opposite team was running towards me and with the intensity I did a back pass to Luna even without looking, knowing she wouldn't move from her spot. All she said earlier was that she won't be running around the field. She didn't say anything about not receiving passes right?

Maybe I used too much energy on to the ball because I heard a loud thud quite far from behind me. Looks like I'm in trouble. I sighed and turned around preparing for the worst. Urgh… I had hit….

So here it is, the next chapter. Who do you think she had hit? Take a wild guess.

Until we meet again, bye.

Sue-chan.