I wasn't expecting so many people to follow on my last chapter o.o Thank you everyone ^^ I hope you all enjoy this chapter as much though it was done a bit fast so sorry for any typos.
Hemophobia
Chapter 4: A Trip To The Mall
I DO NOT OWN GAKUEN ALICE
I shut my eyes close as soon as I saw the bucket fall down. I kept them shut, I waited. I waited, for the laughter, the humiliation, the sound of pictures getting taken on people's phones. One minute. Two minutes. Three. Four. Five. Yet as much as I waited nothing came. Not a single sound other than the clock on the wall ticking.
I dared open one eye and surprisingly people seemed shocked and some were showing panic on their faces. My friends, who were on the side were also shocked by the sudden event. Since I came into the room before them, they weren't covered in the green, sticky and not to mention smelly slime. (except Hotaru who only got covered in a bit of it.)
"Who did this?" Hotaru said, being the first to break the tension in the room.
Everyone looked at each other. There were some whispers going on until suddenly, two guys stood up. They, without a doubt, look familiar, but I decided to shrug it off and watched the scene like my classmates.
"Sorry Imai-san, but the prank was meant for the history teacher." The one with fox-like eyes said.
"Don't say sorry to me idiots. Say sorry to her." She said mentioning me.
"Ah, yes. We apologize Yukihara-san for the prank." The other guy with wider eyes said, but soon after he added: "But you have to admit the look on your face was priceless!" He chuckled
I only sighed before giving them one last glance before leaving the classroom. Soon after, Hotaru and the girls followed. I wasn't raging, the guy apologized and I just need to take a shower, a long one at that.
When I arrived at the dorms, (That are the other side of the academy.) the first thing I did was hop in the shower. I heard the door open a minute after, and assumed the girls had come. After getting all of the slime of me, I got out of the shower with only a towel. I quickly got to my room and put on a spare uniform that the school gives us, before heading to the living room to join my friends. Once there Nonoko was the first to notice me and asked me: "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, who were they anyway?" I asked.
"Oh, you met them before! Remember Natsume from Starbucks?" I nodded "They're some of his close friends." Anna said butting into the conversation.
Something clicked in my mind as I remembered the day I first met Anna at Starbucks where she has her part-time job at during summer. This event probably made me hate Hyuuga and his friends even more if possible. Though, I surely don't regret going to Starbucks that day. As long as I remember, meeting Hotaru's friends were probably the best thing that happened to me.
But I noticed something when I got covered with slime. I saw that instead of laughing and taking pictures of me to post it on social media, they were a bit scared and nervous. I frowned. I mean, why would they be scared of me?
"What's wrong?" Sumire asked. Out of all us girls, she's definitely the best at sensing when someone's down or feeling bothered. It sometimes scares me how she can easily do so.
"Oh well," I hesitated. They all looked at me impatiently, waiting for an answer. "The thing is, why do people seem scared of me?" I finally, after a pregnant silence, asked.
"Who wouldn't be? Your family owns the richest company in Japan. Scratch that, in the world! Besides you're extremely pretty." Sumire stated.
I wanted to laugh at what she said. Me? Pretty? Pfft. I just have normal brown hair and dull hazel eyes. Nothing special. Now if you would look at Sumire, she's the epitome of the word gorgeous. I felt Sumire's deadly glare who probably, somehow read my thoughts. Scary.
But the fact that some people are scared of me because of my wealth, is well, disappointing. I'd almost rather hear them laugh then have them fear me. In some ways, I'm happy that people don't know the school's principal is my uncle. Although some may have found out by now, not everyone knows's Kazumi Yukihira, the high school division principal, is my uncle. The tension was building up in the room but it finally broke when someone finally spoke.
"Hey, who want's to go shopping after school?" Anna suggested.
"Me!" Sumire said her eyes shining with joy. Obviously, loving the idea.
"Sure, I have time," Nonoko said.
"Well, I do need material for my newest invention..." Hotaru stated. As she agreed, all heads turned to me. I didn't shop for a long time. And I thought: 'Eh, It won't be so bad.' With that in mind, I slowly nodded.
As I nodded, the girls cheered. I was a bit surprised but it made me happy that they accepted me for who I am and not my money.
"But we should go to the afternoon classes first," Anna said. I noticed out of all of us, Hotaru and her were the most conscious about keeping a clean record and good grades. They nodded and I only looked at the floor while playing with my fingers before muttering a "Sorry."
"Don't worry. It's not your fault anyways." Nonoko said.
"Yeah!" Sumire agreed. "If anyone to blame, it's Yome and Neme." She said.
"Mhm, they're the pranksters of the school. They got suspended more than 10 times since the beginning of the year for many reasons, mostly because of pranks being played. Troublemakers." Hotaru said knowingly.
I was about to say something when I suddenly realized the time. "Hey, we should hurry if we want to get lunch." I reminded.
"Already? Wow, time flies so fast." Nonoko said as we got ready to go.
"Yeah, hey what do you guys have after lunch?" I asked. I'm still not sure about their schedule yet so I happen to ask them from time to time.
"I have French," Sumire said. Yes, they teach us french. Not only french though, also Spanish and English (They are in Japan.) this isn't the best academy in Japan for nothing.
"Same," Hotaru said.
"Aww, I have Math," Anna whined. I feel bad for her, Jinno isn't the most loving (or loved) teacher in the academy.
"I got Spanish class!" Nonoko said.
"I have French," I said. Happy to be with Hotaru. Though they didn't ask anything I'm pretty sure they figured out Hotaru and I have some sort of connection. Especially after Hotaru helped me with the slime incident today. She's not the type to openly save or help someone.
We continued walking to the cafeteria and talked about many things, from school to people, to singers, and to hotties and well, you get it. Then I remembered about the "Top 10 people you don't want to mess with in Alice academy" list. By now, I know most of the people on that list except one. And what better way to find out then to ask?
"So, what's the big deal with Koizumi? I heard she's both feared and loved in the academy." I asked curiously on how someone as pretty as her could be evil.
"Don't judge a book by its cover." Hotaru simply said. Though that obviously didn't help, Sumire elaborated.
"She's Queen Bee of the school." She stated.
"But Sumire, aren't Queen Bee's the popular ones who are always loved?" At this point, I think I'm watching too many movies.
"Well, not exactly. They're normally bitches too. Luna is a perfect example of one. Not to mention the slut is almost as rich as you and Hyuuga."
I couldn't really say anything else. After that, we continued chatting until we finally reached the cafeteria. As soon as people saw me they would whisper as if I wasn't there. And I admit, It made me a bit uncomfortable. And so, to pass the time I decided to eavesdrop.
"Hey, hey! Did you hear?" Friend #1 said to friend #2
"What?" Friend #2 asked.
"Koko-Sama and Kitsu-Sama played a prank that was meant to be for their history teacher, they were going to wait for him to open the door to poor a bucket of smelly slime on him but..."
"But?" Friend #2 was getting impatient.
"Instead, the bucket of slime fell down on Mikan Yukihira!" She finished. Friend #2 gasped.
"OMG, really?" She asked doubtfully.
"Yup. It's spreading around the school like wildfire! Poor Yukihira-san, She's probably going to get bullied soon..." Friend #1 said her eyes showing pity.
"Ehh, Why? Yukihira-san is the richest person in the school!" Friend #2 stated.
"Well, no one know's who told the school new's. Besides, Yukihira-san can't just bankrupt everyone in the school." Friend #1 explained.
After that, I decided to ignore whatever they said. Right now, my main focus was: Am I really going to get bullied again? I decided to shake the thought off. It wouldn't matter, I would just have to stand up for myself. With that in mind, I got my food and headed to the table where the other girls sat down at.
I decided to observe the students since I don't really want to talk about cloth's and shopping at the moment. I saw that not far from our table, is the table where Hyuuga's gang was at. My eyes set on the blond haired dude. I heard his name was Ruka Nogi, he's the same age as me and is Hotaru's partner. He's also extremely kind. The only downfall he has is that he's Hyuuga's best friend. I sighed, of course, there had to be a downfall. Because as they say, "Nobody's perfect."
Not wanting to get caught staring, I looked away and directed my attention to my group of friends who were chatting about the hottest celeb. Well, at least Sumire, Anna, and Nonoko are. Hotaru was working on one of her inventions called, The Baka Gun. It basically looks like a toy gun. It kind of is when you think about it, except that the damage done is no joke.
After lunch, time flew by and next thing I knew classes are done for the day, and that means it's time to shop for 2with girls. I may not be as excited as Sumire for this but you can't blame me for despising shopping. But spending time with my friends would be worth it, besides, it's better than staying home with nothing to do.
And before I knew it, I was standing in front of the mall in my white button up blouse and denim shorts. The mall is full of people, we actually even saw people who were - just like us, were shopping on a Friday after school. I actually had a lot of fun. We made plenty of jokes and laughed a lot. But Sumire spent hours on choosing what to wear. Same of Anna and Nonoko. Other than that though, things went well so far.
Right now, we're at a smoothie shop, I have a mango smoothie and the others have their own orders. We were looking at all the things we bought from shops like Forever 21, Hot Topic, Bloomingdale's etc...
We were still chatting about what stores to go to next until we saw Sumire's face pale a bit. I saw her even rubbing her eyes before saying, "Hey, girls, is that, who I think it is?" We quickly turned to the direction she was indicating and saw that a group of guys were there. And of course one of them just has to be Hyuuga.
Well, it's good to know that Sumire hates their group as much as me. From what I heard she had some problems with Kokoro Yome her ex. The rest of the group doesn't seem to mind Hyuuga and actually told me multiple times before "Natsume isn't that bad of a person once you get to know him." Or something like that, at some point. But honestly, I don't plan on getting to know him. Nope. Never.
Then their heads turned to our direction. I looked away from his crimson eyes and looked at Ruka's blue ones. Yup, I'm a big fan of blue. It's the opposite color of red, so maybe that's why.
Just like us they had smoothies as well, soon after we spotted each other, we approached each other.
"Hey, I didn't know you guys were going to go to the mall too!" Anna excitedly said.
"Yeah!" Nonoko nodded.
"It was kind of like a last minute plan." Ruka sheepishly explained. Another thing though, is that they are actually on good terms with Ruka, Yuu, and Kitsu. Hyuuga literally NEVER talks other than saying "Hn." And that's not even an actual word for god's sake. Koko, well the gang isn't fond of him for some reason that I do not know yet. Oh yeah, there's also some guy with a star tattoo under his eye. But the girls were mostly just drooling. Ew.
"I got an idea. Let's all shop together!" Sumire said.
"Sure." Yuu being a bit calmer agreed.
"But I'm pretty sure that we all want to go to different places," Hotaru stated.
"Then how about we go in groups?" Ruka suggested.
"I'm with Yuu!" Anna said quickly.
"I'm with Kitsu!"
"I'm with bunny boy then," Hotaru said polishing her camera.
"Tsk," Hyuuga said going next to me. Which probably meant he's going to be with me. I don't really like the idea but apparently, now that Sumire and Koko were together, no one would change places with Sumire no matter how much she begged, so I decided it's best she stays with him.
"I'll go with Natsume and the girl then." The guy with the star tattoo said. He has a beanie on his head and looked a year or two older than us.
"My names Tsubasa by the way." He said with a grin.
"Mines Mikan," I said in a cheerful voice giving a smile.
"We'll meet up at the same spot in about 3 hours," Kitsu said speaking for the first time since the conversation began.
After that, things went both down and up the hill. Let's just say being with two hot guys - One of them, hands in pockets and so quiet you thought he was mute. And the other, treating me as if I was his own sister though we met barely 5 minutes ago.
So much for my fun Friday afternoon shopping with friends.
A bit more words than I usually write ^^ Not sure about the structure though T_T I hope you all like it! Please fav, follow and review as always!
~Infinity1455
