Lovers Paradise Chapter 4

Chikane-

"Thanks for the ride Alfred."

"No problem miss, I hope you have a good time at school."

With that Alfred pulled away from the school, having dropped Chikane off. She knew that he would be here to pick her up later as well. Her practice for sports didn't start for a little while so, Alfred would pick her up right after school to go get ready for the Omai.

That thought darkened her mood again.

How dare her father do this to her, he had no right to try and control her life! She had always been the model daughter, scoring the highest grades and doing the best in sports. All the kids in school looked up to her, and thought she was perfect.

"If only they knew…" Chikane whispered quietly.

She was far from perfect, she was trapped with no way out.

Her family controlled basically all aspects of her life. When anything happened to her they knew about it. Like when that young man had asked her out the other day.

He had been fairly handsome, with a lean wiry build. His eyes would have been described by most girls as a blue so dreamy they could get lost in them.

To Chikane he was just another guy. It was nothing against him when she turned him just didn't have any feelings for him. She couldn't recall the last time she had felt any happy emotions other with Alfred or Otoha that weren't angry, frustrated or plain annoyed. But her father had scolded her for hours. complaining that his father was a very influential business man and she could have at least attempted to make some kind of connection.

"I wish that I could find that special person, just for me".

"A person that wouldn't seek to control me or force me to be something im not, just a person who genuinely cares and loves me for who I am" Chikane said softly.

Ding-Ding-Ding

"Well there's the bell, guess I should head in since they're going to close the gates soon".

Chikane headed up the short flight of stairs and made her way across the courtyard.

As she walked she noticed a lot of people gaping at her and saying " good morning Hime or how are you today Chikane-sama?".

She just smiled her fake smile and responded how she always did "good morning to you as well and fine thank you".

As she was just making her way to the front doors she heard a loud shout.

She, along with everyone else turned to see what happened.

What she saw was very comical and she had to struggle not to laugh.

A young blonde girl was on the ground with her arms and legs splayed out like she was doing jumping jacks while another girl was lying on top of her in a heap.

"Well, that's one way to start a morning" she thought.

She turned around to head into the building as she heard the girl that was on top start asking if the other girl was okay.

Himeko-

Ugh, my head feels like it's been hit by a bulldozer, Himeko thought.

What in the world hit me?

Just as she was about to get up and see what happened a face appeared waaay to close to hers and said "Hi my names Makoto what's yours"?

Himeko being the extremely shy girl she is, and having just woken up in a strange place with no idea where she was had a completely reasonable reaction.

"Aaaaaaaaah"!

Himeko jumped back…..only to realize she was on a bed, but having jumped too far back proceeded to fall off.

Thunk!

"Ouch"!

"Who are you and where am I" ? Himeko asked warily.

"Like I said my names Makoto, oh and your in the schools infirmary."

"I carried you over here after you passed out earlier."

"Listen, I'm sorry for running you over, I couldn't see where I was going cause I was going so fast on account of the teachers about to close the gate and I couldn't slow down fast enough because I had too much momentum…that isn't to say I didn't not try to stop, I just couldn't-"

"That's okay, really" Himeko said softly.

"I can tell you didn't mean to and I didn't really get hurt that bad anyway, just a bruise."

She's funny, Himeko thought. She's getting all flustered and trying to apologize, she seems like a nice person.

"So you're not mad?"

"No, I'm not mad Makoto-san."

"Please just call me Makoto, don't worry about formalities I don't really use them anyway" Makoto said dismissively.

"Oh...Well then you can call me Himeko as well."

"Thanks, so if you're feeling okay I can take you to your class if you want?"

"That would be great thanks Makoto-chan."

"Makoto..chan?"

"Oh sorry should I not add the chan?"

"No its okay, I've just never heard someone call me by that suffix is all."

"Oh…well okay then, so how about we head to class" Himeko asked politely.

"Sure, what's your class number?"

"I think its…yeah its class 5A" said Himeko while looking at her schedule.

"Hey you have the same class as me! I think this is a sign that were gonna be great friends Himeko," Makoto announced merrily.

"So lets head to class and I will try and give you some kind of tour of the school on the way, is that alright?"

"Yes that's great, thanks."

"No problem what are friends for."

Wow, she really is a nice person Himeko thought. I think she's right and we will be great friends.

With that being said Makoto talked to the nurse and we were able to head to class. This school looks just amazing. The buildings are huge and extremely artistic. They have rows of beautiful Sakura trees and it just has a great atmosphere.

As we were heading past the lunch hall and the other buildings to get to class Himeko heard a beautiful sound. It was like the world's most heavenly tune, so sad, and lonely and yet achingly beautiful.

She felt like she could feel the player's emotions herself.

Just I was about to go and find out who was playing, Makoto grabbed her arm.

"Hey I think we should end the tour here if we want to make it to homeroom before lunch" Makoto said.

"I guess your right…okay lets go" Himeko said.

With that they headed about 10 more minutes east and then took a left and were at the classroom.

"Ready Himeko?" Makoto asked.

I just nodded, I was pretty nervous so I didn't trust myself to speak just yet.

Then Makoto opened the door…End

Hahaha. Sorry for messing with you I just thought I would try out a cliffhanger ending for once. I bombed some tests so I wasn't able to post this as soon as I wanted so hope you liked it and I'll try to post quicker.

Thanks for any and all reviews they helped me do better in my writing.