Well, here's the newest chapter! Oh, and to anyone reading this, I've been listening to the song Crawl by Superchick a lot recently. I really love the song, especially in the Amuto video on youtube made by xValkyrieAngelx. I recommend you guys look it up, and, if you do, tell me what you think.
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Now, on with the story!
Amu's POV
"He sure was mad." I muttered, thinking back to the other night three days ago when I had to tell the Director I hadn't gotten him the Embryo.
He'd been pissed.
"Amu!" Marzia called, walking into my kitchen. "Are your ready yet."
"I'm eating." I said flatly.
"Well hurry up, girl! Today's your first day of school. You got the Director to push it back a week because of the Black Diamond project, but you're not getting out of it this time, Amu."
"I could always ditch school after the first hour or something." I mused.
"Do it, and you'll regret it." Marzia threatened and I rolled my eyes.
"Alright, I won't escape." I took one last bite of waffles and stood up. "I'm gonna go brush my teeth and get my bag. I'll right back."
I took my time brushing my teeth and then examined myself in the full body three way mirror I had.
I was not going to wear a stupid uniform, so it's a good thing the High School part of Seiyo didn't make us wear uniforms.
Today's outfit was a black leather skirt and a snug fitting white off the shoulder top with bell sleeves. I was wearing a black choker and black bangles on one wrist with a dainty black watch on the other. To match, I had on black wedges.
I looked fine. Maybe I looked more like I was going out for a day of shopping or hanging out, but I didn't care. My style had changed from when I was Hinamori Amu. Amara Hart dressed like this and she always did, no matter what.
I grabbed my bag and sunglasses (I'd grown used to wearing them a lot) and headed downstairs.
Marzia gave me a once over. "That's how you plan to go to school?"
"Problem?"
"No. I thought you'd go all black and no white on the outfit" I shrugged.
"I put it together at mainly random."
Marzia nodded. "Okay. Now let's get you to Seiyo."
"You think it'll be a good day?" Akemi asked as we walked to the limo.
"Of course!" Ran said. "Amu-chan, you'll do great! Ra, ra, Amu-chan!" Su agreed and joined Ran's cheering, soon followed my Miki and Dia, then finally Akemi.
I rolled my eyes at their actions, but smiled.
"I hope you guys are right..." I murmured and slipped into the limo. It wasn't really that I was nervous, I mainly didn't care anymore.
I don't know how to describe the feeling. It was like a dark happiness as the possibilities of tormenting the Guardians X, and yet boredom and wishing I didn't have to go at the same time.
"Seiyo, here I come."
"Please make sure all her paper work for the school is under Hart Amara, not Hinamori Amu. She may have revealed that information, but she perfers Amara now."
"Oh course." The Chairman smiled at me. "It was good to see you again, Hart-san."
"Good to see you again too. Although, I can't say I'm very happy to be in this school because of certain people." The Chairman nodded and I assumed he knew my bad history with the guardians.
The Chairman handed me a paper. I skimmed it, but nothing poped out as important.
"You'll be in class 2-1." I waited, knowing what came next. "With the guardians."
"That's fine." Marzia said before I could speak. "Amara's handled worse, as I'm sure you know Mr. Amakawa." Marzia handed him a paper that she'd already gone over with me.
"And this is the last of what you need to know. As I'm sure you know, Amara is a busy girl. Normally, she'd have a private tutor so she can haver her education on the go, but Ms. Layla and her grandparents think it's better for her resume her japanese studies since she will be here for a while. So I must inform you that she may be taken out of class or not show up at school because of her schedule."
"That's fine as long as she can make up any work she misses."
"But of course." Marzia looked at me. 'You can do that, right Amare?"
"Yeah." I nodded.
"Well, ladies, that's all you need to do for now. Amu, classes start in three minutes." The Chairman stood. "Come, I'll show you to the classroom."
Marzia and I followed the Chairman out of his office and down the halls, giving us a breif tour on the way. Not long after our tour started, Marzia's phone rang and she started chatting.
"Yes. She'll be there for the filming tomorrow afternoon...Yes, everything on the list I gave you has to be there, please. Make sure her clothes are in her dressing room the second she gets there...No, that's no exceptable."
I tuned out Marzia and paid attention to the Chairman. I noticed that as we walked, students' eyes were on us as we walked and they whispered to eachother. I simply ignored them and played it cool. Then, the bell rang and soon we were alone in the hallways.
"If you need help Amara, you can ask the Guardians X, who I'm sure you'll find out about later." Chairman said, pretending as if this was my first time here. Smart man. "If you can't speak with them, just asked a teacher or myelf if needed."
"Hai, alright." I said, looking around as we passed.
"And here's your classroom." Chairman said and opened the door. "Excuse the interuption Nikaidou-san, but I've brought a new student."
I could hear the students all start talking at the mention of a new student.
"Look! We'll be in Sensei's class!" Su cried happily.
I stepped into Nikaidou's view, but stayed outside of the room, out of the student's views.
"Ah, Himamori!" Nikaidou stood from his desk and walked over.
"I'm going but Hart Amara while I'm here, Sensei. Please don't call me Himamori during the school hours." Nikaidou thought it over before nodding.
Their was a breif and short chat before Chairman excused himself and left.
"Hello, I'm Marzia." Mariza introduced herself. "It's good to know a former Easter worker will be Amara's teacher. I can't say anyone else would understand her schedule as I'm sure you will."
"Yes, I know Himamori's situation." Nikaidou removed his glaces and his 'evil face' appeared. "Working for Easter...I never thought I'd see the day she worked so easily for Easter." I rolled my eyes.
"Put the evil face away." I said and looked past him into the classroom. "Can I go in?"
"This is your new classroom."
"Amara, the limo will be waiting outside after school. Right after school you have a meeting for an appearance on a show later this week, so don't dottle."
"I'll see ya later Marzia." I said and walked past Nikaidou into the class.
"Just sit anywhere." Nikaidou said and I immediatly headed to a seat in the back near the window.
I lifted my sunglasses so they were on top of my head and wasn't surpised at the talking and excitement. Through it all, I kept a passive poker face.
The flaw in my chosen seat? It was right next to Kairi and next to him was Yaya.
By just looking at Yaya, I could tell how long she'd been dark. It had lasted about an hour for her and Rima.
The Guardians must've had a lot of fun fighting them.
"Now then, I'll need everyone's attention for the lesson." Nikaidou called and relectantly everyone quieted down.
I only partly payed attention and took notes.
I hummed to myself and after the first few notes I realized I was humming Black Diamond.
Deciding to not risk anything, I decided to hum a different song that was just that, a song.
Note to self: Next time, during lunch, run and hide.
I had to remember that because at the moment I was being swarmed by fans who wanted autographs and guys who were stupid enough to try and hit on me.
Luckily, I'd learned how to handle lots of fans.
I quickly signed autographs in the books that were held up and simply ignored the boys.
"Luckily I brought these for those of you who don't have books." I said and pulled out some autographed pictures. Thank Kami Marzia had suggested I keep these on me today.
I handed them out and quickly got away, not wanting to be swarmed during my only break at school.
I ended up outside in the guardens.
"That was eventful." Miki said, as she and the others sat on the edge of the cement walks that held the soil where the flowers were grown so they wouldn't get stepped on. I sat down between them and Akemi took her usual place on my shoulder.
"Yup." Dia said as the others agreed.
"We should make a plan for lunch since this will probably happen a lot." Su said.
"We can either rush out of the classroom and make a run for it, or stay after class and pretend like we have to talk to Nikaidou." I said.
"Talking with him is an excuse you'd only be able to use once in a while." Dia pointed out and I nodded.
"Then I can go cool and just leave the classroom and head the opposite direction of everyone else. With the right posture I can make sure they stay clear."
I leaned back a bit and closed my eyes, relishing the sunlight and freedom. One of the perks of being in school is that Ms. Layla had forbidden the Director from taking me out during school hours to do Embryo work.
"Hart Amara."
My eyes snapped open and formed a glare as they landed on the person who'd said my name.
"Utau." I said coldly. I sat up and looked at her. "What do you want?"
"I talked to Ikuto two days ago." She simply said.
"And I should care because...?"
"He said you showed him this," Utau held up a familiar paper. "You got Easter to release him from their work. give him everything he needs, he kept the house, and we still have the right to the Easter Company here in Japan."
I stood up and snatched the contract from her hands. It was a simple copy, so it didn't mater when it tore a bit.
"My aunt, the real boss of Easter, arranged everything and the Director only had to sign the original contract." I had on a passive look, voice becoming formal. "Ikuto was no use anymore. His rebelion and refusal only made our goals harder to achieve. He was a bother and we no longer need him at Easter. We can easily find someone to replace him."
"You don't mean that. You don't want to help Easter."
"I do. After spending some time there, I realized how they were better than you stupid people. You're traitors and you only used me and others. But with Easter, you know you're being used and they don't try to fool you here." I smiled.
"That aside, where are El and Il?" I asked, remembering Utau's two Charas. I'd always been fawn of them. "I missed those two."
"They're with all the others." I grinned.
"Oh, that's great!" I turned to my Charas. "Girls why don't you go and hang with the other Charas? Go on, go see your old friends."
The girls flew off, Ran, Miki, Su, and Dia promising to introduce Akemi the others properly
"Now, Utau," I said. "If that's all you wanted to speak with me about, then I'll be leaving."
With that, I stood and left, heading back to the building, intending to go back to class early.
Then I found a solution to the earlier problem.
I'd leave the classroom, stay out for a while, then go bac and eat in the classroom.
~~~~~Later~~~~~
"Hart-san?"
"Yes?" I asked, raising my head from my journal. I'd already finished the classwork that needed to be done and was just writing random lyrics, jotting them down incase they'd be useful later.
I blinked, surprised by the person before me. Then, I smiled. "Oh, hello Nagihiko. Or should I say Nadeshiko?" I smirked at his surprised reaction.
"You know about that?" Nagihiko asked.
"Of course." I said. "It just hurt to know my best friend never told me." I shrugged. "But it's fine. I won't hold it against you."
"Amu, why are you like this?" Nagihiko asked.
I stared at him, thinking. At one point he'd been my best friend and I'd have trusted him-her, at the time-with almost any secret. Maybe...just maybe I could trust him like I did before.
"Do you really want to know?" I finally asked, calculating how this could easily backfire on me. From the corner of my eye, I could see Kairi staring at us.
"Of course. And I'd like to explain everything that happened before you left."
"You don't seem to mind what happened yesterday. Why?"
"Because that wasn't you, Amu." Nagihiko said easily. "The girl we saw yesterday wasn't the Hinamori Amu I knew."
"Well, you'd be right about that." I tore a slip of paper from my journal and after a moment, wrote on it and handed it to Negihiko. "Come see me during the photo shoot on Saturday. The time and place are on there."
Just then the bell rang and, without another word, I stood and left the classroom.
"Amu-chan!" My Charas called as they flew over to me once I was outside.
"Girls!" I laughed as they swarmed me. "What's with the excitement?"
"I think I know." I went still for a moment before whirling around, unable to help the grin that formed on my face.
"Ms. Layla!" I cried and ran over to where she was, standing in front of the limo that was always sent to get me.
"Amu!" My aunt smiled and hugged me.
"I didn't expect you so soon, Layla!" I grew serious. "How's Derek?"
"He's fine." My aunt reassured me. "I saw him before I left. He gave me a letter to give you."
"Really?" My mood brightened and I looked my aunt up and down, looking for it.
I was eyeing her purse when she spoke, "Sorry Amu, but I didn't bring it with me. I didn't want to lose it."
"Oh." I was a bit disappointed. I'd only talked to Derek once since he left, but our phone call was cut short by the Director needing me.
"Well, come on." My aunt clapped her hands, leading me to the limo. "Let's go get a bite to eat and talk about your first day at school. Sound good?"
I would've agreed, but I couldn't.
"I really want to, but I can't. I have to get to a meeting about a show I'll be appearing on later this week." My aunt frowned before nodding.
"Fine, but I'm taking you out to dinner, got it?"
"Yes ma'am." I said, saluting her.
"Alright, now let's go."
"So, how's the Director treating you?" My aunt asked as she sipped her tea.
"Rather fine, to my surprise." I said, shrugging. "Sure, he's as impacient as a child for his Embryo, but he doesn't nag as much as I thought he would. He mainly nags when I'm close to the Embryo."
"I hear Easter recently lost a worker. Any idea why he let them boy go?" She knew Ikuto was the one who'd been let go, and she knew it was because of me.
"Nope. I haven't got a clue." I lied. "But I think the Director will be looking for a new worker to take their place."
"What ever happened to that other girl...Lulu? The daughter of a french nobleman or something."
Lulu. I hadn't thought about that blonde in so long.
"I don't know. She gave up on her ? eggs and when back to France after her mom took a job in a movie filming. I haven't heard from her since, but I'd assume she's still making jewlery and heading for her dreams."
"Amu?" I looked up from my plate.
"Hm?"
"Are you okay? You seem...different."
I decided to lie. "Yeah, I'm fine. I've just got a lot on my mind. Business and stuff, you know." I knew she didn't believe me, but she didn't push.
"I've got an idea!" My aunt said, clapping her hands. "How about, after dinner, we go to visit your parents? I haven't seen my sister in so long!"
For a second, I felt guilty. Since I'd been here, I'd only seen my family once and talked to them over the phone maybe three times.
"Amu-chan! Let's go!" Su said and I looked at her. There was something I'd been wanting to get from my old room...
"You know what? Sure. Let's go."
"Wonderful!" As my Aunt and Charas grew happy, I didn't.
It was odd that they could be so bright as I let the dark in my grow. I knew it was growing, but I didn't stop it.
I didn't see the point in stopping it anymore.
