I don't feel like writing this right now but I will anyways because I'm a nice person and people asked me to update soon… on with the story.
Disclaimer- did I put this in the last chapter? I'm too lazy to check but you people should know this by now.
The next week Kinu laid low for a while. Mizuki couldn't begin to guess what she was doing but knew it had to do with exposing her secret. She even started to secretly pack her things when Sano wasn't around because she new it was only a mater of time.
She bought the next issue of spot the next week and there it was! "Izumi Sano's room mates story: the girl at the boys school!" she almost fainted when she saw it in big print on the cover.
She had already screamed until her throat was sore at doctor Umeda for putting her secret in an easy accessible file, now the whole country would know! But most importantly her beloved Sano.
As expected she was called to the principal's office the next morning, by that time everyone had started talking. "Mizuki," he started off. "I'm not sure how to ask you this; I have never had to ask anyone this before…" She knew what would be coming up next so she interrupted him.
"Yes, the answer to your question is yes." She didn't look him in the eye when she spoke. "Alright then, Mizuki, why would you do a thing like this?" he asked feeling more comfortable.
"I don't know. I just had to meet Sano and I figured that this would be the only way. I'm sorry if I caused any problems. I'm already packed to go back to America now." She said tearing up a bit.
The principal nodded. "You will be on the next flight to America, you have half an hour to get ready and say you good byes." She ran out of the office as fast as has could when he was done talking to her.
It wasn't fair! She didn't want to leave. She had friends here and her grades were mildly decent. Why should it matter that she was a girl? But then she remembered about that rule about no girls in the dorms.
Sano and the rest of the gang were waiting for her inside the room the two had shared for 3 years. Noe and Sekime were shocked that there had been a girl right under there noses the whole time and they never knew it.
Nakatsu looked, in a way, relived. As soon as he heard that she was being shipped out he got angry. "You can't let them do this to you Mizuki! You have lived here longer then some guys with no problems!" she only walked by him to get her suit case.
The high jumper didn't say a word to her but just merely watched. Her group followed her to the airport, Nakatsu still trying to convince her to fight to stay. They were right on time to catch her flight.
Tears poured from her eyes as she said her final good byes. She shook hands with Noe and Sekime, "Don't chase the girls too hard, if you do you might never get a girl friend." They smiled back at her.
Nakatsu was still ranting about how this has to be against some kind of law. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "Don't worry about me I'll be fine." It was hard for her to convince him because she couldn't stop crying.
Sano was the hardest for her to say good bye to. Before she could say anything stupid she gave her a quick hug and lightly pushed her towards the proper gate. The one thing she didn't know was that it was too hard for him to say good bye as well.
When she got back to America her brother was there to pick her up. He had an "I told you so" grin on his face. When they got back home her parents were furious at her. There was a lot of yelling and apologizing on her part.
Julia was happy to see her friend but knew that Mizuki was hurting on the inside. When they were alone in her room together she told her all about Kinu and what life was like in Japan. Mizuki was still in a lot of trouble for posing as a boy for 3 years to go to an all boy's school.
Life was tough trying to get readjusted to her old American school. Her friends from before Julia were all talking behind her back about her 3 years as a boy. They didn't even care that she could hear every word that they were saying.
She kept on day dreaming about Osaka during class. At night she would stay awake thinking about what Sano or Nakatsu were doing at that exact same moment. If they were thinking of her, or if they just forgot already.
On the television she tried to watch her old room mated competitions but the channel wouldn't come through. She was depressed and she was grounded for the rest of her existence. Life couldn't get any worse.
Julia suggested that she write letters to her friends back east but the truth was Mizuki didn't know what they thought of her as. If they thought she was crazy or if they al hated her. Life just wasn't fair.
She missed her old school and friends. She missed walking with Yujiro at night and missed everything about Japan. The food here just wasn't the same. She hated her school; no one would leave her alone, not even the teachers.
But what did she expect? She posed as a male for 3 years in a foreign country and was finally exposed by a big magazine article. Her brother wasn't exactly helping either; he kept on saying stuff about Sano. Julia was the only person who understood what she was feeling.
It was 2 months after she got home went she got a letter from Nakatsu. Actually there were letters from everyone! Namba, Umeda, Io, Sano, Noe, Sekime, Nakao, Kayashima, even Kagurazaka wrote her a letter.
The letters all lifted her spirits. She was smiling and perky on the next day of school. Even when her ex-best friend Lavonia accused her of not even going to Japan she took out her letters with a smile.
The letters got her going for the rest of the school year. By that time she had answered every single letter with some help from Julia. In a way it was really weird because she had only known these people as a boy but now she was getting to know then as a girl.
It was summer when she was finally ungrounded early for good behavior. The door bell rung and she ran to go answer it. When she opened the door her mouth hung open. She could not believe who was at the door, with a bouquet of flowers.
Don't you just love cliff hangers? I was wondering something… if Mizuki was born in America then how come she didn't know what dodge ball was? I think it originated back here. Even my little baby cousin even knows what dodge ball is…