Beautiful

By: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)

Chapter Three:

It was cold. And she was hungry, yet refused to eat despite her stomach's protests. Elda sniffled to herself, brushing her long ivory colored hair with her hands and sighed heavily when the airplane hit more turbulence.

Her mother and sister were throwing her out like rubble, getting rid of her. Hideki looked so sad when she told him the next day of school, which was to be her last. So many of her friends told her that they'd miss her but somehow she didn't think that they would. If they did, they why would she be sent away in the first place?

Sniffling back tears, she looked out the window to look at the mountains. They were nearing their destination, the boarding school being near some mountain range.

She didn't care. She didn't care about anything anymore. Drawing her knees up to her chest, she used to blanket over her legs, the short school uniform riding up as she curled up into a ball. Just thinking thoughts like that made her shiver and feel so alone.

The light for seatbelts flashed on with a little music to wake those who slept through the one-hour trip.

Her mother promised to come and visit her whenever she could—the trip not that long, and also for the sake of keeping updated on how well Elda's studies were coming.

She stepped off the plane, and found herself in a airport bustling with people. Everything was so foreign to her but she held her chin high and walked off, hailing a taxi to take her to her new home until her mother allowed her back home. Back where she wasn't afraid of everything. Back where she felt whole.

Whispers flew around her, invisible tickling or poking at her body as she silently stared at the food before her. People had tried to make friend with her, but mostly their words fell on deaf ears so attempts were flushed down the drain. She was officially dubbed the 'loner' on her first day here.

She didn't like this, she didn't like herself. She liked to smile, to be happy and run around with her friends. She couldn't bring herself around to do such her, somehow the feeling in the atmosphere struck a chord in her somewhere and made her feel different. And different here in this school with uniforms, same classes, same texts, and sameness…different was bad.

She was different, her features even. She had long soft ivory hair and amber colored eyes, unusual for some people but she didn't care. Back home, Yuzuki had different colored hair also, only hers being purple and not ivory.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" A voice questioned, the person getting a nod from the silent Elda who continued to stare blankly at her food. Maybe if she refused to eat she could go back home…? She shook her head to get the stupid idea out of her mind.

"Something wrong?" The person next to her questioned while raising an eloquent eyebrow in response to the hair suddenly flying at her. Luckily, it didn't land in her food.

Elda froze, turning with wide eys to the person next to her who had short hair and brown eyes and a little Berea that was sunshine yellow colored.

"I'm sorry! I just…I was thinking too hard and…!" Elda said, trying to find the right words as the rest of the cafeteria continued on their own business.

"Oh, don't worry about it!" The person cheerfully replied back, "My names Yumi by the way!"

"My names Elda." She replied back softly, a small smile on her face at how much energy Yumi had.

Taking a bite of her apple and swallowing it eagerly, she added, "I know exactly what you're talking about. Probably got some stupid idea on how to get home?"

"How did you know?" Elda whispered, picking up her fork and moving the food around a little bit. She never did like spaghetti for some reason.

"Eh, I dunno. You just look like you don't want to be here, but I promise that you might end up liking it here!"

"Yeah," Elda whispered back, not even daring to hope that she would come around to like this place, Yumi here or not. Though it seemed more tolerable now that she had a friend.

"Do you wanna switch?" Yumi said, pointing to her pizza. Elda's stomach rumbled and she blushed.

"Sure." She said, bowing her head in thanks and switching plates with Yumi. "I never did like Spaghetti."

"Never did like Pizza. Ran out of Spaghetti when I got there." Yumi added at the same time and blinked at Elda, who did the same. Then, both girls laughed at one another and somehow hoped that it would be the start of a lovely friendship.

TBC

Author's note: Sorry for the long wait on the update—I got sick, but am recovering! (That and this story is on my back burner of stories to update) Woo! Anyhow, thanks to those who did review. I'll change the mistake in the first chapter

Feedback and comments are always loved, and hugged by my teddy bear and me!

in Liebe, Red Tail