This is yet another new story of mine. It's about a girl who hates her life and wishes upon a star…she's about to find out about the strange things that can happen with a simple wish…
Teenagers bustled up the walk to the school, talking animatedly to their classmates and friends. Lockers were opened and slammed. A blonde man, the principal watched them with hawk like eyes.
'Hmph…juvenile delinquents…' he thought. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the source of his foul mood. It was a girl with black and purple hair, golden eyes that were lined with thick eyeliner. She was dressed all in black; her running shoes were even black (with a bit of gray); the only thing not the colour black that she wore was the necklace around her neck which consisted of a obsidian crystal shaped into the kanji for autumn that hung from a silver chain . Though it didn't look like it from sight, she was a quiet, yet very dangerous girl that didn't seem to like to talk to anyone in the school. As far as he saw, she had no friends and often preferred to be alone. Unfortunately, she also had a knack for causing trouble, especially when it came to not doing her homework for teachers and was unusually adept at making the other students hate her. Unfortunately, however, he couldn't exactly expel her. Why couldn't he expel her? She was the only daughter of a former model who had enough money to make sure he never had another job again. This girl was Saiyami Shimizu.
"Shimizu" he called out, "My office now"
"Hai…" she answered in her soft voice. Saiyami followed him to his office where she sat down in a chair opposite him. Her eyes drifted all over his office, like it was her first time being there. That was the farthest thing from the truth.
"What do you want this time Mr. Sato?" she asked.
He cleared his throat, "A number of things. Now, I know it's just after the long weekend, but a few teachers have brought things to my attention this morning"
"Which is?"
"Apparently, in your Math class, you are failing because you refuse to do homework and you daydream in class?"
Saiyami shrugged, "I know everything she teaches; and homework's not helping me learn anything new…"
"That isn't the point!" Mr. Sato tried to keep his temper.
Saiyami shrugged, "What else did they say?"
Mr. Sato looked down at his sheet of complaints, "Apparently, a girl claimed that you punched her?"
"She deserved it"
Mr. Sato sighed, "You still punched her"
Another shrug.
"You talked back to a teacher when she asked you to work with someone you didn't like?"
Saiyami sighed, "So?"
"Well, I'm afraid that I can't let you get off without a punishment this time…you are suspended for a week" Mr. Sato said, scribbling on a piece of paper, "Give this to your mother"
Saiyami sighed, "So I suppose I go home now?"
"That would be how suspensions work"
Saiyami lifted her bag back onto her shoulder and left.
Mr. Sato sighed once more. Would nothing change the depressing and rebellious attitude of that girl?
"I can't believe he would suspend you!" Karin Shido fumed, "the nerve of that man!"
"Let it go, mom" Saiyami sighed.
"NO, I will not Saiyami! He could damage your education with just one suspension; I won't allow it! If you intent to follow in my footsteps, you must have a perfect education for a higher chance of success"
"But I don't want to be a model" Saiyami started to protest.
Slap!
Karin looked angrier now, "You have the height and looks to become one that you inherited from me and not your father and you will follow in my footsteps!" She never failed to make sure Saiyami knew that it was her that she should feel grateful to and not her father, for some reason. However, Saiyami did not make it a habit to delve into the inner workings of Karin's mind and to be honest, Saiyami could care less.
"But I don't want to…" Saiyami started. Another hand made its mark on her cheek.
"Why can't you just take the easy path and be like me?" Karin asked, almost in a pleading tone, which was strange considering the angry expression was still present on her face.
Saiyami glared slightly at her mother. Karin Shido's career had been at its prime when she met Shigeru Shimizu. Then she had done something she had vowed never to do. She had fallen in love. Then after a series of events, which led to her being pregnant, she chose to abandon her career and marry Shigeru. She regretted it every single minute of her life. Then, seven years later, she and Shigeru would begin to fight as she became more hateful to her mistake and they would fight and Shigeru in turn would grow more hateful and eventually, the hatred spread to his daughter. They would then decide to get a divorce to make is better for them both, and Saiyami. By then it had been too later. Saiyami was already traumatized by all that she heard and became withdrawn, bitter and angry.
"Well, maybe I don't to take the easy path; You should stop trying to live out the rest of your career through me!" Saiyami shouted angrily.
"How dare you!" Karin yelled, hitting Saiyami again, "I do this for your own good!"
"No you don't…I see it in your eyes…"
"Shut up; you're still a child! You don't know anything!"
"I'm not a child! I'm seventeen!"
"That's it! You're living with your father this weekend!"
Saiyami's eyes widened. She had expected her mother to send her over to 'The apartment', where she usually sent her when Karin was mad at her. The apartment was, well, an apartment in which Karin had bought for her daughter so that when she wanted time alone and away from Saiyami, she could just send her daughter over to live by herself. Saiyami had been going there since she was ten, usually without any supply of food until her mother remembered that her daughter was there and called for her to come home. It was better at the apartment these days now that Saiyami could buy things without being questioned. But her father's place was still her worst nightmare; he was always drunk when she was there and drunk people had less control over their actions than normally and Saiyami would be fooling herself if she claimed she was not slightly scarred from staying with her father.
Hours later found Saiyami on the sidewalk of her father's street. She waited for her mother's car to drive off completely and then she grabbed her bag again and walked down the street, opposite to where her mother had gone and up to a whole complex of business buildings and shops. She stopped in front of a moderately fancy apartment building and went in.
She took the elevator and got off on the twelfth floor. Then she stopped in front of room 1216 and unlocked the door, entering the room. The apartment was painted in a variety of colors like red or dark colours and the kitchen tiles were white. It was decorated with a sofa, a moderate sized TV and many other things that an apartment needed. Karin didn't buy these. Saiyami bought these with money she sometimes got from her dad, or mom and working a job. This was her haven from the real world.
Night had fallen now and Saiyami sat on the bed in her bedroom and gazed up at the stars. They were all shining brightly and Saiyami smiled for the first time in a long time. How nice it looked…
She suddenly remembered a little poem she learnt when she was a child and recited it.
"Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight; wish I may, wish I might…grant the wish I wish tonight…" she trailed off, "…I wish that I could have some friends who aren't like those gold digging bastards at school…who like me for me…" she said aloud.
Then she sighed, "Who am I kidding? There's no one like that in this world…"
A great flash of light blinded her eyes. Saiyami gasped in surprise, "What the hell?" she covered her eyes and when she looked up, a group of people stood in her room looking as confused as she was.
"What the hell?" she repeated, awestruck.
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