Chapter 40: Back to School

Yay, I finally update quickly for once ^^


Rin's POV

The first day back at school... how will this turn out?

Since Oliver came back the day before the New Year's Party, he and Len didn't have the chance to clean their house or set things up the way Oliver wanted so. As I learned from spending time with Len in winter break, Len is a bit of a neat freak. Add that with Oliver and you get the two winter cleaning every inch of their house for the rest of the break.

With him cleaning so much I didn't have any time to speak with Len about what happened... then.

Then.

Oh gosh, now my cheeks feel hot again. Why do I keep thinking about that? Suddenly, the heat in my cheeks is accompanied with a cold Popsicle in my mouth.

"Morning Rinny~" Len sings and laughs at my puzzled expression. And when the heck did he enter the building?

I shove his Popsicle away and rub my chapped and now cold lips. "Why are you eating that now? It's cold."

"I think you should be asking Kaito that," Len says and points at his blue haired friend with his free hand. Kaito is happily scooping strawberry ice-cream on his way to class as Luka hesitantly greets him. Len chuckles and wraps his arm around my shoulder.

"Speaking of couples..."

We weren't even talking about couples!

"I guess you and I are now girlfriend and boyfriend, huh?" Len asks and pulls me in.

"Are you talking about the kind where you still go around with other girls or serious?" I question, lowering my eyes. It's very hard to look intimidating when your whole face is red.

"Serious, of course."

Len Kagamine and Rin Kagamine in a relationship.

Huh. That sounds kinda odd to me, but I don't really mind it.

"And that just means one step closer to se-"

My trigonometry book finds its way to Len's skull, making him cut the sentence. Thank you, math, for finally helping me with something useful in my life.

"See you in class, Len," I say as I walk off.


Oliver's POV~~~

"Oh my gosh, did you hear what happened at Sonika's party?"

"Kaito asked Luka out!"

"And Len got a girlfriend!"

"What else is new?"

"A serious one! It's that weird Kagamine girl!"

"I heard that that rude Aito finally got a girl too. Sonika's sister."

"But she's nice! Why would she fall for someone like him?"

"I think the weirdest couple has got to be Neru and Oliver."

"That just doesn't sound right."

"I heard they hooked up at the party..."

WE DID NOT HOOK UP!

I slam my burning face into the desk for the tenth time. Girls and their gossip annoy me way too much. If you're going to gossip, why don't you at least try and get the story right? We did not "hook up"- I would never disrespect a girl like that! She just m-made out with me... I think that's what it's called.

I can still feel her lips running against mine-

"Good morning, my peers and people below me!" Teto yells as she enters the classroom.

"I heard that someone also started a food fight or something..."

Right. I wonder who did that...

As Teto enters her seat, Gumi sends a glare to her. "Thanks to you, Sonika and I had to spend hours cleaning. We even had to rush or else our parents would find out."

"You have no proof it was me~" Teto says in a sing-song voice and digs into her bag for bread. Gumi and I glance at each other and nod. It was her.

More students begin to file into the classroom minutes before the bell rings. Miki keeps glancing behind her desk, for some strange reason. Sonika pats her new blonde hairstyle and glares at Len as he walks in behind Rin. Kaito is trying to hide his ice-cream below his desk, but I'm pretty sure his sticky mouth shows enough evidence. For once, Luka and Aito don't enter the room at the same time. Luka keeps talking to Kaito as Aito walks into the room. He throws a smile at Gumi and then takes a seat behind Luka.

I feel a chill enter my body as a teal colored girl enters the room. Is that-

"Hatsune-san?"

Her hair no longer touches her ankles, it just flows by her neck, not even reaching her shoulders. Her once bright and cheerful eyes are blunt as if someone stripped off every glimmer there was. Even Teto stares at her in shock, sitting in her seat in silence.

"G-good morning, Hatsune-san..."

She gives no reply, just sits down behind Miki and stares at the wall in front of her. People look at her best friend, Neru, but Neru doesn't seem to care, Geez, I'd hate to be in her way...

Finally, Mrs. Megurine walks in and breaks the silence.

"Good morning, class. I trust that you all had a great break?"

Definitely. I look over at Neru to try and send her a smile, but she's typing away in her phone as always. I guess no smile for her.

"Did you have a good break, sensei?" Teto cheerfully asks.

Mrs. Meguine takes a moment to respond. "It was definitely something, alright."

What an open-ended answer.

"Anyways," she begins and clears her throat. "Over the break, Mayu-san happened to move."

Small chatter broke throughout the classroom. Honestly, I never spoke to Mayu, but she seemed like a cute little girl that everyone liked. Looks like now I'm the only one in this classroom who looks younger than they're supposed to be. Rin and Len share a glance before looking away at the ground.

"But it seems we also got a new student who's going to be enjoying the rest of the school year with us," Mrs. Megurine continued and a figure stepped into the classroom. That multi-colored blonde hair, those orange-red eyes, and that overly sweet smile...

"Hello, I'm Galaco Shibasaki," she greets and smiles at us all. "Please take care of me."

"You can sit to the left of Oliver, Shibasaki-chan."

How did she get all the way here? I thought I left her in-

"Hi, Ollie~" I hear her whisper as she takes a seat by me.

And to think I had left my nightmare back in the UK.


Lunch~~~

Luka's POV

"I wonder why Aito isn't sitting with us."

I laugh and point my fork at the boy. "He's sitting with his new girlfriend. Don't you think they look cute?"

Rin nods and glances at the pair. He must be talking about something really geeky, because I can see that familiar shine in his eyes. Gumi doesn't seem to mind. In fact, she gabs on with him, occasionally laughing and accidentally snorting then turning red.

"They really are a cute couple..."

Speaking of couples, where's Kaito? Shouldn't a girlfriend and boyfriend sit together?

"Let's go sit with Kaito and Len," I suggest and nudge Rin's side.

"What? No!"

"Come on, you already confessed your undying love to each other~"

"I-it wasn't like that!"

"That's not what you said in our sleepover..."

"Are we interrupting something?"

Standing in front of us now are Len, Gakupo, and my adorable boyfriend who happens to have tousled hair. He still looks cute with a sleepy look on his face...

"N-no!" Rin yells and desperately tries to rub away the blush on her cheeks with her hands.

Len places his food down and takes hold of her hands to place them away. "Aww, but you look so cute blushing, Rinny."

"And you look better with bruises."

As she growls, Len lets go of her hands and laughs.

"Do you mind if we have lunch with you?" Kaito asks as the couple continues to argue.

"O-of course not!" I immediately respond and scoot so they can have room. "You can sit here all you like, every day or any day, we don't really mind. Nope, Rin and I would enjoy you company!"

Oh geez, there I go with my random blabbering again. Kaito just laughs and takes a seat by me.

"Do you eat eggplants everyday?" Rin asks as she looks down at Gakupo's meal.

"He's as crazy with eggplants as Kaito is with ice-cream," Len teases.

"I wouldn't use the word 'crazy' to describe my love for these eggplants that have descended from the heavens up above. Here, let me share with you the history of these mystical purple blessings."

Kaito and Len groan. "There he goes again."

"If we're going to be sitting together more often, they have to know about it!"

If I get to sit with Kaito more often, I don't mind listening to any odd stories, whether they are about eggplants or not. I just smile as a hand secretly touches mine below the table.


Teto's POV~~~

While I am taking a nice small walk around the school to spy on others who don't eat in the cafeteria, I hear a voice call my name from behind. Sadly, the fool doesn't remember to add "the Goddess" to the end of it.

"Teto! Teto! I need your help!"

I stop and watch as Oliver struggles to neatly pull to a stop. Instead, he trips over a rock and falls face flat onto the ground.

"Smooth moves there, Oliver," I say as the tip of my shoe greets his forehead. I nudge his head up and look to see the shota crying. "What is it now?"

"My nose hurts," Oliver whines.

"Where's Neru? Texting Lucifer about how she misses her home?" I ask, feeling the bitterness drip from my tongue. Hm... I wonder if there's signal down in hell. And Antarctica. What if a penguin could text? I think I could train one to do so and get them to tell me their every day life. I bet the penguin would probably text something like: Bro, it's freezing nuts out here. And I'm taking care of this baby while my wife is out. Geez, women. Who can understand them?

"... and then she tried to catch me in the hallway..."

Dude, that would be so cool. Maybe I should ask IA if she can snag me a penguin.

"So then I dashed down the front door just in time, but I accidentally bumped into a janitor..."

I pull out my phone and click IA's contact number.

"The goddess requests a penguin," I text.

"Then as I was helping clean up the mess, the janitor told me that they use the same brush to clean the water fountains, which disgusted me, so I will never drink from them again..."

My phone rings seconds later.

"You would have no place to keep the penguin, and your parents would be furious. Please think logically, Teto."

"But I want a cute penguin to slide down icy hills with!" I respond.

"There are no icy hills here..."

"T^T"

"And that's when I ran into you!"

Dang it, I wanted a penguin.

"Teto, are you even listening? I've been talking to you for the past ten minutes," Oliver says, interrupting my amazing thoughts.

"That's very nice and all, Oliver, but my life is worse," I say with a dejected frown. "I don't get a penguin!"

"Did you listen to a single word I said?"

"Nope~"

Oliver sighs and goes through his story again.

"Long story short-"

"TL;DR, you mean."

"What?

"You don't know Reddit. You wouldn't get it."

He gives me another odd look. "Why is that even-"

"Hey, who's that chick running over here and calling your name? I think I saw her before," I say and turn him around. Indeed, the new girl is going around and searching behind bushes. Who the heck would hide in places as simple as that? Only an idiot-

"Hide!" Oliver yells and pushes the two of us into a bush.

Of course.

As I push the twigs and leaves out of my face I try and adjust into a more comfortable position. There's a fluffy pillow or something below me though.

"You're... crushing me..."

Oops, that pillow seems to be the shota. I scoot off of his fragile body and my butt roughly lands on the ground. "You better have a good reason for us hiding."

"It's because of Galaco," Oliver says and peeks out of the bush.

"The new girl in our class?"

He nods and continues his story. "You see, Galaco and I used to be really close friends when we were younger. I think I was her only friend, because she was really rude to other people. Anyways, as we grew older, she got really clingy and would always ruin any relationship I had with a girl."

"You can make a girl attracted to you?" I ask in mock shock.

"Shut up. Anyways, one day she told me she liked me, and that made me feel really weird. I couldn't really... be comfortable with her anymore. She was always stalking me and kinda following me around too..."

Sounds like my kind of girl.

"And when I came here I was relieved to get a clean slate, but she must have convinced her parents to let her come here too."

The first bell rings to signal students to head to class. Oliver and I stay put as Galaco sighs and heads towards the building. I turn to him and embrace my knees.

"Are we going to class?"

"I don't want to be around her," Oliver responds and shakes at the thought.

"That devil that you like will be there though..."

"You mean Neru."

"I like to call her a devil instead."

Silence follows as he sighs and I look up at the sky.

"So..." I begin, beating the leaves around the bush, "are you two doing good?"

This is so awkward...

"Yeah, I guess."

"That's... good." Blowing my breath out on my knees, I set my head down and look away. I still can't get rid of the chest pain when I'm around him.


Afterschool~~~

Normal POV

With the first day back at school over, the students quickly walk out of their classrooms. Unfortunately, some teachers jumped the gun and began the new year with homework and promises of projects in the future. Luka lingers around the classroom, helping her mother clean the desks or wipe the boards. As she leans down into Meiko's desk she finds a red cellphone in the compartment below.

Curiosity gets the best of Luka and she clicks the home button on the bottom. There's one notification of a text message from someone.

"We can meet after school. I don't think that Luka..."

The message trails off after that.

What kind of relation does this person have with me? Luka mentally asks herself and frowns as she notices it is password locked.

"Someone left their cellphone here," Luka says and places it on her mother's desk. Her mother nods and pushes it into a drawer to give the next day, not even glancing at the next notification that rings up.

"I may leave her soon, so please don't stay mad a..."

Miki follows behind close to Piko as they exit the school. This is her opportunity. With a quick step, she extends her hand out to him and grabs his arm.

"Piko, I want to talk-"

"I don't have time to talk, Miki. I'm sorry, but I must get home quickly."

With that, he roughly pulls his arm away and walks off. Her sad eyes watch him walk away without another word. Miku walks by, ignoring everyone's requests to hang out after school.

"I don't even think that's Hatsune-san."

"Maybe it's a prank or something?"

"Something is off about her..."

She doesn't care if they talk. Any words from such idiots like them are only useless. She looks up at the left wing of the school to see Len and Rin walking down a familar hallway.

The hallway leading to the art room.

"It's been a while since we came in here."

"I don't even come here in the mornings anymore," Rin admits as her fingers trail along the materials. "Whatever happened to my art lessons, huh Len?"

Len chuckles as Rin crosses her arms and looks at him. "Eh, being a teacher is too much of a hassle. Besides..."

Rin watches as he makes his way over to her and lifts her chin up.

"Teachers can't have relationships with their students," he whispers and leans in.

"W-we can't kiss in school..."

"That hasn't stopped me before."

Rin decides to close her eyes and just let his lips lock with hers. "Idiot," she mutters in between another kiss. Suddenly, Len pulls away and grabs something out of his pocket. She gives him an odd look as he holds up a chapstick.

"Your lips are chapped."

Her hands immediately go up to her lips and she turns red. "You were the one who initiated the kiss- it's not like I really care about my lips or anything!"

My lips are not chapped, Rin thinks with a small pout. They are perfectly normal.

"Stop fussing and let me fix that," Len says and laughs as he uncaps the chapstick. Once again, he lifts her lips up and begins outlining them with the strawberry chapstick. Rin stays quiet as she tries to avoid his eyes, feeling vulnerable and odd. Looking down at her now moist lips and pink cheeks, Len stays quiet too, hearing his heart pound.

"S-stop staring at me like that, idiot. It's embarrassing," Rin stutters.

Len blushes and sets his hand down. "You just look cute, is all."

"Oh, um, thanks..."

The two look away, feeling the awkward tension in the air as their hearts speed up in pace. Her finger unconsciously traces her bottom lip and she looks over at him to see him fanning his face.

Kagamine Len, the guy she once knew only as a player, is now blushing and embarrassed because of her, the girl he once thought of as naive and easily fooled.

Rin smiles at Len and grabs his hand, pulling him closer to her.

"Do you regret being paired up with me in that project?"

"Of course not," Len sincerely answers and she gives his hand a tug. "It made this happen."

"And you sure you're not backing out?"

"Why would I back out? You have many flaws and all-"

"Watch it," Rin threatens at his cheeky grin.

"But I want to stay with you for a long time," he finishes and leans against her.

"Good, because now you're stuck with someone as crazy as me."


Now that they're back at school, I'm going to have all kinds of fun making up drama between them all. Side note, I have just recently fallen in love with "The Uproar of Teacher and Girl" by Len made from Wonderful Opportunity. He may not be a teacher, but I can certainly try to reference this song with him and Meiko.

Thank you for reading and as always, you can review down below! Bye bye~!