Hello! I hope everyone liked the first chapter! I couldn't help myself from writing even more! I'll probably start Chapter 3 right away. I don't think I can stop writing for long-
Anyways! I hope you enjoy the chapter! Thanks for reading!
Today was finally the first day of classes…and Mai was extremely nervous. There were so many different thoughts going through her head.
What if no one liked her?
What if she forgot everything she has worked so long on learning?
What if no one understood her English?
What if she forgot supplies for the class?
What if she had no idea what anyone was talking about?
What if she failed on the debates?
What if she messed up her wording and everyone thought she was an idiot.
She could feel herself panicking and she needed to calm down. Did she even know how to calm down right now? She had no idea what to do when the door to the classroom came into view. Maybe she couldn't do this?
"Mai…"
Maybe she should have stayed in Japan and far away from London?
"Mai."
Nope. She can't do this. She felt her body already turning ready to just run the other way.
"Mai!" Yasu yelled a little louder as he grabbed her arm. "Where are you going?"
"I can't do this! I'm going back to Japan." Mai struggled a little against Yasu. Even though she could probably easily break away from the other.
Yasu sighed deeply and pulled her closer and moved to rest his hands on Mai's shoulders. "Mai. I completely understand what you feel." Sort of. "You've worked way too hard to back down now. Whatever you're thinking you don't have to worry. You don't even have to talk the first part of this lecture. Just take your time and relax. You can even read the textbook we got yesterday. I know reading calms you down enough."
Mai blinked several times as she looked at the other and took in his words. Was she still nervous? Of course, but… "I think I just need to sit down and relax." Maybe even do a little meditating while she sat there.
Yasu just laughed and nodded before pulling away. "That's a great idea. You'll calm down in no time." He moved to pat her head before heading into the room.
The room was like any normal college room. The room was split between three different areas of desks. Then the front of the room there was a huge white board with a bunch of different things written on it. It looked mostly like a schedule. The handwriting was a little all over the place honestly. Then there was a huge desk off to the side of the room by one of the huge windows. There were a bunch of papers scattered everywhere and one man was standing there trying to sort through everything.
Martin Davis.
Obviously. Mai couldn't help but stare at the man. This was Naru's father. She saw him for only a couple seconds in Japan, but now they were actually going to learn from this man. He didn't even have any idea who she was and she was happy about that. She really didn't want Naru panicking because she was around. Well, she wasn't sure about panicking. Maybe…unhappy?
She finally tore her eyes away from the older man and decided to look at the other people in their class. There weren't that many, but they all seemed to be chatting in small groups. They probably all came in from groups. Just like Yasu and herself. It makes sense really. She also could be wrong and they just split up to get to know each other.
Yasu suddenly decided to move and go up the stairs. Most of the students were in the front, but they were going to the middle away from them all. For the most part anyways. Mai followed the other without question as she held onto her bag that was hanging on her shoulders.
They were being stared at. She wasn't sure how to focus with everyone just staring. There were whispers too. This was not helping her nerves at all.
When they finally found a seat that they liked Mai was quick to sit. She pulled out any one of her random books just to read and calm down.
Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for the Extraordinary Psychic Abilities.
This was the next in the lineup of the author that she had decided to read from. It didn't look like the man had a lot of books right now, but that never stopped her from reading. It wasn't something she really needed to read during class, but the text book that she actually needed to read she has read already.
More than a dozen times.
It was just an introduction to Parapsychology.
By Oliver Davis.
It was one of his older works, but it was still amazing of course. Also, of course his father would add this to one of his classes. He was probably extremely proud of his soon and wanted to show case his work for everyone to see.
She was only a couple of pages into her book before someone had suddenly moved in front of her and grabbed her book to look at it.
She was shocked to say the least as she looked up to come face to face with one of the other students. He had short/spiky very red hair. His eyes were also very blue and reminded her of the sky for a moment. He also was wearing this huge grin on his face as he looked at the title of the book.
Mai just wanted her book around and Yasu was just also sitting beside her a little shock at what just happened. He didn't even see this guy come up, because he was so focused on getting his own stuff out.
"Woah. Class has barely started and you're digging your noise into a book." The guy was still all smiles as he read over the page she was reading. "Hey, this is actually interesting!" He was surprised and moved the book to actually read a little more.
Mai was furious as she shot up and grabbed her book back glaring at the boy. "I would appreciate that you didn't touch my stuff." She held her book close to her chest and turned away. Her glare never leaving the other.
He blinked a little shocked himself before raising his hands backing down. "Sorry! I should really introduce myself." He laughed freely for a second before suddenly stopping. "I'm…" He tried to be as dramatic as he could and even backed up to stand on a desk doing some weird pose. "Liam Floyd."
Mai…just didn't know how to react. She was completely stumped. She blinked several times as she stared at the boy who was in the weirdest pose on the desk in front of her. "I'm sorry…please don't be offended by this…but are you stupid?"
There was a huge crash sound as the man in question lost his balance and fell on the other side of the desk. Yasu couldn't hold in his laughter anymore and just broke down. He also fell over in the process onto the floor. Even some of the other students couldn't help but laugh.
"Sorry about him." Another voice joined the little group. A girl who had very long dirty blonde hair and green eyes. "We're pretty sure there is a screw loose in his head. Oh. I'm Trista Baxter." She held out her hand for Mai to take.
Which Mai couldn't help but glance at where the other fell down. She decided she had a free moment and her book was safe so she reached out to take Trista's hand and smiled widely. "I'm Mai Taniyama. It's great to meet you."
Trista smiled even more as she basically got on the desk in front of Mai. Which also shocked her a great deal. "You guys are the students from Japan, right? You guys are the one who got the scholarships, right? I heard the paper both of you guys did was something along the lines of aura healing, right? I'm not really well known for this line of study. We heard a little about it." Trista was getting a lot closer to Mai and she wouldn't let go. Basically scooting across the desk and Mai had no idea what to do. She would rather deal with the other guy right now. "Have you tested most of your theories? You probably have, right? Does that mean one of you guys are psychic in some way? Or do you have a test subject you use? I would love to test my own findings on your subject."
All of the sudden Trista was being pulled back by a hand that attached to her head. It was a very upset and bleeding Liam who had basically pulled her off the desk. "Trista! You're scaring her! I told you not to go overboard with your questions when you saw them." He glanced at Mai and gave her a very apologetic smile. "I'm sorry…we just are really curious since you guys have come from so far."
Mai couldn't help but smile warmly and moved to hand her book over to Liam. "We wouldn't be in this program if we didn't always ask questions. Right?"
Yasu had somewhere between everything managed to crawl back in his seat and find his bearings. He couldn't help but smile at the interaction. Mai was really nervous for nothing.
Liam couldn't help but smile even more at Mai and made a move to grab the book, but timing was not on their side at all.
"I found it!" Martin had suddenly yelled from the front of the class. He held up a stack of papers feeling completely thrilled with himself at the moment.
Which made all four of them jump at the sudden boom of voice in the room. They stood there awkwardly for a moment before all suddenly laughing. Which made Martin completely confused as he looked out to his students.
The morning lectures had passed pretty fast. It was mostly introducing what they were going to be up to for the remainder of the semester. Not to mention Martin had lists upon list of books he wanted to recommend. Which, Trista seemed to be very much into at this very moment.
The two had moved to the front seats that were in front of them before class officially started. It was a lot calmer than the start and Mai was happy to have made two new friends so fast.
They were on their way to the cafeteria right now to get some food. Mai was starving and was ready to put some food in her stomach. Liam was basically following right behind Trista while reading the book that Mai had given him earlier. Yasu was beside him explaining certain points that he didn't seem to fully comprehend. Apparently, Liam was more of an action guy then having his nose buried in a book. Mai couldn't really blame him. She used to never understand anything unless it was explained by Yasu. Now of course that was completely different.
"Oh! The cafeteria here is insane. There is so much to pick from and just…amazing. They have cake too and I'm honestly weak." Trista was talking about the college in general, but you could tell the need for food was getting to her. "I wonder if they have triple chocolate chip…" She could already feel her mouthwatering.
Mai laughed and shook her head. "I'm also very curious what they have. We live in an apartment off of college grounds, so this officially our first day that doesn't involve touring."
"Oh! Are you two a couple? You seem pretty close." Trista scooted closer to whisper so she couldn't catch the boys' attention. They seemed to be talking about something super interesting anyways.
Mai blinked before laughing super hard. "No way! We're just friends. Besides…" She mumbled as she leaned in. "I'm pretty sure he has no interest in girls."
Trista blinked and leaned back to look at Yasu and back at Mai. She smiled and hooked their arms together. "That's so cute. Love is so cute."
Mai hummed as she glanced at the other before smirking. "How about Liam?"
Trista all but stopped in her tracks causing the boy in general to run into her. Which she paid no mind to and was extremely red shaking her head back and forth a lot. Mai was sure anymore force would cause it to just detach.
'That's not how heads work…' Mai couldn't help but laugh a little at herself. No matter how stupid it was.
"No way! No way! He's…He's an idiot!" Trista was still completely red as she panicked. Liam just blinked staring down at her while also glancing at Mai. He was completely lost on what was happening.
Mai was just smiling as she watched Trista's reaction. This brought back a lot of memories from when Naru was still around in Japan. She brought her finger up to her lips and gave a smile. "Don't worry. I won't tell." Then she basically skipped down the hall heading to where the smell of food was coming from.
Trista was shocked at Mai's reaction before running after her. "Wait! It's not what you think!"
"What?" Liam blinked as he stared at the two girls retreating figures.
Yasu came up behind him and just pat his shoulder. It really wasn't hard to figure what was happening. Liam seemed to not be able to multitask though. "Don't worry. It might hurt your brain." Then he took off after the others having a huge smile on his face.
"What." Liam took way longer than he should have to get himself caught up and basically sprinting to catch up to the others.
They finally managed to sit down at a table with their lunch. Mai had decided to get creamy broccoli salad and a smashed chickpea sandwich. Yasu had just gotten the fish and chips. Then there was this substance…on a small plate that was basically shoved into his hands by Liam. Haggis. Apparently, is what Liam called it and he wasn't really sure how to feel about it.
Mai had looked up some of the food of the country and knew exactly what it was. Was she going to tell the other? Nope. She wouldn't even go near it herself.
Trista had gotten a coronation chicken sandwich with a very huge slice of chocolate cake. Apparently, they didn't have the right cake and she was quite upset. Liam had gotten a full plate of Haggis. It was one of his favorite dishes he had mention several times. He also got a strawberry cream cake.
It looked amazing to Mai, but she knew she wouldn't be able to finish it with all the food she had out in front of her.
Yasu had poked the haggis that was on the small plate before flinching. "I think it moved."
Liam rolled his eyes and grabbed his spoon and got a good amount before shoving it into his mouth. "Just try it. You'll love it."
Mai just tried to ignore it all and focused on starting her salad and not try to think about what Yasu is about to do. "Trista, you need to distract me." She mumbled so she didn't alert the other.
Said girl just blinked while having a mouth full of her sandwich. "What?" Some of the food fell out of her mouth and Mai just pulled away.
She didn't think she could stomach watching Yasu eat that stuff. It might be good, but just knowing what's in there…
She shivered as she moved to grab her book that Liam had put down and tried to focus on it.
Yasu decided to suck it up and put a little on his spoon and shoved it into his mouth as fast as he could.
The result?
Not as terrible as he thought it was going to be. He blinked down and couldn't help but take another bite. "Hey! This stuff isn't that bad at all. What's it made of?"
Mai just buried her face into her book and stuff a fork full of her salad trying to zone everyone out for a moment. She didn't want to hear it out loud.
Liam just smiled widely at the other acting completely innocent. "If I told you, you would probably kill yourself and haunt me. I'm too lazy to try and figure out how to get rid of your spirit."
Mai couldn't help herself and burst out laughing and almost falling off her chair. She decided to close her book as she continued to laugh and set it down. Deciding it was safe enough.
Trista was just ignoring what was happening as she decided to save the rest of her sandwich and eat her cake. Cake was way more important than the conversation that was going on.
The rest of the lunch time was basically silent as everyone scarfed down their food. By the time they were done each one was full and relaxing in a casual talk. Liam had stolen the book back to get a little more reading into it.
Trista had stretched her arms before getting comfortable leaning on the table. "So, you guys going to the first fundraiser? It's not mandatory, but it's probably good to at least go so it doesn't look…"
"Flaky." Liam finished setting the book back down. "Most of our class aren't going though. Most of them don't understand the benefits of going. It might be a fundraiser but it's also a chance for us to present in front of everyone. The people who go want to know what our research is about and what we're interested in with the field."
Mai smiled tilting her head in confusion. "Of course we are going. Anyone who doesn't don't understand what field they are going into. Plus, we're scholarship students…it probably would look extremely bad if we don't show up."
Trisha suddenly slammed her hands down causing the three to jump. Trisha was grinning and looked towards Mai. "We should go shopping. Buy a few dresses for the events to come. It'll be a girl's day!" She squealed clearly excited.
Mai blinked taking all the new information in. She grinned and nodded. "Can I add one more person to our girl's day?" She wasn't actually expecting to buy anything. Maybe, if there was something really cheap. She liked the idea of going out and exploring London even more.
"Am I the plus one?" A voice sudden came from behind them.
Mai just grinned hearing the familiar voice and turned to her. "Madoka!" She got up and went over to hug the woman. "Today has been going great!"
Trisha and Liam were both pretty shocked at the new comer. Well…their professor.
Madoka smiled at the two. "We haven't fully gotten to meet, right? I'm Madoka Mori. I'll be able to introduce myself even more once class starts up."
