(Raine's POV)
I jumped up out of my bus seat and ran until I got to my front door. I fumbled with my key, trying to jam it into the lock sideways, backwards, horizontal, until, finally, my subconscious mind told me 'forwards and vertical you dimwit.' The key slid into the lock and I thanked voice #7, the soul-sucking demon, and frantically shoved the door inwards.
"MOM!!!" I yelled. "MOM! I NEED TO SEE THAT BROCHURE AGAIN!!!" I yelled while running into the kitchen.
"Raine, you don't have to yell," My mom calmly stated.
"For the love of penguins! Stop nagging me!" She gave me that look.
"Fine! Fine! Geez, just gimme the paper!" She handed me a black brochure with a red cloud on it. The cloud was lined in white.
I ran up the stair and into my room. I jumped on my bed and flipped open the brochure to take a closer look. The girls' uniform was, starting from the shoes, a pair of back buckled boots. They went up to mid shin. Next were the stockings; A dark grey pair of stockings that went up to mid-thigh. A skirt that was about the same shade of dark grey as the stockings went down to about three inches above the top of the stockings. The top was a simple white top that had something between a low cut neck line and a no cut neck line (you know, those things that choke you every five minutes?) and came down enough to be comfortable. There were two accessories: A red leather belt with metal studs running in a line the length of the belt, and an armband. The armband was about 4-5 inches thick and made out of grey fabric. It was trimmed with a white frill and on it was an akatsuki cloud. There was a little note below the picture that said: 'You may style your hair how you wish.'
As I absorbed this picture, a few thoughts ran through my mind:
-Why must I be tortured with a skirt?!
-Hiri isn't going to be too happy that she can't were her metal belt…
-I wonder if they have penguins there…? (Raine: sorry, A.D.D.…)
I didn't give a shit about the guy uniform so I just skipped to the other page. Wow. They have an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. I suppose that's for swim team only… damn. We get free time on Saturday and Sunday, nothing new there, and we get to choose who we share our room with. YES! Four people to room! Perfect! And apparently they have a buffet for each meal… I hope they have waffles… They have classes such as challenge fine art, algebra, challenge graphic design, advanced agriculture… Crappers and Milk! These classes are all challenge classes! I'm gonna fail! Oh wait… no… those are just classes for the more gifted. There were other classes such as art, gym… meh…, health/medicine, origami, normal agriculture, religion, normal math, science, language… hey, they don't have social studies… hm…, economy, Japanese, and… English!? Huh!? Why would they teach an English language class…? Are there students from other countries as well?
I flipped back to the cover page. 'Japan's best academy' How in hell did I miss that!?!?!? Did my mom know? She must've. She would never have signed those forms without knowing where the school was…
Well, if I'm gonna be in a different country, I'm not gonna be able to come back home easily, and I am leaving tomorrow, so I guess I should start packing…