"Mikan…", Pierre tried to console his friend, "..It can't be that bad..", but moved out of the way as Mikan began pulverizing the chair he just happened to be sitting in.
(Note: Unlike the anime, Mikan does not cry about Natsume seeing her underwear, but instead, goes on a ballistic rampage that only Hotaru can subdue.)
"Not that bad?! The stinking pervert practically tried to strangle me and he saw my underwear as a result!! What's more?? He got away with it! With that blonde friend of his—whoever that may be—but if I ever see that repulsive face of his again, I'm going to…I'm going to…aaarrrggghhh!!", Mikan bickered as she stormed the place, obliterating yet another furniture.
"Mikan, calm down.", Gary said as calmly and steely as his reputation allows him to be, but was instantly ignored by the brunette.
Nigel shook his head at Gary's failure at trying to calm Mikan down in disapproval. "You need to get a girlfriend, mate.", he said, as he expertly ducked from some flying object that hit the wall.
"Speak for yourself, Nigel. Your last girlfriend practically dumped you because of that moldy stuffed toy kitten of yours.", Gary spoke back with an indifferent tone.
"Patricia's not moldy!!", Nigel quickly retorted, and started to cuddle his worn-out-looking stuffed toy cat, saying to it, "Don't worry, Patty, Gary knows nothing…".
Pierre rolled his eyes at them, and said, as if to himself, "I wonder what Hotaru would say if she saw Mikan having a tantrum like this.."
Mikan instantly settled down as she thought of what Hotaru might say if she did see her acting like she just did.
"I can't believe an annoying noisy brat like you would come to see me. Now, I'm going to have to pay the school for the stuff that you destroyed…I wish you never came at all.."
Hotaru would never actually say those words exactly, but Mikan was pretty open-minded to believe that she could be saying that, and that would be far worse than anything Natsume might do.
Glad to see that Mikan has finally quieted down, Narumi-sensei, who has been hiding underneath the table the entire time, came out of his hiding place and showed Mikan a girl's school uniform which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
"An angry face doesn't suit you, Mikan, but this might!", he said, choosing his words carefully.
Mikan looked at him apologetically, and modestly accepted the uniform.
"Sorry, Narumi-sensei…I-I'm going to pay for the things I broke…", she said shyly.
"Don't worry about it, Mikan. Things here usually get broken anyway…", Narumi said, recalling some mishaps caused at his own classroom.
Mikan beamed at being forgiven and rushed to the changing room to try out her new school uniform, as Narumi smiled at her eagerness.
"She really is like her..", he thought to himself.
"Oh! You're such a cutie!", Narumi-sensei complimented Mikan's schoolgirl look. "It looks really good on you! You look so cute in it!!"
"Really?", Mikan asked, glowing with pride.
"Of course you are!!", the teacher confirmed.
"I can't believe she's falling for this nonsense he's spouting out...", Nigel snorted as Mikan and Narumi-sensei started having this father and daughter kind of lifting and swirling thing you often see in sappy family movies.
Finally, the man put her down on the couch and said, "Well then, Mikan-chan, about your entrance into Alice Academy...".
At this, everyone looked up to hear what he has to say.
"Everything has been decided, and you're in!", he finished.
"Hell yeah!", Mikan cheered, punching a fist into the air, and starting dancing around the room in glory, until the teacher suddenly said, "But only temporarily.".
Mikan stopped in mid-step and looked at the teacher in confusion.
"To officially enter, during your week here as a temporary student, you'll need to pass a certain test.", he said calmly.
"Test??", Mikan mumbled in a defeated tone. Mikan never was good at tests, not even pop quizzes. It was usually because of the help of her friends that she managed to pull through in her yearly exams.
Narumi must have heard her disappointment in her voice because he then explained to her that the test was in fact, easy.
"Easy? How could a test be easy?", Mikan asked, still feeling dejected.
Narumi-sensei smiled to encourage her and said, "Since you'll be entering our academy's high school branch, all you have to do is cooperate with, get along with, and be accepted by your classmates in class B. The academy will just look over that process to determine your level of Alice.".
"Alice? What's that?", she asked.
"Alice...well, how do I explain this?...Well, people with an 'Alice'—", Narumi-sensei was about to explain but Pierre beat him to it.
"—means that they're endowed with a natural gift. This Academy exists to accommodate the individuals who have their own unique natural gift and help them control their alices..", he said, as if he has heard the explanation a thousand times.
"Pierre, how did you—??", Mikan began to ask, but stopped as she remembered one time when Pierre had managed to dodge his fangirls in the school backyard by somehow appearing on top of the school building...
Mikan once thought that she was seeing things, but now she realizes that it was, in fact, real.
"You have an alice!!", Mikan blurted out, and then looked at the rest of her bandmates. They were all looking the other way, as if scared of having eye-contact with her. "You all have alices...", she muttered, and sank back down into the couch as no one made an attempt to prove otherwise.
Pierre, Nigel, and Gary felt as if they have let her down somehow by the awkward silence that followed, but instead of Mikan accusing them of keeping secrets from her, she went, "WOW!! It's like X-men or something!! Come to think about it, Hotaru-chan probably has an alice of her own too!! I knew she was special the moment I met her!! That's my Hotaru!!".
Baffled by her sincerity, Pierre asked, "So, you're not mad that we didn't tell you about it in the first place??".
Mikan looked at him as if he was making a joke, and said, "Of course not. Why would I be?".
Pierre just smiled and said, "Nothing.". He should've known that Mikan would always be a loyal friend, no matter what the circumstances may be.
The other guys smiled as well, glad that they had Mikan as their friend.
Behind them, a door swung open, and in stepped two people. "Oh, here they are.", Narumi-sensei proudly.
The rest of the group turned to look at who they were and Mikan quickly recognized the raven-haired girl standing beside another student with honey-coloured hair.
"Hotaru!!"
Sorry if it takes me so long to upload another chapter. I usually get lazy, and I'm not sure when I can upload the next chapter up, especially now that my HKCEEs are here...Still, I hope you enjoy reading what I've written so far. RxR if you can!
Ciao!