Author's note!

Welcome to chapter 2! I'm sorry if it took too long to write, I've been too busy with school and family. Nevertheless, now that Christmas break is hear, I have more free time to work on writing.

(Please post any grievances, corrections, or suggestions in the comments... Enjoy!)

Date: November 14th, 20XX

Time: 8:15 am

Location: The Hallway Outside Of Sakurako's First Period Class

Never thought I'd say this, but... Thank god, I'm at school!
I can't wait to take a nap on my nice comfy desk.

It'll be heaven. A warm, cozy heaven with no geese in site.

Just what I'm needing right about.

I hope Sensei doesn't mind me being late. At least I have a good excuse this time. Eh, it's not like she has high expectations of me anyways.
She's probably used to it by now.

I press my face up against the window of the classroom door. She's in the middle of a lesson. The door creaks open as I inch my way into the room. Maybe if I sneak my way to my desk, I won't get in trouble for being late.

"SA- KO- RAAA- KOOO."

Or, maybe not.
How could she detect my presence? Does she have spider senses or something?

"Why are you lat- *My teacher turns to face me* OH MY GOD, WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED TO YOU?!"

Oh yeah... I probably look like a train wreck right now.
What should I tell her?

I look around to see all the entire class staring at me. In the back of the classroom I see Himawari. She's making a really weird face.
Is she… Worried about me?

Pfft, nah! That stupid girl only cares about herself.
She's probably just constipated from being too fat or something.

"Well, go on. What happened to you?"

The voice of my old hag teacher draws me back to the situation at hand. I can practically feel the stares of everyone in my class.
Oh God, I can't tell her what happened to me in front of the whole class! I'd look like a loser... Who gets beat up by a stupid bird? Everyone'll make fun of me… Especially that tiddy monster.

I need to make up a clever lie, that way no one will figure out.

"I uhh.. Got hit by uhh.. A-A BUS!'

"You got hit by a what?! Are you okay?!"

Flawless! She fell for it. My plan went off without any problems.

"Sensei can I take her to the nurse, please?"
I hear the voice of my rival from across the room. I look over and see her stand up from her chair.
One of her hands is clutching her small red purse, The other is waving in the air frantically to get the teacher's attention.

Why does she want to take me to the nurse? If my Arch enemy was mortally wounded, I'd just leave them to bleed out.
She's probably planning something.

"Yes, Himawari-san. Get her there safely."

As soon as the door shuts behind us, Himawari practically pins me up against a wall.

"Don't move." She takes her purse in her hand.

She's digging in her purse for something. I wonder what.
Maybe she has a knife, and she's looking to end our rivalry once and for all! Holy cow, I hope not.
I'm in no position to fight back, I'm still beaten up from my encounter with that goose, and she's got me pinned up against the wall.

If she wanted to she really could just gut me like a fish.

"Aha, there it is."

She pulls out a hairbrush from her bag.
Oh my God, I knew it. She wouldn't want to kill me with a knife, that would be too quick. She wants to see me suffer.
OH THE HUMANITY ! I'm going to slowly get hair brush'd to death!

"W-what are you going to do to me, you sadistic titty monster?"
"Hey, quit squirming! I'm just going to brush your hair."

Oh. Well, that makes much more sense than brush torture.
She is my personal servant girl after all. It's only normal for servants to comb their master's hair.

"Dang, your hair really is a mess. What happened to you?" She says, holding up a lock of my hair.
"I told you, I got hit by a bu-"
"No you didn't." She continues, "if you got hit by a bus, you'd be bleeding out on the side of a road right now."

It looks like I've been outsmarted again.
What should I tell her? I can't tell her the truth, if she finds out I got my ass handed to me by a bird, i'd never hear the end of it.

"Anyway, you shouldn't go walking around school with your hair looking like this." She says, making me loose my train of thought.
Without another word, she gets to work fixing my hair.

My eyes are starting to get heavy from how soothing her hairbrush is. This is bliss.
This must be how a puppy feels when you pet it.
She really should brush my hair more often, although it is quite embarrassing.

This is actually REALLY embarrassing, now that I think about it.
My arch nemesis is grooming me as if I was her little pet. She has me completely under her control, and I'm pretty much powerless to stop her. Although I have to admit, this really isn't the worst thing in the world.

I love being pampered by her...
Jesus Christ, what am I thinking?!

For some reason, my cheeks feel warm. She is really close, I can feel her entire body pressed up against mine. Her face is mere centimeters away from is way too close.

I can smell her perfume.
Bubblegum, huh?
What a nice smell.

"Well, what happened?" I get snapped back to reality by her soft, almost motherly voice.

"Huh?" I say, momentarily forgetting what we were last talking about for half a second.
Oh yeah, she wants to know what happened to me. I can't possibly tel her about what actually happened.

I pause for a while, and then speak. "No, you'll... Make fun of me."

She looks at me, running her fingers through my hair.
"I won't laugh at you, I promise." She says with a warm smile.

Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell her what happened. "Okay, give me a second."
Talking about this is harder than I thought.

I take a deep breath, and then I begin to spill my guts "This sounds really stupid, but I think I almost died today."
She's staring at me sincerely, with a very worried look in her eye.

"My day started out bad enough. I was late for school, it was cold and I forgot my warm clothes, I barely had time to make breakfast for myself..."
"But it got worse. On the way to school, I was attacked... By a..."
"-A goose."

I look up expecting Himawari to be laughing her ass off, but instead, she's just standing there with that same worried expression from earlier, listening closely.
I continue my story.

"I was terrified,"
For some reason, it's hard for me to breath.

"Tthat damn bird was sscratching at me, a-and biting at me..."
There's something stuck in my throat.

"I-It hhurt soo baddly a-and i was sho sccaredd,"
I can feel tears running down my cheeks.

"I-I wwas the most terrified, I've ever been in my life..."
"I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE, HIMAWARI!"

I'm sobbing uncontrollably now, words cant even come out of my mouth anymore.
Why am I crying so much? For some reason, looking back on what happened is so painful.
I felt so helpless, and it was so humiliating. He was just a dumb bird, but he was able to hurt me so badly.
I feel like such a fucking idiot right now, crying like a baby over something so stupid.

-suddenly, I feel a warmth completely envelope my body. A hug.

"Don't cry. You're safe now."
She wipes my tears off of my face,

"I won't let anyone or anything hurt you anymore."

*Sniffle* "Wwhy are you being so nice to me?"

She looks me straight in the eyes, and says,
"It's because you're my best friend, and I care about you... a lot."

I feel all of the feelings of sorrow that I've ever had melt away. The warmth in her voice, and the serious look in those dark green eyes of hers tells me that she meant every word that she said.

She has me absolutely speechless.

I'm not crying anymore, but my cheeks are still on fire and It feels like my heart is pounding outside of my chest. Why?
She takes my hand.

"Let's get you to the nurse, okay?"

Her hand is so warm... So soft.

Author's note!

How was yall's holidays? I hope that they SUCKED!

-Just kidding! (Again...) I everything went wonderfully, and that everyone had loads of fun.

Did you enjoy chapter 2? Quite a lot of serious things happened, so I did my best attempt at mixing in as much humor as possible. Honestly, I felt that it was a little TOO angsty... But don't worry, this is as bad as it gets, it's all sunshine and rainbows from here!
I absolutely love fluffy, feel good fan fictions, so that's why i'm going to write one~~~

Be sure to send me any love letters, death threats, and everything in between! Rate, and review!

Smell ya later!

-John Brown

(Tune in next time to see Sakurako acting a hot mess!)