"Harvest Festival!" I shrieked as I ran into Barzini's classroom. "Barzini, Barzini! IT'S THE HARVEST FESTIVAL!"

He turned to me, looking shocked as I approached him, my face right up to his. "Okay, okay, I get the point!"

Diane and Cheyenne and the others were staring at me like I'd lost my mind.

"Yeah, but I don't know what to take!" I wailed. "I know we should take something as offering to the Harvest Goddess-who is extremely pretty, from what I've seen in pictures-but I don't know what she likes! Does she like strawberries? I like strawberries."

Barzini blinked. "Uh. I don't know?" I could tell I'd just confused him.

"So helpful!" I wailed again. Then I calmed. "I have to go home."

"WAIT, YOU HAVE SCHOOL!" Barzini roared at me as I left.

"Damn."

He rushed out to me as if to stop me leaving the school altogether- of which I was no longer doing.

"What's your next lesson?" he snatched my timetable from me. His eyes widened. "You take art?"

I pulled it off him, my head burning. "Yeah, so? It's not like I'm the only art student. I do take farming classes." I stared him right in the eye. "You know that day when I met you? I was holding a piece of paper, which ripped in two. That farm sign I have? That was the original."

"Oh..."

"Now, I have to go to my art lesson, so if you'll please let go of my bag, I'll be off," I answered with a sigh, looking pointedly at his strong hand. He let go, but before I could escape Diane, Xenia and Cheyenne appeared.

"Did I hear right? You take art?" Xenia exclaimed. "You're so brave! Hardly ANYONE takes art, and whoever does is suddenly a homosexual according to Seiki."

"WHAT?"

Cheyenne nodded soberly. "Yup. I think one guy actually dropped it because of the rumours."

I knew him. Usually he came into art all happy, then one day he just walked in, announced he was dropping it, then walked back out. It was such a bummer. I liked to talk to him. So that was why he dropped it?

No wonder we were, like, a four person class.

"So, the Harvest Festival," Diane interrupted. "What are we taking?"

"Peaches!" Cheyenne said immediately. "I've saved my best ones for this!"

"I'll probably take cocoa," Xenia mused. "I think the Harvest Goddess prefers chocolate over breadfruit."

"I win-I'm taking strawberries," Barzini boasted. "Her favourite."

"DAMMIT, I SUCK!" I wailed. "Screw it, tomatoes will do, right?"

Diane gave Barzini a pleading look. He sighed, and nodded to her. Xenia, Cheyenne and I ignored it, and instead started talking about where it was going to be held.

"I mean, usually everyone goes to a certain place, but I think we're allowed to hold our own small ceremony at a private place," Cheyenne started.

"Doesn't there have to be running water and a little shrine thing?" I asked.

"Kind of. But we have to go and meet up with everyone first because you see… It's like a gesture and it's impossible for us children to afford a Harvest Statue… Anyway, the nearest Harvest Festival statue is in Marine Parade… We'll go there at… 4pm? After our remedial." Barzini sighed, gesturing at his stack of Additional-Mathematics papers, and Diane sighed, and nibbled on her plate of Malay rice.

Recess time. At least I was enjoying the time I had with my new found friends.

"Oh yes! Remember when we went for the Fireworks Day? Something happened on Diane's farm." Barzini grinned and Diane glared at him, her face turning a slight shade of red.

"What?" Xenia asked, cocking her head, and Barzini shrugged, laughing to himself, waving his chopsticks around, mimicking the action of water sprouting, but we were still as clueless as before, and he did not bother explaining, he kept shrugging when pressed for information and laughed at Diane's face.

Takt however, was back to her introvert self, eating her fishball noodles and not commenting on any of the events. Thus, when the Diane fever died down, that oh-so-familiar tension came back again.

"No! No! Put it there slowly! Yes!"

We all turned around to see a huge figure of the Harvest Goddess towering over us in the canteen, and the girls screamed, and Barzini fell off his seat. From its height, it looks like some sort of mathematics equation towering over us (for those who fear maths a lot, you know what I mean).

"WHAT! THE! HELL!" Barzini shouted, and a face popped up from behind the Harvest Goddess, smiling and waving at all of us.

"Nelly! I swear to God! One more time you try to catch me unaware! I will! Kill! You!" Barzini shouted, getting back to his feet and sitting down, wagging his finger at the girl, while Diane was laughing, poiting at him.

"I'm so sorry! I just couldn't resist doing that!" She pouted, and sat down beside Barzini, forcing Takt to move away, and the girls broke into a slight giggle, and he squirmed uncomfortably.

"So? Have you found a partner to dance with for the festival? Huh? Huh? Huh?" Nelly urged, tying her long black hair, watching Barzini as he fell silent and continued eating his food.

Poor guy…

Xxx

"I swear… I forgot that there was this damned dance to do…" Barzini muttered under his breath as he tried to confide with his inner group of friends.

"You had best dance with Nelly. She'll haunt you to your dying days…" Diane mimicked a ghost floating about and Barzini shot him a glare.

"Why don't you dance with a friend? It'll be so much simpler? No?" I asked him, and he seemed to consider that suggestion for a moment before shrugging- A non committable answer.

"Anyway… I got classes now… Bye…" Barzini said in a surprisingly dead voice and drifted away, leaving us, the girls behind.

"Nelly's really pressuring him huh." Takt commented, and we nodded.

"Just look through his phone. There's more text messages from her than the rest of his contacts combined." Cheyenne responded and we laughed, moving to the street soccer court in the school to watch an all girls team play.

"Go Katie! Go!"

I looked up and saw a girl with chestnut brown hair, beads of perspiration kicking a ball, and it swept forth towards the goal post, and rebounded, and everyone threw themselves onto the floor, crying out, and if some sort of World War II veteran saw this, they'd think that some sort of mobile artillery piece had been fired-

"YEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

I looked up a little and saw the ball rolling towards me, having made it's contact. Seiki was writhing on the floor, the ball having made contact with a man's most… "Protected area"

"Seriously! Why did you act all hero-like and stand down there when everyone got down?" Someone shouted from among the crowd and they burst into general laughter, and he stormed away, tears in his eyes, his face red from anger and humiliation.

"Hey Diane! Hey all!" Katie said as she saw Diane, taking a towel to wipe her perspiration, and we waved back, moving back to congratulate her on her brilliant "score".

"Geez thanks…" She laughed, and we made our way slowly back to class. We had an hour's break as Barzini took a much more what he defined as "superior" subject due to the fact that it was called Pure Geography instead of the Geography Elective that we took. Of course, he learnt more, and he would live in denial that we learn almost the same things as he did excluding the extra topics that Pure Geography students had to learn.

"To be honest, Barzini's issue could be solved extremely easily…" Takt said after a moment of silence, and we turned to face her.

"You see… Can't he just dance with a guy friend?" Takt asked, and Diane shook her head.

"One, Singapore only allows lesbians, not gays. And it is improper for guys to dance with guys. Girls dancing with girls are fine… And you think that Barzini will do that? He'd probably say something along the lines of… Forget it! Or uhm… Go to hell!"

"Two, I think that Barzini is slightly against gays although he didn't show it everytime he sees a gay couple…. I remember the time I was with him when we saw a couple, he saw them, shook his head and sighed, and continued walking."

"He could be gay…. Jealousy I guess?" Katie answered, and everyone giggled. Barzini a gay. Wow…

"Impossible… He says that Emma Watson is his wife… " Xenia replied, and Cheyenne wolf-whistled. But it was true, girls could easily dance with girls if they had no option of dancing with boys, therefore, boys during this event either made themselves ill, sprained their own legs, or thickened their hide and asked a girl out.

This was going to be fun…

Xxx

"All ready?" Diane giggled as Barzini walked out of the classroom slowly, as if for the first time, even seemingly reluctant to step out of a mathematics classroom.

"Yes… And uhh… Hannah?"

"Mhm?" I looked up from my sketchbook, and he saw him take a deep breath.

"Dance with me."

Of all the things in the world, I was certainly NOT expecting that. The books tumbled out of my hands and I hastily bent down to pick them up.

"Seriously? A simple no would have sufficed!" He muttered, and I hastily nodded my head.

"Yes… Yes… Okay… Let's go now." I said quickly, and we all left, with Diane, Cheyenne, Katie, Xenia and Takt falling behind a little to giggle amongst themselves.

Correction: This MAY be a fun day.

I'm back! This was written by Hannah herself, and edited by me because she has been so busy. Okay not that I wasn't.. Anyway I think I owe all of my readers a decent explanation for why the hell I have not been updating.

You see, I am having my GCE O Level Examinations, and had been studying :P Simple enough :P Either way, I welcome more OCs and would really love if you could drop a review! I would get back to writing in a week and a half's time because my exams would be over and I would be as FREE AS A BIRD XDDD

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