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Chapter seven

Please tell me what Natsume Hyuuga not accepting my apology and gratitude has to do with, him trapping me with both of his arms like this. When I just thought of freeing my hand from his clutch he practically pushed me towards the huge Sakura tree. And here I am unable to push him away or free my hand. Of course I can't push a six foot tall muscular body with just one hand while my back is against a huge tree trunk. I never felt this short and helpless in my entire life. Not to mention his mocking smirk was annoying the hell out of me. He didn't even seem to be affected by the glare I was giving him as he stood in front of me while breathing down on my skin. Urgh! This is so annoying.

"Fine" I hissed. "What do you want?"

His smirk grew wider, if that's even possible as he started to demand whatever that's in his mind. "You'll do the two things I'll be asking you to do"

"Do I have a choice?"

"No" He looked satisfied as I said; "Fine. Hurry up" I might as well get this over with. I don't actually want to owe someone for the rest of my life and I certainly don't want this guy to keep reminding me that while he's anywhere near me.

"The first one; You will be my partner for-"

"In case you'd forgotten, I am already your partner for one long semester! And could you take a step back and talk?" even though I struggled to push him back, he just won't move an inch. His breath is already making my skin feel weird.

"Let me finish" he said as his eyebrows furrowed. Come to think of it, his eyebrows do look short like a fox's eyebrows-

"Oi, were you listening?!" he almost yelled in my ear. "Um….sorry what?" I asked politely and he sighed before answering; "You will be my practice partner"

He moved back afterwards and I released the breath I've unconsciously held. "Practice partner?" I asked titling my head to the side a little. Does he even make sense? He should state his ideas clearly, it's not like I'm some mind reader nor do I have telepathy.

"Hey wait! To practice what?" I yelled after him as he started to walk. He stopped.

"You'll find out soon….Polka-dots" his voice sounded mischievous and I could already picture him smirking along with it. "Is that the new trend these days?" He mumbled more to himself. "Pervert!" I yelled. How could he just peek inside to someone else's chest like that? Bloody pervert. To think that he did it twice was unbelievable. I was even wearing one of my lucky polka-dot bras, how embarrassing.

:-:

"Urgh! So frustrating!" I yelled to no one in particular. It was all trees that were surrounding me and I'm both physically and mentally tired. Thanks to a certain someone's riddles I'm already fed up. Do what he tells me? Seriously?! My scary imagination has already been working its dark magic on me and I'm sick to my stomach. I'd surely be getting a lot of nightmares from today onwards and a tiny voice in my head says that what he actually wants me to practice with him isn't any better than all the scary stuff in my head.

"MIKAN-CHAN!" it was an enthusiastic voice from behind. I'm sure it's not anybody I know of. Should I turn around? Or should I just walk a head like I didn't hear it? I quickened my pace anyway. Talking to strangers in a creepy forest or woods or whatever this place was called was certainly not a good idea, even if the stranger knows my name.

In a couple of seconds a guy with blue hair and a star tattoo under his right eye was standing in front of me, heavily panting. "You sure walk fast" he hardly spoke. "The name's Tsubasa Andou" he said while grabbing my hand and shaking it fondly. Now where have I seen him before? A picture of him with Hyuuga from Alice Café earlier flashed vaguely in my head. Is this the same guy?

"Glad to meet you in person Mikan-chan" okay, this is getting creepier. Glad to meet me? I freaking kicked a football at his friend- I assumed he and Hyuuga must be friends- and he's all giddy and happy that we met?

"- - man I never thought this day would actually come, that I'd see Natsume get hit by a ball like that! Would you like to join our football team?" he had been talking all the while I was spacing out.

"No-I mean no thanks" he seemed surprised with my answer, but shrugged and asked; "Then why don't you join the cheerleading team?" What is with this guy? Me, cheerleading?

"I'd rather die" I clamped a hand over my mouth. I was not planning to say that aloud. "Sorry I was actually going to say 'no'- thanks for the offer anyway"

He seemed amused as he said; "I'm actually very pleased to meet you Mikan-chan" Talking about weird people. He seemed sincere as well.

"So may I accompany you to your destination, princess?" he said while bowing comically. Seriously, this guy sure is weird. I failed to hold back my giggle as I said; "Yes you may Royal Guard, but I'm unable to find my way as well"

"To where are you heading my lady?" he too was trying not to laugh.

"Special Ability Club"

His face lit and his smile widened if that's even possible as he said; "I'm honored to have your presence at my club your highness. This way" he said after bowing down again and leading the way.

I wonder how someone nice like him and a perverted jerk like Hyuuga ever became friends.

:-:

Wow. The Special Ability Club owns a massive area. I was told that all the clubs have their own villa, in the Northern Forest- it's freaking huge. The club consists of all the age groups because the whole school has 'Activity Class' at the same time. I met Misaki again and a whole bunch of cool and friendly people. Unlike Permy and her crazy fan club members, these people weren't even bothered by my get-up. After warmly welcoming me, all of us sat in a circle and started sharing funny stories and ghost stories.

"Mikan-chan, you should meet Youchi the best ghost story teller in the whole wide world" Tsubasa said while stuffing his mouth with popcorn.

"Totally! That kid's the best. You can even FEEL the ghosts lurking around you" Misaki said while grabbing the popcorn bucket from Tsubasa and helping herself.

"Hey!" Tsubasa yelled while reaching for it and failing to grab it back.

I gulped before saying; "No thanks". To tell the truth I'm already pretty freaked out and they are talking as if there are scarier stories than the ones I heard just now.

"Hey, we're out of popcorn" another guy from the other side of the huge circle yelled while turning the popcorn bucket upside down and shaking it, as if hoping for a miracle to happen.

"I'll get more" a pretty girl with raven hair stood up. She seemed younger than Misaki and me.

"Where do we get them from?" I asked Tsubasa. "From the Cookery Club" he said while eating the remaining bits.

"Wait! May I come with you?" I asked the girl who was now standing at the clubroom door. I wonder how humongous the cookery club's clubroom is.

The girl smiled and nodded so joined her.

Aoi, that's her name. Come to think of it, she looks prettier when you look at her from a short distance. She has a pair of amazing crimson eyes. Is it just me suddenly realizing or does a lot of people actually have crimson eyes?

"How's it?" I heard her ask.

"I'm sorry I didn't quite catch your question" I replied politely.

"You don't have to be formal Mikan-san" she smiled while saying; "I meant, what are your opinions so far about this school?"

"Pretty okay I guess except for the part about all the rumors in the school site about that football incident yesterday"

I accidently saw the school web page from Hotaru's phone yesterday. She doesn't know though. I bet she was secretly getting rid of all those stuff.

'Mikan Sakura, who wanted to steal the queen bee title from Luna-san, attacked her with a football and our beloved Natsume-sama came to the rescue'. That was the headline. Geez, these people actually have a sense of humor. ME? Steal the QUEEN BEE title? I didn't even know there was such a title like that till yesterday. This was just one of the fantastic made up stories on the site. There were many. Each story was worse than the first one so I stopped reading them halfway.

"Don't let the stories affect you Mikan-san. They're just rubbish" I heard Aoi say while smiling sweetly.

"Thanks. Just call me Mikan. Drop the 'san' part" I smiled back.

"I can't because you're older than me. Ummm-she started to think for a while- So I'll call you Mikan-chan, just like Tsubasa-sempai"

"Sure"

We were now standing in front of a beautiful glass building. "This is the cookery clubroom" Aoi said while quickening her pace towards the building. OMG, the architecture and the whole attire was way different than our clubroom. Aoi might have sensed my astonishment because she said; "There's no building in the school that looks alike Mikan-chan"

"WOW" I'm actually running out of words here.

"Come on; let's hurry inside before a teacher catches us"

The clubroom has small compartments inside, each containing a small equipped kitchen. Students wearing a white apron and white chef hats were almost everywhere carrying saucepans and ingredients of all sorts, hurrying towards their kitchens I assumed. Some of them stopped to greet us while most of them couldn't even be bothered to spare us a glance.

"This way" Aoi tugged my hand and we were standing in front of a huge door that said baking room. Aoi slowly opened its door and peeked inside.

After a few seconds a girl wearing a huge chef hat that covered half of her small face was standing in front of us with huge buckets of popcorn.

"Thanks Anna-chan" I heard Aoi say. Anna? Is this the same Anna I know of?

"Mikan?! Hi! OMG glad you're okay. I was worried to bits when you fainted and I thought you'd sleep for days like sleeping beauty—"

Yup, the same Anna. She's the only one other than me, who could talk like that with just one breath.

:-:

Activity Class is the best period in our school timetable. Too bad, it ended so quickly and to think that I have to wait for another week to meet all of them is just frustrating. Aoi told me that the Special Ability Club has many activities and fun stuff planned each week. I can't wait till next week.

This time I asked the directions to my class properly from Misaki, and I even wrote them down on a piece of paper. I can't afford to get lost again.

The school building was only a couple of steps away when I felt an elbow rest on my shoulder.

"Yo Mikan-chan" its owner greeted. He had muddy brown hair and grayish-green eyes. If I'm not mistaken this guy too was there with Natsume Hyuuga at the Alice café yesterday.

"I'm Kokoro Yome. Please call me Koko" he said while smiling widely.

"I'm so honored to meet the actual Mikan Sakura in person" he said, still with his goofy smile. Am I missing something here? Why do these people keep saying that they're pleased and honored to meet me?

"Geez you sure got a powerful kick. Care to join the football team?" why do I feel like this conversation would turn out to be the same as before?

"No" I said firmly.

"Too bad." He said still with that Cheshire cat smile and suddenly put a hand over my shoulder and practically dragged me towards the class. He had been telling me all the pranks he had done along with this other guy called Kitsume all the way till we reached the class. Halfway through his jokes I cracked and laughed till I thought I couldn't anymore. Seriously?! How could they pull-over such pranks without anybody noticing that it was them?

Hotaru lifted an eyebrow when me and Koko entered the class. After I took a seat, I started to narrate my long journey to Hotaru and unfortunately she fired this rubber ball at my head from a toy gun.

"Baka Gun- invention no.0000234, designed specially to make you stop blabbering"

"Ouch Hotaru. When did you get that?"

"I MADE it today. I'm in the Technology Club" she replied proudly.

"Looks like I won't get to talk much around her anymore" I pouted. So unfair.

"Hello my wonderful students. It's finally time" it was Narumi sensei. He walked in with that wide smile of his and everyone looked at him in horror. Okay, I am practically missing something here. What does he mean by 'it's time'. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem any thing nice.

"Now why don't you choose partners" he said while writing something on the board. Partners? For what? I looked at Hotaru and she was practically glaring daggers at Narumi sensei. However some of the girls seemed exited as they giggled and looked around. What the hell was happening?

'Ballroom Dancing lessons- by Narumi Anjou' was written on the board.

I don't remember signing up for dancing. I'm pretty sure Hotaru didn't either.


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