Vocaloid School Stories – Chapter 3: Desperation
"A date? Tomorrow?" Luka asked Rin and Miku, who were seated on a wooden bench.
"Sorry that we can't go to your house," Miku apologized to Luka, looking down. Her voice sounded upset.
"Y-yeah! But it's not a date!" Rin shouted.
"Come on, don't be shy, is it a double date? You can tell me," Luka chuckled at them.
"N-no it's not…" Miku blushed.
"So who are you going out with?" Luka inquired them looking intensely into Miku's eyes, she knew Miku wasn't good at lying.
The bell rang; Rin took Miku's arm and started running to class.
"Bye Luka, see you!" Rin called happily as they escaped, thankfully saved by the bell.
"Ah, those girls, they have no trust in me," Luka sighed, and walked to her classroom eating her sandwich along the way.
"Megurine-san! Hurry up or you will miss classes!" Luka noticed one of her classmates calling out to her, and rushed to the building immediately.
"Lily-san, you look happier than usual today," Luka told her classmate as they opened the door to their classroom.
"Huh? Really?" She made an awkward smile. "Must be because it's Friday," she explained.
"I see…" Luka muttered, taking her seat.
"And, you Luka, you look more down than usual, did something happen?" Lily asked back, worried.
"Ah, don't worry, Lily, I'm fine" Luka smiled at Lily.
"Has the teacher arrived?" Somebody asked
"Ah, Kaito!" Lily greeted a blue-haired guy seated behind her, eating an ice-cream.
"Oh, hello, Lily, Luka" He kept on licking.
"You were missing during first period, what happened?" Luka asked.
"I found out they don't sell ice-cream in this school, so I snuck out." He finished his ice-cream and threw the remains of it into the garbage can.
"Ah, Kiyoteru-sensei is here already" Lily called out, alerting the class.
Everybody got into their seat and started classes.
In class 1-B
"Meiko-sensei's classes are so boring," Rin muttered to herself and sighed. She was about to fall asleep, but was awakened by the loud ring of her own cell phone.
"Kagamine Rin-san, I thought I was clear at the beginning of the school year, NO CELL PHONES IN MY CLASS!" She grabbed Rin's cell phone from her hands and read the message:
-Do you have a pencil? I lost mine.
~Neru-
"I thought girls these days talked about interesting things" Meiko-sensei thought.
"Anyways, Akita-san, Kagamine Rin-san, go outside so you can share your pencil," their sensei chuckled at them. Everybody laughed, except Miku; of course, Len was especially amused with the scene. Rin, and Neru, who was another blonde girl with one-sided ponytail, walked outside of the classroom.
"You two better stay there until the bell rings," Meiko-sensei ordered and went back into the classroom.
"Neru," Rin called to her.
"What?" Neru replied, emotionless.
"I'm seated next to you! Why'd you send a message to borrow a pencil from me?" Rin freaked out, trying not to raise her voice.
"Because it's…cool, yeah," Neru replied.
"You..you don't seem to care about me" Rin was very annoyed
"Geez, don't freak out, Miku can explain it to you later, right?" Neru's comments were really void of emotions, she really didn't care.
"But I've bothered her way too much," Rin looked down, feeling like a burden to her own best friend.
"You are friends, she will understand, someday you'll pay your debt to her, too." Neru noted.
"I guess you are right," Rin felt better on the inside.
They waited some more minutes. The bell finally rang and Meiko-sensei went outside.
"Geez, girls, if you are going to send messages in my class at least set your phone to silent," Their sensei chided, heaving out a huge sigh, before walking through the corridors headed to class 1-C for the next lesson.
"Rin, Neru come in!" Miku called for them.
They went in and had their classes.
-Hours Later-
Miku and Rin were heading to their room as they saw Luka running towards them. There was another person with her.
"Miku, Rin" She called to them, panting.
"Ah, hello Luka, who is she?" Miku inquired, pointing to the blonde beside Luka.
"Ah, this is Lily from my class," She answered between pants, breathing hard. She wondered if her heartbeat would slow down at all.
"Nice to meet you, as Luka has already said, my name is Lily," The blonde introduced herself.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Hatsune Miku," Miku smiled at Lily.
"I'm Kagamine Rin, you can call me Rin," Rin giggled, putting hands behind her head.
"I hope we can be fri-" Lily started, but stopped talking when she saw Len, who now stood between Miku and Rin.
"W-who is he?" Lily asked nervously, pointing at Len. Her face became increasingly red with each passing second.
"Ah, he is Rin's twin brother, Kagamine Len" Luka said.
"So sexy cute" Lily thought. She suddenly had a nosebleed.
"A-are you ok? Lily!" Luka screamed, shaking Lily's shoulders. She made no reply, just continuing to nosebleed. "I'm taking her to the nurse, take care!" Luka called, leaving with Lily in her arms.
"That was weird," Len commented, confused. "Are you ready for tomorrow? I want you two in the city centre at 9am."
"What? 9am!" Rin shouted.
"Got any problem, lazy girl?" He asked.
Rin stared angrily at him. Miku interrupted their glaring contest, asking, "So, where are we going?"
Len looked at her and smiled softly, "Anywhere is fine as long as I'm with you."
Miku turned totally red and looked down, she was too embarrassed. Len ran his fingers through her hair and cupped her cheek with his free hand, staring intensely at her. They both blushed.
Rin hugged Miku from behind, interrupting the scene. "Hey, don't do those kind of things in front of me" She complained. Miku seemed upset.
"Um, well I've got homework to do, are you coming with me to the dorm, Rin?" the girl with teal-hair asked, quickly hiding her sadness.
"Not now, I want to talk a bit with Len," Rin said.
"Oh…ok, then." Miku walked back to their shared dorm slowly. Rin sounded really serious, and she was worried.
"What's the idea, flirting with her right in front of me?" Rin screamed in an angry tone as soon as Miku left.
"Sorry, she is just too lovely to be ignored," her brother smirked.
"Don't get close to her, you pervert," Rin threatened him.
"Are you sure you are doing the correct thing by telling her not get close to me?" He asked.
"Huh?" Rin looked puzzled.
"Are you retarded?" Len asked.
"What did you just call me?" She got really angry, about to punch him.
"I mean, you just don't notice Miku's real feelings," Len got closer to her face.
"W-what do you mean by that?" She asked, pushing his face away from her.
"You don't seem to get it, whatever," He turned around and left, stuffing his hands in his pockets. Rin stood in the hallway, looking down.
"I-I know what he meant by "her real feelings", it's just that… I want to protect her" She murmured to herself. She moved slowly outside from the classrooms building, and stood in front of her room's door, she opened it slowly and was greeted by Miku.
"Ah, Rin, you took longer than I expected!" Miku beamed brightly, glad that her best friend was back.
"Sorry, we were talking about tomorrow," Rin replied softly, walking towards her bed.
"Oh, yeah here are the notes from Meiko-sensei's class," Miku handed her open notebook to Rin.
"Thanks, I really appreciate it," she smiled gratefully, opening her own notebook. Pencil lead scribbled against paper as Rin copied down the neatly-written notes into her notebook, full of messy handwriting.
"If you don't understand something, you can ask me about it," Miku offered.
"Miku, do you like Len?" Rin asked.
"W-what? Well, not exactly, I- I mean, um.." Miku blabbered on, stuttering everywhere.
"Come on, you can tell me, I won't get angry with you," Rin promised.
"Well, if we talk about appearance, you could say I like him, but…" She blushed "He is indeed a bit of a pervert, he also often gets in other people's conversations and I
usually see him with different girls everyday" She looked down, a bit sad.
"This is exactly why I don't want her to go out with you, youidiot," Rin thought.
"I see…are you excited for tomorrow?" Rin asked.
"Y-yes! I hope I can help you get along with him!" Miku smiled brightly and Rin smiled back at her, noticing how innocent her best friend's intentions were.
"You are so naïve, I can't imagine you going out with him," Rin murmured after a while, staring at her best friend.
"Did you say something?" Miku turned around.
"No, I didn't say anything." Rin lay on her bed and continued copying the notes.
After doing their homework and taking a bath, they set the alarm clock to 9am and slowly fell asleep.
End of the third chapter.