The alarm clock rang, 6am on the mark, the loud buzzing ringing from the clock bounced off the walls and filled every inch of what was previously a peaceful room. Chihiro shot upright sitting facing the wall and turned to his alarm clock, the previous night he hadn't stayed up till 2am on his computer so getting up this early didn't bother him. He reached out and pressed the button, causing the room to halt to a silence, with a quick jump out of bed and a big smile on his face, a giggle and a twirl with his arms out like a airplane, he suddenly felt the cold air that greeted him every school morning and jumped back into bed, pulling the quilt over him so just his face could be seen, like a plump caterpillar. He then suddenly stopped smiling as he realised he giggled, he noticed girls did random giggle in-between convocations, after complements when they were holding someone's hand or getting a hug or when they got excited, he simply thought it was a girl thing that they did on impulse and no one would ever understand why, but seeing as he just giggled as he span, it mustn't be a mystery, he sat in thought and tried to figure out why he giggled, rolling over to lie on his back with his limbs spread apart he lay in thought, maybe being a girl was as easy as he originally thought, just he needed to give it a bit of a shove, to start it off, which the shopping probably did. The sudden realisation he had got us earlier for a reason made him spring back to life and run in the bathroom. The shower was warm, a nice feeling during the Baltic natural disaster of the morning air. He washed his hair with shampoo as always, but this time his mothers and then the conditioner, he had never conditioned his hair before, and he didn't see a reason to why it was even invented, but he remembered his mum telling him all girls conditioned their hair, so seeing as he wanted to be a perfect girl he was going to use it, putting more effort to detail then he does with programming. After a long 45minutes in the shower he ran to his room, 6:55am, he should have enough time to get ready.
Quickly drying himself off, he wrapped the towel around his chest and covered him the way a female would, this was just out of habit, so when he crossed ht e full profile mirrors in the hallway and his room he didn't have to see himself. He threw on his underwear and sat down at his desk, using the laptop screen as a mirror he applied lip gloss, it took him a few tries, but he did it in the end, then quickly grabbing his mums hair dryer off his bedside which he placed their the night before he dried his hair, and then he got changed into his school uniform, he was ready for school by 7:30, the same as every morning, he ran to his mirror with a proud look of accomplishment and gave himself a twirl, the girl he was looking at was a lot happier than the one from last week, instead of being expressionless and still in a gloomy and sulking manor she was twirling around and smiling posing for herself and rocking on her heels.
Skipping down the stair he prepared the meals for him and his father and brushing through the entirety of the house while doing a little dance, he yelled morning to his parents and they started to head down stairs and left the house, today was going to be a good day, he could feel it. Skipping and spinning his way to school, looking thought the bakery windows he made his way to school.
There it stood and Chihiro's face dropped, everyone in the school was staring at him again, "there goes the transvestite" they probably thought and he cautiously walked down the halls, half way down the dull sweaty corridor and he was back to looking at his feet as he walked, counting the tiles, not far from class, when suddenly two feet where in front of him blocking the next step, he slowly looked up and saw a boy, looked about average with brown scruffy hair and the boys uniform on, with the top button undone and shirt un-tucked, his tie absent. Chihiro merely looked up with wide eyes and his mouth slightly open, this was the boy whose voice dropped before Chihiro started that half term, it was silent for a while until, Chihiro made a faint mutter
"you stink of sweat"
"What!?" the boy said quite loudly, it wasn't a yell, it was just loud, Chihiro jumped and fidgeted for a bit,
"c-could you find it in your heart to p-p-please move out of my way please?" he whimpered, the guy staring at her confused
"I'm not just standin' in front of ya with no reason, I do have a Purpose of bein' 'ere" he said as he put his hands in his pockets and starred back
"oh, okay" his soft voice replied as he looked to the ground, the awkward silence continued.
"Ya like computers right?" finally spoke, and rather abruptly
"h-how do you k-k-know that?" worry in his reply as he started to fiddle with his fingers
"That laptop case ya carry round with ya, there a computer in it right?"The boy started to sound agitated and Chihiro realised that if a student carried a laptop around with no purpose it would probably give the impression they where rather attached to it.
"Oh, yes. Why do you ask? Do you need to borrow it?" Chihiro's spirits rising as he continued to speak till it ended with a happy tone to it rather than the worried one it started with.
"nah" he sounded less angry now, but just plane bored " was wondering if ya wanted to join the ICT Club" he said, bending his legs a little as to be a bit more the same level as Chihiro,
"Oh, Oh, erm" debating this was a big decision, a club? More time around people? That means they are more likely to find out right? But friends would be nice? What if the girls are more annoying then May and Co.? "Of Course" he slight smile back onto his face, nowhere near the one from earlier, but better then the worried and scared expression he was wearing while walking to class.
"I know it's short notice, but it's on toni-"
"I'll Meet You Here" Chihiro interrupted in a burst of excitement "you can show me where it is?"
"e-erm, sure thing" the guy seemed surprised Chihiro was so eager and excited for a after school club, and with that Chihiro nodded, and skipped around him, heading towards class again, his hope for the day restored.
The day was filled with boring subjects and boring convocations, the fake smile Chihiro wore when talking about them seemed to be improving, getting more realistic each time he had to wear it. The girls really didn't like the sound of ICT Club, and tried to talk Chihiro out of it, but he wasn't going to back out, a convocation with someone in school about something he cares about, after a week of the 'enjoyable time' spent talking about that magazines issue, he couldn't wait.
Walking down the corridor he saw the boy, he was the only student their so missing him would be a next to impossible task to accomplish.
Mental note made: don't take forever packing when someone is waiting for you
Chihiro apologised for being so late and was escorted to the top floor where all the ICT rooms where and therefore the ICT Club, the excitement was building up, as he entered the room four boys all turned around and looked at Chihiro in shock, and then ran over, one of these boys looked average and normal like the boy who had invited him to the club, but his hair was a lighter shade then his, the other four boys looked like the stereotypical geeks and nerds you would see, with glasses and braces, shirts tucked in and the uniform worn the way its meant to be, only this different being their hair was scruffy. Each having dark hair, one navy blue, one black and one a dark grey colour.
"A girl actually came" said the new average one
"I told ya she would" the one from that morning chirped
the other three boys looking Chihiro up and down, Chihiro blushed and grabbed his escorts arm, moving behind him. He stopped his convocation about how good he was with the ladies and both he and the one he was conversing with stopped and looked at him, then at the three boys checking him out
"Ya freekin her out" he raised his voice a bit, but it still wasn't a yell,
the three boys stopped and bowed to Chihiro apologising all at the same time
"Where sorry, we didn't mean to frighten you"
"Where sorry, we didn't mean to frighten you"
"Where sorry, we didn't mean to frighten you"
a troubled moan escaped Chihiro as he stood out from behind the male and bowed back "I-I forgive you"
then realising that bowing back means his skirt lifts up at the back and that it's a masculine thing to do, girls curtsey he short back up as quickly as possible
"What bring ya here, exactly?" the new average one asked, to which Chihiro replied
"I-I Heard There was a ICT Club, and seeing as I like Computers I thought I should give it a try" the four boys all looked at each other, Chihiro took that as a cause of concern, seeing that they were so surprise he walked in he guessed he was the only 'girl' I this club... great... and after trying so hard to not talk to boys.
"what to do you like doing on computers?" the boy with blue hair asked
"we all like playing computer games, so really this is more of a computer game club" the Grey haired one added
"ya know, guy stuff" the new normal one added, he seemed to talk the most...
The one who invited Chihiro scratched his head and looked to the side, from what Chihiro had gathered he'd probably bragged on how he could bring girls into the club and the only one it worked on was Chihiro, but he probably hadn't thought that most girls don't like computer games and from looking at him he probably figured Chihiro wouldn't. He was right of course, he played them time to time, but he wasn't too good at games, so not much, and if he could stay behind and play them in school or go home and program, he would choose programming.
"Well" Chihiro piped up his voice so all could hear him, but he still kept the soft tone he had, he wasn't too good at yelling.
"I play them sometimes, but not much, I'm not a big fan" the boys all look disappointed,
"However, I am very good at programming and I am good at fixing them, I even help my father with his work" the four boys all at each other in disbelief, and started to chuckle a bit, the thought of a student who is so young being about to mend computers and write codes probably threw them, he didn't blame them, it was a highly unlikely skill for a first year student to have. With that Chihiro pulled his PC out his bag and turned it on, he activated a system he made on it, the first system he ever made from when he messed around with his father work,
"Ask it a question" he chirped and span the screen to face them all after picking it up off the floor and placing it on the desk at the front of the class room
"what day is it? one of the boys muttered, Chihiro didn't see who, he was too busy staring at the screen and hoping it wasn't a corrupted file and still worked
"today is Friday the 21st of March" it answered back in a expressionless voice, all the boys looked at each other rather impressed
"This was the first program I made" Chihiro sang "I made it a year ago, and the company my father works for sell it, but not much people own it cause its rather pricey" after a moment of silence the boys began to clap, no, applaud Chihiro
"I didn't think a girl would be interested in programming" his escort
Chihiro looked to the floor for a while the thoughts like "dam! Girls don't program, oh no, they'll figure it out" kept going through his mind as he worried, paranoid.
"Anyway" he rose his head up with a smile on again, "I don't think I will join your club, but if you have any problems with the computers please don't hesitate to ask me, I'll be happy to help" and with that he curtsied again and left.
Today has been a good day, he thought as he went home, people thought he was a girl, and guessing from the faces of the boys in that club, a cute one, things were going his way, and if things continued he was never going to get bullied again, a peaceful look spread across his face, and with his soft voice muttered
"this plan was brilliant"
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Hi Guys, I got a few comments on the first chapter telling me they would like to see more, so here I am, writing more. I have so much ICT to do, and I need to sort out my Danganronpa Beach Cosplay in two weeks still so I don't think I will be writing another chapter for while, I have the next major event in my head but I'm still deciding whether to do a few more little discoveries before or just jumping straight into it, it's fun writing about Chihiro, but I don't think I'm that good at it hahaha, hopefully I will improve. I'm trying to capture his happy side as well and his depressed/miserable one, also, if you think of things that You think Chihiro should learn about being a girl, please let me know, I'm afraid I'll miss some things out so if you think of something I could include let me know.
