MICHELLE

Chapter 3

"Ugh, where am I? I slowly woke and sat up. "Huh?" I looked around and all I could see was a white ceiling with white luminous lights across it. Then I suddenly remembered the day's events as it came rushing back to me. "Yuki? Kat?"

"Hey! Look, shes awake!" I heard a voice say as I tried to go back to sleep.

"No! 10 more minutes!" I grumbled trying to go back to sleep.

"Wakey wakey!" Someone said before they grabbed the blanket and flung it open and grabbed the pillow and jerked it out from under my head and I hit my head on the wooden part of the bed.

"OW!" I cried.

"Hehehe! I love doing that to people!" Yuki exclaimed.

Then I saw a person walking towards me and- wait! He wasn't walking! He was... galloping?

"Is this the new person that you lured to sleep, Sebastian? The man said. Hold it! He wasn't just a man, he was half horse!

"Yes, her name is Michelle." Sebastian said.

"I already know that you idiot!" The man said.

"I am very sorry." Sebastian said.

"Thats what you should be saying to Michelle stupid!" The man shouted.(Geez, talk about anger-management!)

Sebastian started "Uhh... I am very sorry about making you fall asleep and I won't do it again and make you late unless- he was cut off by a glare from Mr. horse dude, "Ok, fine." He finished reluctantly.

"Sebastion, your punishment for this is to do whatever Michelle wants, three wishes." The man said. A pretty light punishment in my opinion. I got paddled before just for forgetting to say 'Madam.' to my teacher.

"I am sorry, I don't want to punish Sebastian." I said and got a grateful look from Sebastian,

"Then what about you,Kat?" the man said.

"No thanks, I don't want to do it." Kat said and Sebastian mouthed 'thank you' and Kat blushed and turned her head in embarrassment.

"Yuki?" the man looked at Yuki.

I could almost see what Yuki was thinking...but then again...I couldn't

"Yes , I will do it. Sebastian, meet me with Kat and Michelle at Rainbow Hippocampi Lake and I will give you further instructions on what I want you to do." Yuki said politely while giving a closed eye smile and got an look of anguish that soon turned into a glare.

"Ok kids, time to go back to your classes since you've finished your tour."Mr. Bernstein said.

"But we're not finished the tour!" Kat exclaimed.

"What!? Oh man, I swear one day you're going to drive me crazy!" He sighed.

" Hehe! Thats just what we do!" Kat exclaimed.

I took a glance at Yuki and saw that she was looking towards Sebastian and then I saw what she saw, the blush on Sebastian's face was very clear and then I looked at Yuki again and saw the gears in her mind turning under that perfect, unemotional mask of hers and I knew it was a brilliant plan to get those two together. She looked at me and caught my gaze. Then she put a finger to her mouth and even though she didn't speak, it was like we knew each others thoughts then. I nodded and then said "Mr. Bernstein, I think school training hours are over now and we can go to our dorms."

"Hmm, I see, you can go wherever you want to as long as you don't explore the Garden of Narcissus and the Sacred Olive Gardens." He said.

Once he was out of earshot Yuki said to Sebastian that she needed a word with me and that she would come to his dorm for him at 5. Then she dragged me away...I mean literally drag! She brought me to a quiet part of the school in a small corner of a peaceful library. "I know what you're thinking...we should get them together." I whispered even though there were no teachers around.

"Ok I'll tell you about my plan. You know how I have to punish Sebastian right? So I'm going to make him give Kat a kiss on her cheek while she's sleeping, and give her things, and do it without waking Kat up. But then I'm going to make him not say to Kat when she's awake so that she doesn't know. And the last one I'm going to make Seb do something embarrassing that is none of your business. And all of this is going to be recorded." Yuki finished and smirked evilly.

"Wow, thats a surprisingly thought out plan!" I exclaimed.

"So what you're saying is that I'm stupid!" Yuki hissed quietly.

"Umm...no, I mean that within such a short time you thought of a good plan." I hurriedly explained.

"Actually, I've seen them act like this many times but I was just too busy in the past to do anything about it." Yuki said while putting a finger to her lips signaling that I had to be quiet.

"I'm only doing this for Kat's sake." She said.

" Aww...thats so nice of you!" I whispered.

"Nah. I just did it to embarrass them." She said while smiling.

"Ok... so I'll see you at five?" I inquired.

"Yeah, don't forget to tell Kat incase she might forget!" Yuki reminded. "Oh, and Michelle? We will continue the tour tomorrow, kay?"

I then went back to my home. Aka: Dumpster Land. Mr. Marr had told me about the boarding school after Yuki left and said that I had to move my things into my dorm in the spare cabin until my godly parent claimed me. "Well, this is it. I'm finally leaving this place and going to somewhere I really belong. I suppose I should visit Luffy one last time right?" I said out loud. I walked to the edge of the dumpster and crawled under some bushes and up a tree. then I whistled and a pitch black bird flew out. I gave it some peanuts to eat and it affectionately nudged my hand. "I suppose this is the last time you are going to see me..." I started sadly. "Unless you come with me and deliver messages for me. Would you like that?" It squawked and flew to my finger and waved its leg at me. I smiled gently and pet its head. Then I attached a tag to the bottom of its leg that said: Property of Michelle Sapphire. I then took a rolled up piece of paper and wrote on it then tied it with a red ribbon to the feet of the bird and whispered: 'Mount Olympia, Yuki' and it flew away to my new home. I managed to pack all my things(which isn't all that much) into a old, grimy, patched up suitcase I bought. I took one last look at my old home and the small 'house' that I built when I was 4 and lived in for the past 11 years before turning around and heading for the bus stop.