Sooo. I'm updating on time-ish. But I said I would update on Wednesday and there you go(:
Aren't I wonderful?
Disclamer:
Gakuen Alice ain't mah bitch but I sure as hell want Natsume to be. Dear god. YAS PLEASE.
School and Broom Troubles (UNEDITED)
"Yes grandpa I am on my way home." I put my phone on speaker and set it down on the counter of the deserted girl's lavatory. I slide the brown hair tie off my wrist and put it between my teeth while listening to gramps yell at me about going into the Human regions again.
I got up before gramps, a rare but not unheard of action, and got dressed to venture into Human territory. I threw on a pair of lightly washed skinny jeans, a white V-neck top and an oversized navy hoodie. I had to dress so that I wouldn't call too much attention to myself.
I jumped on my broom right before I heard gramps door open. I was in the sky before he reached the kitchen, avoiding being seen through the narrow window above the sink.
I had heard around town that the Human schools were studying things we found unimportant and impractical, such as mathematics and historical geography. Sure, we studied the founding of the eight great empires, but we never did anything that really interested me.
I flew over the border a little before eight. The nearest high school began teaching at 8:45. I made sure to land on campus behind the building. I entered the building through the back door and had stuffed my broom in a small janitor's closet.
There hadn't been that many people on campus when I arrived. Just a few kids doing homework in the library, but mostly it was just teachers.
I conned the poor woman in the front office into giving me a schedule of a random girl, making the excuse of "losing mine and just couldn't possibly remember where all eight of my classes are this early in the year." It worked, no surprise there, what with my thief heritage.
The only classes I got through were chemistry, which was not far off from the few lessons grandpa had given me about potions, French, where I just stared blankly at the teacher, and then finally fell asleep in History class. I didn't even mean to! The two classes before were at least a little interesting, given that I didn't understand a word the French teacher had been saying, but it was entertaining. The history teacher just stood at a podium and gave a lecture. A really bad one too. She kept referring to her notes, and couldn't hold eye contact because she needed to read from the paper. It was awful.
But I wasn't the only student who was uninterested. There was a cute red haired boy in the back row with me who was quite preoccupied. With the girl next to him that is. They weren't even facing the front of the room for Christ's sakes! Not that the teacher cared.
The boy was turned in his seat toward the windows, whispering in a brunette's ear, the girl occasionally placing a coy touch on his arm or giggling annoyingly.
At one point, the boy had caught me staring and sent me a flirtatious wink, causing my cheeks to shade a light pink. I wasn't accustomed to attention from the opposite sex. Schools in the Thief regions are separated by section.
I obviously didn't know what to do, so I just put my head into my arms and let the voice of the teacher wash over me.
The bell for lunch rang not long after that painful encounter and I looked up as the students filed out into the hallway. This school had a lunch system where each class had a certain lunch period.
History, English, Computer Sciences, and Physical Education – B
Mathematics, Sciences, Arts, and Other – A
B lunch was the lunch period that was taken in the middle of the lesson and then the class picked up for another half hour afterwards. It was too confusing, so I waited until they all left and just opened the window, letting the warm afternoon breeze caress my cold cheeks.
The warm air lulled me to sleep.
The only reason I had taken a seat in the back corner was to avoid attention. I also wanted to try my luck in that whole backseat, window seat cliché. Didn't get me anything except three ugly guys in suits waving guns around. It disgusts me how much damn swagger weapons give men.
The three men were probably cronies from The Organization, which was a group formed to track down and eliminate beings from the regions other than human with extraordinary or rare abilities. I just happened to be one of the people at the top of their list. Joy.
Not that the fight had been that strenuous. It was quite easy in fact. But it didn't do anything except cause me to use my 'extraordinary and rare ability'.
Well, now they are scattered all over that poor History teacher's classroom floor. Not that she would ever know that. Unless there were cameras.
Dammit. I forgot to check for cameras.
Couldn't let my little secret get out any more than it already was.
I tucked my hair up onto my head in a messy sock bun and tied my hoodie around my waist. Then I took grandpa off speaker, placing the cool glass against my cheek as I exited the restroom.
"I will fly home immediately." I reassure him as he goes into precautions and dangers of being found in the Human regions.
'I swear, old people these days are on my ass.' I thought.
I had to hold the phone away from my ear as gramps yelled something about hurrying up and not being seen. But as least he had the decency to add, "oh and dinner is in an hour, love you," before hanging up on me.
"Geez..." I mumble and stuff my phone into my back jean pocket.
I make a slight turn to the right and open the janitor's closet.
"Where is it, where is it, where- ah ha! There you are." I sang as I pulled out my broomstick.
My black broom was my child. It was decorated with grey swirl etchings and a silver tip. I made it, with gramps help, when I was about twelve. I add another swirl ever year on my birthday.
Going toward the backdoor, hoping to leave the same way I invaded, I stopped dead in my tracks, barley making out the faint noises in the distance. The outline of quickly approaching police sirens became clear as I stood focusing on the noise.
"Goblins feet…" I grumble. I pick my speed and start to run toward the backdoor, hoping to make it in time. I reach the door and make a grab for the handle, only to stop at the sound of voices on the other side.
"Damn teacher." I let out a concerned and frustrated breath as the knob begins to jerk around feverishly, "Think! Think!"
An idea pops into my mind and I make a mad dash for the stairs to the second floor, remembering seeing the roof entrance as I flew to the back this morning. I take it two steps at a time coming to a stop at the roof door not even a minute later.
"Score one Mikan."
I opened the door and throw my broom in front of me to get more air and sprint after it. But of course, I didn't take enough time to calculate my throw, because it was gaining more and more speed.
"Ah shit." I said. I reached out for it and almost had a hold before it suddenly went over the edge of the roof.
Jumping onto the ledge and using my knees as catapults, I launched myself at the stick and flung my arm out in a desperate attempt to grasp it. My fingers began to inch downward and gravity began to catch up on me. Too panicked to recite a levitation spell, I made one last attempt and was able, at the very last second, to have my index and thumb make contact with the end of my broom. I let out a deep sigh and began the task of getting onto the broom. I swung my other hand up and shuffled down to the middle of the stick. Doing a quick, and awful, pull-up, I managed to get my shoulders above and then easily swung my right leg up and over.
With that, I sat up and let out a victorious whoop, starting my route home.
The sky stretched out in front of me as I rose above the thick clouds. The sun was just beginning to tint the far off clouds different shades of red and orange as it drifted beneath the mountains. Gaps in the thick cloud cover would let me take quick glimpses of water, giving off a gold shimmer due to the sun, and tall trees that towered over any buildings. It passed under my feet quickly.
"Oh gramps is totally gonna flip out." I complained to no one in particular, kicking my legs out like a child beneath me. My eyes widened as a new realization hit me and I screamed, "Shit! There is no way he is going to let me have any ice cream tonight!"
I tilted my broom to the left and headed toward the border that leads from the Human regions into Thief territory.
Grandpa and I have been living in a small village only a few miles into Thief territory since I was born. He raised me on his own from early on. My mom died during my child birth. Gramps doesn't like talking about her though, if I ever try to ask him anything about her he just replies with 'She was special' or 'I'll tell you more when you're older'. Or he's an ass and changes the subject. I'm not stupid enough to not understand that I get my ice from her. I just want to know where she got it, there isn't an ice element in today's world. There are ice demons and ice monsters, but nothing that could explain how I have the ability I do.
All I know about my father is that he left my mom before I was born and that he's a witch.
So nothing helpful.
But I'm not complaining. Gramps has been good to me and has provided me with everything I have ever needed.
I'm pulled out of my thoughts when the clouds start thinning and I notice that I've already crossed over the border.
I fly a little lower and keep an eye out for blue chimney smoke. It's like a homing signal grandpa puts out when I go out. Not that this one was planned. Oops.
I'm totally going to get an earful.
I see the blue swirling smoke blending into the clouds ahead of me. Home.
I land on the ground and take a few running steps to figure out my footing.
My head snaps up as the side door slaps against the wall of the back porch, making the silver butterfly chimes to involuntarily ring.
"I'm home." I flinch as the door slams shut again, bouncing slightly. I smile cheekily at gramps as he crosses his arms and taps his foot on the wood paneled floor. He isn't happy.
He stares at me for a little before letting out a frustrated sigh and stepping aside, holding the door open for me.
I flash his a genuine smile and kiss him on the cheek before going inside.
"So what's for dinner?"
Okayy.
There you go!
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Update: September 18th
