I'M BACK!
I'm really sorry for not updating for so long. I've been so busy lately and so very tired, I go to bed tired and wake up tired.
I'm so tired of being tired... :P
Okay, here is the next chapter, hope you enjoy and constructive criticism is welcomed along with reviews :-)
Also, I don't own any characters from Diabolik Lovers, but I do have my OC and will be adding more of my own characters not much, just three...
Hope you enjoy...
Chapter 6
I stuck close to Subaru as we neared the classroom but stopped when we reached the door. However Subaru didn't. He didn't even seem to notice; instead he went to a desk and sat down, resetting his head on his hand, and seemed to look at nothing in particular with a bit of a scowl still lingering on his lips.
I frowned at the disinterest that he showed. It was almost like he didn't care about anything, but that can't be, everyone has something that they care about, right? Okay, maybe not me exactly, but wouldn't he or more importantly, wouldn't vampires have one thing that they care about? Like blood?
(Wait! What am I thinking about?) I shook my head at the weird thoughts, why would I care if he cared about anything or not? (Ah...) I sighed. (I think I'm starting to lose my mind.)
"Excuse me." A feminine voice said behind me startling me from my thoughts. I jumped to the side and into the wall whacking my right arm in the process, although I didn't feel the pain, for some odd reason I still rubbed my arm, it was almost like an instinct. Maybe I knew that when I didn't respond to things people would, people would suspect and make me an outcast.
A memory of when Rose found out I didn't feel pain flashed through my head. She thought I was a monster taking on the appearance of a little human girl. Maybe that's why she did all those things; she was already crazy and now found a reason to put her thoughts into action.
"Are you alright?"
I shook my head from my thoughts once again and looked at the student. She was a few inches shorter than me - which was saying a lot, since I was smaller than that creepy boy with the teddy bear. She had short shoulder length hair with bangs and thick framed glasses with brown eyes staring at me in concern. The way she was looking at me made me realize what she had asked.
"Ah...I'm okay. You just startled me, that's all." I laughed nervously still rubbing my arm for a bit too long.
The girl frowned at me as if she was thinking and then I saw a light flicker in her eyes as if she realized something. "Are you new?!" She asked.
I nodded and smiled weakly, the nervous still eating away at my stomach. "Yeah..."My voice cracked. "I'm Midori Green. Pleased to meet you." I bowed slightly.
"I'm Aoi Nakamura. Pleased to meet you too." She bowed back and then stood back up with a kind smile on her face.
I pushed my lips together tightly feeling uncomfortable, my hand gripped the pendant for support. "Um..."
A light flashed in her eyes and she nodded. "You should wait for the teacher to introduce you, so you should wait here." She pointed to where I was standing
"Introduce me?" I raised my left eyebrow in confusion. (Introductions, do I really need to introduce myself?) I really didn't want to, to stand in front of all those students. Hopefully, I didn't need to say much, just my name, right? The nervous got worse.
"Yeah...She should be here soon, until then just wait outside the classroom." She smiled sweetly at me which made me feel a bit better. "So...See you in there." She said sending me a wave before heading into the room with a skip in her step.
I stood to the side letting all the students in, all of them glancing at me before entering. They all looked very fancy, rich and some seemed to be arrogant and each time one of them glanced at me, it made me all the more nervous and feel out-of-place
I gripped the pendant tightly, my knuckles turning white from how tight I was gripping it but also my hands were all sweaty and making it hard to hold onto it for much longer.
"Are you Midori Green?"
I snapped my head to the side to where I heard my name being said to see a woman around her mid to late twenties standing there. I nodded my head and pressed my lips together into a forced smile.
"I'm Kyoko Hiroshi." She smiled.
"It's nice to meet you Hiroshi-san." I bowed, my heart almost jumping out of my chest. (It's time.)
"Alright, I will go inside and tell them that you are here and then you can introduce yourself, okay?"
I nodded and forced another smile.
She went into the class, closing the door behind her and leaving me outside in the quiet hallway. I looked around noticing how the fancy building almost seemed like a ghost town. A small smile tugged at the corner of my lips at that thought.
(A ghost town, huh? A place where ghosts live. Are ghost even alive in their ghost realm? I wonder what makes a ghost. Are they really created through horrendous deaths?) Occupied by my bizarre thoughts I didn't hear the teacher calling for me, only when the door was opened and her hard eyes looking at me did it register. I smiled sheepishly and entered, Hiroshi-san standing to the side to let me in.
My eyes found Subaru but he didn't look at me, instead still looking elsewhere like it held more interest than I did.
I gulped loudly as I stood in front and bowed, my hair falling forward and shielding me from everyone's eyes. (Come on Midori! You can do this!) "I'm Midori Green. Pleased to meet you all." I said loudly still bowing.
"Midori Green?" I heard one of the students saying. I tilted my head up to look up to see who it was, my hair falling out of my face. "Wait, Midori means green and your surname is also green." I heard whoever it was laughing and then a few more chuckles. "So, basically you're Green Green or Midori Midori." And then I could students were giggling or chuckling at me.
I felt my face heat up and I knew I was red as a tomato. I was being made fun of and it hadn't even been a minute. I grimaced at the mockery.
"Stop with all the laughing!" Hiroshi-san snapped and sure enough the students' giggles and chuckles started to die down. She then turned to me. "Green-san, please take a seat." She looked around and then pointed to the empty desk on the right of Subaru. "Next to Subaru Sakamaki-san."
I nodded and slowly walked to the desk and sat down, my feet hanging a few inches off the floor because of how high the chair was.
I glanced at Subaru from the corner of my eye; he didn't laugh at me. It was strange but familiar feeling awakened in my chest. I was...thankful... and then it turned bitter as I remembered when I felt that way for Karl Heinz.
I turned my gaze away from Subaru and looked forward to where Hiroshi-san started the lesson. She turned to the board and started to write something on it and when she stood back I was at lost for words.
It was the weird symbols that were on my schedule and then I grimaced again. It was probably going to be a lot harder than I thought getting socialized with people and life again.
...
As soon as the bell rang, students started to get up and leave. However, me, I stayed seated. Subaru didn't even send me a glance as he disappeared into the crowd.
Hiroshi-san came over to me and I smiled weakly at her. "Class is over Green-san." She said.
I nodded, gripped the pendant and breathed in deeply. "I don't understand those symbols." I announced fast breathing out as I did.
She looked at me in confusion. "Pardon?"
I pointed to the board. "Those symbols. I don't understand what they mean." I glanced at her waiting for her response.
The look of realizing what I was talking about flashed in her eyes. She looked down at me. "That's Kanji. You don't understand what it means."
I shook my head. "What's Kanji?"
Hiroshi-san's lips opened but she didn't say anything, she just stared at me in shock. "But you speak perfect Japanese!" She said.
I nodded. "Yeah..."
"But you were never taught how to read it?"
I nodded again. "Yeah..."
The look of shock didn't leave her face, instead it seemed to grow. "This is going to be a problem." She frowned and then went to the front of the class to her desk, where she sat down and rubbed her chin as she thought. "What am I going to do?" She mumbled to herself.
I stayed seated not knowing what to do; instead I looked down and fiddled with the edge of my skirt as I swung my legs back and forth.
"Ah! Bitch-chan~ Found you~"
I cringed inside at the sound of that voice. I dared a look up to see Laito standing there with that sly smile on his lips. "I can't believe Subaru left you all alone~." He slowly walked into the room, each step making me cringe inside. (Ah...I don't have the energy to deal with him right now. Wait! He can't do anything is public, right?)
"Laito Sakamaki?" Hiroshi-san asked she looked at his in confusion and...something else.
Laito looked at her and smiled. "Ah~ Kyoko-chan, didn't see you there~."
(Kyoko-chan?)
"It's been too long~" He said striding towards her. I breathed out in relief. (He wouldn't try to something to a teacher, right?) I glanced at Hiroshi-san to see her staring at him with...this look in her eyes. What word could I use to describe it?...Lust?
"It has, Laito." She said back almost breathless.
I gulped loudly feeling like what I was seeing something I shouldn't. (Maybe I should leave?) I glanced at the door and wondered if I should go. I made a move to get up when Laito spoke.
"Nfu~ I'm sorry; I've come to show Midori-chan to her next class." He sent a glanced over his shoulder at me. I froze in my spot at his mischievous eyes. (Shit!)
"Midori-chan?" She asked and then looked at me. Suddenly she straightens herself as if she remembered where she was. "Yes..." She ran a hand through her auburn hair, frowning like she was thinking things through in her head and then a light flickered in her eyes. "Wait!" She snapped jumping up from her seat and startling me. "How do you know Green-san?"
Laito smirked. "She's currently staying with us."
"Staying with you..." She trailed staring at me. "Ah!"
I jumped again from her sudden outburst.
"Perfect!" She started to walk to me.
(Perfect?) I flinched when she reached me, her eyes sparkling. "I was wondering what I was going to do, but now that you said that...Reiji-san can teach you!"
(Reiji?!) I frowned.
"Reiji? Teach her what?" Laito looked between Hiroshi-san and me with a look of confusion that I felt growing inside.
"How to read Japanese." She smiled brightly. "He can teach you! It's perfect! I must go and talk to him at once." She turned to the door like a woman on a mission only to stop and glance back at Laito with that look back in her eyes. "Laito...Hope to see you again...soon." She said and then turned and walked out, disappearing around the corner.
I stayed where I stood. (Reiji is going to teach me...) I closed my eyes and shook my head. "Okay...it could be worse" I mumbled but a memory of him with that look on his face as he spoke about punishment flashed in my head and I shivered at how him and Rose had so much in common.
"Much worse~" Laito purred in my ear, making me jumped to the side and away from him. "Ah...Bitch-chan~ what happened to that person that I met that day?" He said striding towards me and me backing away from him at the same time.
I dodged desks trying to get away from him without taking my eyes off him. "What person?" I asked my back hitting the wall. (Ah-oh...) Panic starting to grow inside and making my heart speed up.
"That person that so freely licked me." He smirked as he placed his arm on the wall beside the right side of my head. "I've been thinking of what I can use that mouth of yours for~" He leaned forward, leaving only a small space, our faces inches apart. "I came up with some fun things to do~" His eyes flickered to my mouth then back to my eyes and smirked.
(WHAT SHOULD I DO?!) I screamed in my head.
I was suddenly back in the alley, where I was trapped by men and them saying that they will pay me as long as I did what they said. Back then, though, I had my trusty knife that I used to scare them off with, but now, now I left it at the mansion and I was corner by a perverted vampire that had God knows what going through his head.
But even if I did have my knife, I wonder if it could actually cause damage to vampires. Well, either way, I wasn't going to let him do whatever he wanted to me.
I wasn't going down without a fight.
I glared at him with determination in my eyes and my mouth turning into a small snarl. (Bring it on.)
"Green-chan, there you are!" A familiar voice called.
I turned but my sight was cut off by Laito's arm, so I reached out and oddly pushed his arm away quite easily, to see Aoi Nakamura standing by the doorway looking at us.
"Green-chan, hurry up. Our next class is going to start soon." She looked at me as if she was trying to send me a message, a message I received.
"Yes! Sorry." I pushed past Laito, daring a glance at him to see he had that sly smile on his face but his eyes held the look of irritation. I rushed to her, only to notice a girl standing behind her with pink hair in a side tail and bright purple eyes glaring daggers at Laito.
"Come on!" Aoi Nakamura grabbed my arm and pulled me along and down the hallway until we were far away from Laito and the classroom.
"Wow that was a close call." Aoi Nakamura breathed out and looked back at me with a smile. "This is my friend Fukumi Watanabe." She said pointing to the girl beside her.
Fukumi Watanabe bowed slightly. "Hi." She mumbled softly.
I bowed back with a small smile. "Nice to meet you, I'm Midori Green." I turned to Aoi Nakamura. "Thank you for helping me back there Nakamura-san."
She waved her hand at me. "It was no problem; we all had some encounter with that pervert."
I blinked at her. "You too?"
She laughed scratching the back of her head. "Yeah..."
I grimaced and frowned. Though they only had to deal with him at school, I had to deal with him at school and back at the mansion.
"You don't have to worry about all that." Aoi patted my shoulder hard well laughing nervously. "He won't try anything as long as people are around."
"Yeah...I don't think they care about that though. If they want, they'd kill all of us in a blink of an eye." Fukumi mumbled under her breath.
I looked at her, titling my head slightly to the side, pieces of my white hair falling over and into my face.
"Ah! Fu-kun, don't say that!" Aoi snapped back at her.
"Why?" I asked curiously.
"Fu-kun...isn't really...normal." Aoi smiled weakly well sending glances at Fukumi who rolled her eyes back and crossed her arms over her chest. "She believes in all the supernatural stuff."
"I don't believe!" Fukumi snapped back and then turned to filling face me. "I know! They aren't human!" She stopped, her purple eyes staring into mine intensely. "And neither are you..."
I flinched at her words, words that the vampires also said. "I don't know what you're talking about." I mumbled looking at her in confusion.
"Fu-kun! Stop with all that nonsense." Aoi snapped at Fukumi. Fukumi shook her head at her but glanced back at me.
"Whatever." Fukumi grumbled. "I'm going to class." She then turned and stormed off down the hallway.
I wanted to go after her and ask her what she meant but was stopped by Aoi. "I'm really sorry about Fu-kun, but you see how she's not that normal." She apologized.
I shook my head and forced a weak smile. "It's okay. She seems fine to me." (Yeah...she seems to know more than meets the eye. Does she really know what the brothers are? And if she does, what does that mean about what she said about me?) I frowned deeply as I thought.
"Really?" Aoi looked at me in shock.
I nodded. "Yeah..." I mumbled still thinking about what Fukumi said.
"Oh!" Her face changed from shocked to happy. "That's great, she actually really cool when she's not talking about supernatural stuff."
I nodded again when I remembered something else. "Class!" I announced a bit loudly pulling out the schedule and grimaced at the symbols. "Um..." I looked up at Aoi. "Can you help me find my next class?"
"Sure." Aoi took the schedule from my hands and read it over. "Can you believe this?" She looked at me, her eyes sparking. "You're with me."
I smiled back. A part of me was glad about that. Aoi didn't seem to be a bad person but one thing I was learning is that you can't base people off their looks or how they act towards you, because that could all be a mask.
"Alright, let's go."
As Aoi and I walked towards our next class, her talking nonstop about stuff that I didn't hear, instead I was somewhere else. I was thinking about what happened with Laito and Fukumi.
I didn't think that he would do something like that so openly and then with the way Hiroshi-san was acting towards him. It was disturbing me, I don't know why though, it didn't have anything to do with me what a teacher and student did together.
And then there was Fukumi and what she said. I sighed within.
"Green-chan?" Aoi asked snapping out of my thoughts. "We're here."
I nodded and smiled weakly as we entered the room, thankfully the teacher wasn't here yet.
I noticed Subaru and how the desk next to him empty again. It was then that I realized that I haven't seen Subaru speaking to anyone since this morning.
I took the desk next to him.
"Tch." I heard him say, and I couldn't help the smile that pulled at the corners of my lips. I don't know why, but Subaru didn't seem as scaring as he tried to be.
I glanced at him from the corner of my eye to see him looking at me, but as soon as he noticed me looking at him did he turn away.
"Subaru-kyun..." I mumbled softly knowing that he probably could hear me since we were seated next to each other.
"Shut it." He snapped back just as softly as me.
I smiled. (He's kind of cute like that.) "Subaru-kyun, do we have all our classes together?" I asked still looking at the side of his face.
"Like hell I would know." He said slightly turning his body as if he didn't want me to see any part of him.
I turned to see the teacher walking in, this time it was an old man hunched over and carrying books.
I pushed my lips together as I thought of what I was going to do. I didn't know how to read, and I had to spend the whole day doing this.
I glanced around to see where Aoi was, she had her books ready and a pen in hand.
I felt out, like I didn't belong. (Will I ever feel like I have a place that I belong?) I looked down at the desk and closed my eyes. This was where I was and I was going to try to make the best out of it, even if I didn't fit in. I was going to make things fit for me then.
I looked up and listened to what the teacher was saying. That was all I could do at the moment and that was what I would do. Make the best out of a bad situation.
I hope you liked the chapter, sorry about not updating for so long, but I will try to update as much as I can.
I just hope my life calms down a bit so I can have time to write...
Bye bye for now...
