Chapter 1: First of the Last

'It's finally the last year of school. I just can't wait to see all my friends again, especially Howl, Mimi and Kuya. I haven't seen them for a long time.'
'What-cha writing, Ren?' said a voice from behind as a hand came over Ren's shoulder.
'Ah!!!!' Ren screamed as she latched onto her diary like it was her life and soul.
'Hey come on, I just want to have a look.' Mimi said while reaching her arm out trying to grab hold of the book in front of Ren's face.
'Hey! Get out of my face, Mimi!' Ren yelled as she pushed back on Mimi's face to keep her back. The classroom door opened to give way to a group of boys.
'Ah!!!! It's Howl! He's so cute!!!' All the girls in the class screamed as Howl laid foot into the room. 'Those girls really mess things up for every one, don't they?'
'Hey Ren hey Mimi, how are you guys?' Howl said as he slowly broke through the crowd of screaming girls.
'I'm good.' Ren replied.
'I'm also good, but Ren won't show me what she's been writing.' Mimi said as she sighed at Ren. Ren was still clutching her diary and glaring as the teacher came in.
'Alright, my name is Mr. Rudder. Some of you may know me, anyway welcome back to your last year at FanKu High.' Mr. Rudder said proudly as he set his things on the desk at the front of the room. 'Ok if you could all open your textbooks to page 5, I would like to begin.' All of the students in the class opened their textbooks.
'Hey, Howl, check this out.' A boy whispered to Howl from the desk behind him. Howl had always sat next to Ren in every class he could but it didn't bother her.
'What is it?' He quietly replied.
'Mr. Gimachi. Would you kindly share with the class, what you were discussing kindly with the boy sitting behind you?' Mr. Rudder asked.
'Ah…it was nothing sir.' He said scratching the back of his head. Mr. Rudder raised a brow and continued with the lesson.
'Now could any of you…' Mr. Rudder began as the bell sounded for recess.
'Finally, I thought it would never end.' Mimi said as we arrived at our lockers. Ren smiled, then shooed away the passing people, that were trying to sneak a peek at her combination.
'Well, what do you have next?' Mimi said with a sigh.
'Sport Ed.' Ren said then closed her locker.
'Come on let's go find the others.' Mimi replied. Ren smiled and they both walked outside. There was a small group of girls sitting under a tall oak tree, with beautiful multicolored leaves.
'Ren, Mimi! Over here!' A tall girl called.
'Kuya!' Mimi called and ran up to the girl, Ren followed. As soon as Ren had arrived, the bell had sounded once more.
'Aw, damn.' Mimi complained. 'So Kuya, what do you have now?'
'Sport Ed.' She replied kindly.
'Hey I do too!' Ren said excitedly. The two girls left, heading towards the sports field.
'Hey! Wait for me!' Ayame called and ran after them. The three of them got ready for what was awaiting them on the running track.
'Wow my uniform's smaller than I remember.' Ren said pointing to her under sized shorts and top.
'Come on girls!' A strong feminine voice called.
'Yes Miss!!' The girls answered as they headed outside to the track. They walked out to find Howl running laps with girls watching in awe, a group of guys waiting to be told what to do next and a group of girls trying to hide so they didn't have to participate.
'Ok let's get going!' Ren said as she was warming up. As she bent down to touch her feet the back of her top came up to show a bit of her back and when she stretched up you could see not only her back put apart of her stomach.
'Come on girls, one lap!' The sport teacher instructed.
'Alrighty!' Ren said excitedly 'Come on!'
'Yippee running!' Ayame and Kuya said sarcastically and headed of around the track. Ren was already half way when Ayame and Kuya had even run one hundred meters. 'Hey this is really easy. I wonder why I've never been this good.'
'Finished!' Ren yelled as she ran past the end of the track and came to a stop.
'Ren, could I see you after class?' The teacher asked.
'Yeah, sure thing.' Ren smiled and waited on the side of the track for Mimi and Kuya to finish. It didn't take long for the lesson to end and for Ren to go see the teacher. Ren didn't bother getting changed incase she had to run laps again.
'Ren, the reason why I wanted to see you was, if you wanted to join the Gymnasts Club.'
'The Gymnasts Club? Well ok, when does training start?' Ren asked enthusiastically.
'Today after school' the teacher replied.
'Ok I'll be here.' Ren said as she ran off to lunch. Ren went to find Mimi and Kuya. They were sitting on a bench in the sun.
'Hey Ren, where were you?' Mimi asked as Ren sat next to them.
'Oh, I was just helping to put some supplies into the gym, that's all.' She replied with a lie. The bell sounded to signify the end of lunch and the start of the last subject of the day. It didn't take long for the school grounds to be empty and the classrooms to be full.
'Mimi, Kuya, what do you have now?' Ren asked almost being trampled by passing people. She didn't get an answer because they were swept away from the stampeding students rushing by trying to get to class on time. She sighed then walked off to her next class. She didn't see Mimi and Kuya for the rest of the day. The bell sounded once again and all the students left for home, except for some. They were the students involved in after school activities.
'Hey Miss!' Ren said as she came into the gym with her gym clothes on.
'Ren you're just on time!' She said. 'We were just about to start' Ren nodded and joined the others that were there. They went outside for a warm up lap around the field and saw the boys' football team training. Most of the girls watched in awe as Howl ran past. Ren hid behind the group of girls but he managed to see her.
'Hey Ren, I never knew you liked gym.' He said cheerfully. Ren poked her head up to see a group of disgusted girls and a happy smiling Howl.
'Oh, Hi Howl…' She said trailing off. Howl smiled at her then continued to train. Ren was lucky that they all had to go home early after an incident happened between the two coaches. Ren walked home her usual way and bumped into Howl.
'Hey, three times in one day. That must be a record.' Howl said in surprise to actually see me.
'Yeah, that is weird, isn't it?' Ren replied. 'Oh, I have to get home or my parents will start to worry! See you tomorrow Howl!!' Howl waved as Ren ran off home. As soon as she got home Ren ran up stairs ignoring her mother and jumped on her bed completely exhausted.