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Tease the Girl

Chapter 2: The New Student and the Decision

"Lacie-chan!" Rangiku sang the next morning. Lacie sighed, looking over at Rangiku. "Good morning!" She said, not wanting to stop in her attempt to become friends with Lacie.

"Hello, Matsumoto-san." She said, making Rangiku pout. But, at least Lacie called her by her name!

"No! Call me Rangiku!" She said, emphasizing her name. Lacie smiled softly, shaking her head. Rangiku stared in shock. She smiled! She smiled, jumping forward and hugging the girl. "You smiled!" She said, celebrating.

"I… can't… breath!" Lacie managed, trying to get away from Rangiku. Rangiku realized that when she had held Lacie to her bosom, she had made it impossible for the girl to breathe. So she released the girl, smiling in apology. She thought about the rumors she had heard, and decided to let Lacie know about them.

"Did you know that there are rumors going around about you?" She asked, continuing when Lacie just shrugged. "Well, the rumors say that you are easy." She finished, feeling slightly bad for the girl. But she was shocked when Lacie didn't seem outraged. She was completely calm!

"I don't care. People will say what they want to say, even if the rumors aren't true. If I get outraged by what they say, then they will believe that they were correct." She said, explaining why she was so calm. Rangiku nodded, realizing that Lacie was correct.

"You have a point there!" Rangiku agreed, smiling. She was just too happy right now. Lacie was talking to her! "Did you hear? We're going to have a new person come her sometime this week!" Rangiku said, remembering what she had heard.

"Okay. I wonder who." Lacie said, suddenly realizing that she had already gotten comfortable with talking to Rangiku. Before much else could be said, the bell went off, meaning the doors were unlocked. "Well, see you some other time, Matsumoto-chan." Lacie said, still calling Rangiku by her last name. Rangiku smiled, waving at her new friend as she walked off.

"So, it looks like you two got close." Rangiku heard Renji say as he caught up to her.

"Yes, I'm really happy!" Rangiku said, deciding not to say that she had talked to Lacie about the rumors.

-:-

Lacie sighed as she sat down in her seat. Just from today she was betting that Rangiku would start calling her a friend.

"But I don't want a friend. I don't trust people… not since then." Lacie thought, sighing. Since one of her friends… had-

"Lacie-chan!" Rangiku said, making Lacie leave her thoughts to look at the girl standing by her desk. She nodded in reaction, hoping that Rangiku would leave and talk to her friends. They were looking at her from their seats, but also at Lacie. But, of course, she didn't. "Aw! Come on! Please talk to me Lacie-chan!" She said, pouting.

Lacie sighed, shaking her head. She didn't want to talk. That would lead to trust. Trust- something she never wanted to give anyone.

"You were talking to me just a couple of minutes ago, so why not now?" Rangiku pouted, but when she realized that pushing this much would make Lacie draw back more she stopped pouting. "Okay. I guess that you just don't feel like talking anymore." She said, making Lacie look over at her in slight shock. "So I'll be off, back to my seat. Maybe tomorrow you'll talk to me! Bye!" She said, smiling and walking back to her seat, shocking Lacie.

"So, you decided to try to talk to her?" Renji asked as soon as Rangiku sat down in her seat.

"Yeah, though I had been talking to her a couple of minutes ago." She smiled.

"Why do you sound so proud?" Gin asked, curious, as he leaned forward in his seat.

"Because. Not many people actually have managed to talk to her here, and yet I've been able to have a conversation with her!" She bragged, extremely proud of herself. But, before Renji or Gin could say a comeback the bell rang, Aizen walking in the room and telling to shut up.

"Okay. Before I start lecture I have an announcement to make." Aizen said once the class was silent. "Either tomorrow or the next day we will have a new student. But, on whichever day that we do have her get here I expect you to be on your best behavior." He said, looking over at Gin, the class trouble maker, and then over at some of the other people that misbehaved a lot. After he made sure that everyone got it he started the lesson.

"I wonder where Rangiku got her information." Lacie though, truly curious. But, after a couple of seconds she decided that she was better off not knowing.

-:-

Rangiku sighed, sitting down in her seat the next morning. Glancing over she saw that Lacie wasn't in her seat, which confirmed what she had been thinking. Either Lacie will be late, which she didn't think she had ever been, or she wasn't going to be there that day. Meaning that she wouldn't be able to try to talk to her that day.

"What's the matter, Rangiku? You look down?" Gin asked, wanting to know.

"Nothing." She said, not convincing Gin. When he just stared at her without his usual smile and with his eyes open, looking at her with his blue eyes. "Lacie-chan isn't here today. I wanted to talk to her, especially since she has good conversations from what I can see." She frowned, pouting. Gin rolled his eyes, not amused. His smile came back as he closed his eyes.

But, like every other morning this week, before Gin could reply, or Renji could enter the conversation, the bell rang. Aizen, who had already been there, yelled at them to shut up. The new student wasn't there today, he said, but it didn't mean that they were to act like a bunch of animals. Gin snickered, thinking that they always acted like that, getting a look from Aizen.

-:-

Rangiku sighed, thinking that, yet again, Lacie-chan would be absent. But, much to her delight, when she walked into the room she saw that Lacie was talking to Aizen, being handed the paperwork that she had obviously missed. After she had went back to her seat and sat down, Rangiku walked over, that way they could talk.

"Hello Lacie-chan!" Rangiku said, putting her hands on Lacie's desk. "I guess that you were sick yesterday?" She guessed.

"Yes, I was sick." Lacie agreed, not really knowing what to say.

"I'm glad that you are back today! I missed you yesterday!" She said, shocking Lacie, a habit that she seemed to have. "The new student didn't come here yesterday, either, so that means she'll be here today, meaning you'll see her come here." Rangiku reminded her.

"Yeah, I wonder who she is and where she comes from." Lacie said, making Rangiku widen her eyes in shock.

"You already know that they are a female?" She said, shock lining her voice. Lacie gave her a sharp look that said that Rangiku was an idiot.

"Yes, and if you had listened to all of what Aizen said you would too." She said, Rangiku still looking confused. "He said that on whichever day she would get here. Not her, or they, but her." She elaborated, rolling her eyes at Rangiku.

"Oh. I didn't remember that. I-" She began, though Lacie interrupted her for once.

"And you didn't get that off of your information either? You had such good information that I expected you to be able to list this girls age, birthday, blood type and stuff like that." She said, her voice heavy with sarcasm. Rangiku stared, unable to believe her ears.

"Yeah. I guess that I should pay attention." She said, not really knowing what to say. At that moment the bell rang, making their conversation be cut short. Rangiku said a quick good bye before going back to her seat, hoping to get there before Aizen yelled at her. Luck was with her, and she sighed a breath of relief when she sat down, also that she didn't have to talk to Gin and hear his bad mouthing.

"Okay. Like I said two days ago, we have a new student. I told her to wait in the teacher's lounge, so either I trust you kids here alone so I can go get her or I send someone that I trust to get her. Lacie, do you know where the teacher's lounge is?" He asked, looking at Lacie. When she nodded her head and said yes, he smiled. "Okay. Please go and get her, but be sure that you tell her that I told her." He said, Lacie nodding again and getting up, leaving the room to go get her.

"I wonder why he chose me to go get her. I bet there is someone in there that he trusts just as much as he claims that he trusts me. Oh well. Better not complain." Lacie thought, walking down the halls to the teacher's lounge. After about a minute she stopped at a door, opening it into what is apparently the teacher's lounge.

"Aw, Lacie! What do you need?" She heard a teacher ask her from in there. She looked at who was talking, and saw that Ukitake had asked her the question. Ukitake- everyone's favorite teacher.

"Aizen-Sensei sent me to get the new student." She replied, making sure to be formal.

"Okay. Bethany, she has come to get you." He said, nodding over to a student sitting in the chair next to his desk. She had dirty blonde hair cut into spikes, wearing the uniform in a way to accent her body. She got up, meeting Lacie's dark blue eyes with light blue eyes, bright with happiness.

"Bye Ukitake-Sensei!" They said at the same time walking out of the room and closing the door.

"Oh my goodness! I can't believe that you are hear, Lace-lace!" She said, hugging her tightly.

"I can't believe that you decided to come here Beth." Lacie replied, hugging her back. "You should of emailed me!"

"I know, but you didn't know where you were moving, so I didn't either." She said, pouting.

Laughing, Lacie detangled herself from her friend. "Yes, but I believe that we should start walking faster, or else Aizen-sensei will realize that we are talking" She said, making them both walk faster. "We will have plenty of time at lunch to catch up."

After about a minute, they got back to the room, Lacie cooling her features to her usual appearance as they walked in.

"I see that you had no problems finding your way, Lacie." Aizen said when he saw them walking in. Lacie nodded, walking back to her seat. "Okay, class, this is our new student, Bethany Lossen. Bethany, do you have anything that you would prefer people to call you?" He asked, looking from talking to the class to looking at Bethany.

"Yes, I do. I like being called Beth." She said, smiling. Aizen nodded, then telling her to sit behind Lacie in the one open seat, Beth then proceeding to slightly skip over there, showing everyone quickly that she had a quite cheerful nature.

-:-

For both Beth and Lacie, the three hours proceeding lunch in their days, the three hours between eight and eleven, were the longest they had ever been. But, time did pass, and soon the lunch bell was ringing. Lacie, smiling and getting up, pausing and waiting for Beth.

Rangiku watched, confused. When she noticed that they were talking, curiosity got the better of her and, after telling Gin and Renji that she would be a minute, she walked over to the two girls.

"So, Lacie-chan, do you know her?" She asked, not quite knowing how to say it.

"Yes, I know Lacie! I'm Beth!" Beth said, jumping up and down a little, cocking her head and asking who Rangiku was.

"I'm Rangiku Matsumoto, a person who calls herself Lacie's friend, though I don't know if she claims me." She said, pouting slightly. "So, how do you two know each other?"

"Well, before I moved here last I lived in the same town as Beth, and we had been best friends since we were about five." Lacie explained as they grabbed their lunches and went out on the roof of the school and they sat down in a corner. Renji and Gin were confused, so they went to their usual spot on the roof.

"So, tell me Beth-chan, how did she act over in the town you used to live in?"

"Lace-lace?" She asked, cocking her head. When Rangiku nodded her head with an amused look on her face Beth continued. "Well, she was a very happy person, kind'a like what I am. But it was always downplayed. She was the person that if you wanted to talk to just for something fun you went to her." She said, nodding. "Everyone knew her, and no one ever said anything bad about her, because if you did, then someone who defended her from that would hear in a day, maybe, and then beat you up."

Rangiku stared at her in shock. Was she talking about the same person? She looked at Lacie, seeing a smile on her face.

"Are we talking about the same person?" She asked, getting a confused look from Beth. "Well, the only reason that I know Lacie-chan is that a couple of days ago I see her walking to school and after hearing that not many people have really talked to her I decided to try to talk to her. But, I heard this from a friend who is quite reliable with this type of stuff, and he heard rumors that, well," She said, her voice getting quieter, making her finish in a near whisper, "that she was easy."

Beth looked shock. "Wow! I don't think we are! Because, the Lacie that I know, if some guys heard that, and it was almost all the guys, they would beat up all the people that said that."

"Why don't we switch to a happier topic?" Lacie said, making Rangiku and Beth jump, having almost forgotten of her presence. They nodded, managing to switch topics.

"I guess that Rangiku forgot about us." Renji commented from where he and Gin were sitting and eating lunch.

"It would appear so." Gin said, agreeing. He thought, trying to figure out what to with the recurring boredom he had been feeling.

"It appears that Rangiku is protective of 'Lacie' already." Gin thought, using reason to solve his boredom. "She got especially mad at me when I mentioned the rumor that Lacie is easy. Maybe I should be a friend to Rangiku. Maybe I should see if Lacie is easy." He thought, quickly planning what to do.

His plan on how to prove if the rumor that Lacie was easy was true: tease the girl.

So that was chapter two. I hope you liked it! Please review!