And we're back with day 2! Just kidding, all three chapters are published together. But seriously, I felt like I'm going through some horror story. Anyways, I don't own anything!
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"Gaaaah! I hate 'em!" Nico said, turning to an ash-grey haired teenager. She smiled as she patted Nico's shoulder.
"Don't worry, you're only spending three hours with them."
"Thanks Kotori..." Nico sighed, thanking her friend beside her. Kotori was actually someone she talked to during the briefing a few days ago and will only be helping out for the second day.
"Can all the the facilitators gather?" Chris asked, beckoning the target audience to surround him. "Okay, since there are some new people I'll have to distribute them accordingly."
"I hope that we'll be together." A short brunette with a navy blue cap told her two friends behind her. The two of them nodded slightly and focused their attention on Chris.
"Those who were assigned a group yesterday, please step on my right." A few of the volunteers including Nico stepped to his right, leaving around five to seven volunteers. After assigning people to groups 1 to 5, it was finally Nico's group.
"Okay... Um, you! Be her partner for the day." Chris then pointed to the brunette, who was left alone after her two friends went on to join group 3.
"Yo. Call me Smile. Be prepared for Smiggle." Nico said, bringing her to the box. Before they could sit down, Nozomi called out to them.
"Psst! Hey, Smile! Over here!" Nozomi waved at them, beckoning them to sit with her. They went over to Nozomi and sat in a triangle formation.
"So you volunteered for today's too." Nico said, a grin on her face.
"Yup! Who's your new friend?" Nozomi gestured to the brunette, who awkwardly smiled.
"Oh uh, I'm Tsubasa?" Tsubasa said, pulling on her collar. Soon, the atmosphere dropped to silence as they had nothing to start the ball rolling.
"Oh hey, why don't we drag your buddies to the mix? They're just like behind me and Tsubasa is making moony eyes at them!" The two friends flinched at the comment, shuddering as the three of them suddenly turned towards them.
"Hiiiiii~" The three of them waved, creepy grins on their faces. The two boys waved, sweat rolling down their foreheads.
"So, these are my friends. Anki and Eren, say hi~"
"H-Hi, I'm Anki?" A auburn-haired boy said, a shaky smile on his face. "H-Hey Eren! Say something!"
"Uh, yeah. Hi?" The purple-haired boy said, a confused look on his face. Once again, the atmosphere dropped into another silence.
"Hey, start the ball rolling already!" Nozomi told Nico, a grin on her face.
"Oh no, you start it. You're way more sociable than me!"
"Me?! No way, I'm as shy as a kid!"
"Kids are extreme extroverts!" Nico and Nozomi continued to playfully fight while the remaining three sat in silence.
"Smiiiiiile!" Yumi shouted and crashed on to Nico's small frame, sending her to the floor.
"Gurk! How was the trip...?" Nico asked, groaning in pain.
"It wasn't fun." The girl pouted, getting off Nico.
"Oh why?" Nico asked, surprised to hear that Yumi didn't enjoy a rare trip to the water reclamation plant.
"Cause you didn't come with us!" Nozomi sighed for her friend while Tsubasa looked on in horror at what she was about to face later.
"Oh there you are! Due to lack of manpower, we have to do a reshuffle and we need you to be on logistics. Is that okay?" Chris asked, approaching Nico.
"Is it just for today?" Nico asked, wary of the turn of events.
"Of course."
"Then sure, I'll be in logistics." Nico got up and place her hand on Yumi's head. "Knock her out 'kay?"
"W-Wait! W-Where are you going?!" Tsubasa asked, concerned for her well being.
"Huh? Oh I'm gonna get some freedom. I'll pray for your survival at the safe haven. Later~" Nico left, ignoring Tsubasa's cries of help.
"DON'T LEAVE ME! WAAAAAAAIT!"
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"Woah, what are you doing back here?" Kotori asked, pleasantly surprised by her friend's sudden reappearance.
"Meh, I got rescued due to lack of manpower over her. Thank god." Nico replied, noticing a girl beside Kotori. "Oh, who is she?"
"I'm Hanayo. Nice to meet you." A girl with brown hair and purple framed glasses introduced herself. Nico nodded and proceeded to sit beside Kotori.
"You're really unlucky though, you can't spend the time with your group..." Kotori continued, thinking that Nico's hate towards them was unjustified.
"Oh please, they sexually harassed me!" Nico argued, folding her arms. This caught Hanayo's and Kotori's attention as the words 'kids' and 'sexual harassment' don't go together, unless the kids were the victims that is.
"How so?" Hanayo asked, deciding to clarify with the situation.
"Two girls peeped at my underwear when I was using the restroom!" Hanayo gasped in horror while Kotori gave an incredulous look.
"R-Really?"
"Yup. Not only that, they used my shirt to dry their hands! Also they squeezed me into the space at the corner of the lift, pressed me against the bar itself, 'donated' their pears to me and called me 'clown'! I told them to call me Smile!" Nico complained, resting her head on her hand.
"Oh my god you're super lucky then!" Kotori corrected herself, grabbing her bag and pulling out a piece of paper from her bag.
"What's that?" Nico asked, curious to know what was the paper.
"My homework." Kotori said, revealing the paper. The paper contained a string of numbers and equations that Nico dreaded seeing, for she had completed her examinations recently.
"I-Is that Maths...?"
"Yup, I take H2 Maths. It's higher than A Maths though but I love Maths." Kotori smiled as she twirled a pen in her left hand.
"You must be crazy. I hate Maths, A Maths was bad enough." Nico shook her head vigorously, dismissing the idea of her and Maths.
"Don't knock it till you try it."
"I've taken that for my exams Kotori. You do remember that I'm a year younger than you right?"
"Wait really?" Hanayo said, surprised by Nico's claim. After all, Kotori was shorter than her by at least five centimetres. Then again, looks can be deceiving.
"I'm 17 this year! Nico's 16!" Kotori replied, a look that said 'surprised weren't you' written all over her face.
"The hell..."
"Hanayo, if you say that you'll get warnings from bitches or bastards." Nico warned. "A lot of words that we used are 'bad' words over here."
"True that." Kotori said as she scribbled a few equations on her foolscap paper. "So Nico, what did you study?"
"A Maths, Lit, double science and History. You?"
"Whatever you've just said except mine's Art and Geography. You know, your combination sounds a lot like my school's..."
"Ah I'm from Otonokizaka. What about you?" Nico asked, Kotori's face beaming brightly.
"Oh my god! I'm from that school too!"
"Wow, that's a coincidence..." Hanayo muttered, taking out her phone to occupy herself while Nico and Kotori chatted.
"Wait so you're from 3-2?" Nico asked, after having the conversation for 15 minutes.
"Yeah! And you!" Kotori asked, completely disregarding her homework.
"I'm from class 3-2 too! Wait... if you're from last year's 3-2 then that means..." Nico trailed off, her ruby eyes narrowing at Kotori.
"Um... I think I have an idea what you're thinking..." Kotori said, scooting away from Nico.
"Your class freaking messed up my classroom last year!" Nico concluded, Kotori gulped as her concerns were spot on.
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'Haa... This is soooo boring... Apart from Kotori and Hanayo who are doing their own stuff, there's a blond girl over there reading a book. She seems really standoffish, but I guess I was kinda like her yesterday...' Nico thought to herself, staring directly at a blond teenager reading a book all by herself.
"Ahahaha! Smile~" Yumi called out from a distance as she ran towards the restroom. Behind her was Tsubasa and all of the other girls from the group.
"Stop running!" Nico shouted. Miraculously, Yumi stopped running and stood in front of Nico.
"Join us for lunch!" She burst out, starting a routine that Nico interpreted as dancing.
"Meh, go wash your hands first." Nico dryly mumbled as she pushed Yumi into the restroom. Tsubasa did the same for the girls surrounding her, one girl refusing to budge.
"I came here to see Smile." Kana said. This nearly brought tears to Nico's eyes as all the other kids did was to bully poor Nico. Indeed, Kana was much more mature than her peers.
"Argh! Stop running!" Eren shouted at Jun. who was bolting towards Nico.
"You too! God damn it!" Anki cursed at an unknown boy who Nico assumed to be the boy that was formerly from another group.
"Nahahaha! You said a bad word~ You said a bad word~" The boy chanted, irking Anki.
"H-How did you survive with them?!" Tsubasa asked, a desperate look on her face.
"Play along with them, rely on your friends for help and outsmart them. Oh and turn to Kana for comfort." Nico said, patting Kana's head.
"Hey Smile, look over here~" Yumi said. Once Nico turned to face her, she was splashed with water from her hands.
"Tch! YUMIIIIII!" Soon, all the other girls came out with smiles on their faces. "Oh hell no..."
"Take this!" The girls soon flicked their wet hands at Nico, preventing her from being able to see.
"Nyaaaaa!" Kotori, Hanayo, Tsubasa and Eren cringed at the sight while Kana looked away, knowing that nothing will come out by helping Nico.
"Gah... I need to lose weight..." Anki gasped out, his face covered in sweat.
"For lunch we have breaded prawns, we'll feed you later." Kana said, dragging Nico with her.
"H-Hey! Don't leave us! And why aren't the brats staying with us?!" Eren questioned, chasing after Kana and Nico.
"They've forgotten me~" Jun said with glee as he charged on to Anki's body.
"Gack!"
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"So there were really breaded prawns?" Hanayo asked, looking up from her handphone. Nico nodded happily for she had gotten a free meal from the kids, mainly Charmaine.
"That's great. Oh look, they're back again." Kotori pointed to three children approaching Nico. Nico flinched as she saw the identities of the three children running towards her.
"Not you three again..." Nico was face to face with Key, Yumi and Jun. The two girls had a smile on their faces while Jun was nibbling on an apple.
"Go and wash up..." Tsubasa sighed as she sat on the floor, tired from managing the group. "Remind me again why is the group called Smiggle?"
"Cause Key had tons of Smiggle stuff? Oh and that's the name that most of them voted..." Nico replied, staring at Jun.
"You really had it rough..."
"I got myself harassed yesterday. Both physically and sexually." Nico simply shot Tsubasa a blank look as she went back to staring at Jun.
"Kids these days..." Tsubasa sighed sympathetically, standing up once Key and Yumi were out.
"Take this!" Key and Yumi flicked their wet hands at Nico once again, causing much annoyance to the petite teenager.
"God damn you argraaaaahbaaaaaah!" Nico groaned an intelligible string of words, making Kotori laugh awkwardly.
"Hey hey Smile!" Jun said, going closer to Nico.
"What?!" Nico snapped, she was almost at her limit. Jun held up his apple... and stuffed it into Nico's open mouth. "Mmgh?!"
"I'm full! See ya!" With that, Jun and the two girls ran off, leaving Tsubasa behind. Once they were gone, Hanayo and Kotori turned to Nico.
"Are you really gonna eat that...?" Hanayo asked, stunned at what happened to Nico within a few minutes.
"Yeah, what else can I do?" Nico munched on the half-bitten apple Jun had 'given' to Nico. Kotori and Hanayo looked on in disgust as Nico continued to eat the apple.
"On the bright side, at least you won't have to deal with that group... Sorry, I'm heading to the restroom..." Kotori said, excusing herself as she vomited whatever she had for lunch prior to the volunteering session.
"Well, what could be more worse than this?" Nico asked rhetorically, taking another bite of her apple.
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"Are you okay...?" Hanayo asked worriedly, patting on Nico's back. Nico nodded weakly as the three of them headed to the painting room, still scarred from what had happened ten minutes ago.
"Hey Smile, open up your mouth for a sec!" Charmaine said, hiding her hands behind her back.
"Oh hell no." Nico replied, wary of the group's motives.
"Look, it's just an apple that we've found beside Marianna. Turns out that she didn't want it and we've heard from Jun on how he disposed his apple." Caroline continued, calming Nico down.
"Fine... Ah..." Nico opened up her mouth, failing to notice the twinkle in their eyes. Before she knew it, her mouth was filled with clear globules that they got from the experiments organised by a group of college students.
"How was I supposed to know that they will feed me water babies?!" Nico sobbed, dropping to her knees as she wept over how gullible she was. Thankfully, the water babies weren't toxic and she spat them into a nearby trash bin immediately after they were placed in her mouth.
"Well technically we all knew that the camp will be hosting a group of college students where they teach the children how to plant without using soil..." Kotori said, picking up a paintbrush and starting to paint the newspaper on the table.
"Well I certainly didn't know that water babies can be used instead of soil! Do you?" Nico asked the blond teenager in front of her. The blond teenager looked up from her painting and stared at Nico uncertainly.
"Uh... No? I didn't know that..." She fumbled out a response, changing Nico's impression of her.
'She's pretty shy... I thought she was standoffish like me... Meh...' Nico thought to herself, flashing a quick smile at the blond.
"I'm Nico, what's your name?" Nico introduced herself, trying her best to make the teenager feel less awkward.
"Eli. Eli Ayase, it's nice to meet you." Eli said, a smile appearing on her porcelain face.
"Wait, why did the kids call you Smile then?" Hanayo asked, remembering that the group only called Nico 'Smile'.
"Easier to remember. I mean, having a stupid name makes me more remember-able right?" Nico replied, proud of her explanation.
"That's true. I'm Hanayo! Say... you were sitting next to me yesterday right?" Hanayo asked Eli, to which she nodded.
"Wait, you know her? Also, you two were here yesterday?!" Nico asked, unable to recall their existence the previous day.
"Yeah? You mean you didn't notice?" Hanayo was shocked but soon regained her composure. After all, she knew Nico was busy with her group of boisterous kids.
"You were being dragged around and fed multiple pears right? Oh and you also came up to get their water bottles yes?" Nico nodded at Eli's statement, slightly crept out at how she was observed.
"Uh yeah, that's totally me." Nico mumbled, thinking to herself that she was probably being observed by others a tad too much.
"My sister also told me about you! You... probably don't know her... since you've never met her and all..." Hanayo continued, a guilty smile on her face.
"I'm terribly sorry logistics! I don't think there's enough time for the campers to come down and paint so I'll be bringing you all up! Please help to bring up the crafts that they have made! Thank you so much!" The woman who had tapped the volunteers up the previous day apologised as she opened the exit for the volunteers to leave.
"Well, let's start getting them up to the Pod?" Kotori suggested, holding up a group's crafts. The other three nodded and grabbed whatever crafts they could find and brought them up to the holding area.
"You really must be attached to them." Eli remarked, eyeing at the crafts Nico were holding.
"No way in hell." Nico scoffed, rolling her eyes at Eli's remark.
"But... you're holding you own group's..." Seconds later, Nico dropped all of the crafts to the floor. "... That was bad timing wasn't it?"
"Oh god why?!"
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"I've concluded that you're pretty traumatised by S-Smiggle... Ahahahahahaha!" Nozomi laughed, unable to control herself.
"Shut up... Those damn brats are haunting me!" Nico cradled her head as she endured Nozomi's laughter.
"What about us...?" Tsubasa appeared with Anki and Eren, a tired look on their faces.
"Though we weren't bullied as much as you, it still did quite a number on us." Eren sighed, pushing up his glasses.
"What, you got harassed too?" Nico asked, looking up at the trio.
"Well actually, only Anki and Eren here got the worst. I was kinda spared..." Tsubasa muttered, inching closer to Nico. Before Nico could say anything else, Tsubasa's cap was removed from the owner's head.
"HEY!" Tsubasa angrily yelled at Key and Marianna, who were the ones that removed the cap.
"Come and catch us shorty!" Marianna shouted as she waved the cap in front of their eyes. Eren sighed as he gave chase, leaving Anki behind with the three girls.
"Did the group call you shorty too or is it just her?" Kotori asked, having just came out from the restroom with Eli. Hanayo was with her sister at the main area so she was completely oblivious to what was happening around the lift lobby where Nico and the rest were.
"Most of them. They called Anki a fatso while Eren was a stick." Tsubasa chuckled, jabbing a finger at Anki's plump body.
"Geez... I thought Smiggle was an innocent sounding name..." Anki sighed as she pushed Tsubasa's finger away.
"They own a lot of their goods... Heck, even Christmas thought that they were advertising for the company!" Nico laughed, slapping a hand on Tsubasa's back.
"We've gotta go. Still kinda need to monitor them." Tsubasa said before dragging Anki with her.
"And here comes two little Smiggles~" Nozomi pointed to Yumi and Key, who surrounded Nico in an instant.
"Why didn't you come along with us?!" Yumi whined, making Kotori, Eli and Nozomi giggle quietly. Key hugged Nico's front and complained too.
"Yeah Clown! You must be with us tomorrow!" Key started to thrust her lower body forward, unintentionally touching Nico's lower region.
"H-Hey! S-Stop moving your body!" Nico gritted out, starting to feel hot.
"But I wanted to be closer to you!" Key grumbled as she stopped thrusting onto Nico's body. Instead, she chose to grind onto Nico's lower regions.
"G-Gah... S-Stop it Key... N-Nozomi! H-Help me out here!" Nico tried appealing to Nozomi, who simply smirked as she understood Nico's expression.
"You two, come back here. And as for you Nico, please toughen up." Christmas appeared with the others, beckoning Key and Yumi to her.
"... Yes..." Nico muttered, furious at the lack of empathy she was given. 'Damn it! How about she tries getting herself sexually assaulted?! I bet she doesn't even get to BE laid!'
"Hey Yumi..." Key started, turning towards Yumi. The said girl faced her, giving her friend her utmost attention as they waited for the lift to arrive.
"Yeah?"
"I kinda feel... tingly here... Am I sick?" Key then pointed to her lower part of the body, shocking Nico and Nozomi. They then entered the lift, soon going down with the rest of the group.
"Well well... Seems like you've aroused a seven year old..." Nozomi spoke, seeing that the adult had left.
"Shut up Nozomi."
"Only one more day with Smiggle huh?"
"I said shut up Nozomi."
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And we're done with day 2! One more day for Nico-nii to survive! So how did you find this chapter? Funny? Unrealistic? A new view of children now? Well I've found out that children could do R21 stuff without them realising the gravity of the situation. And I've taken out the part where I kind of insulted the head (Akira) as she made us wait for 20 minutes only to give us a minute debriefing. Yeeeeah don't be like me readers.
Also, A Maths stand for Additional Maths. And H2 Maths is harder than A Maths.