Chapter 3

More Trouble

"What the hell are you girls doing to Himeko?" The white hair boy said with annoyance in his voice as he glanced at the poor beat up girl crying on the side. So her name is Himeko… now that he mentions it…. I forgot she was there… oh well; I am trying to save her so I guess it's all right.

"S-s-soul, t-t-this isn't w-what you t-think" one of the girls said. She sounded scared and embarrassed at the same time.

"Rrriiiggghhhhttt..." I muttered to myself... so his name is Soul... isn't that name a bit too unique?

"Then what were you doing?" He asked

"W-w-we –w-were just... we did this all for you!" the girl burst "this wench here keeps on hanging around you! She is annoying!"

"Ahahahha... soo... this is all because of jealousy..." I sniggered quietly making sure no one hears me "poor girl... it is troublesome to be too popular..."

The white hair boy did not listen to them explain any further, he walked over and carried the girl princess styled. His hair looked really cool, I wanted hair like that but my mum would kill me. Which then got me thinking… was it natural? He turned towards me and for a second I thought I saw his eyes widened and his glare soften but I guess I was wrong.

"I better not see any of this happening again." He warned giving all of us a disgusted look and walked off.

I tried to sneak away quietly while they are not looking but it did not work.

"Where do you think you're going?" the girls yelled

"Ehehhe... ummm... the toilet?" I laughed hesitantly. But they did not buy it.

"This is your entire fault! If you didn't interfere, we would have killed her and all this would have not happened"

This was exactly why I interfered... or else you would have killed her...

"Sooo... what do you want me to do now?" I asked feeling a little annoyed

"Since Soul saved that girl Himeko, out of pity, we need someone else to take our anger out on" they said all high and mighty, as if they are looking down on me. Ok... they are looking down on me.

They looked at each other and smirked. I think I know what's coming.

They charged at me with their fists ready to punch.

And I was right.

I also got ready in a fighting stance waiting for them to make the first move. But once again, it never happened. At that very moment the bell rang. I expected them to continue coming at me and of course I was wrong. They ran towards the dormitory shouting to each other, is this what people mean when they say 'saved by the bell?' cause it's the first time for me. The only word I picked up while they were shouting at each other was 'curfew', I know what that means and I don't like what happens when you're late...

I hurried to the dorms as fast as I could, but no luck. At the door to the dorm stood an old lady, she is strict... well at least she looks strict.

"Where were you?" she asked

"Umm... well... you see... I was taking a tour around the school by myself and I kind of got lost..." I replied hoping she takes the bait because it will be bad if she informed my mum about my being involved in bullying on the first day. I know it is not my fault but do you think my mum will listen to any excuse?

"Why didn't you ask the other students for help?" She said

"I didn't bump into anyone" I said stupidly

"Must you bump into someone to ask for directions? There is a thing called approaching nowadays"

And there goes the come back... I saw it coming and I knew I should have not said 'I didn't bump into anyone' but I was having those moments when you need to say something quick and then you end up saying whatever comes to mind first.

"Ahahhaha... miss... you have lovely hair..." I said hesitantly, once again… my stupid moments.

"You will have detention tomorrow before school at 4 am to 6 am in room A-12, building C"

"WHAT? But this is my first da-

"Saying this is your first day is not a good enough excuse" She snapped. "oh and sorry for the late introduction, my name is Elizabeth Edna, Miss Edna. You must be Maka? Well, I am your Dorm manager. There are four different dorms, first one is Freshmen. You can kind of guess it is for year nines, in other words… where you are right now, next comes Sophomore, year tens. Thirdly we have Junior, for year elevens and lastly Senior, for year twelves. Each dorm has their own dorm manager, in this case the dorm manager is me and all dorm managers are In charge of detention for those in their dorms. So I will see you tomorrow, do not come late"

I stood and watched her walk away elegantly. She kind of irritates me... although she is right, maybe that's why I got annoyed, because she is right.
I stopped at door number 13, took a deep breath and knocked on the door. I felt so nervous, I wasn't nervous this morning when I came because there was no one in the room, but now… I'm about to meet my roommate. There was no reply. Just as I was about to knock again, the door opened slowly. I looked at the girl who opened the door. She had long silky jet black hair with a full fringe; she wore a pink frilly night gown and has long slim legs. For some reason, she looked kind of familiar.

"H-h-hi" she said shyly

"Hey, I'm your new roommate" I replied while letting myself in. I took a look around the room and what I realised is that nearly everything is pink and purple. Why didn't I notice this when I came to unpack before? If someone were to ever ask me what I hate the most it would be pink and purple things, I don't know why I hate pink and purple, I just do... ok… I don't hate purple too much but I hate pink, the only type of pink I like is the orangey-pink but I classify that as orange.

"My name is Maka" I said walking towards the girl.

"M-mine is Himeko" she replied.

Himeko? Why does that sound so familiar? The closer I walked towards her the more I notice that she has bruises all over herself. Then it triggered my memory, Himeko, she was the one I sort of saved.

"Your bed is over their" She said while gesturing to the bed near the window.

It was kind of creepy looking out that window because our room is on the ground floor. I had the feeling that anything could just pop up at the window.

"Thanks, I know. I came to unpack before" I said smiling at her. It seems that she does not remember I saved her, oh wells... I didn't feel like talking about how 'heroic' I am so I guess its fine. I changed my clothes and fell asleep the minute I tucked myself into bed. It has been a long day.

xChiharuYoshimi