HI! I'm updating. Many thanks to Serena Lockhart for reviewing. ^^

Here we go, second chapter.

Disclaimer! I don't own VK T.T

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I fidgeted in the plain wooden chair and sneaked up at the chairman. He didn't seem to notice I wasn't paying attention and continued on his rant about the school.

I was suddenly very glad I hadn't had time to do my hair. I looked back down at my hands and sighed under my breath. This was taking much longer than I thought it would.

I glanced over at Yuuki who was standing beside my chair. Her expression told me he wasn't going to stop anytime soon. I was not going to wait that long. My eyes burned and I had marks from pinching myself.

I nudged Yuuki's foot with my own. Yuuki slid up to attention then glanced over at me questioningly. I winked at her through my hair and then yawned, stretching unnecessarily and forcing the sound louder.

The chairman stopped.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I got carried away." He put on a sheepish expression and rubbed the back of his neck. I smiled at him. "Well anyway, welcome to Cross Academy, if you have any further questions feel free to ask me." I stood up, much to the relief of my cramped legs.

"Thank you, chairman."

"Ah." I stopped walking and turned back to the chairman. "I would like Yuuki to guide you to your dorm room."

I blushed slightly as I realized that I had no idea where to go. Yuuki took my hand in hers. "Let's go, Ann-san. I am sure you are very tired." I nodded agreeably and followed as Yuuki led me out the door.

I frowned. "Yuuki-san, Isn't it rather dark?" Yuuki glanced at me as she continued walking and answered. " Day students, like you Ann-san, are not allowed to be out of their dorm during the night so we turn off the lights to help encourage that."

I blinked in surprise and looked sideways. "Oh..."

Yuuki smiled at me as she pushed open the large wooden door leading out of the building. The moonlight was a welcome light after the gloom in the school. I sighed gently as a cool breeze tickled my cheeks.

Yuuki led me towards a gate with an ornate iron sun crowning it. The gate was surrounded by redder stone than that of the entrance. Yuuki swung open the gate and continued to walk down the brick pathway.

I followed her, absorbing my surroundings.

The sides of the path were now filled with flowers. Yuuki caught me looking at them.

"These flower beds are filled with flowers that students buy on holidays. Feel free to plant anything you want here." I kept my head slightly down. "Yes, thank you."

We continued onward and I glanced up for the first time. I was met by a brick building.

Yuuki ran up the steps and opened the door. I quickly followed her. There were lights on in here, gas ones by the look of it. They had been dimmed until they gave off something of a candle effect. Yuuki led me up a flight of bare wooden stairs with an ornately carved banister.

"Ann-san, this way." I nodded and ran after her, nervous at the thought of getting left behind. Yuuki then took a piece of paper out of a hidden pocket in her skirt and began to read off a number. She glanced at the silver numbers on the wooden door of the nearest room and then back at the paper. She smiled and turned to me. "Your room is on this floor, Ann-san." I nodded again.

My heart felt more like screaming and running. Yuuki walked down the narrow balcony that looked down on the main floor, glancing at the doors opposite the railing. I followed silently. She stopped in front of one of the doors.

32 read off the ornate silver letters.

"This is your room, Ann-san." Yuuki said. She slipped out a silver key and turned it in the lock. The door swung open noiselessly. Yuuki walked in and I followed her, forcing my feet to move. The light was brighter in here, I blinked and glanced around. A simple wooden bed with white covers, white lampshade on a small bedside dresser, an open wall closet, some cloths already inside. Mine?

I turned to look at the left side of the room and froze. A girl sat on a bed, like the one I was to sleep in, arms folded, piercing blue eyes glaring at me. "What took you so long, idiot." I flinched. Yuuki stepped forward and placed her hands on her hips.

"Now, now, Kana-san. Ann-san has had a very long day and needs her rest." Yuuki sighed and turned to me.

"Ann-san, this is your roommate, Kana Hitachi. As your roommate she will be escorting you to your classes and help you get settled. I have to get back to my duties so I'll leave you here." She handed me the key she had used earlier. "This is the key to your room, you and Kana-san are the only ones who have the ones to this room. Don't loose it." With that, Yuuki bowed out of the room, closing the door behind her.

I turned to Kana. "H-hello, my name is Ann Harthridge, please take care of me!" I bowed as I said the Japanese greeting. Kana sighed. "So, which part of Japan are you from?"

I blinked and raised my head. Kana's eyebrow twitched. "Hey, copper. Where. Are. You. From!"

I scowled at my new roommate. "My name is not copper and I am not from Japan!"

Kana seemed slightly surprised but quickly hid it. "Then where are you from, Ireland?" I huffed and went over to my bed, my suitcase was sitting in the middle of the covers and my new uniform lay folded neatly at the bottom of my bed. "I'm from England if you must know." I angrily flipped up the snaps on the suitcase and opened it. I pulled out some hangers I had brought with me just in case.

Kana hopped off her bed and came to stand beside me. "Oi, copper, let me help."

I sighed. "My name is not copper." Kana ignored me and began sliding clothes unto the hangers. I followed suit and soon my sparse amount of clothing hung neatly beside Kana's. I pulled my bag of hair accessories and pulled out a thin red ribbon.

"Oi, copper, what are you doing?" I scowled at Kana and repeated the line I was becoming annoyingly familiar with.

"My name isn't copper it's Ann and I am making sure I don't lose my key." So saying I lifted up the key to eye level and threaded the ribbon through one of the four holes in the key handle. I pulled the ribbon around my neck and tied it. The key slid to hang against my chest. I slipped it down my shirt so it wouldn't get in the way and continued to unpack with Kana.

Sometime later I stood in the bathroom, off to the right of our room, and straitened my towel next to Kana's on the rack. I walked out of the bathroom to see Kana holding two silver rings in her hands. They were large enough to go around her neck.

"Hey copper, what are these?"

I gasped and ran over to Kana, snatching the rings out of her grasp.

"Hey copper idiot, no need to overreact."

I frowned and sat down on the cream bed, looking at the imperfect metal.

"I'm sorry, it's just, these rings are a memento of my mother."

Kana looked down, ashamed. "I'm sorry, I didn't know." I smiled at her.

"It's okay."

Kana glanced away, seemingly becoming interested on a certain spot on the wall. "Hey, copper. What was your mom like?"

I glanced at the floor and tried to memorize the pattern of the bare wood. "I don't know, she died with my father in a car accident when I was two."

Kana walked over to her bed and stared at the floor with me. "You don't remember anything about her?"

I concentrated harder on the floor. "Nothing."

Kana got up and walked over to my suitcase in silence, I helped her finish and thanked her for helping me. We sat down on our beds. Not quite sure whether to go to bed or not.

"So, who do you live with now?"

I blinked and slid off my shoes. "I lived in an orphanage, I didn't have any other relatives, my grandparents died with my parents.

"Oh."

We were both staring at the floor again. I shoved my shoes down to the end of the bed with my foot.

I slid a photo over to her from it's position on my nightstand.

"That's Nana. You could say she was like an artificial grandma to me."

Kana stared at the kind looking old woman smiling up from her knitting. Kana slid it back into place. "She looks nice."

I smiled. "She helped me through tough times. We found out we're like distant relatives twice removed or something." Kana cocked her head and pulled her long black hair out of it's ponytail and pointed at the rings on the bedside dresser with her pinky as she put the picture back. "So, back to my original question, what are those rings for?"

I smiled. "You'll find out tomorrow."

Kana sighed and slipped into the covers, already in her nightgown. "Goodnight, copper, turn out the lights when your done."

I scowled. "My name's not copper!"

I threw my shirt at her blanket covered form as I slid on my silk nightgown.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever works copper." She threw the shirt back over her shoulder.

I gathered up my clothing and threw them into the white hamper by the door as I walked over to the switch. I flicked it off and slid under the covers.

"Goodnight." I whispered as sleep overwhelmed me and sent me off to the world of dreams.

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Tada! I finished another chapter.

I decided Ann shouldn't have a super friendly roommate cause it seemed to cliche. Kana still ended up a lot friendlier than I intended to make her..... I was gonna make a kinda Allen X Kanda kind of relationship (for those of you who have read/seen D. Grayman) But I guess I'm not cut out for that. :P

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