Disclaimer: It's obvious I don't have Tales of Xillia, because it was properties of Bandai Namco.

It's the third chapter of this normal story~ I had wrote an actually normal Milla for the last two chapter, with glasses fetish as well… though to be honest that was actually my fetish though the normal Jude also filled my fetish. Now forget about my fetish and let's get on with the story. Now it is Jude's side of the story. I used all cliché possible in this story because it was supposed to be cliché normal story so please forgive me if this was cliché.

Note: Well, this one is the draft version since I had a lot of draft for this story... working on the chapter 16 actually right now, I decided to just give the draft until the proofreaded version was out. I was blind at detail so I would give it to you to know the difference. This story would be quite long and might rival the amount for Lost Treasure. This was in par with Maxwell Descendant in term of amount after all.

Jude POV

I threw my glance around the Auditorium as I gave the Entrance Speech that I had prepared when I saw the entrance exam result. Around the middle row I saw Leia, my childhood friend, sitting with someone that I recognized but didn't know. She had interesting hair with some of the strands sticking out like a hook with green tip, and I didn't doubt that the color was natural. Her eyes are naturally magenta, a quite rare color for a natural one in my eyes. It would be hard to find someone resembling her, so I concluded that she was the girl from the bus stop this morning.

I didn't know why I noticed her presence at the time, but I just did. She was so eye-catching it would be hard to not notice her. She did look surprised when she saw me, but I believe that we were not acquaintance. And again, I never saw her with Leia before, so maybe they just became quick friend. She looked like she could handle Leia just fine.

As I gave my speech, her face turned into all short of expression. Her face was red in color for a little bit as she complained to Leia, so maybe Leia was teasing her. She looked happy however, as if she enjoyed her interaction with Leia. I wonder did she hit her head somewhere before?

After I finished my speech she looked at me with a tender gaze as she clapped. I tried to not stare as I went back to my seat on the opposite side of her seat. Maybe I should ask Leia about that girl later on. We were in different classes but it wasn't so wrong to visit a friend right?

"So, you are the one who scored the highest this year, huh?" a boy beside me said with a friendly tone. I was surprised that someone actually greeted me in that kind of style, kind of reminding me about Leia… by the amount of cheerfulness.

I looked to my side and saw a messily styled hazelnut haired boy with matching eye colors wearing a red jacket of some sort that had the school badge on its pocket. Noticing that I heard what he said, he grinned widely. He offered me his hands as he said, "Nice to meet you, I am Suzaku Jun. My first name is Jun by the way. I'm freshmen as well, class 1-D"

I took his hands and politely said, "I am Jude Mathis, it's a pleasure to meet you as well. And as you said I was the one this year. I am in 1-D as well, so it makes us classmates."

"Sweet now that I know we are in the same class! Anyway, did you check who the second in entrance exam is?" Jun asked with a big grin plastered on his face. He sounded ecstatic when he mentioned it.

"Milla Maxwell isn't it?" I replied nonchalantly. There was no way I didn't know about that since between that girl (Milla sounded like a girl name) and me there was only little gap. It had been awhile since the last time someone had almost the same score as mine so I couldn't help but memorize the name.

"Yeah, yeah, you really know your things, huh? They said she is beautiful. It's a nice match huh? Beautiful and smart…" Jun said as he grinned like an idiot at the thought.

"It's not my problem though…" I mumbled as I turned my attention back to the Entrance Ceremony. I really hoped it would end soon…

The day passed quietly though thanks to some distraction from Jun, I couldn't ask Leia about the flashy-girl with weird-colored eyes. I tried to look for her in the bus stop but somehow I couldn't find her. Did she stay at school a little bit longer this day, even when it was still the first day?

I opened my medical book that I already had memorized inside my head. My family is a family of doctor and my father owned one of the biggest hospitals in this town that had quite the fame in the nation as well. So it means me as the eldest son would inherit it, like it or not.

It wasn't as if I hate being a doctor. Actually, I wanted to be a doctor and had just finished my education to be one when I was supposed to do junior high. They said that I'm one of the youngest doctors out there, but I'm sure they were joking. Everyone could do the same thing as long as they put their mind into it and I did just that. Now I just needed my license to actually start working.

But my mother said that it wasn't the time yet for me to start working in the hospital (she is the head nurse there, actually) and wished for me to try on the high school for the meantime. My father said that I should try on feeling the society. He said that I was too aloof, unlike my adopted little sister, Elize L. Mathis, who was more open than I ever was.

So that was why I entered a high school in the first place, Rieze Maxia high. It wasn't a school completely for those who are rich enough, but more too unified one as long as one could pass the exceptionally hard (or so they said) entrance exam or getting recommended. It was a mere child play for me though I wouldn't deny that it was an interesting one.

For the sake of making me blended with the society around me, I used bus as the mean of transportation when I could ask the driver to drive me there. At first I thought it was a hassle, taking the bus I mean, but after I saw that fancy-girl, I think it wouldn't be that boring. Personally, I found her beautiful, like those model in the painting.

I sighed. I wonder since when I started thinking about a random girl I saw twice in my lifetime. There must be something wrong with me… yeah, maybe I studied a little bit too much and was light-headed. That must be the reason…

I leaned on the window as I glanced outside. There was no need for me to ask Leia about her… yeah, there is no need. Why I even thought about it? I really must have studied too much last night.

(3 months later – First-term test announcement)

"As expected, Mr. Genius from 1-D again huh?"

"He did all that club but still study?"

"I heard from my friend from his class that he read university material…"

"Was he actually from our age…?"

That kind of whispers entered my ears as I read my mid-term test result. Just as they said, I came out on the top like at the entrance exam and the mid-term. It wasn't something big but they seemed to care about it. I needed to report this to father though so I at least tried to work my best at it. He rarely gave me attention after all.

I was about to leave when I felt someone draped his hands over my shoulders. I looked to my side and saw a familiar red jacket, as the owner said, "Heh, you came out on top again huh, Jude?"

I smirked on his presence as I putted aside his arms before I said, "It wasn't anything big Jun, though you really need to study a little bit harder if you want that 'Thorn full Rose' to notice you."

Jun quickly turned red as I mentioned the title name of certain girl that Jun putted his affection. But that was underestimating it since he was fully head over heels at her. After the entrance ceremony, Jun had become someone I could call as friend despite his loud personality. He would one-sidedly tell a lot of story about himself and the rumor and one of it his pathetic love life.

His pathetic love live was about his hard crush on certain girl in the 1-A class, Ibara Mai, and would react in interesting manner when I mentioned even her title. Ibara-san is strict-laced the whole reason she was in disciplinary committee of Student Council and her title as the 'Thorn full Rose' [1]. From what I heard, if there is anyone caught doing something that crossed the rule of school, especially delinquent who raised their arms, they would soon been talked to be in hospital for at least a week… with a smiling Ibara Mai who brought them there. I should note that she patrolled alone.

"Mai-chan is cute, you know. Her half-frame metal glasses fit her azure eyes. She always wore Gerbera flower hairpin to complement her short hair. When she…" and Jun goes on full power at describing Ibara-san.

"What are you, a stalker?" I muttered out loud, but it seemed that Jun was too absorbed in his dramatic monologue of his beloved. I was surprised that the actual person never heard about how dramatic Jun was when he talked about her.

As I tried my best to ignore Jun weird action, I heard another cheerful voice greeted me with a "Jude, congrats again!"

I turned my head around and saw Leia approaching me. The fancy girl wasn't with her today. Did she have returned to class? Maybe she didn't score too high to look forward in it… what a waste since she was very beautiful.

"Ah, Leia-chan, where is your best friend?" Jun asked after he somehow managed to snap out from his annoying monologue. If I'm not wrong, Leia was an acquaintance of Ibara-san, so maybe he tried to make Leia work with her. But knowing Leia, she wouldn't work until Jun gave her something in return or when she found it funny.

"Oh, she went back after seeing her score saying that it wasn't that bad. It was an understatement of the year, look her name is just below Jude," Leia replied with one palms on her forehead, sighing considerably, while her other thumb pointed at a name directly below mine, Milla Maxwell.

"Talk about understatement of the year…" Jun also commented with a surprised tone. It sounded like he didn't know that the fancy-girl is Milla Maxwell either. Well, it was news for me too.

"You are friend with Milla Maxwell?" I asked with a raised brow on Leia. Well, Leia was a loud and originally stupid although athletic like Jun. Their scholarships at sports were the one that managed them to enter this school at the first place, so their intellectual ability was a little bit lacking.

To conclude it, I didn't think that Leia would be a friend with an intellectual being. She had a hard time reading Iroha Uta without fell asleep after all.

Leia looked at me with wide eyes and said, "You actually remembered her name?"

I looked at her with a big question mark over my head. Was it that weird for me to know her name? She was quite popular around guys and even Jun talked about her from time to time if he didn't talk about Ibara-san. So, instead of pondering, I decided to just ask Leia and said, "Was it weird of me?"

Leia quickly waved her hands in front of her chest and said, "Ah, no, no, no, there is nothing wrong. Yeah, it wasn't weird at all… you are a normal teenager after all…" she trailed down as she reached the end of her sentence as she nodded repeatedly to herself. I saw her mouthing something but decided to not pursue it. Woman is an extremely complex creature on the earth after all.

After a brief moment of mumbling to her own, Leia finally asked, "Hey Jude if you remembered her name, why you never asked me to introduce her to you?"

"Eh?" I was honestly surprised at Leia's question. The thought passed me time to time but I never tried to implore it further. She IS Leia's friend, not mine.

"I was actually more surprised that you just knew that Milla is my friend. She was in the same committee as you, the Library one. She was in Kendo club as well that shared dojo with your Judo club as well. How come you didn't know about her at all this past 3 months? Just where the hell are you?" Leia asked repeatedly as her face grown closer to mine.

"She was?" I turned to Jun who simply nodded.

"I didn't know that she is Milla Maxwell but yes, she is," Jun replied lightly as if it was something obvious. Although our club was different, he often forced me to go out with him after school, mostly to a sport store looking through basketball shoes, so he often visited me on my club to go home together despite our direction were completely different.

I could saw Leia facepalmed at my reaction. She mumbled something, "Just what had she done to… at this blockhead…" or something along that line.

I turned my attention back to the score list. I was reminded about her beautiful wavy golden hair and her sharp magenta eyes. Now that I thought about it, some guys in my club often asked me about her, but mostly I didn't listen on it. Maybe I was a little bit too ignorant…

"So, she is Milla Maxwell…" I mumbled as I reminded how we were often left alone at the bus stop. We never talked since I didn't feel that I was obliged to do it. But now that I knew she was Milla Maxwell… somehow I became interested.

It was a bright day in spring when I met her by chance. I learned about her name at the start of the dazzling summer break. As the summer break entered its end, we developed a bond, thanks to the fate plot. I guess fate really wanted me to take notice of her…

[1]: Ibara Mai is written (威薔薇舞) literally meaning 'Dignified dancing Rose'. That's why her title is 'Thorn full Rose' since her name had Rose written in it and that she was super strict because of being disciplinary committee.

OC Introduction place:

1. Suzaku Jun : He was pretty much self-explanatory since he was as simple and as loud as how Jude describe him. I only used him for joke purpose since it sounded fun to have a friend like him who pretty much doing a monologue of his crush. He is born at 5 December and a Sagitarius. His bloodtype is B. He entered Rieze Maxia High through scholarship at basketball and he was proud almost otaku at it.