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

Hello again with Rina Aria present in the author note part! It really is hot isn't it? My place was always hot all around the year as we have a lot of sun around the year. I wonder did it started getting a little bit warmer in other country with 4 season... Well, then let's begin our story! We are unto chapter 6 entitled "Summer Break – To the Beach part 2"! For a tidbit, I'm currently in latter half of chapter 19 and would move to chapter 20 soon~

Jude POV

I simply stared at Jun who had dragged me to some kind of clothes shop because the beach trip with the girls is tomorrow. At first I was reluctant, since I had no actual reason to go to the said shop, but Jun treated me some fruit parfait so I decided to keep him company. And because of that, I didn't complaint as much as usual when Jun did most of his internal dramatic monologue as he looked at the choice each shop had.

"I wonder what Mai-chan will wear tomorrow… I'm sure she would be cute using anything but, if she used bolder design…" Jun said as he had forgotten my existence in this place. He really had an illness called Ibara Syndrome.

I simply looked around and browsed through things with little interest. Maybe I shouldn't have come even if I needed to refuse fruit parfait.

'But if I didn't accept, most likely I would study… I prefer fruit parfait over studying…' I thought as I looked around for anything particularly interesting.

I stepped out from the clothing shop and decided to go to the bookstore next to it as I waited for Jun. When he talked about Mai-san, he could go on and on for hours so I just needed to sit idly in some place and read until he mailed me to ask about my whereabouts.

It had been awhile since the last time I visited the mall bookstore as I was always reading my father personal collection. It came without saying that most of them were medical book obviously. I looked at the row of novel section, looking for anything in particular that caught my attention. It is true that most of my time was spent on studying, but it didn't mean I had lost interest with normal books like novel.

'It's been awhile since I last searched the Zestiria (Talking about Tales of Zestiria here) series… I wonder how many books I had missed…' I thought as I browsed through the row of novel in front of me as I tried to find the book I was searching.

After looking for it for ten minutes or so, I found the last copy of the latest book of the series in between the other title. I reached my hands forward to take it when my hand met with another hand.

Instinctively I looked to my side and saw a person that I was familiar with that I was surprised. Let me give you the detail, she is a girl that had magenta colored eyes and golden wavy hair and I'm sure there weren't that many girl with that combination. I quickly withdrew my hands and said, "M-Milla…"

Yes, she is Milla. She looked surprised as well to see me here and aiming for the same book as her. An air of silence ensued between us as we said nothing to each other for a while. I mentally cursed since I didn't understand why I acted this way. She is Milla, a friend of mine for god's sake! But something felt different, no, something keep telling me that it wasn't that.

I tried to break the ice and took the novel. Then I looked at the book before I turned my attention to Milla before I said, "You can have it…"

Milla looked up and her eyes widen up in the process. I gave the book to her but she pushed it to me as she said, "N-no, I can't do that. You are the first one to take it Jude…"

"But you were about to take it first when I was about to take it, so it is yours Milla…" I said as I tried to convince Milla on taking the book. This was getting nowhere as we kept on pushing it back and forth as politely as we could manage. Milla impressed me for being pushy yet patient as well as keeping a calm face at that at the same time

After few back and forth pushing, Milla finally took the book with certain nervousness and she looked reluctant about it as well. She looked around for a while before she said, "How about we… share it? Seeing how it looked like you wanted to read it as well Jude."

"Huh?" I instantly said at the suggestion of the matter. It never occurred to me to share a remaining book in a store with a 'friend' that I just knew at the start of this summer break.

"I feel bad to have it all for myself so I guess this would be best for both of us. We could pass it to each other every week and when we both done with it, how about leaving it to a local library? Or maybe we could give it to our school collection as well. I'm sure the teacher wouldn't mind since we are both in library committee…" Milla said as she elaborated further on her suggestion.

I took some time to think about it. Well it wasn't particularly bad idea at all. The Zestiria was high on my list and by how Milla reacted it looked like the series was high on her list as well. Since we both wanted to read it then I guess why not?

"I guess it's a good idea. I'm a fast reader so I guess I would be done with it in no time," I replied as I looked to Milla that I only noticed to be slightly taller than me, maybe 2 cm or so. It was easily noticeable but somehow I only managed to notice it right now and somehow that made me felt weird inside. Wait, why I even care about our height difference?

Milla smiled gracefully as she placed the book close to her chest. She looked delighted by the result of what we had reached. I returned her smile with a smile on my own as I then noticed about how she was alone. Feeling curious I asked, "You are here alone today, Milla?"

Milla looked surprised but then she noticed about what I had asked her and then simply replied, "Leia and Mai dragged me to do some swimsuit hunt, but… they were arguing about something appropriate for me and won't listen to reason so I escaped here."

I could imagine how they would fuss over Milla's swimsuit since she was drop dead gorgeous. Milla had the body of a model and grace of a noble at the same time so I guess Leia would make a fuss over her clothes. Well, I didn't know that Mai-san would make a fuss over it as well though, that was quite a surprise. She looked like she was troubled but happy at the same time over the act of those two.

"How about you? I had stated my reasoning for being here. I guess it would be fair for you to do that as well," Milla asked as she successfully snapped me from my trance.

I was surprised, to say the least, but it wasn't much of a problem and I had no reason to hide it as well. I honestly replied, "I came here with Jun. He was choosing some swimming trunks when he started his monologue…"

"Monologue?" Milla innocently asked me before I finished my sentence as she looked at me with question marks above her head, if animation were reality. She was being slightly rude for cutting in the middle of my sentence, but she looked honestly curious so I couldn't point it out.

But still I contemplated on whether to tell Milla about Jun weird obsession over Mai-san or not since I knew that Jun should have some pride over his love life. But, Milla looked like she could keep a secret and I doubt she wanted to have anything to do over the weird love story anyways.

After I decided on my answer to that in my head I replied, "Jun had a big crush over Mai-san… and when he started talking about her, he wouldn't stop even if the world was ending around him. So, when he started his monologue, I simply took a side trip to a bookstore and by chance, met you here."

Milla giggled as she hid her smile with the novel we had agreed on sharing. She looked amused for some reason though I was completely sure it's not because of Jun's little secret. I wondered what had happened in her side since she is Mai-san's friend. As if she had read my mind, Milla said, "By the way you word it Jude… it sounded like what Mai would do when Jun is involved."

It took me by surprise when I noticed what she was talking about. Few moments later I instinctively said, "So we had weirdo for friends?"

Milla's giggle had ceased as she looked simply amused by the idea of Mai and Jun actually liking each other but never know about their partner feeling. She looked content on it however as she said, "They are weird but I guess it make us weird as well. But let's not get on this just yet. I guess Leia had noticed it as well and maybe she wanted to be their cupid. I didn't want to hinder her plan but, how about we made sure that she didn't mess up?"

"For tomorrow beach trip?"

"Yeah."

I contemplated on the idea for a while and then realized that it might be fun to work on something with Milla. She is a better girl company than Leia ever was after all. So I extended my hand to her as I said, "Count me in."

Milla simply smiled mischievously as she took my hand and we shook our hand on our agreement. It was then I heard my phone resounding 'Believe in Change' (Xillia OST) quite loudly that I quickly took it to silence it. I saw a message from Jun who had asked for help since he saw heaven passed on him.

'Heaven?' I internally questioned his choice of words as I wondered what he might be talking about, but for now I decided to just see it for myself.

I looked to Milla who was looking at her phone as well and she looked amused at the content of the mail she had given. She closed her phone and looked to me again as she said, "Leia texted me that they met Jun so she called me over for help since Mai had acted weird again."

Milla's words had given me the answer of my question from before. So I guess what Jun meant by 'Heaven' was Mai-san passing by. I sighed at the thought and then said, "Jun just texted me that… err, let's just say he exaggerated it. Well, since we needed to move on, let's pay for the book… oh yeah, who had the book first?"

Milla simply smiled in understanding as she asked, "May I?"

I smiled to her as well and replied, "Yes."

Normal POV

(The Next Day…)

"You two are soooooo late!" Leia shouted to Mai and Jun who had come running as they weren't punctual on the time and had made the other who were there waiting for almost an hour.

"You were late for five minute as well Leia, so you had no right to rub it on them," Jude scolded Leia with a relaxed tone. Today he didn't wore his glasses since he thought it was not appropriate for a trip to beach, much to Milla disappointment although the latter didn't show it.

Talking about glasses, today Mai didn't wear any as well and shifted to contact lens. Milla wondered what the reason was and got a reply that she thought that it wasn't appropriate to wear glasses to beach, just like Jude.

"But you looked good with glasses Mai-chan!" Jun shouted at the response as he got weird eyes from most of the group except for Mai who was simply flustered.

But again, Milla shared her sentiment with the love-struck guy. She preferred Jude with glasses as well although even without it he still looked equally good-looking. But, glasses are justice so whenever they went she felt like it was such a waste to change it to contact lenses.

They all then boarded the bus that lead to the next town. Leia, Jun, and Mai were born and raised in this town so they knew the detail about it. Milla and Jude who had spent most (for Milla anyway, Jude only left for 3 years) of their life out of the town only went along with the local. Their acts were good enough to mask that they only came back for few months.

"It's beach!" Leia shouted in excitement at the scenery of endless blue in front of them.

"The blue sky, the white clouds, the over-whelming waves! [1]" Jun shouted in excitement as well as if he had never saw beach for millennia. Milla should agree with Jude that Jun sometimes said things in exaggerating way.

"A lot of people are here as well…" Milla commented as she looked how the beach was packed with people. It looked like they were not the only one who thought of going to beach. It's not that she was reluctant since she knew it was natural for a public beach to be packed with people in Summer. But still she wasn't really used on sharing beach with others so it came as natural.

"It's a public beach so of course it is packed with people! Well people aside, Milla, Mai, let's go get changed. You boys don't dare to peek on us okay!" Leia said as she grabbed Milla and Mai's hands and then dragged them to changing room only after giving the boy a warning.

"We won't do that!" Jude replied as he looked at Jun who had charmed look as he watched Milla, Leia, and Mai, walked away. However Jude knew that Jun's eyes were more in Mai rather than the other two. He was so much in love after all.

Jude sighed at the sight and simply dragged Jun who was actually taller than him (thanks to his basketball practice) by kicking him in the shin and then pulled his collar as he said, "Stop having that perverted look on your face, you pervert player."

"Mai-chan is justice!" Jun replied exasperatedly as he tried to wriggle free from Jude's tight grip. After all, in the matter of strength, Jude overwhelmed him since he entered Martial Arts club. And Jun certainly didn't want to be in Jude hate list. But, being dragged was never comfortable in people's dictionary.

"Yes, yes, I know you love her, let's just change…" Jude simply replied as he continued to drag Jun before he could do any of his monologues about Mai and ended up embarrassing him in the public.

Jude and Jun were waiting for the girl near the shaved ice shop when they saw someone familiar as the shopkeeper. He had quite long messy brown hair with matched eye color. He wore a happi, hachimaki,and had towels wrapped around his neck. He looked surprised as well to see Jude and Jun around as he said, "Oh well, oh well, isn't it Mr. Honor Student and our Star Athlete? What are you doing around here?"

"That was my line, coach! Aren't you had injured your leg in one way or another at the last internship?! Why you weren't lying on the hospital bed?" Jun replied without even answering the question thrown to him.

"Alvin-sensei, I believed that my dad had told you to not do anything crazy yet. Geez, it's the first time I heard an infirmary teacher got scolded for being lax on his health problem… and for the question, we were invited by the girls," Jude replied calmly though his tone was thick with sarcasm.

Alvin, or Alvin Svent, is a basketball coach in Jun's team and an infirmary teacher at the same time. He had admitted to Jude's family hospital after he got into accident that injured his leg in the internship for some stupid stuff that even Jun was reluctant to say. Although it looked like Jude's father had informed the person himself to not overexert himself, it looked like it was just a whisper of wind to the said person.

"Don't sweat on the detail since this job is as light as feather. Anyway it's rare to see you two go on a date with… particularly anyone. Who was the lucky girl?" Alvin asked with light tone as if he was never being scolded.

Jude and Jun was about to scold their teacher for being irrational when a voice called up from behind them as it said, "Sorry for the wait!"

They all (Alvin as well) looked around to see Leia, Milla, and Mai standing idly with their swimsuit on. Alvin whistled as Jun had his jaw dropped on the ground and Jude simply stared without blinking. Well, it was a natural reaction for any healthy male seeing how the three girls had their images changed from their usual image.

"Does it… suit us?" Mai asked as she looked at the boys with nervous gaze. She wore red bikini that crisscrossed around her neck as it was supported by a moderately sized ribbon on behind. The lower part was a short skirt with frill at the base. She also wore red-strapped sandals.

"It suits you… very," Jun replied as he tried to pick up his jaw from the ground.

Jude turned his head to Leia who wore more sporty swimsuit though she shared some design with Mai swimsuit. The top were blue and white strip that was tied behind her neck and she wore blue-colored shorts. She tied up her hair into ponytail and wore blue tennis cape and blue colored sandals.

Then he turned his attention to Milla without bothering about Leia anymore. Milla is… she is drop dead gorgeous in Jude's eyes (though generally she is) and her swimming wear made her looked dignified as well and even enhanced the noble aura she has. It was generally white in color, her top was crisscrossed like Mai, but Milla's were strings instead of ribbon. Her bottom had red colored scarf with orange highlight and flower pattern which was tied around her waist, hiding a part of her perfectly shaped thigh. She also wore straw hat with fake hibiscus flower attached to it and white strapped sandals.

"It suits you well," Jude commented to Milla and Leia, though his gaze wander more to Milla since it was the first time he saw anyone other than Leia wearing swimsuit.

"Thank you…" Milla politely replied as she tried to hide her anxiety on wearing revealing clothes without much place to hide weapon around. She had heard that something happened in the relationship of other corporation and that's why she was advised to be careful.

"So, they are your date? You scoop once and got the best fish in the tank huh you lucky youngster," Alvin said as he hit the top of his students head. It was a general fact that Milla was the flower of the first year and even had her own fan club albeit the girl herself didn't notice it. Leia and Mai were generally popular as well albeit not as popular as Milla.

"Eh? Alvin-sensei, why you were here? Aren't you supposed to be in hospital or something?" Leia asked as she just noticed that Alvin was behind the boys and wore the clothes of a shopkeeper. After all, she was one of the athletes in the internship as well, so she knew what had happened to the infirmary teacher and basket club coach.

Alvin scratched his head lightly as Milla and Mai looked at the infirmary teacher since both rarely had any problem to make them go to infirmary unlike Leia who was frequent there. He then explained, "Well, I was discharged and since it is Summer Break. It was a waste to spend it at house you know, so I applied for this part-time job to give the feel of summer. After all, summer equals beach right?"

"I couldn't argue about the last part but… why Alvin-sensei knew Leia so well?" Mai asked with question marks over her head. She never thought that Leia was one who would frequent infirmary since she looked very healthy. And again, she never knew what happened to the teacher in the first place to actually scold him from being lax on his health problem.

"This ball of energy you called as Leia often end up with injury in my sacred room. Did she join a gang or something?" Alvin explained with a joking tone as he pointed his thumb to Leia who had turned red from either anger or embarrassment. He mentally felt glad for the change of topic.

"That's out of your problem, you good for nothing old man! I'm just scraped a little after practice, that's all…" Leia protested as she shouted to Alvin who simply shrugged it off with a laugh.

Milla simply giggled as she was amused at how the event unfolded in front of her. However she decided that it would be better to end the fiasco for now. As she decided that, she looked at Jude and Jun for some help when she said, "Well, since we are already in the beach, why don't we go into the water?"

Jun nodded briefly as if he had known what Milla wanted to say so he said, "Yeah, that's right. Let's leave this stupid couch waiting behind his pitiful shop as he watched us splashing water and enjoying our youth!"

"Whoa, that's harsh," Alvin commented.

Jude took a part in this as well as he looked at Leia to calm her rage as he said, "Yeah, right. I had zero interest on patient who was being careless about his own condition."

Leia who had gotten interested on it and Mai who noticed where Milla wanted to take the conversation to shouted, "Yeah! Let's forget about the existence of stupid teacher!"

They then ditched Alvin who grumbled at how he should have stayed quiet or wore a better disguise. But his grumble was cut short by people who started buying drinks. After all, beach equal business, right?

[1]: If you played Persona 3 (or all its port) you will understand from where I took the quote. *sigh* I want to go to beach…

Hello everyone since the last chapter I didn't put on any character information I decided to put it here! And today we have... dumdararara~ our two main character Milla Maxwell and Jude Mathis!I'm just putting the basic idea of their character as they would be developed more in this story that span for their entire high school year!

If you wanted to know why I made their character detail like that... well, for one I used a "Primbon" a Javanese (Java) guide for those kind of stuff. So there is a good reason why I made their horoscope, birth date, flower, color and the blood type like that. Coming soon is Muzet and Gaius detailed information. Anyway, have a fun time reading the bio~

Main Character Detailed Information:

1. Milla Maxwell: She is still Milla Maxwell from Xillia but modified. Milla knew that she didn't understand common sense and knew next to nothing outside her family corporation so she wanted to improvise it, as what her father told her. But she still understands the concept of emotion and that she was exceptionally normal and the most rational one compared to her siblings, though not the sanest. But no matter what, she is the scion of the Maxwell Corporation and she acted like one properly.

Milla used to be the smartest in school but acted like it was nothing big until she entered Rieze Maxia High where Jude beat her with close to none margin though still acted like it was nothing. Milla from this story was friendlier and open on expressing her friendliness to her friend but it is different case if business was involved. She smiled frequently and sometimes laughs but more often she would simply giggle.

Milla's age is 15 years old. Her blood type is A. She is born at 9 August so she is a Leo, though none of her friend knew it yet. Why is that? It was because they never asked. Milla joined Kendo club and Library Committee, one of two who actually worked. Her favorite flower is the same as Mai, Rose. Her favorite color consists of Blue, Red, and White. Milla had quite the fame in school albeit the person didn't notice. She was called "Miss Perfect Beauty" or "Rose of The Freshmen" by her fans and those who merely know her by her fame.

2. Jude Mathis: Jude is still Jude Mathis from Xillia but I was writing with the Xillia 2 version in mind. I couldn't help it, he was hot there and he could invite Milla properly. Jude was actually friendly but often misunderstood as distant because albeit he was the smartest at school, he thought of it as nothing. Yeah folks, being the best in school are nothing. He would actually help if anyone asked but apparently none ever, since he rarely initiated the conversation and often studies more than talk.

Jude is already a graduate student, which he stated in few chapters back and he was supposed to be working but instead he goes to school. He would keep her politeness in front of foreign people, but he would talk straight to the point for those close enough that might sometimes came as harsh (especially Jun because he is stupid and act like one). All in all, Jude here is colder to unknown and a little less trusting but if it was a friend he was still the same Jude from Xillia but with mean streak.

Jude's age is 15 years old. His blood type is A as well. He is born at 24 December and is a Capricorn. Yes, he is born at Christmas Eve so his birthday is equal Christmas. Jude joined Judo club and Library Committee, the other one beside Milla who actually worked as a member. He had no particular flower that was his favorite, but he likes Mistletoe. His favorite color is Black and Brown. He was used to be called "Mr. Genius from 1-D class" by his peers and "Mr. Honor Students" by Alvin though teacher normally referred him by that as well while dropping the "Mr." part.