Well... 7 months later is better late than never, this is the last chapter I have completed fully so it will take me some time for me to complete chapter 6, but as always thank you so much for your support! and please excuse any grammatical and spelling mistakes! (Disclaimer: I do not own any TLR characters, any real world products/companies/locations included in the story are included solely to create a sense of realism, This is a work of fiction no characters are real and any similarity to real life people/events is purely coincidental, no profit was made from this. P.S. Yes the disclaimer will get longer each time lol)
Chapter 5: From Home-school to High-school
Flashback,
Monday, March 5, 2016
Santa Fe Springs High School. It was Minx's first day in a real school. Not her neighbor's house where she had been homeschooled for the past 10 years. The walk from the principal's office to the homeroom was filled with hope, for Minx it felt exciting and nervous. "It was a chance to start new." With her newly printed class schedule in hand she stopped before she entered the classroom. Let out a sigh then opened the door. Something she wished she never did.
She stood at the front of class near the whiteboard. The classroom was loud was the first thing she noticed all the other students were talking to each other. Not sure what to do. Mr. Padres, her homeroom/English teacher was known around the school for his sarcastic personality. As he began to get his class in order, Minx noticed some of the other students weren't in a good mood. "How could they just add back a school day like this, this is b.s." one said to another. "Yeah man, I was planning to go to the beach today."
"Ok, class settle down!"
-They didn't-
"SETTLE DOWN" the teacher yelled after blowing a whistle. "See that always works…"
"Ok a few announcements before we say the pledge. As most of you are already aware, the school district apparently "found" extra funding to reinstate today and tomorrow, which were originally cut from the calendar, trust me I do not want to be here anymore than you all do. Next, Jr prom is coming up on May 9th, so get your tickets by Friday or don't go, which makes my job as chaperone easier. And lastly,... we have a new student joining us today." He then turned and looked at Minx, after taking her schedule.
Carlos who sat right in front of Mr. Padres desk lifted his head up to see after waking up from a nap.
"Millicent Taylor, ….Well" the teacher said. "Introduce yourself,"
Minx wasn't sure what to say, she felt everyone was staring at her. "Don't be shy, just Tell us your name and where you're from, what school you went to, and something you think the class would find interesting about yourself. She was able to say after a moment or two in her loudest shy voice. Umm M-my name is Millicent Taylor, i-i'm from Amidion, North Dakota, umm I was home-schooled because I umm..I worked on a farm, and I go by M-Minx.
"I'm sorry you go by what? MILK" Mr Padres asked.
The entire class burst out in laughter.
"Ok settle down!"
Carlos meanwhile had gone back to sleep on his desk. He didn't even know anyone in that class so he saw no point in staying awake.
What she thought was going to be a new fresh start, had turned into the worst day of her life."
~End flashback~
"Minx, are you ok," Rito asked.
"oh, S-sorry I was just daydreaming." She Replied. She felt her face start to get warm, she had never been so close to a boy her own age before. It felt nice.
"Hey Carlos, what's a North Dakota?" Lala asked Carlos in the kitchen,
"North Dakota? It's another state like California. I've never been there so I can't tell you much beyond that…"
"Hmm…." Lala then took out her phone and searched up the state.
"Do you know someone there?" Carlos asked.
"Well it's just Minx's car's license plates that have North Dakota on them, and she's so shy I thought if I could know a little more about where she's from she might open up a bit more. Let's see … North Dakota is a Midwestern state with a population of about 800 thousand.
" 800 thousand, wow, Lala there's more people downtown than that entire state."
"What else…" she scrolled through Wikipedia again, "It's mostly farmland and America's largest producer of wheat, and barley? Hmm"
"So, what are you going to do, buy her bread?" Carlos replied. "Lala, do you even know if she is from a farm? What if you just try asking her, It already looks like she trusts you."
Lala sighed "I guess you're right Carlos"
"Have I ever been wrong? Don't answer that by the way" He then took another sip of his Coke.
Lala walked over to Minx and sat on the couch with Rito and her. "So Minx I noticed your truck had North Dakota plates on it, did you recently move here as well?"
"oh...um, yeah I moved here last March when my dad got a new job, I keep forgetting to change the registration."
"North Dakota, that's another state right? Where is it?" Rito asked her.
"Yeah it's in the Midwest, I lived on a farm so, I guess you could say it's very peaceful and quiet compared to the city, I just feel so out of place sometimes by how different it is here" she began blushing.
Rito began noticing how adorable she was when she was embarrassed, it kind of reminded him of Haruna.
"...Uh so if you grew up on a farm you must know a thing or two about gardening," Rito asked. Trying to forget his last thought.
"Y..yeah I guess you could say that…" She said blushing
"Rito's always been interested in gardening as long as I've known him, he's always cared for the plants around our old house." Lala said then got up "I'm thirsty you sure you don't want anything to drink Minx?"
"I'm fine Lala thank you though."
"They really are nice people," she thought "it's kind of hard to believe there siblings though they look almost nothing alike"
"CARLOS DID YOU DRINK ALL OF OUR MILK TOO?!" Lala yelled from the kitchen.
Carlos then burst out laughing.
"Umm, hehe, Lala that was sort of me." Rito said. "But I still sort of blame him for that too…"
"Rito over here can't handle the Flaming hot Cheetos I brought over!" Carlos then said.
"It's not so much that they were spicy, it's how gross they tasted, seriously how do you eat those, so I just grabbed the first thing in the fridge to wash it down and by the time I noticed I almost drank the whole whatever that's called."
"It's called a gallon, a measurement that makes sense." Carlos said sarcastically.
Lala sighed. "well it looks like we need to get another 'gallon' of milk tomorrow"
Carlos then took another sip of soda remembering the funny image of Rito chugging down the entire gallon of milk.
"WAIT A MINUTE!" Carlos said, coughing nearly spitting out his soda. He then pointed his finger right at Minx. "I REMEMBER YOU NOW!"
Minx's eyes grew wide, "no please don't" She thought to herself. "They'll think I'm weird and won't ever talk to me again"
"Carlos what has gotten into you now?" Rito asked, while he was still coughing from choking on the soda.
"You were in my class!, Mr. Padres, Yeah I remember now! You transferred in on that day that the district added. You were the awkward home-schooled one who showed up in overalls and ate lunch by yourself on the hallway floor and the teacher called Milk on your first day and the name stuck. Oh man, that was hilarious."
Minx's eyes began tearing up.
Lala went over to Minx. "Minx is everything ok,"
"Carlos, that was a very mean thing to say!" Lala said to Carlos.
"What it's not like it wasn't true, that actually did happen and it was funny, other kids called her milk that entire semester."
"Sometimes I wonder if you even hear yourself talk, Carlos," Rito said.
"Go on say it..." Minx said quietly, she had her head down and her hair had covered her eyes.
"I'm sorry Minx, what did you say..." Lala said.
"Say you want nothing to do with me, say I'll never be one of you, say I'll never have friends, say I should just go move back and be the hick, hillbilly, redneck farm girl that I am and always will be!"
"Minx…" Lala said.
"Go on Lala, be like all the other girls at school, and you won't ever have to see me ever again…"
"Minx please..."
Minx then got up and began walking to the front door with her head down and tears running down her cheeks,
"No..." To everyone's surprise Rito then stood in front of the door, Minx then looked up at him.
"Minx I don't know what kind of people said those things to you, but you are not that. I've only known you for 10 minutes and it feels like I've known you for forever, you are smart, special and perfect the way you already are, and never let anyone tell you otherwise. I won't stop you from walking out this door but Lala and I will always be here for you just as your true friends should be!"
Minx didn't know how to react. She fell to her knees, tears still ran down her face, "It's been so hard, Thank you.." she said quietly. Lala went over to her and gave her a hug. A few minutes went by, Minx wiped away her tears and got up.
"Thank you, Rito" Minx said softly. Rito then also went over to hug her.
"You'll never be alone with us, Minx" he said.
Carlos then broke the silence "OK, now I feel bad, I'm sorry Minx, I didn't know what you had been going through, if I had known I would have tried to be there for you back then, I'm truly sorry for what i used to think."
"Yeah it's ok I know you didn't mean it," she said, letting out a faint smile.
"Great!" Carlos exclaimed "I have an idea, To make up for it why don't we put on a movie I order us all a pizza. Rito, where's your wallet!"
Rito, Lala and Minx stared at him blankly.
"What, It's a joke!"
About an hour later the four of them were sitting around the TV enjoying a Domino's pizza while watching Back to the Future, a movie Carlos had picked out since it was one of his favorites and no one except him had seen it. Rito wasn't too particularly excited when Carlos told him what it was about because he feared it may give Lala another new idea for an "invention" (which is another reason Carlos picked it), but Rito ended up enjoying it.
However little did they know while watching the movie someone was watching them, outside in the side yard Momo and Nana Deviluke; Lalas younger twin sisters were kneeling down secretly looking in through the window for the past two hours.
"Momo, are you almost done?" the older twin Nana said. "Zastin and Papa said we were not allowed on Earth for the time being, remember?"
"Oh Nana, don't you see…" Momo said, her eyes were still fixed inside the house. "Isn't she the most pure, innocent, kindhearted thing you've ever seen…."
"What are you talking about now?" Nana looked at Momo pointing at Minx while drooling.
"Momo!" Nana exclaimed.
"I can't help it, she's just too cute. It's settled! I'll add her to the harem plan!."
"You're still going on about that Momo? In case you haven't noticed, Japan is nowhere near this place and we were not even supposed to be on Earth. Momo, just accept its never going to happen"
"Oh really Nana? but wasn't it you that wanted to come to Earth because you wanted to see Rito too?~"
Nana then blushed "N-no, I just wanted to make sure that beast wasn't doing anything shameless to big sister!"
"But Nana, I could see you keep looking at him the whole time in the window.~"
"No I was uh… watching the movie, yeah… it was interesting."
Momo then grabbed Nana's tail. "No wait please… it was the truth."
"What was it about then, huh Nana?"
"Umm…." Nana said.
"Wrong answer!" At that moment Momo licked the tip of Nana's tail. Nana let out a loud scream.
"What the heck was that noise?" Rito said. The four looked at each other. Lala turned around on the couch and looked out the window.
"Hmm. I can't see anything, it's too dark."
"Maybe it was a dog?" Minx guessed.
"I don't remember the neighbors on that side having any pets. Probably just some stray cats fighting in the side yard" Carlos said and closed the window
Outside Nana and Momo were crouched under the window against the wall. Momo was covering Nana's mouth but still holding her tail.
"That was close," she said and took her hand off Nana's mouth.
"NEVER DO THAT AGAIN MOMO!"
"Hey you have no one to blame but yourself, you need to be more honest with your feelings. Now come on, I have an idea~"
The two of them walked out to the street where Minx's truck was parked.
"MOMO WHAT ARE YOU DOING, SOMEONE'LL SEE US AND DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW THAT THING WORKS!"
"No but I don't need to. The new harem plan just needs a little jump start."
Meanwhile back in the house the movie had finished.
"So, what'd you guys think?" Carlos asked.
"It actually seemed like a pretty good movie," Rito said. "Though the whole thing about the mom and the son was a bit weird."
"You're one to talk…" Carlos said under his voice.
"Huh?"
"It was amazing Carlos! I can't believe I haven't thought of a time machine as an invention yet!" Lala said happily. "That'll be the first thing I try doing when…"
She then turned and realized Minx was staring at her with a puzzled look. While Rito was pointing at Millicent motioning to Lala to stop talking"
"When…. When I… uhh… write that fanfiction I've been wanting to write!"(author's note: yeah, I made a cheesy 4th wall break, I know this is cringe.)
"Wow Lala.. um .. you're really imaginative," Minx said.
"Uhh hey, Minx, why don't you take home the extra pizza we didn't eat" Rito said. As he tried to change the conversation with Minx.
"Oh… Th..hank you Rito." She blushed.
"Well It's getting late... um… I better get going. Thank you everyone. I really had a great evening. Especially you Lala and Rito for showing me what it feels like to have real friends" Minx really blushed "Good-bye"
Minx then scurried out the door.
"She's adorable but she's just so shy though, which makes her even more cute, doesn't it? Lala asked.
"Hehe Well, I guess you could say that."
They then turned around to see Carlos still sitting on the couch drinking a coke.
"What?" He said.
"Shouldn't you start heading home too Carlos?" Rito said. "It's already past 10"
"Yeah but if I head home now…."
The doorbell then rang. Lala went to open it.
"It's probably Minx, she probably just forgot something." She said.
Lala opened the door and it was Minx.
"Umm...Lala… I have a problem." Minx said.
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So that's it for chapter 5! At this point I'm open to taking any suggestions/ideas/plot/genre ideas to how to take the story from past chapter 6, any idea at all would be extremely helpful! The truth is I've kind of hit writers block on how I should take the story from here. In the next chapter footnote I may some of my ideas on how to take it but would love some input from the community beforehand! As anyways thank you do much for reading and hope to see you in the next chapter!
