Ummm, so here I'm going to start my debut at H!P fics, yep...
Well, since it's a debut: please don't judge me
The Secrets WithinChapter 1: New Plans“It wasn’t me! I swear I’m innocent!”
“Do you honestly think that I’m going to bought that?!”
Michishige Sayumi, aged 17, was sitting on a chair in the principal’s office. She was trying to not get expelled since this was her last year in school, but that was going to be hard after what she did.
“I swear I didn’t steal that purse,” the young girl answered with a weak voice. She was about to cry, but the principal didn’t seem to notice it. Or maybe he just didn’t
want to notice it.
“Then where is it?!” He yelled with a hint of irritation in his voice.
“I don’t know!”
Then she snapped, and began to cry. The principal got up, unable to decide to believe or not believe her, and headed towards his office door. But as soon as he closed that door behind him, leaving Sayumi alone, she stopped her sobs and smirked.
She suddenly got up from the uncomfortable chair and approached the door, concentrating fully on trying to hear the conversation behind it.
“I don’t know what to do,” the principal admitted.
“She was the only one in that class when the purse disappeared… But at the same time, she looks so innocent to do such a thing…”“I know what you mean,” another voice agreed. Sayumi recognised that female voice immediately, it was her English teacher.
“Maybe she was the only one there… But, Michishige? We’ve got hundreds of students here that seem to be real thieves, unlike her…”“I know that, but then who stole the purse? I mean, we’ve got a thief here, and our prestigious school isn’t going to tolerate that. That criminal mind has to be expelled from here!”“Criminal? Don’t you think you’re overreacting?”Sayumi laughed quietly while picturing the face that the principal could have showed in that moment.
“I’m not overreacting!” He said with embarrassment.
“Oh hello,” another voice joined them, and Sayumi’s body stiffened a little. That was the Maths teacher, also know as ‘the teacher involved in the purse little incident.’
“Good morning,” the principal greeted back.
“Where’s Michishige?”“At my office. And I don’t know what are we going to do with her…”“What do you mean?”
“She seems to be innocent, but, if it’s true, then who stole your purse?”
“I believe she’s innocent.”Immediately, Sayumi ran to her chair again and forced herself to let go fake tears, quickly covering her face with them. However, she couldn’t help but smirk a little at how good her acting skills were.
“Michishige,” the door opened again. “Your teacher is here.”
The young girl managed to erase any signs of happiness on her face and turned around slowly to meet her teacher’s eyes, trying to make her feel guilty.
“Yes? What is it, teacher?” She asked in a low, but cute tone.
“I’m sorry, Michishige. I haven’t found that little thief yet,” the woman answered. “But I bet you didn’t do it, look at you, someone like you would never do that.”
“But,” Sayumi interrupted. “If you haven’t found that person yet, what about your purse?”
“It’ll appear eventually. And, well, it’s just a purse; I don’t think that it will be the reason of making that person take the wrong way on a near future…”
** * **
“And that was how my first encounter with the law was,” a somewhat older Michishige Sayumi said. “They never knew that it really was me, it was so lame.”
The now aged 21 girl laughed loudly on the couch located in the karaoke room that she and her mates had for the night, partly because the huge amount of alcohol that she was consuming was starting to affect her.
The two newest ones that had joined their
team looked at her in pure admiration, while one of her oldest buddies rolled her eyes.
“Wow, Michishige-san! So young, and yet so good at your job!” Lin said trying to flatter her senpai. “I hope to be like you someday!”
“And who doesn’t want to be like me?” Sayumi said sarcastically, making the other new girl, Jun, laugh.
“Yeah, Michishige-san is the coolest in the team!”
“Hey! What about me?!” Eri whined. “I’m twice cooler than she is!”
“You wish!” The star of the team laughed while taking another random bottle from the table and pouring its content on her glass. “And you know what Kame?” She asked while taking a sip from it. “Our kouhais are here to second that you’ll never be cooler than me. Right girls?”
“Right!” Jun and Lin said at the same time, making Eri pout.
“Oh! Kamei-san don’t give up!” Koharu, who had just stopped her singing, said. “You know you’re also talented for this!”
“You left this business a while ago you know?!” Eri answered with a hint of faked anger in her voice. “You don’t remember how irritating is hearing her
heroic stories over and over again!”
Koharu laughed loudly when she remembered the first day that she was introduced to Michishige Sayumi. She told her that same story of the purse, and gave her a couple of very interesting advices. That girl obviously thought that she was the best at her job, but that wasn’t very far from the reality, so they really had no rights to complain about it.
“My stories are the best! You’re just jealous!” Sayumi said to Eri, and the older girl laughed. “Well, now it’s time for Kamei and me to give you a couple of advices before you get you’re first
job.”
Eri and Koharu burst out laughing immediately, and Sayumi narrowed her eyes at them.
“What is it now with you two?”
“We’re fine, please, continue Sayu,” Eri said between laughs, and Koharu just nodded at her in reassurance.
“Whatever,” Sayumi said, turning her attention to her kouhais again. “Listen carefully. The first golden rule consists on this: you can’t give real information about you. Never, you hear that?”
“And what does that mean exactly?” Lin asked, a little lost because of her senpai’s words.
“That means,” Eri continued, trying to hold back her past laughter. “That you can’t be yourself when you’re in front of your
victim. I mean, it doesn’t consist on not saying your real name, and give out fake personal data, it consists on acting as your total opposite too.”
“Yeah,” Koharu agreed. “For example, if you’re a shy person, you have to act all extrovert,” she looked at Eri. “Or if you’re a narcissistic guy, you have to act as if you don’t have self-esteem at all,” she laughed while looking at Sayumi.
“Yes,” Sayumi nodded. “Or if you’re a hyperactive brat, you have to act as a calm and mature adult.”
Eri, Jun and Lin laughed out loud when they saw Sayumi’s ex-mate expression.
“You see, that’s just how cool I am,” Sayumi said proudly, while Koharu smiled weakly. “Oh, Koharu stop that face, please. It’s so creepy…”
“Oh, shut up! And go on with your advices!”
“Okay,” Sayumi stopped her laughter and looked at Lin. “Well, the second golden rule consists on make your target trust you. But keeping distance at the same time.”
“So, basically,” Jun interrupted. “They have to trust you, but you have to be careful to not give extra information?”
“That’s it,” Sayumi said while Eri and Koharu nodded. “And that leads us to the third golden rule: you can’t become fond of your target.”
“That’s the most important one!” Koharu exclaimed in a high pitched tone. “If you make friends with them, then you’re totally lost.” Lin and Jun nodded in understanding.
“Be really careful with that,” Sayumi insisted one more time. “We live because the… well, let’s call it
fraud exist. And you can’t do your job if you’ve got an interpersonal relationship going on with your target. Got it?”
“Got it!” Lin said with enthusiasm. “So, what’s the fourth golden rule?”
“There’s no fourth rule.”
“And why’s that?”
“Just because.”
“But why?”
“Well, I’ll give you another advice,” Sayumi said somewhat irritated. “If I were you, I wouldn’t do so many questions.”
“Why’s that?”
Eri, Koharu, Jun and even Sayumi laughed at the girl’s incapability of just shutting up.
“Because when you make a lot of questions, people start to suspect,” Lin nodded and Sayumi looked at her clock. “Well girls, I gotta go.”
“So soon?” Kamei asked before checking up her clock.
“Soon? Kame, check out your clock before saying that!”
“God! Is it really so late?” Sayumi rolled her eyes. “Well, I’ll go with you. Are you three staying?”
“Yeah,” Koharu answered. “I don’t have anything to do tomorrow, and these girls haven’t received the indications for their first job yet.”
“True…” Jun thought aloud. “Do you know when the boss will come over to give us instructions?”
“Come over?!” Sayumi, Koharu and Eri asked at the same time, before burst out laughing.
“We have never seen our boss; she just calls us via mobile.” Sayumi said simply while chuckling.
“So then how do you make the treats?” Lin asked stunned.
“She sends us her assistant.”
“It sounds…”
“Scary?” Koharu interrupted and the Chinese girls nodded. “I know, that’s why I left.”
“And you didn’t have problems to do so?”
“No, the boss mysterious aura
is scary,” she agreed. “However, she seems to be a nice person.”
“Yeah!” Eri exclaimed and Sayumi took her by the hand to drag her out of the room.
“Well, see you soon!”
** * **
When Sayumi managed to enter in her apartment the sunrise had already come. It was late when she managed to pull Eri out of the karaoke room, but the girl was afraid of going to her house alone at night, and Sayumi lived in the opposite side of Tokyo.
The self called
star of the team left her shoes at the door, and headed towards her living room without a problem; the effects of the alcohol were starting to disappear.
But as soon as she passed by that living room, to enter in her kitchen, she noticed a little packet on her couch. However, she didn’t change her direction, and went to her kitchen to grab a milk bottle from the fridge, as if to have a packet that wasn’t in your house when you left were a perfectly normal thing.
She poured some milk in a glass, and sat on her couch, examining the packet cautiously.
“Well, I guess I’ll have to open it,” she thought aloud, and opened it, taking her time to carefully take out its content. But it wasn’t what Sayumi was expecting. “A camera?!” She examined it slowly. “Well, at least it’s a good camera.”
The she noticed a small note that had fell off to the floor when she took out her present.
“I hope you know how to use it. This thing is going to be important to make your next job.
Everything is settled now, so give me a call as soon as you come back from your karaoke night, and as soon as the alcohol effects have disappeared.
- Takahashi.”“This woman is crazy…”
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