Heh, it's been 3 months.. or so. I almost forgot about this
I hope you guys are still interested in it.
Chapter 8 - Adolescent vs Authority... probably.Gossip weren’t nice.
<i>’Does she know how ugly that patch makes her look?’</i>
Nor were they ever true.
<i>’I think she has a violent boyfriend. Poor girl!’</i>
Or even flattering, in any case.
<i>’She probably fell into a drain or something. How careless.’</i>
And tolerance doesn’t quite come without a limit.
“Would you guys give it a rest already?!” A really pissed off growl traveled at light speed through the hallway, stunning clique after cliques of meddling young high school students of all size, age and gender.
Satisfied with the silence that immediately followed after her outburst and the scampering of frightened teens, Reina hurried up the stairs and into her classroom, out of sight from the rest of the school’s early population. She was glad that she had sacrificed an hour more of sleep to arrive early for once. Life would have been awfully <i>grand</i> if she had to face the other three quarter of the school that normally arrives on the same hour as her.
“Perfect, there’s no one else in class yet. Figures, I’m not in the most punctual class the school ever had anyway.” Gloating on the inside, she quickly sets down her book bag loudly, and next hoping to catch some sleep before the first period starts.
The moment she sat herself down on her seat, an ear piercing “Iyaaaa~” also identifiable as a scream of disbelief echoed into the classroom. Horrified by the cry, Reina jumped from her seat and reflexively turned her head towards the front entrance.
There, at the doorway was one girl she would hate to see at this hour of the morning, and already that emotion in her was struggling not to influence her body into immediately lunging at the girl with black hair tied up into two pigtails with both hands latched to the lower half of her face. The words regret was –figuratively speaking- written on the exposed forehead of <i>Sayumi</i>, Reina was sure she remembered the girl’s name this time.
“How careless of me!” Sayumi laughed nervously, pretending to be a stranger.
“Oh really?” Reina looked on with suspicion, murmuring to herself while waiting for what the girl would pull this time to get out of trouble.
“Wrong classroom!” The last few words blurted out almost frantically followed by the owner of these blabbering attempting to make a run for it. It wouldn’t hurt to skip school today, wouldn’t it? Sayumi thought as her legs began moving on its own. Unfortunately, they weren’t fast enough when she felt a cold grip on her forearm.
<i>Shit!</i> Out of reflexes, Sayumi turned around in hopes of being able to push the other down with her free arm only to have it caught as well. She found it ridiculous to be standing in the hallway with her arms crisscrossed.
“Sayu, it’s me! Have you gone mad?” A stern voice rang through the younger girl’s head while the freezing grip on her loosens gradually.
“N-nee-san?” Sayumi blinked carefully at the figure in front of her. Once she was convinced that it really was her friend, she took a deep sigh of relief and began laughing. “You scared me!”
Meanwhile back in the classroom, Reina was ready to chase when a sheet of paper caught her sights. It was a roster of this week’s cleaning duty and she found a certain name printed on it. It was a wonder how she had never noticed that such a pain was actually in the same class as her. Having a change of plans, Reina decided to wait instead. Her prey will have to return eventually.
“If you didn’t do anything wrong, you wouldn’t be afraid.” Near the end of the hallway, Ai released her hold on her friend and pulled out a proverb on the younger girl as well. “Speaking of doing something wrong, you wouldn’t happen to be out late the other night getting into trouble were you?”
“I’m an angel, I don’t mix with trouble. Of course not!“ Sayumi grinned innocently at her elder, and obviously lying. Still, Ai gave the girl the benefit of doubt and chose not to pursue.
“I hope not. First period is starting soon, shouldn’t you be in class?” Ai raised her eyebrow, eyeing her sister-like figure like a teacher.
“Pft, you’re going to be authoritative again aren’t you, Nee-san?”
“What? What gave you that idea?” Such accusations finally got Ai’s attention, pulling her out of looking bored and serious.
“Yeah, since you always follow with “I’ll book you if you’re still not in class after the first bell” or whatever.”
“No I don’t. Now get to class.” Ai began to head straight for denial and pulled a rambling Michishige along as they began to walk back to their respective classroom.
“But you do! Sometimes I wish you were just another student in the school instead of being in the council.” Sayumi quickened her steps to be on the same pace as her senior.
“Sure, me too.” Rolling her eyes, the elder girl soon paid no mind to her junior’s complaints.
“But that won’t do too. You’re more useful with authority than not.”
“How… upsetting. You see me as a tool?” Ai sighed, looking as despondent as she could.
“Of course not, I was just kidding. Nee-san’s more important than that!” Sayumi hugged her senior by the arm in attempt to comfort her.
“So I’m an important tool?” Putting two and two together, Ai sighed again.
“This is bad! Nee-san knows how to be sarcastic!” Sayumi faked a gasp at the elder’s response. There was a pregnant pause before both girls broke out laughing at their horrible acts, but that didn’t last too long.
“So, finally decided to come back to class?” A 3rd voice rang out from before them, interrupting the moment of fun the other two shared. Standing lazily at the classroom’s doorway was Reina patiently filing her nails, all this while being a patient predator.
“I don’t know what you’re going on about.” Sayumi frowned and pulled Ai along as she tries to continue down the hallway in order to convince everyone that this wasn’t her classroom.
“Nice try, but the class’ duty roster seems to have your name on it.” Reina went on, glaring at the girl just slightly older than herself with daggers in her eyes. “And we have a score to settle.”
“Sayu, what’s going on?” Ai had been watching all along, now stepping in to demand an answer for the commotion because she has the authority to know.
“It’s none of your business.” The adolescent girl remarked and reached out to pull her prey back into the classroom where they could settle the problem once and for all. Or from Reina’s perspective - revenge.
“If there’s going to be any trouble in this school, then it
is my business.” The oldest of the trio automatically snatched the girl’s wrist and pulled it away from Sayumi’s direction, adding a little twist to her grip.
“OH FUCK!”
The scream was loud enough to break glass if anything.
“Nee-san!” Sayumi was surprised at the unusual act of aggressiveness from her elder. She then quickly held the tensed forearm of Ai and tugged at it. “Don’t do this, you’ll break her arm!”
“Yeah, get your hand off me you B-“ Reina winced even harder when the grip tightens, twisting her arm, which was already in an awkward angle, even further.
Watching Reina wince in pain with tears practically brimming by her eyes, Ai gave up and sighed, shrugging the wrist away.
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Ai quoted and backed away. She looked at Sayumi sternly, scolding the girl with only her expression.
“What the hell is with you?” Reina massaged her wrist thoroughly, more annoyed than afraid at the display of defense.
“Sayu, could you come with me for a bit? I’ll excuse you from classes until we’re done.” Ai ignored the agitated yankee and continued down the corridor expecting Sayumi to follow.
“I-…I’m sorry,” Sayumi apologized to her growling classmate. It’s time to face the music, especially now that Ai is aware of what ‘trouble’ her friend has gotten herself into. She gave up and made sure to correct her own mistakes, more afraid of her senior than the violent young girl before her now. “We’ll settle the
score, I promise. Just... wait for me after school or something.”
The strength of the grip before was almost abnormal, the adolescent thought, rubbing the burning red finger marks around her wrist.
Reina fell back against the wall and watched the once bubbly girl jog down the hallway after her senior. She was both bewildered and angry at being humiliated like that. But nevertheless she couldn’t help but wonder who that ‘Nee-san’ was.
"They're both weirdos!"
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