Chapter 1 - First day of school

~ring~ ~ring~

I covered my mouth, let out a yawn and stretched my arms and legs. I then grabbed my alarm clock and looked at the time. It made me fall off of my bed and onto the cold hard ground.

*thud*

"Akane-chan, are you alright there?" shouted mom, worriedly from the kitchen.
"I'm alright, mom." I replied to her.

I reluctantly dragged myself to the bathroom and took a quick shower.  I glanced at my alarm clock and thought inside my mind, 'Holy smurfs! I'm late! Man, if I don't go quickly I'll get into detention class.' I wore my beige uniform, which I think is too plain, hastily and grabbed my school bag. I ran down the flight of stairs in 3 seconds (almost trip) and put on my socks and shoes when my mom asked,

"Not eating your breakfast today, Akane-chan?"
"Yeah. I don't have time to eat. Running late!" I got up and shouted,
"Sorry!"

I ran as fast as my legs could carry me to the school gate only to find none of the school councilor committee there. Then, I felt dumb to have forgotten today's reporting time to school was an hour later than usual, which meant that I was not late. I let out a sigh of relief.  While gasping for air, I went to my new classroom.

Most of my new classmates were already here, mingling with each other. They probably also had forgotten about the reporting time was one hour later. I sat at an empty seat by the window and took a look outside. I was observing the beautiful garden when a soft voice interrupted me. I turned and looked at the person, wondering why he called me. When he looked at me, I swear I heard 'woah'. That was normal for me to hear as ever since elementary, whenever students, especially boys, look at me, they'll say that. I figured that this seat was his so I asked,

"Um, is this yours?"
"Huh? What?" He asked. His reply made me realized that I broke him off when he was deep in his thoughts. I pointed to the table in front of me.
"Oh.",he said, "Um, yeah. It's mine but no worries, I got an empty seat here so..."

Our conversation was broke off when a girl came over and laid her school bag on the table.

"Sorry, but new girl. THIS IS MY GUY! I'm sure you know what it means right?" she grabbed some of my silky, scarlet hair and pulled it. I manage to keep my scream inside my mouth by biting my lips and I saw her giggled. Many of the my other classmates just stood by and looked at what was happening while the rest just didn't bother. The guy who spoke to me just now, wanted to help but could not for a certain reason.

"Tch. Trying to show off eh, new girl?", she said, pulling my hair even harder. I could not keep my anger anymore so I reversed the situation. Now, I was holding her hair like how she held mine but she was squirming, grabbing my hands to try to let them release her hair and she was screaming,

"Let! GO!"

I heard a boy said, "Woah! There's a catfight here between the new girl and Shigeru's girlfriend."
Then the door creaked open and out came the principal.

"Principal, order this damn girl to release me. See! I may lose lots of strands of hair and you'll be responsible for it!" the girl was screaming her head off that her face went red.
"Release her, Akane-chan" he said in a normal voice. I did what I was told and shifted her away from my area. I sat down at my chair, place my right arm, comfortably on the table, placing my right hand on my cheeks and continued looking at the garden outside the window as if nothing had happened. I was pretending to look outside the window but actually, I was listening at how the conversation with the principal and the girl was going on. I also felt that many eyes were staring at me in awe.

"Principal! Why didn't you shout at her?! SHE pulled my precious hair! Do you know how EXPENSIVE it is to dye and perm my hair?" shouted the girl.
I turned so that my face was facing the principal and said,
"Precious? You called your hair precious?" I asked her.
"Yes. Tch. You admire it don't you? Continue to. You will not be able to afford it anyway." she boasted.
"Really? I bet your family could not even afford a sports car for you and even if I may not be able to afford that hairstyle, which I don't think I would even as it looks terrible, I'm content with my own hair."
"Are you showing off to the young mistress of the Minori family? The heir of the..." I broke her away as I found her too irritating and found it quite amusing teasing her.
"Minori business? Minori household? Minori inheritance?" I scoffed.
"WHAT?! Don't you DARE annoy me!"
"Annoy you? Nope. I wouldn't dare cos' you're not worth my time."

I heard some of the guys in my class, including the principal, said 'ouch'.

"Why you!"

Before she could say another word, the principal interrupted with a fake cough,

"Ahem! Sorry, to interrupt, but I need to introduce you guys the transfer student and will you get back to your class, Leiko Minori?" the principal told her.
"Argh! Just you wait, new girl. I'll get you someday!" she said as she walked out of the room.
"You'll never beat me at it." I shouted to her.

I think I heard her say "shut up!"


"That was a nice way to teach her a lesson, Akane-chan. Would you mind to introduce yourself to the class?"

I walked up to the front of the class and faced them. They were looking at me eagerly waiting for my introduction.

"My name is Akane Hayami. Nice to meet you and please guide me along the way." I looked at them with no expression and everyone gave me a round of applause. Some even whistled which I think was weird.
I went back to my seat and when I did the principal made his way to the door. Then he suddenly said,

"Akane-chan. Please tell me if you have any difficulties with anything, kay?"
"Yeah, sure." I gave him a glare and that reassured him that my day would perfectly be fine. Well, at least that's what he thought.
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Sorry for the boring chapter. I may update the next chapter, due to school, quite late so hope you will watch out for it but thank you for reading!