True Wish

Chapter 5- Acquaintances? - - ;;

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Silence..

" RISE AND SHINE SHIAI~!!"

" AH!!!"

A thud sounded through the apartment of Room 105. Shiai quickly stood up from her fall from the bed and glared at Rimei, who just a moment ago had been yelling a cheerful good morning in Shiai's ear. Nice greeting.

Shiai remembered last night how much Rimei's annoying persisting kept her awake, so she had given up and let her in. She knew she would regret that. And now, here she was, regretting it.

Cupping her forehead from the fall, Shiai gritted her teeths and walked into the bathroom to wash up. Rimei just smiled cheerfully and sat down by the bathroom's door, apparently oblivious of what she had done.

" So where are you going?" Shiai just ran from wall to wall, looking for and finding her jacket, keys, ID card. She couldn't answer the white creature that was currently stretched out lazily on top of the table, as a piece of toast was being held by her mouth. After she got her backpack, she opened the front door and slammed it shut.

A moment later the door opened, revealing a very hasty looking Shiai. " Don't open this door. Don't come out. Don't pick up the phone. And DON'T go through my stuff! I'll be back at three." Slam.

Echoes of rushed footsteps were heard and Shiai headed for school. Rimei just yawned, rolling her eyes. " What a grouch." Jumping down the table, she nudged the balcony door open and went outside. " Like I'll listen to her. I'm basically twice her age! She should be the one listening to me!" Grumbling, Rimei closed her eyes and concentrated. Light glowed from her form and diminished. Rimei opened her eyes. Looking down, she saw white paws. " WAH~~!!!!! I'M STILL TRAPPED IN THIS FORM~! I THOUGHT YESTERDAY'S SLEEP WOULD RESTORE MY POWERS BUT.. AHH~!!!!"

Snif.

Shaking her head from tears, Rimei pouted

Then shaking out of her glum mood, Rimei concentrated. In a flash of light, the creature disappeared and silence resumed inside the apartment.

Shiai sat down at her seat in relief. She had exactly thirty minutes left before HR and surprisingly today, she didn't get lost on the way to HR.

" Did you study for the science test today?"

" No, I'm totally gonna fail it!"

Noticing the conversation beside her, Shiai was quickly reminded of the upcoming test. Wincing from the remembrance, she decided to study right now, since she had nothing better to do.

Opening the flap to her bookbag, her eyes widened as she stifled a scream. She just felt her bookbag twitch! Without hesitation, she brought the bag to her lap and opened the flap fully to see none other than the irritating white creature.

" Rimei?!!" Shiai hissed silently as she narrowed her eyes. Rimei smiled.

" Hi~.."

Not giving Rimei the chance to reply, Shiai quickly pushed her hand inside the bag to cover the creature's widening mouth and grabbing her bookbag, ran outside.

Once she got out of the classroom, she opened the flap and yelled angrily. " WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!!!!and HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?!!!" Glancing inside, she continued. " AND WHERE ARE ALL OF MY SCHOOLBOOKS?!!!!"

Rimei replied. " Oh so those were your schoolbooks. I transported myself in here but it was too crowded so I transported everything else back home."

Shiai's eyes widened. " Transport them right back! This instance!"

" But I can't. I used too much energy JUST transporting myself here and them home." Whined Rimei.

Shiai glared at Rimei.

Rimei just looked at her unfazed and yawned, stretching, leaving Shiai more annoyed. " Where are we? Neway, have you changed your mind?"

"About what?"

" About following your destiny."

A vein popped out of Shiai's temple as she tried to reply as calmly as possible.

" Hello? I told you my decision yesterday."

Rimei just shrugged. " So, who knows? You might change your mind sometimes and I'm there to witness it!"

Shiai sighed. " YOU!.."

People passing by all stared at Shiai like she was crazy. To them, it seemed like she was talking to her bookbag all along.

Noticing them, Shiai sweatdropped and moved on to another dead end corner that had fewer people. She continued.

" YOU!.." She suddenly came to a stop as she turned and gasped, seeing Miss Eba staring at her. Shiai sweatdropped again. This really wasn't her day.

Anee Eba walked through the hallways when suddenly a faint familiar presence made her freeze and gasp out loud. Quickly rushing toward where she felt the presence radiating from, she met with Shiai's surprised face.

Anee looked at Shiai with surprise. Shiai, breaking out from her surprise, tried an unsuccessful smile. " Oh hi, Miss Eba." My, I'm losing my touch.. Shaking herself out from her thoughts, she smiled gently at Shiai.

Continuing forward, Anee took out the keys and opened the door. Turning to Shiai, Anee smiled welcomingly. " So, congratulation. You're the first to find my "hidden" classroom." Shiai just stared at her dumbly. " Huh?" Anee's smile just widened. "So, you want to come in?"

Well, what did she have to lose? She still had twenty minutes before HR. " Sure."

As soon as Shiai stepped through the doors, she stared around in awe. Canvas, flowers, colors were everywhere. Windows lined up on one side of the wall, pouring in the lights from outside. In the corner was a sink, and right next to it were paints of many colors. She teaches art..

Miss Eba just went to a desk and putting down her coffee, sat down and started to sip it.

Turning to her, Shiai sat down. " What did you mean I'm the first to find your "hidden" classroom?"

Anee sipped the warm drink and glanced at Shiai in surprise. " Don't you know me?" Shiai looked at the teacher strangely. " Well, I know your name's Anee Eba and that you teach art. Other than that, I guess I don't know."

Anee smiled amusedly at the child before her. Shiai Tayamaki. A.k.a. the outsider of the 'Groups'. She seems like a nice enough child.

" Well, to be honest, I seem to find a LOT of students wanting to come into my lessons. And I can't afford that much students, especially if like for say 70% of them doesn't even have any slight interest in the subject itself that they're learning. So I asked the principal to keep my my art classes and classroom to be kept a secret from everyone else. Only several students and I know about this though."

Shiai nodded. ".. I guess I understand.. but I don't blame all the other students. Um. You seem like such a great person. You're pretty, gentle, nice, cool. I guess you're sort of a role model for many of them."

Anee glanced at Shiai blankly. Then she let out an amused laugh. " Really? Well, thanks..um.. " " It's Shiai Tayamaki, Miss Eba." " Call me Anee."

The bell rang and Shiai basically ran into the HR classroom. Although she HAD come early today, the conversation she had with Anee kept her and she had forgotten all about HR until Anee had told her. She would have made it on time only if she didn't get lost, again midway to HR. But the damage was already done as she now faced the angry wrath of Miss Harvl and cleaning detention after school.

Sighing she got to her seat, ignoring the snickers from the classmates nearby. Rimei had fallen asleep right after the "verbal fight" from her lack of energy, and was still snoozing peacefully inside her bookbag. Shiai sighed uncomfortably. Great. Not only was she out of books but didn't have anything to study the test for science. She was positive the other girls would never let her borrow their books and the guys, she was sure that they would always look for bargains which she would never agree to.

Shiai nervously sat down in s.s class, waiting for the teacher to write out the workbook pages they had to do, and notice her without her workbook.

Shiai was snapped out of her thoughts when the door opened. As soon as the figure stepped into the classroom, all the girls began to blush and scream.

The teacher's stern glare however put a stop to that as he motioned for the dark blue haired figure to come forward.

" Class. This is Ryu Eba. He's a transfer student. We are proud to have him in our private school."

The class clapped enthusiastically. The teacher scanned around the classroom for an empty seat. " Ryu, go sit there next to Shiai Tayamaki. Yes. The girl with the orange hair." Turning to Shiai, the teacher commanded kindly. " Shiai, please share your book with the new student until we get another one for him." The teacher, not even checking to see if she did what she was told, went back to the board and wrote down the textbook pages.

Ryu sat himself down and smiled at her, recognition flashing in his eyes. Shiai just looked down embarrassed. " um. Its.. I forgot my books." Ryu just stayed placid. " No problem." He leaned over to another girl and smiled at her. " Hey. Can I borrow one of your books?" Both girls, absolutely taken by his charm, both handed him their books. Taking one from the nearest, he smiled." One is fine. Thanks."

Shiai watched, speechless. Retrieving the book, Ryu leaned back and smirked at Shiai. Shiai smiled uneasily thankfully and opened the workbook to the assigned work pages.

Wind gently guided a soft pink petal inside right unto Shiai's desk. Already done with the work and bored, having nothing else to do, she gently caught the petal and stared blankly at it, thinking and thinking.

Ryu looked over, curiousity written all over his face. He stared at the blank piece of petal. " What you doing?" He whispered.

Shiai jumped at the whisper, surprised. Ryu whispered, making a face. " Sorry." Shiai just looked down and took a deep breath, calming her heart.

" Don't you know? If you write on a petal of a flower and keep it safe, it'll come true.." Ryu's eyes widened in interest. " Really? What you wishing for?"

A small frown formed on Shiai's face. ".. I guess I don't really know what I wannt to wish for.." She slid the pink petal over to Ryu's desk and looked up into his dark azure eyes. " You have a wish?"

Ryu took the petal and thought, his expression set as he bit on the tip of his pen. Then slowly, he opened the cap and wrote carefully unto the petal, trying not to break the soft thin material.

Shiai looked over his shoulder, reading his wish.

I wish that I would SAFELY get home from school.

Shiai raised her eyebrow. "What kind of wish is that?" Ryu just nodded. " A very wise one." (- - ) Shiai just looked at him curiously and went back to staring outside the window.

Ryu silently took out his wallet and gently pressed the petal inside, right next to the other petal that had the inscription of 'I wish I had a wish to wish about.', and closing his wallet, put it back in his pocket and went back to work.

Yes yes.. my plot sucks~ TT but I hope people still like it^^;;and also, I know.. the last time I updated was like before Christmas. I'm REALLY sorry for the ULTRA ULTRA late update. I'm POSITIVE a lot of people are not even interested in this ficcy anymore or that as I continue to write, it will become uninteresting.- - ;; sigh. I have no writing talent or plot. Sigh~ Well, for those who still wants to read this, here it is..^^-

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