Chapter 2

Mr. Timothy, the principal of our school, was already waiting in the auditorium. We both sat at a chair in the back row. 

“Welcome, students! Please have a seat,” Mr. Timothy announced.

We do this at the start of every year, where we go to the auditorium and listen to Mr. Timothy. He’s an “okay” principal. And no, I haven’t forgotten about that goal. I really am trying my hardest, not lying at all. After everyone’s calmed down, he tells all of us sitting on the smooth, probably-fixed wood, “Now I know no school will do this, but since there’s newcomers in already dead school, we better introduce them to you few students here,” Seriously? “You boys can come on up now,” Mr. Timothy says as he gestures toward a boy with dark red hair and another one with smoky gray. While they walked up, one of them had a face with no expression or amusement. Is he depressed? I ask myself. I took a small glance at Mika, regretting doing so after half a second. And she was in love, alright. 

“These two are Akuneme and Kay. Make sure to greet them if you see them and…would one person like to volunteer to introduce them around the school?”

Mika’s hand rose up. “I will do it!!!” Then she grabs me and adds, “No, me and Himari will do it!!”

Mr. Timothy made a wide grin. “Alright then, you girls introduce them around and then come back here to find your groups and classes.”

In our school, we have two groups, A and B, since there’s really not a lot of people here. The groups are the ones who you will be with with really every class. So that means you won’t likely be able to see the people from the other group too often, since you won’t have any classes with them.

Mika grabbed onto my hand and we were running across the auditorium to meet them. This really isn’t necessary… I said to myself.

“Hi!!! My name is Mika, this is Himari!!” Mika started. She looked way too desperate. 

One of them smiled. “Hi, Mika and Himari, I’m Kay. This is Akuneme.” he said, gesturing towards the other boy. 

The boy named Akuneme made a face at Kay and said, “What?? Well, anyways, you already know my name, so yeah.” So yeah?

I tried to identify their scent, but when I did, I discovered a whole new scent. I couldn’t name it. There was a weird feeling about them too, and they also looked kind of weird. Without knowing I did, I went closer to both of them. The feeling still lingered and lingered. 

“What–are you doing??” Akuneme blurted out. 

Why was he suddenly acting like that? I made an unamused face.

“Trying to identify what you are,” I replied. 

I was just about to ask why they smelled like that but grabbed it last second, remembering the goal.

“I don’t know what you mean, Himari.” Kay said, laughing. 

Yeah, there’s definitely something weird about this kid.

“Sorry, Himari’s like that sometimes,” Mika tells them, pulling me away. 

Then she gives me this glare, I don’t know if it’s supposed to be serious or not. Kay just smiles. Also suspicious. It really seemed weird because he gave out a feeling like he didn’t want to smile at all. But that was only for Kay, Akuneme, regarding the scent, seemed normal.

“So, let’s start with the gathering room. If you have any questions, just tell me any time!” Mika says, obviously not hiding her excitement.

“What? Isn’t this the gathering room?” Akuneme asked. 

“Oh, it is, but there’s a separate room called the ‘gathering room’ where we eat lunch. Though there are some other students who come here too, to eat their lunch. We don’t have any specific rules,” Mika said.

She went on about the A and B groups and other classes while walking to different places in the small building. Kay asked some questions every now and then, but Akuneme stayed silent after. It took about 15 minutes for the whole thing, because Mika kept going off-track and talking about other things. Don’t worry, my first period was Social Studies for me, and I had the nicest teacher in the school for that class, so I was okay, even though I didn’t know for everyone else. After going through the other few classes upstairs(yes, there’s an upstairs, surprisingly,)We were just done going throughout the school, that’s how small it was. 

“What about recess?” Akuneme suddenly asked after staying silent the whole time. 

Mika blurted out, “Oh, the whole lunchtime, you can basically just do whatever you want. You can go outside in the yard, front or back, it doesn’t really matter. There’s also this small vending machine in the front yard, you can use that-”

“Okay.” Akuneme cut off. Why suddenly interrupt when you asked the question? “Why is she even here, though? She’s never said anything!” I just realized he was pointing at me.

That’s what I would want to ask. “Yeah, Mika. I really just want to go to Social Studies,”

Mika squealed, Almost making me jump to space. “Oh, m, g!!! We’re both group A, Himari. Yay!!!”

She hugged me so tight I actually would’ve lost my consciousness right then. 

“Aww, you guys are both in Group A? I’m B. I’m sure Akuneme’s A, too, so that’s good, since you guys can get to know each other more…” Kay trailed on. 

“Oh. It’s okay, we’ll meet during lunch!!” Mika replied. She made a sympathetic smile.

“We’re done now, right? I’ll go to Social Studies.” I tell them, and walk off. 

“Yeah, me too.” Akuneme suddenly muttered, and raced away.

“What? No, you guys!!!” Mika shouted.

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