Chapter 10: Chapter 10
After a week.
I nervously made my entrance at Naha High school.
I can see the students who were all looking at me curiously as I walk past them.
"It's rare to see a new face in town." I overheard a group behind me.
"My mother saw her once with Doctor Nishikawa. Could she be--?" the other one spoke.
"Haven't you heard the news yet? She's the adopted daughter of Doctor Nishikawa!" exclaimed the third girl.
"I don't care what you all think...Just leave me alone!" I angrily said at the back of my mind.
"Hey, wait for me, Nao!" somebody called my name, and it made all the students turn their heads towards the school gate.
"Oh, there's Van again. What is he up to this time?" said the other group of male students,while laughing at the same time.
I sighed miserably.
"Why do you have to show yourself at a complicated time?" I groaned in disbelief.
I decided to ignore Van and I continued on walking.
"Hey! Are you going to abandon me too?" Van called out for me.
"What are you now? An abandoned puppy inside a box?" I muttered, as I walked faster.
Van also did the same to catch up with me.
"Let's walk together, please?" he cajoled, as he was finally walking beside me.
I stopped on my tracks and wheeled around to face him.
"Stop acting like this, will you?" I discreetly whispered at him.
"Why?" Van innocently asked.
"Because I wanted to have a peaceful start at school." I shot back.
"How boring! You should be having fun at school!" Van insisted.
I sighed in disbelief. Reasoning with Van is mentally exhausting. I feel like my braincells are going to explode.
"Come on, I saved a seat for you." encouraged Van.
"How about asking me first if I want that seat?" I spat out.
"You don't have a choice.And believe me, you'll be thankful for it someday..." Van
smirked at me.
We have finally reached the 3-B room. I was lucky enough to have passed the entrance exam with flying colors. In which I ended up being with the same class as Van.
"Morning, everyone!" Van greeted everyone in the room.
There were already 10 students inside.They looked at us in a bored manner, and resumed with their own thing as if we're invinsible. But I'm cool with it.This is better that being in the center of everyone's attention.
"Here's your seat." informed Van, while tapping a certain desk just beside his chair.
"Thanks." I thanked him half-heartedly.
"You're nervous,aren't you?" he probed.
"I am not!" I barked at him.
"I can see it in your face. You're so nervous that you'll throw up any minute now..." he continues to annoy me.
"I said I'm----!" I wasn't able to finish my sentence when I felt my stomach turning upside down.
Van gave me a "see-what-I-told-you-look" look.
"E-Excuse me!" I stammered,as I ran to go to the nearest comfort room.
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The next day.
The teacher for our Math class wasn't able to come to school for health reasons, so the first period ended up with "self-study"
period.
Van came to my seat.
"You looked bored." he observed.
I shot him a "leave-me-alone-in-peace" look, but the idiot didn't seem to notice it.
"Did you come here just to ask me that?Fine. I'm bored... Satisfied?Now, go back to your seat." I coldy answered him.
"If you think you'll scare me with your tactics, then think again. I only find it
amusing, and I can't get enough of it." Van cracked up.
"Ha, ha, ha. Very funny." I sarcastically shot back.
At the same time,we heard the door open. All of us turned our heads to see who was at the door.
"I'm sorry for suddenly barging in. I'm Ichimura, the President of the Science Club. Is Nishikawa Nao here?"
My classmates suddenly turned their attention to me.
My face became all red when I realized that I became a center of their attention.
Van raised his hand in the air.
"Nishikawa Nao is here!" he suddenly spoke on my behalf, while tapping my shoulders.
"What's the meaning of this?" I demanded at him.
"Why not talk to him first?" encouraged Van.
"Nishikiwa Nao? Do you have a minute?" President Ichimura called for me again.
I was left with no choice.
I stood up to follow President Ichimura outside.
At the hallway...
"I got your resume' for a position at the Science Club, and you're in luck. We're short on people, and we're glad to welcome you to our school club!" The Club President started to speak.
"Wait a second, what resume' are you talking about? I didn't sumbit anything!" I asked, as I started getting nervous.
The Club President suddenly looked confused.
"Didn't you send this to join the Science Club?" he asked me.
He showed the Club's application form infront of me.
Sure, my name and the other information about me is written on the paper, but the handwriting is totally different.
It was Mika's.
I was too shocked to say anything.
"Congratulations.And welcome aboard." the President congratulated me, already assuming that I really want to join the club.
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Lecturing Mika later that night was useless. She said it was a good idea coming from Van. I've given it a thought for the rest of the night and it made me think ; "well, it doesn't sound bad."
I woke up with a bit of a migraine the next morning, but it didn't stop me from going to school.
But my migraine became worse as soon as I saw Van waiting for me outside our house.
"Morning!" Van happily greeted me, while holding unto his bicycle.
I walked past him as I was also holding my bike.
"Hey! Can't you at least greet me?" Van called out, while dragging his bicycle to catch up with me.
"Many things happened since the day I met you, so I decided not to talk to you anymore." I firmly stated.
"But you're talking to me now." replied Van.
I immediately rode on my bike and went ahead from Van.
"Wait! Don't leave me behind!" Van cajoled, as he mounted on his bike as well.
We were racing against each other for about 10 minutes. We reached school in full speed, parked our bikes in a hurry and dashed towards the classroom.
I was trying to get away from him, while Van was trying to catch up with me.
Good thing Van wasn't able to pester me anymore when our math teacher suddenly entered the room for the first class for the day...