7:00am
I wake up from a text my best friend Hiroyo sent me…
“Good morning, Nora. Sorry, my phone died last night so I wasn't able to text you back. Anyways, today is the first day of school, so get their early so we can check our schedule to see if we have any of the same classes. Meet me at the back fence!”
It’s been a while since me and Hiroyo have hung out. She and her family always go on summer break vacation to Korea, which leaves me alone. Usually when Hiroyo, I go to the cafe and work as an ‘extra’ or watch a ton of anime that I have already watched.
I head to my bathroom to brush my teeth and realize that I don’t have any more toothpaste, so I just floss my teeth and gargle some mouthwash. I head out the washroom when I’m done and I change into a black plain sweatshirt and a pair of ripped jeans. I grab my bag and head out, skipping breakfast. I don't really bother doing my hair, I just leave it as it is. While walking to school, I stop by the cafe. I walk in to say goodmorning to Fuko, the owner.
“You’ve got to be kidding me. I am so sorry, I didn’t see you there” I say.
I bumped into someone, a tall guy with red hair. He looked like he was 17 years old. His coffee was spilled onto our shirts as he was trying to exit the cafe, im guessing.
“Its fine, im always bumping into people. I assume it’s the first day of school and you haven’t gotten any sleep”
“Its that noticeable?”
“Yes. You should maybe rest more” He says, then gives a brief smile.
He runs over to the counter and asks for some paper towels. As he does that, I try wiping off the stain on my shirt. Although it was black and the stain did not show, I still don't want to smell like coffee. The guy comes back with a bunch of paper towels and hands some over to me.
“Here, take this”
“Thanks. My name is Nora” I say, hoping that he will tell me his name.
“Nora huh? Well nice meeting you, even though it wasn’t a nice way” He says, cleaning the floor with napkins he got from the counter to my left.
“I assume you want to know my name, but I don’t feel like sharing. Unless we meet again, that is. The we should know each other better” He says, with his brown eyes turning dark red.
“I wasn't trying to get to know you, by sharing my name is a way of greeting” I say, not caring focusing his eye colour anymore.
“So then we are strangers except I know your name, got it” He says
“I guess i'll see you around, Nora” He says, pushing the door slightly open.
“I hope not” I sigh and start walking towards to the office.
“What was that? You want to meet up at five o’clock here in the café? Fine, i'll be waiting” He says, then immediately leaves before I can turn around and cancel.
Well, looks like i'm going to meet up with some guy that I don’t know with red normal length hair whose eyes can change colour, great, just great. I pass buy the cashier and knock on the office door that is open.
“Well, well, well, look who it is. First day of school?” Fuko asks
“Yeah”
“I remember when I used to go to that prison cell, then I dropped out”
“Lucky you, unfortunately that's not an option on my list”
“It's good to go to school, they teach you stuff you don't need” She says.
Fuko starts heading over to the cashier and so I follow her.
“Fuko, why did you drop out of high school?”
“I'll tell you later when you have time, you're going to be late for school. Do you want the regular or the special?”
“Regular please, and could add and extra carrot muffin?”
“Hiroyo likes that?”
“Yeah, I dont know how she does it” I sigh.
Fuko hands me a paper bags with a chocolate and carrot muffin and one black coffee with milk. I put the muffins in my bag then hand over a ten dollar bill hoping she will accept the money.
“Put that back in your bag, you know I can't accept that”
“You never accept any of my cash, just let me pay you this once”
“Never” She says, turning off the coffee machine. “Say ‘hi’ to Hiroyo for me?”
“Tell her yourself” I say, walking toward the door.
“But you’ll say ‘hi’ for me anyways because you never do what you say you, won't do?” She says leaning on her hip
“You know me to well”.
As I open the door, I turn around and tell her “Oh, by the way, i'm coming back at five o’clock”.
“What for?” She asks, bending down and leaning on the counter.
“Just… Meeting up with a friend” I say, crossing my arms.
“A guy?” She says, raising her left eye brow.
“It's not what you think, we met like five minutes ago” I say, rolling my eyes.
“Okay, just glad you finally met a guy” She says with a giggle.
“Just make me a black coffee with milk before I get here, and also, please don’t tell Hiroyo. She will freak”
“You know how she is, but you will have to tell her eventually”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever” I exit the cafe.
I take out my phone and earphones from my pocket and plug in the earphones. I only put one on so that I can hear what’s around me, just in case if someone calls out my name or if a car honks their horn. I play some music from a group called Phoenix. They are a group of boys with four members, Luther, Sirius, Sebastian, and Gabe. Personally, I like Sirius better. He is much ‘hotter’ than the others and has a better voice in my opinion. Someday I wish to buy their album ‘Taki’. It's really hard to get a hand on that album since it was their first.
I walk another five minutes straight down the street and im at school. I take out my earphone’s and head for the back fence where Hiroyo told me to meet her. I see her leaning on the school wall looking hungry. Good thing I brought her the muffin. I start to walk up to where she is.
“Could you be any later?” Hiroyo asks.
“Sorry, Fuko and I were just talking about how school sucks and lost track of time”
“Nice excuse” She claps
“Ask her yourself, by the way, she says you should come visit more since you were away all summer”
“She actually said that?”
“No, she just says hey”
Hiroyo put her elbow on my shoulder then asked me to take out my school schedule. Hiroyo then takes out her schedule from her bag. Once I take mine out, I pass it on to her so that she can ‘scan’ for any similar classes and highlight them.
“We both have History with Miss. Mitsuya on second period, Math with Mr. Clark on seventh period, and Gym with Mr. Yoshi on the last period. I'll highlight them in yellow in case you forget but sadly those are the only classes we have together” Hiroyo says.
“At least our lockers are right beside each other” I say in a cheerful tone.
“Our lockers are always beside each other Nora, and always will be”
Hiroyo and I head to the front of the school and go inside. On the way to the lockers, Hiroyo had to go to the washroom, so I waited for her outside watching as other students from out school pass by. As I’m turning impatient, suddenly I get a vision as a guy with red hair passes by. Wait, was that the guy I meet at the cafe? It can't be.
The vision was of a little girl with long white hair, with blood all over herself and holding a rose.Her back was against me so I didn't get a glance of her face. Once the vision goes away, Hiroyo comes up behind me.
“Nora, are you okay?”
“Yeah, just getting impatient”
“Tell me if you start to feel sick”
“Why all of a sudden you're worrying about me getting sick?”
“Well, your face is really pale and im worried. Why else?”
“Oh, I didn't notice. It's probably from the coffee, I haven't had it in a while”
“Make sure you don't drink too much”
Once we get to the lockers, I spot the guy with the red hair closing the locker that is to the right of my locker and heads in the Gym door next to him.
“Who was that kid with the red hair?” I ask.
“I don’t know. Maybe he is a new kid? Why do you ask?”
“Nothing, I just think his hair is weird”
As Hiroyo is waiting for me to get my stuff and close my locker, a guy with blue hair starts to open the locker beside the red headed guy’s locker. I all of a sudden get another vision while looking at him. This time, there were twin boys beside the little girl. One with red hair, and the other with blue hair both holding a rose and peeling the pedals one by one…
“Um… hello? Are you okay?” The guy with blue hair asked while I was staring at him. I shake my head and say “Oh sorry, I’m just really tired”.
“No worries. Make sure you get enough sleep before coming to school” He says.
He grabs a full cup of coffee from his locker and holds it out for me to take.
“Thanks, but I already had a cup this morning” I say.
“Hey, I’m Hiroyo and this is my friend Nora. And your name is?”
“Im Harumi, my brother and I are both new to the school.” He says.
(Bell rings)
“Sorry, we have to get to class. See you around, Harumi” I say.
I grab Hiroyo’s hand and drag her across the hall. For first period, Hiroyo has Geography and I’m stuck with Science class. I wave Hiroyo goodbye and enter class. I enter Mr. Kazumi’s class and take a seat. Instead of listening to the Introduction, I try to remember the visions I got from Harumi and the redhead.
“Miss Nora, are you paying attention” Mr. Collin’s asks.
“H-huh, oh sorry. You were saying”
“Remember students, always get enough sleep before coming to school so that you don't end up being half asleep”
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