Christmas came quick and left slowly, it was perfect. Christmas day was perfect, me and Ichichi have decided to reveal our relationship to the class on our first day of school and that day is today. I have full trust in her not to betray me and will announce it when we arrive, I have no doubt that the news will spread by the end of homeroom and my phone will be buzzing all day so I made extra sure to charge it to 100% before we left for school. Can't exactly have it dying on me half way you know.
As the two of us walk to school as usual I reach out and grab her hand, squeezing it as reassurance. Knowing her, she's worried about Chihiro in particular. The useless little bitch that asked her out at the start of the school year, soon she will be expelled, the first chance I get in fact. Weakness is not something that should be awarded by allowing them to stay and have fun with the rest of us. That and I can't have any possible rebellion due to jealousy, she will be crushed.
I glance at Ichinose, "You know, I'm not worried at all. In fact I think we will get nothing but support from our classmates."
She still looks a bit scared, "I know... but what if they arn't?"
With a calm smile I reply, "Then I will give them bigger things to worry about rather than our happiness. Ichichi, I promised you I would make the tough decisions so you don't have to. If that means crushing them for their ignorant views on our gender then I'll personally crush them, so do tell me if anyone has a problem okay?"
As we enter the main gates to the school building we garner a few looks, I smile proudly and hold my head high. 'Yeah that's right scum, she's all mine.' I glare at the people who give us strange looks, promising pain.
We find Kanzaki walking on his own and Ichinose calls out to him, "Hey Kanzaki!" Her tone is normal and she's acting as normal but her hand is gripping mine tightly, she's anxious. I give her another reassuring squeeze as he waits for us to catch up to him.
When he notices us holding hands he gives a strange look before smiling, "Hey, what's up."
I can feel her mood brightening up as she lifts our hands up into his view, "Me and Lucy are officially together!"
His smile is calm and doesn't change an inch, "Congratulations, I'm happy for you." His eyes shift over to me before sliding back to Ichinose, "So, how is it being tied down now?"
"Pffffft" Ichinose lets a laugh escape giving me a knowing look before talking to a confused Kanzaki, why would he say that...? IM CRYING INSIDE OMGGGGGGG.
I give one last squeeze to her hand before letting go, "Hey ima go catch up with Himino real quick, have fun guys~"
"Don't be late to class!" I hear my lovely girlfriend shout as I wave her off without looking behind me.
Himino hasn't spotted me yet and she's talking to some people from our class so there's only one option here for me, "HI-MI-NO CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" I jump on her from behind!
"EEP!" She shouts and jumps, so i burst out laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHHAA! YOU SHOULDA SEEN YOUR FACE!" I drop my head onto her shoulder still laughing, "Anyway! Come with me!"
I turn around and start walking away knowing that she'd follow, while I wait for her to apologize to our classmates and catch up I begin walking to the roof pulling out my phone. I swipe a few times and finally find my chats with Miyu, still 0 notifications...
I hear heavy panting as I lean against the rail of the roof, looking out over the school entrance from above. "Himino."
Between heavy breaths she responds to me, "W-why do you walk so fast!?"
I ignore her and keep talking, "Are you still in contact with Miyu?"
"What? Of course I am." I turn a little to see her expression and she seems genuinely confused, hmmmm.
I push my hands down against the railing and jump up, balancing on it before turning around to face her, she seems worried. "Wh-what are you doing Lucy? Are you crazy? Get down from there!"
I roll my eyes, walking along the railing, "Anything important being said between the two of you?"
She looks at me weirdly, "What are you talking about!? Hurry up and get down!"
I turn 90 degrees on one foot, looking her dead in the eyes, "I don't appreciate people going behind my back, do you understand that?"
She seems to get angry, "Enough of this! Get down right this instant!"
If it was Miyu I may just listen but I'm not in the mood right now with Himino, "If I find out that you've been giving Miyu Abe any information on me what so ever..."
I jump down and slowly walk toward Himino, pushing her gently at first, slowly growing stronger and stronger until she against the door on her ass, "I will fucking kill you, do you understand?"
She stays sitting there, eyes wide and unable to talk, *BANG!* I kick hard against the door right next to her head, "I said, do you understand?"
She nods in quick succession until I move my foot away, "I- I didn't say anything about you I swear!"
Lies. I frown before planting my foot on her neck, with enough force to make her paralyzed in fear again but not enough to close her air ways, "Lying for self preservation, Himino here's a fact about me you may not know. There are very few things I actually hate in this world but lying is one of them."
She scrambles at my ankle, "I-I'M SORRY! P-please forgive me!"
I lean my whole body down so were eye level, "What did you tell her?"
Her eyes are flitting from my eyes to the pull door she's leaning against, "I-i told her that you were doing good! That's all I promise! P-please... I'm sorry..."
"Hmmm, meet up with her tonight, that's an order. Tell her things have changed, that I confided in you and I'm really feeling depressed." Her eyes widen, "In fact go a step further... Tell her whatever you want, but make sure she gets the message."
Her confusion grows, "I-i can't do that! That would do nothing but make her worried! She cares for you! A-and she's my friend! Maybe one of my only true friends!"
I cock my head to the side, "your one true friend huh?" She seems to gain some steel in her as she nods with a hard stare, "So you would choose Miyu over me?"
"W-wait! I didn't say that!"
I kick the door next to her head harder and harder over and over again, "Your mine! I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW!" I sneered at her, "So you got what you want, drained all the money I spent on you and this is how you repay me?"
She's crying, my eyes grow cold and I stare into her soul, "Move."
She makes no effort to move, so I repeat myself. "Move."
Again it's like she's not even registering my words, I am very pissed off right now. I have things to do. "Himino I thought you were different, I thought you were like me. Taking advantage of anything and everyone around you, but it's clear to me now. Your weak, a waste of effort on my part."
"I know Miyu better than anyone, including Miyu herself. There is absolutely not a single chance in hell she would ignore me for this long, there was a leak in information and it would seem I've found it."
Allies are as good as you treat them they say, and yet I've found myself utterly unimpressed with this girl before me. "Himino, you have a week to right your wrong. I am extremely dissatisfied."
(Himino's POV)
The last 5 days have been hell, I've been gliding through life as if a fog has clouded my head. When I returned to class that day, I found out that our class leaders are now dating, not that I cared.
Right now I'm desperate, Lucy is my lifeline and now... She's put my life on the line. Nothing matters unless I figure out a way to apologize properly, that being a way to 'right my wrong'. I knew the two of them had a falling out but I didn't know Lucy felt this strong about it, I thought she wouldn't care but now that I think about it...
All Miyu ever talks to me about is Lucy or maid work, it's like it's her every thought. Lucy is sat on the same row as me on the bus, just on the other side of the walkway next to Ichinose. She has that mischievous smile on her face as always, thinking about all the chaos she may reign over the 11 other classes that will be taking this exam with our own.
But that night I saw what I never thought I would ever see, sadness...
She feels betrayed... And it's all my fault, I got too comfortable. Too relaxed that I thought I could get away with talking to an enemy.
After the mixed training camp was explained I look at Lucy and decide, I'm going to win this exam for us!
I don't care about the losses or the sacrifices, I don't care about how tiring it will be or how mentally exhausting it will be. I WILL DO IT!