278 Chapter one, 2017, a new year: 1 (1/2)
Entrance ceremonies were supposed to be framed by a reasonably cute pink colour, and this year it was. Every stupid attribute promising a glorious new start beckoned to the new students with promises of a wonderful future.
A pity Wakayama Noriko wasn't a new student.
She entered the Himekaizen school grounds a junior. A second year, starting the best of her three high school years; the freshmen admiring them and the seniors envying them. The spring of her youth, and all that.
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Then, given such an auspicious event, why was her stomach a hard knot of uncontrollable fear?
Urufu gone missing, Kuri a shallow shadow of her former self, and worst of all, she pretended to go out with Ryu.
'What happened to Ai-chan? Ryu, you bastard. Did you hurt a girl deliberately?'
Yukio and Kyoko were late, also deliberately. Sato-sensei, Urufu's guardian, created a huge ruckus when she forced the school to accept an armed escort to follow the pair to and from school.
The reason, the reason made Noriko want to throw up in fear.
'How the bloody hell did we end up this way? How, how, how did Kareyoshi become principal?'
Around her fellow schoolmates milled around, a third of them all shiny and new, and the rest in their worn beige blazer and black trousers or skirt. None showed any sign of Noriko's kind of fear, because for the rest of them Kareyoshi was only a dull English teacher best known for having a private war with the Japanese guy in 6:1 who wasn't Japanese after all.
She tried to pretend she was just nervous for the same reason as the rest of the second years. That she only wondered which class she had been assigned to, or rather which classmates.
Noriko walked over to the billboards where the second year classes were divided in two sections. One for sciences and one for liberal arts. That selection each student did themselves.
Which of the four classes in each section, or from this year, which of the five classes, since Himekaizen and Irishima had cannibalised Red Rose. Ten classes in each year. Two more than when she started a year ago, and two less than what her parents had experienced when they were students here.
She looked up at the science section. 1:2 – 5:2. After reading the class list for 1:2 she reread it again.
'What the hell?'
Wakayama Ryu was there, but no Wakayama Noriko. Searching again she noticed that Hamarugen Urufu was missing as well.
'Did they split me out?'
She found herself in 2:2, and Urufu in 3:2.
'No way, you bastards! You didn't!' They did. Ageruman Kuritina was in 6:2, Takeida Kyoko in 7:2 and Matsumoto Yukio in 8:2. When she looked closer she saw that the club members in The Himekaizen Cultural Exchange club had been spread evenly among the classes, and every single couple in the club split between two classes. 'Why? That's just hurtful!'
The coming two years with none of her best friends in her class. 'Bastards!'
Fuming with rage she punched a contact she never thought she'd call in her life.
”Nakagawa speaking.”
”This is Wakayama Noriko, you might be familiar with me.”
A moment of silence. ”Ah, certainly Wakayama-san. How may I be of assistance?”