She flipped through her phone while walking down the stairs of her apartment building. She was quite paranoid that one of her many alarms would suddenly ring during class. She imagined what would happen if she was in the middle of introducing herself and the theme song of Sergeant Keroro would suddenly echo from her bag.
"OWL HOUSE MANOR. Complex for rent. Contact management at 0....."
A down-at-heels advertisement stood outside Xue's apartment. Owl House Manor, quite a peculiar name for an apartment. The designs of the apartment were owl inspired, you could tell the designer put quite a lot of thought in designing every nook and cranny with little owls.
The corridors would look like an owl if you stood in the right angle, which sometimes frightens the residents, especially the old men who always come home late after a night's drink.
The building was old, but young by heart, the residents living there were lively and warm.
It was built in the mid 1800 by a Sir Elgard M. who stayed in Japan, the fellow was of course, a big fan of owls. His Japanese mistress had told him that Owls bring luck and prevents one from hardship, but never did she thought that he'd really build a mansion because of her small talk.
Ironically after the mansion was built, the old man had moved on to the next life. The mistress decided to sell it since she thought the mansion was cursed. Finally after many change of hands, the mansion was converted into an apartment complex.
Sadly the building was getting younger, a lot of the light switches were faulty. The lights in the corridor would flicker on and off at times, adding the piercing stares of the owl wallpaper, it would make the
Well, back to our specimen.
Walking without a care, our protoganist casually glanced at her watch.
The worn out looking watch pointed at 7:50.
Xue froze there for a while, there was no more than 10 minutes till the opening ceremony started.
With a worried heart, she regained conciousness and paced towards school with a nervous heart.
The faster her footsteps, the more she realized that this was actually her first day outside after so many years of being a shut-in. She was suddenly reminded that no one knew her nor did she knew anyone there. Xue was given a chance to study at Ravelyn High School by an unknown benefactor, and of course she didn't refuse the offer. But now the thought started echo through her mind, she was all alone.
A sudden cramp jolted from her stomach, "Oh god... A stomachache now?!", Xue held onto her aching stomach, it seems like she had gotten the butterfly's from thinking about the inevitable self introductions that would take place later.
Xue wasn't just worried about the dreadful self introductories, the thought of not fitting in with the rest of her class scared her a little. But she was actually more worried that she would be like the girl in Another.
*Another is a manga revolving around a girl who is ignored because of a so called curse in her school.
While crossing a rather busy road, a cheesy ringtone from an old anime series emitted from her skirt. "A mesage? Hadn't had one in such a long time...", Xue took out the bulky phone from her pocket.
As the curious girl checked the contents of the message, it was from an unknown number.
"Descends from the sky.
An angel or a devil?
Black or white. You Choose."
The sounds of tires screeching and horns blaring overwhelmed her ears. Xue froze there momentarily, her soul flew to another world, wanting to escape the grasps of the world.
Her soul wandered into her memories, resmincing about her sad life. Her parents left the world for a better place when Xue was 8. Even before their "depature", she was always alone at home. However, the times she spent with them, let it be the moments her mother walks her to the station or the birthdays she spent with her parents, she cherished those moments.
She felt regret engulfing her mind, she could live a better life if she had one more chance. She wanted to have a family, she didn't want an early death like her parents. She wanted to live.
As Xue's soul returned back to the present, a petite worried looking girl filled her vision.
A delicate looking face, her brows furrowed in a weird shape, her eyes were filled with tears and she was clearly trembling with a mix of feelings, she was either afraid that Xue was hurt or that she was a little bit too worried.
Xue stared into this stranger's eyes for a while, this angel had a pair eyes caked with a layer of makeup, from mascara to fake lashes, her eyeshadow was a bright shimmery color as well.
Yet, underneath the makeup, she could the girl was a pure soul. The look in her eyes gave it away.
"A-Are you okay?" said the unknown girl who was trembling on top of Xue, she seemed more like the victim than Xue did.
"...Yes... But my legs hurt a lot..." Xue said as a sudden pain sprang from her leg.
"What?! You're hurt?! Let me call an am-"
Her sentence was cut off immedietly when the silly girl noticed her heels were almost pierced into Xue's leg.
"Oh my God! I'm so sorry! So sorry! Sorry! Sorry!", the young girl kept bowing as she repeated the sentence a few hundred, maybe a thousand times to Xue.
At this point, quite a number of people stared at them strangely and whispered stuff like,
"Are they filming?"
"The brunette sure is cute.."
"The brunette looks kinda familar?"
"Why is the girl with black hair there... She's just average.."
Not one person offered any help, even thought a few of them witnessed the girls almost getting rammed by a car..
The two odd girls started blushing immensely as they stared at each other, noticing the people talking about them..
"Um... Why don't we leave this place first. It seems like we're attracting unwanted attention...", Xue said in an attempt to break free fom the tense atmostphere.
The girl then took the first step and lead Xue towards a less crowded path.
"Finally out of those nosy people's view!", Xue let out a big sigh, relieved from being out of the scene.
"Hey, we haven't introduced ourselves yet... My name is Xue, I'm 15 this year and am studying in Ravelyn High School.", Xue said trying to break the ice.
"Really?! I'm in Ravelyn as well! Now that you mention it, we're wearing the same uniforms... My name is Rinn, and enough with the formalities, you're talking like a person from some commercial, girl." Rinn replied in a strange western accent.
"I'm speaking weirdly? I haven't noticed it.... Which part of it is weird...?" Xue said confused.
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The girls walked slowly towards the school gate.
"That's weird... No one's here..." Xue said worriedly, she was afraid that they went to the wrong school.
Looking at her watch, "8:30"
"Oh sh*t. We're late.", the duo said at the same time.
Rinn had started running towards the school hall already, Xue was still standing idly thinking of what to do, she was acting in an extremely slow pace... After almost a minute she started following Rinn's steps.
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REPORT END.
TIME: 0830 HOURS
DATE: JANUARY 15 2020.
Note: New specimen found.
