We all crave to be perfect whether it is in school, office or in our life. My life has always been so perfect, my grades are perfect, my beauty is perfect and my body is also perfect. But from a few days I feel like my life is going to change. Like everything will go upside down!
Hello, I’m Akari, a 17 year old perfect and badass girl. It’s been a year since my parents are deceased and I’ve been struggling to get over it. I currently stay in a hostel. My only dream is to live a happy life and find true love. It sounds rubbish right? I’m good looking and smart so I should find my Mr. perfect soon. Nah being perfect makes it more hard to find my Mr. Perfect. The other reason why my goal is finding love is because I don’t know what love is, no one has loved me before truly.
“Hey, common, you can't backstab me like that!!” a sweet voice replies. “Ohh ya I forgot to introduce my love of life” I said sweetly but in a sarcastic tone. This is Yuki, my best friend since the day I’ve entered this hostel. Have you ever heard that opposites attract? That’s the case here.
The more I’m badass, the more clumsy and sweet she is. The more I care about what I wear, the less she cares about her appearance.
“Akari! Are you done come on today’s first day of our new academic session, are you not getting ready?” shouted Yuki.
“Ahh yes” I remembered today is our first day. I quickly got ready. As soon as we headed to our class guess what we met our all-time hated person Bema, she a bully, who is rude as hell and has friends, no sorry people she bully in every class who does her work, as usual she was wearing those mini skirt and shirt with three buttons opened so that she can look like the hottest girl in our hostel. I and Yuki try our best to ignore her but she somehow meets us coincidentally that’s what she says.
We were just about to enter our class, Bema stuck her leg out and DHAM! Yuki falls on the ground and is hurt very badly. Yuki being Yuki signaled me to avoid the drama. Yuki gave me the expression to keep my cool, but when Bema said, “What do you both think being clumsy and perfect will get you boys attention? Nah you can’t get it because you're not worth it” I couldn’t control my anger and slapped Bema on her face! And guess what, as I slapped her, our homeroom teacher entered our class and saw the drama. She looked so furious at first but seeing Yuki on the floor crying she moved her attention towards Yuki and took her to the doctor’s room. As she came back she gave a furious look to Bema and asked her to meet the principal after the class. Her eyes met mine, she gave a sad, furious and unexpected look to me, like she had not expected this drama from me, I felt guilty and didn’t utter a word in the whole lecture.
As soon as the bell rang, I rushed towards the doctor’s room to check on Yuki. When I entered the room I heard Yuki talking to a guy, I backed myself up to hear them and when I saw Yuki was talking to Kai, so called the hottest guy in our school! I was so happy and all ready to tease her. This feeling of excitement couldn’t stay within me for a little while when I dropped the vase beside me. Yuki and Kai got alerted and sat upright like they were doing nothing. I thought this is the time to enter.
As I entered Yuki took a sigh of relief and shouted at me, “Are you out of your mind? Don’t you know you should not eavesdrop on others!” While she was shouting I could clearly see her cheeks as red as a rose. Shyly Kai slipped out of the room. I made sure Kai is no where around and said, “Cummon girl don’t be shy fill me up with the details” Yuki with blushed cheeks said, “It’s nothing, he had just come before you and asked about my injury, he said that he saw how Bema made me fall down and he was about to stand up but he got a call from teacher.”
“Nothing else happened huh?!” I teased her.
“Nah..No...Nothing...Well...You know the doctor said it’s all okay now, we can move to our class” she replied. I can clearly make out that she was trying to change the topic. So I let her have her space because I knew when the time will be she’ll let me know.
The rest of the day was well, but I could not forget the look of our homeroom teacher when she indirectly said she didn’t expect me to be involved in drama on the very first day of the school, but I feel I was right because my friend was hurt. Today I understood we can't be up to everyone’s expectations. I also didn’t know what this year would bring for me.
I was getting ready for the day, Yuki recognized my dull mood and asked “What’s up with you, had a nightmare?” “No, just thinking about yesterday, how the teacher didn’t expect that behavior from me.”
Yuki laughed and said, “Dummy, just go and apologize, she will forgive you and tadaaa! You’ll be happy again”
Suddenly a bell ringed in my head that if I would apologize to my homeroom teacher for my behavior, she would let it go because it’s probably my first time being caught. The thing here that confused me was why didn’t this idea come up in my brain, maybe because I was focusing on the problem more than finding a solution. I learned a thing that we should be calm when having problems so that we can focus on the solution rather than tangling ourselves with problems.
Since I got the solution I ran to Yuki and gave her a tight hug and we headed towards our classes. I found time and apologized to our teacher as we discussed and she forgave as we thought. But Bema was punished, and her punishment wasn’t decided yet or maybe no one knew about it.
It felt like everything was back to normal, but I had a bad feeling that something was about to happen.
Just then our principal came excitedly saying that he has good news! I don’t know whenever I see our principal he gives me creeps like demonic vibes. There were also rumors that he had some connections with the devils. But demons aren’t real! They are just our imagination. He seems to be so sweet, that proves the rumors ARE rumors.
All the students uprighted and welcomed the principal.
“We have a new program where we will send a few students from our school for a time being of a year as exchange students to devildom” he continued “But the thing is that we have decided prior which students are going.” Yuki turns to me in a delighted and jittery way. It seemed that she wanted to go there. Though the name devildom was suspicious. Like why will people keep the school’s name devil-dom? I laughed quietly as I thought.
I shifted my focus back from my daydream to what the principal was saying. “As this is the very first year devildom accepting exchange students we are only sending 3 students for time being, The names of the students will be put up on the school board today before the school ends. Thank You so much students for your attention. Have a good day.” The principal left the classroom with a cheerful smile.
Yuki turned to me with a sad and dejected look. “What happened? You were so excited now” I asked.
“Akariiiii… There is nearly a 0.001% chance we will be selected. I want to go there but our school has so many kids, we don’t stand a chance to go” Yuki replied with a sad tone like someone teared up her heart. I didn’t know how to console her because even I was confused and suppressed by the excitement and hesitation. Maybe I’m also overeating or going through anxiety. I didn’t want to go there but I was feeling like I’m being attracted.
The day passed with hesitation, I couldn’t focus on anything. It was like a teacher came and said something and the second teacher came and said something. Oh god, maybe I’m going mad. This suspense was hard to deal with. The moment the last bell rang Yuki and I held hands and ran as fast as we could but still, we were late, there was a huge line, but surprisingly they all were turning around with sad faces the moment they looked on the sheet. After 10 minutes, yes the line was so long, the moment of truth arrived but before seeing the sheet I saw Bema smirking just beside the sheet, it looked like she already knew the names. But instead of wasting our time more, I decided to look at the sheet. Suddenly Yuki shouted, Oh...no.
I was about to look and...
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