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[hoshikage_himeko]

Who: Ryuta and Himeko
Where: Classroom of Class 2-ha
When: Thursday, April 20th, after classes
What: Uniform modifications. (Ryuta in lecture mode!)

Himeko let out a sigh, while slowly sliding the door to her homeroom class open. She made sure that no one else was inside, before making her way to her seat and quietly sitting down.
“You must be kidding me…”, she mumbled, while looking at her cellphone and flipping through the text her sister sent her a few minutes ago.
She shook her head angrily and finally decided to put her cellphone away. The reply to what that monster had written could wait.
“In about a month…huh?”, she said to herself again. It was way too soon. Technically, she had no time to prepare herself for that. Not that it would make any difference if she was prepared or not. A bunch of events and two concerts, even…. There was no way that this was a mere coincidence. Knowing her sister, she had planned it just to mock her.

Today started off as a very promising and good day for her. Classroom cleaning was canceled and that meant she had some more time to rest until dance practice began. Additional to that, she had been able to successfully sleep during the first few periods this morning. That was a good thing, considering how tired she was recently.
But with the arrival of that damn text, everything seemed to change for the worse.
Letting out another sigh, she placed her head on her desk and faced one of the windows in the room, daydreaming a little.
The silence in the empty classroom was just what she needed to calm down.

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[rulebook]

"I have yet to come to a situation where a rule was 'worth breaking'. As they say, 'rules are made for a reason'."

Some time passed by in silence. Ryuta was thinking everything over in his head as he examined the situation before him. All he can do is warn her about the potential consequences ahead of her. If she chose not to listen, that would be on her head. But something struck him as odd about her behavior. She seemed less 'bubbly' then the rumors around her would suggest.

"It seems to me you are a rather devious person. Using others so casually as if they were mere play things. Even though you called your admirers pathetic, you would misuse your influence on them to blackmail other members of the student body." His voice did not change from it's usual even tone. However, his eyes reflected a dark hue behind his glasses. It wasn't out of anger for her disregard for the rules, or even for her continued attempts to mock him. Ryuta looked at the girl before him with pity.

"What a truly sad sight you are." There was no animosity in his words. He truly felt sorry for the person before him.

[hoshikage_himeko]

“Huh? Aren’t you overreacting?”, this was new. Nobody had said things like that to her before.
However, she couldn’t help glaring at him for a few moments before speaking up.
They weren’t meant to get along. She knew as much. But still, getting offended like this wasn’t something she just would take without at least defending herself.

“Sorry for not being that much of the perfectly good person, that you seem to be.”, she simply stated. She had a devious side. There was no use in denying that. It wasn’t that well-developed and didn’t play a huge part in her overall behavior, though. All in all, she really was a rather harmless person…. Aside from using her cutesy act to get her what she wanted from time to time, of course….
“But in that case all I do is using the impact of my behavior on others to my advantage. I’m basically just accepting the things they offer to do for me. It’s not like I use them every day or for very bad, unreasonable things. In fact, all they have done for me before was some classroom cleaning. Just look around and open your eyes. A lot of people do things like that. Even worse stuff than me.”, she sighed. Getting threatened like some kind of criminal just for making use of her personal fan club felt a bit over the top.
“I don’t really need your pity, though. If there’s need for that, you should probably pity yourself rather than me. Go out, find yourself some friends to hang out with and loosen up a bit. I’m sure that would help you.”, she shrugged.

There was nothing she could do to change his view on her and even if she could, Himeko didn’t really feel like trying it.
Ever since she could remember, a group of people, who admired her would gather around her without any real reason. As she grew older, she came to understand why they were following her. She just started to accept their offerings as some kind of minor help, when she got herself into trouble or simply needed some support.

Ryuta’s words did indeed make her think about the whole ‘fan club thing’. However, she couldn’t sense anything too reprehensible in her own behavior.