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Now completely concentrating on her phone, Kokyuu had zoned the boy out and was mentally cursing herself. ‘No, no. How could I have forgotten? Okay, okay……’ The look of confusion slowly slipped to one of defeat as the things her new parents taught her were completely lost. She couldn’t remember a thing. Frantically going through what each button should do in her head, from the little to nothing that she could remember, she blocked out all sound in the hall. Even though it was filled with plenty of people and there seemed to be a bit of a situation happening with the female who entered as the weird music happened to begin playing. Nothing made its way through her stern state of concentration until she heard the announcement from the loud speaker. Only then did the young girl’s head lift from her phone, intently listening to the words from someone she assumed to be one of the school’s staff members. ‘New and returning students’ she thought silently, concluding that they wanted everyone. Even if the situation had been different, orientation was usually held in the beginning of school for new students. Or, at least that’s what her old educator told her on one of the many occasions that Kokyuu asked about how real schools were. She half expected to hear such an announcement at some point in the day.
After it finished, her head lowered and her eyes trailed back down to the screen of her phone. She was determined to find this message; after all there were only two people who would have sent her one- her new parents or her old teacher. Whichever it may be, the message would have been important to her. Mere seconds after the end of the announcement, she heard a thud and saw one of the males from inside the classroom rush out and down the hall; was the get together in the auditorium that important? Sudden warm from beside her, that wasn’t noticeable before, had Kokyuu look up at its origin. Against the wall with her, now much closer than when he previously approached before, was the same boy who tried to calm her on the situation inside the class. Her cheeks filled with a bright shade of pink, as her deep red irises scanned along his features and stopped when they reached his own eyes. With a blink or two, he had stepped back a few steps and began bowing and apologized. Kokyuu shook her head a little, bringing an empty hand up to her face in a slightly cupped fist; its purpose to cover at least some of the embarrassment now showing on her cheeks. Lowering it seconds later, after feeling her heart rate return to it’s normal pattern and the sudden ‘swarm of butterflies’ disperse, she waved it back and forth a little to soothe the situation. “It’s quite alright, please don’t worry about it.” She added, to verbally let him know she wasn’t bothered by what happened.
When the boy questioned if everyone knew the auditorium’s location, Kokyuu peaked into the classroom to see why he said ‘we all.’ It seemed that, after Book rushed from the room, his group had followed and left just the female he held in his arms; that now seemed lost and confused. The boy before her should have known where their destination was for sure, seeming to be older than Kokyuu herself; she assumed he’d been in the school previously. The girl, however, seemed as lost as she was herself. Although looking to be a senior, her appearance wasn’t one of someone native to Japan and left Kokyuu to assume she was a transfer student of sorts. “I don’t know for sure, but...” Kokyuu started to say, then looking through her bag, which was resting under her arm until she pulled it out to look inside again, for the same sheet of paper she pulled out before. Once she found it, she lifted it from the bag and turned it around to examine a vague map of sorts that was drawn by one of the office assistants to help her get around. “…using this and following the rest of the students, I’m sure I’ll be able to find it. Please care to see that the girl in the class can get there, if you’re looking to assist others.” She said, with a dismissing bow. “Thank you for your help…” She would have continued and added in his name, since that seemed the most respectful thing to do, but she hadn’t heard it. Staying to wait for it was the most polite option, which she knew, but if she continued to dawdle in the area she would not only be late but also have less students to follow. Deciding that, perhaps if she was supposed to, she’d run into the male again to learn his name. Raising from the bow she offered him a quick smile and wave before turning and walking down the hall to make her way to the place where all the students had been called to meet; North Auditorium.
As she walked, she slipped her phone into her bag; retrieving the message would have to wait until later. She was now clutching the bag in one hand, at her side, and had the paper in the other. Following both the map and the other students, Kokyuu found her way to the auditorium without much hassle. She slipped into one of the seats that were still open; an aisle seat. Happy about her seating arrangement, she let out a relieved sigh and smiled, looking around the filling room. This must have been, without a doubt, the biggest room in the school. Or, the biggest room she had seen anyway. The lunch room had been big, but only big enough to hold a grade at a time; where as this room could sit every student in the whole school at one. Kokyuu was in awe, having never been in such a place before. The loud rambling of friends sitting together and people yelling back and forth to those whom they couldn’t get a seat near rang loud in her head, making her wish she would have sat more near the front; where she assumed the more quiet people were.
Growing bored of the noise quite fast, she wished she had brought a book or something with her to occupy her free time. Free time which she had no idea there would be so much of. As she thought on possible things to do, she remembered the message she’d gotten. Shifting around in her seat, she pulled out her phone and began looking through it again to see if she could figure it out now while waiting for a teacher or someone to calm the students. As her eyes scanned along the screen and buttons, she saw ‘menu’ which stuck out to her for a reason. Clicking that she was directed to a screen with other options, one of which being ‘messaging.’ Smiling cheerfully, she clicked on messaging option and found her way to her inbox; which held one new message that said “Greeting, Ko-chan, enjoying your first day so far?” The name that was attached to the message was that of her new mother. Kokyuu’s cheerful and accomplished expression, which sprouted up instantly as she found the message on her own, quickly fell to a saddened and discouraged one. ‘Ko-chan…. I hate that name…’ She thought to herself, huffing out a soft, “Kyuu…”
«¦|~The thought that the real me is in the sky sounds so wonderful.
Being able to see so far and with everything on Earth seeming so insignificant, one can discover a kind feeling towards others, don't you think?~|¦»