Sakura

Chapter 2

"You? A star guardian?" A high pitched laugh rang through the air like a beautiful bell being struck.

 How dare this human- Nami's mind began to seethe as she began to feel the heat of embarrassment threatening to darken her features. Biting sharply down on her tongue, she wrestled with her bold, stubborn anger and was met with the bitter taste of blood. Forcing the heated stare she wanted to wear into a charming smile, she shifted her weight in her brown loafers and clasped her hands behind her back in a casual way to show she was unfazed by the human girl who sat across from her.

 Although the girl, Lux as she was called, sat at a student's school desk she oozed authority. And although Nami knew better than to question her leadership, it was in the siren's nature to always challenge it.

 Lux's lavender-pink eyes narrowed into near slits from behind her bangs of bright pink hair. She had been searching for weakness, but Nami knew she would find no weakness in her.

 "I'm afraid I must insist-" Nami began, her teeth slightly gritting together as she struggled to maintain a sense of pleasantry in her tone. There was only one thing she hated more than arrogance, it was arrogance with power.

 "You must insist?" Another laugh bubbled from Lux in a condescending, humored way that made Nami want to throttle the girl. Sitting back, Lux wore a smile, but the siren could see that it was full of anger and resentment as she clicked her neatly trimmed nails on the desk in obvious annoyance.

 Nami didn't need to ask why it was that Lux harbored such a dislike for her. Privacy, Nami thought and squeezed her hands tightly together. The thought made Nami nearly scream in anger. Such a stupid, insipid fallacy that humans wrapped themselves in to seem special and moral and now it was keeping Nami from accomplishing her goal.

 Why should it matter that she studied Lux to learn about human body language? What did it matter that she watched the girl constantly in the distance? Didn't humans value personal space? And what was so wrong with reading Lux's diary? The mentality of a human girl was just as important as body language if Nami wanted to fit in with her human transformation spell.

 Perhaps it was the incident of asking Lux why she acted so different around Ezreal and Jinx? Or perhaps it was the fact that Nami discovered the existence of the Star Guardians through something as silly and frivolous as a diary.

 Turning her attention to the window Nami watched as the biting winter outside shook the trees, their empty reaching branches bare and twisted. A few students moved about, bundled to their noses with scarves and jackets to battle the cold. To Nami it was an adjustment getting used to the weather, but the cold was still a familiar friend as her home was in the deep of the sea.

 A loud slap echoed through the mostly empty room as Lux brought her hand down on the table top and pulled Nami from her musings. A surprised squeak came from under a nearby desk, the late afternoon sun shining on it from the clean, frosted window nearby.

  "Chill out Luxikins," said the girl occupying the top of the desk beside Lux's, her feet dangling off in a playfully bored sort of way. A smile was spreading across her features as she looked from Lux to Nami. To the siren this girl, Jinx according to Lux's diary, looked positively manic, her long, red braided pigtails she sported were frayed and wild in places. Nothing about Jinx seemed put together. As if she were just barely sewn together chaos. And Nami would be lying if she said she didn't feel a certain unease around Jinx as she continued to watch Nami through bright crimson eyes.

 A small sigh came from Jinx that quickly turned to a giggle. It was a mad sound, but also a carefree one that made Nami feel as though she wanted to laugh as well.