A Secret Unraveled (Completed)

Chapter 0.08: New Beginning Time

The next day, I was the first to wake up. After being away for a year, I was excited to go to Kunugigaoka Junior High and restart my school life here.

The uniform was already in my room, so I quickly got ready and sneaked downstairs to make breakfast.

Since I've heard so much about the school, and where it is and how everything works, I decided to visit the building before students started arriving.

Before long, school was about to start, so I quickly went back to the main building. Using what I learned during training to get down the mountain helped overcome lots of obstacles, and made the trip a lot easier.

When I got to the bottom, I saw Shuu and caught up to him.

"What took you so long?" I asked.

"I should be the one asking you the question. Why are you here so early?" he replied with another question, emphasizing the 'you'.

"Just wanted to walk around, see what the school was like." I answered.

As they were walking to class, I got many glares and the students started whispering to each other.

Oh no, it's happening again...

When we got to class, I chose the seat at the back next to the window as usual. The bell rang and the class began filling with students and the teacher came in.

"Class we have a new student. Please introduce yourself." he instructed.

I stood up and introduced myself energetically,"I'm Shiniko, nice to meet you all!"

With all their eyes staring at me, my insides started to shake and I could feel the butterflies all over again.

The teacher began the lesson after sitting down. I got bored halfway through the lesson.

The teacher had his back turned to us the whole time, so I grabbed my phone and headphones, and quietly opened and jumped out the window. 

No one noticed since they were too focused on copying everything down. I landed in a tree with no injuries.

I sneaked off to the E Class building to see if the rumors about the students were really true. I peeked into the classroom from a window outside the building.

The atmosphere was definitely different from the main building classes in many ways. From what I heard, I expected the class to be unteachable, but everyone seemed well behaved sitting in their seats and the teacher was really passionate about teaching.

I might know the school well, but not the staff. They're all the same, so I didn't bother meeting them, besides the teachers that are teaching A Class.

But seeing how she teaches, it was different, it was almost comforting to know that there are teachers who are passionate about teaching. It's teachers like her who makes me want to keep learning.

I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard her say it was time for lunch. I used the mountain terrain to parkour my way back to the main campus and climbed through the window to my class before anyone noticed I was gone.

I quietly slipped back into my seat and took off my headphones. Shuu came over and gave me my lunch.

"Cmon, let's get lunch together," he invited.

"Sure," I got up and left the classroom with him and the rest of the Big Five.

Every girl was glaring at me and whispering to each other, but I didn't care.

Well here we go again...

The two girls that pretended to be my friends from years age recognized me. Despite me being gone for almost a year.