Beauty With a Brat (The Suzuhara Family 1) ✅

Prologue

August 24th, 2025

The gymnasium at Suzuhara Middle School was filled with students and teachers chaperoning for the Summer Social. North of the main entrance there were several long tables set up with white tablecloths with food and drinks. Tables with white table clothes were positioned in a circular formation in the center of the gym, where the dance floor had been situated. The latest single of the girl group Thé Au Miel was playing over the loudspeakers, and most of the students were on the dance floor dancing.

"She's coming!"

The second floor rail was where spectators sat for games. Wataru Suzuhara was leaning his arms against the rail, idly watching his classmates dance. All of the girls were dressed in white dresses. He had heard that girls always wore white dresses to the Summer Social. It was tradition, he supposed.

It's a stupid tradition. Boys always wear whatever to these Socials.

"Wataru—"

"I heard you," he said. He balanced a large inkwell in the palm of his hand. It was wider than his palm. "I'm ready."

Five other boys were huddled around him. They were standing directly above the first floor entrance doors. The other boys hissed with excitement and anticipation, but he remained calm.

Two girls entered the gymnasium underneath them. The boys jumped with excitement but Wataru didn't move. Three...two...one!

When saw her shadow, he turned the inkwell upside down.

The boys sucked in their breaths in anticipation as the red liquid spilled out of the inkwell and sailed towards the ground like a waterfall. And the moment she came in to view beneath them—her hair curly and perfect, not a strand loose or sticking up, wearing a dress she has undoubtedly sewed herself—the red ink met its mark and covered the intended target.

The girl screamed as the red ink soaked her hair, her arms, and stained her white summer dress. She quickly looked up to them, and her anguished face was covered in rivulets of red lines. The sight was so ridiculous to Wataru that he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

The boys joined him in pointing and laughing at the girl beneath them. On the dance floor students stopped dancing. Some stared frozen in shock, while others joined in on the laughter.

And the teachers...the chaperones keeping an eye on the party stood frozen with gaping mouths. None of them moved from where they stood at various spots across the gymnasium.

The girls who had arrived with the red-stained girl started shouting angrily at them as the girl in question fled the gym, but their rage only made the situation funnier to Wataru. The laughter shrieked out of his throat and he nearly fell over the rail, tears spilling down his cheeks.

A fist connected with Wataru's temple, stunning him and causing him to collapse to the floor. Before he could recover he was pushed onto his back and he received an open-palm slap to the face. "You son of a bitch!"

Wataru blinked, stunned, and recognized the boy who was now sitting on top of him slapping the spit out of his mouth. It was Yuto Kumori. It was the girl's twin brother.

"Whoa, whoa!" The other boys grabbed for Yuto and tried to drag him away. "What is your problem?!"

"I'm going to kick his ass, that's my problem!" Yuto shouted. The other boys managed to drag Yuto off of Wataru, but Yuto raised his foot and slammed it down hard into Wataru's stomach.

"Kumori-kun!" It was a teacher, but Wataru didn't know which one. He rolled over onto his stomach and gagged from the kick. "What do you think you're doing?!"