Buttered Biscuits (Natsume Hyuuga X OC)

The Audacity Of That Teacher!

The sunrise peeked through the transparent curtains of Hoshika's room. The rays of light coincidentally hitting the small girl's eyes, waking her up earlier than her alarm. She stretched her arms way up over her head and smacked her drool covered lips with a sigh. Her clock told her it was 6:44 AM, the time being much earlier than she needed to even be awake but she figured she wouldn't able to go back to sleep.

She willed her feet to move over her bed and hit the floor, her sock covered feet moving across the floorboards soundlessly. For some reason, she found herself infront of the door that conjoined her room and Natsume's room. The girl looked down at her PJ's. She wore an airy white blouse that was lacy on the straps, and silk pajama shorts. It made her figure that she was much too indecent to go and check on him. Wait, why do I even want to check on a jerk like him anyways? Ignoring the subtle feeling of curiosity in her chest, she opted to go to the bathroom to get ready for the day.

After she brushed her teeth, her hair, and fastened the school's uniform onto her body, she gave her room a once over, realizing that she didn't fix her bed, a habit that she began as a young kid. She quickly put her bed together and smoothed out the soft sheets over her hands.

Her feet moved and she was at her door, thinking of what socks she should wear with her school issued shoes. Opting for a pair of white ones with a puffy lace where the end meets the ankle, she finished her look by putting on her shoes and heading out the door.

"What a coincidence." a boyish voice called from a few feet away from her.

Hoshika jumped slightly, the sudden noise scaring her, "Yeah, what a coincidence..." she said, not looking at him, remembering the awkward eye-contact they made the night before.

Natsume stared at her for a moment through the strands of his dark hair before blinking and continuing his walk down the hallway, his hands in his pockets. Hoshika looked up to stare at him for only a second before following suit. She stopped at the floor she remembered Hotaru's room was on and knocked only once before the door swung open and a light orange blur crashed into her, making her fall onto her behind.

"H-hey, watch it!" Hoshika said, rubbing her sore bum, opening her eyes to see that the blur from before was actually Mikan.

"Morning, Hoshika!! We need to hurry or else we'll be late!" the girl said in a hurry, pulling Hoshika's hand up and dragging her along, "Hotaru already left!"

"W-what? But I thought school didn't start until--" She said, her mind in a tizzy from being thrashed around.

"No time to talk, we're late!!"

"Okay...!" Hoshika said, withering away, "I think I'm gonna barf..."

"Oh, "No-Star" Mikan-chan, and Hoshika-chan!"

There stood Narumi, today's punisher of late students. In the student handbook, it was a written rule that any student arriving late must be punished.

"Since you two are late, you have to great responsibility of cleaning the barf cans!" he said gleefully.

"I think I might barf after Mikan threw me around like that." Hoshika said, holding her hand over her mouth and keeling over a bush. "Bleh."

Mikan laughed awkwardly, "Sorry, Hoshika..."

"Anyway, what's a "barf can"?" Mikan asked Tobita who showed up, saying he would help the poor girls.

"Well, a barf can is Alice Academy's specially designed trashcan! After student's throw away trash into a trash can, it automatically decomposes it and changes it into fertilizer or other recyclable materials." the class rep explained, "The trashcans hate eating trash so they always run away from people, often making a really big mess."