Counting Stars!

Prologue

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"Counting Stars!" - Normal talking

'Counting Stars!' - Thoughts

"Counting Stars!" - Usually said in a different language (Specifically your 1st language)

"Counting Stars!/Counting Stars!" Typically a switch to 3rd person in between Reader's POV

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Hierarchy...

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Chapter 1 - Prologue: In which it's the first day at my new school and I already want to go home and sleep.

'And here I thought my last school was big...' The thought rang with a distinct admiration and awe inside my head as I looked upon the school building through the bus window.

"Yumenosaki Private Academy...Yumenosaki Private Academy..." The voice of the bus driver droned out with a yawn, already looking to clock out and go home despite the mid-morning.

Hearing the call, I gathered my belongings and walked off. I took a moment to bask in the Spring air. It was cool and refreshing with a hint of crisp sea salt and blossoming flowers. The sun's gentle rays kissed my skin, the wind brushed past my uniform, and the chirps of birds gave me a melodious welcome. All in all, it was a beautiful day to begin the first day of my new school and a brand-new start in general.

I stared up at the building that towered over me, the butterflies in my gut engaging in Spartan worthy gladiatorial combat. I'd heard all about the praise the prestigious Yumenosaki Private Academy has gotten and though I've been to private schools before, Yumenosaki was a whole different kind of elite. Its reputation was known from all across the world and notable for having given rise to the popular male idols and entertainers of Japan for decades. It was quite a hot topic to many, especially on the internet.

Even though I wasn't interested in pursuing an idol career, I still decided to enroll here for multiple reasons. The biggest one was that I was perhaps a tad too desperate to transfer from my last school. I had heard that Yumenosaki, an all-boys school, was going co-ed and seeing the chance to escape-er, well, expand my horizons, I took it.

It was an amazingly simple and sound plan in my head. I would join the "General Course" of the school, graduate in two years, and live a happy, drama free life with a cat and/or dog by my side in a nice cottage somewhere deep in the woods ala Studio Ghibli style. It was a fortunate miracle that the school even allowed me to enroll so late into the semester which, at the time, made me feel like my luck was finally turning around.

Now though, as I stood in front of the imposing entrance of Yumenosaki, I was beginning to have some doubts. My transfer here was hasty and pretty spontaneous, but at the time I didn't really care. Any way to get out of my old school was the golden ticket in my eyes, even though I had no idea what the "Producer Course" I agreed to sign up for entailed.

The one silver lining of this situation was that I was now going to school with my younger stepbrother, Hikaru, who was just a wee little first-year~! Buuuut~, to the surprise of literally no one and their mother, he wasn't very enthused about having me go to the same school as him. He had whined and complained about it for weeks, but when he seemed to realize there was no changing my decision, he decided to set some "ground rules" between the two of us.