Beauty With a Brat (The Suzuhara Family 1) ✅

Chapter One

September 19th, 2028

She was beautiful. Her hair was dyed honey blonde (as the schools allowed students to dye their hair) and she wore her hair long. Wavy curls stirred against the wind. Her hands looked so delicate. She had a slender figure; the summer uniform for Shirahime Girl's Academy of a short-sleeved, cream-colored button-down blouse, a red and green plaid tie, and a red and green plaid skirt fit her perfectly. Her face was so petite. She wasn't wearing any makeup, but then again she didn't need any. She was perfect the way she was.

Wataru realized he was gaping, and clicked his mouth shut. Still, he was transfixed on the girl who stood just a few meters away at the front gates of Yukinaga Boy's Academy. He was dressed in Yukinaga's summer uniform of a short-sleeved, cream-colored button-down shirt, a red and green plaid tie, and red and green plaid trousers. He certain she was the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen, and the moment he laid eyes on her his heartbeat accelerated. His face felt hot, and he suddenly felt embarrassed. The girl was talking to her friend, and she suddenly laughed. The sound carried to his ears, and it sent shivers down his spine.

He didn't know this girl's name, or if she was a first-year high school student like him, or anything else about her. But in that moment Wataru realized he was in love.

It wasn't that unusual to see Shirahime students loitering at Yukinaga Academy. Yukinaga students often did the same at Shirahime. They were technically exclusive, private sister-schools; mirrors of each other, except that Shirahime only accepted girls and Yukinaga accepted boys. Both schools were in the same neighborhood, roughly twenty minutes walking distance away from each other. Wataru often wondered why the two schools were separated when they were essentially the same school and they often scheduled festivals on the same day so that students from both schools could visit the other. But it was the outline his great-great-grandfather, Koichi Suzuhara, had come up with when he built both schools in 1949, and nobody had really cared to question it all this time.

But even if the schools weren't integrated, Wataru was pleased that this group of girls had come to the school today. Especially since this group of girls contained the beauty he couldn't stop staring at.

The girl gave a toss of her head, still laughing at whatever her friend was saying to her, and then she saw Wataru.

Wataru nearly jumped out of his skin when she looked at him, and he felt embarrassed to be caught gawking at her. At the same time though, he felt a sudden rush to feel her eyes on him. God, even her eyes were beautiful. How is she real? She looks divine!

The girl said nothing for a long moment. She didn't approach Wataru, and didn't say anything to her friend. But...what she did after that moment took Wataru completely off-guard.

The girl suddenly looked shocked. Then pure, unadulterated terror crossed her face. She stumbled backwards, away from her friend, and raised her hands defensively.

Wataru blinked in confusion, and took a step forward. "Oi—"

The girl let out a scream of pure terror, startling Wataru. She spun on her heel and took off running, out of Yukinaga's gate and down the road.

Wataru gaped in shock, and dropped his hand to his side. Wait...what?!

"Suzuhara-kun!"

Wataru blinked, and he saw the girl's friend charging towards him. Her hair was dyed auburn in a bob cut, and her expression was angry. Wataru quickly realized that he was staring at Tami Ikeda, his best friend's girlfriend.

"Suzuhara-kun, what did you say to Natsumi?!" Tami yelled at him. "What did you do to make her run away screaming like that?!"

"Whoa!" Wataru exclaimed, jumping back and raising his hands. "I didn't do anything! I was just standing here, and—"