Yuri and her demons || Highschool Love Story

Chapter 4 // What a day

Yuri arived home after half and hour.
At least she got some time to clear her head!
Her eyes were still a bit puffed up, though.

Her fight with Taylor stopped ringing inside her head the moment she walked into the house – wich was a small 16 m² house. Her dad died when she was young and she lived alone with her mom and her brother in this slum.

She rushed to her room – wich was approximatly the size of a closet. Oh, who are we kidding? It was a closet.

Her brother, Haru, tried to go after her but stoped himself.

Inside her "room", Yuri threw her bag on the ground and herself into her bed. She didn't want to see or hear anybody. After a few minutes, shs decided to go take a shower because she felt gross after this long day.

But when she was exiting her puddle, she realised that her mom had locked her door– !

— Huh... what... Let me out!!
— I'm sorry, can't do anything about this... replied Haru with a sorrowful tone from the other side of the door.
— Oh, come on!! You guys won't even let me out of here??!
— Not until mom figures out things with your new school.
— My new school...?
— Um... yeah.
— ....
Yuri stayed in silence for a bit.
— So where'm I going...?
— It's unclear.
— Huh?
— I think something's going on with mom. It feels like she's preparing something questionable.
— What do you mean?
— I don't know, man!
— You could be more usful !!
— Hey, you're the one who got yourself into this mess in the first place!
— You could let me out of here!
— So that I could be grounded forever?!
—...Pretty please?
— No way! I already told you every information I had.
— Fine.... at least bring me food?
— Can't. Mom said no food while grounded.
— Pffft, no fair.

Yuri sat back on her bed. All of this was so odd – how did everything change in such short time period? What a day...

~

* knock knock knock *

— Hmmm...?
Yuri sat up straight. She had fallen asleep... geez, what time was it?
— 9pm! I slept a bit.
— Yuri, I'm coming in.
The cold harsh voice echoed through the room.
— Okay.
Yuri sat still, not allowing one inch of her muscles to move. Her mom was coming, and her tone wasn't the softest of all.
The door opened. *knaaaack*
— Dear, I found a solution for our problem! Worry no more.

Yuri was surprised by her mom's sudden wave of affection.
— But it's going to require a few changes.
— Oh... No problem.
— This school, Sugar-High Akademi-
— Sugar-Cherry Akademi.
— Right, Sugar-Cherry Akademi, wasn't that great anyways. The level was so low you aced all your classes without lifting a finger. But I found a glitch !
— 'Glitch'?
— Indeed! I enrolled you at Dark-Malcomus High.
— Oh... Neat?
— Your brother's school.
—... wait. What now?

Yuri felt so stupid. She knew Haru studied at DM high... DM stood for "Dark Malcomus"? Of course!
— Mom... That's an all-boys school.
— Yes, that's correct.
— Mom.
— What?
— You realize that I'm not a boy, right?
— You could be.
????
— What!
— You're already enrolled, Yuri. Don't fight it.
— How did they even allow me??!
— Yuri's also a boy name. When I enrolled you, they just didn't ask, because DM is obviously a boy's school, they just assumed you were one.

Unbelievable!

— This is crazy, mom. They're going to ask for my ID eventually.
— I scraped off the 'F' for 'female' and wrote 'M' for 'male' with a marker.
—They're definitly not buying that!
— You're underestimating my scamming abilities.

<<my mom is evil>> she thought hardly.
Yuri's mom must've guessed her daughter's inner dialogue because she glared at her with dark eyes.
—...So, she pursued, about these changes we're going to have to make... That hair of yours. You need to pass as a boy, so...
— Oh, you're taking it on my hair now?
— Yuri, this is the last school that would take you. The last. Do you want to go to a juvenile center? Huh, is that what you want?
—...

~

Yuri decided to pass by the bathroom mirror before going to bed. Taking one last glance at her soft – yet unbrushed – shoulders length hair, she sighed.
Though she didn't really care about that sort of thing.
In fact, she was more worried about all the gentleman going there – all her life she had only been in girl academies. Sugar-Cherry Akademi didn't feature one pair of XY chromosomes.
<<Will there be less drama? Or on the contrary, more? Impossible to know.>>

As Yuri was gaining back her prison, she noticed that her small 21x15cm window was open. Then she saw a flamed-haired head peaking through.

— Taylor ?

End of chapter 4