That's the way the Cookie Crumbles

Chapter 2

The final bell of the day chimed what seemed extra loud and extra welcoming. The students cheered as they got up to stretch or to run out to go straight to their club activities or to just go home after a long hard day of classes. Few students took their time into gathering their things or they stayed behind to talk with friends.

"Alright everyone! Remember to do your homework and come back safely tomorrow!" Yelled the teacher in Clara's class just as the students got up to leave. Clara waited behind from the other students as she wrote down extra notes. Clara had to make sure she got everything down from the lectures, she even double check all she had to do because was heading towards the Volleyball club after school, so she was going to be running home late.

"Inari." Clara snapped her attention to the teacher when he came over to her. "I have to leave, do you mind staying and erasing the chalk board for me?"

Clara smiled and got up. "That's not a problem!" She took the chalkboard easer and headed to the long board and began to swipe. As she did her little chore she thought back to her notes that she was writing down. "I can pick up some food on the way home..." She mumbled to herself as she continued to swipe the board. She stopped for a moment to pat the chalk dust from the easer before it started to smudge the board. Once 'cleaned' she went back to the board. Again mumbling to herself, "Than after that I can go home, do my homework... maybe run some small drills before bed.." She nodded with a smile as she got everything planned out. She looked up and saw she missed the top part of the board and tried to reach.

"Curse my height..." Even though Clara was a 5'4" in height she was still short for the chalk board, she went on her tippy toes and started to swat widely around, even starting to jump up and down to reach. She blinked. "Hey..." Soon she started to do squat jumps and it worked!

"I can clean and work out for practice!" She laughed as she continued what she was doing, not realizing she had an audience.

"OI Cookie!" The voice seemed to appear out of nowhere to Clara as she screamed in mid jump, the sudden scare made her lose her balance and thus making her fall to the ground. Clara's hand is seen behind the desk, shaking as it slammed down to help support her as she gets up, she glares at Murasakibara who stared down at her with an annoyed look.

"You must really want me to crush you... been calling out to you for the past few minutes..." He made a 'tsh' sound with his teeth as he stared at Clara. Clara turned toward the blackboard, showing her back to Murasakibara, whimpered on the inside. To her she had the worst day she could think of. This... this... giant lummox! Pestered her practically the entire day and when she thought she had a moment of peace THERE he was!

'Where's the cookies, where's the cookies?! WHERE IS. THE. FREAKING. COOKIES?!' Clara screamed in her head as she became more and more agitated. 'Does this guy seriously have nothing else on the brain besides snacks?' She sighed and turned back, still pissed off.

"I told you Murasakibara... I will be bringing them tomorrow... so please... show some patience..." Clara said with a bit of a bite in her words. But her anger seemed to quench slightly when her other desk neighbor, Himuro Tatsuya appeared on the other side of Murasakibara, she blushed gently.

"Atsushi, come on it's time for practice..." Tatsuya than got a slight glare from Murasakibara.

"I am skipping today..." He stated glaring down at his classmate before turning his attention back to Clara, which made her jump slightly at how fast his mood could change.

'He is like a woman on her period...' She squeaked slightly when Murasakibara got to her eye level as he stared at her directly in the eyes.