CONFLICT

CHAPTER TWO

I finally arrived at my new school. I was feeling nervous and excited at the sametime. The butler opened the door of the car and said " Were here. This is Fukuoka Academy. ".

I just ignored him, I stepped out of the car and stared at school in amazement.

This is it Lucy. A day of a new start. So this is what a school looked like? Their are so many students like me. I cant wait to finally make and have friends.

Then suddenly I noticed that everyone around me is constantly staring and whispering. I heard someone say that "look a rich girl". I guess they are not used to seeing a rich girl before. I suddenly felt embarrassed. I looked down trying to hide my face. Then I snapped out of it when my butler handed me my bag. Everyone is also looking at my butler. Almost every girl outside the school look at him like his some kind of a celebrity. His just like an ordinary butler, he is definitely nothing special. I looked at him annoyingly.

When I headed inside,he decided to follow me. This annoyed me even more.

" Why are you following me?!" I glared at him.

" But my orders are to follow you wherever you go, Miss Lucia"

" Wait a minute!, who's butler are you again?" I give him an annoying smirk.

"...um..Im your butler, Miss Lucia." keeping his head down, looking at the ground.

" Right, it only means whatever I say you must follow right?.." he didnt answer me. He just kept silent and bowed his head.

"..Here are my orders so listen up. Dont follow me around. All you need to do is take me home and take me to school, nothing else. Do you understand?. I waited for him to answer. But he just kept silent. I was getting impatient. "Did you understand what I just said or not?!" I yelled at him without thinking.

" Yes, Miss Lucia." he whispered sadly.

Then I suddenly realized that everyone is looking at us, specifically at me. They looked at me with disgust. I heard them say that I was mean to him and they felt sorry for him.

I did feel guilty, but I was just annoyed. Today was a new start for me, I can finally live a normal life. Today I was gonna make new friends but by the looks of things I might not get any friends at all. Everyone around us sees me as nothing but a mean rich girl. But Im not. I certainly am not. I guess I did went over board. Now I feel bad.

" I-Im sorry. You can wait here until class ends" I said to him with a calm voice. I then went inside the school.

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When I arrived to my homeroom I introduced myself to the teacher and the rest of the class. The teacher had me seated on the back.

All of them stared at me as I walk to my seat, this made me so uncomfortable. I feel like I wanna hide under my table.

The class went by easyly. All of our lessons were already taken up when I was still home schooled. And to tell you the truth, Im pretty smart.

Its the end of third period and its time for lunch. I watched as my classmates slowly diminishes. They all went to the cafeteria to buy lunch, there's also some who stayed and chose to eat their packed bento boxes.

Now that I see so many food around me, I suddenly felt hungry. My stomach is growling but I dont have any packed lunch nor do I have some money. I knew that I forgot something. Im so hungry.

I was sulking at my table when someone approached me.

" Hi, are you okey?" the girl asked in a cheerful voice. This startled me a bit. I just gave her a smile and said Im okey. Then another girl came, but she doesnt look like japanese. She has blonde hair and aqua blue eyes. She was beautiful.

" Come on, Kotori, let's go I'm hungry!" she annoyingly said. " Why are you talking at the new girl?!".

What? Is this girl certainly asking for a fight? Who does she think she is anyway? She's so irretating. Urgh.

I was about to tell her to back off when,

" Sofie, leave her alone. Just go on ahead and I'll catch up" she said making me calm dowm. If it wasnt for her I would have had taken that blonde down. The blonde girl left without a word crossing her arms as she head out the door.

" Im sorry about Sofie. She's not good with meeting new friends." she gave me warm smile.

" Its okey. I understand." giving here a slight smile on my face.

" Im Kotori by the way. Your name's Lucia right? Do you want to have lunch with us at the cafeteria?"

" Thanks. You can call me Lucy but no, Im not really hungry." Nope, that was a lie. I was certainly hungry. But I just can tell her 'no, i dont have any money'. I just hope she doesnt hear my stomach growling.

" Are you sure?" I just gave her an assuring node. " Well, then see you after lunch. Bye"

Finally, she's gone but still that did not stop my stomach from growling. Ah, I know, I'll just think that Im eating some food.

What a delicious cake, juicy stake, pizza, carbonara. Thinking about eating food made me more hungrier. Im so hungry. Wait a minute. What's that delicious smell Im smelling?

Upon smelling the delicious food I decided to open my eyes. What the?.. Stake? Pizza? cake? What are these food doing in my table?

" Good, you're awake,Miss Lucia. Please enjoy your lunch." my butler said while gesturing to food on the table.

" What are you doing here?" I said. " I did not tell you to bring anything for me. Didn't I just said that your job is to bring me home and to school, thats it, nothing else?!."

" Im so sorry,Miss Lucia but wether its an order or not it is my duty to take care of you. So, I guess wether you like it or not I will still do this kind of things for you." he said while glancing a smile to me.

Who does he think he is? I was about to speak up when Sofie the blonde came. Even though I dont know her well I'm pretty sure that I will never like her and she wont like me either. She walks in with both arms crossed and with an irritating smirk on her face. This not going to be good I can tell.

" Oh,look. The princess with her servant. Really?, even in school you need someone to take care of you?" she said immitating the voice of a child. " Why ? Do you still need help to change your diaper?"

" Hahaha. Real funny. FYI he's not my servant." giving her a fake smile.

" Well, who is he then. Please do tell."

" His...his...his....."

" Cat got your tongue? Or is it because what I just said is the truth?"

" His my cousin". What? It just came out of my mouth. But I cant make them think that Im just a spoiled rich kid 'cause I'm certainly am not. " Yeah his my cousin, his actually going to transfer here today so, he brought me lunch."

" Oh, is that right?. But then why is it that he doest look like japanese? I mean he has bluish gray eyes and a natural icy blonde hair while you on the other hand has black eyes and hair, dont tell me your lying?" giving me fake smile.

I officialy hate her. Im just not good at lying. What should I tell her? Everyone in the class are already surrounding us waiting for my answers. But I dont know what to do. I could make a run for it. But they will realize that I was lying. What should I do?What should I do..

" Please dont make my cousin feel nervous." my butler said while putting his arm around my waist. " My names Hugh Jacobs. The reason why I dont look like japanese because I am not japanese.."

" Then why are you cousins then?" Sofie madly asked.

" That's because her uncle Mr. Chiaki Kanzaki adopted me when I was still a child. He treated me as his own son. And Lucia and I are very closed since she would visit me during summer when we were little. And if you want to know what my nationality is then I'll tell you. Im British but I am a Japanese Citizen. And now that you know everything, I would really appreciate it if you would be nicer to my cousin." giving everyone a warm smile.

What? He knows my uncle? But how?

Who is this guy?

Do I know him way before?