Say You Love Me

Chapter 2: What A Day!

"-and remember you all have a test next Monday on chapter 4! Dont forget to study! Have a good weekend!" Mr. Talbert, my College Algebra teacher says as the bell begins to ring. Thank fucking Jesus that the bell rang! I'm ready for this day to be over. Everyone around me starts to rush from the room and I go to follow.
"Oh, Miss Tachibana, please wait a moment, I want to go over what you will be doing about the test next Monday," Mr. Talbert calls out, a sparkle in his eyes. Great he most likely knows who I am and wants to make fun of me for it. The other teachers all just gave me bored looks or small grins when they introduced me as Mei Tachibana, the cousin of Mika Tachibana from up North. And surprisingly the other students didn't catch on to who I am actually. The girls were super nice to me and the guys even flirted with me. I frown at that thought. Usually people hated me or just ignored me.
I wait in front of Mr. Talbert's desk as the last few students leave the room, Mr. Talbert is just sitting at his desk, an almost evil looking grin in place. When the last student walks out he gets up and closes the door. Okay this is a little weird! What if he doesnt know who I am and he's going to try to take advantage of me? Im too young for this! I don't want to have my first time be taken by some old fucker!
"Hey, calm down Mei, or should I say Mika? I'm just closing the door so nobody can hear what we are going to be talking about," Mr. Talbert explains. I breath a sigh of relief at that. I feel ten times better now. I was really scared there for a moment.
"Please have a seat," Mr. Talbert points at the nearest seat to his desk so I sit down at it. He starts to say something but is interrupted by the door opening. It's Miss Pear, or Sasha, the principles secretary.
"Sorry, I'm late! The crowds of students leaving was crazy to get through!" She says as she takes a seat in the desk next to me. Um. Okay I'm confused now. Miss Pear seems to notice this and smiles. "Didn't tell him yet?" She says to Mr. Talbert and he shakes his head. "Yay, goodie I want to do it anyways!" She claps her hands as she turns to me, her smile suddenly looking evil.
"Miss Pear, what's going on?" I'm really confised. Was I in trouble? Did they find out about me kicking that dude? But he totally deserved it for fucking lifting up my skirt!
"Well, first off call me Sasha, I have a feeling we will be becoming good friends soon and second, Mika, Mr. Talbert and I have a proposition for you. You see, I never told anyone of your teachers who you are really. Only Mr. Talbert. The others all really think that you are Mei Tachibana, the cousin of Mika Tachibana. I told them that Mika is out of school for a while and is very sick and that Mei moved in with your mother and you for a while to help out while you are sick," Miss Pear-I mean Sasha says with a grin.
Wait, what?! Everyone but two people, well I guess three cause of the principle, think that I am a girl?! And she told everyone that I Mika, myself, whatever that confuses me, is sick? I vaguely remember some teachers mentioning this to the class but didnt pay attention as I was to embarrassed from having to stand at the front of the class.
"Now onto the proposition! I figured that it would be fun to mess with the students and other faculty by having a male student pretend to be female. It will really be a huge surprise when they find out and everyone will be shocked that we managed to fool them! Also, you're into acting arent you? You take College Intro to Theatre and our Acting class. This will be a huge thing to help you out in the long run for your acting career. When a director asks you about how good you are at acting you could tell them about the time you fooled everyone into thinking you were a female!" Sasha says as she bounces around a little. I nod my head. Some of what she said sounded interesting. I really do love acting and if I did manage to fool everyone into think I was a female it would be a great achievement for my acting career. But the fact that I had to act like a female was bad.
I didn't want to act like a female. I don't even know the first thing of how to act like one! Just acting like one today sucked! Also, if I took my classes as Mei Tachibana does that mean that I would have to retake these classes as Mika Tachibana to get credit for them? I say these things to Mr. Talbert and Sasha after thinking it through.
"Well, I'll make sure to put everything under your name, Mika Tachibana, in my computer and Sasha will fix things and put the grade you get as Mei Tachibana in the other classes under your name on her computer," Mr. Talbert explains. "Also, I know you hate the other srudents here and they are a bit rude to you. Doing this would be like a huge, excuse my language, fuck you to them. Convince them all that you are a female and get them to like you, and then bam! Surprise its the guy you all dislike!" Hmm, Mr. Talbert had a good point.
"Okay, I'll do it I suppose. But there's still a problem. I don't have any other female uniforms besides this one. All the ones at home are male ones and I don't know how to my makeup or how to act like a female?" I look at Sasha when I say this. She would know how to help me, better then Mr. Talbert. She nods her head, a thoughtful look on her face.
"Are you free tomorrow afternoon? We could go shopping and I'll help you buy what you will need and then show you how to act like a female, do your makeup, ect." She says as she pulls out her phone and starts typing at it, probably to make a list of what needs to be done.
"Yeah, I'm free until 5 pm tomorrow night, then after that I have to work," I say. And then I pause. Wait, work! Someone from school might see me there as Mika and call bullshit on the whole Mei thing since if I'm pretending to be Mei, that means that "Mika is home sick".  "What do I do about work? Someone could see me as Mika there and get suspicious," I ask the two adults.
"Tell your boss your doing something for your acting class where you have to pretend to be a female to get into character for a play you will be in," Sasha says simply with a small grin, her short strawberry blonde curls bounce a little as she nods her head to what she just said. "Now, will your mother be home tomorrow? Will we have to pretend that I'm your secret older friend or no?"
"No she's gone for the day," I explain. Secret older friend? "Not to be rude, but how old are you Sasha? And you too Mr. Talbert?" I look over at my teacher. His hair is a dark brown color and he has a full beard, making it hard to tell how old he is.
"I'm 21 and Mr. Talbert here is in his early 30s," Sasha explains quickly. "Now, I have to get going but here's my number so we can get into contact tomorrow. I'll see you next Monday, Jonathan, and I'll see you tomorrow Mika!" Sasha says as she stands and hands me a small piece of paper. She's gone soon after.
"Well, um, I guess I'll see you next week, sir," I say to my teacher as I stand. Mr. Talbert smiles and nods at me.
"Have a good weekend, Mr. Tachibana, and don't worry. Sasha and I will be here to help you with everything," He says as he waves me out the door.
My mind is a wirl wind of thoughts as I walk towards my locker. Earlier a girl had asked me, or me pretending to be Mei, why I was using my cousins locker and I had to quickly lie and say it was because the principles secretary forgot to assign me one so I was stuck with Mika's for now. I sigh as I reach my locker. What the fuck did I just do? Did I just really have a talk about acting to be a female with my principles secretary and one of my teachers?
Shaking my head I open my locker. Right away I notice the note taped the inside of the door and the knife taped right next to it. What the actual fuck?! I grab the note and read it.
"You kicked the wrong guy, bitch! Yamato Kurosawa was innocent! Go die!!"
Well then, that was rude. And Yamato Kurosawa? Was that who I really kicked? I never really even noticed who it was. If he really was the wrong guy I feel kind of bad, but only kind of. He's the most popular guy here in school and is a total asshole. Messes with girls feelings and just walks around like he owns the place. And damn, I didn't realize how crazy some girls are about this dude, leaving a note like this and everything was crazy. Guess "Mei Tachibana" is going to have a few enemies now.
I quickly shove the books I need into my bag along with the note and knife. Im about to zip it up when someone suddenly clears their throats. I frown and look up, ready to tell who ever it is to go fuck off. My mouth falls open a little in shock when I see who it is. Yamato Kurosawa! What did he want? Was he angry about before?
"I'm sorry about my friend, Kenji, from before...he was the one who lifted your skirt. He's, ah, a little special I guess you could say. He didn't mean no harm," Yamato says with a small smile. And I frown again. He's apologizing for that perv Kenji Nakanishi? Should have known it was Nakanishi! That guy always harasses the girls!
"Your friend should be the one to say I'm sorry, also there was harm done. That was very rude and disrespectful of him to do," I say, my voice coming out a little higher pitched then usually. Hmm, maybe pretending to be a female wasnt going to be so hard. My voice was naturally high pitched and I had a nice ass and hips if I say so myself. And I was pretty short. Only 5'4, ugh. Yamato looks embarrassed when I say this and why would he embarrassed?
"Oh. I thought I should at least say sorry for him. I'm sorry," Yamato says as hell shrugs and scratches his neck. He's got a small smile on his face and it actually kind of makes him look handsome. Wait, handsome? Woah, back the fuck up brain you aren't actually a female! And I'm not gay! "Oh! I'm Yamato Kurosawa! You're Mei Tachibana, correct? Mika Tachibanas cousin? I heard he's sick and will be out of school for a while..I'm sorry about that!" He says, holding his hand out towards me. I just look down at it and then look back up at him. He drops his hand quickly.
"Yes, I'm Mei Tachibana, and thank you. I will let Mika, know that you are sorry he's sick," I say with a small nod. I look down at my bag in my hands and finish zipping it up. When I look back up I see Yamato frowning. "What?" I say, my voice sounding a little snapy.
"I saw you out a knife in your bag..." He says, trailint off as he bites his lip.
"Oh, someone taped it to my locker door along with a note. Told me that I kicked the wrong person earlier and that I should go kill myself," I say with a shrug. "I suppose that was you, huh? Im sorry about that. I thought you were the one who lifted my skirt." Im not really sorry but it was polite to say so.
"Oh," Yamato looks worried about this. "I'm really sorry! Some of the girls here are, uh, a bit obsessed with me and get a little crazy if something happens to me. But hey, listen if we become friends they won't bother you with stuff like that anymore! So what do you say, want to be friends?" He holds his hand out once more and I shake my head.
"Not really, I'm only here to learn and to help with my cousin, I'm sorry," I say. My phone suddenly starts to ring in my skirts pocket so I grab it, checking to see that its a text from my mother asking me where I am. Before I can put it back in my pocket Yamato reaches out and grabs my phone and starts typing at it.
"Hey! What do you think you are doing?" Im not angry that hes going to find something on my phone, don't have anything to hide, but the fact that he just fucking took my phone without my permission!
"Im adding my number in your phone. If you dont want to be friends with me at least text or call me if one of the girls tries to do something like this again to you," Yamato explains as he hands my phone back to me. Our hands rub against each other a little as he does so and I blush. It felt oddly nice.
"Oh. Well I'll most likely not be doing that!" I say as I slam my locker shit and put my bag over my shoulder. "I have to go now. Bye!" I say and quickly walk away, not waiting for his reply. Fuck that was such an annoying conversation. Sighing, I shake my head to get rid of thoughts of Yamato. I have more important things to focus on, like getting home before my mom freaks out.