If I had to pick one thing I did not miss, it would be to go to classes. I barely remember the first time I was in school. This time was too different for me. I was even more likely not to need 60% of the stuff they were trying to cram into my head. It seems I am good friends with Ryutarou, that kinda surprised but guess the god made sure I had a way into the group. Kirito is surprisingly a good person. I could do without Kouki trying to hit on me every chance he got…
Flashback
"Hey Selena, do you want to go out with Ryutarou and our group?" Kouki smiled his thousand watt smile at me.
"No thank you Amanogwa. I have other things to do today."
"Hey Selena we need-" A random girl pops into the class looking for me. "Oh, hi Kouki.." the random girl started simping for him after seeing that he was in the room talking to me.
Not wanting to waste anymore of my time, I got up and dragged the girl away from the class. "No wait, I want to talk more with him… Selena it is not fair only you get to talk to him."
"Mmm we have things to do…" a smile that did not reach her eye was seen by the other girl.
"But it's Kouki!!"
Back in the room Ryutarou watches the scene play out. "Haha. Better luck next time. Let go," he claps Kouki's shoulder as they left soon after.
End flashback.
It looks like the school saw me as part of their group since I was always seen a lot of the time with Ryutarou.
After getting my bearings in this life and going through the memories this puppet had, I learned one thing… 'That fuckin god made her act complete oppsite to what i would normally do..' During my past life I was in the "going home club".
"At least he had her? It? I'm not too sure what to call it. According to the memories it acted in whatever mood Kirito wanted it to till I got here." It makes me wonder if I was supposed to be the one in this place. Something I will most likely have to wait till I get my hands on magic. 'He was shady as shit' were her thoughts on the subject.
The first few days were very awkward to say the least since I quit being in all extra school programs except joining the Yaegashi dojo to learn the coveted sword skill I wanted to have for the future. Ryutarou looked at me strangely since my attitude did a 180 degree switch since I didn't plan on living a lie since I would normally do those things myself..
People I could barely recall, kept coming to me to try to get me to rejoin the student council. I denied them and I slowly closed myself off. It would been like my last life where I didn't really have a social life but there was the lovable idiot Ryutarou not perturbed by my personality flip. At least he never did ask but I got the feeling he did.
Although I did end up with one new friend, much to everyone who knew me, shock.
Given what I knew, becoming friends with Hajime was my top priority. Although since I had quite a bit of time, I took it slow. In the end I picked up sketching since in my last life I sucked dick. It wasn't like he was looking to make friends, he was already living his best life. So I would always run to the rooftop before Hajime and start drawing. What do you know, I suck still… but I kept at it since there was time and I didnt want to force a friendship like Kaori was already trying to…
Flash back in class
I was sitting next to Hajime, to his right since he had taken the coveted window seat.
"Hi there, what is your name?" Kaori was super energetic as she invaded his personal space.
"Ah, hi. My name is Hajime Nagamo and you?" He seemed put off, but he did his best to reciprocate out of courtesy.
After that I kinda zoned out since she went on and on trying to get him to talk. To his luck class started soon after so he avoided the awkwardness that day. But it didn't stop there, each day she chirped at him. Rip background character lifestyle.
Finally close to the end of the first year it happened I reel in the big one. Even though he ran away a lot at first much to my chagrin. Day was peaceful, I did not have to worry about money since at the very least that god set me up with enough funds till i graduated if i didn't spend it like an idiot.
Random day
Hey why are you always up here Selena… Hajime asks if he was too timid at first. I guess Kaori left a long lasting mark on him.
It's amazing that he's already handling his parents' social media. He's a master with texts and tweets. Talking in person, however, is beyond him.
I'm here to enjoy my days. I smile back at the close sketch pad. Want to see?
Sure, why not he struggled all year to talk to me. Luckily we were the only ones on the roof that day. He began to look through it.
Why are you always up here? I see Ryutarou and you on friendly terms. He said off handley as he seemed interested in what was on the pages.
So she told him while holding out her sketch pad, "I would not get any draw done with all the busy bees circling around me hehe." He took a look at her sketch pad and was happily surprised with her drawings. Hajime was impressed since he never saw drawings like these anywhere and how intricate they were. Selena's inner thoughts on some of the drawings though were,'I kind of stole them from my past life from the Persona series, lol.' She hit her chest with her hand as she smiled at Hajime and said "Of course, one day I will help make a game hehe."
Hajime thought Selena was weird since most days she shows up on the rooftop during lunch period. 'She is always up here drawing. I never took the time to talk due to always pulling all-nighters to help my parents. Their Manga and video game development takes a ton of work. I plan to follow in their footsteps and I don't really like the real world.' After talking to Selena, he learned that she was in judo club middle school and currently, after school she was in the kendo dojo of Yaegashi style. 'Maybe she is in the dojo to help get ideas for her character's poses.'
Selena was proud of what she has done to get Hajime's trust and thinks to herself while smiling at Hajime, 'Well, I got my new friend, time just to keep it up so that I can help him in the future and vice versa.' As he starts to look at some of the older drawings, her face starts to pale as she tries to stop him from looking.
Hajime laughed as he saw her not so great drawings and ran around the roof avoiding her attempts to stop him flipping through the pages of her shame.
"No! Hajime stop! Please, not my dark past!" as her rage slowly builds up from the mortifying moment that was happening while Hajime is laughing with a rare smile on his face. After finally getting her hands on her pad, she proceeded to smack him on his head as she pouted, "That wasn't fun to look at."
From that day on they would talk about stuff he was working on and his daily trouble about how he is trying to avoid Kaori due their classmate's hatred of him for having her attention. Little did Selena know, Kaori was looking at her from that point on like she killed her puppy. Every once in a while, a chill ran up Selena's spine, as if warning her that someone was out for her blood. Every time Selena looks around to find the source of that feeling, all she sees is the fading image of something white hovering in the air.