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The Alice Academy

Chapter 3 - The Popular and the Hated

Ri followed Tokio into he room and pointed to the bed, right of he window in the center, the room was large and spacey.
“That one’s your bed, Tokio-chan.” she said and plopped down on her own.
“Thanks Ri-chan.” Tokio through her bag onto the black and white bed, seeing her other bags in the open closet on the right wall.
“So, Tokio, do you know the Kaulitz twins?” Ri blurted out.
“Bill and Tom?”
“Yeah! You got to talk to them, didn’t you!? You’re so lucky!” Ri squealed while jumping up and skipping across the room and sitting next to Tokai, as Tokio sat down on her bed at the exact same time. Coincidence?
“Ah? Lucky? How’s that?” she asked, a confused look on her face.
“Oh, I forgot you wee new! Duh.” Ri smacked her forehead. “Bill and Tom Kaulitz are the top students here at the academy!” she pulled her legs up onto the bed, crossing them and facing Tokio as Tokio did the same, but instead of crossing her legs, she was sitting on them. “They’re also the most popular boys in the whole school!” Ri threw her hands over her head, seeming all to eager to tell Tokio what she knew.
“Well they are very cute.” Tokio looked out their window in a daze.
“They’re not just cute, they’re BEAUTIFUL!” Ri leaned toward Tokio as she said this an whispered. “Look here To-chan.” she kept changing what she called Tokio… “Hey, you! Are you listening or what?” she waved her hand by Tokio’s face and she looked back to Ri.
“Course, Ri-chan.” she answered blankly.
“Good. I just wanted to make it clear that I love Tom.” blushing a little, Ri sat back in her earlier position.
“Ah! That’s so sweet! You two would look so sweet together!” Tokio exclaimed, smiling wide. “Oh, don’t worry Ri! I like Bill so-” Oops. Tokio turned red after blurting out what she had been thinking all that day., without even thinking.
“Whoa! Sweetness.” Ri laughed and pointed at Tokio’s face. “You’re face turned pink!”
Tokio laughed. “Yours did too!”
Ri smiled grew. “I can tell we’ll be awesome friends! My only real friend here has been Searcher-sama and he’s a boy!” she laughed.
“I’ve never had a real close friend.” Tokio said, thinking.
“That’s no good, girl!” Ri said and jumped off the bed and walk to her closet and opening it to reveal tons of clothes that matched Tokio’s style. “How about we start with trading clothes?”
Tokio agreed and went to her own closet

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An hour or so later, shoes, clothes, belts, and jewelry had been traded. Tokio and Ri started to unpack and organize all of Tokio’s things. Tokio’s long brown hair, with the pink highlights, was tied up into a bun, the tips sticking out in all directions while two locks fell to each side of her face. She wore a sleeveless, pale pink, top that showed off her stomach with a long sleeved fishnet shirt over that. She also wore a frilly, black, gothic-like skirt matched with a pair of black knee-high boots with a chain connected to the zipper with a bunny charm at the end, along with pink and black stripped leggings.
Ri wore the same, but what was pink on Tokio, was a pale baby blue on Ri, and instead of the bunny charm, there was a kitten. Her hair was also mimicking Tokio’s, though it was long and black with bright blue tips.
Tokio unpacked the last of her many, many pillows and threw it on her bed. “Done.” she sighed and fell backwards onto her bed as someone knocked at the door. Ri went to see who it was.
“Nine?” Ri sounded surprised. “What do you think you’re doing here?”
“Claiming what is mine, of course.” a girl about 18 pushed her way through the door and past Ri. Nine was shorter than Ri, but Tokio knew that Nine was taller than herself. She had medium length, straggly, brown hair with untidy bangs.
Her emerald green eyes landed on Tokio and she smirked, sticking her chest out. “The loser clone has arrived!” she laughed and walked over to Tokio who sat up on her bed. “I saw you with the Kaulitz this morning, newbie.” she bent over so that her face was even with Tokio’s. “Now you see here.” she flicked Tokio between the eyes as a shy girl with wavy light brown hair and red tips walked in, she looked younger than everyone else so far, about 16 perhaps. This girl was followed by a tall guy with similar features in his face to Nine’s. He had short and spiky, pure black, hair.
“Bill Kaulitz belongs to me.” Nine continued, still in Tokio’s face.
“You can’t-” Tokio started but the tall boy stepped up to Nine.
“You’re such a lesbo, little sis.” he said. “You know Kaulitz-chan is a girl! Why won’t you listen?”
Nine rolled her eyes and turned to her brother. “You idiot, I’ve told you millions of times!” she snapped. “Bill is a MAN! You’re the gay one, Allen!”
“Al-kun..” the young girl suddenly spoke to the boy. “Nine-chan is right. Bill is a boy, he and his brother Tom are identical twins.”
“Yeah, Yeah.” Allen waved his hand as he turned. “Think what you want.” he walked out, slamming the door behind him, making the small girl jump.
“Meital, sweetie, please try not to be so jumpy.” Nina advised her friend, then once again turned to tokio as Ri sat down on her bed, rolling her eyes at all the chaos going on.
“Anyway, as I was saying. Bill-san is mine.” She thought for a minute. “Oh, and Tomi-kun is taken too.” Nine looked at Ri with disgust, then smiled over at Meital. She blushed.
“Oh, shut it, Nine!” Ri blurted. “Just because you like him doesn’t mean he belongs to you.”
“Nine began to snap back at Ri but there was a loud bang in the hallway, followed by Allen’s yelp.
“Crap!”
“What the-?” Nina barged into the hallway.
Ri moved from her bed, over to Tokio’s once again, and sat next to her. Meital just stood by the door, staring shyly from Tokio to Ri, then back to Tokio who was looking at the table next to her bed. A small fountain was there that she hadn’t realized before.
“Cool.” she whispered to herself and held out her hand toward the fountain. A bubble of water flew to her palm, rotating quickly, just hovering over the hand.
Nine stomped back into the room, swinging her brother onto the floor, landing on his back as Tokio made the water into a sphere of ice in her hand.
“Whoa!” Allen’s voice came from Tokio’s feet, as that was where he landed. “You have the Water and Ice elements?” he pointed to Tokio’s hand.
“Hmm? Yeah.” she threw the ball of ice full speed at Nine’s face, it formed back into water just before it hit the tip of her nose, and fell to her feet.

~Ende Capter 3 - the Popular and the Hated~