Chapter 4 The Mysterious N
Scarlet's POV
The new girl that came from the star doesn't talk much and just gazes at the meat cooking in front of her. "Is it good?I know it's not much but I really wasn't expecting visitors. " Lucky laughs softly holding her chopsticks. "It's fine, I never had this before, What is it?" I asked picking out a piece of meat that finished cooking. "Yakiniku. It's really easy to serve."She smiles flipping the other meat over.
"So Hoshi was it? Have you ever tasted yakiniku before?" Lucky turns her attention to the girl who continues to burn a stare into the food. She shakes her head slowly. "Come on try it.It's good." I reassure her placing a cooked meat on her plate. Using the fork, she takes a small bite out of the meat and her face lit up with a smile, her first spark of emotion since we met her. She looks at Lucky as she chews the rest of her food with joy. Lucky giggles with a smile,"Glad you guys like it.Hehe, I'm so happy you guys decided to spend the night like uh...uh a sleepover, right?" Lucky looks over to Hoshi and I with blissful eyes.
After the meal, Lucky collect everyone's dish and I notice something. Lucky was walking on her front foot; on her toes in a way. "Hey Lucky?" I call out to her before she walked into the kitchen. She turned her head back to me and blink with a blithe look "Yes.?" she cocked her head. "Have you always walked like that?"I pointed to her feet making her look down. "Huh?What do you mean?" she looks back at me with a confused expression. "Walking on your toes I mean?Have you always done that?" I asked once for clarity. She scratches the back of her head with a childish smile. "Oh, yea.Don't we all?" she asks looking back at me. "Uh no."I shake my head with a facepalm. To think this girl thinks everyone walks on their toes, does she even pay attention to the people around her.Lucky sure is a weird girl but that explains why she's a klutz. With that Lucky leaves and my attention goes to Hoshi who sit on the couch with a deadpan look at the TV trying to figure out how it works. So I decided to sit next to her and turn the TV on.Which frighten her to the point that she jump a little. "So are you like from out of space or something?" I question leaning back on the couch. "I don't know," she answers.But suddenly she grips her head, burying her face into her lap. "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?" I shout shaking her. Lucky rushes in to see Hoshi shivering. "I can't remember anything. Everything's slipping." Hoshi shivers slightly looking up. "Oi, don't worry." Lucky gives her a radiant smile placing her hand on Hoshi's shoulder. "Y-yea just forget I asked anything." I wave my hands in front of me. Lucky gives her a thumbs up. "Yea just like Scarlet says, just forget about it," she repeats.
Hoshi starts to calm down and curls up into a hamster ball like state.I sigh just thinking about what just went down and sink back into the seat with despair. What have I gotten myself into?I wonder if Serenity is worried about me. When she brought my stuff over she seemed a little distance since that fight with Aimii. Hope she's ok being alone after that.Ah can't be helped, I don't trust Lucky with this girl who obviously needs help and not carelessness from a klutz like Lucky. As I lean back resting my eyes for a bit I was awoken to something more like someone poking my forehead."Huh?" I blink only to see Lucky's annoying smile poking her head out from the top of the couch. "If you're tired, I made up a room for you. " she points upwards, I guess to show that it was upstairs. I groan as I lazily get up. "Ah, I guess I better go to bed." I yawn and shoot a look at Hoshi who was already sleeping on the other couch near the dinner table. "I'll take her upstairs. " I pick up Hoshi and placed her on my back. I make my way up the latter in the branch up to a room already set up for guest with two beds.The room had bookshelves everywhere and it looked as if Lucky just pushed the books off the bed and sweep them under the bed last minute. I lay Hoshi in the bed and tuck her in.
I climb back down to ask Lucky a question about the bathroom but when I climb down, Lucky looked as if she stopped in her track and the atmosphere around her changed to a mysterious one. Her eyes were covered by the shadow of her bangs making her mood inscrutable to the point that I can't tell what's she thinking about and she walked like a normal person. At that moment my guard was up high, getting ready for a fight, for anything. She walks over to the mini lab and over to the laptop. She grabs the glasses on the side of the desk and puts them on. "Ah, that's better." She stretches before grabbing, pencil, and a blanket. She yawns one more time. "Looks like an all-nighter eh?" she mutter as she begins writing stuff down and then she gets up. I hid myself and my presences behind the couch as she walks towards the stairs that lead to Hoshi's room. Tch what is she up to? I slowly follow behind her as she peeks into Hoshi's room. "Hmm," she mutters jotting stuff down. "Oi, what are you doing!?" I shout grabbing her shoulder with a tight grip. As if expecting me and gives me a glance with a lazy expression. "Oh You're Scarlet right? " she pushes up her glasses making the lens shine in the light, blocking me from seeing or reading her eyes."Of course, you know me Lucky. What's going on with you?!" I pull her out of the room and closed the door. She sighs. "What a drag.I really don't feel like explaining it to you right now because you won't understand with your current knowledge of me." she pushes my hand away and heads towards the stairs. "Try again another time, will ya." She waves her hand and makes her way down. "Hey, explain yourself.Why were you stalking Hoshi just now?" I demanded. "So you're fine with the fact that she came from the sky without any memories?Just accepting that small bit of information?" she asked stopping in her tracks. I started thinking.It is strange and there must be something she remembers. There are so many questions I want to ask that girl but Lucky is right."Well, you better get to sleep." Lucky waves leaving. Ah no use asking her anything. Might as well call it a night I guess. "Wait, where's the bathroom?!" I call out to her. She points toward the bathrooms.
Normal POV
Lucky sits at the computer and typed up the stuff she wrote down. She placed the eraser part on her chin, pondering. She looks down at the stuffed dragon plushie that sits on the edge of the desk leaning up against the desk lamp.She brushes her hands on the head and under the chin, giving it a smile. "Strange, where did this Hoshi person really come from? Hmm," she mumbles to herself. She pushes her rolling chair back in frustration. "Tch.Ah well, guess bed for me." She sighs laying on the couch being too lazy to head up to her room.
The next day
Serenity Pov
I walk towards the classroom, thinking about what happened the other day.I hope Hoshi, Scarlet, and Lucky are doing alright. Sigh, I wasn't much help in that fight. More like I was a hindrance. I wanted to help but. I grip my fist tightly biting the bottom of my lip. Useless...I was completely useless to help them.I sigh as I reached the doorway of the classroom looking down. "Yo what's up Serenity?" a familiar voice calls out to me. Sitting in my chair was a cheeky grin from my best friend as she waves to me."Scarlet!" I cheer rushing to sit down next to her.Then I noticed Hoshi was sitting at the middle table, studying us with curiosity. "So she came along, at least Sweet." I smile waving at her."Yea she doesn't talk much at least we know she does have a voice." Scarlet explains pulling my hand down.I looked at her confused and then looked around the room. "Where's Lucky?" I asked. Scarlet simply points to the girl who looks like Lucky. The lens of her glasses shines from the reflection of the light as she writes in her notebook with calm and grace. "Lucky!?Hey!" I call out to her.However, she doesn't look up and continues writing, only looking up for a brief moment before diving back into her work. "Uh, Lucky?" I call out to her once more and then I walk over to her with Scarlet by my side. "Hmm?" She mutters glancingly looking up at us, placing her hand on her cheek. She closed her notebook, gets up and pulls her glasses off before placing them back into the pocket of her hooded jacket. Lucky blinks for a moment and smiles at us. "Hey, guys. What's up?" she waves at us with such joy as if nothing happened. "Huh?Did you not hear us earlier?" I asked scratching my head trying to understand what just happened. Lucky chuckles and then smiles saying, "I guess not.Sorry,"
Leon rushes in like a steam engine, panting and sweating. "I'M SORRY I'M LATE!" he shouts. He looks around the room. "Where's the teacher?" Scarlet comments. As if on cue Ms. Z walks in yawning with papers in her hand. "Welcome class. sorry about cutting school short yesterday." she yawns as she looks at the class which causes everyone to get back into their seats. Ms.Z looks right at Hoshi and points at her. "Who is that?" she mutters. Scarlet and I made out way over to her. "This is Hoshi. " I smile introducing her. "She fell from the sky." Lucky cheers slamming her hand on the table. Ms.Z gives us a strange look but shakes it off."Whatever.I don't know why you guys would make up such a wild story and this wouldn't be the first time someone random decides to join this class." she sighs. glancing at Scarlet for a moment."And I don't believe it will be the last."Her glance moves over t0 Hoshi. "So will you be teaching this time?" Leon asked with his arms across, tapping his finger on the table. She replies with a simple, "Meh.Sure whatever." as she grabs a marker for the whiteboard. "Let's start then. Lesson one..."
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