The ringing sound of an alarm clock covered the whole room. And that disturbed the sleeping protagonist. But then, she curled her body, rejecting the reality that she have to wake up. Pero palakas ito nang palakas at hindi siya makatiis na patayin ito.

"Manahimik ka nga...!" She tried to shout, releasing stress on her throat.

Then, the alarm clock stopped.

She looked weirdly tired. Perhaps because of school works? She shrugged. Not that it mattered anyways.

She yawned before driving her bicycle to her school. "Gusto ko pa talagang matulog..."

"Then sleep." The sheepishly face suddenly fade away.

Who said that? She stopped driving her bicyle and looked around. No one was around and that was definitely not her. Because it was a deep voice like a guy's. She thought for a moment. Guni-guni lang niya siguro iyon? She continued driving her way to school.

"Good morning, Class."

Her teacher greeted but Yuki was just sitting there, instead of greeting back. She was too pre-occupied, must be because of what happened awhile ago.

She was about to stand up when the class already finished the greeting for the teacher. She sighed out of dismay. Miss Leila was the teacher in front of her and the advisory of the class she was in. For Yuki, not greeting the teacher back was a sign of disrespect.

"Okay, Class. Si Greg Lindo ay nagtransfer sa ibang school because of his family's business." The crowd went 'Ohhh' but no one seemed to care. Yuki quietly sat there, listening to the next words coming from the teacher.

"And we have an exchange student. His name is Shou Suzuki." Natigilan bigla si Yuki. She seemed amazed. That name was a Japanese's. And having an exchange student was just like those typical scenes in anime where the adventure would start.

"Shou, You can come in."

The moment he came in, the crowd was in awe especially the girls, fangirling. He was very good-looking but his eyes looked uninterested.

Also, the transferee seemed like, he was looking for something?

"Shou, introduce yourself." He immediately stopped looking around and straightened his back in front of the class.

"I'm Shou Suzuki. Japanese. I can understand tagalog but, I'll speak in english." Her eyes widened.

That deep voice sounds exactly like him!

She gulped in nervousness as she noticed that the transferee was looking almost at her direction. This made everyone looked at her too.

Meanwhile, as the transferee looked at the petite girl with pigtail, he seemed to be in deep thinking...  such as judging her. This continued until the bell rang. Unnoticeably, his face got darker as his sight was on his pocket.

This is tiring...

It was already lunch break and the classroom became quite noisy. Yuki sneaked a peek at her right side and she watched how the girls flocked around the transferee.

They were not only her classmates, there were even some seniors perhaps. However, her facial expression changed as if she was recalling something bad.

"Ma'am, may I sir beside her?" That was what the transferee named Shou, exactly said while pointing at her.

Ms. Leila instructed Shou to sit at the empty chair near the back. And his 'should-be-seatmates' slightly squealed. However, he rejected that, asking Ms. Leila nicely for permission. She looked around to confirm kung siya ba talaga ang tinutukoy niya. And siya nga! She panicked deep inside.

Seeing that Ms. Leila was hesitating, Shou called out the teacher's name na parang bang nagpapaawa. 

"Okay, fine."

Ms. Leila looked at the person beside me."But ask Gian De Los Santos first if you could switch seats with him." Gian De Los Santos is one of those people na nahihirapan si Yuki naiapproach. Kaya laging gulat niya na pati si Gian ay napapayag niya.

"Thanks, Gian."

She didn't looked an inch nang papunta si Shou sa assigned seat at umupo. "Hello, nice to meet you."

Ako ba ang kinakausap niya?

To confirm it, she looked at Shou without turning her head.

Ako nga.

She just then turned her head and greeted back with a smile.

She fixed her lunchbox after eating it despite that her chair was little wobbly because of the girls fangirling around her seatmate. Well at least, he stopped looking at her direction. She then brought some materials with her to the library for the science project, since no one even try to help.

"Shou, pwede bang pahingi CP number mo?"

"Oo nga, pahingi kami ng CP number mo!"

The girls begged and that cellphone was inside his bag. But he gave them his poker face before opening his mouth.

I have a feeling things will become more troublesome.

"I don't want to."

The girls complained, asking for his reason. But he stayed quiet while thinking of a way how to get out of this crowd. "Excuse me, but I need to go to that girl."

He pointed at the girl who went outside the classroom and their eyes followed.

"Si Yuki?" Snow?

"Is her name Yuki? The one who sits right there?" The crowd automatically made a path where his finger was pointing at. After checking it, they nodded.

"Hey, do you know where Yuki is?" After hearing that, they looked at each other. 

"Sa..." Her voice sounded unsure but the random girl continued.

"...library siguro. Lagi naman siyang andon." After hearing that, he took the initiative to get out of the crowd using the path they made for him awhile ago.

Their eyes followed him as he approached the door. Before turning the doorknob, he turned his head to the crowd and smiled.

"Thanks."

He disappeared out of their sight and they were left dumdfounded. Without letting him know, they squealed.

He went to the library as if he already memorized the school map. He noticed the list of names at the entrance. Upon observing it, he read that girl's full name.

Yuki Domingo.

As soon as he lifted his head, he saw the figure of the person he was watching.

There she is.

He wrote his name first before sitting at the chair infront of her.

"You seem busy, Yuki."

Boses ni Shou?

She lifted her head and she was right. He was sitting in front of her, smiling habang naka-pangalumbaba siya.

It took her few seconds to recover before greeting back and stuttered a bit. "What's wrong?" Nilagay ni Yuki sa table ang mga bagay na hawak hawak niya before deciding to speak.

"Kasi... andito ka sa harapan ko. Tapos, yung sinabi mo pa kanina sa harap ng klase. At kanina, kahit imposible, may narinig akong kaboses mo. Pero wala naman."

Shou didn't expect her to say that. It was understandable if she questioned him about his actions at the class awhile ago. But she even included the incident on her way to school.

She has this natural expression on her face. And he can't contain that funny thought. So he snorted.

Yuki is surprised to his unexpected reaction. And he repeated the same question as awhile ago.  She didn't get it. "Okay ka lang ba?"

The bell rang, signalling that lunch break was already over. So she stood up and fixed her things.

"You're laughing suddenly kahit kanina pati ang ngiti mo ay parang cold." She carried all her things and paused. "Pero nice to meet you Shou! I'm Yuki Domingo." She cheerfully smiled, though her things were blocking some parts of her face Shou can still see her smile.

"Tara na! Bell na."

"Sure." He smiled pero behind that, he seemed to be hiding something.

Shou offered his help for carrying some of her materials but Yuki insisted. He left her be, thinking she would be fine. Then, they went to the classroom together.

"Class, As I said last meeting, we have a project making today. So Group 1..." Her name was Ms. Jen. She was instructing the students of where they were going to do their project. However, Shou didn't know his place since he was a transferee.

"Suzuki." The teacher called him out and he stood up. "Yes Ma'am Jen?"

"You will be in Yuki's group. Group 1." She assigned and he mumbled something, then smiled.

He went to Yuki's group but she was not here.

Where is she?

"Ano ba? Gagamitin ko nga sabi to eh!" That was Yuki's voice. She was in other group.

"So what? Gagamitin ko to eh." That was one of the girls asking for Shou's cellphone number, Rica Avila. She was mocking Yuki. No one dared to stop them and all they do were to watch.

"Hindi naman sayo yan eh! Balik mo yan. Kuha ka ng kuha, hindi naman sa 'yo!" She was pertaining to the gluegun.

"Eh, Eh, Eh O yan! Saksak mo sa bunganga mo!" Rica violently handed it to her where Yuki's hand will get burned. Her face showed pain and the glue gun fell off her hand.

She was obviously being bullied. But no one cared. The assigned teacher was not here. Rica smirked at her and ignored her afterwards. Then, everyone went to their own roles, not even asking if she was okay.

Yuki paused at her burned hand. And there, a tension was released.  Dalawa ang nakaramdam. Shou felt it. It let him freeze for split seconds and he calmed down afterwards. But who is the other one?

Unnoticeably, Shou grinned. Among the busy crowd, he went his way behind Yuki and tapped her shoulder. She turned around and got welcomed with a big smile of Shou.

"It's been decided. You will be my partner."

She didn't utter a thing and trying to process of what was yet again, he was saying.

-Transferees create adventures-

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