"Alls fair in love and basketball."

The clock's alarm went off as the obnoxious noise rang in the girl's ears, she turned off the alarm and looked at the time. She soon realized that she was running late.

Hurriedly, she jumped out of her bed, having no time to fix the futons and to fold the bed sheets, she rushed towards the bathroom speedily, as if she was lightning itself.

Since she was running late, she absolutely has no time to waste, it was her first time to overslept in the first day of school. Of all days, she chose to oversleep in this one.

She hurriedly ran downstairs as she stumbled and fall, creating a huge bump on her head. She can be a klutz and airhead when in a rush. Before going to school, the smell of fresh cooked egg and bread lingered in her nose, it was tempting her so she snatched a bread from the dinning table.

"Oh, you're not going to eat your breakfast?" her lovingly mother asked.

"No, I'm already late." she said while munching her food.

"Will you make it in time?" her hardworking father asked.

"I think so?" she answered as she rushed towards the door, putting on her shoes.

"Sweetie, do you have your handkerchief and tissues with you?"

"Yes, Mom. I have it with me."

"How about your bandages? Your pocket medicines?"

"Mom, I have everything in control. Don't worry."

Her mother was a worry-wart, she smiled at her only sweet daughter.

"Good luck in school, Sweetie. Go make friends and have fun." she said.

"Okay." her daughter said.

Mikan ran out her way downtown, running. She reached the train station and took out her pass card, she let it scan the monitor as it opened a way for her. Hurriedly, she entered the train to her school.

Whoa...it's so cramped in here!

She was small and it was her disadvantage as she was being squashed by the crowd. She couldn't move a budge.

After a minutes in hell, the train stopped as she hurriedly squeezed herself out of the crowd. Suddenly, she felt dizzy. Her skin has turned pale and her knees were like noddles, so wobbly.

She fell on her knees, her body cannot withstand the dizziness, she was completely out of breathe. It was only a matter of time for her to faint.

"Are you okay?"

Someone came to help her, she looked up to see that person but couldn't make out their face. Her eyesight was really blurry.

That person took her to the station's office, laid her down on the couch, they left a towel underneath her feet and then left aftermath.

Mikan's eyes fluttered open, she sat up and looked around the place, to see that she was at the train station's office. She sat up and saw a towel.

"The boy that carried you here, left it here. He said that the feet should be higher than the heart while resting."

The officer told about the person who helped her, she put on her shoes and stood up. She grabbed her bag and the towel.

"He had the same uniform as you, he might be still nearby." he added.

    Mikan ran after the person who helped her, but she wasn't able to find him. So she gave up and went to school instead.

♛♛♛

    "Everyone, we have a new student that will be joining us for the year." the teacher told the class.

    The class was all worked out about the new student, whispers can be heard from each student concerning their new classmate.

    "I hope it's a cute girl!"

   "I call dibs it's a hottie guy!"

    The new student opened the doors of the classroom and walked to the front. Everyone has their eyes glued on the new girl that came.

    "This is Sakura Mikan, be kind to her everyone." the teacher wrote her name on the blackboard.

佐倉 蜜柑
Sakura Mikan

    "I'm Sakura Mikan, nice to meet you everyone. I hope we can all be friends!"

     She has bright orange hair and red ribbons with polkadots that were keeping them tied.

     Bubbly violet eyes that sparkles as if they were stars, skin that is pure as if it was porcelain. A height of 149cm and a weight of 93lbs, she is pretty short and slight lacking.

    "You'll be seating between Kise-kun and Murasakibara-kun, at the back." the teacher said, pointing to the vacant seat at the back row.

    "Yes, Sensei." she said and walked towards her seat, while lowering her head.

    I managed not to bite my tongue while introducing myself to the front.

    She reached her seat, taking the chair out, she sat down and hang her bag on the side of the table.

   She turned to the person to her left, the guy next to her is quite good looking. He had blonde hair and hazel eyes, pale skin that matched his looks.

   The boy caught her staring at him, she flinched but soon relaxed when he gave her a gentle smile.

   "I'm Kise Ryota. It's nice to meet you, Sakura-san." he said.

    He had a dreamy voice, it made her heart skipped a beat when she had a good look on his face.

    "It's nice to meet you, too." she said.

    Strangely, she had a feeling that they'll actually get a long.

    "I'm hungry..." she heard a lazy voice said.

    She turned around to see a tall guy with violet hair, he was the tallest guy that she has ever seen in this school. He had lazy violet eyes and a masculine strong body.

    He noticed her gaze as she flinched, he raised an eyebrow to her.

   "Who are you?" he asked.

    "I'm Sakura Mikan, a new student." she answered.

    "Okay..." he replied lazily, as if not interested.

    It seems like he hasn't sleep for a thousand years...

    "Why do you keep staring at me?" he irritatedly asked.

     "U-Um...sorry..." she said and looked away.

     "I'm Murasakibara Atsushi by the way." he said anyways.

      "Yes, it's nice to meet you." she said, trying to be polite.

      "Yeah, you too." he replied.

♛♛♛

    The bell rung as it was now lunch time, everyone was now hungry like wolves by now.

   "Kise-kun, show Sakura-san around the campus, okay?" the teacher said.

    All of the girls squealed when his name was mentioned, his die-hard-fangirls.

    "Yeah, Sensei." out of respect, he replied.

    Kise walked towards Mikan as he smiled at her, she blushed.

    "Let's go?" he asked her.

    "Yes." she replied.

♛♛♛

      Kise showed her around the campus; the cafeteria, the library, the computer room, the rooftop, the swimming pool and the gym.

     "This place is huge, I'll get lose at a heartbeat." Mikan said.

     "You'll get a hang out of it. You can ask me for directions anytime." Kise offered his hospitality.

   "Thank you. You're so nice, Kise-kun." she told him.

   He scratched the back of his head, laughing. "Oh, no...I'm just doing what the Sensei told me to do."

    She hold both of his hands as he blushed from her touch.

    "What could I do to thank you?" she asked him.
     
  "Thank me? For what?"

    "For showing me around."

    "I appreciate the gesture, but you don't really have to thank me."

    Whoa. His so humble!

    "I guess that's all the places that I could show..." he said.

    "Yes. Thank you very much. I feel like I'm bothering you...so I'm going now." she said.

   "Eh? Where?" Kise asked.

    "Back to the classroom." Mikan said.

     She felt that she was bothering him, the teacher told him to show her around against his will. Now that it's done, he should go back to his friends now.

    "I don't know what you're thinking but you aren't really bothering me."

    Mikan was taken back from that, she looked down on her feet.

    "You have your own friends, right? You can go now...thank you for showing me around." she said.

    She turned around and was about to step forward when he grabbed her arm, she stopped and turned to face him.

    "There's no way I would leave you by yourself." he said.

    "Eh? But..." she said.

     "It's fine." he smiled and grabbed her hand.

      He is so nice...

♛♛♛

     Just like Mikan's thoughts, she was able to get along with Kise quite well. He is friendly to everyone around him, he had this refreshing air around him.

    The guy that was sitting beside her, named Murasakibara was always hungry, he badly wants to eat again despite just having lunch.

Mikan grabbed a candy from her pocket and extended her hand to give her the food.

"Here, have this orange flavored candy. It's sweet!"

    Murasakibara lazily turned to her as he grabbed the candy from her hand. He unwrapped the wrapper and plopped the candy in his mouth.

    "It's too sweet." he said.

"Right? It's my favorite." she said.

    Suddenly, some girls of the class walked towards Mikan and began to talk with the new student.

    "Wow. Your hair is very pretty."

"Why, thank you." she said.

"Hey Sakura-san, what is your favorite food?"

"Orange Marmalade." she said.

"What is your favorite color?"

"Pink and red." she said.

    Meanwhile, the boys were looking at the crowd from the back.

    "So that's what it means to be comfortable with the same gender."

    "It's a violation of the anti-trust act. The wealth needs to be redistributed."

    Upon hearing the boys' nasty remarks, the girls turned to them with a scary glare.

    "What did you guys said?"

    The boys sweat dropped and shook their heads as the girls turned their attention back to Mikan.

     "Whoa. They got mad at us." Kise said while lightly scratching his cheek.

    "The girls are so unfair!"

"We also wanted to talk to her!"

    Then a male student grabbed Kise's shoulder.

    "Kise, go talk to her for us!" the male student said.

    "That's impossible." Kise said.

    "Your so lucky, Kise! To be seated next to the cute new student."

    "I wish I can swap seats with you."

"You think so?" he laughed.

    Well...it's me we're talking about. Of course I'm always lucky.

    Kise turned to Mikan who was laughing happily with the others girls of their class.

    She's kinda cute, but she's nothing special.

♛♛♛

     The class ended as everybody started packing their stuff, ready to go home with their group of friends.

"See you tomorrow, Kise-kun." Mikan waved her hand to the blonde.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. See you tomorrow." Kise said as he was fixing his things.

"See you tomorrow, Murasakibara-kun." Mikan waved her hand to the violet haired boy.

"Yeah. See you tomorrow." he lazily said.

The orange haired girl walked out of the classroom silently, she decided to go home alone since she doesn't really have a close friend yet to walk home with.

    She walked downstairs quietly, then while walking, she heard a loud footsteps that seems like the person was running fast.

"Out of the way!"

Mikan turned around to see a male student jumped from the stairs as her eyes widened when the guy bumped onto her. A huge impact between them happened, causing them to fall.

Her back crashed against the floor as her head bumped on the hard, cold ground.

The boy fell on top of her as his lips roughly touched hers, both of them were shocked as they accidentally kissed.

I'm Sakura Mikan, 14 years old, a second year in Teiko Middle School. My first kiss was stolen by a guy who accidentally fell on top of me.