That night few words passed between the girls. Yumi had mysteriously vanished from the dorm room as soon as she had finished unpacking, once again leaving Rozy alone with her laptop. Rozy, while happy to be away from the cold piercing gaze of her new roomie, felt like things had gotten off to a bad start and was now determined to think of a new way the two could hit it off...
*Bang* Covered in sweat, Yumi Katsuragi had reentered the room, obviously out of breath and chugging a to-go bottle of milk for refreshment. Silently she passed Rozy and headed straight to the bathroom for a shower, after which she immediately crawled into her bed. Rozy, still full of questions about Yumi, decided to save all questions away for later and go to bed herself. After all tomorrow was the first day of school.
The next morning Rozy awoke to to the sound of Yumi getting dressed. Yumi, (never one for school uniforms) had elected to wear a loose fitting hoodie similar to the one she had worn yesterday, only this one was pure black and adorned with a single intimidating white skull on the front. Rozy (never one for waking early unless it was a school day) immediately sensed a chance for the two to possible get friendly.
“Hey...you ummm...going to breakfast?” asked Rozy as she slumped out of bed.
“...Yeah.” Yumi finally answered taken aback by Rozy’s technicolor anime icon adorned P.j.’s.
“Mind if I come?” asked Rozy immediately.
Yumi sighed before answering, hoping the nerd girl would get the underlying point: Leave me alone. Yet the naive brunettes chubby face still awaited an answer and seeing as she couldn't exactly stop this girl from following her to breakfast, Yumi finally gave in. “I guess....you can show me around...” she uttered, sounding quite testy with this turn of events.
Rozy gave a small fist pump in excitement (sending the overstretched face of Ichigo Kurosaki bobbling as both her chest and stomach jiggled.)
***
“-and here’s the dining room.” finished Rozy as they reached the large campus dining hall. Rozy had spent the last few minutes trying to explain the layout of the campus to Yumi, but the raven haired girl had remained both silent and uninterested as Rozy went on.
At breakfast Yumi certainly didn’t wait up for Rozy. Swiftly Yumi had went straight for the breakfast line and immediately began helping herself. Rozy followed suit, plating herself large servings of hash browns, fresh pancakes, and of course a single piece of buttered toast (which she often liked to cutely munch on her way to her first class of the day, an act that was picked up from many an anime viewing.)As she joined Yumi at the table Rozalin was surprised to see that the fit girls plate was as packed as her own! Bacon, sausage and eggs covered the protein packed plate, all this alongside what had to be a quart of milk. Seconds before Rozalin could start a conversation, Yumi immediately began digging into her meal. Rozy had to note while girl may have been toned and scrawny, she had the appetite of a girl twice her size! As she watched the girl vehemently stuff herself, Rozy realized the buff teen probably exercised enough to burn most of the calories she was currently enjoying. Rozalin sensing that Yumi wasn’t likely to start a conversation, tried to start with a neutral topic.
“So Yumi...what's your first class today?”
Yumi swallowed a mouthful of sausage and snorted a grunt before answering “History...but I’m probably just going to skip today.” she answered coolly.
“W-What! B-but why?” said Rozy ever the dedicated student.
“Relax...the first day’s the same everywhere...There’s never anything important till after the first week.” said Yumi practically yawning.
Rozy began tapping her index fingers together (another act she had picked up from from many an anime) as she realized Yumi did sort of have a point “Well...still it’s a big campus you probably should go just to know your way around here. Plus you’ll get to meet your teachers for the year and-”
“Listen!” said Yumi pointing a sausage festooned fork at Rozalin. “Like I said I probably won’t be here at this prissy academy for long, so you can forget about worrying about me, I get by just fine on my own.” And to punctuate her point she took a mighty bite of the rest of her sausage. “I’ll give this place one thing though...the food here is pretty good. I’m going up for seconds.” she announced sliding out of her seat, and leaving the messy plate for someone else to take care of.
Rozy breathed a sigh of relief, she had been waiting on getting up for seconds herself. As she again began to pile on more pancakes Rozalyn, still testing the waters with Yumi’s temper, decided she was going to have to take the initiative if she really wanted to know what was up with this girl.
“So Yumi, um...Even if you aren’t going to be next week...Did you still want to maybe...hang out later today?” Rozalin quickly asked as she returned to the table.
Yumi went stone silent for a moment. Clearly this girl was going to do everything she could to try and make friends with her. She didn’t want to have to blatantly tell this nerd girl off, but there had to be some way she could give the girl a brush off... That was it! “Surrrrre Rozy!” she said a scheming grin crossing her face. “I was just thinking about doing some jogging later...You're free to come with... I mean If you want.” Yumi raised a gloating eyebrow knowing that the last thing that this Rozy girl would want to do is jog.
“Oh...” Rozy said flatly, but then wanting to impress her new friend she instantly answered “Sure!” Rozalin Rhodes had planned on her usual routine of staying in and working on her anime backlog today, and she could hardly remember the last time she’d gone jogging, but she supposed that a little sweat was worth it if it meant starting off on the right foot with her new possibly-only-temporary roomie.
This answer actually elicited a laugh from Yumi, impressed with the obviously out of shapes girl’s drive to impress. She knew there was no way a girl of Rozy’s size would be able to keep up with her, she'd stick around for a lap or two and then go home. Maybe then Yumi would finally get some time alone to plot a way out of this new prison academy. “Fine. Later...” said Yumi as she finished the rest of her second tall glass of milk and headed back to the dorm.
***
In her classes Rozy felt right at home, surrounded by her old friends she felt ripe and ready for the school-year ahead. It wasn’t until her last class of the day (Advanced Japanese Studies 3) that things got interesting. As attendance was called one name just happen to be called out.
“Katsuragi, Yumi?” asked Japaneses professor Rei Hino. Again she repeated the name (in traditional last name first/first name last fashion) and seeing no raised hand marked the name as absent. Rozy’s eyes widened as she now realized that she shared a class with Yumi,and not just any class but Advanced Japanese Studies 3! Rozy didn’t get the impression that Yumi was big on studying, but she obviously must pretty smart if she was in the highest Japanese class the school offered! The name also sent the rest of the class (which was almost entirely composed of fellow friends from the anime club last year) a buzz.
“Yumi...Katasuragi?” Rozy overheard one girl gasp, “She went to my old school and she’s a total...monster! Once she punched this bitchy cheerleader right in the eye! Straight knocked her out!”
“She did?” another girl asked.
“Yeah, I mean the cheerleader had it coming...but still. If she’s in this class I’d be the last person to mess with her, she a monster!”
A slow sinking feeling entered the pit of Rozy’s spacious stomach. Yumi didn’t seem that mean...it had to just be gossip right? Right?
Suddenly Rozy wasn’t looking forward to this afternoon.
Speaking of this afternoon how does it go?
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