1 Momo and Reika.

A petite girl was running through the halls carrying several books and a bag, her long, loose, jet black hair flying behind her. As she attempted to put her books in her bag, all her books fell out of her grasp, and she tripped over them.

"Ugh, Kobayashi Momo, get a hold of yourself" Momo slapped her cheeks and picked up her books,

putting them in the bag. While she stood up, a tall figure rose before her.

It was Sato Reika. She is the definition of a "handsome lady". Due to her rich background, teachers don't really care what she does, as long as it obeys the law. Which means, she was allowed to wear a male uniform. Reika had her hair in a pixie cut, which made her look more like a man.

Due to this, many girls fawned over Reika, giving her love letters and confessing to her under the cherry tree in the front of the school. " Are you new here? " Reika spoke in a deep, masculine voice.

Momo looked up, answering with a "Yes". As she looked at Reika's face, her heart skipped a beat and her cheeks flushed. 'Why?' Momo thought to herself. Ignoring it, she stood up and walked away from Reika.

She reached her destination, Class 2-B. Her home room teacher was a young woman, Takahashi Akasuki. "You're late." Despite her soft, gentle appearance, Mrs Takahashi had a sharp tone in her voice, which gave everyone in her class a chill. "Yes, I am. I'm sorry Teacher." Momo bowed to her teacher, respectfully.

"Do not be late again, or you will face punishment." Momo sat down in her chair by the window, while Mrs Takahashi started her lesson. "Today, we'll start with English"

There were many groans in the class room. "Suck it up, princesses.". The teacher started to write English words and letters on the whiteboard.

"Now can anybody read this out?" The words, 'I have bought a book. ' were on the board.

AFTER CLASS

The lunchtime bell rung and students were running out of the classroom with their bento boxes. Momo barely got out of the classroom and was tripped over by a girl. It was on accident, and the girl was repeatedly saying sorry.

"It's alright. I'm just glad I didn't have my lunch with me." The girl said sorry once more before fleeing off to the fountain. Apparently, that's where all the popular guys go.

Momo went back inside her classroom to get her lunch. Shiitake mushrooms. She absolutely hated them. At least she had other options, crab sushi and takoyaki.

She walked to the fountain, sitting by a tree in one of the quiet corners. Then, Momo heard someone calling out to her. "Oi! Queen of klutz!"

There was Sato Reika. Drawing attention to herself and Momo. She sat beside Momo and asked. "What are you eating?". Momo jumped and moved her bento box away from Reika. "Relax, I'm not going to eat anything."

Reika moved closer, which made the back of Momo's neck blush. "Unless you want me too?" . Then a thought popped up in Momo's head. "Do you like shiitake mushrooms?"

"Yes!" Suddenly, a pair of chopsticks appeared in Reika's hand and she grabbed Momo's lunchbox. "Wow, this is so cute!" Reika said as she was untying the furoshiki.

Momo's lunch box was indeed cute. Her bento box was pink, there was pink kewpie shaped into hearts over the Takoyaki and yellow kewpie shaped into stars over the crab sushi, with blue coloured noodles on the side. But the sautéed shiitake mushrooms were left bare.

"I have a feeling you don't like shiitake mushrooms very much." asked Reika, a hint of laughter in her voice. "Yeah, well. The way my mom usually sautés them doesn't really suit my palate.". "Picky picky, and don't look so hesitant, I promise to only eat the shiitake mushrooms." Reika laughed then looked at the bento box with a smile.

As she promised, Reika didn't eat anything but the shiitake mushrooms. "But why are you eating my lunch? Don't you get tons of bento boxes from your fangirls?"asked Momo.

Reika gave Momo a surprised pikachu face. "Well yes? But most of them had octopus in them, and I am not a big fan of octopus or squid." This was a surprise to Momo as everyone she knows loves octopus and squid, including her. "Don't like the texture" Now that made sense to Momo.

For the rest of lunch, Reika and Momo just talked. Despite all the glaring that was boring holes into her, she was having fun. Momo realised, that Reika was a very masculine woman, she liked sports, she boxed, she took karate classes, all the things Momo expected a man would do.

'Snap out of it Momo! That's sexist! She can do whatever she likes!' Momo shook her head and saw Reika look at her in confusion.

The lunch bell rang and everyone was heading back into class, "Thanks for the mushrooms, Peach Tree!" Reika gave the lunch box back to Momo and she realised she hasn't eaten anything. "I prefer just Momo, Reika-san!"she yelled across to Reika, who was running to her class. "Sure~" with that Reika disappeared.

"Shoot! I'm gonna be late again!" Momo picked up her pink chopsticks and Sakura patterned furoshiki and dashed for class.

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