Your Guardian Angel

Chapter 6
In The cafeteria

The first half of my school day: not as bad as I thought. The people around me were friendly, supportive and Len avoided me the entire first half of the day. Thank goodness he wasn't one of the school's "princes" because that would have sucked. What are princes? Well, in this school there are three princes and three princesses chosen every year. It's kind of like the school's counsel and yes, it was filled with the Elites. The current Elites at this time were Akaito Shion and Miku Zatsune (both are seniors with red ties), Ren Haine and Lily Hatsune (yep, my adoptive sister) who both came from the sophomores, and the freshmen haven't chosen their Elites yet, with was surprising. As for who told me this, it was Meiko. Turns out she and Miki have been best friends since they were little.

"Hey Rin," Miki said, flipping some of her hair back. "You should sit with us during lunch, okay? We'll be waiting!" She turned and headed of to English while I ran to the music room. Was Miki as bad as Len placed her? Just the way he said that she was in the 'it' group sounded as if she were stuck up, annoying, and mean... Well, you don't really know people till you actually get to know them...and I was never the one to have people hate me. I always stay on the border line, it's kind of a defense mechanism.

"Lucky you," a clear, powerful voice rang. A tall, beautiful, pink haired girl walked up next to me. "Miki likes you, girl."

"U-um...thanks?" I responded. "I'm-"

"Rin Hatsune," the girl said. "I know. My name's Luka Megurine. I'm one of Miki's friends..." I nodded a bit awkwardly. "Do you play an instrument?"

"Uh...I used to play the piano and the guitar, but it's been a while," I told her.

"Then how about you sing?" she suggested. A sharp pain ached in my chest and I bit my lip to restrain tears from flowing from my eyes.

"N-no," I said, carefully. "I don't sing."

"Nonsense," Luka replied, heading to a grand piano. She took a seat and started playing. "Since whatever comes to mind." She kept playing and by the way she looked at me...she was testing me. I detested singing. I hated it so much, it's impossible to describe.

"I found her!" A cheery voice called. I turned and saw Teto at the door. "Lily, she's in the music room!"

"Guys, what are you doing here?" I asked, a bit surprised.

"I'm an Elite," Lily explained. "I can go anywhere I please. Anyway, it's lunch. Let's go." She looked at Luka who never stopped playing and started for the door. When I followed her, I could hear a light laugh coming from Luka.

Lily took me through the lunch line and somewhere on our way, we lost Teto, but apparently it was normal to lose her at this time. Lily told me which lines to go through and which lines took the longest. The food here only looked good if you chose it in the right way, thank goodness for Lily. When we were waiting at some lines, she asked me how school was. I told her it was...strange, but otherwise, it was okay-ish. She nodded, content with my answer and left for the sophomore's lunch area. I looked around for a bit in the cafeteria, but I didn't see anywhere to sit.

"Rin, you look like your lost," Gumi said, gently tapping my shoulder. "Don't have anywhere to sit?" She gave me a cute smile and I nodded.

"Yeah, I'm new," I confessed, a bit embarrassed about just standing there.

"Then you can sit with me and my friends," she said with a smile. I nodded and she pulled me with her to a table where Miki, Luka, and Meiko sat.

"You made it," Miki said with a smile. "That's good. Thank you, Gumi." Gumi nodded and kept her smile. "Now...where are the guys?"

"I can go get them," Gumi offered.

"Please do," Miki said, with a flip of her hand. And with that small gesture, Gumi ran off. By now, it's obvious where Gumi stands with Miki. Nothing but a servant. It made me frown a bit. "Now Rin, what's wrong?"

"N-nothing..." I said, looking down at my food.

"Ahhh, Rin," Meiko said, with her wild smile. "Nice to see you again." She chuckled and slurped spaghetti into her mouth. Luka was almost the complete opposite of Meiko. She was more...prim and proper. She had a bento in front of her with a neat meal and some green tea. As for Miki, she had a buttered lobster and had that 'rule the school' look to her. I looked down at my food and started eating different parts of it. I've always been a picky eater...

"There you guys are!" Miki said, after a bit. I looked up and three guys were talking seats at the table. "Rin, these are the guys. Rein's the blondie, Ren's the brunette, and Rei's the super serious looking brunette." Rei glared at Miki, but she only laughed.

"And what's your name?" Rein asked with a wink.

"Her name is Rin Hatsune," Luka said, simply. "Lay off the flirting, Rein."

"A Hatsune?" Ren asked. "So she's adopted like Len?"

"Mmhmm," she said. "Isn't she just adorable?" Rei looked at me a bit and turned back to his food, mumbling in agreement with Miki's statement. I held my blush back and kept trying to eat. "Now, where's Gumi? Don't tell me she's with that Hatsune reject."

"I'll bet my sake she is," Meiko said, with a smirk.

"Very brave accusation, Meiko," Rein said with an impressed look.

"Well, it's probably true," Meiko said. "Ever since Gumi got to go out with that guy, she's been ignoring us. That bitch."

"I know right?" Miki agreed. "It's a good thing Rinny here's a much cuter replacement." She shoved her barely eaten lobster aside and whipped out her phone, starting to text like an addict. That sentence discusted me so much, I pushed my own food to the side.

"So, Rin," Rein said, claiming my attention. "What class do you-" A hand slammed down in front of me and it's counterpart pulled me up from the chair, behind my offenser.

It was Len.