Your Guardian Angel

Chapter 4
On The Bus

Rin's POV

You know, when someone tells you that you're going to school, you don't think much of it. When you're me, it's a different story entirely. When you're me, you'd be sorta happy you're going to a school like a normal girl. But then, you hear your new, redheaded foster sister explain it to you and the first thing you think of is literally hell. Excuse my language, but still. Places where people are mean? Work? I shuddered at the thoughts of it. Of course, at one point, Miku scolded Teto about how she was telling me all the wrong things and assuring me that school was a wonderful place for learning. It's only been a couple of years, I know what school was like and yet...I want to go.

"Aw!" Miku cooed. "You look so cute, Rin!" She made me try on Crypton High's uniform for girls which consisted of a white collared blouse tucked into a plaid skirt that, by the way, is way too short.

"Here, Rin," Lily said, handing me a pair of thigh high socks. "Hopefully, these will make you feel a bit more...covered." She held her stoic look, but I saw a little smile playing on her lips.

"T-thank you Lily-san," I said, taking the socks. "Uh..."

"Don't worry, I have a ton of socks," Lily said, with a small nod. I slipped on the socks and sighed in somewhat relief.

"Right then," Miku said, with a smile. "School starts tomorrow!"

"One more thing, Rin," Lily said, grabbing my attention. "Call me Onee-chan."

I never had a hard time waking in the morning, mostly because I was more of a morning person than anything. Normally, everyday, I'd wake up at exactly seven. I mean exactly seven, not seven o' one or six fifty-nine. Seven. Anyway, I always woke up, happy and cheery. Not this time, though. This time I had to wake up because a loud, shrill whistling sound was heard through the entire house. No doubt it got me up. I almost shrieked in surprise, but I fell off my bed. My heart pounded and the whistle stopped. I looked over to my little kitty and she mew a soft call in annoyance. Thank goodness my floor was made of soft carpet unlike the children's room, or this would have hurt big time.

"W-what was that?" I groaned, sitting up. Lily opened my door and walked to me.

"Are you okay?" she asked, checking on me.

"Y-yeah..." I said. "Itai..." She smiled slightly and helped me up.

"It won't last for that long," she said. "The pain, I mean."

"Y-yeah..." I said. "Good to know."

"Anyway, breakfast, it's in a few minutes," she continued. "You should get ready by then and brush your teeth after. It'll make no sense to brush before." She started to walk out, but I gently took her arm to stop her.

"Um..." I said, a bit awkwardly. "Why are you talking so much? I-I mean! Not because it's a bad thing, but it's just for the fact that Miku said you haven't talked very much before now." She gave me a small smile.

"I have my reasons."

...honestly, what ever those reasons where, they scared me.

Turns out, all four of us had to take a bus to school. We had to walk a few blocks, but I didn't really mind that. Teto kept trying to tell me about the school, Lily ignored her and stayed silent as normal, I tried to listen to Teto, and Len...was...sleepwalking? It sure looked like it. He was walking with his eyes half open, bags under his eyes, and loud music blasting through his earbuds. He was basically a zombie.

"Don't worry, he's fine," Lily said.

"I wasn't worried," I said, biting my lip inwardly.

"Right..." Teto said, nudging my ribcage with her elbow. We made it to the bus stop and waited around for the bus. It only took about five minutes before a yellow bus rolled up next to us. "Before I forget, Rin, Crypton High is a really big school. It has like a million buildings or something! Also, the freshmen have their own half of the campus, so you can't go to our side of the campus."

"That's why you wear the orange bows, right?" I asked. Teto nodded. "Then, Len's a first year too since he has a yellow tie, right?"

"Obviously," Len said, sarcastically.

"Shut up," I snapped with a frown.

"My, my, only a day and you're acting like siblings!~" Teto cooed. I frowned at her and averted my gae back to the bus.

"Well? Don't just stand there," the bus driver said. "Get on!" Lily and Len had already boarded the bus and Teto was slowly making it up the stairs. I remember why I hate buses. THERE'S NEVER ANYWERE TO SIT. EVER. "Can you please take a seat, blondie?"

"U-uh...s-sorry!" I apologized, bowing.

"Geez," Len sighed. He grabbed my arm and pulled me with him to the back of the bus. He sat down in a seat and pulled me next to him. "Can you at least try to find a seat next time?" I glared, but at least I wasn't attracting anymore attention. "Defoko-san hates it when we hold back the- PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT!"

"What? We're in the back of a bus!" I said. Len didn't listen to me and immediately buckled me up. That bus driver drives like a crazy person. Len didn't buckle his seat belt in time, so he fell almost two seconds after he buckled me in.

"Ow..." he hissed. I helped pull him up and he buckled himself. "This is why you always have to buckle your seat belt, got it? Defoko-san's absolutely insane when she drives and if you get hurt, ninety percent of the blame falls on me because I'm in all of your classes!"

"Well, sorry," I said, sarcastically.

"You better be!" he snapped. He coughed slightly after that and drank from his prefilled water bottle.