Alright everyone!! This is Officially the first part of Chapter 1 of Ice and Snow!! yays! I have decided to split it up a little more just to keep the suspense and in order to give me a little time to write the next chapters so you all wont get bored! I'll post the next part soon! So enjoy what's there so far!
Chapter 1: The New Girl
“Claire, I’m sorry Sweetie, but you’re going to have to go. There is absolutely no way around it!” my mom said as I stared at her in disbelief sitting in the front room across from her.
“But Mother, I don’t want to go! There must be a way around this. I want to stay with you, and stay here at my old school,” I stood quickly startling her. “Why don’t you make HIM leave instead of me? I mean I was here first!”
“There’s no way around it honey. You’re going to Cross Academy, and that’s final. You’re father and I-” I cut her off before she could finish her sentence.
“MY father is dead! He’s just someone here you decided to use to take his place. I’m not going to that stupid school he seems so intent on sending me to just so I’ll be out of both of you hair! That bastard shouldn’t even be in our lives right now! I don’t care about all these fancy things he has the money for! I’d rather stay the way it was before even if we were struggling to just put food in our own stomachs!”
“Watch what you say young lady! That ‘bastard’ has saved us from becoming homeless or worse. The least you could do is pretend to like him and give him the least amount of trouble you possibly can. You’re going to that school whether you like it or not.” She stood without another word or a glance at me, and left the room with me close to tears.
That was the day that my mother made the decision to make me leave her and my home. She’d just remarried, meaning I now had several new younger siblings; also meaning that she had no time for me anymore.
I had just only turned seventeen, and was going through one of those “phases”. You know the one where you hate your new step parent and think they are good for nothing outsiders, who’s only sole purpose for being there was to destroy everything that you had built with your actual parent? Well, I made the point to be sure my mother knew I disliked her new hubby very much. That alone could have been why she sent me away. She couldn’t handle the issues I was making over the whole thing. Either way, the next day I was packed and on my way to Cross Academy…
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When I arrived I couldn’t help but stare. The school was huge; more so than I could have ever imagined. The Moon Dorms looked like a small castle or mansion, and the Sun Dorms looked remarkably the same. The only major visible difference is that the Moon Dorms had a gate in front and it look incredibly more expensive and better looked after. The main campus where all of the class rooms and the main office were located was at least fifty times the size of what I had originally thought. Of course most private schools were gigantic, but this was beyond all belief.
Despite the size of the place, everything was very easy to find. A girl named Yuki Cross, whom I later found out was the head master’s adopted daughter as well as a Disciplinary Committee Member, showed me to my room; which just so happened to be located right next to her room. I was given the rest of the day off to get situated and settled into my room.
“We are really happy to have you here Miss Ricci,” Yuki said using my last name.
“Thanks, but you can call me Claire if you’d like. I think it suits me a little better than my last name does,” I answered with a smile
“Well, Claire it is then. Get some rest. As I understand it, you had quite the trip here. I’ll see you later after class. If you’d like I can show you around the campus after I escort the night class to their classes tonight?” she said sitting in the door way.
My curiosity overwhelmed me, “Why does the night class need an escort?”
Yuki stiffened a bit and then relaxed, obviously hoping that I hadn’t noticed. There was a short pause as she thought, “Well… I guess I could show you. You’d have to meet me out by my class…. Or well I guess I could come and get you; I’d have to hurry though.”
A smile crossed my face, “Yes! That’d be so awesome! I’ll wait out front for you if you’d like!”
She couldn’t help but smile back at my reaction, “Alright then. Be there or be square. I’ll catch you later.”
Yuki started off out the door, abruptly stopping with a start. Again my curiosity got the best of me; I peeked out the door and caught sight of a tall handsome boy, about the same age as Yuki and myself. He had silver hair, wore the day class uniform (also like Yuki’s and mine), and a band signifying that he was a Disciplinary Committee Member; but the color of his eyes caught my attention the most. They were a vivid violet. I couldn’t seem to take my eyes away from his even though he wasn’t even looking at me. He was looking hard at Yuki, clearing intended as a scolding look. Yuki had an embarrassed look on her face.
I was finally able to take my eyes away from him and find my voice, “Yuki? Is everything ok?”
She quickly looked over at me, “Oh yeah, things are fine. I just wasn’t expecting to run into Zero is all; especially since he shouldn’t be here.” She shot him a bit of a scolding look back.
“Well I’m so sorry for trying to be sure you’re not late for class AGAIN.” He rolled his eyes unaffected, then motioned to me. “Who’s the new girl?”
I bit my lip a little as my cheeks tinted red slightly, “Um… My name’s Claire Ricci. Nice to meet you…”
“Zero Kiryu; Come on now Yuki. We are going to be late, and I’m not going to take the rap for it this time.” He turned his attention away from me again without any concern.
“Oh relax Zero. We’re going to be…” she glanced at her watch and jumped, “Oh my god! We’re going to be late! Sorry Claire, I’ll see you later! Take it easy!”
I waved as I watched her take off. That was the last that I saw of either of them for the rest of the day until the time came for them to escort the night class. I couldn’t get the sight of Zero Kiryu’s eyes out of my head. It was as if he had mesmerized me somehow without even trying to. I did nothing the entire time I had to myself.
When Yuki did finally come for me, the loud nock at the door startled me. I had been fiddling with a small ring that my mother had given me for my fifteenth birthday, and was startled to the point that I dropped it and nearly lost track of where it went.
“C-come in!” I called scrambling to retrieve my nearly lost ring.
Yuki slowly opened the door and peeked in at me as I searched my bed, having realized I’d lost it after all, “Are you ready to go... Is everything alright?” She noted how I was destroying my bed.
“Found it!” I exclaimed coming up for air from my blankets, “Ready as I’ll ever be!”
“Are you sure about that?” she giggled pointing to my hair.
I struggled to get up and ran to a mirror that had been placed in the room before I had arrived. My hair was stuck up in every direction from my little search only moments ago.
“Okay, maybe not. Just a sec,” I said rushing to my bags and began digging through its contents searching for my brush. After a moment I managed to find it and ran back to the mirror, and seconds after that I heard a small gasp come from the door way where Yuki still stood last I saw her.
“Zero I swear to god, you need to stop sneaking up on me!” I heard Yuki exclaim.
Curiously I turned and began blushing instantly seeing that Zero was looking directly at me as he began to speak, “And you need to quite wandering off so I don’t have to keep tracking you down. Let’s go.”
Our eyes locked for a moment and I noticed coldness in his stare that I hadn’t before. I couldn’t help but shiver.
“Oh relax, I’m only stopping to get Claire and then we were going to head straight there. Go on ahead if you’re so worried,” Yuki said rolling her eyes.
“Yeah, I’ll only take a second. I just have to finish brushing my hair,” I added in Yuki’s defense and turned back to the mirror to continue my simple task.
I could just barely hear a faint whisper come from Zero, clearly directed at Yuki and not for me to hear, “Why are you here getting the new girl? The last thing we need is another fan girl of those filthy blood suckers.”
Yuki scowled at him as I stiffened a bit, listening more, “I don’t think she’s going to become a stupid fan girl. Relax a little will you? It’s not like she’s one of the Night Class under cover or that she even knows their secret. I have a feeling she’s going to be more help later on.”
Secret? The night class had a secret? I had a feeling that if I stuck around I’d find out.
“Alright guys! I’m ready to go! I told you it wouldn’t take me that long!” I had cut zero off as he was about to argue with Yuki. She smiled at me not knowing that I’d heard their little conversation.
“Okay let’s go then,” Yuki pushed zero out of the door and then glanced back at me as I followed, “Are you a good runner? We need to hurry.”
“I can keep up,” I answered as we all broke into a run.
Within minutes we were already at the gates of the moon dorms. I now understood why the night class students needed an escort. There were hundreds of fan girls standing in front of the gates screaming the names of who I assumed were night class. Were they really this popular? There was no way so many girls in the day class were obsessed with the night class members. No matter how hot any of them may be.
The doors to the dorm slowly began to open and the face of an extremely handsome blonde boy poked out with a giant smile plastered in place. The entire group of girls began screaming.
