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It’s good to be bad
Riko can’t help but let a tired sigh escape her lips as she stares at the ceiling of her bedroom waiting for her alarm to go off, watching the sun getting out of its hiding place to illuminate the sky as its rays slowly filter through the window to paint her room in golden hues.
Soon, a soft piano melody begins to fill the silence reigning over the bedroom until that precise moment, before Riko turns if off, letting her hand fall back to the mattress while still holding her phone.
Another tired sigh escapes her lips as she gathers her strength to get out of bed and start her day, putting her uniform on, before plastering the best smile she can muster to go downstairs and have a quick breakfast with her mother before having to leave to classes.
On her way, Riko can’t help but think about how she used to love attending classes and learn new things until the pressure of having to be the perfect student started to take a toll on her to the point of almost discouraging her.
The burgundy haired girl then can’t help but take a deep breath trying to ignore it as she crosses the school’s courtyard and plasters another smile on her face, entering the building greeting all those who are polite enough to say “good morning” to her on her way to her classroom while ignoring the whispering and snickering aimed at her.
She has barely sat on her place at class and is taking the notebook for her first class out of her school bag, when the first one of her classmates approaches her.
- Riko-san! Can I please copy your math homework?
- Can you lend me your English homework?
Soon the requests of her classmates asking her to borrow them her homework so they can copy them start to multiply, and Riko can only smile kindly at them while nodding, taking one by one the rest of her notebooks out of her school bag to share them out in between her classmates and let them copy her answers.
She knows she should say no to them, but it seems to be hard for her to do it as she doesn’t want her classmates to get detention for not doing their homework. And that’s exactly the reason why she’s the joke among her class, because she’s too kind to say no to them no matter what.
- I told you she was going to lend them her homework.
- How stupid, she never learns.
- I bet she can’t even say no.
A group of girls at the back of the classroom whispers, laughing at Riko’s kindness, and the burgundy haired girl can only lower her head in shame because they’re right, she can’t say no to them.
Another heavy sigh escapes her lips as she tries to focus on her classes until school time is over and she can finally go back home to do her homework in complete silence, putting some music on as soon as she finishes it in the hope it can help her to distract herself and shoo the bad thoughts plaguing her mind.
But the more she thinks about everything, the more she comes to the conclusion that it’s not that she can’t say no to her classmates per se, it’s simply that she feels that if she does it, she would be a bad person for it, wanting nothing more than help her classmates and prevent them from getting detention even if she’s the joke among them.
A loud groan escapes her lips as she brings one of her arms to her eyes to cover them, thinking on a way in which she can say no to them and not feel guilty or bad about it. Thinking on a way to show them how she can also be a bad girl and not the goody two-shoes that everybody see her as and that take advantage and laugh off because of it.
Riko thinks thoroughly about what she could do to prove them wrong, when suddenly an idea pops in her mind, causing her to quickly spring out of her bed to grab her phone from her desk and get out of her house, grateful that her mother has left for a work trip that same evening and won’t be returning home for the next couple of days or else she’d have reprimanded her for going out in the middle of the night.
Riko shakes her head and quickly takes her bicycle to start pedaling towards her high school, leaving it hidden behind some bushes while also leaning it against the outer wall of the school.
As she gets off her bicycle and gazes at the wall, she can’t help but gulp upon how high it seems to be, but she still does her best to climb and jump it, falling right onto her butt once she’s at the other side.
- Ouch.
She complains aloud as she rubs her sore butt, staying sat on the ground for a brief moment to then rise and slowly walk around the courtyard, cautious and scared to be seen by the school’s janitor.
Riko can only keep advancing cautiously through the courtyard until she finally reaches the school’s pool, sighing in relief upon not have been discovered.
Then, a smile draws across her lips as she sees it, its water shinning in the darkness of the night, before she positions herself at the edge of it to take her phone out and take a selfie of herself at it to prove she did something as bad and daring as to sneak into the school at night and be in its pool, showing how bad she can also be.
- That will do….
Riko says as she takes a look at the picture she just took, saving it in the gallery of her phone, before she begins to hear some strange noises coming right from behind her.
Scared, she turns around slowly to see several bubbles appearing on the surface of the water of the pool behind her, before something starts to get out of it.
- KYA!!
A loud yell can be heard escaping her lips as Riko jumps scared due to the head emerging out of the water, turning around to rush out of the scene, when to her bad luck, she slips and ends up falling into the water.
She accidentally takes a gulp of water, feeling it filling her lungs as she sinks deeper in the water, before she feels a pair of strong arms surrounding her to bring her back to the surface.
As soon as she’s out, the burgundy haired girl quickly sputters the water out of her lungs gasping for air, before she feels the cold wall of the pool pressed against her back and another body against hers holding her tightly.
- Are you okay?
A blue haired girl with deep magenta eyes asks her, and Riko can’t help but blush hard, self-conscious of the feeling of the body of the stranger and her savior completely pressed against hers.
- I-I-I I’m okay!!
She yells high-pitched, making the other girl chuckle as the burgundy haired girl manages to get away from their stranger’s hold and out of the water.
- Wait! – the other girl yells making Riko stop dead on her tracks – you left your phone.
She ends up saying, pointing at the phone laying on the grass, before she hears Riko shrieking once again to quickly take it back and finally hurry away leaving the blue haired girl in the pool.
Riko can’t help but take her bicycle shakily and start to pedal as fast as her wobbly legs allow her, throwing her bicycle to the side of the entrance of her home as soon as she arrives, before she quickly enters and goes up to her bedroom to lock herself in it, leaning against the door as she feels her heart about to leap off her chest.
She lets out a shaky sigh as she goes to take a quick steaming shower and get changed into her pajamas to avoid getting sick, before she gets in her bed, blushing deeply as she still recalls the feeling of the other girl’s body pressed against hers and her mesmerizing deep magenta eyes captivating her, hunting her in her dreams as she succumbs to slumber.
When Riko wakes up next morning, she can’t help but feel her heart pounding hard against her chest upon remembering what happened the previous night, taking several deep breaths to calm herself down as she puts her uniform on and goes downstairs to have an easy breakfast, grateful that her mother is still out in a work trip.
She then gets out of home, locking the door behind her, before she begins her stroll to high school, paying special attention to her surroundings in case she finds the blue haired girl from the previous night in between the different groups of students walking beside her. But sadly, Riko doesn’t have such a luck.
Actually, if she thinks about it, she doesn’t even remember to have seen the girl at her school ever before, so they might not even attend the same high school.
A heavy and dejected sigh escapes her lips as this possibility crosses her mind, before she plasters the best smile she can muster and greets her classmates on her way to her classroom, quickly taking a seat.
- Sakurauchi-san…
Here we go again
Riko thinks to herself already hearing the snickers and whispering of her classmates at the background as another two of them stand in front of her desk waiting for her to lend them her homework to copy them as always, and for the first time, she doesn’t have the energy to want to give them to them, too busy thinking about a certain blue haired girl to even care about anything else.
- I’m sorry, but I didn’t do them.
She says quietly, pretending to be afflicted about it to make her lie seem more credible.
- What!?
- That can’t be.
Her classmates say in disbelief and about to panic, not knowing what to do with their homework, or rather, the lack of it.
- I’m sorry, I didn’t have the time to do them.
She apologizes looking in fake distress as she sees them going to another classmates desperate for somebody’s homework to copy and that it can save them from getting detention while being angry at her, but Riko finds that she could care less about it.
The burgundy haired girl just sighs in relief at being left alone, not even feeling bad about it, before she focuses on her classes until a break comes and a petite auburn haired girl with amber eyes from another grade enters her classroom.
- Sakurauchi-san, Tsushima-sensei asked me to tell you that she is looking for you.
The young girl says, and Riko can only blink.
- Tsushima-sensei? Do you happen to know what she wants?
- No, sorry.
The auburn haired girl apologizes, and Riko can only smile at her reassuringly.
- It’s okay, don’t worry, Kunikida-san. And thank you for telling me.
She says amicably, seeing Hanamaru giving her a soft smile, before nodding and leaving to go back to her own classroom while Riko goes to the laboratory.
Riko can’t help but stand outside the laboratory’s door fidgeting nervously with the necktie of her uniform upon thinking she did something wrong, before she takes a deep breath and gets in, closing the door behind her.
- Tsushima-sensei?
She asks aloud, crossing the laboratory towards the teacher’s department.
- Please, come in.
Tsukishima-sensei says, inviting Riko to come in, before Riko closes the department’s door behind her with a click.
- D-did you called for me?
Riko asks nervously as she walks closer to the teacher’s desk, seeing Tsushima-sensei grinning as she turns around and leaves her spot by the window.
- I was surprised to see you at the school’s pool yesterday night, Sakurauchi-san. Do you know it’s forbidden to sneak into the facilities, especially at night?
Yoshiko says as she walks in circles around Riko, and the burgundy haired girl can’t help but gasp both surprised and nervous upon having been caught the previous night, and just before she notices that her teacher is indeed the girl she encountered the previous night and whom she has been looking for since then.
- I-I-I’m so sorry! Please don’t expel me!
Riko quickly apologizes as she bows, and Yoshiko can only laugh, obliging her student to lift her head.
- It wasn’t as bad as to expel you, Sakurauchi-san, don’t worry. But I’m curious as to know why such an honor student like you was sneaking into the facilities at such late hours.
- I… I… I just wanted to be bad…
Riko mutters under her breath being kind of embarrassed, and Yoshiko can’t help but laugh once again.
- Why? – the teacher simply asks, seeing Riko blushing.
- M-my classmates always laugh at me because I can’t say no to them and I always let them copy my homework so they don’t get detention for not doing theirs. So... so I just wanted to show them that I can also be bad...
Riko trails off feeling more insecure and stupid with each word said, before she hears her teacher mumbling.
- No wonder why their homework is always so perfect but they can’t get more than a 1 in exams.
Yoshiko mumbles, letting out a heavy sigh, before she takes a step closer to Riko who can only panic and take a step back, hitting her hip against the teacher’s desk.
- If you want to be bad, then you need to start saying no.
Yoshiko says firmly, seeing the other girl lowering her head.
- I… I know, but I feel bad for them. I-I don’t want them to get detention... Although I did it today, I didn’t let them copy my homework and… and I didn’t feel bad about it… – Riko says with a timid smile on her lips, before frowning – I’m a bad person because of it?
Riko asks shyly, insecure, and Yoshiko can only smile softly at her, finding her adorable.
- No, you aren’t. You’re protecting yourself from getting hurt at being used and laughed at for it.
Yoshiko explains reassuringly, and Riko can’t help but smile softly once again, letting out a relieved sigh while eliciting a small smile from her teacher.
- Do you want me to teach you how to be bad, though? – Yoshiko asks half-jokingly, half-serious, and Riko can only nod her head effusively – Then close your eyes for a moment. I want to show you something.
Yoshiko says, seeing Riko closing her eyes confidently as she was told, before she takes another step closer, pressing their bodies together.
The teacher takes a moment to admire the beauty of the young girl, before she brings her hand up to cup one of Riko’s cheeks, leaning slowly to then kiss her softly.
Riko can’t help but gasp in the kiss, opening her eyes widely as Yoshiko pulls away looking apologetically.
The teacher is about to apologize, when Riko takes a step closer and pulls her into another kiss, this one deeper than their first kiss, enjoying the taste of her teacher’s lips as their bodies get pressed together and she feels her teacher circling her waist with her arms to pull her even closer.
Riko can’t help but love the feeling of getting to be bad with Tsushima-sensei, but that of course, is something nobody but them can know.