KAGAMI ARISU<br/><br/>After a while I calmed down and though I was still shaking a little I had gathered my wits enough to get off the bed and satisfy my increasing hunger. I pulled open my desk drawer but apart from a tangle of scruffy filled-up notebooks, various random PC boards and electrical scraps and a few empty candy bar wrappers it was empty.<br/><br/><em>Oh... who ate my Pocky?<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">You did. Last night.</span><br/><br/>Oh yeah. Meh.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Go cook some rice</span><br/><br/>I'll cook some rice.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">And miso.</span><br/><br/>And some miso. Good idea.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Mine always are.</span></em><br/><br/>I slipped out of Peach dorm and taking a quick detour via the toilets to do the necessary and freshen up, went into the kitchen area. We're allowed to cook some light meals in the dorms though we're expected to take evening dinner in the restaurant and each girl keeps a stash of things in the cupboards. I write my name on mine in a thick black marker pen, it saves arguments although some of the stuff I buy seems to just go missing, I don't know how but I have my suspicions.<br/><br/>The place was almost empty, just a couple of girls I didn't know that well eating from<em>bentos</em>in the lounge area.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><em>Don't make me laugh. You don't know anyone that well.</em></span><br/><br/>I got a cup of rice from the school-provided sack and dropped it in the steamer, adding water and turning it on. Then I dug out a box of my ready-made<em>miso</em>and poured some in a pan. Ten minutes later I served up the rice into a bowl and poured the soup over it, grabbed some chopsticks from the drawer and a glass of iced<em>oolong</em>tea and sat at the dining table at the far end, my back to the library wall and munched away, casting nervous glances from time to time around me.<br/><br/><em>Boys. Boys! In school!<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">I know. Exciting isn't it?</span><br/><br/>No.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Liar.</span><br/><br/>Urusai!</em>