Yay new story! Who voted for this on the poll on my profile? I was secretly hoping this story will win, and I'm so glad it did! Damn I've got like, what? Three (well, technically four) stories I still need to update and I'm already starting another one! I'm never gonna finish them! Nah just kidding. :P I'll try my best with this story so I hope you guys like it!

11 years.

It's already've been 11 years. Time sure flies.

Mikan sighed for the nth time that very morning. It was 7:30 in the morning, beautiful weather with the perfect temperature, but her whole being felt very annoyed.

It was another day of school, the start of another boring year.

A crowd of loud students—mostly freshman—gathered around the noticeboard nailed in front of the school gates for their new classrooms, their new classmates, their new teachers.

Mikan Sakura did not need to fight her way through the bustling crowd; she already knew her classroom.

Class 2B of the high school section.

She's been stuck in that classroom ever since she transferred into Gakuen Alice 10 years ago for lower school. It's already a quote around the student body that 'once you become a member of class 2B, you stay as one.' That class was always on the top of rumors, gossips and hottest news. It was a class full of troubling students.

Of course, Mikan never knew exactly why she was in that class in the first place; she wasn't particularly smart, never did anything illegal and never even broke any of the school rules. Not even once.

The hallways were unusually quiet with all the students outside hogging the noticeboard. Her steps echoed off the walls with loud clanks, the sun rays dappled the grounds with beautiful shades of yellow, pale pink, scarlet and sapphire.

Pulling at the hem of her tan plaid skirt, making sure it wasn't too short—as it was growing inconveniently short, only just reaching her mid-thighs—before she opened the large oak doors to her classroom with a loud creak from their age.

She was greeted by a whirlwind of noise, as most of her classmates were already here. She inwardly scoffed at herself; no one in class 2B needs to look at the noticeboard anyways.

"Mikan-chan!" Immediately spotting her friends near the back of the room, Mikan let out her usual cheerful smile, walking over with a wave.

"Hey guys." She greeted, dropping her back on the back of her usual seat before pulling over a chair and sitting next to a small table her friends made by aligning desks together.

"You okay?" Anna Umenomiya asked, wrinkling her nose a little at the sound of Mikan's tired voice.

"Yeah," Nonoko Ogasawara chimed in. "You sound exhausted." Mikan gave a small smile before laying on the desks.

Hotaru Imai sat silently, tinkering with yet another piece of metal.

"I don't think I got enough sleep last night." She sighed exasperatedly. "Besides, he didn't wait for me...again." The two girls nodded knowingly as Hotaru seemed to pause at whatever she was doing, before the door slammed open.

"Ugh." Sumire groaned as she sat down next to the four girls, not forgetting to smoothen her skirt first before sitting.

"Went to the board again, Permy?" Nono asked with a small giggle, and the two girls joined in; Hotaru merely sighed. Sumire answered with a huff as she curled her perfectly permed hair with a perfectly manicured finger.

"First of all, don't call me that. How many times do I have to tell you girls? Second of all, I just don't get it." She said with annoyance. "Why the hell am I stuck here? Me! Sumire Shouda! The prettiest girl alive, the queen of fashion!" She yelled outrageously and the three girls humored her with a halfhearted nod.

"Queen Bee's bitching again." Hotaru whispered under her breath, just enough for Anna, Nono and Mikan to hear. Sumire was too busy talking highly of herself anyways.

"Well, you know that those who enter class 2B never get out until they either go to jail or graduate." Anna stated, earning a grumble from the emerald haired girl.

"I think it's about time someone changed that tradition?" She crossed her arms in frustration.

"Yeah," Mikan scoffed. "I don't think so."

"Guys!" A male student ran into the room, a lopsided grin plastered on his face. "There's a new teacher for our class!" Questions, squeals, and curious conversations erupted inside the classroom, almost half the students gathered around the male.

"Didn't any of you read the noticeboard?" He asked disbelievingly.

"You did." Mikan said to Sumire. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"I didn't see anything about a new teacher." She reasoned. "I was just looking at the column with the classrooms."

"Ugh." Anna and Nono mumbled. "You're so useless sometimes." Sumire clutched her heart over dramatically, feigning hurt.

"Shush! Shush!" Yuu Tobita—or Iinchou, as most students called him—called furiously over the ruckus of the students. "Everyone, please get back into your seats!" Not even a second later the bell rang, signaling the start of school.

Everyone sat in their seats impatiently as they waited for their so called 'new teacher' to show up.

"Whoever the new teacher is," Hotaru mumbled. "He's already 1 minute and 31.6 seconds late."

"Maybe sensei got caught up with something. First day of work?" Mikan whispered back, since she was sitting right behind her and therefore could hear everything the female was saying.

"It's because it's the first day of work, sensei should be on time." Hotaru argued back before clear footsteps were heard outside the closed classroom doors.

The doors were opened gracefully, and slowly, as if the person on the other side of the door had all the time in the world.

Gasps, whispers and quiet squeals were heard when the new teacher walked in leisurely, setting his books on his desk softly.

"Oh. My. God." Mikan breathed in disbelief as her eyes grew wide with surprise.

"What?" The three girls that sat around her asked with hushed voices. "You know him?"

She didn't answer as she kept her gaze on the new teacher, who also had his eyes trained on her.

Oh hell she knew him.

I want to make something clear: this story is just to test it's popularity. Which means this will be on hiatus for a while (though it is an official story I will continue to write) and I will not be updating this for quite a while unless I am persuaded otherwise. I've written this up quite a while ago, and finally decided to post this because for me, I really like how I wrote the first chapter and I'm hoping this story will become popular. I don't think I'll have the time to be continuously updating five different stories, so again, unless I am persuaded otherwise that I should continue updating this as quickly as possible, I won't.

Hopefully you guys like this story though. :D

R&R Please!