Soooo I had this idea stuck in my mind for the longest time and I'll be adding this to my regular story cycle. XD

Since I did have a little bit of downtime (because I got sick) I was able to write a bit but I ended up working on this story more than my other ones.. Gomen'nasai T_T

Secrets will be updated today as well so you can all look forward to that.

WARNING: CHARACTERS WILL BE OOC HERE. It's an AU fic after all ;)

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THE SCAM

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTIONS

The radio blasts a stream of pop music that awakens the occupant of the brightly painted room. She stretches her arms up and stifles a yawn as she brings them back down. Carefully putting on her robe and slipping into her fluffy bunny bedroom slippers, she saunters over to the window and draws the curtain covering her French lattice windows.

She takes in a deep breath of the cool morning air before the shrilly sound of a phone ringing cut into the peace and quiet of the early break of day.

'Right on schedule.' She thought wryly.

"Hi Sumire!" She said as she sits down in front of her mirror and began to examine her nails as she put the phone on speaker.

"Mikan. I've got the budget proposal ready to be presented to the committee in the meeting this morning and I heard from Yura and Wakako that Reo has not yet asked anyone to the Gold Homecoming Ceremony."

"Of course he hasn't honey. There's an unspoken process. Speaking of Reo, what do you think of my pink crop top for school today?" She eyed the piece of clothing that was hung on the handle of her closet door.

"It's a bit whore-ish to wear this cold morning to school?" Sumire's sarcastic tone was not lost even through the phone.

"Let me rephrase, what do you think Reo will think of my pink crop top when I wear it to school today?"

"I think he has better taste than that? Like let's say, a sundress would be more his taste of clothing in women, not belly baring shirts and ass hugging bell bottom blue jeans." Mikan rolled her eyes.

"Yeah yeah, whatever Miss killjoy. I'm taking a shower now. See you in a half hour." She ended the call without waiting for Sumire's response.

Mikan began rummaging in her closet for the outfit in question. She showered and dressed but as she looked at her reflection on her full length mirror, she felt that it was lacking. She twirled one way then another before deciding that she needed something to balance it out. She proceeded to spend the next ten minutes looking for the perfect thing she had in mind to complete her outfit of the day.

Ten minutes turned to fifteen before she began to feel desperation setting in. Sumire who was her ride to school in her 2015 Mazda MX-5 Roadster, would be arriving any minute now. Knowing only one person who could have the item she was searching for, she grabbed her bag, and sprinted out the door.

"MOM! Do you have my Burberry trench co-"Her eyebrows furrowed as she spotted her mom not in the kitchen where she usually is during breakfast time but in the backyard talking to their next door neighbor.

Yuka Yukihira was a beautiful woman despite being in her mid-thirties. She and Mikan's father had divorced ten years ago when Mikan was eight. She was an older version of Mikan with short auburn hair in a stylish bob cut and honey gold eyes. Mikan preferred to wear her hair longer and usually in high ponytails. When out in public, most people (those who didn't know them) would mistake them as sisters which would sometimes annoy Mikan but nevertheless she would take it all in stride. She loved her mother very much, even if she borrowed Mikan's stuff without permission.

Mikan walked up to her mom who was leaning on the fence and talking to the neighbor next door, Ioran Hyuuga who was talking animatedly all while holding a bottle of milk in his hand. Mikan raised her eyebrow as she saw her mom throwing her head back, laughing at something Mr. Hyuuga had said. The Hyuugas had been in the neighborhood well before Mikan's family moved in sixteen years ago and had become a second family to Mikan. Her mom and Ioran's late wife Kaoru, had been the best of friends. She had died back when Mikan was in middle school with their only son Natsume. And speak of the devil, he was fast approaching from the back door of the house next to hers.

"Good morning Mikan!" Mr. Hyuuga greeted her with a warm smile while nudging Natsume to do the same. The latter only put his hands in his pockets and nodded weakly at her.

"Good morning Mr. Hyuuga." Mikan chose to ignore how the tall boy addressed her and turned to her mother.

"Mom, do you have my Burberry trench coat?" her mother gave out a long sigh before informing her that it was in her closet.

"I'm using it for today." Mikan made to go back into the house to retrieve said coat when she felt her mother's grip on her arm.

"Be polite and say good morning to Natsume, honey. You two used to play together when you were kids. You used to be best friends, what happened to you two?"

Crimson eyes bored into her honey gold ones and she fought not to shift her gaze away. It was as if they were having a telepathic conversation even if she didn't really know what he was thinking and she knew neither did he. But they both knew it was better to just do as they were told rather than having to open up such an awkward conversation.

"Morning Natsume." She mumbled under her breath.

"Morning Mikan." His smooth baritone voice said in return.

Having gotten satisfied comments from each parent, they excused themselves separately to start their school day in Alice High School.

Both names were well known in the school, albeit in extremely different ways. The underclassmen would all be whispering whenever one of them passed by in the halls with their clique.

Mikan Sakura Yukihira. 18, Alice High's Student Council President for 3 straight years. Straight A's. Clean record. Captain of the school's debate team, and chairman of the school's Gold Homecoming Ceremony committee. She was smart, sexy, beautiful, and surprisingly single. But she had her eyes set on Reo Mori, current captain of the basketball team and campus heartthrob. She was doing some meticulous planning to ensure that she would be the one on Reo's arm during the Homecoming Ceremony.

Her committee comprised of the school's elite:

Yuu Tobita – Student Council Vice President and Anchor of the school's local news show "Alice High Now".

Misaki Harada - Student Council Secretary and Head Cheerleader of the school's three time National Cheerleading Champions 'The Alice League'.

Hotaru Imai – Student Council Treasurer and President of the Audio Visual (AV) Club.

Sumire Shouda – Student Council Auditor and co-anchor of "Alice High Now".

Anna Umenomiya – Student Council Public Relations Officer and reigning Miss Alice High Muse.

Kitsuneme and Yura Otonashi – committee members and liaisons.

Wakako Usami – committee member and editor-in-chief of Alice High's campus newspaper "The Alice Times".

The high school was celebrating its 50th year anniversary from its foundation. And the homecoming ceremony was something that Mikan had planned for since she was a sophomore. She'd worked hard to ensure success for that event as it was also her last year in high school. It would be her legacy as a senior. It was highly anticipated by almost everyone composing the student body. Almost everyone except a very select few.

One of which is Natsume Hyuuga. 18, resident delinquent and bad boy of Alice High School. He used to be a straight A's student in middle school, but following the death of his mother, quickly became a troublemaker. Though he didn't fail his classes, he didn't feel like attending them most of the time either. His chiseled features and lean, muscular build made him popular eye candy among the ladies but he was smitten almost instantly by Luna Koizumi.

Luna was a strawberry blond, blue-eyed beauty who had a penchant for rebellious things. She dabbled in after school rallies and protests, not for the sake of school spirit, but against it. She hated the status quo and the popularity of the elite students to be more specific. She hated that everyone revered the student council's promoted agenda when there were, to her, more important things than pep rallies and basketball games. She was often spotted skipping classes with Natsume and his friends Ruka and Tsubasa.

Ruka Nogi. He wasn't really a rebel but he wasn't also a popular guy either despite his good looks. He's a quiet member of the AV club as a videographer and cameraman for "Alice High Now". He was a studious student, albeit cutting classes with Natsume resulted in him never making top marks, but he wasn't exactly at the bottom of the ranks.

Tsubasa Andou was the prankster of the three. He was a charmer and knew how to get in and out of the school since he served a lot of detentions after getting caught for multiple pranks all throughout high school.

The elites would normally ignore and want nothing to do with the pranksters/class ditchers but the latter group's behavior would prompt the former to instill punishment. With the members of the elite holding high positions in the Student Council, tensions would rise high and hatred would be a soft word to describe what each group felt towards each other. It was how the norm was in Alice High School all throughout their first three years in high school. Now that they were seniors, a simple scam was all it would take for everything to change.

END OF CHAPTER 1

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