Someone once told me that a relationship has three stages: The Beginning, the Rest of it, and the End. But the End is kind of a fickle thing, isn't it?

Kise Ryouta wasn't amused with his predicament.

Okay. Maybe he was being particularly irritable and unreasonable, but honestly? He really, really, didn't want to participate in this project. He didn't even need the extra points it gave him! But he had to do it, and he needed a partner for it. And his partner was a girl.

Not that Ryouta had something against girls. He very much liked girls. He dated and he liked very much doing it. It just happens that he had some very bad memories about partnering with one of his female classmates.

Ryouta blocked those memories as he shudders just of thinking about - nope. Don't think about it Ryouta.

With a sigh, he decided that it would be best to pay attention to his teacher as she droned about the Lit project they 'must' do well.

"This time, you guys will work with a foreign book. Alice in Wonderland. I want a full analyses of that book! You are to make a review of the book, along with possible flaws and loopholes on it. Tomoka-kun, I don't want a repeat of that Yahoo Answer copy you gave me!" With a piercing gaze to the boy and soon after to the whole class, Professor Kusanari Ame concluded her lecture. "In those last ten minutes of class, I want you to get to know your partner. They will be with you for the rest of the year."

The whole year?

Gulping, he turned his golden eyes to the small ginger haired girl sitting beside him.

L'orange Amara was a foreign student. She was calm and serene, always collected. She was also blunt and almost a brute when being her truthful self. She talked with Ryouta only once, on their first year on Teiko.

"You're a very false person with a very false smile."

Well, it was his luck being stuck with her.

Word Count: 315

A/N: This shall be updated on Tuesday. Frequency will depend on how many, or if, people read this. (I'll update anyway. Probably. I already have a bunch of these ready anyways.)

For those of you who wonder about my crossover Coalesce's next chapter, it shall come on the following week.

(I can't decide if Amara is a ginger or a warm strawberry blonde. Either way, it is supposed to be the closest shade to orange as possible.)