Henry J. Cobb wrote:

"Yes stupid, I know that.  Now go back to your room and go to sleep."

"I see everybody's alices, all the time.  I can't sleep."

If that continues it would be a good idea to relocate her out of the 
Academy.

"Huh?  What?"

"You wet my bed."

"Your bed?"  Mikan looked around my room then down at herself, "Oh, sorry!"

I think Mikan might be a little more upset than that.

"There's my bathroom, go clean yourself up then get out of here.  I'll
kill you when this gets out."

"Don't you mean if?"

"No, too many kids have information finding alices around here.  They'll
find out."

I grabbed a few things from my closet then opened the door to my bathroom.

"Eeek!"

"I've got a shower curtain for a reason stupid.  It keeps the water from

reason, stupid.

splashing around."

"Oh sorry," She closed the curtain then turned towards me from behind it,
"Now I can never get married."

"You keep saying that like it's even a possibility."

"It's not a possibility that I won't get married?"

"Not if the Academy has anything to say about it."

"Why should they care?"

"The source of the Academy's power is the alice power.  They're not going
to let their most powerful student just walk away.  They'll do whatever it
takes to continue and control your bloodline."

"I thought you were the most powerful student?"

"I was, until you turned yourself in at the front gate.  I brought you a
spare uniform of mine.  Get dressed and get back to your own room before
somebody notices you hanging around here."

"Well I just hope that whoever they pick for me is brave and smart and
good looking and he always fights for what he knows is right."

"You are an idiot,"  I closed the bathroom door sharply behind me, but I
didn't slam it.

She even took the time to use my hair dryer before she came out, "How do I
look?"

"Like a silly little girl in a boy's silly school uniform."

"It's a little too big for me, especially the underwear."

"Just take your polka dot patties with you.  I don't want to explain how

polka-dot panties

And you have my curse for making me write those words.

they wound up in my laundry."

"You knocked me out and then you looked at my body!"

"I only looked at you in the shower and I sure didn't want to.  I saw them
on the floor of my bathroom."

"It's the only clothes from my old life I get to wear to class, but
they're still damp."

"So wrap them in a towel and get back to your room until you can wash them."

"OK, thanks for everything then."

"Please don't mention it stupid.  When you do I'll kill you."  I opened my

do,

door and looked around but didn't see anybody so I shooed her out then
started to get ready for the day.

Mikan caught up with me on the way to breakfast, "I think somebody spotted
me on the way to my room."

"Did they or didn't they?"

"I only got one glance.  It was somebody on their hands and knees and
there was something about their ears.  By the time I looked back they were
gone without making a sound."

"Of all the people you had to show that to.  There's no way she'd fail to
catch my scent on you."

"Somebody has an alice like that?"

"She's in our class."

"Who?"

"Work it out stupid.  You're the one with the ability to spot alices."

As I feared Sumire was sitting with the other members of her fangirls for
me and Ruka club at breakfast.  The entire group was whispering and
looking at me and Mikan.  Of course this left Hotaru alone at Ruka's table
and she took advantage of this to pamper Ruka's bunny.

I cut breakfast short and dragged Mikan away.

"Aren't we going to class?"

"No, as long as you're sick, you're going to cause me problems.  We're
going to see my second least favorite person, your 'daddy'."

second-least-favorite

We found Mr. Narumi at the teacher's lounge and I explained Mikan's
insomnia to him, but not her little sleepover.

"Hmmm, that is serious,"  Mr. Narumi rummaged through his desk, "This is

Is Narumi his family name?

our most powerful model of control bracelet, but I don't recall anybody
ever having to nullify a nullification alice before.  Mikan, I'm going to
put this on you and then you need to see if you can still see our alices,
ok?"

"Sure,"  She held out her wrist.

"Here goes,"  He locked it in place and it activated.

"Ow!"  Mikan put her other hand around the bracelet, "It hurts!"

"OK, relax and I'll get it off."  The bracelet was already smoking when
Mr. Narumi removed it and it continued to spark for a few seconds after he
dropped it to the floor.  "There's some feedback element here.  I think
that's because it works on the same principle as your own power does
Mikan."

"So, can't I use a ring or earring instead?"  She asked.

"Those work in the same way and we can't just keep you drugged all the
time either because of the side effects.  No, I'm going to have to assign
you to the Insanity Inducing Alices group."

Well geez, that's not a very optimistic name.  It could at least be the 
Sanity Endangering Alices group to allow for the possibility that 
members won't go insane.

"Is that a sixth group, like the Special Abilities alices?"  she asked.

"No, it's a study group for alices of all types that have the potential to
affect the user's own mind.  We meet every Thursday afternoon, but I'm
going to get somebody to help you today.  You like Misaki Harada, don't
you?"

"Yeah, she's great.  Does her alice drive her crazy?"

"When she splits off into multiple bodies her mind splits also and it
takes her a bit of an effort to pull it together afterwards.  I'll have
her start you on yoga and meditation today and let's see if you can get
some sleep tonight."

That sounded kind of boring, but at least Mikan was out of my hands for a
while. Not having anything better to do I returned to class, just after
first period.

Ruka and his rabbit looked up as I entered the classroom, "Where's Mikan?"

"She's got a medical problem."

"What?"  Sumire sprang to her feet.

Hotaru dropped the book she was reading.

Ruka fell out of his seat.

The rest of the class turned to me with jaws agape.

Amusing.

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