"Beautiful Freak" a story by Beatrix

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Uzume caught herself staring out of the window again, she couldn't help it, class had been so boring today. The math-teacher had just kept going on and on, she couldn't wait for the bell to ring and class to end.

"Only 10 more minutes," Uzume thought to herself, "10 more minutes and we can get out of here...". She looked around trying to find a new way to kill the time, she had spent the last half hour looking at the clouds outside and even that had become too boring.

She usually didn't care much for clouds, but today the weather was interesting, dark clouds had been racing each other across the sky since lunch.

Which was another reason she was anxious to get going, even though it hadn't rained yet, it seemed like it could any minute now, and she had walked to school today as usual.

She looked around the classroom, there was really noone paying any attention, a lot of people were looking outside or silently talking to each other. When her eyes turned to Yuki, Uzume couldn't help but smile.

Yuki was her best friend, always had been, always would be, she was a bit strange, but Uzume didn't care about things like that. The reason she smiled when she looked at her friend was that Yuki had managed to fall asleep in class without anyone noticing it.

Or at least nobody seemed to care about it. Uzume took a good look at Yuki, she was sleeping so peacefully. Her head resting on her arms, allowing her short silvery-white hair to almost touch the table. Uzume had always wondered about that, it couldn't have been her real colour, but no matter how many times she asked about it Yuki had always claimed that it was.

After all these years Uzume had just come to accept it, it didn't matter anymore if it was real or not. Yuki wouldn't be Yuki without the white hair, and Uzume liked how it looked.

She was a bit jealous really, her own hair was a boring brown, even though it had a red shine to it when she walked outside in the sun it was still just brown.

Her hair wasn't the most notable thing about Yuki though, even if it was what made her stand out in a crowd. Her eyes were what really caught people off-guard, they were a deep grey and always looked a bit sad. Which seemed strange because Yuki is always cheerful and energetic, even a bit too energetic for most people.

Yuki had never been one to keep her opinions to herself, she always knew what to say. When she thought about it Uzume was more jealous of that than the white hair, she had never been too good with words and was frequently at a loss for them.

Uzume realized that she and Yuki were opposites in most ways, but it didn't matter to her.

She was glad to have a friend, she had never been good at making friends. She never knew what to say to people she liked and had been labeled as 'the shy one' by most people in her class. This resulted in her being liked and accepted by everyone, but known by none of them.

Except for Yuki of course, Yuki didn't have many friends either and had been interested in her since the first day they met. Uzume didn't really understand why Yuki didn't have many friends, but she didn't care, Yuki was her friend and nothing was going to change that.

Uzume was pulled from her thoughts by the sudden ringing of the bell. Yuki slowly opened her grey eyes and couldn't help letting out a small yawn. Uzume smiled and said, "I'm glad you enjoyed class today."

Yuki made no attempt to hide her next yawn while stroking through her short hair, "It's better than trying to stay awake, I don't care about math anyway."

"Well, if you care about getting home dry I suggest we get going," Uzume answered while looking out of the window to the restless sky. She really didn't feel like getting caught in a rainstorm today.

Yuki looked outside, "Yeah, there's definitely something in the air, just let me go take a pee, I got to get the sleep out of my system."

"You always need to pee after class, no matter whether you slept or not," Uzume replied.

"Yeah, well we aren't all built in the same way," Yuki replied with a smile as she ran for the toilets.

Uzume thought about that for a while as she picked up her books and put them in her bag, she then gathered Yuki's stuff from the table. Carrying both backpacks she headed for the toilets.

"You could've at least grabbed your

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