Okay, so I've never been quite cut out for my school... I'm not any sort of genius, and most of the people here are. I'm not particularly good at sports, or anything else that might get me recognized, and pretty much all of the non-geniuses have something that they're famous for. The only reason anyone might have heard of me is if they were paying close attention to the news casts during the War...since I was mentioned once during the raid on the resistance headquarters. Rai-nii tried to keep me off the screens, since I wasn't really part of the resistance itself, but I did show up about once, and someone might recognize me now as the little girl on the tv. But that's not really anything that I did, it was just coincidence.
So anyway, I'm not really cut out for my school. Really the only reason I'm there is because I got Tousan to pull a few strings for me, and he was willing to be indulgent. I really only wanted to be here because it's not home, not because I was attached to the school or anything. Anywhere that wasn't home, and didn't have all sorts of kitsune guys all begging me to go out with them would have been good. This just happened to be far away, on the Moon, and have someone who Tousan could influence who wasn't kitsune.
Of course, even though I'm not anything special, every now and then I can stand out at school, and not for being the stupidest girl in the class. Like when we put on plays and such. I got into acting because of Nii-chan's boyfriend, and it turns out I'm good at it. But that's not why I stand out.
It's because of my illusions.
No one at school knows that I'm not human. This school isn't one of those schools, and I don't really want to make waves like that. So I hide it. But every now and then I just can't help doing something with my magic that no one else can do, like when our class puts on a play and I volunteer to make my own costumes.
They almost didn't let me do it, because everyone knows from our little home ec class that I almost sewed my fingers into the piece I was working on. But I was really nice and sweet, and I got them to give in, on the condition that I had it done with plenty of time to spare in case they had to make another one. I didn't bother to tell them that they wouldn't need to do that, since I wasn't going to be making my costume.
The play this time was some old classic fairy tale that someone dug up out of the past. Rapunzel, about this girl who gets taken away from her parents right after she was born and locked up in a tower with no doors, and a single window. She has this really long hair, which the witch who takes care of her climbs up to get into the tower. And there's a prince, who she falls in love with.
So yeah, I'm Rapunzel, the girl, and I'm in charge of my own costume. They wanted to see the costume the other day, since there's only a week left before the performance, so I made up an illusion to show them. I had to pretend to be putting on the costume and everything, and I refused to let anyone "see" it after I "took it off," since there really wasn't anything to show them. But they all loved it.
Now I have everyone begging me to tell them where I learned to sew like that. I copied the dress pattern from something that Nii-chan's boyfriend showed me in a book when I told him what play we were doing. And, they all want to know where I found a wig that matches my hair color perfectly. It's kinda fun.
I'm glad that the "prince" won't actually be climbing up my hair though. I don't think that would work well, since the hair isn't really there. As it is, it's hard to make an illusion of hair that long that actually acts like real hair. ^_^ Practice, I guess.