Interesting concept, you think?

By all accounts, this particular school day started out just as normally as all the rest had. Students crowded the hallways, chatting animatedly with their friends, swapping notes they had written to each other in class or over the previous night, and just generally trying to avoid entering their homeroom classes, for as long as they could possibly manage- without being late, of course.

Inside one classroom, though, all of the seats were already filled with students, though not all were eager to learn: only a few even had their books out on their desks. Some had their heads down on their desks, trying in vain to catch up on the sleep they somehow missed out on while at home.

And inevitably, spirits were mixed, for one simple reason.

It was Wednesday.

"Three more days…" Tomo moaned into her jacket, which she was using as a makeshift pillow. "Three miserable days left…"

"Until what?" asked Chiyo-chan, her already active curiosity piqued even further.

Tomo looked over at Chiyo-chan, as though she'd asked her the capital of Vietnam. "The weekend, duh…"

"Why are you so excited about the weekend, Tomo-chan?" asked Osaka. "There isn't even anything special going on…"

"Exactly!!!" Tomo exclaimed. "During the school week, there's just so much stuff going on, there practically isn't even time to think. The weekend, on the other hand… We have no obligations to anyone. It's ours to use as we want."

As much as they hated to admit it, Tomo did have a point.

"It's not that far away…" remarked Chiyo-chan. "Just a few days."

"It's still too long…" muttered Tomo.

Naturally, everyone ignored her.

"I kind of see where Tomo is coming from," Sakaki said. "It'd be much easier to make it through the week if something interesting actually happened every once in awhile…"

No one had any arguments about that.

Just then, Yukari-sensei stepped into the room and shut the door, She had a dour look on her face, like something had sapped all the life out of it.

"I hate Wednesdays…" Yukari announced. "They're always so… boring…"

"Wasn't that what we were just talking about?" Tomo asked sarcastically.

Yukari heard her, but was too lazy to really do anything about it. So she settled for simply slumping down into her chair.

She took out her roll book, and was about to start calling out roll, when there was a knock at the door. Yukari went over to the door and opened it, and found one of the assistant principals standing there.

"Kojiro-sensei?" Yukari said in surprise. "What can I do for you?"

The assistant principal addressed both Yukari-sensei and the entire class. "You all will be having a new student transfer into your class tomorrow."

"Another one?!" came Tomo's voice from the back.

One look from the assistant principal silenced Tomo, before she could say anything else.

Yukari looked at their visitor. "Why didn't the principal just tell me this morning, during the daily staff meeting?"

"He forgot," was all he said.

Pretty much everyone who met Kojiro-sensei knew, he never had been one for many words.

Yukari simply shrugged and said, "Alright, we'll be ready for him tomorrow."

"It's a she," was all the principal said before he turned around and walked away.

Yukari sighed, and turned back to the class.

"Now I'm going to have another one of you brats to deal with…" she murmured. Everyone heard her, of course, and no one paid her any attention- except Osaka, who seemed to hang on Yukari-sensei's every word, anyways.

She shook her head and turned to the board. "But that's not 'til tomorrow. Today, we will begin studying advanced sentence structure."

Some students protested, but that didn't stop her- she just started teaching, anyways.

Later That Evening

The winter night was cold, but no sign of snow was anywhere. And since all the Azu-Friends had nothing else better to do, all of them were at Chiyo-chan's house, snuggled near the fire.

Solely for warmth, of course.

"What do you think the new girl's going to be like?" asked Chiyo-chan, who had her head resting against Osaka's crossed legs, using them as a makeshift pillow.

Yomi snickered. "How'd I know this topic would eventually come up?"

"Because that topic always somehow comes up before we get another new transfer student," replied Tomo, "whether that new kid is actually transferring into our class or not." Like Yomi, Tomo had found a spot leaning up against the bottom of the couch. The pair's hands were dangerously close to touching, though just far enough apart as to not arouse questions from the other two girls in the room.

Not that they need have worried- Osaka and Chiyo-chan were more focused on each other than on Yomi or Tomo.

"I've heard a few rumors," said Osaka, speaking for the first time in this conversation. Osaka began lightly stroking Chiyo-chan's hair, and Chiyo-chan closed her eyes blissfully, smiling a deeply contented smile.

This captured Tomo's attention. "Rumors, like what?"

"Well…" Osaka began, "an old friend of mine called me the other day, and we got to talking. And she was talking about this really weird girl that goes to her school. Maybe that's her…"

That wasn't really a rumor at all, but they ran with it, anyways.

"What's her name?"

"My friend, or the new girl?"

"Your friend."

"Oh, her name's Kana. It's short for Kanako."

"Which school do they go to?"

Osaka thought for a second, then irritably shook her head. "I can't remember offhand. But anyways… she told me her friend was really superstitious, and that she spends all of her free time looking for weird stuff, like aliens or time-travelers from the future."

"Weird is right," put in Yomi.

"Off subject," said Tomo, "what time is it?"

Osaka looked at her watch. "Eleven-thirty," she replied.

Yomi unsuccessfully stifled a yawn. "We should get some sleep…"

Osaka and Tomo agreed; Chiyo-chan would have, as well, had she not already fallen asleep while the others were in conversation.

Less than fifteen minutes later, all four were soundly asleep. Yomi had commandeered the couch, and Tomo had chosen to lay on the floor just near the couch; the pair had their hands tightly clasped together- Yomi reaching down, Tomo reaching up- never wanting to accidentally let go.

Chiyo-chan and Osaka, though, shared a much more intimate position. Osaka was pressed up tightly against Chiyo-chan's back, her arm wrapped tightly around her one true love. Chiyo-chan had her arm resting atop Osaka's arm, their fingers softly intertwined.

No matter how weird things would possibly get in the near future, for now…

Peace reigned, and they were content to simply let it stay that way.

Yup, that's the first chapter. Hope this looks like a story you'll want to see through to the end. I'm not sure how long this is going to be, but hopefully not too boringly long…

I hope to have chapter two up soon, so keep on the look-out for it!!!