Chapter 1: Entering Cori!

September 5th, 2008, 5:30AM, Cori's House, Bedroom

"AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Cori Jaspar shrieked and fell out of his bed as her alarm clock, which he hated with a passion, went off in his ear, signaling that it was time to get ready for school.

"STUPID ALARM CLOCK!" He yelled, attempting to throw it out the window to get rid of the thing for good. What he failed to remember was that the window had a screen on it, so the clock bounced off of it and whacked him right in the forehead, making him curse loudly and topple backwards onto the rug on his floor.

Cori groaned and got up, making his way unsteadily to the bathroom to brush his teeth and his shoulder length red hair. He looked at himself in the mirror and he was met with a red-haired, bi-color eyed, pale weirdo with a big red bump in the middle of his forehead. His eyes were two different color from a special genetic disorder, his left eye being bright green and his right eye being bright blue. He quickly put on the Kaibara High School's boy uniform, muttering something about how annoying the tie was in the morning.

He definately wasn't a morning person, that's for sure.

He wandered into the kitchen and made himself a cup of coffee and grabbed a roll from the counter, munching on it while going into the living room. He plopped down onto the couch and flipped the TV on, turning it onto the News station with a bored click of the button on the remote, watching it with barely any interest.

Cori then finally got up and got his backpack and Ipod and walked out of his house. The walk from his house to Kaibara High School wasn't a long one, but he liked to take his time and he always got there early. His Ipod was play a song called "Nyappy In The World 3" by a Japanese band called An Cafe, and he began to sing to it, walking to the beat.

Just a few minutes later, he was sitting at his desk by the window in homeroom, talking to Tohru Honda, Arisa Uotani, and Saki Hanajima about what work they had the day before when Yuki Sohma came in. Tohru ran over to him and greeted him happily and Arisa and Saki followed, say their 'hellos' as well. Cori sighed, knowing that he'd never be that courageous to say hi to the guy that he had the biggest crush on. Plus, there was the Prince Yuki Fan Club that he had to keep her eye on, as they were eyeing him, smirking at her as they thought about what their fan club would be named if it could have him in it.

Yup, that would be embarrassing if the fan club found out his secret.

"Hey, Prince Yuki!" Minami, one of the members, called out, waving so wildly that Yuki would have been blind to not see it.

"Yes? Is there anything that you need?" He asked, walking over to her, and Cori almost visibly flinched as he realized that Yuki was closer to him, and Minami smirked in seeing that. She finally asked him about something that had to with a class that she had with him, and Cori was able to finally relax when Yuki walked back over to Tohru and the others. Minami walked back over to Makoto and Mio.

"I know what to call Cori!" She smiled, and the others demanded what. Minami smirked and whispered.....

"The Innocent Prince Cori."

September 5th, 2008, 11:34AM, School Cafeteria, Lunch

Cori stared down at his plate, too nervous to actually eat anything, since coming next was something that he was afraid of....

Swimming.

He shuddered at the thought of the pool...no, no, that wasn't right, it was the WATER in the pool that he wanted to stay away from. Cori was mortally afraid of water ever since we was 4 years old when he was kidnapped from his parent and was almost drowned in a pool. He gripped the sides of his head, and put his head down onto the table, taking a deep whiff of the cheesebuger that he purchased and suddenly felt nauseous. Maybe I'm thinking too much about it, he thought to himself as he opened the can of Diet Lemon Iced Tea he had with him. That calmed him stomach down a bit, and Tohru walked over.

"Jas-kun...? Are you okay, you look pale!" She exclaimed, looking worried, and he just smiled nervously.

"Yeah...I-I'm okay, it's just that we have swimming next, and I'm terrified of water," He explained, and Tohru nodded in understanding as Hana and Uo joined them.

"Scared of water, huh cherry top?" Uo smirked, and Cori nodded weakly, feeling a bit queasy again.

Hana walked over to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, smiling gently, "I feel your fear, I too am afraid..."

"You're afraid of anything that has to deal with moving at an excessive amount of speed!" Uo laughed, and Hana just smiled in agreement, making Cori laugh as well.

The bell ran, signaling the end of lunch and making Cori gulp in fear.

September 5th, 2008, 11:48AM, School Pool Room, Gym Class

All of Cori's fears marerialized in front of him as he edged closer to the pool side, peering down into its blue depths and wishing that he had overslept if he only knew that this was today. He cursed himself for being that stupid, since he just found out the period before Lunch from one of his classmates and nearly fainted from shock and fear. Now that he was here, he really did feel like fainting until a soft voice came floating over, startling him back into reality.

"I'm telling you, he shouldn't do this! Can't you see that he's terrified!?" Yuki's voice, full of anger and concern, made Cori turn his head, amazed that Yuki was sounding like that, and for him. He sank to his knees and almost screamed in shock and panic as someone ran and did a cannonball into the pool, making the water go everywhere. He didn't know how, but he darted to the other side of the room, slipping a bit on the water that was spilled from the eariler scene.

That was when he knew it was all over.

He slipped on a big puddle of water, but he couldn't get his balance like before and continued to slide. His eyes widened in horror as he realized that he was sliding right for the pool and tried to stop himself, but failed miserably. He heard a few people shout and as couple of girls scream, heard some yell out "YUKI!", but then it all disappeared as he went underneath the water. Cori's intense fear of water had kept him from learning how to swim.

"NO!" Yuki yelled, running for the pool and diving in after the sinking Cori, hoping against hope that he wasn't too late...