Foreign Exchange
Raimundo is a foriegn exchange student from Brazil. He is now going to attend Relik High in Tokyo, Japan. He meets a group of three teens his age named Omi, Kimiko and Keiko, and befriends a guy named Clay. He likes Kimiko almost immediatly, but doesn't know how to tell her. Can Clay, Omi and Kieko help Raimundo confess his feelings to Kimiko? RaixKim, some close friendship KiekxOmi
Chapter 1...Hearing the News
Raimundo wrote rapidly, and looked up at the clock. He and his best friend, Jack, were going to go bowling with some other people from their school. So he had to get his math assignment done before the bell rang. His pencil dropped and he took a deep breathe. It got it finished just as the bell rang, so he put his things in his backpack and walked through the long hallways to the front of the school where him and Jack would meet. As he walked, girls at their locker sigh, and he knew what they were thinking. 'I wonder why Raimundo doesn't have a girlfriend, he's so hot, and has such a fantastic personality, but one thing is good about this. I might have a chance with him then!' After the girls thought about this, they smiled. Raimundo smiled back, and some girls dreamily stared back.
Raimundo then thought about how perfect life was for him. He could have any girl he wanted, and had great friends. He didn't see how it could turn bad. He was torn away from his thoughts, like someone was tearing paper, when he reached the front of the school and heard Jack's voice.
"Hey Rai! Come on we're going to be late!" Jack yelled, taking off running along with Raimundo. As they reached the bowling ally, Jack finally broke the silence, once again tearing Raimundo away from his thoughts of his perfect life. "So Rai, have you picked a girl yet? You know you need to find one soon!" he playfully punched Raimundo in the arm as they slowed their pace to a walk.
"Not yet, I want to find the perfect one. Pretty, good personality, school smart, some street smarts in her."
"Oh you're going to be picky huh?" Raimundo was the one to punch Jack playfully in the arm this time. They both laughed as they opened the door to the bowling ally. Everyone was waiting for them to come so they could start.
"Told you we would be late!" Raimundo muttered so only Jack could hear.
Jack then stopped with a confused look on his face. Raimundo kept walking, but Jack was thinking. Finally he said, "Hey!" Raimundo laughed when Jack finally figured out the joke.
The bowling was fun, although neither Jack or Raimundo won, and during it, Raimundo and Jack planned for Jack to stay at his house. He normaly did this even on school nights, because his parents were rarely home, and he was alone in a huge mansion.
On they way home, they talked, but once they reached the path up to Raimundo's home, they saw a car in the driveway, which was not his fathers, or mothers car. Jack and Raimundo both stopped, and everything broke into silence. After about four minutes of staring at the car Raimundo broke to a speed that he only used in soccer, that Jack couldn't catch up to. He burst through the front door and ran from his living room to the dinning room to where he knew his parents and whoever owned the car would be sitting. It was one of his teachers. Mr. Fung (I know I changed Master to Mr. but who calls one of their teachers 'master'? Please understand, thanks!). Everyone was staring at eachother until the panting Jack jogged to Raimundo's side and then stopped panting or moving, and again not talking. But instead of staring at one another, everyone looked to Jack and Raimundo, and Raimundo and Jack looked from Raimundo's parents to their teacher.
Mr. Fung was his world culture teacher, and at the moment they were leaning to the country Japan, but why was Mr. Fung at HIS house? Raimundo broke his stare with his teacher and looked at the ground. Before long his hand snapped up and he broke the silence, "What is he doing here?" He never liked Mr. Fung, because he always seemed to get worse grades in his class then others, and he was always to strict with everyone in the class. No other teachers were like that.
"Honey, we have some news for you," his mother smiled at her once small child. She tried to hide the fear and dispare in her eyes as she looked at him. Although Raimundo could see what his mother was feeling, he was beginning to wonder what it was.
"Yes..." Raimundo started to get impatient, he just wanted to get over with it. If it was bad or good.
"You remember the letter we got in the mail, of if we wanted to put you in a foreign exchange program right?" Raimundo's mother looked very scared at what her sons reaction would be. But to everyones surprise he just stood there, waiting for the next part.
"Mr. Fung has come here to ask us if it would be okay if you were the one to be the exchange student!" his father said, trying to sound firm.
"WHAT?" Jack and Raimundo both burst out. Then they both started laughing.
"You real-really...believe...that I...I'm going t...to do...THAT!" he said between laughs.
"Yeah, I mean I thought you all knew Raimundo better. After all, Mr. and Mrs. Pedrosa, he is your son, and Mr. Fung, he is your student. With no disrespect there!" Jack had stopped laughing along with Raimundo, when they saw the expression on everyones face.
"You don't have a choice," Mr. Fung finally decided to speak.
"Huh?" Raimundo then looked confused, but his eyes told everyone he was amused.
"You do not have a choice, Raimundo," Mr. Fung repeated calmly. He knew this would take some time to get into Raimundo's head.
Raimundo's mind started making him go into denial. "No, you can't make me do that, I'm not going. End of story." He was going to walk out of the room with Jack, but Mr. Fung spoke again.
"You will be going to Tokyo, Japan. And you shall attend Relik High School. We still do not know how long you will be there. We already have a family set up for you aswell."
"Baby, you will be leaving next Saturday, and you will arrive there on Sunday. Then on Monday you will go to the school." His mother tried to hide something else.
"Why do I HAVE to go, I didn't do anything wrong!" Raimundo now tried to plead his way out of going, all the way to Tokyo. He didn't want to, that place was stupid, what was the point. To have new experiances? Who cares, Japan was a country half way around the world, and he had no intention to going that far away from Brazil.
"We all think this would be good for you Rai. You're grade in world culture could use some improvement!" His father was becoming angry, which Raimundo knew that he would have to give in soon if he didn't want to be forced to moving there.
Raimundo sigh and walked out of the room. Only Jack followed, his parents and his teacher were going to give him time to let that sink in.
"I will be going along, but Raimundo will not know it. I would like to see how well he can adapt to Tokyo," Master Fung said quietly to Raimundo's parents. They both nodded, and Mr. Fung got up to leave. He sigh as he got in his car and left. 'Raimundo, I'm sure you will like this new school. It has very nice people, as I have been there before.' When he got home, he started to pack, knowing he would have to get there earlier than Raimundo to make sure that the family he would be living with was ready, and the school was ready to take in the young brazilian joker.
"Raimundo, you aren't going to go are you?" Jack asked, he didn't care if Raimundo was already getting annoyed with the subject or not. "You can't! Every girl would be depressed, there would be no life of the party anymore, and the soccer team needs you, you are like our star player! I mean come on! You can not seriously go! No matter what they tell you! It's your life, you have to do what you want to. Don't let them control you, stay here. If you need to you can pretend to go to the airport then I'll get someone over here to take you back to my place, and then you can just live there!"
Raimundo then opened his mouth to say something to Jack.
There is your chapter! I hope you like this one, it's already pretty fun to write. This is dedicated to everyone who is waiting for me to update my other fiction, 'Wind Blows Away Fire' please read this while I have major writers block on the other one. Please review and tell me what you think. Thanks so much! I know this is short but I will definatly update sooner, and the chapters will get longer. : )
