"Brother! I'm home," yelled two girls as they walked into the house. Both of them threw their school bags on the floor and ran upstairs. The two girls were in separate grades but had met in Algebra 2, the most boring class of the century.
As soon as they reached the older girls room they sat down and immediately started talking about, what else but, boys. The older girl, like her brother and father, had green eyes and red hair, not the 'fake' red that is actually orange, but blood red. She wore a long sleeved fishnet shirt that had been pushed up to her elbows and a pull over sweatshirt with a hood that she had cut the arms off of and had a picture of a 'real' bleeding heart that sat on the center of her chest. To her brother's distaste it showed about 1 and a half inches of her stomach that she would get yelled at for later. Her pants were huge black cargo pants with shiny metal chains hanging all over them.
The door opened surprising the girls.
"Hey girls what's up? What can I get my sister and her best friend to eat?"
"Axel, first of all knock," this got a smirk from Axel which was immediately removed by the blood cold stare of the two girls. "Secondly, she's not my best friend-"
Axel gasped, "WHAT!? Oh no. Cara's been replaced, cast into the dark. What should I do?" fake tears started streaming down Axel's face. All his sister could think was that Axel must really want a broken nose, but, in reality, he just wanted to see if her anger management classes were working.
The younger girl started to think of a response to help the chances of a fight. Adding oil to a flame was her specialty. "Axel! Teach Akito a lesson! You're little sister's a big meanie," she started smirking and you could almost see the evil in her deep blue eyes.
Cara wore an old dark green t-shirt with a yellow smiley face on it. Her pants were a pair of old jeans with holes in the knees, dressed for the slightly cooler weather of the early fall. Her hair was shoulder length, straight, and dark brown. On her head was a blue baseball cap with a picture of a cookie.
"Now Akito-" Axel couldn't stop smirking.
"She's not my best friend! She's my sister!" yelled Akito standing up and stomping on her brother's foot.
"Well I guess her anger management classes are working... to a degree. At least she didn't punch me... or worse, kick me" thought Axel not caring that he couldn't feel his foot.
"Okay, that works for me," agreed Cara, immediately hugging her self-proclaimed 'sister' and trying to get her to sit back down.
As soon as Axel stopped thinking he finally pieced something together in his mind, "Ah shit. Now I have two brats to take care of," Axel sat down on the bed in between the girls and put his head in his hands. "Don't you two torture me enough as it is?" Axel looked at Cara then Akito in hope of a kinder response than what was heard,
"But it's fun as hell to tick you off!" said Cara and Akito simultaneously.
Suddenly Axel's face was drained of colour. After about what seemed like forever he said "Go to hell, and let me guess you want a box of Strawberry Pocky and a box of Chocolate Pocky, two glasses of milk and an apple each, right?"
"Almost right, but hold the apples," said Akito shooing her brother out of her room.
"Shall I bring some tea and sandwiches?" mocked Axel smirking as the door was slammed in his face.
"Okay where were we before my idiot brother butted in here and started spewing all kind of crap from his mouth?"
"Boys," said Axel setting down the milk. "I would have knocked if only I didn't have three glasses of milk in my hand." Axel sat down drinking the milk he had brought for himself. "You may continue."
"And I thought my brother was annoying."
"My dear, dear, beloved brother Axel," Axel started worrying because of his sister's cold lifeless voice. "Now do you want me to help, oh, I don't know, the beautiful, gorgeous sexy crush of yours, oh what's his name...? That's right, Roxas, get a totally awesome boyfriend that, might I add, isn't you?"
Axel thought for a moment, "Ha! Like you could ever do that."
"Where is it," said Cara searching her cell phone.
"Where's what?" questioned Axel.
"Oh, Cara you're looking for that?"
"What's that?"
"Oh, yes, I am looking for that."
"What the hell is that?"
"That," said Akito while Cara shoved her cell phone in Axel's face. "-is Roxas's, yes, his cell phone number and I can give it to you now or torture you with it later."
"Akito, you know how much Axel loves Roxas. So I think we should be nice and torture him."
"Give me the damn cell phone!" screamed Axel as the cell phone began to ring.
"Hi.......hi Sora.......oh, sorry Roxas.......yea.......what........ We had Algebra homework? Who said that?....... The teacher, huh?........ Just B.S. it ........yea.........and............so........okay........hold on." Cara turned to Akito. "Since when does the teacher decide when to assign homework?"
"Forever."
Cara turned to the cell phone "Why can't you ask someone else......okay here you go. Akito it's for you." Cara handed the phone to Akito and took a piece of paper and pen from Akito's desk and got ready to write.
"Hi Roxas...... yea...... um, page 60 numbers....... yea I'll hold...... I was wondering what that was...... oh well.... yea go beat up your brother and his boyfriend go, go, go!........................... Hi...... how fun was it?......... Yea well page 60, numbers 28 to 56 even, and numbers 59 to 63 all......... yea, hold on. Cara you don't have to hide the paper you just wrote the homework on, I know that you are hiding it. Yeah, I'm back.... okay......... talk to you tomorrow...... yea........ He does......... yea....... it's kind of pathetic........ yea........ Axel was trying to get your cell phone number from Cara earlier........... okay..... bye..... okay. Axel, phone call!"
"Hello.......... he hung up!"
Akito started laughing "He hung up before I gave you way before the phone! I said bye after him and waited a while, said okay and you believed me? You really are stupid!"
"And just for that you're cooking tonight."
Axel left the room and the two girls started laughing hysterically.
"Akito, wait... wait until we tell Roxas!"
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Cara stuck her tongue out at a dead rat suspended in formaldehyde as she walked into the biology lab. The whole place reeked of the stuff and she wrinkled her nose. The chatter of the few students already there was relatively quiet. She fished a raspberry Milk Maid out of her pocket, unwrapped it, and popped it in her mouth, sauntering over to her lab table. Her lab partner, a slightly gaunt, blond boy called Vexen was a certifiable genius, and also certifiably insane, so she let him do most of the work. Not that he'd ever let her near the papers, anyway.
"Hey," she greeted, plopping down on a stool.
"Hi," he muttered back, scribbling furiously in a notebook.
"Whatcha workin' on?"
"A theory of mine. I'm trying to see if it's possible to synthesize lucid shards with blazing stones…" he trailed off and continued writing.
Cara nodded sagely and pretended she knew what he was talking about. She looked up and sighed, Naminé, her partner in crime, wasn't here yet and she was bored. She chewed the caramel in her mouth a bit before continuing to let it melt. This class wouldn't be half as boring, she thought, if the teacher actually taught us anything worthwhile. Or even bothered to show up, for that matter.
After what seemed like an eternity, Naminé arrived and bee lined for the table next to her.
"Gah, sorry I'm late, I got held up by a teacher—" she began, but was cut off.
"You were making out with Kairi in the toilets again, weren't you." It wasn't a question. The blonde girl had the decency to look mildly ashamed, but that passed quickly enough.
"You know me too well," she sighed, then grinned.
"What?" Cara asked, slightly disconcerted by the demonic expression on her friend's face, despite being quite used to it.
"Have you found anyone yet?"
"No, Naminé, I thought we already discussed this!"
"Okay, okay, I was just asking! No need to get snippy about it!"
"Whatever…"
Elsewhere, Akito was chatting up Roxas.....
--the school library--
"Hi Roxas, how's..., AP Calc. going... that's a lot of big maths books."
"Our maths teacher, Miss Lockhart the work-a-holic, gave my class a project to do for your class" Roxas said
"What is it? Are you going to take all of out tests and do our homework." She received a stern glare.
"No, we have to make a maths project for you guys to do since over 3/4 of our class wants to be teachers and any of our projects that get an A you guys will have to do!"
"You're the only one who gets A's, riiiiight?" Akito was hopeful. Very, VERY hopeful.
"Yes." Roxas looked slightly confused.
"FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!!!!!!!!" Akito shut up at the harsh look of the scary Librarian.
"No. If you want the teacher can help you with it but I will not fail or do it for you... or give you the answers, so don't even ask."
"Can I have the anwsers?"
"NO!"
"Can you help me learn-"
"NO!...wait... what?"
"Can you help me learn the calculator thingy for finding slope and y-intercept on the calculator so that it spits out answers?"
"Oh, okay! When?"
"You free after school?"
"Yea but the school is closing early today and we all have to be out by 2:15"
"That's fine my house isn't far from here and we get a ride with Squirrel."
"You mean Leon, the gym teacher?"
"Yea but we call him Squirrel because his first name is Squall and it's fun to annoy him. We'll meet you in the teachers parking lot where students aren't allowed."
"Bu-"
"It's better than meeting at the teachers pool on the fifth floor."
"Wha?"
"So will you come and teach Cara and me?"
"Okay. Bu-"
"See you!" Akito walks away smiling her plan finally in action.
"We don't even have a fourth floor..." Roxas looked at the books in his hands and just stayed quiet until the Librarian walked by and started to put away the books he was holding.
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Roxas stood at the entrance to the Teachers Parking Lot. He was unsure whether he should go in or not. He took a step in. He quickly turned around to see Leon standing right in front of him.
"Hi Roxas. You're going over to Akito's today right."
"Yes."
Leon looked around the parking lot like he didn't want someone to overhear something. He reached into his long black over coat and pulled out his keys 'Okay...' Leon held the keys at arm's length and pointed it around the whole area and suddenly stopped and pressed a button. Directly behind him another car's trunk popped.
"Yep. I'm having bad luck today."
"Um, what was that about?" They started walking towards the car.
"Well you see where I live, with a bunch of friends, we all keep our keys on hooks inside of the car in the garage unlocked. I own a silver Porsche. It's the nicest car of all my friends. Every day I go to get my car and every day it's gone. They steal it. So I have to steal whatever car is left. And plus I'm not a morning person so I don't know what car I picked or where I parked it." Roxas put his backpack in the car and Leon closed it Roxas sat in the passenger seat. Leon started the car.
"Shouldn't we wait for Akito and Cara?"
"They take too long." Leon pulled out of the teachers parking lot and was about to leave.
"STOP THAT SQUIRREL!!!!!" Akito and Cara screamed as they sprinted to the car.
"STOP CALLING ME SQUIRREL!!!!!!" Leon roared.
Akito and Cara climbed into the car. "GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!"
"Be quiet."
From that point on the car ride was mostly silent. The car pulled up to the apartment complex and pulled in. The building was a large brick building with several balconies out front but it was nice. It was obviously well kept and had some pretty ivy crawling halfway up the building. The flowers were all different colours even dark purple ones!
Leon got out of the car first and popped the trunk. He walked over to HIS silver car. On the window there was a note.
HELLO LEON!!!!
THANKS FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR CAR TODAY!!!
~AXEL~
^_________^
"Girls I leave it up to you to annoy your brother for me. I'm too tired."
"Sure thing Squirrel!" the girls said in unison while dragging Roxas towards the house and up the stairs.