DDD
The eyes of others our prisons
Their thoughts our cages
Get me away from here I'm dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
DDD
"Alright! Listen up ladies; we don't have all day to complete this task. So shut your chattering mouths and pay attention!" Everybody turned their heads to the loud voice coming from the main gym doors and saw Mu La flaga, the head of physical ed, standing legs apart with a whistle in his one hand. He waited for the last of the chattering to die down and spoke again, this time with less force.
"Now as you know your year mark will be divided into two sections, theory and practical. Which means, you'll spend half the year in the gym, sweating off some much needed calories, and the other half with your bum stuck to a chair." Some silent groans came from my left and I glanced in that direction and saw Lunamaria Hawke and Flay Allster pulling emotional faces and already looking tired. I shook my head and tried to pay attention again. Gripped between my hands were a notepad and pencil, my fingers automatically jotting down what the teacher said. My resolve didn't last long and after the second sentence, what Mu la Flaga said barely registered in my mind. It was so typical of Luna and Flay to do that; talking so loud and obnoxiously that I couldn't pay attention at all. A snigger reached my ears and I sneaked a glance at them again. Flay leaned into Luna and whispered something near her ear, mischief dancing around in her eyes. She looked up at me and self-consciously I pushed my black-rimmed glassed higher up the bridge of my nose and turned away.
"Right!" Mu shouted all of the sudden. "Pair up three in a team and get moving!" Crap! I didn't hear a thing he said; what was I suppose to do? Everyone quickly huddled with their closest friends in the class, and I was painfully reminded of my lack of communication and forming friendships at school. Luna and Flay walked pass me and each of them purposely bumped my shoulder. I nearly lost my balance and grabbed my glasses before they fell off completely.
"Freak," they whispered and went to stand with some other girl. I would be lying if I said their words didn't hurt me at all. It stung my confidence a lot and I've tried to ignore their childish remarks, but a person can only do so much. Most if not all of the girls had partnered up and I, including four other girls stood around. I went to one of them and she gave me apologetic look.
"Sorry, just found my partners." She stepped closer to two of the other girls left and they greeted each other politely and seemed only recently acquainted. I sighed silently and looked around. Strike one for them, zero for Cagalli; just another normal day in my life. The girl that takes up unnecessary space and that shouldn't be associated with. Careful, you might catch her geekyness. I looked around pretending not to be affected and my eyes fell on one girl in front of me. She came forward and stood with me, but said nothing and didn't even bother to introduce herself or acknowledge me. I took that as a positive thing. I didn't have to socialize with her and she didn't have to bother with entertaining me. There was just one thing that I wanted to ask before we began gym without talking to one another.
"Hey? Do you know what we're suppose to do-" Mu la Flaga's whistle sounded in my ears and all the girls ran out of the gym door, onto the main football fields. I stood there stunned and watch as the girl kept running, disappearing behind the gym doors.
"Yula! Get a move on, what are you still doing here?" Startled I turned to Mu and he gave me an irate look.
"Move!"
"R-right!"I dropped my notepad, making a mental note to retrieve it later. He shook his head and I took off, sprinting to catch up with the rest of the class. I pushed the gym doors open with one hand and held my glasses still on my face with the other. I wasn't sure of what was happening, and I knew for a fact that only two people did not make up a team of three. These stupid clicks at school pained me to such an extent that I saw the damage it made on my report card. How was I suppose to pass this class and get good grades if everything was made so damn irritating? What happened to sitting in a desk with your nose stuck in a book? In the times where everything was explained step by step and- wait, there were no such times! While berating to myself I ran past the library, making a sharp turn around the corner and was met with the worst sight I had ever seen.
High school boy's.
More precisely, boys from Heliopolis High, an all boy's school. Without knowing it I slowed down and kept my head down, all the while keeping an eye out for my classmates. I spotted them on the other side of the field, climbing over contraptions that I had never seen in my life. If I'd know that Heliopolis High would share the field with us today, I would have made other arrangements. Arrangements that included me and a certain place called the music room. I made my way around the boys avoiding their activities, and didn't fail to notice some of their mocking eyes on me. For some reason I decided to look back and that was a big mistake. When I turned my head I saw one boy making rude gestures to my back and my cheeks heated up from humiliation. But then the strangest thing happened.
"Knock it off, Shinn. Can't you see she's already got it bad?" My eyes landed on a boy with dark blue, shaggy hair and he lightly shoved Shinn, shutting him up. If I wanted anything else to scar myself with then I'd have stayed near them, but seeing as I didn't want that happening, I left as quickly as possible. The guy with blue hair stopped Shinn-was that his name, right? But what he said in return didn't really justify anything.
'Can't you see she's already got it bad?' If I didn't know of any better, I would have demanded him how he could defend someone with another insult thrown at them. I made my way down the sidelines and stopped at the enormous objects between me and my classmates. Was I supposed to climb over these things? When I glanced up at the six meter wooden wall in front of me, my hope faltered a bit. I peered around it and saw some girls already heading for the last wall. I had to hurry!
"Need any help with that?" I turned around and saw a girl standing beside me. She smiled and her crystal blue eyes shone with happiness. Did she get drugged or something? Why was she speaking to me? I glanced around myself searching for someone else she might have referred to. She scratched her cropped brown hair and her smile faltered a bit after seeing my questioning gaze.
"That's if you don't need any help. I could always just-"
"No!" I suddenly blurted out and she tilted her head to the side a bit. I don't know what came over me, but I wanted for some reason to accept her help.
"I mean. Yes! Yes, I'd like some help with this obstacle, please." I probably sounded stupid jumbling my words like that. No one's ever offered me any help before and I'll admit that I didn't exactly know how to handle the situation. She smiled and came forward.
"Great. Let's get started then." She bent forward by the wall and held her hands together.
"You hop on and I'll throw you over."
"Throw me over?" I asked confused, but came closer none the less. She glanced up at me and spoke.
"Shove, push, throw, their all the same in my eyes. Either way the outcome is still going to be the same. You'll fall and break your neck." Her honesty threw me off and for a moment I didn't register that she had just insulted my athletic skills. I touched the rims of my glasses and scoffed loudly.
"What makes you think that I'll fall and break my neck. I can easily make that wall." I don't know why I suddenly spoke so openly to this girl, but she riled me up somehow. She smirked and gestured to my body.
"Look at you. You're wearing brown slacks and a jean with glasses. Yes, that definitively spells out superstar in the making." Sarcasm spilled out from her lips and I suddenly felt very conscious of what I was wearing at the moment. I crossed my arms over my chest and bit my lips slightly.
"Yeah well you don't look any better." My lame response was met with a silent stare and immediately I felt bad for insulting the girl so openly.
"These are called track clothes. Familiarize yourself with them Cagalli, you're going to be using them a lot this year." She knew my name? I gave her a skeptical look and the thought of this being a prank lingered on my mind.
"Now hurry up, time is ticking," came her hasty remark. I came closer but she stopped me before I could put my foot in her hands.
"Now what?" I huffed.
"No. No shoes for this, especially slacks. That's just asking for trouble." I resisted the urge to role my eyes at her demand and next thing I knew she took my glasses off as well.
"Hey! Please give those back, I can't see without them!"I made to grab for them but she laughed and held them out of my reach. I struggled for a while and that only made her laugh even harder.
"You can climb without them; they'll only be a hindrance to you."
"But-"
"Climb. Now."Her stern voice to me off guard, but I obliged, trying to ignore her triumphant smirk. I gave her a hard stare, not satisfied and walked back to the wall. Why was I even bothering to follow this girls instruction? Oh right, because she's the only one to ever speak to you without insulting your very existence.
"I'll climb then, but don't lose or scratch my glasses," came my last warning.
"I won't," she promised while pocketing them. She came forward again and bent down, hand at the ready. I took my bare foot and placed it in her hands and before I could say anything, she pushed me upwards, forcing me to grab the top of the wall and hang on for dear life. I gasped.
"Oh, and by the way!" She shouted form beneath me while I struggled to hold my grip.
"My name is Miriallia." The moment she said those words, they were burned into my skull; a name I will always curse for putting me in this uncomfortable position.
My voice came out choked and barely above a whisper.
"Then get me down from her Miriallia! I can't get myself over this thing, and I know I'm going to fall!" A nervous, yet also guilty chuckle came from underneath me and in that moment I knew. I knew that it was just one sick joke again.
"Did I mention I have a fear of heights as well?" Her false words cut through me so deep, that I could almost imagine months of bottled up embarrassment leaking out. These were the times that I wanted to scream my lungs out and wring the nearest person I could get my hands on. I heard the brunette trot away and tried to hold my composure. In the distance her amused voice reached my ears, mocking me for thinking that I could trust her so easily.
"Hey guys could you help me for a minute? My friend over there- No, Cagalli!" The moment when she said the word 'friend', something snapped inside of me. In my enraged state I forced my hands open; chucking all the fear I had out the window, and dropped from the top all the way down. Opting for a graceful landing that was the last thing I got. An excruciating pain shot through my body when I hit the ground and for a few seconds I was rendered speechless. I pushed myself up with my arms and ignored Miriallia who came running back with half the school trailing behind her. But what I hadn't bargained for was falling back down again and clutching my left foot.
"Cagalli!" Miriallia shouted, coming closer. She halted in front of me and kneeled on the ground.
"Oh my goodness, are you an idiot-letting go of the wall like that! You could have gotten hurt!" She gestured to my foot and I followed her gaze. For the first time since the fall I noticed that my left foot was skew and obviously broken.
"Well in your case," Miriallia stated. "It could have been worse." I looked back up at her, stunned to the bone.
"You think this is a joke-"
"Alright people, move aside, move aside!" Mu la Flaga came forward and inspected my foot, giving me no chance to finish what I wanted to say. He sighed, not nearly looking as surprised as what most teachers would have been. After all this was a normal day for me.
"Yula, I don't even know why I bothered to wonder who fell from that wall. Obviously it must have been you." I turned my head to the side in mortification when a few people sniggered around me. It caught Mu's attention and he immediately shooed them away with a tern look.
"Get back to you activities! There is nothing to see here anymore!" One by one some of my classmates and to my horror, boys from Heliopolis High, left with smirks on their faces. Without even thinking about it I got up on one foot, careful not to touch the ground with the other. Miriallia got up quickly from the ground to steady me. I looked her up and down and reached into her pocket to snatch my glasses.
"Thank you," I said curtly and placed them back on my bridge where they belonged. I had absolutely the worst day of my life so far and wanted to get away from it as fast as possible.
"Where are you hopping off to Yula?" Mu questioned when I attempted to get away from them.
"You can't possible think that I'll just let you waltz away from here like that?" I debated not turning around and ignoring him, but my well mannered self won in the end. Obediently I turned around as best as I could. Miriallia smiled at my failed attempt and I snapped at her by accident.
"You're unbelievable you know that! Leaving me hanging in the air for no reason, I could have died!" My frantic words fell to death ears and Mu interjected before I could say anything else.
"Just get to the infirmary, Yula. And try not to break anything else, alright?" Miriallia offered to help me but stubborn as I was I rejected her assistance. I was still mad at her for what she did, even though it seems she was telling the truth and heights were not her thing. Mu searched the area around us and his eyes fell on a guy bending down to tie his shoe laces. He had his back to us and without a word Mu pulled him up and planted the guy in front of me. His mouth was slightly agape and when his gaze found mine I blushed. Before I could stop myself a certain comment entered my mind on its own accord.
'Can't you see she's already got it bad?' Of all the people Mu la Flaga could have pulled aside, it had to be the guy who defended me by insulting me.
"Can I help you?" He asked cautiously. Mu pulled at my arm and I had no choice but to hop even closer to the guy.
"Listen up, I need you to help Yula to the infirmary and make sure the nurse inspects her foot. Just come back and I'll have a letter signed saying where you were and so on." The guy quickly glanced to me and back at Mu. He nodded his head stiffly and if he couldn't have been any more obvious of his distaste towards this, just stared at anything but me. Mu oblivious to it all, walked away and attended to other matters.
Miriallia, the snitch that she is, gave me a sympathetic look and walked away.
"Hey!Mir-"
"Could you just get on my back already?"The guy asked irritation evident in his voice. I looked at him and struggled to form a decent sentence.
"I-I'll be fine. Don't worry-"
"Do I look like I'm worrying?"
"No-"
"Good, because I'm not. Now stop wasting my time four-eyes and get a move on." I should have known. He was definitely just like the rest of them! Out of nowhere a growl came from his throat and to my surprise next thing I knew the guy grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder carrying me out like some potato sack. Somehow he still managed to keep my foot untouched and that stunned me to say the least.
"Would you let go of me! I can walk on my own, thank you very much." He ignored my outburst with and equally matched tone.
"Don't push your luck with me. You and I know very well that you can't possible hop all the way back to your school, so shut it." The boldness of this guy! Within minutes- after purposely shouting the directions in his ear- we were entering the infirmary and he wordlessly dropped me onto and empty bed. He left out the door and the nurse came in with a bored expression.
"What is it this time, Yula?" My head still spun from all the blood that it had to bare, but not enough to stop myself from objecting.
"I absolutely had nothing to do with it this time, I swear!"
And that my dear readers is chapter one of Blonde disaster! To whom it my concern, yes I have begun another story. In comparison to 'Don't I belong anywhere?' it is and will be lighthearted. I just felt that I needed to take a break from all the serious stuff and this scene has been swimming around in my head for quite some time. I am trying to make it as original as possible, but find that to be quite the challenge. So any ideas are welcomed :) The only problem that I have with this story is that it's not written in my usual style and that I'm not sure where I'm going with it. So please any criticism is welcomed and let me know what you think of it?
Ps: If you noticed any spelling/typing errors, please let me know!
*DevilGirl101*