Plot Summary: When we lose a friend, though sometimes we do not realize it, we gain one friend also, and the existing friendships become stronger as well. Hoagie Gilligan, Kuki Sanban, Abigail Lincoln, and Wally Beetles had lost a friend long ago, but their friendships where strengthened, even more so, when the one new friend came around. [2x5, 3x4
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Chapter 1: 25th Student
High school: It's inevitable, and for four young people in their homeroom class, the start of their new semester in it high school can be downright boring. Little did they realize, that morning in homeroom would be one of the most life changing, though their lives had already changed dramatically when their fifth friend went on to something far greater than their world.
"It'll be an easy day in homeroom today! I really didn't have anything planed, so you guys can just sit around and talk amongst yourselves," spoke Mrs. Juliet, the homeroom teacher of 24 students in their junior year of high school, "As long as I can still hear Mr. Marley over your chit-chatting, you can do pretty much whatever: talk, work on class stuff, whatever." With that she turned up the volume speakers that were hooked up to her mp3 player, and the class began move around to talk with their classmates.
Off to the side of the classroom, while leaving a lone desk in the very corner, sat four very diverse people. Though diverse they chatted like best friends, and that was what they were. There was so much commotion going on that the four of them, nor the rest of the class, noticed that a strange young girl had walked in through the door.
She walked to Mrs. Juliet's desk. She had eyes that were the most stunning shade of green. Her dark black hair glistened dark blue from the light. It was in a bun, but a portion of it hung down like a pony tail from beneath that bun. She also had bangs that were moved over her ear as to not cover her face. She wore a black t-shirt, over it, one of those short jacket things that cover your chest and arms just fine but don't quite cover your belly or lower back. It was a dark brown. She wore jeans and black skateboarding shoes. To finish the job, she carried with her a black bag that had strip of piano keys on one side of it.
Mrs. Juliet turned down the music at the sight of this young girl. Slowly, but surely, more and more students began to notice this unfamiliar person. She greeted the teacher and handed her a piece of paper. The two of them proceeded to the front of the class, and everyone became very silent. As the young girl wrote her name on the white board, Mrs. Juliet started, "It seems that we have a new student, class. I'll let her introduce herself." The young miss turned around to face the class. Her name on the white board was written just over her head, almost labeling her with it.
"My name is Oberon Reira Desdeimona III. I'm - ," she started, but a thin boy with yellow tinted glasses , grey brown hair, and faded brown golfers hat stood from his desk all of a sudden.
"My name is Hoagie Pennywhistle Gilligan, Jr., and at least I'm a boy with a boy's name!" he exclaimed. Some of the other students chuckled; others just stared angrily, like the dark skinned girl with a red beret who sat next to him.
Mrs. Juliet, annoyed, took action, "Mr. Gilligan, that was very inappropriate. You will apologize to Miss Desdeimona this very-,"
"It's very nice to meet you, Hoagie Pennywhistle Gilligan, Jr.," the young girl said. It was apparent that she had been taken aback by his sudden comment, but she just smiled. "I get that a lot. It's okay though. My dad named me that before I was born. He was quite shocked too when I finally had been born, but everyone can call me Reira if they like." Reira's patience was a bit shocking to the class. She continued, "When I was small, I was forced to move out of this town because of my dad's work, but now I've returned, and I will be starting with all of you for this new semester. I never got a chance to make new friends back then, but I really hope that I can be friends with all of you."
"I hope the same for you, Reira." Mrs. Juliet added, "Reira doesn't have a class schedule yet and won't have one until next week when the semester officially begins, so if one of you could volunteer to show her around school..." Reira looked around the classroom with a nervous smile. "Ah, Miss Lincoln, would you please?"
"That's not a problem Mrs. J," she said happily. The class was filled with the groans of the many disappointed, and most likely single, junior class boys who had raised their volunteering hands. Reira let out a sigh of relief.
"Wonderful, now, I'll just let you all continue with whatever it was you were up to!" Mrs. Juliet sat back at her seat at the front of the class, and turned up the volume of the speakers. Abigail looked to Reira and waved her hand, directing her to sit with her four other friends. Reira took her seat in the once empty desk.
"This seat doesn't belong to me," she whispered, not thinking that anyone would hear her.
"What was that?" Abigail asked her.
"It was nothing." Reira said quickly, and then smiled at her.
"Hm," Abigail looked puzzled, "Oh well then. The name's Abigail Lincoln, but you just go on and call me Abby." She told Reira, giving back the same friendly smile. Reira nodded in understanding. "You've already met this doofus over here," Abby said coldly while pointing over her shoulder to Hoagie.
"Hey!" he retorted. He let out a slight cough, "Sorry for what I said earlier, by the way. Just call me Hoagie."
"It's alright, it's alright," Reira reassured him.
"Abby, and Hoags here, have been friends since we was little kids," Abby commented. They laughed, and the other two friends laughed with them, though she was really happy to be making friends, Reira's head began to hurt, and she didn't know why. Trying to keep her smile while her head was beginning to throb more painfully, she closed her eyes for only a moment, but what she saw surprised her.
She was seeing through the eyes of a little person bouncing a red rubber ball. She could hear a voice but it was phasing in and out of her head. "It was – met a – he was really happy – cute little girl –." Reira opened her eyes. A young and beautiful Asian girl was tugging gently on her arm, as though seeking attention, and as quickly as the pain came, it went.
"I'm Kuki! Kuki Sanban," the girl started, "I really like your hair. You're very pretty. I hope we will be great friends. I hope we have classes together too!" she exclaimed. She was starting to speak faster and faster. "Do you like Rainbow Monkeys? I LOVE Rainbow Monkeys!!! I have since I was a kid. Ooh, we should go shopping together!!! Wally never wants to go shopping with me! We should get you a new jacket! These short jackets are cute, but I don't really understand them! Let's go and –,"
"Slow down, would ya?" the blonde boy next to her pleaded. Reira was shocked at his accent, but she found it interesting. "The name's Wally Beetles, and don't worry, I'm not into Rainbow Monkeys. I don't talk like an auctioneer either!" he said. His words obviously directed to Kuki, but she ignored it completely.
"It's really nice to meet you all," Reira told them, "I hope we can be great friends." For the remainder of the class, they all talked. They exchanged stories of early childhood, classes, teachers, and home life, while Reira listened patiently and occasionally made an input into the conversation. Everyone in the class room noticed that the bell for second period passing would go off soon. The room went into a dull roar of conversation as its students waited for the bell.
When the bell rang, all of the students got up. They quickly packed up and rummaged through their backpacks, and the talking started to leave the classroom, out the door specifically. Reira and her new friends would be the last ones out. They took their time getting their things together.
As the five of them were leaving Abby began, "Okay, Reira, you can go with any of us to our next class. I think you can tag along with two of us today, then the other two tomorrow. I guess you should go with me for the next two classes, then the last three classes you can go with whoever you want to –," Reira was just barely paying attention to what Abby was saying. Hoagie, Kuki, and Wally were chatting to her at the same time, leaving Reira confused.
All of them were almost out the door when Reira asked Wally, "So, how long have you and Kuki been dating?" Everyone was silent. Even parts of the hallway were silent. "Huh?" Reira was slightly confused. Wally looked at Reira, and then looked at Kuki who was looking the other way, trying her best to pretend that she heard nothing, and then back at Reira again. He said nothing. It was a bit too intense for any of them to stand.
"Who told you…?" Wally began softly, but was Reira and sure that his words would be working their way up to a loud yelling. She smiled and laughed nervously. After what seemed like an eternity, she looked over to Abby.
"Okay! Uh, um… Come on Rei! You're going with me to my next class. See ya'll later!!!" Abby said in a rush. She grabbed Reira's arm and dragged her around the next corner as quickly as she could. The hallway flooded with talking again.
Wally glared at Hoagie angrily. "What? Don't look at me! I didn't' say anything," Hoagie told to him. Wally turned around and walked off in a huff. Kuki followed after him. They shared the next class.
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At lunch, Hoagie and Abby brought Reira to their hangout: A grassy area with a wooden bench and a large oak tree just off to the side of the performing arts center. Reira sat underneath the tree eating her sandwich happily with her new friends.
"What was that you said earlier today?" Abby asked Reira. Hoagie looked at them without a clue. Abby had heard what Reira had said, and Reira knew it, and she tried thinking of the best way to explain.
"When I was little, before I moved away," Reira said, "I did make one friend. All day in your classes I couldn't pay attention that much because I was looking for that same friend."
"Abby should be able to help you there," Hoagie said cheerfully, "She knows practically everybody in school!"
"Yeah," Abby agreed, "You just tell me the name, and we can go get them for you!"
Reira sat there for a few moments, trying to remember the name that went with that friendly face. "Hmm, the name is hard for me to remember…"
"Just do your best, Rei," Abby told her, "Just tell us what you remember!"
"Well, I remember, he was kind of paranoid. There was an accent in his voice!" Hoagie and Abby looked at each other then back to Reira who was trying her best and Hoagie and Abby could tell by the way she would look down and close her eyes for moments in time. "He was British I think, and he wore reading glasses."
What are the chances…Hoagie was thinking. It's got to be a coincidence.
There's no way…Abby said to herself.
"He was also bald!" Reira laughed quietly, "How could I almost forget something like that." Hoagie and Abby looked at each other again. They had to make up a story, and they had to make one up quick! "I just wanted to tell him, that I was sorry."
"Sorry for what?" Hoagie questioned.
"That I'm sorry I had to leave so quickly." Reira told him.
"Uh, Rei," Abby started. Hoagie would just have to go along with it, and hopefully he wouldn't go and screw it up, "You're talking about Nigel, right?"
"You know who I'm talking about?"Reira looked at Abby with hope in her eyes.
"Uh, yeah…"Abby said, looking off in another direction.
"He is a pretty unforgettable guy," Hoagie added. He looked at Abby, trying to find any hint of what to say.
"He moved away from here a long time ago, Reira." Abby said to her sadly. She and Hoagie could see the shimmer of hope in Reira's eyes disappear.
"I see, well," Reira was looking for words, "I should've figured something like that was going to happen."
Wally and Kuki came only a few moments later. Wally stomped over to the tree, picked Reira up by the collar of her shirt. There she was – again with her nervous laugh. Wally shook her a bit. "Alright, spill it! Who told you that me and Kuki were dating?! That's supposed to be a secret between the four of us!" he yelled while glaring at the others. His eyes shot back at Reira.
"Wally, leave her alone!!!" Kuki cried out to him. She grabbed his arm, trying hopelessly to loosen his hold on Reira.
"Come on!!! Who told you!!?" Wally yelled again, this time shaking Reira a bit more violently. Abby and Hoagie began to protest.
"Just leave her alone!"
"None of us said anything!"
"I just guessed," Reira calmly, but loud enough for Wally to hear over his violent shaking.
"You guessed?" the other four said together. Wally stopped shaking her and put her down. Reira brushed herself off, went back to her spot underneath the tree, sat down, and took another bit of bite of her sandwich.
"Lunch beneath an oak tree like this is really nice," she told them. Still in disbelief, Wally walked up to her. Kuki, Hoagie and Abby followed close behind him, just in case he tried anything again.
"What do you mean you guessed?" he asked.
"I guessed. You didn't say anything – You didn't try to protest in the hallway earlier," Reira took another bite of her sandwich, "You could have always said that that wasn't true. I might not have believed you, though."
There was a thud, and Wally was sitting on the ground in front of her. "Yeah, we've been going out for a while now," he told her. The others could see that it was safe to say that Wally wasn't going to be attacking anymore people today, so they sat down with them. "Sorry that I shook you up a bit."
"It's fine," she assured him.
Reira attended the last three classes of the day with Wally. They talked a lot about Kuki and their relationship. Talking to Reira really helped him, and strengthened their friendship.
After school, they met each other in the front of the campus. Abby and Hoagie said their goodbyes to the other three. Reira watched the two of them as they were leaving. It was in her recent understanding that every once in a while, Hoagie and Abby would exchange giving each other a ride, whenever the other had a car available. Apparently, their homes were close by one another's.
Reira looked over to Kuki and Wally. Between the three of them, none of them had a driver's license, so they waited for their separate rides together. "Wally, Kuki. Before I go blabbing out in a hallway again, I have to ask," Reira started. The two looked over to her, wondering what she wanted to talk about. "Hoagie and Abby…surely they are dating as well, right?"
"No, silly!" Kuki laughed, "But, you think they should be going out together don't you!?"
"Well, yeah. I mean, the two of them seem to get along well, and they do look good next to each other," Reira said.
"Yeah," Wally started, "Hoags has had this big crush on her ever since we were kids. Well, I take that back. He had a crush on her older sister first."
"Then he realized that it was Abby that he liked so much, not the older sister. Isn't that cute!?" Kuki said. Reira smiled and nodded. She was able to learn in a day that Kuki had established many different definitions of the word "cute", but this definition was one that Reira was able to agree on.
"But the bloat doesn't even bother saying anything!" Wally exclaimed, "I mean, even I was able to tell Kuki how I felt, only after he talked me into it! 'It's not that hard Wally! Tell her how you feel Wally!' The guy can't even do it himself!"
"I'm sure that Abby knows this too, right?" Reira asked.
"Maybe," Kuki replied.
"If she does, then she doesn't care," Wally said to Reira, "A lot of guys want to date Abs, and I'm pretty sure that she's had her eye out for a few of them too, but Hoagie Gilligan is not on that list. It's kind of apparent that geeky guys are not her type. Poor bloat." Reira looked sadly to the ground.
"What's the matter?" Kuki asked her.
"That seems really sad, if you ask me," Reira replied, "I think that they would be happy together. Oh!" A black car came up to the curb. "That's my ride." Reira got up and grabbed her bag. "I'll see you guys tomorrow. The same place right? Next to the performing arts center?" she asked while walking to her car. Wally and Kuki nodded then waved to her goodbye. She waved to them in return as she sat inside the car.
"Classmates?" the driver asked.
"Yes, classmates. My new friends."
"New friends? How exciting! I'm very glad for you, Miss."
Reira looked out the window while the car was pulling out of the school. Her mind was on the conversation that she, Wally and Kuki just had. Maybe, Abby just doesn't realize it yet, just as Hoagie did not realize, but like Hoagie did, she'll realize soon too.
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Ch1 Notes: This first chapter was really fun to write. This is my very first fanficiton, guys, and I hope you like it and will keep up with the reading, because it does get better and better each chapter. Keep up with the parodies/allusions, too! Whoever has found the most by the end of the story, gets that free art commission from me. Now, the only way this will work is if you post your answers when the story is completely finished, otherwise it would be too easy to cheat, and we don't want any of that. Please show your support by reviewing, though. Keep in mind, I will only tolerate positive words. I'm not a writer, I know that already. - Next chapter!