Chapter 1: Aito Arrives
Aito stepped from the car, turning to wave at his crying family. "I'll see you real soon, okay?" he smiled into the car.
"Yeah. We'll pick you up for Christmas," his mom sobbed.
With one last wave, Aito waved and picked up his luggage and strolled casually into the academy. He looked around, amazed at the size of his new home. I could grow to like this place, he thought, smiling. He walked forward towards the dorms. Groups of people sat around the school buildings. However, a certain person in a certain group caught his eye.
Aito smiled mischiefly. I think I'll ask where my dorms are, he thought, walking over to the group of five talking to eachother.
"Hi, umm, I'm new and am kind of lost. Can you please direct me to my dorms?" Aito asked as innocent as he could muster, knowing full well where the dorms were.
A boy with yellow hair that pointed upwards meeting to form a single point with a purple spot in the center, turned around. "Oh, yeah, sure pal. You can, um, uh,..."
"Yeah, he doesn't even know. He'll get you definately lost. Just go straight ahead, and when you reach the building on your left, enter it and all the dorms will start on the first floor," a boy with brown hair chuckled.
"Oh, thanks so much. I'm Aito by the way."
They yellow-haired boy spoke up again. "Well, I'm Odd, that's my name, not an adjective. This is Ulrich, that's Jeremy, or Einstein, this is Aelita, and this is Yumi," he pointed to the brown-haired kid, a kid with glasses and yellow hair, a girl with pink hair and outfit, and finally the girl he wanted. Yumi.
Aito passed his gaze over the bunch, lingering over Yumi. Ulrich shifted, and Odd smiled. Aito smiled. "Well, I guess I'll see you around then. I'll be here a while."
"Yeah, see you," it was Yumi.
Her voice was like music to his ears. "Nice to meet all of you," he nodded.
"Pleasure," Yumi dipped her head and the others waved fare well.
Aito turned on his heel, and hurried away. "Yumi," he smiled. This was going to be a fun semester.
Aito was lying on his bed staring up at the blank ceiling. He was glad he made the decision to come here. "Yumi," he mumbled again. "What a pretty name. I'll help her with school, like carry her books. He smiled, and jumped up. He slipped his feet into his shoes and ran out of the room. He headed back out into the sun light, scanning the area for the bunch of friends.
"Hey, Aito! Come on, we're going to lunch! Want to join us?" he spun to see Odd waving his hand.
Aito smiled, and ran over to him. "Yeah, if it's okay with you."
"Sure it is," Odd laughed.
Aito smiled and headed into the cafeteria with his new friends. When they sat down with their trays, Aito had trouble keeping up with the conversation, as well as trying not to stare at Yumi. Her chin legnth, raven-black hair seemed perfect to him. That and her looks. He tried to look away, but found his gaze returning to Yumi. He also noted the shift in Ulrich's position, as if irritated.
He gulped down his final forkfull of mashed potatoes.
"You know, I oughtta put in a complaint. They should serve spoons as well as forks. What kind of loser eats mashed potatoes with forks!" Od exclaimed.
"Didn't you say that last year?" Ulrich laughed.
"Yeah, but-" Odd was cut off as he was shoved out of his seat and onto the floor by a black haired girl.
"Hey, Ulrich," the girl said in a whiny voice.
"Sissy," Ulrich sighed.
"You don't look a tad happy to see me!" she whined again.
"In all honesty, I'm not. Not at all."
Odd picked himself up and brushed his shirt off. "Jees, woman! Could you watch it?"
Sissy waved him off. "So, Ulrich. When the English finals come around, I was thinking I could work something out with my dad, letting you and I work together."
"No. I don't want to, so leave me alone," Ulrich shrugged off the petit hand that was placed on his forearm.
"But, but," she stammered.
"But, but, but" Odd mimicked pulling her off of his seat.
She scowled at Odd and stalked away.
"Who is that?" Aito asked.
"A really prissy, whiny, stuck up daughter of the principal. Who also happens to be in love with Ulrich," Odd mimicked a romantic sigh.
Ulrich punched him in the arm. "Stay away from her. Believe me, she's trouble."
Aito nodded. "Well, thanks for the lunch. I'm going to go explore."
"See you," Yumi called.
Aito waved and walked out of the cafeteria. He continued into the courtyard-like set-up of outside. He sheilded his eyes from the blinding sun. A grin spread across his face. He was going to make sure he got Yumi to like him. Messed up, yeah. But I'm 15 and have no girlfriend. It's time I changed that, he thought. He headed into the dorm building, spotting Sissy fuming and grunting in anger by the doors.
"Hey, um, Sissy?" he called as he made his way over.
"What! What do you want!" she shouted.
"Umm, I'm new, and I saw, no offense, that you have a thing for Ulrich?" he stated timidly.
He braced himself for an angry retort which never came. Instead, Sissy raised one eyebrow and stared at him. "And you're telling me this because?"
"Because, I have a thing for Yumi."
He had barely gotten her name out before Sissy snorted. "Yumi. Ulrich is always all over her. He never lets her out of her sight," she stopped. "You know, this could help us both."
"How?"
"You like Yumi, I like Ulrich. Are you thick?" she asked irritably.
Aito frowned. "Maybe we can come up with a plan," he said, looking at Sissy with a wide grin spread across his face.