Chapter 1
She mesmerized him from the first time he laid eyes on her. That luscious auburn hair that flowed so gently on her shoulders, as she walked down the school hallway on her way to class. Those amethyst eyes that practically glowed as she smiled that radiant smile with her friends. She was perfect. But he was far from perfect. He's just got into the 7th grade, but he has yet to gotten taller. All the other boys in his grade seemed to shoot up this past summer, including the popular guy, Riku. For him, it seemed that puberty hit him right, because almost all the girls swarmed over him each day. But Sora? Puberty must hate him. His unruly hair hasn't fixed itself, still looks like a pineapple top. His lanky arms and legs seem like sticks and his voice still as childish as his looks. Because of this, his self-esteem isn't that high. It's even worse when Riku makes fun of him during class, but what can he do? All he can do is wait, just like everyone around him say, just wait. But what if he can't? What if he can't wait to grow into his arms and hair? Because what if by the time he gets to that point, she's gone from his sights?
He has to do something! But what? Sora had these thoughts as he sat at his desk during 1st period homeroom, daydreaming, chewing on some gum, wondering what he can do to change his situation. "Hey pineapple head!" This voice… he hates this voice. He looks up, at the person who cut off his daydreams and peace. Riku, who recently just started to stand taller than Sora by a foot, with sliver long hair and aqua eyes in a handsome face, it's no wonder the girls are starting to have crushes on him. But because of his recent popularity, he's gotten a bigger head and thus, trying to keep his position as the most popular guy changing, he picks on the only person he knows that will make him seem better. "What are you looking at?" Sora looks at him in perplexity, blowing a bubble, then realized why he said this. He has had the habit of daydreaming where ever he was looking at, sometimes at other people or random places in a room, he guessed he must have been staring at Riku by accident. "Nothing, I wasn't paying attention to you." Said Sora, trying to get rid of Riku as soon as possible, before the whole class noticed the problem unfolding. "What? Are you in love with me?" Sora's eyes got wide in surprise, "What? No! I wasn't looking at you." Riku could see the fear in Sora's eyes, he finally hit his nerve. "It seemed you were." He said as he leaned on Sora's desk, trying to scare him. The argument seemed to not ever end and the rest of the class watching it unfold, enjoying the entertainment, but it was soon interrupted when the principal came in the room. "Alright, settle down children." He said as he stood at the podium and the children quietly went to their seats, Riku looking at Sora, trying to intimidate him.
Sora sighed in relief, saved by the principal it seemed like it. "I have an announcement, due to your homeroom teacher retiring recently, we are to get a new teacher for you." All the children cheered, they did like their old teacher, Mr. Moscoe, but because he was really old, he was a bit hard to work with due to his hearing going away. So there would be too many arguments between him and his students due to him misunderstanding things. "He won't be here until tomorrow, due to him just moving from Twilight Town. So until then, Mr. Chuma, the 9th grade science teacher will keep an eye on your homeroom time for the time being." Mr. Chuma, came in as he was introduced, hands in his lab coat pockets, smoking a cigarette. "Ah, why do I have to keep an eye on these brats again?' He said in a bored voice. The children rolled their eyes, the infamous Mr. Chuma and his "I don't give a hell about you" attitude, they knew it was coming. "I have experiments to keep an eye on, you know." He continue to retort to the principal, who continued to ignore his rants. "Alright, be good children!" Said the principal as he left the room as quickly as he could, leaving the students with the annoyed teacher. "Shit…" said the science teacher as he turned to the quiet students, wondering what's to happen now. "Alright… um… you guys can have free time. So… yeah." He said as he sat at the teacher's desk and the students started to mingle.
During this whole ordeal, Sora didn't pay attention. Because he found his solution to his problem… Mr. Chuma. The science teacher is not just known because of his attitude, but more because his mad scientist skills. He has made concoctions and experiments that is well known around the school for being as ridiculous as they could be. There is a rumor spreading around that he once made a potion that makes the drinker invisible for a whole day, but it failed because the subject has to be naked to be completely invisible and the last subject was almost arrested for indecency because he tried to go to town to scare a female friend while invisible and in the middle of it, the potion started to wear off. But Sora didn't care of the consequences, all he wanted was a fix for his problem and it seemed he finally has found it.