Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original SD characters. Alaina, and the others who sounds new to you are mine, though.
Title: SO NOT ME
Chapter 1
Toasted
March 30. At the park, 6 AM…
-=ALAINA=-
Okay. So here I am, Alaina Callie Selena, in the park, doing my usual morning routine. Everything seems normal except that the surrounding is different. I just arrived yesterday. Thanks to my oh-so-welcoming Aunt Sandra. She invited me… no, forced my mom to let me take a vacation in her place, Kanagawa, Japan. And mind you, she's not my real aunt, she just feels like it to be one.
Aargh! That woman…! Always handling things. She makes me want to hide in a shell, ride a rocket ship, and never come back again! I don't mean to be cruel. I just don't know what's in for me here. And though I don't show it, I'm completely irritated.
Yeah. Hiding emotions – my greatest talent.
Anyways, things here are so much different from my place. More busy people, more hi-tech vehicles. What else? And oh, people here almost have the same faces! Haha… Cool. I'm not quite used to that, though I'm half Italian, I grew up in the Philippines, the land of contrast, in case you want to know.
"Hmm… Peaceful… What a nice morning."
-=RUKAWA=-
"Hey, watch it!"
???
No reaction.
*WHACK!*
I warned her. Not my fault.
"Do'aho."
The ball landed. She's standing still, then looked at me – face expressionless.
I don't know what made me, but I stared at her eyes. Hmm… Deep crystalline blue. Reminds me of the ocean.
She slowly turned, then walked away. Normal, as if nothing happened.
Weird.
Then I started practicing.
-=ALAINA=-
BIG OUCH.
It was minutes ago but my head still hurts and I'm still a little dizzy. Only God knows how strong the impact that ball gave me. And hell, I didn't intend to ignore the warning! I just… Well… Okay, I did. Typical me.
But I didn't know the evil attacker is that goddamned orange thingy!
Nice day, huh? Yeah! Like when my head is hurting as hell…
And the nerve of that guy! Saying I'm an idiot instead of a simple 'sorry'?!! I suppose not everyone here knows the term 'right conduct"! I thought even grade school children know that. He's a complete jerk, a stupid guy, a demented airhea-
*CRASH!*
Now, where am I? Oh, sitting on a puddle of mud. Yeah, it rained a while ago but it suddenly stopped and-
WHAT??
Stupid brain. I always thought the brain controls the body. But it doesn't count having no reactions - or late reactions!
And what's that guy doing? Playing with his bike? While lying on the mud and his pink bike over his body??
Boy, people here are really weird.
-=RUKAWA=-
What the… Ouch.
Oh. Another crash. Stupid girl. She should have known how to walk in the right side of the road!
Baggy jeans, white shirt, red cap, ponytail… Sporty…
Hey… Is she the one who luckily caught my basketball a while ago?
Klutz.
And still, there's no reaction. Just a plain look as if nothing happened.
-=ALAINA=-
So it's him again? Well, well, at least I'm not the only one getting the weird looks.
And why is he staring??
I know I look like a dumb ass right now, and so as he, but at least I'm trying to be collected and expressionless!
-=RUKAWA=-
So I'm staring. Why? I don't know either.
It's just that… Well… Okay, I admit. I'm in a trance.
She is a mess but I didn't notice her features before…
Heart-shaped face, rosy cheeks, fair complexion – must be a gaijin.
Arched eyebrows, crystalline blue eyes – yeah, that I noticed before.
Perfect nose, full red lips, cleft chin, jet-black hair that reached her shoulders…
Beautiful.
Hey, where did that come from??!
"Rude." She snapped my thoughts.
But there's no emotion… Is she irritated? Or just plain stupid? Maybe she didn't realize I knocked her off…
"Gomen."
Yeah, I know I should still apologize.
She stood up. Quite tall, long slender legs…
She got her backpack and reached for a towel. No - two towels. She threw me the other one.
I caught it.
"Biking means no sleeping."
Huh?
She smirked.
"Deaf."
Then she walked away… again. Hmm… Nice curves.
Wait a minute… A towel?
I glanced at the glass door of a building beside me.
Mud spots on my face, my shirt ripped from the bike, stain all over my body.
I lazily stood up.
Great. Just great. Second meeting and my image is toast. Way to go, Kaede.
Then a thought dawned to me…
Why the hell do I care?
-end of first chap-
^Jap Vocabulary:
do'aho = idiot, stupid
gaijin = foreigner
gomen = sorry
[A/N: This is my first uploaded fic so please, R&R??? I don't really know if I let Alaina's character sink in… maybe with the next chap… tell me what you think, frankly. Thanks for reading, btw.]