-More than an act-
-prologue-
The mid-western cowboy like music accompanied the six teenagers as they glared at each other from opposite sides of the canteen. The scent of tacos wafted in the air from half-consumed meals, the children setting down their knives and forks to look up to survey the scene. They drew forwards to face each other, numerous one-second shots of eyes narrowing and feet shuffling darting around to capture the moment like some crappy, low-budget film where it's impossible to tell what's going on because of all the 'dramatic' camera shifts. Nobody dared breath, as the tumbleweed blew across the prairie in the form of an eldery lunch lady mumbling something in her shaky voice about 'bloody kids'.
Roxas looked around at the trio of evil people assembled in front of him, angling his school bag slightly, making it look like he was drawing a gun. Sometimes he wished he had a gun, when confronted by those three something inside him said it would be far more helpful to be able to shoot them then read Algebra notes to them.
Axel looked a little bored, chewing lazily on the stick of gum in his mouth, not caring that it was loosing its taste, becoming grey and sickly. He knew he looked 'cool' with his mouth working up and down and arms crossed, and it helped that he was so damned tall. Nobody dared cross him, but with Roxas he was little and blonde with blue eyes and people wouldn't think twice about poking him as they walked to class. But wait, somebody already did that, and the out-come wasn't too pretty … A little bit like boy he was glaring at.
Sora looked completely innocent as he smiled in his irritating way, making the girl next to him elbow him in the ribs. He didn't appear to have understood the message, however, because he remained smiling brightly, looking around the students who had ceased eating, grinning. Yes, his hair DID look that cool today, yes, everybody SHOULD stare at him. He smiled in an adorable way and seemed to consider blowing kisses to them. The camera quickly shifted past this … creature … because it was ruining the mood.
Naminé wasn't the sort of person you'd expect to ever get really angry at something, she seemed too little and cute. She was shy and wasn't really comfortable with all the people staring at them like vultures waiting for the fight to break out for it was common knowledge the two groups hated each other. Well, Sora didn't hate anybody and was obviously mentally retarded by the way he found curtains so amusing. However, like most shy people, she could be really, really stubborn, and she was going to stand her ground and clench her fists and not look like she was on crack like Sora.
Kairi frowned slightly, scuffing the tips of her worn-out trainers on the floor beneath her, her crimson hair blowing around her like a storm of blood. She was one of the most active members of the drama club, and knew how to act – in all the plays she got the lead roles and always reduced parents to tears as she broke their hearts with her sad words. Kairi would be breaking a lot more than hearts, she thought bitterly, glaring at Axel and his stick-like limbs. It would be fun to break them all… She scowled at the little green cricket jumping around in her head screaming about how violence was a … virtue … or some crap, as she hissed: "Shut up, Jiminy…"
Riku glared across at Kairi who dared look like she wanted to decapitate Naminé, because it was obvious the blonde haired girl was far, far, FAR cooler than everybody apart from Riku himself. Because Riku was always cool. Always, always, always, even when that damned moogle the neighbours had attacked him resulting in a rough and bloody game of mortal combat. The moogle had won THAT time, but Riku struck terror in its stupid little pom-pom thingy-ma-jigger by leaving a threatening note saying 'i wil bee back bak hahahahahahahahahahahahaha'. It really scared the moogle because of all the spelling errors and the fact the paper had been crumpled up several times when he could not spell 'I' or 'will' or 'be' or 'back' or 'hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.'
Just as the atmosphere reached its climax, just as Axel opened his mouth to start the whole chain reaction that resulting in six hungry teenagers marched out of the canteen with numerous broken limbs, Sora smelled an angel of some sort. And it wasn't even Kairi this time, because this angel couldn't hit him when he proclaimed loudly about his undying love for curtains and floor polish and his pet moogle that kept attacking Riku.
"I LOVE TACOS!" roared the boy, darting forwards towards the long line, grinning like a mad-man. "TACO TACO TACO TACO TACOTACOTACOTACOTACOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" chanted the demon-possessed boy, as the lunch ladies put their hands over their ears, and Kairi slapped her head lightly. Mostly to kill Jiminy, and partly to express her annoyance over Sora ruining their big dramatic moment.
He wouldn't last two seconds in their up-coming drama lesson.
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"Right, Kairi, Riku," Riku and Kairi glared at each other, then averted their eyes to their teacher who was telling them that they would be paired for the year. They hoped they'd be doing Midsomer Murders … or something along the lines of that.
"But miss…" Kairi whined, Miss Gainsborough just looked at her and Kairi shut up.
"Er … let's see where was I, ah yes, Selphie and Tidus, Yuffie and Leon, and is there anyone else here?" She peered over the thirty-odd children, "Oh yes, Naminé and Sora … I'm sure there's someone else…" Kairi looked like she wanted to throw a vase at Naminé, Naminé looked like she wanted to throw a vase at Sora.
"Miss!" she moaned, as it sidled up to her happily, "Why do I have to have him!" Aerith Gainsborough thought about it for a moment and then left the girl to contemplate for herself.
"Right, who's left?" She leaned over to find any kids who had been hiding, trying to dodge getting partnered up. "Ah! Roxas! Now who should we partner you with?"
"SORRYTHATI'MLATEMISSBUTSORA'SMOOGLEFOLLOWEDMETOSCHOOLANDITRIEDTOKICKITBUTITATTACKEDMEANDTHENIWASLIKEOWANDTHENTHETEACHERWASLIKEWHATAREYOUDOINGANDISAIDINEEDTOGETRIDOFTHEFUCKINGTHINGANDTHENTHEYTOLDMEOFFFORSWEARINGANDTHENIRANHEREANDTHEYPUTTHEMOOGLE … somewhere…"
"Ah! Axel! Just in time!" smiled Miss Gainsborough, a little too evilly for the boy's liking, "I want you to go stand next to Roxas and then I'll tell you what we're doing today," Axel gormlessly walked over to the blonde haired kid who was standing, hands in pockets, fists clenched and brow knotted into an 'I R CROSS' position.
"OK class, let's begin, today we're going to start off by doing some warm ups, now pretend you are tree … er, Sora, what the hell are you doing?" eyeing the boy critically as he rolled on the floor screaming about some sort of 'damned axe' clutching to Naminé's legs or 'roots' as it were.
"Naminé-tree! Save me! The axe is COMING!" Aerith coughed and Sora sat up, "Oh sorry miss! I wasn't meant to talk was I, OK, I'll just roll around and pretend my leaves are talking to me … NOOOOOO, the leaves are TALKING! Oh, what was that? You say you can see up Naminé's dress, why it's a funny thing that I can too!" Naminé jumped back squealing, crashing into Yuffie who landed on top of Leon who mumbled something like, 'how ironic'.
"YUFFIE GET UP! NAMINÉ STOP SCREAMING! SORA THE LEAVES ARE NOT TALKING TO YOU!" Kairi screamed at the top of her voice, to everyone but the dumbasses in the class, it looked like Kairi wanted Sora to look up her dress, not Naminé's. "SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!" The class immediately 'shut up' and turned attention to the scary girl.
"Thank you Kairi, right class, oh, hello … Ansem…" The class swiftly moved their heads to see their headteacher standing there with an odd look on his face.
"Erm … very good, carry on Aerith … very good…" he walked off, obviously forgetting what he'd come for. He looked too horrified to stay in the room for much longer.
"Right … anyway kids, I guess that's the end of the warm-ups then. This year we'll be focusing mainly on romantic scripts and dialogues. Is that good?" Roxas twisted his face up to Axel's with a look of pure horror, as though he'd just seen a bucket of maggots.
"Wait … er … miss…" he began, sticking his hand up in the air with as much force as a rocket taking off and waving it about maniacally. Miss Gainsborough ignored him and carried on explaining to the class what they were going to be doing that very day. She told them that she had written every single script that she will have placed in front of them by the end of the year.
"Miss, will it smushy stuff, because I'm not reading smushystuff to … Kairi…" Riku explained, Aerith nodded her head and wrote on the board, 'TODAY WE WILL BE DOING A DIALOGUE ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THE PERSON STANDING NEXT TO YOU,' Riku, Naminé, Kairi, Axel and Roxas cringed. Sora giggled.
"What does looooove mean?" he asked his partner, she slapped her forehead. She was not going to explain what 'looooove' meant.
"Sora, love is when you have feelings for someone…" Aerith explained cautiously, she was not sure what the reply would be but she was certain it would be unpredictable.
"Oh OK! Naminé, I have a feeling that you are cute, I guess that means I LOVE you!" Kairi looked very, very, very annoyed and left-out.
"OK, kids, off you go," everyone pretended they were doing something useful but really they were just trying to turn round and see what Axel and Roxas were doing. Miss Gainsborough didn't notice that they were though. Kairi and Riku were having a heated discussion over whether she loooooved Sora or not, and Naminé was screaming at Sora that she didn't love him.
"Er…" Roxas uncomfortably stuttered, he had two options, he could either look at the sea of faces, sniggering and pointing at him, or he could look at Axel who was sniggering and pointing, "I donn't see why you're so happy – you're part of the pair too!" Axel drooped his head and kicked the wall.
"Don't say anything … or I'll fucking kill you," Axel promised Roxas, he glared at all the other classmates, "Nosy bitches…" if they were so interested in that kind of thing then why didn't they go to a G-A-Y bar. Roxas nodded sheepishly and looked away, trying to ignore Yuffie giggling and whispering something to Leon. He then passed it on to Selphie, then Tidus and so on. He felt like he was part of some sort of freak show.
"Come on you two, start expressing your undying love for each other! Or I'll have to give you an even worse assignment…" Their 'loving' teacher told them merrily, Roxas shuddered; his teacher could be very … imaginative sometimes. Now, even Kairi and Riku had forgotten their differences and were settling down to see what would happen next.
"Er … I love you?" Roxas mumbled in a questioning voice, with no emotion whatsoever apart from maybe embarrassment. Yuffie whooped with delight and even Naminé giggled a bit, seeing Naminé laugh, Sora immediately fell about, rolling on the floor laughing his tiny little head of his off. He had no idea why though. Kairi muttered, 'Bitch,' under her breath to Naminé.
"You fucking retard..." Axel muttered, pressing his hands to his ears as Yuffie started an energetic chorus of, 'ROXAS LOVES AXEL, AXEL LOVES ROXAS, ROXAS LOVES AXEL, AXEL LOVES ROXAS,' Damn that Drama teacher.
"OK, that's enough, get back to work, you shouldn't care what other people say about your … acting. You're doing what I told you to do, so it's OK…" the said teacher grinned, as though thinking about whether she should start joining in with Yuffie's 'fun' chant.
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L/N: Yo! Tis Lamatikah speaking, since this is done by both me and Skitts, I think we should both have something to say about each chapter! Anyways … I don't really have much to say…
S/N: Yo what appears to be up? This be … your MOTHER. Yes, no it's Skitts. Anyway, this … PROLOGUE (not chapter) was fun to write. I wrote the first section, Lamatikah the rest but I came up with some of the stuff that happens and crap and a few more adjectives and stuff to use and … CRRRAAAPPPP. … Damn.