What A Wonderful World

The gang and I were sitting in our usual spot at church, in the very back in the last row, singing whatever song it was that decided to creep up on us until youth group started. Kyo and I were having a blast, singing the lead vocals as always, and being a disruption to everyone, getting weird stares everytime one of us started to scream the lyrics. Toshiya, Kaoru, and Die were singing and playing along with us, while Mana and Shinya barely paid attention. They were busy trying to fix each others hair. Toshiya had ahold of some of Adam's drum sticks and was tapping the sticks along the pew to give us a beat. Kaoru has Alex's bass, and Die had Darby's guitar. The youth leaders didn't mind if we used their stuff as long as we gave them back before the sermon started.

I was sitting in a weird position so that I could see who came in and who I had to put up with tonight in small group. Some times I really wished I wasn't a girl, because the small groups were separated by sex, and all my friends just so happened to be very androgynous guys. I really did have almost no friends here, except for one: Steph. She's basically the only girl that I got along with, but she hadn't been seen around here for a really long time, and I figured she wasn't going to be here again this week.

Kyo and I kept up our singing though, laughing all the way. Turning around, I saw something interesting, and paused. The guys all looked at me strange. There was nothing that could stop me from singing unless it seemed like it was really important, or if it looked like it was something polite that needed to be done at that time. They each followed my eyes and Shinya barked out a laugh. Mana only smiled.

There was a new kid, a boy, sitting in the pew across from us. He had messy brown hair with light highlights, a lip and noes ring, from what I could see, and black feminine glasses. He kept his hands in his sweatshirt pockets, and kept his eyes on the ground.

I stood up, grinning. "I think I might just go introduce myself to him."

"Alright, but be easy on him. You don't want to scare the little guy like you do with everyone else." Kaoru snickered. He really got on my nerves sometimes with even the simplest remarks. I really don't understand why, but I just shook it off, just like I do with everything else he said.

I walked away from the safe corner I knew and headed toward the new kid, smiling. The wallet chain hanging from my pants echoed when I sat down beside him. He looked up at me slightly nervous.

"I-Is this you're seat? I'll g-gladly move s-somewhere else if it i-is." He stuttered almost every word in very rough english. I shook my head 'no' and smiled warmly at him. Kaoru must have been right when he said I scare everybody. "Oh, O-ok then. My name is Miyavi."

My brow furrowed, but my smile stayed. His rough english was very adorable. "Miyavi, hu? Nice to meet you Miyavi. I'm Arianna, but you can call me Ari if you please. So I take it you're new around here right?"

"Y-Yeah." He nodded in response.

"So got any brothers or sisters?"

He nodded again. "Yea, 2 brothers. Their twins. But, we're not related or anything. I was a-adopted not that long ago by this g-german family."

"Adopted? But you're what, 17?" I looked at him confused.