Hello! We are the triplets Mako, Kaoru, and Kotoha! This is our first story, as an American friend of ours got us into the show. We really hope that you enjoy it and that you read and review with much great words.
平和！(Peace)
There were three things Hoagie told his cousin, Wally, that he would have to know before stepping into Gallagher High: Jocks, School Lunches, and Kuki Sanban.
Admittedly, Wally had been more intrigued than terrified of the sound of the illusive Kuki Sanban. There were plenty of rumors flying around regarding the coveted teen, but Wally was eager to make up his own mind about Kuki.
He wondered why his cousin was so fixated on telling Wally about this girl. She was a girl, after all.
Of course, he had to meet her first, but what better day than to do so, than on his first day of Gallagher High?
He was thankful to know at least three people in his new school. Though he was sure his geeky cousin and his friends really did not count as much. Though he was not that much of a geek compared to his cousin, maybe even a bigger one, but that was beside the point.
He knew that his acculturation into his new life in Cleveland, West Virginia would be a difficult one. He knew that the charter cultures were already established and he knew from experience that new comers were not very welcomed in a set setting. But he had reached partial assimilation in the cohort Hoagie had settled into years before the start of High School career.
"He has got a point there." Abby, Hoagie's girlfriend, had said on one of the many days she was over at their house. "Kuki is no good, baby." She had said pointedly to the Australian as she took a sip of her Diet Coke and the wind whistled through the backyard.
Nigel, a good friend of Hoagie's, gave a pointed look at the French girl, "She is not that bad, Abby." He had said as a wind chime chimed in the breeze.
"Abby knows she is yo sister and all Nigel, heck, she was Abby's best friend. Then she went ahead and got all punk on us. She ain't our Kuki anymore." Abby said pointedly, placing her Diet Coke on the wooden picnic table and crossing her arms, her eyes boring into the eyes that laid hidden behind Nigel's sunglasses.
"You do not understand what she has been going through." Nigel said, crossing his arms.
"Of course we do!" Abby shouted, making Wally jump at the normally chilled French girl as she replied with her, somewhat hostile, retort.
"You don't think we don't know! You don't think Abby was there for her!" Abby shouted, tears trekking down her now red face.
"We all were! She was the one who shut us out!" Abby continued to yell at the relatively calm exterior that the British teen wore. "We tried!" Abby said, wiping the newly formed tears away from her eyes, only for them to be replaced by new ones.
Wally looked between the fight the two friends were having, wondering what on Earth they were talking about. He looked to his left at his cousin, who was looking down at the cement, his blue eyes glazed over in silent tears.
Hoagie had been through a lot, with what happened to this girl, Kuki, and in his own family. Wally and Joey's presence in the Gilligan house was enough of the reminder of that tragic day that Wally's parents had been murdered.
Though that topic was silently tabooed from appearing in any form of conversation in the family, especially when Joey was around.
When the Beatle boys had first moved in, Betty, Hoagie's mother, had tried to get Wally to talk. He had been so distanced from society when he arrived a few days before the start of fall break. She was worried about her nephews. After a while, Wally became used to living in the area. He had been introduced to Hoagie's girlfriend and best friend, and Joey was introduced to Tommy's, even though Tommy was a few years older than him, it would seem beneficial almost, to know the popular, upper classmen, of his new middle school.
"You ready?" Hoagie asked him, making Wally jump out of his reverie. He looked out of his window at the building in front of him as the day after fall break had arrived, almost in a blink of an eye, and he was to return to school.
The building was made up of dark stone, towering thee stories high and looked almost like a prison instead of a learning institute designed for pre-college educational purposes. It had a brilliant shade of forest green ivy trekking up the sides of the ancient building. Along the green grass of the frontal courtyard, many picnic tables littered the area, some of which were occupied by jocks clad in scarlet red letterman jackets and sports uniforms or the bubbly, uniform clad cheerleaders who were gossiping away about the hottest movie or the latest cultural trend that interested their preppy cohort.
Wally heard the click of Hogie's seatbelt coming undone from where he sat next to him. "Come on, Wally." He said as Wally unbuckled his own seatbelt. "Abby and Nigel should be inside already." he said as the two boys climbed out of Hoagie's rusted red 1986 Ford pickup truck.
After making sure the car doors were securely locked, the two cousins made their way on to the cemented path that led towards the entrance to Gallagher High. As the two boys walked, the jocks and cheerleaders halted their previous conversation to stare at the blonde Australian.
Wally hung his head slightly so that his long, blonde bangs covered his face.
Hoagie opened the glass door so the two could enter the learning establishment.
Wally looked up at his surroundings. He was standing in what looked like the circular main hall of the building that reminded Wally much about the atriums that were present in Pompeian and other Ancient Roman homes. The ceiling above him was made up of glass, letting the soft yellow glow of the sun's rays light up the area. There were two hallways that exited the wings of the circular hall, each leading to either the arts department or the athletics, which he knew from Hoagie, took up most of the school. Next to Wally stood a large, sculpted bulldog, the mascot for the high school. In front of him stood a wall made of glass that held trophies won at various competitions and awards the school had won for having high academics.
Behind the glass wall, Wally could see what was obviously the cafeteria, which was a glow in the bright sunlight that streamed from the pellucid like ceiling.
"HOAGIE!" Abby shouted, waving toward the brown haired boy. Wally could see her at a table with Nigel a couple of seats over.
Hoagie waved in greeting and began walking down one of the halls that branched out of the annular entrance hall that led to the cafeteria behind the glass wall.
"You ready for your first day?" Abby asked Wally as the two boys took their seat at the cafeteria table.
"I guess so." Wally responded to the French girl, rubbing his hands together, a nervous habit he realized he adapted since coming to the new area.
"There's nothing you need to worry about." Abby stated, sensing the nervous gesture made by Wally. "You'll be fine." she smiled at him.
"Abby's right." Nigel said, speaking up for the first time in a few days, "You will be perfectly fine." he said, confidently patting the Australian boys shoulder in support.
"See," Hoagie said, "You'll be fine. Trust me." He said, smiling.
Wally nodded; knowing the only way to prove that the day would be 'just fine' was to first get through said day so that he could make the right assumption for himself. What he didn't plan on, was meeting Kuki Sanban.
That's it! We really hope you enjoyed reading the first chapter of our story. Now we have some questions for you since we're knew to everything.
1) Does anyone have an obsessive crush on Hoagie? Not like an author but an OC? We didn't know if one existed yet and if we could, with the creator's permission, use said character in a future chapter of this story.
2) What authours would you, as fellow readers and writers, recommend for us to read? Since we are new, we don't know many people on this site, and therefore, don't know about the wonderful stories that we have yet to find and read, so with recommendations from you, we can find and read the wonderful stories people like ourselves have written.
3) We really hope you readers will review this chapter. As with reviews, come for us the inspiration for us to overcome inevitable future challenges that we may encounter while writing the story. We also hope you favourite and alert this story, so that we know that people will continue to read the chapters that we post in the future.
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read and hopefully review this chapter. We hope to have the next chapter out as soon as we can.
ありがとお、
Mako, Kaoru, and Kotoha.