♫♪♫ I ran onto the school grounds, leaning against the wall of the pale colored building as I gasped for air. No way was I gonna be late on the first day this year! Senior year was going to be the bomb! All out war between the two teams they split us into every year, especially if they let us have some actual competition on the last day of school where it was all fun and games. But that story will have to wait.

As soon as I caught my breath, I started walking towards the bathrooms when the bell rang. What rotten luck I had. All I wanted to do was whiz before the day started! Rolling my eyes, I started towards the multi purpose room to find which team I would be on.

♫♪♫ This day was really starting to tick me off. Not only was I on the team I didn't want, I got put in the weirdest teachers home room, Mr. Urameshi. I stalked off towards my teacher, but something caught my eye. Well, someone I should say.

Standing in the corner reading a thick vampire novel was a scrawny boy with short, purple hair with baggy pants and small shirt that just covered half of his pyramid studded belt. I jogged over and set my arm on his shoulder in a buddy way and looked at a crowd of giggling girls that were around the school stud, Ale. "Word from the wise, pay attention to who Ale's going out with. You don't want him to find you hitting on his girl."

The boy looked up at me with pink eyes. He must be an albino, 'cause I haven't found pink contacts and have only seen that color on one girl... "Why would I care?" He asked, his voice sounding feminine.

I stared at the boy in shock, "Hello?! He dates the hottest girls in school!"

The boy smirked, marking his place in the book and stuffing it in his bag. "Seriously Myde," I don't remember introducing myself... "if he dates all the hot ones, why wouldn't he date the lovable ones?" ...and what did that have to do with ANYTHING?!

I gave the boy a quizzical look, "Umm…how do you know my name? And what does lovable have to do with anything?"

"So your telling me he dates for looks?" The purple haired albino asked, avoiding my first question.

"Um, yeah. I mean, not counting when he dated my friend Zuka and then tried to leave her after like a week. She kept it thriving for a while longer, and eventually broke it off once he threatened to leave Table Manners."

The boy started laughing, "You seriously don't recognize me, do you Myde?"

I stared at the boy, and then noticed something rather different on his torso. He had an athletic body, so they weren't there because of too much body fat... oh lord... "Zuka…" I groaned, slapping the heel of my hand to my forehead. "I thought I told you not to do that to your hair."

"That all you have to say to me after having blocked me a WHOLE SUMMER from your phone, email, and instant messenger?" Zuka asked, tugging at her shirt distractedly. asked incredulously.

I smirked, "Well you wouldn't shut up. Why do you think I agreed to go the search parties? Hmm? To get away from you!" Zuka's expression was one I can't even describe. "Don't cry Zuka. I didn't mean it. It's just…you were being so obnoxious and…" I sighed. What do you say to a girl that most likely hates you know? Even though it's awfully hard to follow their moods with all the swing to them. I held out my arms, "Wanna hug?"

She took a step forward and tilted her forehead against my shoulder as I wrapped my arms around her. No one suspected we were a couple, Zuka, Ale, Ienzo, and I had all grown up together. So except for that month when Zuka and Ale were going out, we're all just one big family held together all these years by our band.

"You're hair looked better when it was long," I teased as I pulled back at the sound of the bell.

She just laughed a punched me in the arm like nothing was wrong.


Author Note: I must apologize now to those that read my other story, "All for You." School started a month or two ago -I lost track of time after the first bell of the year- and I just haven't had any ideas for the story that would motivate me to start righting again. So as soon as I get some motivation or ideas for that, I promise to help move things along in that story.

Another reason for my delay is that I've recently started Role Playing on http://passionkh2. so I've devoted alot of time to that when people are online. So, if you want to bother me where you know that I'll get the message, join there. You know what, JOIN ANYWAY! We need more people and have alot of characters open for you guys.

Now about this story. I originally started writing this during a 'free entry day' for our journals in language arts. It's going to deal alot with Japanese culture, so you might learn a few things if I remember to put them in. But seeing as I've lived in Japan for a few years, I've gotten politer, so you might see that in the characters. If you guys can figure out why the tittle is called Table Manners, you can get your character in the story. It's hard to keep everyone's characters in one story if you have 20 entries like in my other story, so I won't be taking in characters other than the first...maybe five people that guess right.