Temptations
Amu Hinamori is sixteen years old, and starting a new school, in a whole new country.
Her quest: Look for him.
Her companions: Her new friends.
Her reasoning: Realization.
Do you need any more to infer?
Chapter One- ForgetandRemember
Hi! I just had to rewrite this because I reread it, and I found so many errors, I nearly died. So, I changed Amu from a cold Goth girl to a scene chick!
Please don't hate me for changing this! Or not working on the sequel for All It Takes. I'll get on that! I promise!
Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara!, any brands used in this story, or any songs used.
Her hair reached her thin waist, her eyes barely covered by her hair. The clothes she wore were tight and a mixture of colorful and dark. She carried a purple messenger bag that had the suits of a deck of cards sewn into it.
She wore a black mesh shirt, with a bright pink tank top underneath it. Her black skinny jeans were torn from the knees all up her thighs, mismatched Converse All-Star shoes on her feet; one pink, one light blue. She had a rainbow spiked belt on her waist, and a blue spade charm dangled from her belt loop. She had half of her long hair pulled back and fell down in a braid, red X-clips in her hair, holding some away from her face.
She walked into the school, people stopping to look at her and whisper. This school didn't get many new kids, let alone foreign ones. She found the office with some difficulty, though she didn't show it. She opened the door and the secretary looked up at her, smiling.
"Hello. How can I help you?" the small, pudgy middle aged woman asked as her, her voice was light and cheerful.
"I'm new, I need to pick up my schedule." She replied with a small, polite smile. The woman nodded, standing to move to the computer across the office.
"Your name, sweetheart?" she asked, standing at the computer.
"Amu Hinamori." she replied, handing her a piece of paper to help her spell it. Soon enough, she had her schedule and a map of the school.
Amu walked to class, easily ignoring the stares from the few kids in the class. A girl with short black and blonde hair looked at her, and smiled at her. Amu moved to sit next to her, seeing as how she seemed to be the best bet at a friendship in that class.
"I'm Skye." She said as Amu sat down. Skye had on a tight pink v-neck, loose torn blue jeans, scuffed up Vans, and a faded gray hoodie.
"Amu." Amu replied, smiling slightly at the girl. Amu noticed she had what looked to be a tender lip ring, so Amu pointed to her own lip, a confused look on her face,
"Just got it done last night. Doesn't hurt, but it was swollen so bad last night." Skye said, laughing to show it wasn't a bother to her. "I'm actually getting my eyebrow done after school. It's all my early birthday present." she continued
The two girls were instantly friends, talking for the remaining time before class. Skye pulled an iPhone out and quickly did some things. Soon enough she was handing the phone to Amu under the desk, and Amu saw it was set for adding a new contact. Amu quickly typed her name in and her cellphone number, and saved it for Skye.
Amu pulled her own new Droid X, and opened her contacts, handing it to Skye to put her number in. Skye smiled at her as she handed the phone. After Amu had her phone back, she looked through her increasingly large number of contacts. She still had everyone from Japan in her contacts, and she texted them everyday, though the conflicting hours made it hard. Amu stopped at the name that had haunted her for years now, and she stared at it with obvious pain in her eyes.
Ikuto
She had sent him an endless list of messages, with no reply each time. She even tried calling him once, only to get his voice mail.
"Miss Vanity, seeing as how you and our new student are nicely acquainted, could you show her around the school this period?" The teacher, Mrs. Morrison, asked Skye as she caught the two girls whispering in the back of the class. Skye looked at the teacher and shrugged.
"Sure, why not?" Skye said, standing, up. Amu followed suit, and grabbed her things and the two set out into the now quiet halls with a pass from the teacher. Skye smiled and looked at Amu.
"I'm going to show you where your classes are, then we're ditching. If you're not into that, then I'm ditching you here." Skye said simply, extending her hand for Amu's schedule.
"Trust me, I'm only enrolled here because it's the law." Amu said, handing over her schdeule and following Skye through the halls.
"Your classes are all pretty much in this hall, though the gym is across the school. Hard to miss so you don't need my help finding it. You have a locker yet?" Amu shook her head, and Skye nodded. "You can share mine. I only keep textbooks in there, I don't bring much so I have plenty of room for your things." Skye said, showing her to her locker, and with that, Amu followed Skye to the parking lot, to Skye's car- a slick black 2009 Mercedes. New, by the looks of it. Skye got them a safe distance from the campus in twenty minutes.
Skye drove them to the mall, and parked in the already packed lot. She lead Amu through the doors near the movie theater and past a few shops, pointing to her favorites.
"Wanna get your hair done? It looks a bit messy, and I know a pretty great salon that can fix it up and do whatever you want to it." Skye asked. Amu shrugged, and followed Skye to a small salon called Vanité. A girl who looked just slightly older than them was at the counter, who looked at the two, and shook her head at Skye.
"Mom is going to kill you for cutting. Again." she said at Skye, her blue eyes disapproving. Skye let out a short laugh before smiling at her.
"You're such a boy scout, Mia. Don't worry, I'll be sure to go tomorrow." Skye replied, and was rewarded with an eye roll from the other girl. Amu looked at the two, confused at the altercation, which Skye noticed.
"This is my mom's salon, and my big sister, Amelia. Oh, Mia, can you fix her hair up? This is Amu, by the way." Skye continued on. Mia nodded and gestured for the girls to follow her into the back.
"Any preferences on coloring and style?" Mia asked as she had Amu lay down in a shampoo chair.
"Um, not really." Amu said, and Mia nodded. She looked at Skye and gestured to a stack of style books.
"You pick everything then." she instructed Skye, who nodded and grabbed a book and began to flip through it. Her face disappeared from Amu's view as she was leaned back into a shampoo chair. Mia's expert fingers avoided getting caught on any tangles, and she used a strawberry scented shampoo and conditioner.
"Hey, Amu, you like this cut?" Skye said, holding a picture in front of Amu's face. It was a girl who had shoulder length hair that was obviously layered; the hair covered her left eye and had short layers on top and longer ones under. Amu looked at it, considering the style for her.
"It's cute. I like it." Amu said, deciding it was okay. Skye smiled, and nodded. She then moved to another book, looking for hair coloring.
"Do you want to keep it black? Or change it up a bit?" Skye asked, looking at Amu. Amu blinked.
"Um, I don't really care. Just whatever you think will look okay." Amu said, smiling slightly at Skye, who just nodded and returned to the book. Mia led Amu to a stylist chair and sat down, allowing Mia to slip her hair up and begin cutting. Skye moved to stand next to Mia, and pointed to a picture in the book she was holding.
"Would it work?" Skye asked, her voice slightly nervous. Mia looked at it thoughtfully, then back at Amu's reflection in the mirror.
"Looks good to me. Show her, see if she likes it." Mia said, resuming her job at cutting Amu's thick hair. Skye moved from Mia's side to Amu's, and held the book in front of her. The picture was of a girl with a black base of hair, with various parts dyed every color of the rainbow, all mixing expertly with the black.
"Now that is some epic hair." Amu said, laughing. Skye smiled, and nodded before laying it down on the counter for Mia.
"Yeah, pretty epic. Not many kids can rock it, either. It's an... acquired look for a lot of kids." Skye said, leaning against the wall next to the mirror in front of Amu. The three all talked while Mia worked on Amu's hair.
It took thirty minutes to finish the cut, and well over an hour for all the coloring. Amu looked at herself in the mirror, slightly afraid of what she looked like now. She noticed how all the colors in her hair were subtle and not easily noticed, and went along with the clothes she wore and had at home.
"It's coming out of Skye's allowance, so don't worry about paying anything." Mia said as she started to clean up the area she worked in. Amu nodded, and moved from the chair, to look again in the mirror, to admire her hair.
"You like it, I assume?" Skye asked as she stood next to Amu. Amu noticed then how much taller Skye was than her, and her petite build for the first time now that she took off her hoodie. Amu smiled and nodded.
"It looks great. Your sister has amazing skill." Amu said, and Skye laughed and nodded. She gestured for Amu to follow her out of the salon and back into the crowded mall.
"Let's shop around, have fun. School gets out early today and I'm meeting my sister and a few friends after, in the food court." Skye said, walking in a random direction, towards the stairs, Amu following.
The two window shopped for a few hours, and occasionally went into a store and bought something, though said somethings were barely bigger than a cell phone. Soon enough, Skye was leading Amu to the food court on the other side of the mall.
Once in the food court, Skye walked towards the tables in the back, where a few people sat. Skye went straight to a group of three girls, all sitting at a table, talking and laughing.
The tallest girl had shoulder length black hair and murky hazel eyes. She wore a pair of faded skinny jeans, which were frayed around the knees and pockets, showing obvious wear-and-tear, her shirt looked a tad too small, but not very tight on her frame and said "Love and Lies."
Another girl looked to be Skye's height, and was identical to Skye also; same hair, same eyes. She wore a pair of plain blue jeans, a black tank top along with a white button up top, which was undone.
The shortest girl, and skinniest, had dark brown hair that barely touched her shoulder and grassy green eyes. She wore a purple short sleeved shirt that was over a dark green long sleeved shirt, and a pair of black skinny jeans, with a black hoodie sitting in her lap.
"Girls, this is Amu. She's new to the school." Skye introduced her as they sat down at the table. The girls all treated Amu to smiles and 'hellos' as she sat down.
The tallest girl waved slightly, looking straight at Amu.
"My name's Silver." She said smiling at Amu who smiled back and nodded. Then the girl Amu assumed to be Skye's sister jumped in.
"I'm Era. Skye's twin sister." she said, grinning at Amu, who couldn't help but smile back to the girl. She had a lot of energy.
"And I'm Jade." the last girl greeted, smiling slightly and messing with her jacket. Amu nodded, and waited for conversation.
"Where you from, Amu?" Era asked, having some trouble with her name. Amu smiled at that, then looked at Era, smiling.
"Born and raised in Japan. I just moved here about a month ago." Amu replied simply, her tone light and conversational. Everyone looked at her, impressed.
"It can't be easy, moving across the world. How'd you do it?" Silver gushed, her face awestruck as she leaned in to listen to Amu's reply.
"Well, it took me a while to adjust. Japan is a lot different, etiquette-wise. The biggest change was mostly the language. I spent about a year studying in Japan, and in the month I was settling, I learned the slang of the area, and worked on dropping my accent." Amu explained, and with that, the girls noticed Amu had a very light Japanese accent.
"Wow. I could never do that. I'm too American to move to Japan, or even Britain! And Britain speaks the same language!" Silver said, laughing. The girls laughed at Silver, and continued to talk to Amu about Japan.
"Hey, Amu. I have a question." Jade asked, finally speaking up. She hadn't spoken the whole time Amu was there, other than to say her name. Amu looked at her, and nodded.
"Yeah?" Amu asked, confused. Jade looked at her for a second, as if contemplating whether or not to ask her question.
"Why'd you come to America?" she asked, curiosity getting the best of her. Amu was quiet for a minute, wondering if she should answer the question honestly.
"I'm... I'm looking for someone. And he's most likely here." she replied, deciding for the honest route. The three girls were quite as they took in this news, and looked at Amu. It was Skye who decided to speak up.
"To move to a country that's across the world, this must be one important someone." she said slowly, carefully wording her statement. Amu looked at her, a half smile on her face, and nodded.
"Yeah, he is." she said, sparking the girls interest even more. Era looked at her, and smiled knowingly.
"So, do you, like, love this person?" Era asked, though the look in her eyes said she already knew the answer.
And you can hate me for keeping the end the same! I'll be working on chapter two, as well as my other projects. Honestly, don't expect an update fast. I'm really busy with stuff, and have very little time to sit and write, but I promise to work as much as I can!
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