Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion

Notes
- the dialogue with * at the beginning is in German. I don't speak german so I couldn't right it in German as much as I wanted to. If anyone feels like translating for me, please do.
- A lot of things might not make sense, but eventually most of them will. Hopefuly. And I do realize people are out of character but that's how I wanted them.

Another Normal Day

Chapter One: School

People use the term 'simple room' often. Any room with nothing extravagant, is a simple room to people. Unless you yourself live in a so called 'simple room', yet you don't think your room is simple at all. Usually. But this, this was a simple room. The walls would have been bare if it had not been free to paint it white. There would be no lamp if it wasn't a necessity, for the girl liked to read. If it were not for the girl's self-consciousness of her looks, there would be no mirror. And a closet, that was unavoidable since it had been built in to the apartment. But it gave the girl a place to put her clothes without wrinkling them, so that was good. This and other equipment that was sufficient for a human's basic needs for living was all that was present in the room.

'Red eyes. Nasty red eyes. The color of blood. The color of the sun burning through your eyelids when your trying to sleep. The color that indicates infection. A nasty color.' The girl thought as she continued looking in the mirror examining herself.

"All right, I'm ready for school" she says and grabs her bag. She heads to the door and looks back a her simple room. She looks for anything she had forgotten about, but as usual, there was nothing. She walked out the door, locked it behind her and headed for school.

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A familiar room. It looked awfully like his old home. Same rooms, same balcony. Almost the same view, but he was a couple of floors higher so there was always at least a soft breeze on his balcony, unlike Ms. Katsuragi's. The place was actually too big for one person, but Shinji didn't mind. He didn't mind many things. Or so it seemed. Nothing seemed to phase him too much. But perhaps what was going on his head was different from the way he acted in reality. Who would ever know? This boy lying on his bed, in the same room as it had been before. Nobody knew what he was really thinking. Nor did anyone know what the young lady who lived next door to him was thinking. Or the loud over energetic homeroom teacher that Shinji had a few floors below him. Or the old man who lived to the other side of him, but now I'm getting carried away.

Shinji awoke at the sound of his alarm ringing. He quickly tapped the top of it, silencing it. He yawned as he sat upright on his bed. After grabbing his school clothes, he headed to the shower.

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Asuka's eyes slowly opened. She awoke, although she had never felt like she was asleep. She gets out of her bed and begins to get dressed.

Asuka had not had a satisfying sleep in a while. Whenever she slept she always felt like she was awake. She actually never really knew if she were really asleep. She could feel her sub-concious taking over yet she could still feel herself lying on her bed, trying so hard to go to sleep. She didn't dream either. Which may have been a good thing since if she did, nightmares would probably come to her and drag her down.

Asuka went to the kitchen and poured herself a glass of milk. She drank it and then checked her cupboards for what she had to eat. It was a combination of items she had bought and items that her parents had sent her from Germany. Food was not the only thing they sent. Clothes, toothpaste, books, jewelry.... pretty much anything they could fit into a a box that Asuka could need. Asuka had not touched a single one of these things except the food, since food from Germany was far better than Japanese food. At least to her.

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Misato Katsuragi awoke after many fights with her alarm clock. Literally. The bruised alarm clock with only one hand left and it's side smashed still stubbornly ringing.

"Fine!" Misato yells, "But tomorrow I'm going to win!". With that she gets out from under her futon and walks over to kitchen. From inside the refrigerator she takes out the only thing present in it. A can of beer. A few minutes later Misato gets many phone calls from her neighbors complaining about yelling at the break of dawn.

Misato Katsuragi was a teacher. She despised science, in particular the science institute Nerv. Her father had worked there and because of his work he had never really taken care of Misato and her mother. He was never home, he never called, and eventually he died during an experiment. Her mother, who had cursed him every night sobbed the whole night when she heard the news. Misato, only a young teenager at the time had no idea what to do. Even today her mother is still not who she was before her husband's death. The money from his life insurance meant she did not have to work, but that may be a bad thing since now all she does is live in her own world.

Misato picked up her necklace with a cross on it after getting out of the shower.. She had received it from her father. It was the only thing he had ever given her. She had thrown it away once, but eventually went through hell to get it back. Misato then reviewed her lesson plans for she had some time before she had to leave.

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Shinji was walking silently. He was still half asleep as he dragged his feet along the ground urging them not to give out before he reached school. He seemed to always be thinking.

"*Did you do the science homework?"

"Huh?" Shinji says as he snaps out of his thought.

"*Did you do the science homework?" Asuka repeated.

"Uh.. yeah, I did" Shinji says then went back to thinking.

"*Can.... I ..... have it?" Asuka says slowly.

"To keep?" Shinji asks.

"*To copy" Asuka replies.

Shinji suddenly stops walking and opens his bag. He sifts through his notebook, then rips out a page and hands it to Asuka.

"Danke" Asuka says as she examines it.

Shinji then starts walking and continues his trail of thought.

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The classroom was somewhat full. Perhaps maybe half the students had already arrived. Shinji and Asuka walked to their respective desks and dropped of their bag. Shinji then went to talk to Touji and Kensuke while Asuka went to greet Hikari and Rei.

"I never thought you would be the type of person to go only for looks" Touji says to Shinji as he approaches. Touji was twirling a pen between his fingers sitting on the desk and Kensuke was sitting at the desk next to him.

"What?" Shinji asks and then sees who they were staring at.

"We admit she's got looks, but haven't you ever heard of inner beauty?" Kensuke says.

"It's not like that" Shinji says, not even turning red since he was used to the abuse.

"Oh no, your just really good friends" Touji says attempting to mock Shinji's voice.

"No, we're just friends"

"Well why don't you develop friendships with other.... prospects" Touji says.

"Yeah, like...... her" Kensuke says as he stared dreamily at a girl sitting in the corner of the room by herself.

"Oh yeah, I'm sure you completely see the inner beauty in her considering you haven't ever spoken to her" Shinji says as he looks over at the girl he never bothered to notice before.

The girl had her head in her arms on top of her desk. She was looking straight forward, but at nothing in particular. She had earphones in both ears and seemed to be absorbed in the music. Every once in a while her lips would move as if she was singing along but then her face would immediately turn expressionless once again. She didn't catch the three boys stealing glances at her.

Touji slaps Kensuke hard on the back. "Stop staring, what if she sees you!?"

"Ow...."

"Well I guess it's time I start meddling with your love life" Shinji says, looking somewhat evil.

"Oh no, you're mistaking me for Touji.... Right Touji?" Kensuke says, "In fact I think I'll go do that right now" With that Kensuke gets up and begins walking toward Hikari, Asuka, and Rei.

"I'll kill you" Touji says as he grabs Kensuke hard and pulls him back. Shinji and Kensuke laugh while Touji threatens to knock Kensuke out after school.

"That was revenge for hitting me before" Kensuke says.

"Well this is my revenge" Touji then flicks the pen he was twirling across the room and it hits the girl's desk. At first she seems to not notice but then she picks her head up and picks up the pen that had fallen on the floor after hitting her desk.

Touji puts on a complete poker face as he starts talking to Shinji about meaningless subjects. Kensuke was bright red with anger quietly whispering his death threats to Touji.

"Oh man you should've seen it yesterday, it was great! It was the funniest episode ever. So he walks into a donkey ranch and says...."

"Did you drop this?" A voice behind Touji says. He quickly spins around in surprise and is face to face with a reasonably tall girl with one earphone in place. Anybody who stood face to face with Touji was somewhat tall.

"Uuh... w..well y... ye... yes" Touji stutters as he takes the pen from the girl's hand.

The girl then turns and walks back to her seat.

"I hate you" Kensuke mutters after the girl was sitting down with her earphones in place again.

"Oh come on, I didn't think she would know who threw it, nor did I think she would come up to us." Touji says, defending himself.

"It doesn't change the fact that I hate you" Kensuke says in a low voice.

"You know, this might be your chance" Shinji says.

"What?" Kensuke and Touji both say simultaneously.

"Well you can go over there, ask for her name, and then apologize"

"That's my big chance? Apologizing to her?" Kensuke says, losing all enthusiasm.

"No, your big chance is knowing her name. It's a small step but it's better than nothing"

"No way, I'll make a fool of myself" Kensuke says.

"Just go man, you're not going to waste this golden opportunity that I granted you" Touji says smiling.

"What? You didn't-"

"Just go" Touji says.

Kensuke sighs deeply and then takes a deep breath. "Fine" he says.

"Wow really? I mean yeah that's the spirit!" Touji says.

'Wha...you-" Kensuke was interrupted by Touji.

"I'm kidding, just go before you lose the impulse"

Kensuke takes another deep breath and then gets up and walks over to the girl.

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"Look at them, they're so stupid" Hikari says as she looks at Touji.

"We don't call them the three stooges for nothing" Asuka says.

"Why the hell would you throw a pen at someone? What is that like a guy thing? I must never ask for directions and I must throw pens at random people." Hikari says, making her voice deeper.

Rei and Asuka laugh as Hikari looks at the girl walking toward Touji.

"This might be fun" Asuka says as she catches on and watches.

The three girls see Touji and the girl exchange a few words. The girl then hands the pen back and walks over to her desk, assuming her previous position.

"Or not..." Asuka says quietly.

"That was nice of her" Rei says.

"Yeah... and weird" Asuka says.

"Well, at least she didn't make it into a scene" Hikari says enthusiastically.

"Yeah... how boring" Asuka says, "Anyway, so I saw the nicest restaurant the other day! It was-"

"Hey he's going over to her"

"Huh?" Asuka looked over and saw Kensuke walking toward the girl. He seemed really nervous.

"If they think that's going to get him a girlfriend....." Asuka mutters.

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"Um.... I'm very sorry about my friend he's a complete idiot thank you for the pen back what's your name?" Kensuke says very quickly. He then realized how stupid he sounded and tried to think of a way to redeem himself.

"Uh I mean... well..."

"Did you say something?" The girls says as she removed one earphone from her ear.

"Uh... yes.. I did, I was asking you what your name was"

"Why?"

"Huh?... Uh well... I just thought... um..."

The girl was silent and stared blankly at Kensuke. Kensuke shut his mouth in an attempt to not sound like a complete fool. An awkward silence came between them and remained there until the girl broke it.

"Ai Li.... Xun" the girl says.

"Ai Li... Oh um well.... I wanted to apologize on the behalf of my friend, he's really immature" Kensuke says, trying to keep his voice as steady as possible.

"I don't really care, tell him not to worry about it" Ai Li says.

"Okay...." The two were silent for a moment but Kensuke hastily brought up a subject.

"You weren't around here last year were you?"

"No I wasn't"

"Yeah... I never saw you around...." Kensuke was sweating from nervousness.

Another silence followed and Kensuke could think of nothing to say, so he left before the situation became anymore awkward.

"Well... bye" Kensuke walks back over to Touji and Shinji. The girl looks in his direction for a moment then puts her head down once again.

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"Male students rejoice! We have a new student, and it's a girl!" Misato says enthusiastically to the class, "Come in"

A blonde haired girl walks into the classroom. Her hair looked like it hadn't been combed in a while and there's was not a hint of make up on her face which was somewhat unusual for girls of her age. She walked slowly, but with grace and bowed to the class.

"My name is Katharina Hedwig. Yoroshiku!" she says smiling.

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A/N: It's a sequel but it's not. It would be a sequel had I finished the previous story, but I haven't. And I may not. So it's kinda like a new story but it isn't. I dunno how to describe it. Well anyway, tell me what you guys think. BTW I think Xun is pronounced Shun, but I'm not sure. If anyone can confirm it I will be grateful.