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Jessie, quietly, searched through her backpack for her lunch money. Desperate, she

walked over to the geek table, where she was favored. She smiled sweetly and spoke,

"'Cuse me, may muah borrow zome money for 'zis 'lunch' or however you call iz?" They slowly looked at one another, grinning broadly, stuffing their hands into their pockets and

pulling out a couple dollars. Jessie smiled, sliding the green paper into her hands and disappearing into a crowd.


"Suckers!" She whispered, regular accent. "They are such geeks! Ha!" She flipped the dollars in their stack, counting silently. "Ten bucks... Awesome." She slid the wad of money into her back pocket and stepped into clear view, just as the bell rang. Lunch was over. Time for her field trip.


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Being in her second year of High School, Jessie Holmes knew everything about survival. Even pretending to be French got everyone's attention. Of course, her best friend, Deidra Jones, was also one of the fittest to survive. Or in other words, stay out of the 'geek' category.


Deidra and Jessie had been the bestest friends since the beginning and even made other friends. Inez Meds, Clare Arrow, Deanna Devus, and Theirry Elles. Deidra and Jessie had many things in commen. Drawing, anime, some guys, and more. They even had a couple classes together. Even played the same instruments; flute and piano.


For some time now, they had grown an interest in Japan. Since anime was one of their favorite things, they found out many things about Japan, but we can explain that later.


Jessie's appearance was pretty skippy but... Normally, she would wear some kind of shirt with a yellow and navy blue sweatshirt over it, and sometimes, flares and tennis shoes. Shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes.


Deidra's appearance was very classy and nice. A nice, colorful, T-shirt with a classic pair of flares or shorts and tennis shoes, sometimes, sandals. Mid-back bright blonde hair, greenish-blue eyes, and glasses.


Being the way they were, they wern't very popular, but they wern't made fun of A LOT. They were... Normal.


Until... The field trip they had one cold day.


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Jessie sat on the, freezing, leather seat next to Deidra. Deidra shivered as a cold breeze wandered into the bus. Jessie's head was under the window, soaking up as much sun as she could. "H-how can you j-just sit there?" Deidra, finally, mummbled in a quivering voice. Jessie turned her head to look at her. "One word... Sun." Deidra snorted. "On our way b-back, I-I g-get the w-window sea-t!" Jessie smiled lightly. "Deal..." They shook hands and fell against the back of the chair, asleep in a few minutes.


They were shooken awake by Theirry and Clare. "Are we there yet?" Stretched Jessie. Clare laughed, but shook her head. Deidra sighed a heavy, sad, sigh. "We're going to freeze to death!" She, barley, shouted, sarcasticly. Jessie laughed, along with Inez, Deanna, Clare, and Theirry. Deidra pouted at Jessie and she stopped. "It's not funny! I'm f-f-freezing!" They, evenually, stopped laughing and clamed down enough to fall asleep themselves.


Jessie and Deidra couldn't go back to sleep so, instead, they began to talk. "What do you think we'll find there, Jess?"

"I dunno, maybe, an old temple and Rumiko Takahashi..." Deidra laughed. "That would be the day the sky finally fell." Jessie smiled and looked out the window, watching a plane take-off. 'I wish...' Deidra shook Jessie's shoulder. "Hey, another question, Jess."

"Huh?"

"If you could be any anime character, who would you be?"

"Does it have to be a girl?"

"No..." Jessie thought for a second. She had never thought about it. 'There's Heero...Oh and Delmoan. Goku, even Chi-Chi...' Jessie's thoughts were interuptted as Deidra began, "while your thinking, I'll tell you who I would be..."

"Who?" Jessie said, unbelieveingly. Deidra looked over at her, smirking evily.


Jessie slowly began to smile. "Kagome, huh?" Deidra sighed. "She's so lucky! She has a hott half-demon by her side! He even likes her back!" I smiled with a laugh. "You'd be really girly..."

"WHO CARES!" She shouted, but covered her mouth.Leaning into Jessie's ear, she whispered, "at least I'd actually have a guy next to me..." I nodded respectfully and moved away from her. "Well..."

"Well what?"

"Who would you be? Sango? She get's Miroku, probably." Jessie shook her head. "Naw." She finally spoke. "If anyone, it would be Heero." Deidra, briskly, tilted her head to the side. "Heero? From Gundam Wing?" Jessie nodded, looking away to her feet. "Why...?"

"Because... He actually has a Gundam that's cool..." Deidra smiled, knowing that's not who she would be and leaned back, pulling out the Inu-Yasha manga she had brought along and started flipping through it.


Jessie watched for a few minutes, then looked up at the sky through the window. 'I wounder when it will fall...'

Then, a new poem popped into her head. She tore out her journal and pencil, carfully writing it down.




Poem For The Sky;


You hold the sun,

You bare the clouds.

You smile at the birds,

You deal with the killer smoke.

But why?


You whisper through the wind,

You smile at the sunset.

You never sleep

You can't see... I know why, now.


Because you love us!











Chapter 1:


Only the Beginning for a Lost Soul



The Start of a new Dawn for a Silent Poet