I was going to do it. The thing I had spent weeks planning. It was time to make a move on Nezumi and ask him on a date. Nezumi and I had only just met this year. I never would of imagined I would become friends with someone like him. It had been my first day of high school, the day I didn't know wether to be excited, or about to pee my pants for. I had cautiously sat down in my first period 5 min before the bell would ring and made sure to take my one and only friend's advice, "First impressions are the most important, Shion! That's how everyone will remember you. Make sure you sit near the front and smile at everyone, especially the teacher." Safu had said. So I followed her orders. I was the only student there at the time and took that time to greet the teacher and fiddle with 3 of my pre-sharpened pencils that now sat on the corner of my desk . Slowly more students trickled in. Most of whom I didn't know but every now and then would recognize from my old school. When the bell finally rang the teacher immediately introduced himself.

"Hello students! Hope your summer's been great. I'm Mr. Brown, your new science teacher!" And proceeded to go over the things we would be studying in his science class. I slouched in my chair as soon as he said we would be doing a lot of assignments with a partner. It's not like I didn't enjoy working with other people it's just no one ever wanted to be paired up with me. Ten minutes later the teacher was still only halfway through his speech. Many students had their head in their hands by this time. One student even looked like he was asleep "In the second term we will be studying the growth of pla-" suddenly the door closed with a loud bang as a boy, or maybe it was a girl, walked through. The students all turned their heads to see the newcomer.

"Late!" One student obnoxiously yelled. The now obvious boy, had long dark hair pulled into a ponytail and gave off the feeling that if you came too close you'd be bitten. Their clothes were dark and slightly worn. The jacket he had on made me feel hot just by looking at it. The whole class watched in silence as the boy sat down near the back of the room. Finally the teacher broke the ice, "N-Nezumi! Glad you made it, I had started getting worried! I was just going over what we will be studying this year. I'll have one of the students catch you up" all the students turned to look at the ground to avoid the teachers gaze. "Um.. Shion!" I looked up to see the teacher staring at me and the notes I had been taking. Maybe it hadn't been such a good idea to sit up front. "Can you help Nezumi get caught up? It should only take a minute." I tried to give the teacher a pitiful glance but ended up nodding quickly and walking to the back of the room with my notes. I kept my eyes down to avoid the other students. When I screeched a chair up to Nezumi's desk the teacher started going on about the curriculum again and everyone stopped staring at me. Well everyone expect the boy in front of me.

"Is that a scar?" He asked, pointing at my cheek.

I was startled to find his voice soft and not as rough as I thought it would be. But I quickly got over it and answered the question I was so frequently asked, "Oh, this? Yeah, kinda. I had a sickness when I was a baby and it ended up leaving this." Nezumi continued to stare at it which started making me even more uncomfortable than I already was. His eyes were much prettier than I would have thought. The gray orbs rested on my cheek till they slowly fell down my neck.

"Does the scar travel everywhere?"

I nodded at his question. There was a slight pause when I suddenly thought I heard him whisper "Sexy" I must have heard him wrong, no one has every called me that.

"Excuse me?"

But the dark haired boy shrugged me off,

"Didn't the teacher send you over here for a reason?" My eyes flitted to the notes in my hand. Oh yeah! Quickly I gave Nezumi a run through of what the teacher had told us before he had gotten here then returned to my desk once everything was explained. For some reason I found my palms sweaty and slightly trembling. I glanced at the clock to find we had another hour of this class left.

When the bell finally rang I headed to P.E. only to find Nezumi in that class with me too.

"You following me?" He asked as I headed towards him.

"Not trying too."

As the day went on I found out the boy had just moved here from a little farther down state and was an only child. Latter at lunch I saw Safu and we talked about our new classes.

"My history teacher is really boring. All she talked about was how her cat and dog kept fighting all summer. But all my other teachers seem great. Anyway what about your teachers?" Safu asked. I twiddled with a French fry.

"They're all fine. My P.E. Teacher seems kinda strict." We talked more about school till we ran out of things to say.

"Have you had a good conversation with any of the students? Talking to people is the first step to making new friends." She explained, pointing at me with a ketchup covered fry to make a point.

"Well.. kinda. I've talked to this boy named Nezumi a few times."

She looked at me in surprise,

"That new boy all the girls are talking about?"

People were talking about Nezumi? I guess he was pretty handsome and he did have something about him but I didn't think girls would be all over him.

"I guess." I mumbled as I watched her take a bite of the fry.

At the end of my first day I found Nezumi to be in 3 of my 5 classes and Safu to be in one other. Now I only had one class where I didn't know anyone which was luckily only English. Maybe this year would actually turn out ok.