Ch. 2

Catching a glimpse of lightning through her shut eyelids, Pandora slowly opened her eyes to face the bright light in the kitchen at the top of her head (which she lazily left on) and yawned slowly and sat up from the futon she had fallen asleep on and looked out the window. What she saw was another rainy day. Not really surprising to her, it seemed that it was raining everyday and if it wasn't it was threatening to. And at that moment rain began to speckle her windows and then it was drenched with water.

Pandora leaned over and scooped up the dirty cereal bowl from the other night and stood up and walked to the kitchen, stretching all the way there, and sighed contently. She had a day off from work, but the downside of it was that she had to go to school with a bunch of idiots who lived with their parents and waist their parents' money on sleeping in class and party at night. They were a bunch of lazy no good dumber than earth worms that only knows how to do one thing in life while the people at Pandora's school were taught how to do multiple things in life and yet they still can't fend for themselves without mommy and daddy there with their maid and butlers to help them out.

Pandora took a deep breath and slowly blew it out and went into a sort of 'zen' state of mind. She thought of a quiet little place where there was no one in site and sighed contently again. That was better.

She made her way to the bathroom and shut the door behind her and turned the shower on. Flipping her hair out of her face, Pandora looked up at the mirror and stared at the healing cut on the corner of her lower lip and smirked. She remembered very well how and where she had gotten that cut on her lip.

Flash Back

It started at school, like any other 'normal' day at lunch. Pandora was sitting against the school building, a crumbled up lunch sack laid next to her in a ball, reading her literature book to catch up on lost work when she was approached by a small group of people. One of the people, the leader probably, gently kicked the spin of the book to gain Pandora's attention.

"And to what, pray tell, do I owe this lovely visit," Pandora raised her eyes to the intruders and gave a smug grin. "Or should I say that this is a very grim moment part of our lives where there will be a confusing conversation for you all in the end with me laughing."

The females of the group gave each other a confused ditzy look, while the males had to talk amongst themselves about what Pandora had just said, making the sitting girl laugh.

"That was sure easy," Pandora smiled and stood up, gathering her belongings. "I wasn't even trying."

"You think you're so clever," one of the boys said with a sneer.

"No, you people make me that way." Pandora straightened out the back of her school skirt and walked past them.

"Hey now," a red headed girl said blocking her way. "Where are you going?"

"Well, I obviously can't have a battle of wits with any of you because all of you are unarmed, even put together you wouldn't be able to fill a bullet half way."

"That's not very nice," the blond girl piped up.

"Me saying that your voice reminds me of my landlord isn't nice. Want to know why? Because he's a man."

"You've got a smart mouth on you, Panny," one of the boys said, and laid a hand on her shoulder.

Pandora looked at the hand that had invaded her bubble and then looked up at the owner of the hand and raised an eyebrow. "Remove your abhorred hand from my shoulder you impudent idiot, and also it's not 'Panny'."

"Just because you think that you're smart means you're better than us," the male leader joined in.

"The only way of getting into Washuna High is to pass the entrance exam, which wasn't easy…Oh wait. You guys didn't take the entrance exam. Mommy and Daddy paid the very bribable principal to get you in."

The boy just smile and chuckled a bit and suddenly punched Pandora in the kisser. Literally. The sudden impact made Pandora drop her things and fall backwards. She raised a hand to her lip and brought down blood from her lip.

"Gee, real classy of you," Pandora said with hardly any emotion. "Hitting a defenseless girl. That's really something of you."

"You may want to watch you're smart mouth, Pandora Honda," he said leaning down towards her. "It could be hazardous to your health."

With that said and done the lunch bell rang for all the students to get back to class.

End Flash Back

Steam covered the bathroom mirror, snapping Pandora out of her distant daze. Out of habit, she turned on the cold water and waited for the steam to disappear a little and undressed herself and entered the shower.

Pandora's overall appearance was what she has considered normal. She had straight amber color hair that only reached the lower part of the shoulder; there were few split ends on close inspection. Her eyes were navy blue and always held a certain gleam, like she knew something that the world didn't know. She was a tad bit under the average height category; but she liked being short, it was rather humorous. Her almost child like face help accompany her height in some of her cruel jokes and harsh conversations.

Pandora was obviously not one of the popular girls in school. She had never dated any of the boys in school; she thought that they weren't in her intellectual level of thinking. If she was really interested, she would be interested in dating the President of the Shinra electric power company's son Rufus Shinra. She would enjoy to have a decent conversation with someone who had more than twenty words in their vocabulary, and she wouldn't mind having a debate with Rufus about the pros and cons of the corporation. But that was only if she was really interested; Pandora thought of him like as a pompous brat that always hid behind his father if he made a major mistake, and he was a bit too old for her.

When it came to most things Pandora was a pragmatist. She liked to keep things simple, that's why she could trick most of the kids at her school. She never really liked politics and hated it when someone tried to pull her into a conversation concerning politics. Pandora would have been neutral about Shinra electric power company, it was a really good idea to her at first, but when she noticed that the earth was slowly deteriorating and then she knew that it was pretty bad. The electric company also held a lot of secrets and Pandora didn't like it at all. She hated secrets.

Turning the water off, Pandora grabbed a towel from the rack next to the shower and wrapped it around her body and walked out of the bathroom and towards her bedroom and closed the door. She walked over to her closet and pulled out her uniform top from the top railing and her uniform skirt from the bottom railing and tossed it on the bed. Shaking the excess water from hair and drying her body from the warm shower and took out some under clothes and got dressed.

Pandora walked out of her bed room, while drying her hair off, towards the kitchen to make her self some breakfast. She looked up at the clock and noticed that it was getting close to seven thirty (about the time she left for school) and decided to make it a quick one, so she went into the cabinet and grabbed a package of Pop tarts, her backpack and walked out of her apartment and made her way to school, but had a little trouble on the way.