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I walked to my next class trying not to bump into anyone on my way to my AP History class. I think that was the one problem with me, I stayed away from people, it wasn't because I didn't like people, of course that wasn't it. It's just that many people didn't know who I was back at home. People thought I was strange because I was alone and I didn't talk much. I kept my grades up and followed the rules. I never went out, but just stayed home and practiced all day until I went to sleep. That was my routine, school, homework, study and practice.

When I entered my class we had to take a test, and once we finished we had to keep quiet. A long hour of doing nothing usually, I would play with my friend. I looked around and notice I had Kai for this class.

Seriously, I had him for all my classes I guess. At this point, I was trying to figure out if that was good or notl. He kept staring at me, like I had something on my face, or if I was strange...made me feel all weird and what not.

I took my seat and looked over the test. History was simple, the key to it was just knowing the dates and remember the leaders and what happened and how it affected the future. I don't know why people say history was hard. I started working on the test, it took me at least fifteen minutes to work on it and when I finished I gave it to Mrs. Staton who at looked me in a weird way.

She kept staring at me, "You finished a test that usually takes students the whole hour to do." She looked at my seat to see if I had been cheating. She didn't find anything. Another paper was given to her after mine, I looked up and saw Kai hand in his test. "You to Hiwatari?"

"Hn." He folded his arms as if he wanted her to challange him.

She glanced around to see that Kai and I sat far apart from each other."You both are excused from this class."

With that said and done Kai and I left. "Hey. Do you want to got grab a bite to eat?" I looked at him as if he was crazy. "Do you wanna?"

I had to think about it for a while. "Sure."

When we reached his car we got in and drove off. We stopped at nearby deli that to me seemed really good. As we got off I looked around, "Don't worry we'll be back in time for study hall."

"It's not that. I'm not used to going out like this."

Kai gave me a smirk, "Well, you're in luck...because I'll be paying for you."

"You don't have to do that; I can pay for myself..."

"Just take the damn offer already." I just nodded at him and we took our seat. The waiter took our order and went away. I stared out the window and looked at the passing cars and the people crossing the street. "What do you look at all the time?"

I diverted my attention back to Kai, "what do you mean?"

"I always see you looking around or looking at something when you sit."

"Well, what do you expect me to do? Just randomly talk to people that I don't know? That would be pretty strange."

"No. What's strange is what you do when you get to class. You do nothing but just stare at nothing."

What did any of this matter to him? I mean, I wasn't doing anything bad...was I? All I did was go to class and do what I was supposed to do. Is that such a crime?

"I don't see a problem with it." That's when our food arrived. The waiter placed down Kai's sandwich first then placed down mine.

He stared at me for a while. He was young, maybe eighteen, or a little older...I wasn't sure. I gave him a smile as he spoke to me, "Can I get you anything else?" I shook my head and looked away from him.

"Well aren't you a sight?"

"I didn't do anything."

"You didn't have too." Kai glanced at the guy then back at me. "Hey, maybe if you work some magic charm on him, you can get us out of paying for the food."

Petrified I looked at this guy as if he was crazy. I would never do such a thing like that...never. That was just wrong. "So you want me to use my charm? I can't believe in doing that."

"Hn."

After that, everything went silent. We just ate and enjoyed our lunch. It wasn't anything special to me, eating with a guy was normal...I knew he was just trying to be nice or trying to get something out of me, and I wasn't going to fall for it. But I knew better than to say anything.

Back in the car as we were driving back to the school Kai had his music on full blast. I wasn't going to protest, this was his car anyways. I began messing with my hands again on my leg; pretending it was a bow and having it glide over my leg.

"What are you doing?"

I took a quick glance. "Eyes on the road."

"Not until you tell me why do that with your hand." I wasn't really understanding what he was saying until I noticed what I was doing. It was my hand movement.

I quickly stopped. "Sorry, does it bother you?"

"No. I just see you doing that every time you get lost in thought. Real interesting if you ask me."

"I usually do it when I don't have my Cello. I guess you can say it's a habit that I have."

He gave a chuckle, "you're obsessed with that thing."

I clenched my fist. "My Cello is not a thing. It's an instrument I enjoy playing." I wasn't about to raise my voice at him, but it upset me that he was insulting me and my friend.

"Alright, alright. Chill." I rolled my eyes. at him, he was really annoying as he kept driving. "Didn't mean to upset you."

When the car stopped at the parking lot I didn't bother to wait for the engine to turn off. I opened the door and took off to lunch. I would be meeting everyone there. I held my bag in my hand and found the table that was beginning to get occupied by my friends. Well, I don't know if I would consider them friends yet...but it was nice word that made me smile to myself.

As soon as I arrived I felt someone roughly pull me to a seat. "Alright spill!"

I blinked at Hilary, "I don't have anything to spill...I didn't get anything to drink."

"Oh that was so funny, I forgot to laugh. Don't play dumb with me, I saw you get out of Kai's car. What were you doing with him?"

Why was she so curious about who I hung out with. "Kai and I went out to eat. I have him for a few classes and we both finished our tests at the same time, so he took me out to eat to pass the time." She folded her arms across her chest. She didn't believe me one bit. I wasn't going to bother defending myself. I would allow her to believe what she saw and what she assumed.

"If thats what you call it."

Again I rolled my eyes. "That is exactly what I called it."

"So is it true?" I turned to face Mariah as she sat next to ray in the booth.

"The fact that I came out Kai's car, then yes." Her eyes went wide.

Hilary frowned, "So quiet, yet so sarcastic."

"He's not all that bad. I mean, if you have talked to Kai, he's pretty Okay." Everyone stared at Max as if he had the plague. "What? I was just saying." He began stuffing his mouth with fries.

It was time for me to leave already, so I got up excused myself as I walked to my study hall. Back in the home room class I saw Kai and Tala playing cards. Of course they wouldn't be doing anything, to them this is free time or fooling around. I sat at my desk and pulled out my Ipod and some books and began working on some homework. Eyes were looking at me and I knew who they belonged too. He thinks I'm going to turn around and look? Well, he has another thing coming.

Was he trying to annoy me? He kept staring and I kept ignoring. I could hear Tala snicker in the back ground. So, he thought this was amusing...it wasn't. I had finished all my assignments for the day. I was very proud of myself. I packed away my stuff and looked at Kai as I gave him a questioning look...all he did was shrug and continue his game with Tala. I honestly did wonder how they managed to make it to the junior grade level.

As soon as the bell rang I rushed out of class. At my locker I was putting my books away when a presence made me tense up. I turned to my left and stared face to face at Kai.

"Have you ever heard of personal space?"

"That's not in my dictionary. But if you must know, meet me at my car after your last class." With that said and done he took off with his flock.

Okay, so I managed to notice that I did have Kai for all my classes. I was still trying to see if that was good or not. He didnt seem to bugging me at all. I wasn't his type to associate with in school other than outside of school. I would probably ruin his reputation, the thought of that made me smile.

"Now in this lesson of Goodman Brown, I want all of you to highlight the important events of this passage. After that I want you take out your assigned book of Gattica and read it then answered the questions that follow." I notice Tala raised his hand, "yes Volkov they have to be in complete sentences." He slunk down and mumbled a few words I couldn't make out.

Mr. Norris was young, but he knew what he was talking about and how to explain things in the simplest manners...he was also a ladies man to the young girls. He wasn't one of those perverted young teachers that went after high school girls; he was more or less a smile nod and answering type of guy. I sighed. This was so boring. This week was slow, and it was only the second day.

"Come on class, English is the best and easiest subject ever! I passed it with flying colors and I was a slacker...like some you."

That's the thing, this is an easy subject, and I've already read Goodman Brown...so this was a piece of cake to me. I took my yellow high-lighter and started highlighting the events. And for the hell of it I started marking down the points that lead to the climax. Yes, today was going to be a very boring day.

Even after I turned in the work it still seemed like it wasn't good enough. I wasn't a super high straight A student. I failed every now and then, but it was never a complete down fall to me. It just meant that I had to push myself more. I didn't even know what I wanted to do after high school, and I only had two more years to decide.

Instead of practicing like I should, I decided that I needed to listen; I needed some inspiration on me. I placed my iPod on this stereo and played a piece by Yo-Yo Ma. Sometimes I wondered just how he became so talented; I mean I knew how...but still...I wondered if he knew what special talent he had. It was all going good, but then Ming-Ming arrived. You want to know how I know. Easy. Her music; I could hear her singing in the other room and I hated it. I turned the music up more, but that still didn't help. I couldn't do anything about it, she has more of a right to be here than I do. She's been here longer than I have.

I looked outside the door toward the open area that I was at. I grabbed my Cello and began playing along to Stradivarius. I was lost in deep thought; the music controlled me all the way. My hands moved so symbolical with the piece. It was one of my favorite pieces from him. I drowned everything out of my life, nothing was left; just me and my friend we were connected he was my life. I got louder and louder with a crescendo...then as if it had just begun it ended. I opened my eyes and I was back in the practice room.

It was still silent in the car, Kai's music was blasting into my ear and I felt my fingers move again. I had to keep myself occupied and I know he noticed because I saw him stare. "Eyes on the road."

"Hn."

When he dropped me off that was it. It was like that for the whole week; he picked me up, took me to school, we didn't associate in class, then he took me home. That was our routine we didn't even speak to each other. I started to grow comfortable with that. The only time we spoke was when he would take his eyes off the road and I had to make a comment about it. He stopped bugging me about my fingers and how they moved. We worked together in projects and turned them in. I spent my lunch time at the round table just talking and eating with Hilary and the others. It was nothing special.

Music class was just the same, I would be playing and Ming-Ming would show up. She always did that, and she played different songs each time, and each time they were getting worse and worse. It's not that I had anything against her, she had a voice, but the sound...the effects...it wasn't working out. And I grew more irritated by the day.

The following week was just the same way; the same routine. The rides to school were quiet except for the occasional "eyes on the road."

"How's the music coming along?"

I didn't bother to look at him, "it's coming along. Just need to practice that's all."

"How often do you practice?"

Again, I didn't bother looking at him. "Every day. On the weekends if I have nothing to do, I'm in my room playing. During the week in music I'm still playing. When I'm at home and I've finished all my chores and homework...I play."

He stayed quiet for a minute. He hardly ever talked. I've noticed this. Kai was the type of guy who observed most of the time. He spoke to Tala and hung out on the weekends with him because I would see him driving in late at night if I wasn't asleep. He always kept his cool, never got angry and always had an answer to any questions or sarcastic remark. Maybe that's why I felt I could get along with him. I mean, don't you ever feel that you can just be yourself around someone who's almost like you? But of the different sex that is. Yeah, that's how it was for me.

"You never take a break?" He asked questioning me.

"I do, every now and then, especially when I sleep. I don't stay up practicing all night."

He chuckled, "might as well, that's all you ever do."

I didn't respond back. I didn't have a point too.

She kept looking outside the window of my car; as if she was dreaming, and only spoke if I talked to her. It felt strange, in a good way. She never nagged about anything; she didn't complain about the music I played, she just kept to herself. I trying to figure out that was normal or not for a girl. She wasn't even dazzled or fazed by me at all...it was as if I was nothing to her. She always kept to herself.

"I think out of most of population of this school, she's the only that doesn't seemed to be attracted to you." I heard Tala say to me during our block schedule business class. "Maybe your losing your touch Kai...or your looks."

I growled at him, "Shut it Tala. Compared to you, there is no comparison. I'm considered a God in this school."

"Not to her you're not."

He was really starting to tick me off. "That's why I can get more girls than you can." He mumbled something and kept his mouth shut after that. Tala is my best friend, but we always seemed to fight on end.

When the bell rang we decided to bale, I hated block schedule, we didn't have to stay...the only time we did was when we had a test or quiz or projects to do. We both decided to take a different route this time to get to my car. We went behind the music building, no one ever walked by their only students. You would find the occasional couple making out or some punks smoking pot. Tala was ahead of me, and I was ignoring his rambling about some girl he had screwed this past weekend.

I had taken my keys out of my pocket when I heard something. It sounded like music. It was coming from the music building and the music, it sounded different. It wasn't a piano or violin. It wasn't a guitar or bass or drums.

"Kai, what's the hold up?"

"Go on ahead without me. Meet me at my house; I need to do something really fast." Tala shrugged it off and took off.

I looked back and went towards the door that I heard the music from. I peaked in and saw that it was Aria and she was playing her Cello. I stared at her as she had her eyes closed concentrating on the music she was playing. I had never seen her so calm and collected, she seemed so into the music as her hands moved so fluidly as if it were waves. Her music got louder and louder and then it stopped. She took in breath and released, I stepped away from the door as so she wouldn't see me. Next to me was a bench and I made myself at home as she continued to play another song. I just sat there and started thinking.

That was the week that I started ditching Tala and coming here to listen to her practice. I couldn't imagine how one person could remember so many pieces. She had two in particular that she always seemed to play, and I always listened. For this week, she never noticed that I would listen t her. Sometimes I even forgot that I was school when I was resting on the bench as she continued to play. I never knew how good she was.

Today, I was so into the music, it was intese, not like how she usually played, I just figured she was trying something different.I was so into it that when she stopped I opened my eyes.

"That's it!" I heard her scream and she was out the door.

I played harder and harder, faster and faster. This was no me at all. I never played like this, I usually did when I was mad, and I was not mad, I was pissed. I couldn't concentrate on the pieces of music I was given, and began playing something so different. It was anger, frustration as Ming-Ming continued singing her stupid song. Her new stupid song that she had just started yesterday; the new stupid song that our instructor gave her to learn. Her pop voice, no it was so frustrating to me.

My hands continued to move faster and faster, my eyes were closed, but they did not love the piece that I was playing. And then it happened I heard it pop. I looked at my Cello and bow…a string had popped on both and I was more pissed than ever before. Never have I had something like this happen. Maybe when I first started playing yes, but after I learned not too, it never once happened again. I put everything down.

"That's it!" I shouted and I stormed out the door.

As fast I could I banged on Ming-Ming's door and she looked at me and smiled. "What do you want now?" She said so annoyed I wanted to slap her.

"I can't take it anymore! I've put up with you for the past two weeks, you and your annoying voice and music. I don't get it; you're not all that great! In fact, you sound horrible; you piss me off so much. The music you sing doesn't even sound true. Everything that comes out of your mouth is complete bullshit!" I was red from my face, could feel it.

"How dare you insult me like that! Just because your jealous doesn't mean you have to be so insulting."

Jealous? Me jealous, yeah right. I wasn't close to that. I can't stand her, she's so annoying, her voice is annoying, she's so fake! People like her annoy the hell out of me.

"You know what? I'm not even going to put up with it anymore. "I put my hands up in the air frustrated and stormed off back to my practice room. I looked at my Cello and bow and put them away into their cases. I couldn't practice now. I had to buy new strings for this, and I didn't want to, the time it took was too consuming and it wasn't even that time to change them…but if I changed the strings…everything would sound different until I was able to adjust it all, and that would take longer. I buried my face into my hands and closed my eyes to concentrate. I had to get going, Kai was waiting for me.

Kai was leaning against his car watching me as I made my way towards him. He stared at me and once I was close enough, he opened his door and sat inside. I did the same.

"Kai?"

"Hmm?"

I gulped, I had never asked for a favor from him before, I never really did from anyone, "I need a favor…"

"What do you want?" Gosh, he could be a little nicer about it, it's not like I ask anything from him, and yet he acts like I do.

"Can you take me somewhere?"

"And where would this somewhere be?"

"It's that music store off of Boca road. It has that huge music symbol outside."

"I know where that is. Yeah, I'll take you."

I couldn't help but smile. I had to look at it this way; I was getting new strings, and maybe just maybe a new bow…it all really depended.

We walked into the store and Kai looked a bit uncomfortable. I kind of felt bad. "What's wrong?"

"If you haven't notice, I'm not the type of guy who walks in here all the time on a daily basis." He had a point.

"Sorry. If you want you can wait for me in the car, I won't take long. I know what I'm going to buy."

"I think I can handle it." I shrugged at his response.

I looked around for a bit looking for a sales associate until I saw a girl walking up to us, she had such a pretty smile I couldn't help but just stare. "How can I help you two today?"

"I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of bows and strings for Cello's."

"I sure can. Just follow me."

She led us to a room, an open room that had Cello's of all kind. I looked in wonder at all the types they had. I had always wanted to buy a new one, just to see the difference, but when I tried one out, I didn't like the feel of it. I preferred my old and used Cello that I grew up with.

"Do you need any help in selecting?"

"No. I think I got it from here."

"Alright then, just let me know if you need anything…anything at all." At this point I could tell she was talking to Kai, not me. I smiled as he smirked at her. Yup, Hilary was right…a player. I saw that they exchanged numbers and she waved at him as she left to attend to the other customer.

"What are you smiling at?"

I blinked and turned to face the bows. "Nothing, just that people are right…you are a flirt and a player." I covered my mouth, I shouldn't have said that.

"Oh really now?" He seemed pretty interested in what I had to say, "Please continue."

"No, I shouldn't have said anything."

"I would love to hear what your new friends have to say about me." I looked at him and he had a smirk plastered on his lips.

I grabbed a pack of Cello strings as I continued. "They just told me to stay clear of you. That you and your friends where just not that great to be around."

"Ha! My friends and I shouldn't be any of their concern. You shouldn't always listen to what they have to say."

"I guess." I went on looking for a new bow. I grabbed one and examined it. It was beautiful. The wood polish on it made it shine. The strings were perfect. I glided it against my fingers and felt for any rifts on it, and I felt nothing.

It's not that I couldn't replace the strings on the bow, I could, but it was already old, and it looked as if it was ready to give away any day now. It was kind of like my excuse to get a new one. I grabbed what I needed and I told Kai was done.

At the counter I placed the items to pay for them. The girl smiled at us as she took them. She kept staring at Kai as if he was some kind of meat. I rolled my eyes. He leaned against the counter just to her have blush. After she scanned them I looked at the price. Shit, almost hundred bucks.

I sighed and pulled out my wallet, I'm sure my dad wouldn't mind if I used my credit card on this. I would pay him back when the bank asked for the money back.

"Number please." I looked up at the girl and saw that Kai was punching in his numbers.

"What do you think you are doing?"

"What does it look I'm doing genius? I'm buying your stuff for you."

"You don't have to do that. I can buy it myself."

He looked at me when he finished and the girl gave him the bag. "But I just did. So you can't do anything about it. But if it makes you feel better, this is the last time I'm doing this for you."

I grabbed the bag from him and walked out. He really didn't have to do that. I don't know why he did, I was more than capable of buying it on my own. I turned around looking for the two toned boy and saw that he was still with the girl chatting it up. I could wait for him, but I really wanted to get home, because to just put the strings on the Cello would take me at least an hour. I guess he did see me waiting for him because he pushed himself off the counter and walked over towards me.

"You're welcome." I blushed when he said that.

I can't believe I had forgotten to thank him. "Thank you Kai."

The ride home was still quiet, and then I saw my house coming into view. He pulled up to the drive way and I stepped out. I saw my mom come from around the house wearing her apron she used when she planting something.

"Aria you're home already! And you brought Kai, call him out here."

Kai heard her and he stepped out. I just stared at my mother. "How can I help you Mrs. Hart?" I looked at him. He's such a jerk to me, but he's so polite to my mother. What a two face.

"Kai, stay for dinner, it's the least we can do since you take and bring Aria back home from school every day."

He shook his head. "I couldn't possibly stay."

"Oh, but you must, Joseph is making dinner for us already, with you included." She smiled and took off her gloves urging Kai to follow her.

"She's not going to let you go home." I went to the back seat and pulled out my Cello as I followed Kai into my house. And this is how Kai ended up having dinner with my family and I.

I stared at my dad as he and Kai talked about many things. I don't know how he found Kai to be so interesting, there was nothing interesting about him. He's a guy that fools around with girls, get's drunk, slacks off at school and who knows' what else. Yeah, I couldn't possibly say that to my folks, I don't think they would believe me.

"So, how was my little girl's day at school?" My dad gave me a grin.

"It was fine. I popped a string on my Cello and bow. I had to buy a new bow and strigs…"

"Oh dear…how did that happen?" My mother said as she cleared the table.

I shrugged, "I guess it was just time. The bow was already old, and when that string popped, I got scared and I popped the other sting on the Cello."

"How much is that going to cost?" My dad had his stern voice on me now. He was such a father.

"Don't worry about it dad, I went ahead and bought the items today."

"How did you do that? Did you use the credit card?"

"Ye-"

"No she didn't, I went ahead and paid for her." I cringed when Kai replied for me.

I dont think he realized that I wasn't wanting to tell my father that he bought them for me. "Don't tell my father that!" I said raising my voice a little. This was embarrassing to me.

Kai just stared at me. "Well I did. What were you going to do? Lie and say you did and have to pay him back? Or where you going to try and pay me back?" I looked down toward the floor.

I picked my head back up and stared at Kai's violet orbs that we called eyes. "Not now, but I was going to pay you back."

My mother placed dessert on the table for us, "Well, that was very kind of you Kai, thank you."

"It was my pleasure." He was such a two face.

"I told him he didn't have too. I could have paid for it and then pay you back dad. You know I always do."

My dad smiled at me, "its fine. Playing the Cello is something you enjoy doing, I understand." Of course my father understood. He always did know what it meant.

"Joseph, have you noticed this is the most that Aria has ever talked?" I blushed when she said that.

"What do you mean?" Kai actually sounded like he was interested in this.

"Cassandra is right. Aria never really talks. She's kind of shy and quiet."

"Dad!" I blushed again looking down at the floor.

"And she's so shy also." My mother placed a hand on her cheek smiling at me.

"Mom!" Oh great!

"Is she now?" Kai sounded so amused by this.

This was not my day. I buried my face in my palms as my parents laughed at me, and Kai just chuckled. They barely know this guy, and their already telling him this about me. This is such invasion of my life. I wasn't always shy; I just kept to myself a lot…that's normal for anyone. Ugh. I repeat to myself… not my day.

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