Sorry it took sooo long. I had a hectic schedule with test , spring break homework, more tests and a practice tennis match. Anyways, here it is XDXDXD Enjoy :)

Beyond the Looking-glass

Chapter 2 –The Escort–

"A whole day with the campus king, great. How lucky can I get?" Yuna said to herself sarcastically which made her accidentally trip and scatter her books, the papers she had to pass to the teachers and her notebooks on to the floor. She sighed, and started to pick them up. Near her there were some girls chattering with each other. They were no other than Atobe's fan girls.

"Did I hear it right or was it just my imagination?"

"You're not imagining things! The teacher really did say it!"

"Well…um…this is a first…."

"Our Atobe-sama will be spending his precious time with the new girl, Higashizawa!?"

"A whole day! He'll be spending the whole day with her!"

"She's so lucky to be the new girl…."

"What's so lucky about her? First and for most, we, his devoted fan/cheering girls have always been by our Atobe's side up until now. She's just the new girl."

"And gets some personal time with him."

"…….Come to think about it, since she passed the exams, she must be really smart .…. meaning that she may have planned the whole thing before hand. You know , like ask the teacher to have Atobe-sama show her around and stuff…."

"Do you think she'd actually do that?"

"Well who knows what's going on in her head."

"I don't really think that…"

"Doesn't it seem like she's trying to take our Atobe-sama away from us?"

"That's a little ……"

"If she tries to get too close or take our Atobe-sama away from us without any consent, she'll definitely feel my wrath!!!"

"You're not even trying to listen to a single word I am saying now are you ?"

"What were you saying?"

"Never mind….."

Atobe's fan girls left the classroom whispering with each other while the leader looking one kept on taking glances at Yuna who was still picking up the papers that she dropped. Other students that remained in the classroom stared at her. No one expected it to happen. It had never happened before. They didn't know how to react. And while they were still in shock, Atobe had left classroom.

"Why did the teacher ask HIM to show me to my classes? Nanako could've done that." She thought as she wished she hadn't had to transfer schools in the first place. Yuna could feel the stares boring into her and ignored it. But she couldn't ignore the pressure slowly building up in the room.

" Yuna, are you OK? Here let me give you a hand…."

She looked up to see Nanako standing over her and started to collect some of the papers she dropped.

"Nanako!" she cried as she grabbed the poor girl's arms, starling her. "You have got to help me on this one! I know we just met and all but can't you do something!?' Yuna said as she shook her. She was panicking. "I didn't want to be in the same class as him in the first place!!" She was hoping that at least on her first day she wouldn't be seeing much of the guy but instead she would be seeing him almost every single minute of the day. And she didn't like it.

"Calm down Yuna!" Nanako cried taking a hold of her wrists. Yuna snapped out of it and immediately released Nanako . "I-I'm sorry…." She said. "I…just,,sort of…panicked…."

"Apology accepted, now let's pick up these papers and get out of here. Everyone's stares are scaring me."

"Yeah.."

"………Yuna?"

"Hmn?"

"Don't you think you're over reacting over the Atobe-is-your-escort thing?"

" I may seem like I'm over reacting but you just don't know why I'm acting like this…."

"And that reason is?"

"…………………"

"Well whatever, here's your papers now let's get out of here because in about five minutes first period's going to start."

Yuna took the papers from Nanako and the two headed swiftly towards the door.

As soon as they stepped out of the classroom, they noticed Atobe waiting for Yuna at the far end of the east hallway. He was casually leaning on wall reading a book, ignoring the stares and whispers of his fan-girls.

"Humph. What in the world is he doing waiting for me over there?" she said. "Who knows." Nanako replied. "Oh well, at least I won't get lost in this huge school on my first day." Yuna started to walk toward him. "Wish me luck!" "It really seems like you're going to need it. So good luck! " Nanako replied as she headed off to her own class.

Yuna was trying to calm and reassure herself. So she decided to think positively. "Who knows?" she said to herself. "I might just be able to find out if he has changed ever since grade school." Smiling, she remembered how competitive and hard working he was. But frowned at the memories of his annoyingness, attention loving and how his bossy attitude always gave her headaches. But that was not all. She still resented him for what he did to her in the fourth grade. "It was just an accident…..he didn't have to do that……." She thought as she headed towards where Atobe was waiting.

Atobe was waiting for Yuna. He decided to wait for her at the far end of the east hallway because the stairs located there was close to where nearly all the third year classes for the day were held. He could easily get her to her class and get to his class without a problem.

"Showing the transferee around the school for the day, how troublesome." He saw her walking down the hallway. A memory was tugging at him at the back of his head. "Higashizawa Yuna ………."

She slowly approached Atobe. Some of the fan-girls who still hadn't gone to their classes continued to keep and eye on her. She sweat dropped and told herself to ignore them. They were just Atobe's pathetic fan-girls. But their stares gave Yuna chills up her spine. "These fan-girls give me the creeps. They act as if the own the guy. I some how feel pity for him. I wonder if he ever feels that his actions are limited and always watched…… I doubt that he dislikes the attention, but seriously, aren't his fan-girls a little too possessive? I hope that not all of the girls in this school are like them." She thought as she continued to walk toward Atobe.

When she was almost there someone from behind called her name. "Yes?" she replied turning around and was surprised to see a rather irritated girl standing in front or her.

"Um, you called me?"

"You're Yuna Higashizawa, right?"

"Yes that's me….."

"Don't try to do anything funny or else …..!!"

The girl suddenly became silent.

"Do what?"

"Oi,Higashizawa." Said a voice from right behind her .It was Atobe.

"Uh-oh, looks like I'm in for it…" she thought as she turned around to face him and prepared for the worst.

Atobe had closed his book and left the wall he was leaning on as soon as he noticed Yuna and Nanako get out of the classroom. He had been keeping an eye on Yuna ever since she parted ways with Nanako. "Yuna Higashizawa……why is your name the same as hers? Or is it because you really are her?"

"Atobe…san. S-sorry to keep you waiting. I-I accidentally dropped m-my things and…" She stummered.

"A-n,You're finally here." He said in a cool voice. "Well it took you long enough. You're just new here and you have the nerve to make ore-sama wait!? You heard what the teacher said didn't you? This Ore-sama will be showing you around the school today. You should be grateful that I am doing this." He said.

"I said I was sorry…"

"Humph, I'll just let one this pass……Now let's get down to business, what's your first class?"

"Um…it's arithmetic III"

He smiled. "Now isn't that convenient." He left Yuna where she was standing and headed towards the stairs.

"What is?" Yuna asked questionably.

"We both have the same class, so follow me." He said as he disappeared down the stairs.

"What! Hey, wait a sec.!" she shouted as she ran after him.

"Class, as you have noticed, the transfer student Ms Yuna Higashizawa has joined our merry little group." Said the arithmetic teacher.

Many students in the class were whispering with each other. Some of them were from Yuna's class .While others were from the other classes. All except Atobe was curious on just how smart the new kid was. But a few of the fan girls who were also in the class kept an eye on her.

Yuna wasn't happy at all. She liked arithmetic and was good at it but she didn't like the person sitting next to her. As she listened to the teacher explaining something on the board, she remembered the words the teacher said to her at the beginning of class. "Ms Hihashizawa, I heard from you homeroom teacher that Atobe-kun is showing you around. So why don't you go sit next to him at the back?"

"How ironic." She thought as she scanned her arithmetic textbook. "Teachers and their amazing ways to get Atobe and I together." The teacher continued to talk about their past lessons. "It's like the many times the teachers made us sit next to each other when we were at Kings Primary school in England." She took a glance at Atobe who was attentively listening to the teacher. "Well now isn't he the model student."

Atobe was actually not listening to the teacher. He already understood the formulas they studied during the first semester. He was deep in thought. "This is going to be a long day. After showing Higashizawa around I have to attend the student body meeting about the year's summer activities and go to tennis practice." He let out a sigh. "Is this ore-sama that much needed at this school?"

"So now that we lightly reviewed what we have learned this semester, we'll have a pop quiz!!" suddenly announced the teacher. The students were surprised and let out cries of disbelief. "Sensei, didn't we have the quarterly exams already? Why do we have to do this test?" "It's for extra points for those who got bad grades on the test, ok?"

"A pop quiz!?" Yuna thought. "I haven't been listening to what she was saying!? How am I to pass this one!? I hope the formulas I learned at my old school are the same as the ones they studied about here…"

The teacher handed out the test papers.

"Now start!"

Everyone turned over the papers and started to answer it. Some of the students took a while to finish it while others were having a hard time solving some of the questions. Atobe and Yuna on the other hand finished it in a matter if fifteen minutes.

"Well that was easier than expected." Yuna thought as she placed her pencil on her desk.

"Hou." Atobe thought as he saw Yuna place down her pencil. "Seems like Higashizawa is finished as well." He raised an eyebrow at her.

"Times up!" said the teacher thirty minutes later. "I'll collect these and give you your results next week. Class didmissed."

Atobe left the classrrom before Yuna could even get out of her seat.

"Atobe-kun wait!" she said as she grabbed her things and dashed out of the room. The fan girls that were in the room that heard Yuna call their Atobe-sama 'Atobe-kun' were irritated.

"Atobe-sama is no ordinary person!"

"She should show more respect! Humph!"

Atobe was next to the door waiting for Yuna. "Better get this girl to her next class so that ore-sama will not be late for my own."

Yuna comes dashing out of the door and spots Atobe. "I told you to wait." She said to him. "Ore-sama doesn't have time to just be lounging around you know." "Whatever." She replies irritated with his attitude. " I didn't sign up for this you know." She said in low tones. "What did you say?" "Nothing!" she replies hiding her irritation.

"Humph, do as you please. I'm just doing what I have to do."

"………."

"What's your next subject?"

"Um….let my check my schedule the teacher gave me…"

Yuna pulls out her schedule out of her folder and scans through it. Atobe moved closer to her to take a look at it himself.

"It's Oral Communication…….what are you smiling at?" she asks Atobe who was grinning. He suddenly turns his back on her and heads towards the stairs again.

"It seems that all your classes today are with ore-sama. I won't be having a problem with showing you around. You just have to follow this ore-sama the rest of the day." "Oh." She replied. "All my classes are…. WHAT !?" He looked back amused with her reaction. "Do you dislike having the chance to be with me for the day? A-n? You're the second person to react like that." he says remembering his primary school days. "Humph, but I doubt that you'd want to be late for your classes on your first day now do you? So hurry up and follow me already."

"This is so not happening!" Yuna thought. "Just when I thought that I could spare a few hours of the day without him being around, I'm stuck with him for the whole day!" She let out a sigh. "I don't have any other choice but to stick with him. I guess ONE day wouldn't hurt." She watched him disappear down the stairs. "It doesn't even seem as if he recognizes me. It's just been four years since we last met and he's already forgotten about me and what happened…..its just so like him"

She ran after him, pushing through the students who were also on their way to their class.

"Wait up!"