Only When I Am Asleep …

Chapter Two: …Can I Escape School

I can't believe where summer went, filled with so many dreams. One month after I had the dream of the raven-haired boy and me, I had it once again. And a month after that. What is it with this dream and the second day of every month? July second, August second, September second…would there be an October second? I wouldn't know.

I tried figuring out what this means, I thought it would be about falling in love when I get to school, but I figure that's not it. Maybe someone falling in love with me? No, impossible. Someone would never fall in love with me! I mean, me? And my odd pink hair? Yeah, this is why I started to think otherwise.

This dream I want to dream every night! Once I wake up from this dream, I'm breathless, my heart's beating so hard I can feel it, and I always want to dream some more.

Other than dreams, I visited my school in August. With him and my mom. I wished it was only my mom. We bought uniforms, toured the school, got my schedule, my locker, checked out my class rooms, and all that great I'm-going-to-a-new-school-soon-so-I-have-to-be-prepared stuff. It was such a pain.

Speaking of pains, I tried dressing not facing the door or anything. It was pretty creepy to feel so insecure in my own home. I felt so suspicious of him, so I never wanted to face the door. I put my self in his shoes, (horny men's shoes of course) and thought that not facing the door was like teasing. Disgusting. I still changed away from the door, no matter what I thought. I even tried dressing in the bathroom after showers. Yuck, the thought of him seeing me in a towel just makes me feel sick. Naked was totally out of the picture. Was he watching me change in my room? I couldn't tell so I kept my mouth shut because you get into some serious shit if you wrongly accuse someone of this "sexual harassment." I have to find a way to prove it sometime.

September, in its short week I didn't do much but savor the last bit of time I had by trying not to waste time by doing those stupid things that you do on the first week of a long vacation, like cleaning and watching TV. I did the things that mattered to me the most, like swimming and getting on the computer. The week went by too fast. I remember last night, I was thinking of how I would be at the school. Sociable? Probably not much. Awkward? Maybe a little. Happy? Maybe once I make friends. Excited to go to school the next day? Not unless it's a half day or a Friday.

So now here I am, in the car. With him. I'm sitting next to him in the front, dreading every moment. I could relax a bit though; at least I'm not the 'new girl' transferring in the middle of the year. And we finally arrive. Finally, time to get away from him.

"Bye," I muttered as he parked.

"Don't you want me to help you around?" he asked as I slammed the door.

"No, I had the tour. Remember?" I started walking toward the school.

"Alright," he started the car again.

I smiled in triumph as he drove off.

I entered the school and people have already made friends or found friends. I sighed, "I don't know anybody!" I thought.

I looked around until I saw two girls sitting alone, both a little far apart, probably unaware of the other's existence. I should talk to them…

"Hi, I'm Sakura. Mind if I sit here?"

"Go ahead, I'm Ino," the girl with the blonde hair smiled. Her eyes were a pretty blue.

"And you are?" I asked the girl with the black hair. It had some kind of blue-purple tint to it.

She flinched, like she was startled that I talked to her, "Um, H-Hinata," she blushed as she talked. She seemed shy, and had the clearest eyes I've ever seen.

I checked the time, 7:45 AM. Not am I only already bored, but I had to wait 15 minutes for the freaking bell to ring. I sighed. Maybe small talk…

"So, where's your first period?" I asked both girls as I sat down.

"Room 14," Ino read off her schedule.

"S-same here," Hinata started playing with her fingers.

"I guess we have first period together." I smiled.

"Can I see your schedule?" Ino asked.

I nodded and slid it over to her. She smiled wide after comparing it to hers.

"We have almost identical schedules! The difference is I'm in art," she looked at it funny, "Weird."

"What about you Hinata? Check my schedule,"

"O-okay, we have all academic classes together,"

"Cool, I'm glad I'll have people to talk to when the teacher is being boring,"

Ino nodded, "Especially biology! Ugh, what a boring subject!"

"So, do one of you have any older siblings or something going here?"

"Nope,"

"Y-yes,"

"Really Hinata? Who?"

"My h-half brother, Neji. He's a year older than me,"

"Half brother?"

"O-our dads are twins,"

"Oh! That's cool. I thought you had a step-parent. I do, and it's horrible. I hate him,"

Ino laughed, "I can tell by the way you said him!"

"I said it like that?"

"Yeah you did," Hinata giggled.

All of a sudden, there was laughter and a person yelling. We turned to see a blonde boy cursing and rubbing his head. People were laughing, so I thought he tripped. I got up to go help him up, least I could do for the poor guy. It seemed Ino and Hinata had the same idea, so we all went to see if he was okay.

"Hey, are you okay?" Ino asked, looking at him funny.

Hinata was hiding behind us, being shy.

"Yeah, I just fell on my face. Always happens!" he gave a large grin.

"Oh I'm Ino, and this is Sakura and Hinata," Ino introduced everyone as the boy got up.

"I'm Naruto," his eyes was a really deep blue and his blonde hair was shaggy.

I could feel Hinata was trying harder to hide behind Ino and me, so I moved to Hinata's side, "Don't be shy," I whispered.

She looked at me, and then looked at Naruto. Naruto looked back and she looked away.

Naruto smiled, "So you're the shy one?"

Hinata continued blushing, "I-I g-guess," she started playing with her fingers.

"Don't be! You have three friends now!" he smiled and gave her two thumbs up.

She looked at him and looked away, "O-okay,"

RING! RING!

Damn, the bell rang! I don't want to learn, even if it's only learning teachers, their rules, and their supplies. We started walking toward room 14.

Naruto started following us, but I didn't know why. "Why are you following us?" I asked in the politest way I could.

"My classroom is room 14," he huffed.

"Oh! Us too," I laughed, "I'm meeting all my classmates already,"

We entered room 14 and sat all together. We tried to be as discrete as possible to look like we didn't know each other. You know how it is with teachers these days. Many different people starting coming in as we were waiting for the horror of school to begin. A boy with his hair in a ponytail that was really spiky, a boy with messy dark red hair, another boy with messy light brown hair, a girl with red hair that was neat on one side and messy on the other, another girl with red hair, a girl with really long black hair tied at the bottom, a boy with black hair and very pale skin that carried a sketch book, a boy with black glasses and a what seemed like a mini afro, and a short, pretty chubby boy with brown hair. I thought that was it, and looked around. Anyone else I've missed?

RING! RING!

I looked around, where was the teacher? Was he or she late on the first day? How unprofessional. The teacher finally came in after two minutes, a middle-aged man with silver hair pretty spiky. He was covering most his face, all you could see was one eye.

"Good morning new students! I'm your teacher Kakashi-sensei and I will be teaching Geometry,"

"Good morning," the class murmured.

I sighed and thought, "I wonder how roll call will go,"

"Listen carefully for your name."

We went through roll call without any interruptions. It was fast and simple, an easy procedure. I tried to pay attention so I would know who was who, by trying to remember names and faces. I wasn't really succeeding.

"Ino Yamanaka?"

"Here!" Ino was the last name on the list, or so I thought.

"Wait, there was a mix up! I missed a name,"

I rolled my eyes, "Duh! How can you see with that one eye?"

"Sasuke Uchiha?"

"Here,"

I turned to see where the voice was coming from. I look and two seats away from me was this boy with black hair. The raven haired boy in my dream. He looked identical to him, I couldn't believe it. I caught myself staring oddly for a few seconds so I looked away. Was this a sign? Did this mean he was…my true love or something? I haven't got a clue, but I decided to look at him again. He was pretty cute in person, now that I got a better look at him.

"Chat amongst yourselves while I put the attendance in the computer,"

Thankfully Hinata was perfectly there so I could see him. I turned to her and started talking. I could feel his eyes on my so I took a quick glance at him and our eyes met. I flinched, blushed, and quickly went back to Hinata. I felt like a little girl in Pre-school! Then again, he doesn't know me…

"Hey," I turned to see the raven-haired boy calling to me. Sasuke was it?

"Yeah?" I said meekly.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" he looked at me straight into the eyes like he was looking through me.

"N-no, I don't think so," I could feel myself blush slightly.

"I could've sworn…" he trailed off.

"Isn't he cute?" Ino giggled.

I nodded, "Yeah,"

Hinata shrugged, "He's okay,"

I smirked and whispered, "What about Naruto?"

Hinata blushed, "H-he's p-p-pretty c-c-c-cute,"

"Knew it," Ino giggled.

"Alright class! Settle down, settle down. I'm going to explain my rules and my supplies…"

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The class finally ended, and my next class is room 91. Isn't that just great? From room 14 to room 91, nice. We made it there in perfectly seven minutes for biology. I wanted to groan so badly. I sat next to Hinata and Ino, Naruto seemed to be in this class too. I saw a lot of the kids from the last class in this one, including Sasuke. He sat close to me, which I liked.

"Okay class my name is Kotetsu-sensei and I have a particular order to things, so I will arrange your seats.

He arranged us in order of first names instead of last names. That allowed me to sit next to Sasuke in the middle row. This would be interesting, sitting next to him. On the other side of me was that other black haired boy with the sketch book named Sai. That would make me stand out, pink hair and all, how perfect.

He sat down next to me and said nothing. He seemed like the quiet type, great person to pick for a romantic dream, the ones you can't imagine that way. I decided I should talk to him.

"What do you have next?" I asked casually as the teacher was putting the attendance in the computer.

"Health," he muttered, "same room."

"Same here, mind if I see your schedule?"

He passed his schedule to me and I compared it to mine. Holy shit, they were identical! I get all my classes with him?

"We have all our classes together! Weird right?" I gave back his schedule.

It seemed like he flinched, but I ignored it, "I guess we do," it seemed he was trying to act cool. Typical of a guy.

The teacher started to talk about his class and biology, all the boring stuff. All I could think about was how handsome this teacher was and how sitting next to Sasuke all year would be very interesting. I wonder what's to come…

RING! RING!

*Kotetsu Hagane is really hot. Check him out! (If you really want to)

Hope you liked my second chapter!

~ Rock Leah