Chapter 2
Shocked, I dragged myself to the gym, went into the boy's changing room. White t-shirt and blue shorts. Traditional clothing for Physical Education. I had already put the shorts and had picked up the shirt when I heard the light click of a phone's camera. I spun around, and saw an amber haired girl, phone in hand, take one more picture, and ran from the room as fast as she could. "Hey," I shouted as I threw the shirt on as quickly as I could and jogged after her. One of my worst nightmares had come true. The girl who had taken the photos, had pretty much all of the class standing around her, fawning over the pictures of me shirtless. I tried to quietly step into my place before they noticed me, but the squeaking of my running shoes caught their attention. Gulp. They started creeping over to me, but shot back and formed a line when the teacher came. Of course, another female teacher, looked at me and had a spark flash across her eyes. Uh oh, what could she be thinking.
"OK GIRLS! And guy… Today we're going to do something a little special! Tayuchi right?" She announced.
I nodded my head and waited. She took us outside, to the 100 yard track. "Tayuchi, I hope for your safety that you're a fast runner. Girls!," they all snapped to her attention, "the first one to catch Tayuchi gets an A for half the year, no matter what!"
You're kidding me right? I heard murmurs of excitement. "On your mark," we all got into a running into position, "get set," I thanked my lucky soul that I brought my running shoes, "GO!" I slammed myself off the red asphalt and ran like my life depended on it. Right now, I think it kind of did. I looked behind me, and saw all the girls about twenty feet behind me. I slowed down to a run, but just enough so they couldn't catch up. This is good I thought As long as I keep this pace, I can keep them behind. I felt a strange sensation, and looked up. Horrified, I saw a girl in mid air, arm outstretched, about to land on me. I threw myself to the right and kept running, realizing that this was going to get serious. I saw a poll held by two girls up ahead. Smart. They knew that I was going to fast to duck, but didn't see that I could jump over it. I jumped, my heel just barely skimming the pole, and landed with a solid thump on the ground, not slowing down. I panted as I felt my energy very slowly being sapped from me. It seemed to give the girls more energy as I lost more. BOOM one girl on my right. I checked my watch. 5 minutes left! Thank god! I gave my all. I cut across the dirt, and noticed the teacher giving me a surprised look. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
"Time's up," the teacher pronounced with the blow of a whistle. Exhausted, I trudged to the grassy soccer field and collapsed on my back. Eyes started appearing, along with the girls surrounding me. I just gave a warm smile at them, and stuck my thumb up to them. I heard them all squeal, exactly like that one girl did back in the classroom. I heard footsteps coming towards the group. I opened my eyes to see the gym teacher standing over me. She held up a stopwatch to match the shocked expression on her face.
"I.. I can't believe it… Tayuchi, you beat our school record in running the one hundred meters. You ran about two hundred meters and did it in less time than our top student in the one hundred. I'm truly impressed," she stated in a I'm-proud-of-you voice.
I was shocked myself. I mean, was I really that fast. Years of running from bullies must've done something to me, but I haven't noticed. The girls kept looking at me, their expression glowing brighter and brighter. 'Huh, maybe this school won't be so bad after all,' I thought as I slipped into a light sleep due to exhaustion. I woke up still in the grass and looked at my watch. Ten minutes had passed. The sounds of light snoring filled the air. Wait, what? Snoring? I shot up and started panicking. All the girls were sleeping around me. Two were on my arms, and two were on my legs. Heart racing, I picked off the girl's arms carefully enough so I could hurry and so they wouldn't notice. 'Why the hell is this happening to me,' I panicked in my head as I stepped as lightly as I could around and over the horde of girls. Of course, right at the last step, I tripped over my own foot and landed on my back. I let out a small cry, hopefully not loud enough to wake the girls. I don't know how, but the girls woke up, sitting straight up, then turning their gaze to me. So I did the only thing I could do, ran before they could stand. I grabbed my things and ran, putting on my uniform while heading to my next class, math. I ran in the class and slammed the door shut, taking my seat as quickly as possible, not noticing the Teacher standing behind me. I turned around in my seat, and saw a pair of startling purple eyes staring through me.