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Chapter 2. Period Two: English

The three new found friends walked down a flight of stairs to reach the second floor of the building. Fighting their way through the hall way, they reached another room that was decorated with posters of English-speaking countries.

"Well, here we are English 3 with Mrs. Jones. She's a little…uh…crazy, just so you know." Sango informed Kagome, who was staring into the class with interest.

'Crazy foreign language teachers, sounds like fun.' Kagome thought with a smile.

She walked in and again gave a note to the teacher, who looked up at her and smiled.

"Hello! Welcome to our class-ar-ama!" Mrs. Jones said with an American accent…well…she was American so I guess it made sense.

'Class-ar-ama? O god, this woman is strange' Kagome thought.

The teacher pointed her to a seat towards the front of the class. Sitting down, Kagome waited for the passing period to end and the bell to begin class to ring. Sitting to her left was Sango, and next to her sat Miroku. The two were talking about everything and nothing, and Kagome didn't want to butt in. Looking the other way, she stared out the window which gave a great view of the football stadium (like soccer football people. Not American.)) It was a sunny day, which made Kagome hate being stuck inside. Kagome heard a girl gasp slightly so she looked to the direction of the girl, who in turn, was staring at the door. Glancing over Kagome saw and knew exactly why the girl had reacted. Coming in through the doorway was none other than Inuyasha.

'I guess I'm not the only girl who thinks he's ridiculously attractive.' She thought.

Inuyasha walked toward her and sat in the chair to her right.

"Hey Inuyasha!" Sango said cheerfully, smiling at the boy now sitting next to a suddenly much shyer Kagome.

"Hey Sango, are you and Miroku coming to the game tomorrow?" He asked.

"Well yeah! But only under one condition" Sango said, looking at kagome and smiling.

"What?" Inuyasha inquired.

"I want to take Kagome with me, she should have some fun right?" Sango said.

Kagome smiled in spite of feeling slightly embarrassed for being pulled into the conversation.

"Well I don't care if she comes, doesn't matter to me." Inuyasha said.

"Settled! We'll meet you at the stadium entrance at seven." Sango said, happily concluding her 'negotiations.'

Turning her head, Kagome glared playfully at Sango.

"I never said I'd go you know!" she whispered to the girl next to her.

"Oh come on, if Inuyasha's there you know you'll want to." Sango said, smirking at kagome.

Kagome blushed.

"Fine I'll go. But don't push me on Inuyasha ok?" she said.

"Of course not." Sango said.

A minute later the bell rang and Mrs. Jones went off on an eccentric lecture on how the use of all the parts of speech was necessary for learning the English language properly. She would enunciate random words and jump up excitedly when someone answered her questions. The bell to end the class rang after an hour, and Kagome and Sango walked towards the next class, Kagome slightly disturbed from the lecture by a woman who was obviously taking just a few too many drugs. ((lol this is my Spanish 2 teacher just so you know))

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The rest of the day was fairly uneventful. Kagome got to eat the famous school French fries, which to her tasted more like a ball of grease put in a more edible form. She saw Inuyasha in two more of her classes, but they sat on different sides of the room. Sometimes he would smile kindly at her for a split second, before looking away. Kagome loved his smile, and it always brought one to her own lips. Kagome walked to her car, exhausted from her first day.

'Wait…first day?' she thought in surprise. 'How the hell did all of this happen in one day?' Kagome realized in the span of one day she had made one good friend, developed a crush, and been invited to a game the following night.

'God help me, this is crazy.' She thought as she unlocked the door to her little white car and got in.

Driving home didn't help calm her nerves as it usually did. She wound through a street that went by the park, glancing at the trees as she waited at a stop for the traffic light to change. Nature always helped her concentrate. She never knew exactly why, but when she was surrounded by trees in a forest, or the sand of the ocean, she always felt comfortable, like she truly belonged there.

'What am I going to do tomorrow?' She thought apprehensively. 'There's no way I'll be able to keep up. Everyone here already knows everyone else, but me, I only know a spunky Sango and a pervert.'

Kagome smiled as she remember the two's interaction that ended in the pervert getting a rather large red mark on his face.

As the light changed green, she frowned as she slowly took her foot off the clutch and accelerated the car. ((It's a manual five speed)) She slowly let the thought of Inuyasha enter her mind.

'O god what am I going to do. He'll probably think I'm an idiot if I try to talk to him. I shouldn't even like him so quickly. I never like guys like that at first. What is it about him that draws him to me? God I wish I knew…I wish I had a guy to get advice from.' She thought sadly.

'O daddy, why'd you have to go… ?' Her voice was only a whisper in her mind.

Kagome felt her eyes tear, but held them in. How she missed him, her father, it hurt her so much to know that he would never see his daughter grow up, graduate high school then college. He'd never see her get married or have kids, and he'd never be there to give her advice about guys.

Never again.

Releasing a sigh, Kagome did what she was forced to do for the past year: Push her father to the back of her mind. Slowly and sadly, she pulled into the parking lot of the now too familiar apartment complex. Pulling into a parking spot, Kagome got out and grabbed her backpack. Hoisting on of the bag's straps over her shoulder, Kagome entered the door to the main lobby, and making her way to the stairs, climbed to the third floor.

Sighing sadly once again, she turned a key in the door of complex 24B. It was a medium sized apartment, enough for three people, barely. A small living room area with an equally small television set was the main room. The kitchen was an area nearest to the door, and was big enough for only about two people to stand side-by-side in. The walls were plain and whitewashed, but her mother had tried to make up for it by putting various pictures of landscapes on the walls. The rooms weren't horrible. Kagome and her mother got their own rooms, while her brother Souta usually slept on the couch.

No one was home.

Kagome entered her room, which consisted of a twin bed pushed to the corner of her room, a small dresser in an area near her door, and a very small compact desk for doing school work. A lamp stood next to her bed and Kagome turned it on, needing things to be as light as possible right now. Her very favorite part of the complex was the bathroom that connected with her room. Somehow, her mother had afforded two bathrooms, and had kindly given kagome the largest one.

She needed desperately to clear her mind, so she did the only thing she could usually do, she walked into the bathroom and turned the hot water of the bath on. Closing the door, Kagome allowed the bathtub to fill with hot water. She tiredly stripped out of her clothes and kicked them to a corner of the bathroom. Getting in the water was probably the most rewarding thing she could do for herself. She sighed as she sunk into the water that so gently caressed her skin.

Leaning against the wall, Kagome let her mind relax. She thought of Sango and Miroku, her first day of school, her teachers, and finally, Inuyasha, but upon thinking of him, she pushed him to the back of her mind. Knowing his image would send doubt into her mind.

'I know I just have to be myself…' Kagome concluded.

She spent an hour in the bath, then another hour doing homework. Still, no one had come home. Kagome could hardly fight the feeling of loneliness that sometimes consumed her. She went to the kitchen area and began cooking dinner for the family.

'They can at least have some food when they get home. Poor mom..' she thought.

Her mother worked two jobs, and she was usually gone from 5 in the morning to 7 at night. Kagome couldn't imagine how she could do it, and knew her mother must be exhausted most of the time.

Finally, as Kagome was turning the heat down on her now cooked ramen, her mother entered the apartment.

"Honey, it smells great in here, what are you cooking?" Her mother asked.

"It's nothing special mom, just ramen." she said as she gave her mother a hug. "Where's Souta?" she inquired, after noticing his absence.

"He's staying at a friend's house tonight. He'll be home tomorrow night." Her mother answered.

Souta was far luckier than Kagome. Although he too had transferred to a public school, he knew several people who went there, and one of his better friends attended the school he now went to.

"Oh…ok then." Kagome said absently.

"How was your first day at school?" her mother asked wearily, helping herself to some of Kagome's ramen.

"It was fine. I met some new people." Kagome answered.

"That's good." Her mother replied.

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The rest of the evening was spent with kagome and her mother watching TV on the couch, until nine o'clock when her mother retired to her room. Kagome didn't want to be in the living room alone, so she decided to go to bed as well. Putting on her pajamas, which consisted of a pink rib-knit tank top and a pair of dark blue sweat pants, Kagome crawled into her bed. She didn't have to lay there long before sleep overtook her. Kagome smiled as her mind slipped into the dark nothingness that had been her dreams for almost a year.

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A/N: Well, there's another chapter. It will take awhile to get three up until about christmas because aside from finals i have alot of family things going on. I hope you liked this chapter and please review, I love hearing what you guys have to say.