Alright, just so everyone knows, this will probably be the shortest chapter story I will ever write in my entire life! So this is going to pretty much pick up momentum quickly unless I actually come up with a major plot line to it. But if my lovely fans out there are willing to give me a hand, I'd gladly write their "names" in the next chapter!
Chapter 1
Last class of the day, and I wasn't even sure what time it was. Hopefully this will end soon. Being blind was hard enough to pay attention with, but with a few students in the classroom were making noise; it was extremely hard to listen to what the teacher was saying.
I couldn't afford to not know what was going on, science after all is an important topic, and chemistry is probably the most difficult amongst its inner topics. I sighed in defeat from my seat, since I wasn't going to get any new information today. I just wish my best friend; Hilary was in my class so she could give me the 4-1-0. I just barely heard the teacher call the class to silence just as it started to get nosier. I really did wonder sometimes what this class looked like.
"Kori." I heard the teacher call my name in his masculine voice.
"Yes sir?" I asked turning my head in the direction I heard his voice.
"What is the question?" I asked reluctantly, not wanting to reveal my little secret to the class. I heard some students behind me start to laugh lowly, but I ignored them.
"It's on the board Kor…" I heard the short pause in his voice, and I was absolutely sure he was looking at my eyes and me. "What is the chemical formula for ammonium?" He asked finally. I smiled and didn't have to think about the answer.
"NH4" Was my answer. What he said next though concerned me a bit.
"Very good. I would like you to stay after class Miss Summers. I would like to have a few worlds with you." The students stilling behind me started to laugh again as he began turning back to the bored to write a new question. "Mr. Hiwatari, Mr. Ivanov, if the two of you continue to disturb my class today, you will also be here at the end of class." They two of them stopped laughing. Well once continued to snicker quietly.
"Kai shut up." I heard one of them say. Its not that I was intentionally eavesdropping, it's just that their conversation was very distracting. "Do you want to stay after class?"
"Sorry, can't help it. This teacher is such a fucking fruit. He's teaching us all the same shit as last year." The person whose name must have been Kai answered with a slight laugh. "Then this chick just acts like she knows shit, and then once the teacher says the questions, it's like, oh that's easy." He mocked with a laughing causing the other person to laugh also.
"Mr. Hiwatari. You're after school here as well!" The teacher shouted over the class.
"Fuck." I heard him mutter.
"You're fault man." The other laughed.
"Shut up Tala."
"I'll take you up on that offer, no way am I getting myself in detention today."
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The bell finally rang an hour later, and a sat quietly in my seat. At least today I wouldn't have to worry about running into someone in the hallway today. I heard a seat behind me scrape across the floor, or at least I thought it was one, apparently 'Kai' was trying to skip out of detention.
"Where do you think you're going Mr. Hiwatari, you have detention today." The teacher said from the direction of the door.
"Uhh…" Kai flustered. "To the bathroom. Can I at least go there before I serve my detention?" He asked with high hopes. It was silent for a few seconds.
"Fine, but leave all of you things on your desk. I assigned homework for tonight remember. I expect it to be finished; your marks are already low enough as it is. I don't want to see you in my classroom again next year." I heard the male student sigh as he walked back over to the desk behind me and dropped his school belongings and walk out the door.
"I'll speak with you in a moment Kori." He said and I nodded, not exactly sure what to expect.
Shit, shit, shit! I thought. I heard the teacher sit down at his desk from the chair rolling across the floor for a second, and then just as quickly as he sat down, he got back up. I listened to his footsteps come agonizingly slowly towards me. I didn't want this to happen! I don't want people to know I'm blind!
"Kori, how many fingers am I holding up?" I felt a cold sweat go down my neck.
"Uhh, five?" I more asked then stated. He asked again. "Eight." I tried to sound more confident.
"Tell me, is it that you just need glasses or are you blind?" I was about to answer, but he continued. "I have noticed for a while of your lack of visual attention, but your marks have never faltered. At the beginning of the year, I was curious as to why I has suppose to give you verbal tests over written tests, but I think I've figured out why, I would just like to hear it from you."
I sat there silent; contemplating on whether or not to tell the truth, say that I just have very high-test anxiety that prevents me from writing. But then I thought it through, and determined that my anxiety level would be just about the same. I sighed.
"Yes, you're right." I started. "I'm blind." And just as lady luck would have it, I said these words just as Kai walked back into the classroom. I knew this because he ran into the desk after I said what I had said.
To be honest, I wish I could see his face, but I guess the stupid shocked noises he made would have to do. I heard the science teacher get off of the desk in front of mine and walk up to Kai.
"I have a proposition for you Kai." He said. "To bring your marks in my class up." It was quiet again for just a few short seconds. "Since you're the only one in this class that knows Kori Summers is blind, you have this one and only chance to accept this offer."
"And what would that offer be?" I heard a cold tone of voice, and it almost made me shiver. The teacher's next words however brought me back from the world of thoughts.
"You are to assist Miss Summers in what ever classes you have together, be it with notes, vocabulary, math, etc. Sort of acting like a tutor, only difference is her marks are better than yours." He gave a short laugh before continuing. "The whole purpose of this is we've only begun this unit of chemistry as a review from previous grades. We will be gradually building it up to a much harder level, and I want to be sure that both of you do well." I couldn't take hearing this anymore, so I stood up out of my desk to defend whatever rights I had as a blind person.
"Hold on just one second!" I shouted. "Do I not get any say in this? There is a reason why only the principal and one other student in this school knows, well, knew about me being blind. I don't want to receive any special treatment, from anybody! I want to go through and finish high school as normally as I can!" No one said anything, and I just looked on without sight.
"And how exactly would this bring up my marks?" Obviously Kai asked.
"For your final report card at the end of the year, I will add on and extra twenty percent for the handicap of having to help her with getting around the school and everything else. Then depending on how you deal with this, an extra five to ten will be included. That last five to ten percent is all based on your attitude Mr. Hiwatari, you can be negative about it and receive a low mark, or make the best of what you can an earn an easy extra thirty percent total at the most. Consider it as a single project that will last the entire year." He finally concluded. "What is your answer Mr. Hiwatari?"
"Fine, I'll do it for those stupid marks." He said. "But, I get to drag Tala along for the ride. There's no way in hell I'm taking this on alone." I didn't need sight to know that the teacher smirked, it was just one of the obvious things.
"You'll have to ask Kori about that. Who you bring into this is your business, not mine. She's the one who's in control of people knowing about her disability, and I certainly hope you will respect that." I listened to footsteps walking out of the classroom door, and I wondered who it could be. If I had waited a few seconds longer, I wouldn't have needed to ask myself such a question. After the footsteps were out of hearing range, I started to hear low cusses in their place. I wanted to laugh at Kai's immaturity towards this, but then again, it was in a way my fault that this was put upon him.
"Alright." I said reluctantly with a sigh. I heard the silly little cusses stop.
"What?" Kai asked with confusion in his voice.
"You can tell your friend, Tala." I started. "But ONLY him. And he's not allowed to say a word to anybody."
"Are you serious?" He asked to confirm. "You're not trying to fuck with my head or something, right?" I shook my head.
"And if you want, I can even try and convince what's his name to make the same deal for Tala as well. I heard his grades were in just as bad a shape as yours." I offered as I stood there by my desk.
"Yeah, alright, I'll tell Tala that. Just make sure you remember to tell the fagot teacher." I smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm not so forgetful." I reached out in front of me, searching for my binder. Once I felt that and gabbed hold of it, I started to bend down to the floor to take hold of my purse.
"Here." I paused in my movement then reached my hand out in front of me. The instant my hand was held in mid air, the straps of my purse were in it. "I might as well start this now." He said.
"Thank-you then." I answered as I started to dig through it after butting the small bag on my shoulder and replacing my binder on the desk. I pulled out the white stick people are commonly seen using to walk with, and picked my binder up once again and started walking towards the door.
"Where's your locker at?" He asked as he was suddenly behind me.
"I'll be fine if you just take me down stairs." I said as I took a familiar corner in the hallway.
"I asked you were your locker was." Kai said again. I gave a small laugh.
"You're a persistent one, aren't you?" I rounded to the stairs and reached out for the rail, but he grabbed my arm to support me. Firm as it was, I felt safe beside him. So I smiled as I stepped down the final step.
"Kori!" I heard my name being shouted from down the hall. I turned towards the familiar female voice. "I've been looking all over for you! I thought someone might have ran into you or something." She was at the moment completely oblivious that Kai Hiwatari was also standing there.
"Sorry Hilary got held up in science. And Kai is going to…" I paused to come up with the right words that were available to me. "Help me out for a while. Well, more like he and Tala are. Till the end of the year actually." There was a gapping silence in the air as Hilary processed what I just said.
"K-Kai H—Hiwatari a-and T-Tala I-Ivanov?" She stuttered, now turning towards Kai who could have been grinning. But what do I know? I'm blind.
"That would be them." I said simply as I started walking past Hilary in the direction she came in. She quickly caught up though.
"Whoa, whoa. Hold on, you know I have like the hugest crush on Kai, I can't even speak to him without stuttering." She whispered quickly into my ear.
"Not my choice. He's actually doing it for extra science marks" I whispered back. Hilary pulled on my arm for me to stop walking as she went over to open my locker.
"Extra marks? That's just selfish if you ask me." She said.
"Well who's asking you?" Kai countered as he leaned against the lockers next to Hilary. She entered the last number for my combination and pulled out everything I needed. She didn't answer; she only pulled my stuff out of the locker and locked it up.
"Well, obviously not you." She said. I gave a light chuckle as I turned and started to walk slowly, waiting for Hilary to catch up. When she did, I just had to make a comment.
"You didn't stutter that time."
"Oh shut up!" I laughed as she took my arm in hers and led me out of the school. I was sure Kai wasn't far behind.
"Kai! Hurry up!" Someone shouted from far off confirming my suspicion.
"Yeah common, we're going to go get up some drinks!" I crunched up my nose as I walked on.
"Drinking? And you like him?" I asked Hilary after we made a turn onto the sidewalk. "Is it just me or do they get drunk every weekend and at least one other day in the week?"
"Yeah, well…" Hilary mumbled, trying to come to their defence. "They're really attractive you know." I scowled.
"No, I don't know, I'm blind remember. I haven't been able to see anybody's face since I was nine years old." Hilary made a little laugh that wasn't intended for humour.
"I'm sorry, I know that. It just slips out, you know, it's a natural thing for most people to say." This time I laughed.
"Yeah, I know." The rest of our walk to my house was silent.
I know, a terrible ending! But I was trying to finish writing this before midnight came! (Looks at clock. Four minutes to go.) Happy New Year everyone! And, I kept my promise to upload a chapter before New Years! XD Just not exactly the fic I was planning on updating so soon. XD
Anyhow, because this is from Kori's point of view, Kai is going to sound SO out of character, I just know it. I mean she is blind after all.
So, how will Kai take to his little project humm??
R&R please, and no flames!
Dark Shadowed Dragon
p.s. I hope you will all read my new fic "Don't Forget I Love You" and help me with some ideas. PLEASE IM DESPRATE!! xD