"Well Kiba what is this? It looks like you made a new friend," Akeno says with a smile on her face. Her words cause me even more discomfort, I wish I could get out of here already.
"This happens to be my new roommate Issei Hyoudou, I thought it would be nice if the two of got to know each other. Do you know who the girls sitting with us are Issei?" Kiba asks in a sincere voice.
"Yes," Was all I could respond with. The room was starting to feel hotter by the second and I was becoming increasingly flustered. In order to hide my face I started to eat the sandwich I brought with me for lunch.
"Oh," Akeno started with a mischievous smirk, "You are that Issei Hyoudou then?" Her words caught me off guard which caused me swallow a big part of my sandwich at once. Due to this I had a coughing fit for a few seconds causing me to be even more embarrassed. "So I was right then?"
"Uh, I am going to use the restroom real quick," I quickly chimed in before hurrying off to the bathroom.
"Really Akeno? Was that really necessary?" I ask with a sigh.
"Oh come on Kiba I was just having a little fun with him, it is not my fault he is flustered so easily," Akeno counters.
"Why would you invite a pervert to sit with us anyway Kiba? Our group is fine how it is," Koneko reasons with me.
"I believe that Kiba is looking for a close male friend. I imagine that is not easy for him to only have female friends, try to see things from his perspective," Rias argues.
"Yeah that is exactly right Rias, you are understanding as always. Another reason that I brought him along though was because of how lonely and depressed he looked. Both of his closest friends left him behind for other schools so now he has no one," I explain.
"Well I personally do not have a problem with him, I can just imagine all discomfort I can cause him in the future," Akeno utters while licking her lips.
"Well we already have one pervert in our group I guess one more will not be that big of a deal," Koneko mentions in defeat.
"Well then it is settled, he can become one of us," Rias declares.
This is so bad I need to avoid them at all costs, the girls know about my reputation and obviously hate me. Even if Kiba wants me around the others do not feel the same and even if they did I still would not hang out with them. Every school has a hierarchy and I am at the bottom it is impossible for me to hang out with the most popular people in the school. I walk out of the bathroom and start walking in the opposite direction of the cafeteria. I will go to the main office now and ask for a room transfer and hopefully I will never have to deal with those four ever again. I continue to walk down the hallway until it splits off in two different directions. The path on the right leads to the office so I turn that way and bump into something that knocks me on the ground.
"Well look here, just who we were looking for," A girl in our school uniform says with a disapproving look in her eyes. Behind her were three more girls who all had the same expression on their faces. This was not going to turn out well for me.
"Can I help you with something?" I calmly ask hoping to avoid a confrontation.
"Yes, we need you to stay away from the popular kids. Understand that sewer rat?" The leader questions me.
"Sure thing no problem, that was what I was on my way to do now," I tell her hoping she will realize I meant no trouble and leave me alone.
"You were now huh?" She asks. "Well just to make sure you stay away I will leave you with a reminder." With that she grabs a cup of soup from one of her friends and pours it on my head. Ugh this is so gross, why did this happen to me? I wanted to avoid them in the first place Kiba was the one who approached me.
Footsteps approached us from the direction of the lunch room and when I turned around I saw it was Akeno. "What do we have here? Four nobodies picking on my newest friend?"
The leader stumbled before replying, "He is not worthy of being one of you guys, he is just a pervert!"
"You know the power and influence I have in this school right?" Akeno states rhetorically. All four girls nod their heads. "Well then next time one of you does something to him I will ruin your reputation and you will become the most avoided people in this school, got that?" The girls nodded their heads again before running away. "Now let me help you up." She reached out her hand which I cautiously grabbed and helped me up.
"Why would you do that for someone like me? They were your followers right?" I question her in confusion.
"Men can be so dense sometimes. You were listening to what I said right? You are my friend now which means that I will help you out when you are in need," She reasons with me.
After that she lead me to the boys locker room so I can shower to clean myself off.
"Thank you for earlier," I tell her before walking in.
"Do not worry about it, we are friends now after all and that is what friends do," She explains. Wow I had heard about her before because she was one of the most popular girls in school but she seems very down to earth and kind.
Once I finish I turn off the shower and wrap myself in a towel before walking towards my locker. "Uh, Issei?" Akeno mentions and I turn around to see that she is in the locker room. The only thing I have on is a towel! Why is she in here? My cheeks start to turn a dark shade of red and everything in the room starts spinning.
Oh crap! Did he really faint from embarrassment? I should have just stayed outside but if people saw me standing outside the men's locker room they would have asked questions. He's bleeding from the back of his head! Okay what should I do? CPR! That is right I need to do CPR. I lean in to kiss Issei before I hestisate. I have never kissed anyone before is this how I am going to lose my first kiss? Crap get it together I need to save him. I lean in the rest of the way until our lips are touching and start CPR.
An excruciating pain is pounding in the back of my head what happened? And what is this warm feeling on my lips? I slowly open my eyes and scream in disbelief but because I was being kissed the sound went nowhere. Noticing that I was conscious Akeno backed away a little and her cheeks started to flush. "What happened? Why were you kissing me?" I ask in disbelief.
"You fainted from embarrassment so I was doing CPR to resuscitate you, you just happened to regain consciousness during the kissing part of CPR. Do not get the wrong idea I was not doing that because I wanted to," She explains.
"I never thought that for a second I was just confused because of the pain so I had no idea what was going on. It looks like you saved me again though, thank you," I praise her.
"You hit your head pretty hard when you fainted so I had to wrap it up to try and stop the bleeding but you need to see the nurse so let's go," Akeno utters as she starts to grab me to help me to the door.
"Uh, Akeno. I am still only wearing a towel right now," I tell her.
"How could I have forgotten that? Sorry, hurry up and change and then we will go," She states. She then turns around so that she cannot see me while I change. Within moments I am wearing my gym clothes that were in my locker and the two of us head to the nurses office.