Hey, so ive been working on chapter three for a while and I hope it's, reasonably entertaining. Enjoy.
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Riku sat up as Mrs. Hazer entered the room looking intoxicated as usual and watched her clumsily put her books down on her desk. How she got hired was a question on many students' minds. He stifled a laugh and caused a reasonably noticeable noise to emanate from his mouth. Kairi looked over at him in wonder of what the disturbance was and their eyes met strikingly. He was stunned but soon retrieved his wits and looked back at her. He waited for a response, a smile or a wave. Hell, he'd be fine with anything at all. But what he got was even better, a staring contest with the prettiest girl in school. She didn't carry any expression on her face but in her eyes Riku could tell that there was something more to the girl as he pondered through her facial features.
The staring that occurred might have gone on for a longer time had Roxas not noticed the spectacle and intervened.
"Hey Kairi," Roxas sought wildly for an excuse for calling her name, "do you have any gum?"
She shook her head. "Sorry," she said and looked away from him back at her vocabulary words. Roxas glared at Riku oppressively and tilted his head toward Kairi before pointing to his chest and indicating possession. Riku had to look away from the tyrant. He couldn't stand looking into his evil eyes. It reminded him of a devil. He stared at his desk feeling defeated and mellow.
The loud techno from the boy in the corner's IPod continued throughout the entire class period and conversation commenced again between Kairi and Roxas. The teacher lay slumped in her chair drooling slightly on her chin and was completely oblivious to the pupils as they talked away for the next hour. Riku conversed with Pence the entire time subtly about the new students in the school.
"She is sooo hot."
"Yeah."
"You should ask her out," Pence said.
"What?" Riku retorted, "What would a girl like that want with me?"
"I don't know just give it a shot. What's the worst thing that could possibly happen?"
Riku paused before answering, and thought of the consequences."It's not that. She just already fell into the tractor beam of Roxas."
"I see. Sucks," Pence said nodding and got back to working on his unfinished History homework. Riku returned his attention to the ceiling and the sound of the brunette's IPod buzzing away. He closed his eyes and wished that he had something to do; school was so endlessly boring.
The bell thankfully rang and Riku jumped out of his seat energetically. He sprinted out to his locker hoping that something would happen. His prayers were not answered.
History was usually a fun class and hopefully the professor had an interesting lesson for them that day. Pence and Riku walked into the room and looked around curiously. Mr. Kennedy had the room set up into 3 desk segments. Being the first ones to enter the class, Pence and Riku chose two seats near the back window. Students began to pour in. As they did, Riku wished that Kairi would sit in their empty seat. But as the bell rang and the last students raced inside, there was no Kairi. Pence and he were alone, as usual. Then the new boy wearing the Underarmour peeked around the corner. He had finally put the IPod in his pocket. He was wearing bell-bottom pants.
"This is Mr. Kennedy's room, right?" The brunette smiled cautiously.
"You better believe it is. Come on in and tell us your name," Mr. Kennedy said in a benign tone.
"Sora," the boy said and walked over to the empty seat next to Riku and Pence. Obviously Mr. Kennedy had known about the new student's arrival.
"Alright Sora, so take a seat. Our current unit is ancient Mesopotamian religion, and I'm sure that Riku or Pence will be happy to fill you in on the details. Sora sat down and nodded at the two.
"Today we're starting a group project on the gods of Mesopotamian culture and how they affect us today. This is due Next Monday so that'll give you a grand amount of time to complete it." He said as he sat down at his desk and began grading tests.
"Do you guys know anything about Mesopotamia?" Sora asked quietly. Riku and Pence looked at each other and then back at Sora and shook their heads. He laughed, and they did as well. Their laughter was not out of intimidation but because it was actually kind of pathetic. They had been studying the unit for two weeks now and neither of them knew anything about Mesopotamia.
"So which one of you is Riku and which one is Sam?" He asked calmly. Conversations in the classroom had picked up.
"I'm Riku. You can remember me by my white hair. And that's Pence." Pence waved distantly.
"Alright, so fill me in what's the deal with the school? How do you like it?"
Usually the talkative one, Pence joined the conversation. "It's nice. Just watch out for Roxas. He's the over-confident blonde asshole who hangs out with Hayner." Pence didn't have to worry about keeping his voice down because none of Roxas' cronies was in that class.
"Okay."
"Where did you come from?" Riku inquired and clutched his stomach sensing a foreboding growl.
"I was born and lived in a group of isles called the Destiny Islands. Have you heard of it?"
"Can't say I have. What was it like there?"It was then that he realized how tan Sora was.
"Is that near Hawaii?" Pence chimed in.
"Not quite." He answered Pence's query then Riku's, "Very... warm." He looked out the window at the grey sky. "I never had to wear a sweater before this. The jog from the orphanage was kind of chilly, but that couldn't make me ride the bus."
"Hold up, you're an orphan?" Pence asked curiously.
"Right, I forgot to tell you. Yeah, well there was this crazy guy who had to live out some ludicrous fantasy that involved the killing of my parents and others." Riku and Pence stared in shock at Sora's calmness. "It's cool though. My parents were losers to me anyway. So the town shipped me off to the coldest place that they could find and threw me in the orphanage."
"Is that Kairi girl from the Destiny islands too?"
"Um, yeah, she is. She actually seems pretty sad about her loss so be careful about what you say to her." Sora spoke in such an upbeat tone about ominous topics in a way that was too surreal.
She didn't look that sad. I won't mention it though.
The class carried on as normal and the trio started their project. They completed much of it in that period.
History ended and Sora, Riku and Pence walked out of the class together as newfound friends and stepped downstairs to lunch. Thank God. My stomach is killing me.
A lot of kids ordered hot lunches and the lines, Riku noticed, were quite long indeed. Sora groaned fervently as he walked in and went to sit with Riku and Pence before waiting in line.
"Geez! The lines here are really long," Sora blurted over the sound of their fellow noisy teenagers. Pence started up a conversation with him about the food at their school and how it was sooo tasty. Riku simply stared exuberantly and enviously at Kairi and Roxas sitting side by side at a few tables away. They were talking and laughing vigorously, but Riku knew that Kairi would get hurt by him, emotionally and maybe even physically. All that Roxas wanted out of girls... Let's not go on a tirade.
He zoned back in to hear Pence jovially jostling the junior sitting next to him about the kind of car that he drove or, as he soon found out, the car that he didn't drive.
"You mean that you jogged all the way here? That's like 3 miles!" Riku imagined Pence in sweats, jogging around and smiled at the thought.
"It's not that farewell, kind of." Pence wasn't convinced. "Come on. Haven't either of you ever been on a jog before?" Neither of them moved out of embarrassment. "COME ON! This is ridiculous. Okay, today after school its runnin' time."
"I...I can't jog well," Pence mumbled.
"I can teach ya," he grinned cheerily and jostled Pence back.
"I'll go," Riku butted in tired of witnessing the dialogue.
"Great!" Sora clasped his hands together, "So where do you all live?"
"My dad's place is on Oak Street, about 1/3 of a mile down that road and you take a right," he pointed, "I can show you where Riku lives from there."
"Cool. I'll come over after school," Sora said beaming still over his victory over Pence's self-consciousness, "Now let me get some lunch."
So, a new character. Sora the maniac from destiny islands who loves to exercise, that's right. So next chappie will include an awkward jog and... spoilers not included.
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