Once again it was Monday. Time to wake up at 6am and get dressed for school. At least that's what normal teenagers do…
I was dressed and had already had eaten by 5. And it was just turning 6:30. I was now studying for my major test that all seniors had to take to graduate from High School. I'd have to leave pretty soon if I want to get to school on time…without being seen. I packed my books and slowly crept down the stairs to the front door. The sun was now rising as it turned 7.
I squinted my eyes as the bright morning sun greeted me as I stepped outside my house. I started to walk to Destiny Islands to begin another "wonderful" school day at Destiny High.
Sora panicked. He's never been early to school before. What do early birds do when they arrive the school, he thought to himself. You see, Kairi and Riku were suppose to walk to school with him and when Sora waited for about an hour or so and saw they weren't coming he started to head towards the school since it was 8am when he left. And class started at 9. Then half way to the school…he remembered that he forgot to set his clock last night. Story of his life.
"So my dad is coming…" Sora heard a familiar say behind him. It sounded not too far away from him. Hopefully it's someone he knows!
Sora turned around and saw Olette, Hayner, Pence, Roxas, and Talia talking under a tree blooming in apples. His eyes wandered off to Talia. She sat with her legs crossed while fiddling with a nearby rock. Roxas was munching on an apple and Olette was reading. Hayner and Pence were doing their homework Sora guessed. Sora continued to stare at Talia. She was so beautiful. And not to mention smart! Sora could never get a girl like Talia Kisaragi. He instantly froze as Talia met his eye contact. She gave him a gentle smile and lightly waved at him. He waved back at her.
Sora then looked as Seifer and his friends walked past him up to Talia. Talia had her smile still on as she stood up and kissed the boy on his cheek. Sora instantly blushed of embarrassment as he realized she wasn't waving and smiling at him…but to Seifer.
"I thought we agreed to walk to school together!" Kairi tapped Sora on his shoulder behind him.
"Oh sorry. I set my clock wrong…and got to school early." Sora didn't turn around to see Kairi or Riku, he continued to stare at Talia and her friends.
"Are you looking at Seifer? You do know Seifer and Talia is an item don't you?" Riku questioned his staring friend.
Kairi glared at Talia. It was too late; the nerd had already caught Sora's heart and was holding it captive.
Kairi turned towards the school as the bell rung. "Let's get to class. I don't want to be late."
"Okay." Sora nodded in agreement and him and Riku started to walk towards the school; leaving Kairi behind.
Kairi smirked as she saw Talia's friends leave. Seifer and his posse left soon afterwards. Time to put my plan in action, she thought. Kairi walked…or twisted over to Talia.
I gathered my books and stood up. I wiped off my skirt just in case grass had gotten on me. I glanced up as I saw a girl smile sweetly at me. I think her name was…Kairi? Yeah, that's what it was! Kairi.
"Hi Talia," She smiled at me.
"Hi Kairi." I smiled back at her.
"So…how are you and Seifer doing?" Kairi asked me.
"How do you know - never mind. I forgot you're popular." I made a disgusted face.
"Hm well this is true. But that's not the reason I came over here. Let's say I have a friend…named…Sky." Kairi began.
"You mean Sora." I pointed out.
"Impressive. You are smart. Well, let's say he likes you. What do you think of him?" Kairi raised her eye brow. She expecting her to blush and stutter.
I simply made another disgusted face. "No thanks. I mean he's cute, but not my type. I don't date popular kids. I can be his friend though. I'm always up for making new friends."
"Oh really? Well, he'd be happy to hear that, but can you promise something for me?" Kairi smirked.
"What?"
"If you develop feelings for him during your friendship, promise me you won't tell him. If anything, tell him you only think of him as a friend and your feelings won't change for him. Tell him he'd be better off with…someone else." Kairi said her words carefully.
"Kairi, like I'm really going to develop feelings for him, but I'll promise you." I started to walk towards the school, "And your secret about liking Sora is safe with me."
Kairi gasped. How did Talia know she liked Sora?
Man, she really was smart.
Homeroom was over quicker than I thought. Now it was lunch time and I was heading towards the cafeteria. I crinkled my nose as I smelled the tuna fish salad they were serving and the mighty meat. The mighty meat usually consisted of chicken (Moldy), turkey (From Thanksgiving), corn (Not from the cob), cheese (4 months old), and a nice helping of gravy (And the best part its green)!
Now you may be asking yourself, why in the world would I buy this trash? Well. Pence eats anything he sees…and I do mean anything. I usually buy school lunch for him and drink some cappuccino.
"Sorry doll, we're all out of cappuccino."
"What?!? What am I suppose to eat for lunch?" I asked the lunch lady.
"You got that mighty meat," She replied to my question.
"Yeah…" I walked away from her and spotted my friends at are usual table.
I sat down and slid my tray over to Pence; who had 3 other trays of mighty meat around him. Olette looked at the expression on my face and instantly knew something was wrong.
"What's wrong Tally?" Olette patted my hand gently.
"They didn't have any more cappuccino." I pouted.
"Go get something from the snack machine smart one." Hayner smirked at me.
I looked at the snack machine then back at Hayner. "Do you see the line? By the time I get there lunch will be over."
"Like you leave the cafeteria as soon as the bell rings." Hayner stuck his tongue out at me.
"Well, I still don't want to wait. You know I'm impatient." I put my head on the table.
"Then starve." Hayner said plainly.
"Fine, I will."
"Here Tally." Roxas poured his bag of chips on a napkin and divided them.
And when I say divided them, I mean divide them to make sure we both got an equal amount. Which was fair…I guess.
"Aw thanks Roxas!" I happily reached over the table and got my half of chips. I popped them one by one in my mouth happily.
Roxas blushed. "A-Anytime."
Hayner smirked and nudged Roxas in his arm. Roxas snapped his head towards him and glared. Hayner put his hands up in defense and went back to eating his lunch. I was too busy crunching on my chips to notice anything.
"Talia, I don't understand this question!" Seifer came up to our table and pushed Olette from beside me and squeezed in between us.
"You can say excuse me." Olette glared at him.
"Shut up."
"Seifer!" I gave him a warning glare.
He smiled widely at me before handing me his pencil and pointed at his homework that he was suppose to do at home. Get it? Do it at home? Homework? Oh forget it.
"This is so simple a kindergartener can do it." I stated to my boyfriend. "You have to add 5 and 6 then divide it by 7…"
"That's al-"
"Then you have to set up a proportion and multiply your answer by 15 by the answer you got from your proportion. Easy as pie." I smiled at him.
"Uh…can you do it for me," He lifted my chin up to face him and planted a gentle kiss on my lips.
I blushed big time while my friends made a disgusted face.
"I think I'm going to be sick…" Pence pushed all his mighty meats away from him.
"It would be so romantic…if it was someone else." Olette frowned.
"Okay. I'll do it for you." I smiled at him.
"Thanks babe. And here is Fuu's and Rai's too," He handed me their homework and walked away.
I let out a sigh and picked up my pencil and started jolting down problems of all sorts. My friends looked at me with pity. They all knew Seifer was only dating me to use me…except me of course. I was blinded in "love."
The bell had rung several minutes ago. I was still in the cafeteria doing homework. I knew I was going to be late for class…but hopefully my teachers would understand (with an exception from Mr. Axel).
"Hi!" I looked up at the person who just spoke to me. My eyes met blue ones.
"Hey…Sora." I looked back down the scattered papers in front of me.
"Last minute homework," He sat across from me.
"Not really. My boyfriend and his friends didn't understand the problems…so I'm doing it for them." I shrugged.
"Like being used," He asked me.
I abruptly looked up at him. "No…"
"Yes." Sora said.
"What makes you say that?" I questioned him.
"Well, he didn't understand the homework. He should have told the teacher to help him instead of asking you to do it for him. And he probably did something to make you say yes to do it for him. Right?"
"Yeah." I thought about the kiss he gave me before leaving. "You're right."
"I know," He grinned at me.
I giggled and smiled at him. Our eyes met and we both quickly looked away. I twisted my hair around my finger. Sora suddenly took deep interest in his shoes.
Awkward silence much?
"Tally you're going to be late to class! Larxene told me to come find…you." Olette froze and stared as she saw Sora and I sitting at the same table. "Er…did I interrupt something?"
"No. Sora was telling me how Seifer was using me. He probably does it a lot too and I'm too…sophisticated to notice." I made a face. "You guys were right, he is a jerk."
"Well I'll be going now. Bye Talia and Olette." Sora waved and quickly walked out the cafeteria. Olette glared at Sora before quickly turned back to Talia.
"Let's go."
"Okay."
I walked out the cafeteria, leaving Seifer's homework on the table.
"You what!?!"
"I didn't do it. My…friend told me something. And I'm going with his advice." I smiled at Seifer.
"Which friend!?! Pence? Roxas? Hayner? Which one of them told you this?" Seifer fumed at me.
"Neither of them. I met this friend on Friday." I smiled at him.
"Who is he?" Seifer frowned.
"I'm not telling. You don't have to know who ALL my friends are." I frowned back at him.
"Yes I do! And what is worse it's a guy! He could easily steal you away from me," He glared at me.
"Well not if you lose me first!" I stomped away.
"So does this mean we're over Talia?" Seifer called after me.
"Tell me what you think!" I yelled back.
"Um…"
"Exactly. I'll talk to you later Seifer." I glared and went to my locker.
Sora grabbed his book bag and started walking home. He jumped as he felt a tap from behind him.
"Yes Kairi," He turned around to face…
…Olette.
"Oh sorry Olette. It's just Kairi is the one who usually tap me." Sora apologized to the brunette.
"No problem….but I have a problem." Olette suddenly got a serious face.
"Um…what is it?" Sora asked.
"Stay away from her." Hayner popped out of nowhere and glared at Sora.
"Who?"
"Don't act like you don't know. Stay away from Talia." Roxas glared at Sora.
"Um…why?" Sora was confused now.
"What's wrong Sora?" Kairi and Riku walked up to the troubled 18 year old.
"Tell your friend to stay away from Talia." Hayner glared at Kairi.
"Then tell your friend to stay away from Sora." Kairi returned the look.
Riku and Pence looked at each other. They instantly know they were thinking about the same thing.
"Like Talia needs Sora. She has Roxas." Olette stepped in.
"Talia Kisaragi doesn't even like Roxas." Kairi frowned.
"Well she could…if your friend will just stay away from her." Hayner coldly glared at Sora.
"Talia doesn't even like me okay?!? She has Seifer!" Sora really wanted to put an end to the fighting. He didn't like when people didn't get along. "Let's just go home."
"Just keep your nerd away from the popular kids. Understood?" Kairi said.
"And keep you popular kids away from us nerds." Roxas turned around and started walking down the hallway.
Sora, Riku, and Pence let out a sigh.
Little did they know that this was going to be happening from here on out.