Stop staring at him. For the love of all that is good and great in the world, STOP STARING at him.
Ichigo and I continued up the steps, earning looks from everyone around us. We were doing something very irregular and it was earning us some weird looks.
~FLASHBACK TO THE MORNING~
"Those are some ridiculous stairs in front of that school" Ichigo stated calmly. This is where the competitive spark ignited.
"Those stairs are NOTHING. Sometime I run up them and are less tired than those who walked." I replied smugly. I wasn't lying either. I was never tired after those long stairs. I even beat BlackStar up those stairs once.
Ichigo looked up, smirking sexily and eyeing me carefully. That is one sexy sexy boy…
What am I saying?
"I bet I could beat you up the stairs." He challenged.
~END FLASHBACK~
And here we are. Sprinting up the stairs, side by side, panting and running practically in sync. I have to pick-up my pace. I began running faster, smirking slightly as I pulled ahead easily. He furrowed his eyebrows and sped up as well. It continued like this until we stepped at the same time onto the last step. A bloody tie. We were both panting and huffing when we got to the top, then practically both fell on each other, but staying upright. We stood there, leaning back to back until we were able to talk.
"Tie?" He asked exasperated.
I nodded. "Tie." I agreed then we shook hands. We finally calmed our breathing back to normal and walked into school together. We saw BlackStar first. Of course.
BlackStar hung from a light on the very high ceiling, probably twenty feet in the air, at least. Kid will have a fit if BlackStar breaks this light again.
He saw us and let g of the light, shocking Ichigo to the core, but earning an annoyed sigh from me. My best friend was an idiot. His sneakers slammed into the ground, cracking the floor just a hair. Kid if going to have a coronary when he sees it. I rolled my eyes.
"BlackStar this is Ichigo Kurosaki, my new partner. Ichigo, this is BlackStar, my dumbass friend." I laughed, punching Stars' arm. BlackStar laughed and leaned in to get all up in my face. I wasn't fazed.
"YOU MISTAKE IDIOCY FOR GREATNESS! HAHAHA!" He shouted loudly in my face. I wiped a drop of his spit from my mouth exaggeratedly.
"Thank you for the spit shower, oh great one." I jeered back sarcastically. I heard Ichigo laugh beside me. What a nice sounding laugh…
"ARE YOU THE NEW GUY?!" BlackStar questioned loudly to Ichigo. Oh brother, I know where this is going. "YOU THINK YOU'RE SO GREAT?!" Ichigo backed up.
"I haven't said anything to you yet…" He stated calmly. I turned my head for a moment and I saw BlackStar shoving Ichigo to the courtyard in front of the school. I saw stein wandering past and pulled him outside quickly and pointed to BlackStar trying to start a fight. Stein nodded understandingly and leaned against the building, watching carefully. I began idly texting, not paying much attention, but when I looked up, Ichigo was holding BlackStar down, his knee dug into his back, Ichigo's hands wrapped around BlackStar's wrist, pulling the arm painfully backwards.
"Tell me you've had enough." Ichigo stated calmly. BlackStar had a black eye and a red mark on his cheek. I stood there, stunned, watching as BlackStar finally said he'd had enough. Ichigo Kurosaki had just beaten up BlackStar. I helped BlackStar up lamely and looked over Ichigo quickly. No sign of pain or injury. Amazing.
The bell rung and after a quick glare and promise of revenge from BlackStar, we were off the class. The day was dull. Girls were flirting with him left and right. It was annoying to me. Not only were they shamelessly flirting with him (not as much as me of course), but Ichigo seemed to take no notice of them. Not even a glance. Like they were invisible. During lunch, he met the gang. He seemed to have someone to relate everyone to.
Especially Kid and Tsubaki. Apparently Kid reminded him of some guy named Ishida Uryuu and Tsubaki reminded him of some girl name Orihime. In fact, Ichigo seemed to take to Kid and Tsubaki the most. I shrugged it off and talked to BlackStar about pranks for the year. Liz had flirted with Ichigo to be shut down completely by him being somehow immune to the charm she was giving. Even Kid was drooling.
After lunch, school just got duller and duller until I skipped last period all together and went home early. I stayed at home and played Skyrim until I heard Ichigo come home and flop onto the couch tiredly.
"The girls there are INSANE." He sighed. We looked at each other then burst out laughing. I plugged in a second controller and we started playing various videogames together, talking practically all night until I got the bright idea to get drunk. I had no idea what I was in for.
Ichigo and I had a drinking contest until we both gave up after getting pretty drunk. I realized before the haziness took over, that Ichigo had quickly become my best friend.
Although I had no idea that, that was going to drastically change when we woke up the next morning.