Chapter 4- More News?
"Hey, have you heard…"
"Did you know…"
"Only one more week…"
The whole school was buzzing with the information of the transferring student. A boy, with slick black hair, evergreen eyes, and "the smoothest skin a boy could ever have."
Chihiro twisted her locker combination when somebody hit the locker beside her, making her jump. "Hey, Chi, you a little jumpy today?" Seiran donned a lopsided grin and leaned on the lockers.
"No, you just startled me." Chihiro turned back to her combo. 12... 36...
Seiran cleared his throat and shifted pose. She ignored him. "Hey Chi, you looking forward to meeting the new guy? I heard from the ladies-"
Chihiro snorted. The ladies. How stupid. He continued. "I heard that he is pretty popular, with a face." He shifted weight and pushed off the lockers.
She slowly twisted the dial. "Well, don't most boys have faces? Or do you just pay attention to your 'ladies' too much to notice?" She paused her twisting and stared up at him.
He stepped back a little, then stood closer than he was before. "I mean he has a pretty face. Or, he is rumored to have a pretty face… anyways, all of the girls are talking about him. Do you like him? I don't think I really like him."
She sighed, "I have no opinion about him. I haven't met or seen him. And since it is doubtful," she swung her locker open, facing her purple binders and blocking out the looming Seiran. "Since it is highly doubtful that you have actually met this… boy, I don't see what you would base your opinion on." She grabbed her biology textbook, and half-ran past Seiran.
"Hey Chihiro!" Akari shouted in her ear.
"I'm right next to you…" Chi mumbled past her spaghetti.
"Yeah but the cafeteria is booming loud. Anyways," Akari dug lines into her milk carton with her nail. "Guess what I just found out? There's only one week until the new kid comes! And guess what? He is in my science class!" She glanced at Chihiro and added, "And he is in almost every class you're in." She picked at her salad. Chihiro stabbed a meatball.
"Hey Chi?" Akari studied the crescents she had made in the carton. "Since a girl only needs one boy… and since this new guy, well, you haven't even seen him… and besides you already have someone, can I call dibs on the new guy?"
Chihiro coughed. A really disgusting cough, with bits of meatball flying back onto her tray. "Uh, Akari. Akari. You know how many people called dibs on this new guy?" She looked at Chihiro with shiney doe eyes.
"How many? Did you already call dibs? Oh, then I'm too late, why didn't you tell me?"
Chihiro coughed, again. "No I didn't. Calling dibs in stupid." She had to shout over the din. "And- wait. You said that I already had someone. Who would that be?" Chihiro narrowed her eyes.
"Seiran of course." With that, Akari threw her napkins and her abused milk carton on her tray and left.