The teacher was an idiot. He plans a partner lab in which we each have to go to some sort of restaurant and test samples of things, Q and A people about the food and make some oversized presentation on it. See the idiotic part about him was the fact that he said this while attempting to blow up a large balloon and fill it with acid without messing up the balloon. How he thinks this will work I will never know. How he got acid, I will never know either. He is the teacher. He began pairing us up one by one.
"Kairi with Sora of course, Hayner with pence, Roxas you will be with ms. Strife." he sat waiting for Roxas to respond only getting a small nod out of the silent boy. He silently rolled his green eyes Carelessly as he continued listing off names. He began soon after as we has to work on idea with our partners, to pour the acid into the balloon it quickly began to burn away in his hands.
"hi Namine..." Roxas said quietly with a glare towards the teacher as he jumped around madly.
I looked up at him and looked calmly at his cute boyish features. His look was that of the average skater boy. Messy blonde hair, just barely tight Grey jeans and t-shirt with red element symbol on it. At lunch yesterday he had worn a beanie barely flattening down his blonde spikes. Additionally to the look were the black skateboarders shoes.
It seemed none of the people in Kairi's little group followed a certain fashion. Riku had a whole football jock "I'm sexy and I know it" thing going, Sora seemed to like his boyish t-shirts and baggy jeans(Kairi didn't seem to mind it much either) Axel seemed to stick to band tee's and tightish jeans. The girls all had a different thing going. Kairi appeared to like her pink skirts and rue 21 shirts, Selphie seemed a little obsessed with her designer clothes and shoes. Xion wore lots of band t-shirts and skinny jeans with some converse and she seemed covered. Olette wore anything Bright but not expensive.
The group confused me just a bit but altogether I liked them. Mom would be amazed that actually had more than one friend(who didn't quite meet her standards), actually just that I had friends at all.
I was amazed how quickly Kairi accepted my sob story of a life. I actually only realized when I was describing it how bad I made it sound.
"umm, Namine you there?" Roxas said with one eyebrow finely lifted.
"mmmhmm" I mumbled until I realized he may have had a reason for talking "sorry what did you say?" I asked as I mentally slapped myself.
" wow, I knew I could be boring,but I didn't think I was that bad..." he said smiling slightly. From the corner of my eye I already saw the gears in Kairi's friend Selphie's mind slowly turning. Actually I swore I heard it. " new girl+Roxas=perfection:)"
I couldn't help but smile at that. His hair went into his eyes and I laughed quietly at his attempt to blow the hair out of his face.
" you okay over there Blondie cause if you hadn't noticed you have these super cool things called hands." I said laughing , of course he glared at me
"who are you calling Blondie?" he said laughing with a cocky grin to add effect.
" at least I remembered I had hands"I said giving out my own cocky grin.
" everybody has those days..." he said pouting.
"ooh let me finish, everybody makes mistakes right?" I said giggling
" please tell me you don't actually listen to Hannah Montana?" he said with a cocked eyebrow " cause If so I had better leave..."
"Of course silly, who doesn't" I said sarcastically.
" oh dear god someone help me!" he said. Clutching a hand to his heart in mock pain. I was laughing at his face as it scrunched in disgust. He looked physically terrified. He was amazing at acting scared. Maybe he was. I knew Very little about the blonde boy. For all I knew he had had a worse life than me. Who really knew. There was a sort of sadness about the boy that was painfully noticeable.
It was kind of hard not knowing. Did I deserve to know? Of course not I had keeper it a secret from Everyone, Kairi had found out because of my ugly scarred memories that were kindly etched into my skin. Those two words that screams for me with evil. Indicating what happened. My memory. Let it rest in attempted peace. I was done. I had to be.
With seifer and my family and of. Course the worst. My vani. The only good memory within the last few months even though he had been gone. The man whom brought me to he point of memories. Good memories. What left me some warmth in me. Warmth that I lived off of. Warmth that was now In a cold hard jail. It was done. I was done. Forever and always. Maybe. Maybe.
Well that's what I thought. Maybe not.
Namine-
I am totally having the time of my life, you know jail is fun And all. I have replaced you with someone named Scarface, original right? The guys a total dick ya know, I love him so much he has such a good personality once he tried to punch me and I kinda beat him up a bit- which did not turn out well at all. anyways- thank you for giving a crap about my well being and I am extremely proud of the illegal-ness of this. Also, you definitely were always this annoying and it was you,not me who ruined your friendship skills. Gonna go hang out with Scarry now.
,Vanitas
P.S. He can't get to you so you have nothing to be scared of. I miss you too Nami.
I found the letter tucked inside of Zack's removed work-boot earlier that day, too nervous to open it and read it for real. He was so extremely dazed and drugged up that her hadn't noticed the flip sided paper. The letter I couldn't help but find funny. Roxas had been staring off into space so I couldn't help but shove him. He looked at me shocked.
"are we going to work or not?"I said snickering. He glared at me but quickly pulled out a notebook and pen.
"Restaurant?" he asked not looking up.
"Your not seriously asking me are you?" I asked. "Um, that one place, Ice cream Deluxe." I said cracking my knuckles in discomfort. I hated having to give ideas. I would much rather build off of a big idea than put it out there.
"Sounds great, I'll pick you up at seven tonight, sound good?"he asked standing up at the sound of the bell clanging. He quickly gathered his things and looked at me, I nodded hastily and gathered my own things. He smiled and ran out saying something about having to get to the third floor. I jogged out of the room realizing I had to get my psych book out of my locker then go to mod 3 and deal with the evil teacher that existed in that room.
And of course only I could be lucky enough to make it up two flights of stairs but then drop all my books and fall flat on my butt. I fell back onto the ground and let out a huff of annoyance as the late bell rang it's annoying clanging song.
I heard steps up the Marley covered floors of the stairs and slid my body nearer to the cold brick wall.
"Need some help?" asked a curious voice followed by another voice going "help her up asshole."
"I was working on that!" said the male voice.
"Well work on that a little harder...never mind. I'll do it." growled the females voice. I knew both of the faces and voices. I couldn't pin point the names but I knew I knew them.
A hand grabbed right above her elbow and hauled her up gently. She looked closer at the girl and remembered her to be Xion.
"Thank you..." I began right before she yelped out in annoyance.
"That's what you get!" huffed a male voice, she recognized him within her second look as Axel. Xion stood rubbing her pinched arm.
"Jerk..."She mumbled.
"Um, well I had better get to class..."i began. Xion quickly spoke up. "Your in our next class and Psycho Sephykins will torment you if your late. Hang out with us!" she said happily.
"Well...i don't usually skip..." a lie, why I felt the need to lie in that moment I didn't know. I used to skip with Vani almost every Friday and Monday after lunch was over. I was very content with what was pretty much a four day school week. "Ah, what the hell, I need a break." I said laughing.
"Yay, Namine's gonna hang with us Axel! Babe, your going to have the time of your life!" Xion said laughing with her hands waving above her head.
I laughed as she began talking to a very sexist yet funny Axel. He had a love for 'in the kitchen' jokes which Xion hated with her life.
"Xion look, It's one of those card we use in psych, what do you see? I see dinner but i'm sure you see a skillet, why don't you use one to make the other!" that pathetic joke earned him a kick in a rather private area. He winced in pain, Xion then pulled the white card with black blobs all over it off the brick wall, crumpled it, and shoved it in his groaning mouth.
"There's your dinner ass, right out of the skillet." she said smirking. She turned to me and continued on with her as she began telling stories about how she, Roxas, and Axel had jumped off a roof once running from the cops and they all landed straddling a fence and how everyday she thanked god for gymnastics lesson. We both laughed at this together as Axel followed looking like a beaten puppy on a Sarah Mclachlan commercial for animal abuse. We slipped into a hallway that led to an unused band room.
"So Namine, tell us a bit about yourself."Xion began taking a seat on the piano bench in the corner.
"Like does your kitty-cat purr?" Axel chimed in earning two disgusted looks.
"Um...how bout not..."Xion began but before she could say anything else I had stood and kicked the smirking Axel in the balls...hard. Like no babies hard. He cried out falling to his knee's
"Oh mother Mary!" he groaned. Xion stood and hugged me happily as she squealed. She and I laughed jumping up ad down
"Okay I am officially in love with you!" Xion yelled. "In a like...not gay way...but yay!" we both laughed again. "Me and Axel here were going to a party tonight, of course Roxas quit on us for some sleepover at his beloved cousin Sora's house, but were going around ten." she said. I just nodded laughing. "Yay I don't feel lonely anymore. Your officially my new best girl-friend!" she said.
"Oh, thank you, I take this as a great honor, do I get like a ribbon or something, maybe a trophy?" I said sarcastically. She just laughed. Then hit her head on an oversized drum causing it's bong to resonate throughout the room. We both doubled over in laughter and soon Axel joined in.
"What on earth are you doing in here!" yelled the voice of the principal of the school, Principal Xemnas.
"Oh sorry sir, we were just teaching Namine here how to play the drums..." Xion attempted to say. She wasn't a very good liar, or at least not to this guy.
"Sorry sir, I just got lost and Xion was going to the restroom and found me in here. Axel heard us and followed along. It's really all my fault for getting lost." I said smiling innocently. I was a born liar, just a nice trait of being my father's daughter.
"Well that is quite understandable, just clean up in here and get back to class." he said dazedly as if he knew I was lying but was unwilling to do anything about it.
He left us alone in the band room, with the thick wooden door closed tightly. Xion looked at me with a shocked expression.
"You just lied to Xemnas...and he believed it...you must be the best liar on the face of the planet. I can't even look the man in the eye..." Xion began.
"Why?" I asked calmly. Axel spoke.
"Xemnas in Xion's father, he kind of got a little less fatherly after her mom died, treated her like crap." He said staring down at his feet. I looked at Xion with her sad bright blue eyes, her black hair shrouding as much of her face as possible.
"Just don't apologize, the only one who should apologize is him." she said solemnly.
"I wasn't going to apologize, we all have hard times in our lives...this is yours and when you go to college, it'll be over." I said calmly, I probably seemed just a little bit heartless but Xion just looked up at me and smiled before coming up and hugging me. My arms hung limply beside my waist and slowly wrapped around the girl.
"Thank you Namine." was all she said before the bell rang signaling lunch.
"let's go ladies," Axel said slipping between us and slipping his arms onto our shoulders. "Lunch awaits!" he said.
We slipped through the overfilled hallways out of the school and near the parking lot. Everyone stood there smiling and laughing as they sat in the grass or on a car.
"Hey guy's!" Kairi said perkily.
"Hi Kairi." I said back, we split up and Xion went to sit by Roxas who looked at me smiling. I saw Xion nudge him as he looked at her shaking his head.
"Hey guys, we have a natural liar on our side!" Xion began. "Namine here lied straight out to Xemnas and he believed her." she said walking over to me slipping an arm around my shoulders. They all gawked at me in amazement.
"What? It's a family trait!" I said laughing. "Close your mouth's or you'll swallow something I promise you don't want to swallow." they all snapped their clenched jaws shut and began buzzing with words.
"That's amazing Namine!" Kairi said laughing. "No one can lie to Xemnas, he is like the human (we think) lie detector. He can sense a lie in a moment's notice." She said pulling me down to the warm grass.
"Huh, well I did not know that, I guess I have a bit of an ego ever since I got my mom to believe that every teenage girl need's a two-million dollar sports car and a cute bug" I said laughing. "i got both and my mom was so proud of herself, she thought It made her mom of the year. It kind of did, but she would have been a real mom of the year if she had taken to time to even talk to me...or maybe even come home from her country club." I said thinking back to all the time's I had attempted to have a conversation with my mom that didn't end terribly.
There weren't many. She hated Vanitas with a burning passion, thought he was a bad omen or something. He would always be a part of our conversations and would be the start to a fight.
"Wow, your family must have lot's of money...your brother, no offense, doesn't really seem the rich type.
"He's not, Daddy never really had a very great relationship with cloud so they had lot's of fights, Daddy wanted cloud to join SOLDIER but Cloud's girlfriend hated soldier, actually she was part of AVALANCHE, Cloud wanted to be with her so my dad kind of snapped and Cloud left." I said staring down at my hands. "SOLDIER would have ruined Cloud, I swear..." I said sadly.
"Hey the past's in the past, now your here and we got to meet each other and you have all these people who would love making it as your friends." she stated staring at me.
"Hey your a pretty good liar too!" I said laughing.
"No really Nam, so many people here would love having you as a friend." she said smiling. I just nodded and we continued with our lunch.
After lunch we swarmed the hallways only for me to remember I had two classes with the freak show of a teacher. I ran to Psycho-Sephykin's class and waited hiding behind my hair. Unlike the first class, psychology, this was theology He walked in sweeper and all with his died hair swooping in a feminine braid...yes a braid. His eyes shot at me and his mouth hiked up into a cruel and psychotic smile.
", would you like to read your paper on the Islamic religion?" he asked with raised eyebrows.
"Um...no because ya know I...i couldn't really...you didn't give me much time and...everyone else started two weeks before me and well...it was really long, I have some of it done but..." I stammered on. He glared at me but on his lips was a treacherous smile that just said 'I win, you fail'.
"Well , you must understand I take that as you judging my teaching methods which I take much offense in. do you believe I didn't give you enough time to write this measly paper on urban Islamic society?" he said in mock surprise.
"I..." then I realized something, he was just planning on torturing me until I snapped...so why not snap now? "Well sir, most teachers don't make students do papers that are due the day after they arrive at a school and act like it is a perfectly simple thing. I had to start and finish this paper in one day whereas everyone else in this fucking class got three weeks, I mean really six thousand-fucking words?" my voice was rising slowly with each word I spit. He looked taken aback, but I wasn't quite done. " and of course you can't handle the fact that not every student in this class thinks your a psycho little ass!" I yelled before storming out.
The class chanted their love for me as Sephiroth ran out the room fuming not even turning around to look at me and my disheveled figure.
"Is she free cause I'm gonna marry her!" some kid yelled in the class room.
"Dude that girl is awesome!" another voice yelled now female.
"I am in love! Like I am so in love." another voice chanted in.
"Dude she's mine!"
"finally someone talks that pussy down!"
"Yay, I think I just became homosexual!"
"Really? You don't just become homosexual, your born that way, duh!" another voice yelled.
I stormed away and into the main building rushing to my new found favorite room, the art room.
When I got into the room I saw the dark room was lit by a small lamp. A women of age twenty something sat at the desk sketching lines onto a paper, her brown hair that had been held in place by a ribbon was now loose over her shoulders. She gazed down at the picture in what seemed like wonderment. Suddenly like a switch on a light her eyes flickered and green met my blue eyes and she smiled.
"Miss. Strife, what are you doing here...again?" she said smiling happily. I had art second period and she had decided she like me the second I chose oil pastels instead of colored pencils for my free study.
"I um, need somewhere to hang out." I said chewing my lip. She just smiled, stood up and motioned with her arms to sit where ever. I collected my sketchbook out of my binder and grabbed a pencil and a bending stump.
"So why aren't you in class?" she asked without looking up from her paper.
"Please don't ask..." I said. She just laughed.
"I am assuming it has something do with Sephiroth, the man sent search parties after you, claimed you as a danger to the student body, he acts as if he is still in the war sometimes." she said. I gave her a pointed look, she just laughed again. "okay, all the time."
I laughed and looked back down into my sketchbook. I had drawn a man with a strong chin and glazed over pale eyes similar to mine, I began sketching in the hair as it spiked up in every which way.
I heard the clicking of heels on the tile floor of the dim art room and looked up to see Ms. Gainsborough leaning over me looking down at my picture.
"who is that?" she asked softly.
"My brother Cloud." I said quietly.
"I've never seem him look quite so...handsome." she said taken aback.
"Yeah he...he hasn't done much for himself since he left home..." I mumbled, she just nodded.
"I went to school with him, I would know" she giggled.
Miss Gainsborough returned to her desk and about five minutes later the bell rang. I continued my second day of school with her and she left me alone to draw in the supply closet.
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