I sit down at our lunch table next to Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku across from us."So," Sango says, "Guess what!"
"What?" I ask.
"I said guess," she says. I hate when she does that.
"You..." I sigh. "I don't know. Are you pregnant?"
"Kagome!"
"You told me to guess."
"I am not pregnant. But I did get a job at Victoria's Secret!"
"Me too!" Miroku says.
"No, he didn't."
"But that would be amazing, wouldn't it?"
"No, they would go out of business," Sango says. "Who wants a perv fitting them for a bra? Anyway, I start tomorrow."
"That's great," I tell her.
"You should totally apply! We could work together!"
"I should totally not!" She pouts, then shrugs.
"Your loss. Hey, I need to copy your history homework."
"We had history homework?" Sango sighs. The bell rings, and we go to gym class.
"What are we doing today?" I ask Sango in the locker room.
"Um, tennis, or handball. Or the pacer test, or the push-up and sit-up test thing."
"So basically, you have no idea."
"Basically. Oh well. Either way, I'm really too exhausted right now to do anything."
She says that every so often, then she ends up doing more than she usually would. And usually causes some "accidental" injuries. We walk out into the gym, and sure enough the cones are set up for us to run the pacer test.
Basically, the pacer test is this stupid ass thing where you have to wait for a beep, run, and make it to the other side before it beeps again. Then it progressively gets faster or whatever. I'd really rather just run a mile straight than sprint, stop, sprint, stop... It's annoying. "Ugh," Sango says. "I don't think I'm going to make it to 20." That means she'll make it to about 70, maybe 80.
Miroku jogs over to me. "Thirty?"
"Thirty sounds good." Miroku and I are those people who quit long before they need to because we're lazy.
"You two quit before you start?" Inuyasha asks.
"Always. That's how you get far in life, my friend," Miroku says.
"That's how you end up homeless."
"Lucky for me, I have this extremely rich friend who just loves to help the needy."
"When does he ever help the needy?" I ask.
Inuyasha scoffs, "I've helped you before, haven't I?"
"No, you actually just make my existence really difficult."
"I make your existence worthwhile, babe."
"No," I say. "Cake makes my existence worthwhile."
"Maybe I mixed up my words. You make my existence worthwhile?"
"You're thinking of Ramen," Miroku says, helpfully.
"Sorry everyone," coach yells. "My computer isn't working so I can't get the audio up. We'll do the pacer another day."
"Darn," I say. "And I was so looking forward to it!"
"I can still make you run, Higurashi!" He threatens.
"How about dodge ball?" I suggest.
"Fine. Takahashi and Taijiya, pick your teams."
"Miroku," Inuyasha says.
"Kouga."
"Kagome."
"Um..." Sango says. "...Yuka."
They go through the rest of the class as I help coach put all of the foam balls in the center of the room. But I mean, Sango's team has her and Kouga, so we pretty much already lost.
Coach blows his whistle and some people run for the middle to grab a ball, but most people don't move. Miroku tosses me one of the three he got and I chuck it at Sango, but she catches it with her left hand. I'm about to go to the sidelines but Inuyasha catches a ball and I'm back in. Sango throws a ball so hard at Hojo, she actually hurts him.
"Taijiya, why don't you sit out for the day?" Coach tells her.
"That's not fair!"
"Life isn't fair. Go sit down."
"Life is not alive and therefore has no decision on whether or not it should be fair. You, however, have the decision."
"Sango," I say. "Just shut up and sit down." She doesn't need to be getting in trouble.
Sango smirks, "That was rude of Kagome. I'm scarred. She should sit out, too."
"I would," coach says, "but she just wants to be sitting out anyway, so, no."
"Oh, thank you," I say. "I wouldn't want to miss out on my favorite game."
"See?" Sango says. "She wants to play, so you need to make her sit out."
He rolls his eyes. "Higurashi, I don't even care what you do." He blows the whistle and the game starts back up. I sit with Sango on the bleachers.
"Did you have to attack Hojo?"
She sighs, "He was in my way."
"Of what?"
"Nothing, he just annoys me."
