Chapter Two

Crystal bounded into the cafeteria as happy as ever. She loved this school, even after the countless times she said she hated it. She had missed the school over the summer. She started searching the crowded cafe for a friend that she had only seen the weekend before. Er! Where are you Kristine!

*Singing* Where in the world is Kristine Moore!

Shut up, Brain.

*Pouts* Aw, but I was having fun!

I know, but I'm busy. You know it takes actual thought to try and find someone.

*Sighs* Yeah, yeah. Crystal finally spotted Kristine talking to Mere and Jade. "OH... Kristine!"
Kristine turned and saw Crystal. "Hey Crystal!"
Crystal skipped over to the three. "Hi guys! Guess what! New juniors! Five guys, all on my bus. Only three are really cute though!"
"Crystal!" Kristine said.
"Hold on Kristine, I'd like to hear about it!" Jade piped in.
Everyone laughed.
"Seriously though, what's their names?" Mere asked.
"Well, I only talked to one of them. His name is Duo Maxwell."
"Oh. I see!" Mere said.
"Here-e, here-e! School court is now in session," Bill said as he stood on a table. Everyone laughed. "Now what we planned for today is this... we pull all the new students underwear over their heads and throw them in the pond."
People chuckled. Crystal was prepared for the long work that they were going to do. They actually planned on making posters and plastering them all over the gym walls.
"Seriously, we the people have decided to make posters for the new students. You can partner up together and work on it. If you would like to pick your person now, and put their names on the poster. Than we will establish the NCAHS Chorus. OK? OK! Now lets get to work!"
"Kristine, would you like to be my partner?" Crystal asked.
"Sure."

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Duo sat there as bored as ever. His head rested on his hand that was resting on his knee. The speaker's speech went into one ear and out the other. He stared absent mindedly across the gym. Bored, bored, bored. So very bored. He yawned and looked around. Quatre sat on his left and Heero sat on his right. Wufei and Trowa sat in front of him. He sighed and leaned on the other arm. His eyes got heavy and he struggled to keep them open. He finally gave up the battle with his eyelids and let them close. He drifted into a what seemed like a calm sleep.
Duo ran through a beautiful green field as fast as his legs could carry him. He stopped and looked at the peaceful surroundings around him. He smiled. Two horses grazed peacefully twenty feet in front of him. He looked up to the sky, his face facing the sun. He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. He noticed a light change through his eyelids and when he opened his eyes he gasped in horror. The sky had turned from bright blue to blood red. Black clouds rolled angrily through the sky. The two horses shrieked as fire balls fell from the sky. The trees were ablaze with blue and red flames. He looked at the only tree not ablaze. The tree ten feet to the left of him. It was a huge oak tree. Hanging from the largest branch was the girl. She was just as the previous dream except the face was a little different. Hazel eyes stared at Duo, pleading for help. Her mouth opened and voice escaped it, "Duo..."
Duo stared wide eyed and scared stiff. The voice sounded so familiar.
"Duo... DUO!"
Duo jumped awake, gasping for air. Heero was holding onto Duo's nose, cutting off oxygen. Quatre stared at Duo with concern. Duo glared at Heero as Heero let his nose go.
"Are you OK, Duo?" Quatre asked.
"Huh?" Duo responded as he looked over to Quatre. Duo could see Quatre was worried about him. He looked around and noticed people gawking at him, laughing and pointing their fingers at him. What was I doing? He looked back at Quatre.
"Are you OK? You were twitching in your sleep and you kept mumbling something. I couldn't here you."
Duo felt his face redden. I did that? Duo leaned forward, closed his eyes and ran his hands over his hair.
"I'm fine, Quatre."
"Are you sure?"
He brought his head up and looked at Quatre again. He smiled. "Yeah, I'm sure."
"OK."
"...And now I'll hand you over to Christina Cowern, president of the FFA. She will explain to you the FFA."
Duo mumbled, "Oh no, not another boring lecture." He sighed and leaned on his hand, "Better get ready to go back to sleep." He yawned and let the speech go in one ear and out the other.

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Back in the cafe, Crystal was concentrating on writing the name that she had picked. Kristine wanted to pick a kid named Quatre Winner but Kristin beat her to it. So, Kristine was still up there trying to decide on someone.
"DAH!!!" She screamed out.
"What?" Kristine said as she returned with the name of the student she was going to mentor.
"I messed up!" Crystal pretended to break down and cry on the floor, covering the poster.
"Good thing I haven't started the border yet."
"Shut up! Your not helping!" She said, looking up and glaring at Kristine.
"Flip it over."
"I've already have. I keep messing up Duo's name."
"Let me see it."
"OK, but your gonna hate it."
Kristine took it and looked at both sides. "They both look fine, Crystal!"
"No they don't."
Kristine sighed, "Well if I were you, I'd use this one. It's the neatest out of the two."
Crystal stared at it, "OK."
Kristine handed Crystal the poster. "Oh and after your done with yours, will you write mine?"
"Sure, who do you got?"
"Well, some girl named Kimberly Alpert."
"What?!"
"Something wrong?"
"Do you know where she is from?"
"No, it didn't say. Why?"
"Because I know someone with that name. She lives in Braintree. She is one of my only friend in Braintree."
"Oh, I see."
Bill stood on a table, "How's it coming guys?"
A series of 'goods' and 'greats' traveled across the room.
"That's good. I need a few people for the NCAHS Chorus. If your interested, stand over there." He pointed to the back room.
Crystal and Kristine ran to the back of the room to join Jade and Mere. There was about 20 people up there. Bill walked over.
"OK. Crystal, Kristine, Mere, and Jade, stand over here." Crystal and the rest walked over to where they were comanded to go. They didn't pay attention to the rest of the sorting. They found it unimportant. Bill came back over. "OK. This is what you are gonna do. Mere's group is 'Good', Kristin's group is 'Morning', Jess's group is 'Norfolk', and Michelle's group is 'Aggie'. Now when I point to you I want you to scream out your group's name. OK? Let's start!"
He points to Mere and her group yelled, "GOOD!"
He pointed to Kristin's and they yelled, "MORNING!"
He pointed to Jess's and they yelled, "NORFOLK!"
He pointed to Michelle's group that yelled, "AGGIEEEEEEE!"
Bill was surprised that they didn't have to practice long. The groups knew exactly what they were doing. "GREAT! Now, finish up the posters. The FFA are taking the students around campus. We will be able to invade the gym when they leave."
Crystal went back to work on the poster. She finished the names and filled in extra space with little designs and let Kristine do the border. The teens quickly, yet carefully finished the posters.