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Matt was unsure whether or not to open the door and face the class or to just forget about going to school and return home. But he decided that whatever Mimi could do, he could do better. (A/N: That's just false bravado, folks! In truth, he's WETTING HIMSELF!!! Kidding. Could Matt actually do that?) Matt sighed and silently pushed open the door a crack. Peering through, he saw that the class was taking the role call. He was glad that he wasn't that late, since the principal's office was nearer to his homeroom than Mimi's. Hers was practically at the other side of the school. Pity.
He took a deep breath and pushed the door wide open. "Excuse me, Ma'm. Am I late?" (A/N: Does he like stating the obvious?)
The teacher (a young looking thing) looked at him and took a double take. "Are you Yamato Ishida???" she asked excitedly. Her eyes kind of creeped Matt out; they had a hungry look to them and she was eyeing him like a side of beef. (A/N: Hehe. I like chicken better, though.)
Matt felt a little irritated at this. "And what if I am?" he asked defiantly.
The teacher looked at him, grinning.
Oh, crap. (A/N: Please forgive his language. He's young.)
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Aki observed, entertained, as the big Rock Star himself standing there started to make the girls around her drool. Her good friend, Kioko, was staring her eyeballs out at him. Aki probably would've been one of them herself, if she had not met him earlier that morning and Mimi the day before yesterday. They were just normal people, of course.
Incredibly good-looking normal people, Aki corrected herself as she found herself grinning sadistically. Matt was going to have to fight off humongous crowds of fan girls later. Hehe…can't wait to see how Mr. Big Shot handles this.
Aki didn't actually hold anything against Yamato Ishida; she worshipped his music and admired his good looks, but she wanted to see how Mr. Cool managed this sudden rush of attention.
The answer?
Like a pro.
Matt flashed an extremely fine grin at the class and you could practically hear the whirring of the girls' brains stop and thumping of their hearts escalate to a million beats per second. Aki felt like laughing at the sudden brainlessness of her colleagues, but she herself thought that he was enormously WOW material. She looked around and saw the guys look awed of that single person who could make their classmates in that condition with a single action.
Some of them appeared to be jealous that this guy was stealing their girlfriends' attentions away from them; others who were completely obnoxious about their looks were finally admitting defeat.
Aki smiled at Matt, the only girl acknowledging him with her mind intact and called out, "You can stop that now, Matt! Any more smiling and they'll be reduced to even worse vegetables."
Matt laughed, something that he shouldn't have done, because in doing so, he vanquished the very last surviving brain cell left in the girls here, even causing the most gothic-I-hate-guys girl to increase their pulse rates to intensify by googolplex million beats a minute. All their faces were redder than bloody tomatoes.
Every guy acknowledged his downfall and even Aki had to blush furiously because man, that was a sexy laugh. (A/N: OK, is there any guy at all who could do this? It sounds impossible. Matt's WOW but I don't know if he could do that. Maybe force girls to squeal in elation but I don't think that—OK, you know what? I'll forget about this topic. It's a fic, I'm an author, whatever I say, goes. Or type, come to think of it.)
Aki felt a tic start in her forehead. She could take no more of this. She hated blushing. She pushed her chair back and stood up angrily. Simultaneously, Taichi Kamiya at the other end of the room also rose from his seat.
She grinned at him then faced Matt. She saw that their teacher, Ms. Matsikoka, was reduced to a gibbering vegetable, and she laughed. "Matt, please, stop. You're incapacitating the class. Just sit down and we can continue taking the role call." Aki made her way to the teacher's table while Tai spoke to Matt.
"Matt, you can take this seat," he told him, gesturing to an empty seat in front of him.
Matt beamed at Tai and walked over to him, sighs trailing behind him, and sat down in that seat. Aki sighed, depressed that she couldn't see him battle off the swarms of fanatical girls, but she lightened up at the prospect of lunchtime—girls all around and no restraint like teachers…
Hehehe…
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Sora was relieved when the last period before lunch was over, for herself and for Mimi. Mimi had to stand up for nearly the entire period, wearily answering questions and being interrogated about her personal life for the third or so time since homeroom.
She tried to get to Mimi and help her out as everyone stood up to leave the classroom, but instead of exiting the classroom, everyone rushed to the seat where Mimi was assigned and where she was sitting down, resting her legs, thus not allowing Sora the chance to help her friend out. Sora maybe could have dealt with the guys, but not the girls, and there was no way she could see of them disappearing. And even more, there were more people coming in to see the great Mimi Tachikawa.
She sighed and caught Mimi's eye, mouthing a sorry to her. Mimi nodded, understanding, and gave her a weak smile, which caused the guys crowding around her to get more aggressive at pushing the other guys away.
"Come on, Chloris, Shina." Sora stood at the doorframe of the classroom. "There's nothing we can do for Mimi at this moment."
"Oh?" Shina grinned. "Please, don't say I'm a rip-off when I do this, it's just that I see great potential in the idea."
"What?"
Shina laughed. "You'll see." She took three steps out of the classroom, and then bellowed in a way Sora never knew Shina could bellow. It was always Aki and Sora who did the bellowing. "OH, GOD!! IT'S YAMATO ISHIDA!!!! HE'S HEADING DOWN THE WEST SIDE!!!!!! AAAHH!!!"
Ironically, the girls crowding Mimi all looked up at the same time, eyes as wide as saucers. They then squealed and charged out of the classroom in a flash, nearly knocking Shina off her feet.
So much for learning from mistakes.
So the coast was clear of girls for Sora, Chloris, Shina and Izzy to get to Mimi, but unfortunately, there were still the guys to deal with.
Chloris smiled at Shina. "That was great, Sheen. I'm sorry, but you're not just rip-off. You're a genius rip-off." Shina shrugged, looking pleased at this. "But what about those guys?"
Sora flipped her hair over her shoulder, saying, "You leave that to me. I can deal with this," and sauntered off to the table.
When she reached Mimi's table, she cleared her throat. "Excuse me, fellows, I'd like for you all to think that there's a horde of angry girlfriends hovering near the door. If I'm not mistaken, they seem to have very sharp plastic knives in their hands. Perfect for slaying unfaithful boyfriends, once you think about it. They'd probably go for your abdomens. When it slashes open, your guts just dribble out in the most sensational way."
Thus Sora preceded to tell them about the various places in the body that would most likely be attacked and give elaborate descriptions of what would happen. Very elaborate descriptions. When she was getting down to the unmentionables, the boys just split and stampeded out of the door, most probably to the nearest bathrooms.
Sora flippantly wondered why their faces were green. She turned to Mimi and grinned. "I wonder why they left so early. I was just warming up. And I was getting to the good part. Curses."
Mimi burst out laughing in her high-pitched voice. "That was marvelous, Sora! This school must be really good to let you know all those things about the human body. How did you do all that? I couldn't drive them away with a wild lion! Thanks!"
Sora shrugged. "Talent, I suppose."
Chloris and the others ran up to her. Izzy spoke up, looking rather pale. "Sora, remind me not to be near you when you're holding a plastic knife. I can't imagine—" he paused, looking sick.
Sora smiled at him. "Poor boy."
Izzy rolled his eyes while Chloris said, "That was nearly as brilliant as your first scheme! Try not to go too much in detail next time, though. I myself nearly threw up at the point with the eyeballs."
"Advice taken."
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Lunchtime. The period Matt dreaded the most. Although most girls turned into vegetables at his smile, they turned into desperate ones at his voice. It was all right during the classes, but Matt didn't face lunchtime with utmost enthusiasm. During periods in between classes, girls kept hurling themselves at him and would've torn him to pieces fighting over him by now if Tai and Aki hadn't appointed themselves his guardians. Although whether Aki was fully committed to helping him out was quite unsure. She sometimes hung back and watched as Matt tried to fend off his fan girls when Tai wasn't around. She seemed to enjoy it.
Matt wondered at this, and decided to ask her about it later.
So far, no girl had been throwing herself at him. Did it have anything to do with the fact that there were no girls to be sighted at all? (A/N: Does it help to say that Matt's headed for the cafeteria, which is in the east end? Nah, didn't think so.) Maybe they were all in the cafeteria.
"Here's the cafeteria!" Aki announced, stirring Matt from his reverie. They stopped at the double doors as Tai pushed them open.
"And here's YAMATO ISHIDA!!" Aki shouted into the cafeteria, causing Matt to attempt to shut her up, but the damage was done. Sighing heavily, he turned to the double doors, ready to face the onslaught of yammering girls—
Only to find that there were nearly no girls at all.
Life is strange.
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Not as long as I expected, but longer than I imagined. Or vice versa. Forget it. I'm sorry but I don't know how long this story will be, but I do know that the number of chapters will not exceed a hundred. Hehe. What I know is not very useful.
Well, I'm sure that you all will be put out with me for saying this so many times over, but hey, life's no picnic. It's a meal in a restaurant where the floor is wet, the waiters are all untrained, and bugs run everywhere. But the food is good, so we keep coming back while looking at the brighter side of things.
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Hey, that was rather insightful. Hm. Not hearing anything like that from me any time soon. Oh well, see ya and (time to be put off) REVIEW!
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Matt was unsure whether or not to open the door and face the class or to just forget about going to school and return home. But he decided that whatever Mimi could do, he could do better. (A/N: That's just false bravado, folks! In truth, he's WETTING HIMSELF!!! Kidding. Could Matt actually do that?) Matt sighed and silently pushed open the door a crack. Peering through, he saw that the class was taking the role call. He was glad that he wasn't that late, since the principal's office was nearer to his homeroom than Mimi's. Hers was practically at the other side of the school. Pity.
He took a deep breath and pushed the door wide open. "Excuse me, Ma'm. Am I late?" (A/N: Does he like stating the obvious?)
The teacher (a young looking thing) looked at him and took a double take. "Are you Yamato Ishida???" she asked excitedly. Her eyes kind of creeped Matt out; they had a hungry look to them and she was eyeing him like a side of beef. (A/N: Hehe. I like chicken better, though.)
Matt felt a little irritated at this. "And what if I am?" he asked defiantly.
The teacher looked at him, grinning.
Oh, crap. (A/N: Please forgive his language. He's young.)
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Aki observed, entertained, as the big Rock Star himself standing there started to make the girls around her drool. Her good friend, Kioko, was staring her eyeballs out at him. Aki probably would've been one of them herself, if she had not met him earlier that morning and Mimi the day before yesterday. They were just normal people, of course.
Incredibly good-looking normal people, Aki corrected herself as she found herself grinning sadistically. Matt was going to have to fight off humongous crowds of fan girls later. Hehe…can't wait to see how Mr. Big Shot handles this.
Aki didn't actually hold anything against Yamato Ishida; she worshipped his music and admired his good looks, but she wanted to see how Mr. Cool managed this sudden rush of attention.
The answer?
Like a pro.
Matt flashed an extremely fine grin at the class and you could practically hear the whirring of the girls' brains stop and thumping of their hearts escalate to a million beats per second. Aki felt like laughing at the sudden brainlessness of her colleagues, but she herself thought that he was enormously WOW material. She looked around and saw the guys look awed of that single person who could make their classmates in that condition with a single action.
Some of them appeared to be jealous that this guy was stealing their girlfriends' attentions away from them; others who were completely obnoxious about their looks were finally admitting defeat.
Aki smiled at Matt, the only girl acknowledging him with her mind intact and called out, "You can stop that now, Matt! Any more smiling and they'll be reduced to even worse vegetables."
Matt laughed, something that he shouldn't have done, because in doing so, he vanquished the very last surviving brain cell left in the girls here, even causing the most gothic-I-hate-guys girl to increase their pulse rates to intensify by googolplex million beats a minute. All their faces were redder than bloody tomatoes.
Every guy acknowledged his downfall and even Aki had to blush furiously because man, that was a sexy laugh. (A/N: OK, is there any guy at all who could do this? It sounds impossible. Matt's WOW but I don't know if he could do that. Maybe force girls to squeal in elation but I don't think that—OK, you know what? I'll forget about this topic. It's a fic, I'm an author, whatever I say, goes. Or type, come to think of it.)
Aki felt a tic start in her forehead. She could take no more of this. She hated blushing. She pushed her chair back and stood up angrily. Simultaneously, Taichi Kamiya at the other end of the room also rose from his seat.
She grinned at him then faced Matt. She saw that their teacher, Ms. Matsikoka, was reduced to a gibbering vegetable, and she laughed. "Matt, please, stop. You're incapacitating the class. Just sit down and we can continue taking the role call." Aki made her way to the teacher's table while Tai spoke to Matt.
"Matt, you can take this seat," he told him, gesturing to an empty seat in front of him.
Matt beamed at Tai and walked over to him, sighs trailing behind him, and sat down in that seat. Aki sighed, depressed that she couldn't see him battle off the swarms of fanatical girls, but she lightened up at the prospect of lunchtime—girls all around and no restraint like teachers…
Hehehe…
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Sora was relieved when the last period before lunch was over, for herself and for Mimi. Mimi had to stand up for nearly the entire period, wearily answering questions and being interrogated about her personal life for the third or so time since homeroom.
She tried to get to Mimi and help her out as everyone stood up to leave the classroom, but instead of exiting the classroom, everyone rushed to the seat where Mimi was assigned and where she was sitting down, resting her legs, thus not allowing Sora the chance to help her friend out. Sora maybe could have dealt with the guys, but not the girls, and there was no way she could see of them disappearing. And even more, there were more people coming in to see the great Mimi Tachikawa.
She sighed and caught Mimi's eye, mouthing a sorry to her. Mimi nodded, understanding, and gave her a weak smile, which caused the guys crowding around her to get more aggressive at pushing the other guys away.
"Come on, Chloris, Shina." Sora stood at the doorframe of the classroom. "There's nothing we can do for Mimi at this moment."
"Oh?" Shina grinned. "Please, don't say I'm a rip-off when I do this, it's just that I see great potential in the idea."
"What?"
Shina laughed. "You'll see." She took three steps out of the classroom, and then bellowed in a way Sora never knew Shina could bellow. It was always Aki and Sora who did the bellowing. "OH, GOD!! IT'S YAMATO ISHIDA!!!! HE'S HEADING DOWN THE WEST SIDE!!!!!! AAAHH!!!"
Ironically, the girls crowding Mimi all looked up at the same time, eyes as wide as saucers. They then squealed and charged out of the classroom in a flash, nearly knocking Shina off her feet.
So much for learning from mistakes.
So the coast was clear of girls for Sora, Chloris, Shina and Izzy to get to Mimi, but unfortunately, there were still the guys to deal with.
Chloris smiled at Shina. "That was great, Sheen. I'm sorry, but you're not just rip-off. You're a genius rip-off." Shina shrugged, looking pleased at this. "But what about those guys?"
Sora flipped her hair over her shoulder, saying, "You leave that to me. I can deal with this," and sauntered off to the table.
When she reached Mimi's table, she cleared her throat. "Excuse me, fellows, I'd like for you all to think that there's a horde of angry girlfriends hovering near the door. If I'm not mistaken, they seem to have very sharp plastic knives in their hands. Perfect for slaying unfaithful boyfriends, once you think about it. They'd probably go for your abdomens. When it slashes open, your guts just dribble out in the most sensational way."
Thus Sora preceded to tell them about the various places in the body that would most likely be attacked and give elaborate descriptions of what would happen. Very elaborate descriptions. When she was getting down to the unmentionables, the boys just split and stampeded out of the door, most probably to the nearest bathrooms.
Sora flippantly wondered why their faces were green. She turned to Mimi and grinned. "I wonder why they left so early. I was just warming up. And I was getting to the good part. Curses."
Mimi burst out laughing in her high-pitched voice. "That was marvelous, Sora! This school must be really good to let you know all those things about the human body. How did you do all that? I couldn't drive them away with a wild lion! Thanks!"
Sora shrugged. "Talent, I suppose."
Chloris and the others ran up to her. Izzy spoke up, looking rather pale. "Sora, remind me not to be near you when you're holding a plastic knife. I can't imagine—" he paused, looking sick.
Sora smiled at him. "Poor boy."
Izzy rolled his eyes while Chloris said, "That was nearly as brilliant as your first scheme! Try not to go too much in detail next time, though. I myself nearly threw up at the point with the eyeballs."
"Advice taken."
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Lunchtime. The period Matt dreaded the most. Although most girls turned into vegetables at his smile, they turned into desperate ones at his voice. It was all right during the classes, but Matt didn't face lunchtime with utmost enthusiasm. During periods in between classes, girls kept hurling themselves at him and would've torn him to pieces fighting over him by now if Tai and Aki hadn't appointed themselves his guardians. Although whether Aki was fully committed to helping him out was quite unsure. She sometimes hung back and watched as Matt tried to fend off his fan girls when Tai wasn't around. She seemed to enjoy it.
Matt wondered at this, and decided to ask her about it later.
So far, no girl had been throwing herself at him. Did it have anything to do with the fact that there were no girls to be sighted at all? (A/N: Does it help to say that Matt's headed for the cafeteria, which is in the east end? Nah, didn't think so.) Maybe they were all in the cafeteria.
"Here's the cafeteria!" Aki announced, stirring Matt from his reverie. They stopped at the double doors as Tai pushed them open.
"And here's YAMATO ISHIDA!!" Aki shouted into the cafeteria, causing Matt to attempt to shut her up, but the damage was done. Sighing heavily, he turned to the double doors, ready to face the onslaught of yammering girls—
Only to find that there were nearly no girls at all.
Life is strange.
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Not as long as I expected, but longer than I imagined. Or vice versa. Forget it. I'm sorry but I don't know how long this story will be, but I do know that the number of chapters will not exceed a hundred. Hehe. What I know is not very useful.
Well, I'm sure that you all will be put out with me for saying this so many times over, but hey, life's no picnic. It's a meal in a restaurant where the floor is wet, the waiters are all untrained, and bugs run everywhere. But the food is good, so we keep coming back while looking at the brighter side of things.
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Hey, that was rather insightful. Hm. Not hearing anything like that from me any time soon. Oh well, see ya and (time to be put off) REVIEW!