Hello! I have returned to continue the story now! I have a feeling that
this story will be longer than I expected. Well. Nothing I can do about
that. The story is unfolding by itself. At last, we come to the "real"
meeting. * Sounds the fanfares * Presenting…
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"YOU!!" Sora couldn't believe it. What was this bighead doing in Odaiba? Was he enrolled here? Gods, no.
"YOU!!" Matt was enormously startled.
"What are you doing here, you jerk?" Sora glared at him. Aki looked scandalized, for some reason, but she chose to ignore it. She supposed that Aki was just startled because she never really was that rude.
"Excuse me?" Matt replied coldly. "I'm enrolled here, if you didn't know. You must live in some kind of hole in the ground not to know that I enrolled into this school."
Sora was getting irritated by this guy. "What, did you have some sort of fanfare? Who do you think you are? Some big movie star? Man, people these days," she muttered, shooting him a dark look.
"Yeah," Matt snorted. "I know. Some people lack respect for their betters."
"Exactly. So start your groveling, swine-head."
"Oh, well I think that—"
"STOP THIS!" Aki exclaimed. "You know Yamato Ishida? Why on earth didn't you tell me? How long did you keep this knowledge from me? It's very unseemly."
"I never said that I knew Yamato Ishida!" Sora protested indignantly. "You think that this jerk is Yamato Ishida? If the way you describe him to me is accurate, he's way too ugly to have any similarity with this rumor."
"UGLY?" Matt couldn't believe this girl. An uncouth student, ungraceful, and blind? Nobody thought he was ugly. Nobody.
Aki looked sheepish. "OK, so maybe my descriptions of him were a little overrated, but he is Yamato Ishida, Sora!"
Sora tweaked her head around to look at him. This jerk was the revered Yamato Ishida?
Matt looked right back at her, equally shocked. This uneducated little prick was everyone's beloved Sora Takenouchi?
They have got to be kidding me… This was a shared thought as the both of them glared at each other warily. Aki and Aidan looked a little confused.
"You know him, Sora?" Aki inquired. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Sora looked at her skeptically. "Do you think that I want to know this guy? He's completely moronic and what's more, he's a jerk! He pushed me down the stairs last Monday!"
"What makes you think that I knew you were there?" Matt griped.
"Well, genius, if you know how to read, yeah, you could have seen the sign I taped on the door inside that told you to knock before you open. Just how low exactly is your IQ? Fifty below, perhaps? I knew all that head banging busted brain cells." Sora grinned triumphantly at him.
Matt rolled his eyes. "The Teenage Wolves," he informed her, "do not head bang. We rock. Don't get it wrong next time."
Sora challenged, "And what if I do? Are you gonna come here with your fan girls and beat me up? Whatever happened to chivalry? I guess it might have deteriorated thanks to chauvinists like you."
"You don't even know me. Are you that quick to judge people because of that age-old sense of insecurity?" Matt's tone was lofty.
"Ooh. Big word. ''Insecurity', are you sure that you know what that means? Moreover, do you know how to spell it? Poor baby," Sora sneered. (A/N: Ah, refreshing arguments…I could go on for days end but that'll get boring for people who want the Sorato to start.) "Besides, I think that my judgment of you is pretty accurate. What kind of a gentleman, after knocking a lady down several steps headfirst, would call her a little rat and walk away without even helping her up and apologizing?"
"If you two wouldn't mind," Aidan suddenly cut in, "I think that the machine grew rather tired of your bickering, don't ye say? The soda has finally come out."
Sora turned her head to peer down at the slot. "Finally!" She swooped down and grabbed it. "I've had enough of all this hot air," she exclaimed, giving him a look. "Come on, Aki. Let's go back to our table. Care to join us, Aidan?" she asked, pointedly excluding Matt.
Aidan shrugged. Aki suddenly smiled at Sora nervously. "Eh…Sora? We kind of invited Matt to sit at our table." She wondered how this bit of news would be received.
Sora slowly turned around to give Aki an incredulous look. "What on earth did you do that for?"
Aki looked sheepish. "Well—"
Sora waved her hand, as though brushing it off. "Well, that's all right. I think that I lost my appetite, so I'm off to the library once I finish my soda. I don't have to defile his Majesty's presence with my wits. Who knows? He might actually be infected with thought! Imagine that. No, wait. Don't. You might just sprain your brain."
"What are you going to do in the library, redhead? Try for your very first time to learn the alphabet?" Matt smirked.
"For your information, I go to the library to take up advanced psychology with the librarian. And if all she's telling me is right, you are a spoiled little boy who wants attention. I pity your family." She gave Matt a very direct look and sauntered off.
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Aki couldn't understand why Sora was so mean to Matt. Sure, Matt sometimes had a rather inflated ego, but that was about it. Other than the fact that he thought that every woman in the world would fall for him, he was all right. But what he thought was sort of true. But Sora said that he was ugly.
The three of them just stood there, gaping at her leaving form.
"Well, that's what I call spunk," Aidan said, breaking the silence. "That Sora girl has quite a bit of it."
"More than a bit, it seems," Matt grumbled, irritated for being so insulted by one girl who couldn't amount to much. After all, she didn't know who he was, so how could she be of any importance?
He just didn't get that girl.
Strangely, though, he wanted to. Very intriguing.
I'm going to show her, he thought. No girl can resist the Ishida charm. And when I'm through with her, she won't be able to resist it, either.
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CRACKLE-CRACKLE!! The PA system let out a loud chorale of static.
Tai winced as he heard a strange gurgling sound. Maybe that last prank wasn't as good as he thought. After all, the PA system probably had some very large aversion to marmalade.
Izzy gave him a disapproving look as he realized what was up. "Tai, I don't think that was too smart."
Tai beamed. "Whatever works."
Izzy clucked his tongue disapprovingly and proceeded to tell Shina about what had happened just as Aki, Matt, and this guy Tai knew from the soccer team made their way towards their table.
Tai noticed as they sat down that the three of them looked a little frazzled. He also noticed that Aki's hair looked really shiny, even in the lousy cafeteria light, especially as it shone in the sunlight coming from the window they were situated nearby. He blushed and forced his thoughts away from that. (A/N: OOOOOOHHH!!!) "What's up?" he inquired. "You guys don't look too good. And where's Sora? I thought that you guys said that you'd bring her here?" He also observed that Matt's face darkened a little when Tai said Sora's name. (A/N: I wonder why…)
"Oh, we found her, all right," Aki said loudly, trying to be heard over the screaming static. "But it appears that she and Matt have already met, in ways that I prefer not to disclose upon the public in fear of ruin to Matt's image." Aki was a little cross with Matt. Being Aki, she wheedled all the details of their meeting and became snippy towards him when she found out how mean he was to Sora.
But that didn't stop her rapt admiration for him, though.
Chloris looked at Aidan, puzzled. "Umm…what's he got to do with this? Aidan, right?"
Aidan nodded. "Aidan Feoras. And you're Chloris Erato? You know, I've heard of you, from the guys." Chloris nodded, smiling shyly. "They all annoy me so much. Sorry."
Aidan shrugged. "That's all right. I don't believe them anyway."
Tai had no idea what they were talking about, so he continued to pester Aki and Matt. "What do you mean, Aki? Matt? You've met Sora before?"
Matt nodded. "Unfortunately."
The look in Tai's eyes grew dreamy. "Isn't she a dish?"
Matt nodded again, gravely this time, though. "Yes. She is. And I'd like to break her." He grinned.
Tai looked curiously at his new friend. "I take it that you two met on bad terms?" he questioned. Aki nodded. "They had this round of insults before we could get the soda out of the machine."
CCCRAAAAAAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!!!! A particularly earsplitting burst of electricity exploded from the PA system and finally, Principal Suzuki's voice was heard on the system.
"WHOEVER PLACED MARMALADE INTO THE PA SYSTEM WILL HEAR FROM ME!!" she yelled, causing everyone to wince. She went on about it for a while before she finally cleared her throat. "Ahem. School today will be canceled. It appears that our two young celebrities Mimi Tachikawa and Yamato Ishida have caused several riots and disrupted each class they've been to, so school will resume on Thursday. Thank you. That is all."
A great cheer rose up from the cafeteria. "No school until Tuesday! All right!" Aki said enthusiastically. "Thanks, Matt! Wait 'till Sora hears this!" and hopped off her stool and raced away in the direction of the school library.
Izzy sighed, looking downhearted, Shina matching his expression perfectly. Tai looked at them curiously. "What's wrong?"
Shina let out her breath and told him, "Well, Physics is next and Professor Nieko was supposed to give the class a two hundred-item quiz."
Izzy's face was depressed, but he patted Shina's arm halfheartedly. "Don't worry. We still have Physics class on Thursday."
Shina's expression was stricken. "Three whole days away!" she cried. Both of them had those comical rivers of tears running down their faces.
Tai could only stare.
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There you have it! But there's that last question someone asked me before: WHERE'S KEN?! Don't worry, he'll be coming up soon enough. What is a story without the complete cast of characters? The answer? It depends, because some stories are marvelous, even if they only contain a few of the characters, but it feels more homey if everyone is back at home.
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"YOU!!" Sora couldn't believe it. What was this bighead doing in Odaiba? Was he enrolled here? Gods, no.
"YOU!!" Matt was enormously startled.
"What are you doing here, you jerk?" Sora glared at him. Aki looked scandalized, for some reason, but she chose to ignore it. She supposed that Aki was just startled because she never really was that rude.
"Excuse me?" Matt replied coldly. "I'm enrolled here, if you didn't know. You must live in some kind of hole in the ground not to know that I enrolled into this school."
Sora was getting irritated by this guy. "What, did you have some sort of fanfare? Who do you think you are? Some big movie star? Man, people these days," she muttered, shooting him a dark look.
"Yeah," Matt snorted. "I know. Some people lack respect for their betters."
"Exactly. So start your groveling, swine-head."
"Oh, well I think that—"
"STOP THIS!" Aki exclaimed. "You know Yamato Ishida? Why on earth didn't you tell me? How long did you keep this knowledge from me? It's very unseemly."
"I never said that I knew Yamato Ishida!" Sora protested indignantly. "You think that this jerk is Yamato Ishida? If the way you describe him to me is accurate, he's way too ugly to have any similarity with this rumor."
"UGLY?" Matt couldn't believe this girl. An uncouth student, ungraceful, and blind? Nobody thought he was ugly. Nobody.
Aki looked sheepish. "OK, so maybe my descriptions of him were a little overrated, but he is Yamato Ishida, Sora!"
Sora tweaked her head around to look at him. This jerk was the revered Yamato Ishida?
Matt looked right back at her, equally shocked. This uneducated little prick was everyone's beloved Sora Takenouchi?
They have got to be kidding me… This was a shared thought as the both of them glared at each other warily. Aki and Aidan looked a little confused.
"You know him, Sora?" Aki inquired. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Sora looked at her skeptically. "Do you think that I want to know this guy? He's completely moronic and what's more, he's a jerk! He pushed me down the stairs last Monday!"
"What makes you think that I knew you were there?" Matt griped.
"Well, genius, if you know how to read, yeah, you could have seen the sign I taped on the door inside that told you to knock before you open. Just how low exactly is your IQ? Fifty below, perhaps? I knew all that head banging busted brain cells." Sora grinned triumphantly at him.
Matt rolled his eyes. "The Teenage Wolves," he informed her, "do not head bang. We rock. Don't get it wrong next time."
Sora challenged, "And what if I do? Are you gonna come here with your fan girls and beat me up? Whatever happened to chivalry? I guess it might have deteriorated thanks to chauvinists like you."
"You don't even know me. Are you that quick to judge people because of that age-old sense of insecurity?" Matt's tone was lofty.
"Ooh. Big word. ''Insecurity', are you sure that you know what that means? Moreover, do you know how to spell it? Poor baby," Sora sneered. (A/N: Ah, refreshing arguments…I could go on for days end but that'll get boring for people who want the Sorato to start.) "Besides, I think that my judgment of you is pretty accurate. What kind of a gentleman, after knocking a lady down several steps headfirst, would call her a little rat and walk away without even helping her up and apologizing?"
"If you two wouldn't mind," Aidan suddenly cut in, "I think that the machine grew rather tired of your bickering, don't ye say? The soda has finally come out."
Sora turned her head to peer down at the slot. "Finally!" She swooped down and grabbed it. "I've had enough of all this hot air," she exclaimed, giving him a look. "Come on, Aki. Let's go back to our table. Care to join us, Aidan?" she asked, pointedly excluding Matt.
Aidan shrugged. Aki suddenly smiled at Sora nervously. "Eh…Sora? We kind of invited Matt to sit at our table." She wondered how this bit of news would be received.
Sora slowly turned around to give Aki an incredulous look. "What on earth did you do that for?"
Aki looked sheepish. "Well—"
Sora waved her hand, as though brushing it off. "Well, that's all right. I think that I lost my appetite, so I'm off to the library once I finish my soda. I don't have to defile his Majesty's presence with my wits. Who knows? He might actually be infected with thought! Imagine that. No, wait. Don't. You might just sprain your brain."
"What are you going to do in the library, redhead? Try for your very first time to learn the alphabet?" Matt smirked.
"For your information, I go to the library to take up advanced psychology with the librarian. And if all she's telling me is right, you are a spoiled little boy who wants attention. I pity your family." She gave Matt a very direct look and sauntered off.
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Aki couldn't understand why Sora was so mean to Matt. Sure, Matt sometimes had a rather inflated ego, but that was about it. Other than the fact that he thought that every woman in the world would fall for him, he was all right. But what he thought was sort of true. But Sora said that he was ugly.
The three of them just stood there, gaping at her leaving form.
"Well, that's what I call spunk," Aidan said, breaking the silence. "That Sora girl has quite a bit of it."
"More than a bit, it seems," Matt grumbled, irritated for being so insulted by one girl who couldn't amount to much. After all, she didn't know who he was, so how could she be of any importance?
He just didn't get that girl.
Strangely, though, he wanted to. Very intriguing.
I'm going to show her, he thought. No girl can resist the Ishida charm. And when I'm through with her, she won't be able to resist it, either.
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CRACKLE-CRACKLE!! The PA system let out a loud chorale of static.
Tai winced as he heard a strange gurgling sound. Maybe that last prank wasn't as good as he thought. After all, the PA system probably had some very large aversion to marmalade.
Izzy gave him a disapproving look as he realized what was up. "Tai, I don't think that was too smart."
Tai beamed. "Whatever works."
Izzy clucked his tongue disapprovingly and proceeded to tell Shina about what had happened just as Aki, Matt, and this guy Tai knew from the soccer team made their way towards their table.
Tai noticed as they sat down that the three of them looked a little frazzled. He also noticed that Aki's hair looked really shiny, even in the lousy cafeteria light, especially as it shone in the sunlight coming from the window they were situated nearby. He blushed and forced his thoughts away from that. (A/N: OOOOOOHHH!!!) "What's up?" he inquired. "You guys don't look too good. And where's Sora? I thought that you guys said that you'd bring her here?" He also observed that Matt's face darkened a little when Tai said Sora's name. (A/N: I wonder why…)
"Oh, we found her, all right," Aki said loudly, trying to be heard over the screaming static. "But it appears that she and Matt have already met, in ways that I prefer not to disclose upon the public in fear of ruin to Matt's image." Aki was a little cross with Matt. Being Aki, she wheedled all the details of their meeting and became snippy towards him when she found out how mean he was to Sora.
But that didn't stop her rapt admiration for him, though.
Chloris looked at Aidan, puzzled. "Umm…what's he got to do with this? Aidan, right?"
Aidan nodded. "Aidan Feoras. And you're Chloris Erato? You know, I've heard of you, from the guys." Chloris nodded, smiling shyly. "They all annoy me so much. Sorry."
Aidan shrugged. "That's all right. I don't believe them anyway."
Tai had no idea what they were talking about, so he continued to pester Aki and Matt. "What do you mean, Aki? Matt? You've met Sora before?"
Matt nodded. "Unfortunately."
The look in Tai's eyes grew dreamy. "Isn't she a dish?"
Matt nodded again, gravely this time, though. "Yes. She is. And I'd like to break her." He grinned.
Tai looked curiously at his new friend. "I take it that you two met on bad terms?" he questioned. Aki nodded. "They had this round of insults before we could get the soda out of the machine."
CCCRAAAAAAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!!!! A particularly earsplitting burst of electricity exploded from the PA system and finally, Principal Suzuki's voice was heard on the system.
"WHOEVER PLACED MARMALADE INTO THE PA SYSTEM WILL HEAR FROM ME!!" she yelled, causing everyone to wince. She went on about it for a while before she finally cleared her throat. "Ahem. School today will be canceled. It appears that our two young celebrities Mimi Tachikawa and Yamato Ishida have caused several riots and disrupted each class they've been to, so school will resume on Thursday. Thank you. That is all."
A great cheer rose up from the cafeteria. "No school until Tuesday! All right!" Aki said enthusiastically. "Thanks, Matt! Wait 'till Sora hears this!" and hopped off her stool and raced away in the direction of the school library.
Izzy sighed, looking downhearted, Shina matching his expression perfectly. Tai looked at them curiously. "What's wrong?"
Shina let out her breath and told him, "Well, Physics is next and Professor Nieko was supposed to give the class a two hundred-item quiz."
Izzy's face was depressed, but he patted Shina's arm halfheartedly. "Don't worry. We still have Physics class on Thursday."
Shina's expression was stricken. "Three whole days away!" she cried. Both of them had those comical rivers of tears running down their faces.
Tai could only stare.
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There you have it! But there's that last question someone asked me before: WHERE'S KEN?! Don't worry, he'll be coming up soon enough. What is a story without the complete cast of characters? The answer? It depends, because some stories are marvelous, even if they only contain a few of the characters, but it feels more homey if everyone is back at home.