Chapter 14: Catrina vs. Juuban High:
I didn't know how to act and I had no idea what to wear. Amara had gone out and found me all the necessary stuff I would need for Juuban and told me what they required. I told him I had never done this thing before and I really don't think he got me. He said I would meet new people and have a lot of fun. I told him that I have no clue what I was supposed to do or say or act or anything like that since I have never been to school but the orphanage did let some people come in and teach us after a while but one day they just stopped coming. They said something about we were impossible to teach let alone control for more than five minutes at a time so I didn't learn much of anything but my parents taught me some things and I learn some things from Amara, Michelle, Serena, and her friends.
When Amara came upstairs and told me that Serena and the girls were waiting downstairs I began to get dressed faster and Michelle braided my hair and Trista told me about the do's and don't even think about it's and even Amara was getting into this saying if anyone started anything with me there was this one move I could use that would make them regret they ever said this, especially if they were a guy. He was so overprotective. It was funny. Since Trista moved in with I guess who was her daughter Horuka, it was like I had a real family. Michelle gave me guidance and helped me with some things that I needed help on, like my hair and clothes. Amara taught me how to be tough and not take any criticism if it was bad, no matter what anyone says, Trista was like my older sister, and Horuka was like a younger sister, some one to talk to and teach the things that I was just learning myself. She had to be a few months old, maybe even a year. Time must have gone by so fast because the last time I checked she was so small and now look at her.
"Let's see…Oh, Catrina you have a computer class with me. Let's go before we're late." Ami and I separated from everyone as we walked down the hall into a large crowd of people who all seemed to be circling around these three guys. I was able to get a look at one of the guys as I pasted. He had long white hair and bright green eyes. He kind of hung back from the groups of girls that seemed to circle around them at the lockers but he paid some attention. I bumped into Ami on accident that seemed to be mesmerized by him and that was a first. Usually Ami was the one who didn't think about boys as much as the other girls did but she was very into him.
"Ami? Class?" She snapped out of it and we walked to class but she kept slowly turning to see if he was still there even though she tried to act like she was seeing if I was still behind her.
"I wonder what his name is?" She smiled at me as we sat down at the computer and she told me how to turn it on and then suddenly there was the guy she had been talking about. Some girls were still following him but he still seemed not to really care and ended up sitting in between Ami and I.
"Hi." Ami said as he sat down and she looked as if she was blushing. He smiled back and then looked at me and then turned on his computer. He got out some things from his pack and when I noticed Ami doing the same thing I decided to do it to. By the time we were all set the teacher how come into the class and sat down at her computer and called out names. When she called Ami she said here and the teacher told her that she could start her lesson and where to find it but I was still waiting until she got to my name.
"I see that we have two new people joining the class. Will you both stand?" I looked around and wondered who the other person was as I slowly stood up and all eyes were on me and suddenly the guy next to me stood. I didn't think the other new person would be that close to me but I guess you could say we had that in common.
"Tell us about yourselves?" I didn't know what to say. I couldn't say who I really was because I didn't really know and no one would believe me so I paused for a second and after about a minute or two and some people whispering the guy next to me spoke.
"My name is Yaten Kou. I transferred here from another school and place. This is my first day. I have two best friends that transferred with me. I haven't joined any clubs or activities, I hate to get sweaty and all those things but I do play keyboard. My birthday is February 8th and I'm 16 and like I know a lot of you have heard by now but I do play keyboard and am a member to the Three Lights." He sat back down as more people talked and asked questions as the teacher nodded for me to speak.
"Hi. I'm new here too. I just started Juuban today and I transferred too, I guess. I have a few friends that go here too and I stay with four of my friends as well. I like to cook but I do find martial arts fun as well. My birthday day is June 9th and I'm going to be 17 then. I haven't joined any clubs either. Oh, and I don't play an instrument for the Three Lights." When I said the comment about the Three Lights everyone except Ami started laughing. The teacher was trying to get them quiet but it didn't work totally. I heard some people say things about me I guess but I wasn't really sure. I was nervous enough and this didn't help so I sat down and tried to block it out, as everyone finally got quiet. I looked at Ami who gave me a thumbs up and that made me feel a bit better until I heard someone mock me and say "Oh, I don't play an instrument for the Three Lights" and then some other comment. I kept trying not to think about it and work on my assignment but I didn't get this. First you type a sentence, then you type the answer, then you retype it, then you enter it, then you do it over again, it was too confusing. Ami and even Yaten didn't seem to have any trouble.
"Ami?" I said as she stopped typing and smiled at me. I told her how does she do this part and before she could answer me the teacher told me to work on my lesson and someone made the Three Lights comment again. I turned around and saw two girls with long black hair, possibly twins; they smiled at me and then made the comment again to my face. I got up turned off her computer, which completely messed up her lesson along with her partner and sat back down. Before I realized it the teacher was standing in front of me and asked me why did I do that. Just having her stand in front of me, everyone looking at me, seeing some other people's lesson screens that were half way to the bottom while I only had three words on my screen after almost an hour, and that just made me even more embarrassed. I got up and grabbed my stuff and ran out of the classroom pushing past anyone who got in my way down the hall.
When I got outside I stopped to breathe and realized what I just did. I had totally embarrassed myself, not once, but twice, I couldn't go back in there. I dropped my stuff down and sat on it until Ami came out. I didn't want to explain it to her but she didn't ask. She just told me about how she felt when she came here, since it is her first day here to. She says everyone is just trying to figure me out and they don't mean it to be mean to you. She said some people are just like that with people they don't know. I told her that I didn't want to come her and I wanted to go back home and not come back tomorrow. She said that I could call Amara or Michelle or Trista and talk to them and maybe I will feel better. So I did.
Amara gave me some advice which Michelle said not to follow in this situation unless I wanted to be arrested but she laughed and gave me the nicer view of what Amara just said and then gave me her own advice, and then I talked to Trista who gave me her feelings when she was in my place and that she is in a new school now with Amara and Michelle and she feels the same way.
After our long talk I went back to class. The teacher had everyone apologize and gave me there ideas and opinions of when they just started school and just started here for all the people who this is there first day here at this school to but they weren't new to the area. Yaten even talked to me a bit after class and told me it would be okay and just don't let it bother me. After I was done talking to him Ami wanted to know his every word. I could tell that she liked him. We met up with Serena and Mina; I had a math class with them. We walked down the hall as they talked about the hot guys in there class but Serena got quiet when it got to a few of them. She said she was thinking about Darien and wondering if he was ok and if he is going to call until she bumped into someone. He had long brown hair and dark brown eyes and he was very talk and quite handsome and really seemed to be checking her out.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Forgive me. Hi, I'm Sieya Kou. I'm new here." Serena looked at him and smiled and extended her hand.
"I'm Serena, this is Mina, and Catrina. That's nice. We are on our way to…hold on a second. You look familiar?" Sieya said he didn't think so and smiled at her sweetly before Yaten waved him over to where he was.
"Serena do you know who you just talked to?" Serena had absolutely no idea and Mina filled her in on the total biography of Sieya as well as Yaten and Taiki and their Three Lights status. Mina was really dedicated to them as a fan and Serena even got into it.
"Yaten is in my class." When I said that they wanted all the details about him even down to the way that he breathed and what he looked like he thought when he looked a certain way and how we have tickets for there concert tonight and I'm going whether or not I decide to or not…
I didn't know how to act and I had no idea what to wear. Amara had gone out and found me all the necessary stuff I would need for Juuban and told me what they required. I told him I had never done this thing before and I really don't think he got me. He said I would meet new people and have a lot of fun. I told him that I have no clue what I was supposed to do or say or act or anything like that since I have never been to school but the orphanage did let some people come in and teach us after a while but one day they just stopped coming. They said something about we were impossible to teach let alone control for more than five minutes at a time so I didn't learn much of anything but my parents taught me some things and I learn some things from Amara, Michelle, Serena, and her friends.
When Amara came upstairs and told me that Serena and the girls were waiting downstairs I began to get dressed faster and Michelle braided my hair and Trista told me about the do's and don't even think about it's and even Amara was getting into this saying if anyone started anything with me there was this one move I could use that would make them regret they ever said this, especially if they were a guy. He was so overprotective. It was funny. Since Trista moved in with I guess who was her daughter Horuka, it was like I had a real family. Michelle gave me guidance and helped me with some things that I needed help on, like my hair and clothes. Amara taught me how to be tough and not take any criticism if it was bad, no matter what anyone says, Trista was like my older sister, and Horuka was like a younger sister, some one to talk to and teach the things that I was just learning myself. She had to be a few months old, maybe even a year. Time must have gone by so fast because the last time I checked she was so small and now look at her.
"Let's see…Oh, Catrina you have a computer class with me. Let's go before we're late." Ami and I separated from everyone as we walked down the hall into a large crowd of people who all seemed to be circling around these three guys. I was able to get a look at one of the guys as I pasted. He had long white hair and bright green eyes. He kind of hung back from the groups of girls that seemed to circle around them at the lockers but he paid some attention. I bumped into Ami on accident that seemed to be mesmerized by him and that was a first. Usually Ami was the one who didn't think about boys as much as the other girls did but she was very into him.
"Ami? Class?" She snapped out of it and we walked to class but she kept slowly turning to see if he was still there even though she tried to act like she was seeing if I was still behind her.
"I wonder what his name is?" She smiled at me as we sat down at the computer and she told me how to turn it on and then suddenly there was the guy she had been talking about. Some girls were still following him but he still seemed not to really care and ended up sitting in between Ami and I.
"Hi." Ami said as he sat down and she looked as if she was blushing. He smiled back and then looked at me and then turned on his computer. He got out some things from his pack and when I noticed Ami doing the same thing I decided to do it to. By the time we were all set the teacher how come into the class and sat down at her computer and called out names. When she called Ami she said here and the teacher told her that she could start her lesson and where to find it but I was still waiting until she got to my name.
"I see that we have two new people joining the class. Will you both stand?" I looked around and wondered who the other person was as I slowly stood up and all eyes were on me and suddenly the guy next to me stood. I didn't think the other new person would be that close to me but I guess you could say we had that in common.
"Tell us about yourselves?" I didn't know what to say. I couldn't say who I really was because I didn't really know and no one would believe me so I paused for a second and after about a minute or two and some people whispering the guy next to me spoke.
"My name is Yaten Kou. I transferred here from another school and place. This is my first day. I have two best friends that transferred with me. I haven't joined any clubs or activities, I hate to get sweaty and all those things but I do play keyboard. My birthday is February 8th and I'm 16 and like I know a lot of you have heard by now but I do play keyboard and am a member to the Three Lights." He sat back down as more people talked and asked questions as the teacher nodded for me to speak.
"Hi. I'm new here too. I just started Juuban today and I transferred too, I guess. I have a few friends that go here too and I stay with four of my friends as well. I like to cook but I do find martial arts fun as well. My birthday day is June 9th and I'm going to be 17 then. I haven't joined any clubs either. Oh, and I don't play an instrument for the Three Lights." When I said the comment about the Three Lights everyone except Ami started laughing. The teacher was trying to get them quiet but it didn't work totally. I heard some people say things about me I guess but I wasn't really sure. I was nervous enough and this didn't help so I sat down and tried to block it out, as everyone finally got quiet. I looked at Ami who gave me a thumbs up and that made me feel a bit better until I heard someone mock me and say "Oh, I don't play an instrument for the Three Lights" and then some other comment. I kept trying not to think about it and work on my assignment but I didn't get this. First you type a sentence, then you type the answer, then you retype it, then you enter it, then you do it over again, it was too confusing. Ami and even Yaten didn't seem to have any trouble.
"Ami?" I said as she stopped typing and smiled at me. I told her how does she do this part and before she could answer me the teacher told me to work on my lesson and someone made the Three Lights comment again. I turned around and saw two girls with long black hair, possibly twins; they smiled at me and then made the comment again to my face. I got up turned off her computer, which completely messed up her lesson along with her partner and sat back down. Before I realized it the teacher was standing in front of me and asked me why did I do that. Just having her stand in front of me, everyone looking at me, seeing some other people's lesson screens that were half way to the bottom while I only had three words on my screen after almost an hour, and that just made me even more embarrassed. I got up and grabbed my stuff and ran out of the classroom pushing past anyone who got in my way down the hall.
When I got outside I stopped to breathe and realized what I just did. I had totally embarrassed myself, not once, but twice, I couldn't go back in there. I dropped my stuff down and sat on it until Ami came out. I didn't want to explain it to her but she didn't ask. She just told me about how she felt when she came here, since it is her first day here to. She says everyone is just trying to figure me out and they don't mean it to be mean to you. She said some people are just like that with people they don't know. I told her that I didn't want to come her and I wanted to go back home and not come back tomorrow. She said that I could call Amara or Michelle or Trista and talk to them and maybe I will feel better. So I did.
Amara gave me some advice which Michelle said not to follow in this situation unless I wanted to be arrested but she laughed and gave me the nicer view of what Amara just said and then gave me her own advice, and then I talked to Trista who gave me her feelings when she was in my place and that she is in a new school now with Amara and Michelle and she feels the same way.
After our long talk I went back to class. The teacher had everyone apologize and gave me there ideas and opinions of when they just started school and just started here for all the people who this is there first day here at this school to but they weren't new to the area. Yaten even talked to me a bit after class and told me it would be okay and just don't let it bother me. After I was done talking to him Ami wanted to know his every word. I could tell that she liked him. We met up with Serena and Mina; I had a math class with them. We walked down the hall as they talked about the hot guys in there class but Serena got quiet when it got to a few of them. She said she was thinking about Darien and wondering if he was ok and if he is going to call until she bumped into someone. He had long brown hair and dark brown eyes and he was very talk and quite handsome and really seemed to be checking her out.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Forgive me. Hi, I'm Sieya Kou. I'm new here." Serena looked at him and smiled and extended her hand.
"I'm Serena, this is Mina, and Catrina. That's nice. We are on our way to…hold on a second. You look familiar?" Sieya said he didn't think so and smiled at her sweetly before Yaten waved him over to where he was.
"Serena do you know who you just talked to?" Serena had absolutely no idea and Mina filled her in on the total biography of Sieya as well as Yaten and Taiki and their Three Lights status. Mina was really dedicated to them as a fan and Serena even got into it.
"Yaten is in my class." When I said that they wanted all the details about him even down to the way that he breathed and what he looked like he thought when he looked a certain way and how we have tickets for there concert tonight and I'm going whether or not I decide to or not…