Attara: Hello again!
Aria: Hi, everyone!
Attara: At first, I was going to do this chapter in Devi's point of view, but she's too hard to do…
Aria: Does Devi really matter?
Attara: Yes! First, she's the main character, and second, she's my favorite one, too.
Aria: Well, too bad, this chapter is all from my opinions, my thoughts, and my ideas!
Attara: Anyway, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh and never will…which all of you probably figured by now. Last chapter, we left off where Aria grabbed Devi and they teleported out of the Kaiba mansion.
"Don't leave this house!" I ordered Devi when we had arrived in Liana's former residence.
"Why not?" she asked.
"There are dangerous people out there…"
"Like Yami?"
"Exactly!"
"But aren't you…?"
"That doesn't matter right now!"
"Okay…"
I choked back tears while rushing out of the room, heading toward the guest bedroom. What was I supposed to do? I pondered as I crawled into the bed. Devi had to stay away from them. They involved magic, and magic can kill…
I awoke to the sounds of shuffling in the room…quick and scared. I could smell the fear in the air, but I made sure to feign the state of sleep. The figure exited the room. I followed him and realized that it was Liana's butler. He entered Liana's bedroom. Apparently, Devi was sleeping there. I crept behind the doorway and smiled at his nervousness.
"Miss Liana, there is a girl here that resembles you!" He informed Devi.
"Ah, yes, she is…er…my twin sister…" She lied.
"I see, Miss Liana, thank you for telling me." Adam breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry about her."
"Well, Miss Liana, you seem better now after the incident, so would you like to come to school today?"
"School?"
"Yes, Domino High School, once your tutor had passed away, you were immediately enrolled."
"Oh…I must have forgotten over the accident…"
"So, shall we ask the chauffeur to drop you off?"
"Of course, please wake Aria, too."
"Your sister? Of course."
"Thank you, Adam."
I rushed to my room and dove under the covers. Seconds later, the creaky door opened and a tense man crept in.
"Uh…Miss Aria? Please wake…" He said barely above a whisper.
I stifled a giggle.
"Oh…all right." I pretended to be sleeping.
"Yes, miss, there is a uniform in the closet for school, if you have not prepared one."
Uniform? I wondered. What kind of school were we going to? Adam quickly scurried out of the room, probably to prepare breakfast or something.
The uniform I was designated to wear had a short, blue skirt, which wasn't to my liking at all. What could you do with a short skirt? Stand all day? This was pathetic…just like a lot of other things on earth…those sexist school boards with their stupid ideas of a uniform… Stupidity beyond imagination! Ugh! But, nevertheless, I had to wear the mandatory uniform, or Devi would probably force me into it…and that wasn't going to be a pleasant moment. I glanced at the mirror and saw the ugly frills. A burlap bag would look better!
When I finally got down to breakfast, there, set at the table, was none other than earth food. I glanced at Devi, trying to analyze her expression, but for once in her life, she actually allowed herself to look stoic. I guess she realized that my reaction to this would have been rude… I just closed my eyes and ate as much as I could before tasting the flavors.
"Why did I have to go to school?" I complained when we were in the limousine.
"Because it's against the law to drop out of school before you graduate." Devi reminded.
"Why does Earth have so many rules?"
She shook her head and laughed. But before I could think this over, we arrived at a large, brick building with the words "Domino High School" mounted on the side.
"We're here." I said gloomily.
"Yes, we are, and now we have to find the guidance counselor to get our classes." Devi sighed.
"Stupid school…"
We roamed the halls, attempting to follow the signs that pointed to the right direction, unfortunately, the signs were in paper, and apparently, people who come here find it fun to tear paper up… This obviously made the task extremely difficult. Devi found an adult and asked for directions.
"New, huh?" She asked.
"Uh, yeah." Devi smiled. "Both of us are." She grabbed me.
"Well, you're pretty close to it…just take the first left and look for the sign at the right-hand side, okay?"
"Okay, thank you!"
"Anytime. Bye now!"
I rolled my eyes.
"Do they have to be so cheery?" I growled when the woman walked away.
Devi ignored me and just followed the directions. We came upon a big door saying "Guidance Office" in the front. She opened the creaky door and peered in.
"May I help you?" Another woman asked us once we entered.
"Um…yes… Well, I just came here, so I'm new, and I need to find my classes…" Devi started.
"No problem. Just tell me your last name."
"Uh…Mornedra."
"Okay, and who is this girl next to you? Are you two twins?"
"Yes, we are."
"How cute!"
"Um…thank you?"
"Okay, your guidance counselor is Mr. Hyasaki. He's right over there." She pointed to the door at my left.
"Thank you."
We rushed into the room. We found a man in a black suit sitting behind a wooden desk. He seemed to be on a computer. I felt Clef's presence in the room all of a sudden.
"Well, hello there. How may I help you?" He greeted.
"We're new here, so I need to know my classes…" Devi repeated while handing him some papers…probably what Clef had given her.
"Okay, that can be settled easily, although all of the good classes are taken by now."
"That's okay."
"But you're going to have the basics: chemistry, American history, English, and grammar." He chuckled.
"Of course."
"Now, what are you interested in?"
"I don't know…"
"Well, I guess you could go to creative writing… Let's see if there is an opening here…ah yes! Here it is!"
"Um…are there two spaces for that?"
"Well, no, but I could always add an extra person to the class…"
"Yes, please! Can you do that to everything else?"
"Well, it would be against the rules…"
"It would?"
"I just need to check, please wait."
At that moment, I saw Devi signal for Clef to come again. I could sense him in the room once more as the guidance counselor spoke. After several seconds, he left.
"Ha, you're just in luck, we have two spaces in everything." The counselor said.
"Oh how lucky we are." I muttered.
"Yes we are." Devi replied.
"Well, here is a list of your classes, girls. I think you'll be able to find them easily."
"Okay."
"How mindless I must be today, I forgot to ask for your name!"
"My name was Liana…"
"It says here that you don't have a guardian or a last name?"
"Well…that's sort of solved by marriage and I do have a last name now since I found my long-lost sister…"
"So what is your last name?
"Mornedra."
"What an odd name… Well, everything seems to be in order…except that your sister is not in the database…"
"That's because she's not enlisted yet. Her name is Aria Mornedra and I have just given you her paperwork."
"Aria, is it? Okay… Just let me enter her in…and…a-ha! Now she has every class you do."
"I have never had a happier day." I said sarcastically.
"Well, here are your schedules and your birth certificates. Hold on, let me make copies of your birth certificates."
"Yeah, well, thank you."
Devi grabbed me again and bolted out of the room once he slowly took his time putting the documents into the copy machine.
"School was and always will be stupid and a waste of time." I groaned.
"Well, since we are immortal, there's no such thing as wasting time, now is there?" She smiled.
"Whatever… What's our first class?"
Suddenly, a loud bell rang throughout the halls.
"What was that?" I asked.
"Hm…it must signal for the start of class." Devi noted when hundreds of teenagers created traffic in the corridors.
"Must be…"
"Bad news…" Devi yelled to me over the crowd.
"What?"
"We have English."
"English?! English is so boring! I don't see the point of taking it!"
"Well, it's a basic study, so you still have to go…"
Devi shoved her hand into the backpack to find a map of the school.
"Stupid room numbers…they're so small that you can't even see if that is a B or D!" I complained.
"Look, I found A206, just follow me."
Do schools have to be so big? The halls are tiny and the rooms are huge, and people don't even use the whole thing! This is so not logical!
"Well, here we are."
I sighed when Devi dragged me to a strange-smelling room filled with pictures of America and its symbols plastered across the walls. Devi walked up to the teacher, explaining that I was a new student here.
"Okay, class, we have a new student here today. Her name is Aria Mornedra. Aria, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?" The teacher asked too cheerily, especially for me.
"Uh…I was an orphan…" I closed her eyes, straining to remember what Devi had told the counselor, "and Devi's my twin sister who I just found recently… Erm…that's about it…"
"Thank you, Aria, you may sit down now next to Liana."
"Er, where do I sit?" Devi asked the smiling teacher.
"You forgot already?"
"Huh, yeah, silly me, I have a terribly memory."
"Just behind Seto Kaiba. I'm sure you know who he is." She watched Devi closely to see her reaction.
"Okay, thank you." She scrambled to her seat, ignoring the teacher's uncomfortable stares.
I fell into mine rather than sat. Seto didn't even look up from his book for all this time. Several girls giggled and whispered to each other while looking at his deep concentration. I rolled my eyes.
"How pathetic." Was my predictable phrase.
"Today class, we are going to learn the different tenses of the English language." The teacher droned.
"Ms. Tokaru, I already memorized it!" A girl said excitedly.
"That's very nice, Nasawa. Could you do it on the board for us?"
"Of course!" The girl glanced at Seto, who still didn't look up.
The girl started to scrawl several illegible English letters onto the board, but halfway, she stopped.
"Uh…Ms. Tokaru, I seem to have forgotten the rest…" She sighed.
"Okay, well, please choose another student to finish." Ms. Tokaru said.
"Aria."
"But she-"
"That's okay, Ms. Tokaru." I interrupted. "I learned a little bit of English before."
"Very well, then."
I marched up to the board with pride and completed the general rules for present and future tenses. Looks like paying attention to Mornedraian tutors does have some advantage…
"Excellent, Aria!" The teacher praised.
I glared at Nasawa. Was she trying to embarrass me in front of the class? Well, she'd have to try harder than that. I returned to my seat and blocked out the rest of the lesson until another bell rang.
We started rushing to the next class since we were swept away with the crowd. The next period was gym. This class held a lot of the sophomores, so Devi and I saw Yu-Gi, Tèa, Bakura, Ryou, Yami, Tori, Saka, Joey, Tristan, and Seto.
I could tell Seto didn't really belong in the group because he disliked Yami for some reason. Yu-Gi then came up to Devi. I stood next to her protectively.
"So, Devi, you've come to school?"
"Obviously." I answered for her.
"Next period is lunch, do you want to sit with us?"
"Okay." Devi said.
"No." I contradicted.
"Aria, why not?" asked Devi.
"Don't you see? We're getting closer to the enemy!"
"I don't think so…"
"How can you be so sure?"
"I am. Just once?" Devi asked.
"Fine then."
We played some sort of game called Dodge Ball. Just like the name implies, you have to dodge the ball. To me, it was boring, to everyone else except Devi, it was "fun." These two periods of agony soon ended as another bell rung.
Devi and I went to the cafeteria, but we forgot to bring money. Then someone tapped Devi on her shoulder. She turned around and saw Adam holding two lunches.
"Thank you!" Devi exclaimed gratefully.
"Thanks." I mumbled.
Devi was looking for Yu-Gi and saw him waving to us to come over. She ran over while dragging me with her. It seems as if she knew I would run away if I wasn't forced to go anywhere. Everybody we knew sat there, except for Seto. Joey noticed that Devi was puzzled at his disappearance.
"Kaiba isn't sociable." He explained.
"Oh."
I wandered around the cafeteria, looking for Seto. If he isn't sociable, then why don't we make him sociable? A couple minutes later, all of them could probably see me coming over to the table hauling over an angry Seto Kaiba.
"Let me go!" he demanded.
"No. You must have a full health triangle, and your social health is waaaay down there." I justified.
"I said let me go!"
Seto made another attempt to run away, but my superhuman strength (yes, another potion) took over and lifted Seto a couple of inches off the floor. Devi was laughing hysterically along with everyone at the table. But Joey didn't find the thought of eating with him very pleasing. I placed him onto the seat next to Devi. Seto tried to get away, but this was when Tori used telekinesis to keep him down.
"What's wrong with you people?" he screamed.
I muffled him before he could attract any more attention. Devi finished her lunch quickly and turned to Seto Kaiba.
"If Aria stops muffling you, will you not scream?" Devi asked. Seto nodded.
"Okay, Aria."
I let him go and, true to his word, Seto sat there quietly.
"So, Seto, how was school?" Devi asked in a friendly way.
"I've had better." He mumbled as he started on his lunch.
"So, how do you like school so far?" Yu-Gi asked both of us.
"It's good." Devi said. If I had answered…Devi would have probably scolded me again.
We had to go to geometry class after lunch, but I first had to go to the bathroom, so Devi went ahead without me.
Several seconds later, a fire drill rang throughout the school. Devi saw me coming down the hallway, being swept away from the wave of kids scrambling to get outside. Everybody looked around eagerly for any signs of fire or smoke. Fire trucks were heard as they rushed toward the school. I was a bit confused with this procedure. I had never even heard of trucks when I was previously in school, so, obviously, this was a new experience for me. Devi asked around for what caused the fire, and someone had said that a person had started it in the girls' bathroom. I quickly turned away. Oops...
"Aria, did you do that?"
"I didn't know how to flush the toilet, so I got a little angry, and my powers sort of went out of control…" I smiled sheepishly.
"Aria!"
"Sorry…hehe."
"Well, let's just hope that they don't find out the true source of this."
"Don't worry, these humans are too narrow-minded to even think of that possibility."
" You're lucky this time, Aria, but try not to get angry at these new technological advances in the mortal realm, okay?"
"I'll remember that."
"Good."
This event caused every pupil to return home early. Devi took out her cell phone to call her chauffeur. Minutes later, a white limousine reached the front of the building. We walked in quickly before people could crowd around it. Right behind this vehicle was Seto's limousine. He was also rushing to get there, but it was too late. To solve this problem, he threatened to "drop" people where they stood if they wouldn't get out of his way.
When we had finally reached the mansion, I dashed to the television set while Devi had to go to work (poor Devi). I, on the other hand, had the luxury of being able to sprawl on the couch lazily and watch the perpetual soap operas that make my life seem a little less complicated than their millions of problems.
Sometimes, you have to cherish life's small moments of relaxation because they may never happen again…
Attara: Now how do you like that chapter?
Aria: Very…uh…nice!
Attara: Of course, another masterpiece done by me!
Aria: So that's what you call a masterpiece?
Attara: Yup!
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