Mia giggled looking at the wide eyed girl. "Suge.."
"Yeah, the cool is pretty big ^^"
"My arms are gona fall off before my first class tomorrow!"
"Have a little faith!!"
"Faith is a double edged sword." Mia sweat dropped.
"So were is the art room?" Mia froze and pointed up the stairs.
"Second floor," Cloud turned her head down.
"How exactly do I get up there?"
"Um I could get someone I know to give you a piggy back.. and someone to carry your chair?" The color drained form Cloud's face.
"I really want a knife right now,"
"Don't think such things or we'll have to put you in a clinic!" Cloud winced.
"Something tells me I am so not gona blend in," Mai smiled.
"Being different isn't always bad, I like you, and not because I feel sorry for you, but because you're a nice caring person ^^" Cloud managed a smile.
"Arigato... But I can't believe I'm going to have to have a piggyback ride!! Oh the insanity!! The cruelty!! The irony of it all!!" Mia laughed.
"You could be a great actress!"
"I was before the accident," Mia suddenly felt guilty, but it disappeared when Cloud smiled. "Maybe with practice I can be one again!" Mia giggled. Cloud thought a minute, then took out a map of the school, she marked were the art room was and wrote a little note about the piggy back thing, then smiled. "Next, Social studies ^^"
******~~~~~~~~
It ended up the classes after Art were all upstairs, so that was convenient, sort of.. Then Cloud would have to catch ANOTHER ride back down the stairs. Mia smiled at her. "So you only brought these 2 suitcases and that duffle bag?"
"I like to travel light," Mia nodded and smiles, putting the suitcases in the back of her jeep, Cloud then placed her duffel bag in. "Don't you have to pick up some other students that live with you?"
"No they have their own car," she paused, "I wouldn't let them drive with me even if my life counted on it,"
"That bad?"
"No, just VERY fast and reckless ^^" Cloud managed a small smile again, she was nervous about meeting the other students. Cloud rolled over the passenger side, and pulled herself out f the jeer, using the jeep to hold herself up. Mia folded up the chair and out it in the back, then she got over to the driver's side and got in.
It took Cloud a little bit, but she managed to open the door and got herself inside. She was panting when it was over. Mai looked over concerned. "You o.k.?" Cloud shook her head yes and buckled her seat belt as Mia started the car.
"The place is pretty big, and it's hidden, I'm sure you'll love it thought ^^"
"Anything is fine, I'm stuck here until my "mother' says otherwise,"
"I take it your not to fond of her?"
"Nope." Mia smiled and pulled into the driveway, she giggled seeing Cloud's eyes go huge.
"suge..."
"Yeah, hope you like it ^^"
"Wow." that was all Cloud could say as Mia got the chair out and unfolded it for her.
It took a bit of effort, but a lot less than last time form her to get back into it, and this time she wasn't panting much. "You going to be alright?' Mia asked, putting a hand on her shoulder. Cloud nodded, but jumped when she heard a loud roar, she looked and saw a huge White Tiger running towards them! "WHITE BLAZE! NO!!" it was too late the big tiger jumped and pounced on Cloud, knocking her out of her wheel chair, and both ended up on the ground, Cloud staring up calmly at White Blaze, him on top her.
Both creature and girl looked each other in the eye, that is until white blaze licked her face and got off her. She reached up and scratched him behind the each, he roared softly, and Cloud smiled, then she lifted his paw and took out a thorn, the tiger seemed to smile happily as it trotted off. Mia stared wide-eyed. 'How did you do that?" Cloud shrugged.
"I don't know." Mia got Cloud's wheel chair, and helped her back into it, Cloud winced.
"Are you alight?" Mia asked, getting concerned.
"I'm fine, it's nothing," Cloud put on her best grin. "Anymore surprises?"
"Just one ^.~ and I wont tell yet," Cloud rolled her eyes.
"Your just like." her eyes saddened, "Just like Katie," she brightened up again shrugging it off, and Mia decided not to ask. Instead she lead Cloud into the house, and giggled as her eyes went wide seeing guys, 5 of them no less. "I take it this is the other surprise?"
"Hai ^^" they stopped watching the T.V. and Cye turned it off.
"Who's this Mia?" asked Rowen. Cloud felt her face redden in embarrassment.
"She's going to be staying with us for the school year, her name is Cloud ^^" Cloud wasn't paying attention, and neither was one of the guys, both were staring at each other.
"You?" they both said simultaneously. "You've met?' asked Mia. Cloud grinned sheepishly and put a hand to her forehead.
"hehe, um yeah ^^0" both teens blushed more, and several of the guys snickered. Mia cleared her throat.
"Well introduce yourselves!" now they all blushed.
"Cye Mourie,"
"Kento Rei Faun,"
"Rowen Hashiba,"
"Sage Date,"
"Ryo Sanada, I've already had the pleasure?" Cloud blushed once more.
"Careful, both of you! Don't burn the house down!" joked Kento, both teens blushed more.
"Kento, behave or I'll get my frying pan," Warned Cye, edging towards the kitchen. Cloud shook her head grinning.
"I have a feeling this is not going to be the worst school year ever for once," she smiled. "For once.. Someone doesn't have a problem with my legs," she tried to smile, and she hoped she did it right. They smiled at her.
"Believe me, that isn't our style," Rowen winked.
***~~~
They had just finished dinner, and were just talking around the table now. "So what happened to make you paralyzed?" Kento asked rather bluntly. Cye shot him a glare, but Cloud smiled.
"I guess it was unavoidable, I knew this would come up, but the question is, do you want to know?"
"It's up to you," Ryo smiled form her right.
"Well, I guess, I was in a car/horse crash." she started form the beginning, and tears burdened her, but she pushed them back. "and the last thing I remember before passing out, was Katie's blood mixing with mine, and looking over as her face. it was white. I haven't walked or ridden horses ever again, but I do remember it, and I dream of it a lot," she closed her eyes, a smile gracing her lips, "The horses steady pace, the wind blowing our hair back, and the wide open fields. The warmth and loving feeling shared with the horse and myself and-" she stopped and opened her eyes, blushing a soft pink color. "Gomen, I got carried away ^^0"
"It's o.k.," smiled Cye.
"That was interesting," observed Halo, his one eye closed, "I haven't heard Horse back riding told so brilliantly, and full of emotion-"
"Are you an actress?" Rowen interrupted, getting a glare from Sage.
"I used to be, and hope I will again ^^"
Mia sighed and looked through the folder the receptionist gave her. 'I hate to be the bad guy, but you know it's time for your exercise," she smiled, and Cloud face faulted.
"Damn." she sighed. "and I thought they would be kind enough to forget that! But noooo! Let them prolong my suffering," she added a fake sniffle getting several chuckles. Mia laughed and handed her the duffle bag she had stashed under her chair.
"Now," she said, trying to sound convincing, but there's the difference, trying and doing are two different things and everyone went into fits of laughter.
Cloud however saluted good naturedly, "Yes Mam," that sent some more chuckles as she put the duffle bag in her lap.
"You can use the living room floor," Mia smiled. Cloud nodded and wheeled away.
Now of course they were all wondering what the girl who seemed so happy could possibly dread about some exercise, so they trailed behind her silently and she stopped in the living room, she then carefully eased herself out of her chair. She ended up half falling to the floor.
None-the-less, she sat on the floor, her legs stretched out straight. She opened the duffle bag and pulled out a laptop, she put it on her side, and leaned over my her knees, she found what she was looking for, and that ended up being a zipper on each one of her pain legs, she zipped her pants off from the knee down, her legs were wrapped in ace wrap. She paused in taking them off. "Can I help you?" she uttered, turning behind her were they all grinned sheepishly and sat down on the couch, she laughed lightly. "All you had to do was ask," she smiled and unwrapped her legs, she winced at them, they were sore. "I have a modifying control system in my legs, each night I'm supposed to fiddle with my nerves and internal systems," a few grossed out looks appeared on some people's faces.
Rowen however was quite interested, and he got off the couch to creep nearer. Only Kento noticed the look of jealousy that crossed across Ryo's face, and he chuckled inwardly.
Cloud took 2 plugs form the back of her laptop, and undid 2 extra bandages on either leg, there were a sort of holes there, and Cloud placed hand towels under each leg as she stuck the wires into the wound on each leg, making them grimace as a bit of blood dripped onto the towels. "It's not so bad anymore, it just hurts when I tweak them," she paused, "o.k. since you seem so enthralled by this, you wana try your luck?" she asked handing him the already running laptop.
"What exactly to I do?" Cloud sighed and took it again, pulling up a program, it showed a picture of the inside of her legs and the nerve endings, and of course the circuit boards in each leg. "You just put in numbers to try and pull and stretch the stuff into working order, those commands are sent to the circuit board when you hit send and then the same thing happens to my legs," Rowen still looked confused to Cloud showed him and said it aloud for them to hear, "Muscular tendons 1, nerves 2.34, and carnage stability 3%," she showed it to the people behind her. She hit send and they watched in fascination s her legs tightened on the screen and in reality. "See?" she handed it back to Rowen who had a grin plastered to his face at being able to work with such high tech technology, he began typing madly experimenting with the screen, and Cloud began to get a little nervous. "Um Rowen? Rowen!?" she sighed and tried another thing, "hey blue boy!"
"I think you've lost him,' sighed sage, tapping Rowen with his foot.
"Got it!" Rowen exclaimed, making them jump. "O.k. send!" he clicked, and Cloud's eyes widened as it hit her, she fell over.
"Turn it off! Turn it off! To tight! Too tight! Ow! Ow! Ow!!" her arms were shaking badly.
"RO TURN IT OF!!" screamed Ryo, his temper flaring. Rowen was now trying to turn her legs back to normal, and he finally hit send, and Cloud sat up.
"Note to self, never let Rowen do that again, and if I do need him. I need to supervise!" she groaned, and a few sighs of relief went up, and Rowen looked really guilty, but Cloud smiled. "Don't worry, I forgive you, I'm not that mean. besides, believe it or not, they've made it tighter, so tight my legs about ripped ^^ and I've done this before too^^," Kento slapped him on the back.
"I take it you enjoy trying to kill people?"
"Shut up," he muttered.
"Leave him alone, besides, I doubt he'll do it again," she laughed and unplugged herself, then wrapped her legs back up, she sighed. "Well that was fun! Blue boy having a very nice experience with the delicacy of nano technology." She grinned and put her stuff back into the duffle bag. She put it next to her wheel chair and then tried lifting herself onto it. She growled in irritation as again she fell.
Ryo finally got sick of watching and he walked over and helped her into it, she blushed slightly, "thank you,"
"Your welcome," he smiled back. Mia smiled.
"I'll show you your room," she smiled and Cloud wheeled after her, she was tired in truth, and she could tell Mia was going to hit the hay too.
**~~
The guys watched the girls' fleeting forms, then they all turned to Ryo, Kento had passed it on, and Ryo looked at them questionably. "Did I do something wrong?"
"I think our little fire bug has a crush on our new house guest," Kento snickered; Ryo blushed a deep shade of red.
'I-I do not!" he cried.
"Of course you do, we see the way you act around her," Cye, the ever innocent one was accusing him of this too! Ryo sank back into the couch.
"I do not,"
"Denial is always the first step," Sage, guardian of light, pointed out.
"And before you try and defend yourself with it, no, I don't like her in that way," Rowen smiled, demolishing the only chance Ryo had of freedom.
"I don't! I don't! I do~on't!!" Ryo cried indignantly.
"Sure you don't, and I am the Queen on England," laughed Kento.
"Why hello your majesty," Hardrock face faulted, and Ryo finally got the chance to make his escape.
"I'm going to bed!"
"Be gentle on her ^.~" snickered Rowen, Ryo, red in the face, spun to face him.
"HENTAI!!" he walked to his room closing the door, and almost being pounced on by his tiger.
The guys shook their heads and left to their own rooms.
"Yeah, the cool is pretty big ^^"
"My arms are gona fall off before my first class tomorrow!"
"Have a little faith!!"
"Faith is a double edged sword." Mia sweat dropped.
"So were is the art room?" Mia froze and pointed up the stairs.
"Second floor," Cloud turned her head down.
"How exactly do I get up there?"
"Um I could get someone I know to give you a piggy back.. and someone to carry your chair?" The color drained form Cloud's face.
"I really want a knife right now,"
"Don't think such things or we'll have to put you in a clinic!" Cloud winced.
"Something tells me I am so not gona blend in," Mai smiled.
"Being different isn't always bad, I like you, and not because I feel sorry for you, but because you're a nice caring person ^^" Cloud managed a smile.
"Arigato... But I can't believe I'm going to have to have a piggyback ride!! Oh the insanity!! The cruelty!! The irony of it all!!" Mia laughed.
"You could be a great actress!"
"I was before the accident," Mia suddenly felt guilty, but it disappeared when Cloud smiled. "Maybe with practice I can be one again!" Mia giggled. Cloud thought a minute, then took out a map of the school, she marked were the art room was and wrote a little note about the piggy back thing, then smiled. "Next, Social studies ^^"
******~~~~~~~~
It ended up the classes after Art were all upstairs, so that was convenient, sort of.. Then Cloud would have to catch ANOTHER ride back down the stairs. Mia smiled at her. "So you only brought these 2 suitcases and that duffle bag?"
"I like to travel light," Mia nodded and smiles, putting the suitcases in the back of her jeep, Cloud then placed her duffel bag in. "Don't you have to pick up some other students that live with you?"
"No they have their own car," she paused, "I wouldn't let them drive with me even if my life counted on it,"
"That bad?"
"No, just VERY fast and reckless ^^" Cloud managed a small smile again, she was nervous about meeting the other students. Cloud rolled over the passenger side, and pulled herself out f the jeer, using the jeep to hold herself up. Mia folded up the chair and out it in the back, then she got over to the driver's side and got in.
It took Cloud a little bit, but she managed to open the door and got herself inside. She was panting when it was over. Mai looked over concerned. "You o.k.?" Cloud shook her head yes and buckled her seat belt as Mia started the car.
"The place is pretty big, and it's hidden, I'm sure you'll love it thought ^^"
"Anything is fine, I'm stuck here until my "mother' says otherwise,"
"I take it your not to fond of her?"
"Nope." Mia smiled and pulled into the driveway, she giggled seeing Cloud's eyes go huge.
"suge..."
"Yeah, hope you like it ^^"
"Wow." that was all Cloud could say as Mia got the chair out and unfolded it for her.
It took a bit of effort, but a lot less than last time form her to get back into it, and this time she wasn't panting much. "You going to be alright?' Mia asked, putting a hand on her shoulder. Cloud nodded, but jumped when she heard a loud roar, she looked and saw a huge White Tiger running towards them! "WHITE BLAZE! NO!!" it was too late the big tiger jumped and pounced on Cloud, knocking her out of her wheel chair, and both ended up on the ground, Cloud staring up calmly at White Blaze, him on top her.
Both creature and girl looked each other in the eye, that is until white blaze licked her face and got off her. She reached up and scratched him behind the each, he roared softly, and Cloud smiled, then she lifted his paw and took out a thorn, the tiger seemed to smile happily as it trotted off. Mia stared wide-eyed. 'How did you do that?" Cloud shrugged.
"I don't know." Mia got Cloud's wheel chair, and helped her back into it, Cloud winced.
"Are you alight?" Mia asked, getting concerned.
"I'm fine, it's nothing," Cloud put on her best grin. "Anymore surprises?"
"Just one ^.~ and I wont tell yet," Cloud rolled her eyes.
"Your just like." her eyes saddened, "Just like Katie," she brightened up again shrugging it off, and Mia decided not to ask. Instead she lead Cloud into the house, and giggled as her eyes went wide seeing guys, 5 of them no less. "I take it this is the other surprise?"
"Hai ^^" they stopped watching the T.V. and Cye turned it off.
"Who's this Mia?" asked Rowen. Cloud felt her face redden in embarrassment.
"She's going to be staying with us for the school year, her name is Cloud ^^" Cloud wasn't paying attention, and neither was one of the guys, both were staring at each other.
"You?" they both said simultaneously. "You've met?' asked Mia. Cloud grinned sheepishly and put a hand to her forehead.
"hehe, um yeah ^^0" both teens blushed more, and several of the guys snickered. Mia cleared her throat.
"Well introduce yourselves!" now they all blushed.
"Cye Mourie,"
"Kento Rei Faun,"
"Rowen Hashiba,"
"Sage Date,"
"Ryo Sanada, I've already had the pleasure?" Cloud blushed once more.
"Careful, both of you! Don't burn the house down!" joked Kento, both teens blushed more.
"Kento, behave or I'll get my frying pan," Warned Cye, edging towards the kitchen. Cloud shook her head grinning.
"I have a feeling this is not going to be the worst school year ever for once," she smiled. "For once.. Someone doesn't have a problem with my legs," she tried to smile, and she hoped she did it right. They smiled at her.
"Believe me, that isn't our style," Rowen winked.
***~~~
They had just finished dinner, and were just talking around the table now. "So what happened to make you paralyzed?" Kento asked rather bluntly. Cye shot him a glare, but Cloud smiled.
"I guess it was unavoidable, I knew this would come up, but the question is, do you want to know?"
"It's up to you," Ryo smiled form her right.
"Well, I guess, I was in a car/horse crash." she started form the beginning, and tears burdened her, but she pushed them back. "and the last thing I remember before passing out, was Katie's blood mixing with mine, and looking over as her face. it was white. I haven't walked or ridden horses ever again, but I do remember it, and I dream of it a lot," she closed her eyes, a smile gracing her lips, "The horses steady pace, the wind blowing our hair back, and the wide open fields. The warmth and loving feeling shared with the horse and myself and-" she stopped and opened her eyes, blushing a soft pink color. "Gomen, I got carried away ^^0"
"It's o.k.," smiled Cye.
"That was interesting," observed Halo, his one eye closed, "I haven't heard Horse back riding told so brilliantly, and full of emotion-"
"Are you an actress?" Rowen interrupted, getting a glare from Sage.
"I used to be, and hope I will again ^^"
Mia sighed and looked through the folder the receptionist gave her. 'I hate to be the bad guy, but you know it's time for your exercise," she smiled, and Cloud face faulted.
"Damn." she sighed. "and I thought they would be kind enough to forget that! But noooo! Let them prolong my suffering," she added a fake sniffle getting several chuckles. Mia laughed and handed her the duffle bag she had stashed under her chair.
"Now," she said, trying to sound convincing, but there's the difference, trying and doing are two different things and everyone went into fits of laughter.
Cloud however saluted good naturedly, "Yes Mam," that sent some more chuckles as she put the duffle bag in her lap.
"You can use the living room floor," Mia smiled. Cloud nodded and wheeled away.
Now of course they were all wondering what the girl who seemed so happy could possibly dread about some exercise, so they trailed behind her silently and she stopped in the living room, she then carefully eased herself out of her chair. She ended up half falling to the floor.
None-the-less, she sat on the floor, her legs stretched out straight. She opened the duffle bag and pulled out a laptop, she put it on her side, and leaned over my her knees, she found what she was looking for, and that ended up being a zipper on each one of her pain legs, she zipped her pants off from the knee down, her legs were wrapped in ace wrap. She paused in taking them off. "Can I help you?" she uttered, turning behind her were they all grinned sheepishly and sat down on the couch, she laughed lightly. "All you had to do was ask," she smiled and unwrapped her legs, she winced at them, they were sore. "I have a modifying control system in my legs, each night I'm supposed to fiddle with my nerves and internal systems," a few grossed out looks appeared on some people's faces.
Rowen however was quite interested, and he got off the couch to creep nearer. Only Kento noticed the look of jealousy that crossed across Ryo's face, and he chuckled inwardly.
Cloud took 2 plugs form the back of her laptop, and undid 2 extra bandages on either leg, there were a sort of holes there, and Cloud placed hand towels under each leg as she stuck the wires into the wound on each leg, making them grimace as a bit of blood dripped onto the towels. "It's not so bad anymore, it just hurts when I tweak them," she paused, "o.k. since you seem so enthralled by this, you wana try your luck?" she asked handing him the already running laptop.
"What exactly to I do?" Cloud sighed and took it again, pulling up a program, it showed a picture of the inside of her legs and the nerve endings, and of course the circuit boards in each leg. "You just put in numbers to try and pull and stretch the stuff into working order, those commands are sent to the circuit board when you hit send and then the same thing happens to my legs," Rowen still looked confused to Cloud showed him and said it aloud for them to hear, "Muscular tendons 1, nerves 2.34, and carnage stability 3%," she showed it to the people behind her. She hit send and they watched in fascination s her legs tightened on the screen and in reality. "See?" she handed it back to Rowen who had a grin plastered to his face at being able to work with such high tech technology, he began typing madly experimenting with the screen, and Cloud began to get a little nervous. "Um Rowen? Rowen!?" she sighed and tried another thing, "hey blue boy!"
"I think you've lost him,' sighed sage, tapping Rowen with his foot.
"Got it!" Rowen exclaimed, making them jump. "O.k. send!" he clicked, and Cloud's eyes widened as it hit her, she fell over.
"Turn it off! Turn it off! To tight! Too tight! Ow! Ow! Ow!!" her arms were shaking badly.
"RO TURN IT OF!!" screamed Ryo, his temper flaring. Rowen was now trying to turn her legs back to normal, and he finally hit send, and Cloud sat up.
"Note to self, never let Rowen do that again, and if I do need him. I need to supervise!" she groaned, and a few sighs of relief went up, and Rowen looked really guilty, but Cloud smiled. "Don't worry, I forgive you, I'm not that mean. besides, believe it or not, they've made it tighter, so tight my legs about ripped ^^ and I've done this before too^^," Kento slapped him on the back.
"I take it you enjoy trying to kill people?"
"Shut up," he muttered.
"Leave him alone, besides, I doubt he'll do it again," she laughed and unplugged herself, then wrapped her legs back up, she sighed. "Well that was fun! Blue boy having a very nice experience with the delicacy of nano technology." She grinned and put her stuff back into the duffle bag. She put it next to her wheel chair and then tried lifting herself onto it. She growled in irritation as again she fell.
Ryo finally got sick of watching and he walked over and helped her into it, she blushed slightly, "thank you,"
"Your welcome," he smiled back. Mia smiled.
"I'll show you your room," she smiled and Cloud wheeled after her, she was tired in truth, and she could tell Mia was going to hit the hay too.
**~~
The guys watched the girls' fleeting forms, then they all turned to Ryo, Kento had passed it on, and Ryo looked at them questionably. "Did I do something wrong?"
"I think our little fire bug has a crush on our new house guest," Kento snickered; Ryo blushed a deep shade of red.
'I-I do not!" he cried.
"Of course you do, we see the way you act around her," Cye, the ever innocent one was accusing him of this too! Ryo sank back into the couch.
"I do not,"
"Denial is always the first step," Sage, guardian of light, pointed out.
"And before you try and defend yourself with it, no, I don't like her in that way," Rowen smiled, demolishing the only chance Ryo had of freedom.
"I don't! I don't! I do~on't!!" Ryo cried indignantly.
"Sure you don't, and I am the Queen on England," laughed Kento.
"Why hello your majesty," Hardrock face faulted, and Ryo finally got the chance to make his escape.
"I'm going to bed!"
"Be gentle on her ^.~" snickered Rowen, Ryo, red in the face, spun to face him.
"HENTAI!!" he walked to his room closing the door, and almost being pounced on by his tiger.
The guys shook their heads and left to their own rooms.
