Mad About You
Chapter 2: Hamaguchi
AN: Here are my responses to the reviews...
Anh D-ao: Thanks for reviewing! Well, actually, I can't remember Kai's last name, so that's why I keep saying Kai. If you know it, please let me know in your reviews ^^
Anonymous: Hey! You left such a nice review with no name? Thanks anyway!
Hiwatari Kai: Thanks a bunch, dude! I will! ^^
Thanks again guys and please review!
*
The next morning, Kai reluctantly grabbed his things and headed out the door. He usually walked to school, it was slower that by car or bike, and it made it seem like he had more time in between school days.
He had already told himself that he hated that place. He hated those cheerful people, with their cheerful attitudes. He hated the giggly girls always whispering about him. He hated Tyson. He hated his teachers. He hated his classes. He hated everything.
Nothing could persuade him to like that school.
His other schools had even been comparably better than this dump. At least they didn't have people who were so obnoxious, or happy, or stupid. These were all qualities Kai hated in people. People were only happy to hide their insecurities and problems. Kai was different. He didn't try to hide his feelings and annoyances.
The sound of chattering told Kai that he was nearing the school. He noticed several freshman wandering around behind him, some talking to each other, and others alone. Like Kai.
"Kai! Hey, what's up?" He knew that voice, but he didn't want to turn around.
"Why are you avoiding us?" It was them.
"Hey dude, what's your problem? Are you always this broody?" Kai continued walking with his arms folded.
Someone tapped him on his shoulder. Kai finally stopped and turned to see Max, Tyson, Rei, and Kenny.
"What?!" he asked, trying to hold in his temper.
"We just wanted to say hello, Kai," Kenny responded.
"Hello!" rang the group in a chorus-like manner. Kai knew what this was. They wanted to be his friends. His buddies. His party-goers. His company.
But they didn't know that he didn't need them.
Kai turned and started towards school again.
"Hey, you wanna walk to gym with us?" Kai could feel Max smile behind him.
"Whatever." So there they had it. His first unofficial friends. Kai had no intention of speaking to them ever again, but he decided that it was nice enough to have a little company, as long as they didn't become nuisances.
They made their way inside the school. Kai headed in one direction and the others headed towards the gym.
"Where are you going, dude? Gym's this way!" Tyson called.
"Locker," Kai responded. The others nodded.
"Can you find your way back, okay?" Rei asked. Kai didn't respond. The others took that as a yes and headed to the gym.
*
What was it with this God-forsaken locker? It wouldn't open!
As Kai struggled to pull the handle up, he noticed a girl standing beside him, struggling with her locker as well. He stopped tugging and analyzed her. He wanted to try and get to know who people were from now on, so if he had another group project, he would know who he was working with. He didn't want to repeat yesterday.
The girl had shoulder-length black hair that curled under that the ends. It was rather bushy, but not so bushy that it looks tacky. She had blue eyes and she was wearing a typical Japanese school uniform. It was blue.
She finally noticed Kai staring at her. She stared back.
"Hi. Do I know you? What's your name?" Kai wasn't sure if he should reply or not, but he didn't have to decide. Apparently, one of the girl's friends was beside her.
"Aya-chan! What's up?" the girl smiled. "Trouble with the locker again?" She pulled up "Aya's" locker handle easily and it opened. Kai went back to struggling with his.
"How is it that you can open everyone else's locker but your own?" her friend giggled. She turned to Aya and giggled. "Looks like your friend is having trouble, too."
"Who?" Aya asked, not knowing that her friends was referring to Kai. Her friend pointed. "Oh, Suzume, I haven't even met him yet, and-" she was silenced by the bell.
"I gotta go, Aya. You've already made me late!" Suzume darted off.
Aya laughed and turned to Kai.
"Let me help you with that," she said. She pulled on Kai's locker handle and easily opened the locker. She turned back to her own locker and pulled out her stuff. "You'd better hurry. You'll be even later!" Kai ignored her. He was in no hurry to get to gym.
When he got there, he found it was empty. He thought that they must've all been in the locker rooms. Kai would've gone too, but where were the locker rooms?
He noted a door on the far left-hand corner or the room and decided on it, hoping it wasn't the girls locker room.
He pushed the door open, and to his relief, it was filled with boys.
"Hey Kai! Over here!" Max called to him. Kai headed over in that direction. He was doing this only because he was calling out to him. Most of their crew was half-dressed and pulling on their gym clothes.
"Mr. Kudou told me to give you this. It's your locker number and combination. It just happens to be next to Tyson's.
"Great," Kai mumbled under his breath. Again, he struggled with his locker. "Damnit!"
"Let me try," Rei offered him help. Kai obliged. Rei opened it easily.
*
After a completely uneventful gym class, Kai retired to art. Not that he wanted to. Mrs. Ainoe was just as clueless as she had been the previous day. Then he remembered Hamaguchi. He looked around the room to see if she was here today. He had no idea what she looked like, but he tried to look for an unfamiliar face.
The only person who hadn't been here before was Aya. She must be Hamaguchi. She walked in last. Kai had a feeling she did this often. She took a seat behind Kai. Damnit!
After Kai noticed Aya, he immediately remembered Suzume was in this class. He hadn't noticed her yesterday.
Mrs. Ainoe walked in a few seconds after Aya had come in. She still had a dreamy daze on her face, her blue eyes mystified, as always.
"Hello class. Welcome back, Ayame. How are you feeling?" So Aya had been out for a while. And her name was Ayame, not Aya. Aya was her nickname.
"I'm fine, Mrs. Ainoe," Ayame replied, obviously uncomfortable talking to her. Maybe she didn't like talking in front of the class.
"I hope I didn't miss much." Ayame added.
"Not too much; this is art class, not mathematics," Mrs. Ainoe smiled, but her dreamy gaze didn't disappear. She turned back to the class.
"Now on to the lesson. Continue your class portraits. Kai, please inform Ayame what you were doing yesterday. You two can start from the beginning." Kai sighed. Why couldn't he just do this by himself? He didn't need some stupid girl helping him.
Ayame moved her stuff next to him.
"Didn't I meet you earlier?" she asked. She didn't even remember him. Stupid girl. Not that he cared if she remembered.
Kai didn't respond.
"Guess you're not one for talking, huh?" Ayame smiled. Kai only stared at her. Normally he would just ignore her and not look up, but she was the only girl who wasn't intimidated by him and had smiled at him when he was being rude.
Ayame finished smiling and stared at Kai.
"What?" she asked, obviously oblivious to Kai's reaction. Kai quickly looked away. He could almost feel the color creeping into his cheeks. What was wrong with him today? He was being nice to Max and the others before, and now he was blushing because of some stupid girl!
"So, what are we supposed to do?"
"We were drawing portraits of each other yesterday," was all he said.
"Okay!" Ayame said hyperly. She reminded him of Max in more ways than one.
Ayame positioned herself so that she could easily see Kai's face. Kai followed suit.
Then they drew. Ayame looked up a few times to re-visualize Kai's face. Kai blushed every time she looked up. What was wrong with him?
Finally the bell rang, signaling them to go to next period.
"We'll finish up tomorrow!" Mrs. Ainoe called out as everyone exited. Ayame was the last one to get her things up. Kai didn't pay any attention as he left for English, though he knew she was in the same English class as him.
*
English was pretty much the same as yesterday. Ayame and the annoying boys were in this class today. Kai practiced and relieved himself of his "rustiness". Then it was lunchtime.
*
When he reached the table, Max, Tyson, Rei, and Kenny were sitting there already, but they had a new guest. Ayame was sitting next to Rei, and they were all laughing.
"We missed you a lot, Aya-chan!" Rei laughed. Max nodded.
"So what happened?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah, you never told us!" Tyson chimed in. Idiots. It was none of their business where she was. They were so nosy.
Max noticed Kai coming over.
"Hey Kai! What's up?" Kai didn't reply and reluctantly sat down beside Ayame.
"Hi Kai! You seem to be in all my classes except first period! That's so cool!" she exclaimed. The others seemed to agree.
Kai didn't really think this was cool at all, especially because this girl was really starting to annoy him. And the fact that Max, Rei, and Tyson were there didn't help. But either way, Kai couldn't help but turn red anyway.
Ayame started to hum something. Then Max recognized it and sang too. Rei joined in a few seconds later, then Tyson. Kai and Tyson were the only ones who didn't sing, and Tyson still seemed to know what the song was.
It was really annoying. What the hell were they singing?!
"Hey! Can you shut up!?" Kai yelled loud enough for them to hear it. They all stopped.
"Want us to sing instead?" Ayame joked. Kai didn't reply. He assumed she was just being obnoxious, but you know what they say about assuming.
"Kuchibiru ni negai o komete! Chiawase baramaku you ni! Utau wa alala, anata ni mo; Kikoeru to ii na, watashi Fancy Lala!" Ayame sang, and pretty soon, their whole table was singing, Rei and Tyson incredibly off key. Then they all laughed. The only one who didn't find it funny was Kai.
Babies. That song was from a children's cartoon. They were nothing but children.
Kai hoped lunch would be over soon.
*
This would be the best period of the day. Hopefully.
Since the annoying people weren't in this class, he was home free. Wait. Hamaguchi was in this one, too. And they did group reading yesterday.
Ayame came in last again. She sat down beside Kai and opened her notebook.
"We sit next to each other here too! Is this awesome or what?!" she exclaimed.
"What," Kai responded, but Ayame didn't hear him.
"What did we do yesterday?" she asked instead.
"Book reading. Group."
"Was it more boringer than English?" Ayame asked him.
Kai wasn't sure 'boringer' was even a word, but he replied anyway.
"Like hell." Ayame laughed at him. Kai just stared at her as she giggled away. What was going through this girl's head. He wasn't being funny! It had been boring as hell! Did she make an effort to laugh at everything? There was nothing funny!
She finally stopped as Mr. Saiyuki entered the room.
"Good afternoon. We'll start today off w-" he stopped upon seeing Ayame. "Well hello, Miss Hamaguchi. Where have you been?" Ayame hesitated.
"The hospital. My-my-" She tried desperately to think of a lie. It was obvious to Kai what she was doing.
"My appendix burst," she finally finished. The teacher seemed to accept that. Was Kai the only one who realized that she was lying? It was obvious!
He stared at her, wondering what in the world she had to hide. Ayame seemed to notice that he was staring, and her cheeks turned crimson, but she kept looking at her workbook. She was definitely hiding something. Not that Kai cared about her stupid life.
Girls had hardly anything to worry about except what hair spray to use and what color eye shadow to wear. Though Ayame didn't wear eye shadow, or hair spray. She had the natural thing going on. It was the only thing Kai respected her for. She didn't seem to care what people thought of her slightly- bushy hairstyle or her outfit. Kind of like he didn't. But no, she was nothing like him! Nothing!
But he couldn't help but go red when he thought about her.
AN: That's it for this chapter! Please review guys! Please! *makes google eyes* Review, for Kai! And Max! And Tyson! And Rei! And. Kenny!? O.o Just review!
Chapter 2: Hamaguchi
AN: Here are my responses to the reviews...
Anh D-ao: Thanks for reviewing! Well, actually, I can't remember Kai's last name, so that's why I keep saying Kai. If you know it, please let me know in your reviews ^^
Anonymous: Hey! You left such a nice review with no name? Thanks anyway!
Hiwatari Kai: Thanks a bunch, dude! I will! ^^
Thanks again guys and please review!
*
The next morning, Kai reluctantly grabbed his things and headed out the door. He usually walked to school, it was slower that by car or bike, and it made it seem like he had more time in between school days.
He had already told himself that he hated that place. He hated those cheerful people, with their cheerful attitudes. He hated the giggly girls always whispering about him. He hated Tyson. He hated his teachers. He hated his classes. He hated everything.
Nothing could persuade him to like that school.
His other schools had even been comparably better than this dump. At least they didn't have people who were so obnoxious, or happy, or stupid. These were all qualities Kai hated in people. People were only happy to hide their insecurities and problems. Kai was different. He didn't try to hide his feelings and annoyances.
The sound of chattering told Kai that he was nearing the school. He noticed several freshman wandering around behind him, some talking to each other, and others alone. Like Kai.
"Kai! Hey, what's up?" He knew that voice, but he didn't want to turn around.
"Why are you avoiding us?" It was them.
"Hey dude, what's your problem? Are you always this broody?" Kai continued walking with his arms folded.
Someone tapped him on his shoulder. Kai finally stopped and turned to see Max, Tyson, Rei, and Kenny.
"What?!" he asked, trying to hold in his temper.
"We just wanted to say hello, Kai," Kenny responded.
"Hello!" rang the group in a chorus-like manner. Kai knew what this was. They wanted to be his friends. His buddies. His party-goers. His company.
But they didn't know that he didn't need them.
Kai turned and started towards school again.
"Hey, you wanna walk to gym with us?" Kai could feel Max smile behind him.
"Whatever." So there they had it. His first unofficial friends. Kai had no intention of speaking to them ever again, but he decided that it was nice enough to have a little company, as long as they didn't become nuisances.
They made their way inside the school. Kai headed in one direction and the others headed towards the gym.
"Where are you going, dude? Gym's this way!" Tyson called.
"Locker," Kai responded. The others nodded.
"Can you find your way back, okay?" Rei asked. Kai didn't respond. The others took that as a yes and headed to the gym.
*
What was it with this God-forsaken locker? It wouldn't open!
As Kai struggled to pull the handle up, he noticed a girl standing beside him, struggling with her locker as well. He stopped tugging and analyzed her. He wanted to try and get to know who people were from now on, so if he had another group project, he would know who he was working with. He didn't want to repeat yesterday.
The girl had shoulder-length black hair that curled under that the ends. It was rather bushy, but not so bushy that it looks tacky. She had blue eyes and she was wearing a typical Japanese school uniform. It was blue.
She finally noticed Kai staring at her. She stared back.
"Hi. Do I know you? What's your name?" Kai wasn't sure if he should reply or not, but he didn't have to decide. Apparently, one of the girl's friends was beside her.
"Aya-chan! What's up?" the girl smiled. "Trouble with the locker again?" She pulled up "Aya's" locker handle easily and it opened. Kai went back to struggling with his.
"How is it that you can open everyone else's locker but your own?" her friend giggled. She turned to Aya and giggled. "Looks like your friend is having trouble, too."
"Who?" Aya asked, not knowing that her friends was referring to Kai. Her friend pointed. "Oh, Suzume, I haven't even met him yet, and-" she was silenced by the bell.
"I gotta go, Aya. You've already made me late!" Suzume darted off.
Aya laughed and turned to Kai.
"Let me help you with that," she said. She pulled on Kai's locker handle and easily opened the locker. She turned back to her own locker and pulled out her stuff. "You'd better hurry. You'll be even later!" Kai ignored her. He was in no hurry to get to gym.
When he got there, he found it was empty. He thought that they must've all been in the locker rooms. Kai would've gone too, but where were the locker rooms?
He noted a door on the far left-hand corner or the room and decided on it, hoping it wasn't the girls locker room.
He pushed the door open, and to his relief, it was filled with boys.
"Hey Kai! Over here!" Max called to him. Kai headed over in that direction. He was doing this only because he was calling out to him. Most of their crew was half-dressed and pulling on their gym clothes.
"Mr. Kudou told me to give you this. It's your locker number and combination. It just happens to be next to Tyson's.
"Great," Kai mumbled under his breath. Again, he struggled with his locker. "Damnit!"
"Let me try," Rei offered him help. Kai obliged. Rei opened it easily.
*
After a completely uneventful gym class, Kai retired to art. Not that he wanted to. Mrs. Ainoe was just as clueless as she had been the previous day. Then he remembered Hamaguchi. He looked around the room to see if she was here today. He had no idea what she looked like, but he tried to look for an unfamiliar face.
The only person who hadn't been here before was Aya. She must be Hamaguchi. She walked in last. Kai had a feeling she did this often. She took a seat behind Kai. Damnit!
After Kai noticed Aya, he immediately remembered Suzume was in this class. He hadn't noticed her yesterday.
Mrs. Ainoe walked in a few seconds after Aya had come in. She still had a dreamy daze on her face, her blue eyes mystified, as always.
"Hello class. Welcome back, Ayame. How are you feeling?" So Aya had been out for a while. And her name was Ayame, not Aya. Aya was her nickname.
"I'm fine, Mrs. Ainoe," Ayame replied, obviously uncomfortable talking to her. Maybe she didn't like talking in front of the class.
"I hope I didn't miss much." Ayame added.
"Not too much; this is art class, not mathematics," Mrs. Ainoe smiled, but her dreamy gaze didn't disappear. She turned back to the class.
"Now on to the lesson. Continue your class portraits. Kai, please inform Ayame what you were doing yesterday. You two can start from the beginning." Kai sighed. Why couldn't he just do this by himself? He didn't need some stupid girl helping him.
Ayame moved her stuff next to him.
"Didn't I meet you earlier?" she asked. She didn't even remember him. Stupid girl. Not that he cared if she remembered.
Kai didn't respond.
"Guess you're not one for talking, huh?" Ayame smiled. Kai only stared at her. Normally he would just ignore her and not look up, but she was the only girl who wasn't intimidated by him and had smiled at him when he was being rude.
Ayame finished smiling and stared at Kai.
"What?" she asked, obviously oblivious to Kai's reaction. Kai quickly looked away. He could almost feel the color creeping into his cheeks. What was wrong with him today? He was being nice to Max and the others before, and now he was blushing because of some stupid girl!
"So, what are we supposed to do?"
"We were drawing portraits of each other yesterday," was all he said.
"Okay!" Ayame said hyperly. She reminded him of Max in more ways than one.
Ayame positioned herself so that she could easily see Kai's face. Kai followed suit.
Then they drew. Ayame looked up a few times to re-visualize Kai's face. Kai blushed every time she looked up. What was wrong with him?
Finally the bell rang, signaling them to go to next period.
"We'll finish up tomorrow!" Mrs. Ainoe called out as everyone exited. Ayame was the last one to get her things up. Kai didn't pay any attention as he left for English, though he knew she was in the same English class as him.
*
English was pretty much the same as yesterday. Ayame and the annoying boys were in this class today. Kai practiced and relieved himself of his "rustiness". Then it was lunchtime.
*
When he reached the table, Max, Tyson, Rei, and Kenny were sitting there already, but they had a new guest. Ayame was sitting next to Rei, and they were all laughing.
"We missed you a lot, Aya-chan!" Rei laughed. Max nodded.
"So what happened?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah, you never told us!" Tyson chimed in. Idiots. It was none of their business where she was. They were so nosy.
Max noticed Kai coming over.
"Hey Kai! What's up?" Kai didn't reply and reluctantly sat down beside Ayame.
"Hi Kai! You seem to be in all my classes except first period! That's so cool!" she exclaimed. The others seemed to agree.
Kai didn't really think this was cool at all, especially because this girl was really starting to annoy him. And the fact that Max, Rei, and Tyson were there didn't help. But either way, Kai couldn't help but turn red anyway.
Ayame started to hum something. Then Max recognized it and sang too. Rei joined in a few seconds later, then Tyson. Kai and Tyson were the only ones who didn't sing, and Tyson still seemed to know what the song was.
It was really annoying. What the hell were they singing?!
"Hey! Can you shut up!?" Kai yelled loud enough for them to hear it. They all stopped.
"Want us to sing instead?" Ayame joked. Kai didn't reply. He assumed she was just being obnoxious, but you know what they say about assuming.
"Kuchibiru ni negai o komete! Chiawase baramaku you ni! Utau wa alala, anata ni mo; Kikoeru to ii na, watashi Fancy Lala!" Ayame sang, and pretty soon, their whole table was singing, Rei and Tyson incredibly off key. Then they all laughed. The only one who didn't find it funny was Kai.
Babies. That song was from a children's cartoon. They were nothing but children.
Kai hoped lunch would be over soon.
*
This would be the best period of the day. Hopefully.
Since the annoying people weren't in this class, he was home free. Wait. Hamaguchi was in this one, too. And they did group reading yesterday.
Ayame came in last again. She sat down beside Kai and opened her notebook.
"We sit next to each other here too! Is this awesome or what?!" she exclaimed.
"What," Kai responded, but Ayame didn't hear him.
"What did we do yesterday?" she asked instead.
"Book reading. Group."
"Was it more boringer than English?" Ayame asked him.
Kai wasn't sure 'boringer' was even a word, but he replied anyway.
"Like hell." Ayame laughed at him. Kai just stared at her as she giggled away. What was going through this girl's head. He wasn't being funny! It had been boring as hell! Did she make an effort to laugh at everything? There was nothing funny!
She finally stopped as Mr. Saiyuki entered the room.
"Good afternoon. We'll start today off w-" he stopped upon seeing Ayame. "Well hello, Miss Hamaguchi. Where have you been?" Ayame hesitated.
"The hospital. My-my-" She tried desperately to think of a lie. It was obvious to Kai what she was doing.
"My appendix burst," she finally finished. The teacher seemed to accept that. Was Kai the only one who realized that she was lying? It was obvious!
He stared at her, wondering what in the world she had to hide. Ayame seemed to notice that he was staring, and her cheeks turned crimson, but she kept looking at her workbook. She was definitely hiding something. Not that Kai cared about her stupid life.
Girls had hardly anything to worry about except what hair spray to use and what color eye shadow to wear. Though Ayame didn't wear eye shadow, or hair spray. She had the natural thing going on. It was the only thing Kai respected her for. She didn't seem to care what people thought of her slightly- bushy hairstyle or her outfit. Kind of like he didn't. But no, she was nothing like him! Nothing!
But he couldn't help but go red when he thought about her.
AN: That's it for this chapter! Please review guys! Please! *makes google eyes* Review, for Kai! And Max! And Tyson! And Rei! And. Kenny!? O.o Just review!