Wanna Switch With Me, Hitomi?
By: Escachick357
Ch.15- Day 6, Hitomi and the Spring Dance
Disclaimer- I don't own Escaflowne and if I did...Van would be with me and me alone.
Hey, I'm soooo sorry that it's been a REALLY long time since I updated, but I had all this school crap and writers block. But, I'm back. Oookay...the new people that I introduce in this chapter are not real people, so as you can guess, none of these people really COME to my school. And I kinda insult popular cheerleaders in my story. No offense to all you popular cheerleaders, but the ones at my school are all bitches, so I'm basing these ones off of the ones at my school. R/R if ya want, but don't flame me.
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"Joey's going to be put into juvenile hall for almost a year and Lyssa will be in a mental institution for the rest of her life?" Amanda asked from the other line of the phone. "Yeah." Hitomi answered from the other line. Amanda softly gasped, "I wonder how Joey's mom is taking it." "Not very well." Hitomi answered.
It was the truth. Joey's mom found out about him being in the hospital. Luckily, for both him and her, Joey was just knocked unconscious from Kyle's pipe slamming onto his head. But when he regained his consciousness, he immediately was forced to go to Juvenile Hall. All day Joey's mom had been over with Andy, crying her eyes and searching for comfort from Hitomi's family.
Hitomi got annoyed quickly. The teachers in all the schools were having meetings so there was no school, Hitomi's parents were at work, and Hitomi was forced to baby-sit Missy, Andy, and Andy's mom. Right now, Andy's mom was chugging down her 52nd cup of tea and was crying loudly. And no matter how hard she tried, Hitomi couldn't get the crying woman to leave.
Hitomi just finished telling Amanda the story, "And I can't get her to leave." "Wow...that really must suck. Especially since your parents are making you baby-sit." Amanda said. "Do you know how I can get her to leave?" Hitomi asked. "Why don't you tell her that you have to get ready for the school dance that's going on tonight and then ask her to leave?" Amanda suggested. "Thanks. See ya, Amanda." Hitomi said before hanging up.
Hitomi took a deep breath and started walking towards the living room. A dance was going to be at the high school as a make up for the students that went to the dance hall. The dress Hitomi just bought was clean and Shane already invited Hitomi to the dance. And if Joey's mom didn't leave soon, Hitomi would never be ready.
Before Hitomi could get to the living room, Joey's mom stood up. "Well, I should be going. Thanks for helping me calm down." She said. She grabbed Andy and drove home. "Jeez. She chugged down nearly all the tea in the house." Hitomi said out loud as she started cleaning up the mess in both the living room and the kitchen.
As Hitomi cleaned the living room, Missy walked in holding an empty tissue box. "Hitomi, we're all completely out of tissues." Missy said, frowning. "I know." Hitomi answered, pointing at a garbage can that was practically over flowing with wet tissues.
"Hitomi, can I go to the dance, too?" Missy asked. Hitomi sighed, "Missy, it's a high school dance. And no one's going to believe that you and Andy are midgets." Missy groaned and stomped off to her bedroom. "God, what a pain in the ass." Hitomi muttered once Missy left, "Oh well." Hitomi continued cleaning.
2 hours passed until the entire living room and kitchen were clean. Hitomi immediately went into the bathroom to take her shower. By the time she was out, it was at least 5pm. The dance was to start at 8, so she slipped into a pair of jeans and a clean shirt for the time being. She lay on her bed and closed her eyes. She had forgotten that she had ever switched places with another girl and that she ever did go to Gaea.
The alarm on her clock changed to 7:15, 15 minutes BEFORE Shane was to pick her up. Hitomi jumped in surprise and slipped on the new dress that she bought after the dance two nights ago at the dance hall. She quickly put on some make-up and took a deep breath. She had finished a minute before Shane actually picked her up.
Hitomi called, "Good-bye." To her family and left for Shane's car when it came into the driveway. Hitomi smiled sweetly as she climbed into the passenger seat. She stuck her hands inside her pockets, expecting to feel another note like the ones she had been getting recently, but to her surprise, her pockets were completely empty except for a special card she needed.
Although she was surprised, she shrugged it off because of how excited she was about the dance. The dress she wore was comfortable, more comfortable than the ones she wore on Gaea. She especially loved the color of it: a beautiful sky-blue color with matching shoes. Shane wore clothes similar to the ones he wore at the dance hall, except these were nicer.
The drive to the high school was a slightly longer one than it was to the dance hall. It took Shane a while to find a parking space for his car because all the good ones were taken. Finally, he claimed the closest parking space to the gym before a car full of the most annoying popular girls could get to it.
Hitomi, although she'd only been in the school for a few days, knew those girls really well: Nina, Ashley, Jessica, Tiffany, and Stephany were their names, all of whom were cheerleaders and spent practically all their time giggling stupidly at every little thing during the English class they shared with Hitomi. Hitomi hated them.
As Hitomi and Shane got to the entrance of they gymnasium, they couldn't help but feel the girls stare at them with eyes of anger. The all made Hitomi feel really freaked out, but she just shrugged it off. "They're just popular cheerleader bitches." Hitomi said inside her head as she got closer to the entrance.
In front of the large doors of the gymnasium were two large, bulk men. Hitomi and Shane grabbed their id cards from their pockets and showed them to the men. The men nodded and let Hitomi and Shane inside the gymnasium.
Hitomi's green eyes grew wide with amazement as she stared at the inside of the gym. Streamers with sparkles hung from the ceiling and all along the walls. At least 50 tables were leaning against the walls with mountains of food. There were about 15 huge punch bowls and tons of cups. And everyone inside had a partner, no matter if it was a friend or more.
Hitomi giggled when she saw the DJ. The vice principal of OHHS had promised to get a really good DJ for the dance, instead he got himself to be the DJ. He looked pretty hilarious with the outfit he was wearing: a disco suit from the 70s and a blonde afro wig. The music he played was a mix of styles and times. Some was rock and roll from the 50s, some was pop from the present, and many more. Half the people in the school was dancing on the dance floor.
"Hitomi! Shane!" A voice from behind them called. Both Hitomi and Shane turned around to see Joy, Amanda, and Nicole walking up to them. Joy and Amanda were smiling, Nicole wasn't. Hitomi knew why Nicole wasn't smiling. Nicole hated dances and dresses, but the only reason she came was because her boyfriend, Kyle, asked her to, otherwise she wouldn't be there at all.
Behind the girls were their dates, Carlos (Joy's boyfriend), Travis (Amanda's boyfriend), and Kyle. "Are you two having a good time at the dance?" Joy asked, smiling. "Well..." Hitomi answered, "We've only been here for 5 minutes and I've liked it so far." Joy giggled then grabbed Carlos' hand once the music changed to a slow song from the 60s. Both Joy and Amanda grabbed Carlos and Travis then drug them onto the dance floor and started dancing.
Kyle and Shane smiled while dragging Hitomi and Nicole onto the dance floor. Hitomi smiled as she stared into the brown eyes of her dance partner. She felt safe and happy when she was with him, like nothing bad could happen to her as long as she was with Shane. But she looked behind Shane and saw Tiffany staring at her, fire rising in her eyes.
Tiffany looked as if she was going to kill Hitomi the second both her and Shane quit dancing. Hitomi and Shane danced a few more dances until both her and Shane decided to split. Shane went off to talk to some of his friends while Hitomi went to talk to hers. Hitomi was laughing joyfully when Tiffany, who was still angry, came up. "I will have Shane. And I will have him by the end of the dance!" Tiffany growled. "What?" Hitomi asked.
"You heard me!" Tiffany nearly shouted, "I will have him and you will be out of his life forever!" Tiffany then stomped off to her own friends. "Why does she hate me so much?" Hitomi asked herself, but stopping when she remembered an earlier conversation she had over the phone with Joy.
~~~~~~~FLASHBACK TO 5PM~~~~~
Before Hitomi got to relax on her bed, she got another phone call. Hitomi picked up the phone and lazily asked, "Hello?" "Hitomi, it's me, Joy." The voice on the other line answered. "Oh, hi Joy. What's up?" Hitomi asked. "You're not going to believe this!" Joy cried out.
"What's wrong?"
"Tiffany is coming to the dance."
"Yeah, so?"
"Hitomi, Tiffany has had a crush on Shane since the 7th grade and hates anyone that becomes his girlfriend."
"So what? I hate her too."
"Hitomi, Tiffany will do anything to hurt or humiliate you tonight."
"It's okay, Joy. I can handle her."
"Whatever. See ya tonight."
~~~~~~~END FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~
Hitomi shrugged off the thought of Tiffany hurting or humiliating Hitomi and continued her conversation with her friends. Suddenly, Tiffany appeared in front of Hitomi holding a cup of strawberry punch. Nina, Ashley, Jessica, and Stephany were right behind her. Nina, Ashley, Jessica, and Stephany softly pushed Tiffany and the punch from her cup went flying onto the front of Hitomi's beautiful blue dress.
The 5 popular girls said fake apologies and walked off laughing hysterically. Joy, Amanda, and Nicole quickly led Hitomi to the bathroom and struggled to wash the stain out of Hitomi's dress, but it didn't work. The bathroom door opened and Libby, one of the most popular girls in the school (and one of the nicest) walked in. Hitomi gasped. Right in the front of Libby's white dress was a punch stain similar to the one on Hitomi's dress.
Libby smiled at Hitomi and told her that she and the rest of her friends saw what Nina, Ashley, Tiffany, Jessica, and Stephany did, so they put the same stain on their dresses. "Also," she reassured Hitomi, "The punch we used for this dance doesn't really stain if you wash it off like you do with regular clothes. Trust me. I was one of the people who set up the dance." Hitomi smiled at Libby, "Thanks."
Hitomi, Joy, Amanda, Nicole, and Libby left the bathroom and stopped. Everyone inside the room except for the 5 girls that hated Hitomi and Hitomi's friends had punch stains on their clothes. Nicole, Joy, and Amanda immediately went to the punch bowl and splashed punch onto their dresses. Shane walked up to Hitomi and brought her into a dance. Tiffany looked angrily at Hitomi but then smirked.
Tiffany knew that during the dance, there would be karioke(A/N: that spelled right?) for anyone who wanted to sing. The karioke had already started, so Tiffany quickly signed Hitomi up to sing and wrote that Hitomi would sing an oriental song. Tiffany softly giggled. She had a feeling that Hitomi couldn't sing and would totally humiliate herself onto the stage.
The vice principal picked up the clipboard and announced, "And now, Hitomi Kanzaki will come up and sing an oriental song." Hitomi gasped. She never remembered signing up to sing, but walked onto the stage anyway. Hitomi was very relieved that she was originally from Japan and had a wonderful singing voice. She was also very relieved of some of the Japanese songs that were on the karioke machine. She picked up the microphone and spoke into it, "I'm going to sing 'Hikari no Naka e' by Maaya Sakamoto."
She then started singing. Her beautiful voice filled the entire gymnasium and although nobody could understand what she was saying, most of the teenagers sang along softly so they wouldn't cover up Hitomi's voice if they screwed up. At the end of the song, everybody was cheering and applauding. Steam came out of Tiffany's ears, but then she realized that she had one final chance of getting Shane.
It was springtime and at this dance, the high school students would vote for a spring king and a spring queen and if Shane became the king and Tiffany became the queen, they'd dance together and Tiffany could get closer to Shane. Now all the votes were turned in and it would only be a minute when the Spring King and Queen would be announced.
At the springtime dances at OHHS, the queen was announced first for some reason. The music stopped and the vice principal walked onto the microphone, "I have now tallied up the votes for the Spring King and Spring Queen. When I call your name, please come up to the stage. The Spring Queen is...Tiffany Black." Tiffany squealed in excitement as she ran up to the stage. The vice principal put a crown on her head before continuing, "And the Spring King is...Derek Micheals."
Tiffany's eyes got wide in shock as Derek came onto the stage. Tiffany couldn't believe that she was paired up with him. The boy was a nerd with coke bottle glasses, huge braces, and zits covering his face. He also breathed through his mouth. She was paired with the most unpopular boy in school.
Tears rolled down Tiffany's cheeks as Derek was crowned. A flash went off, then a few more, all from people with cameras. The first was from the photographer of the school newspaper. Now a picture of her and Derek would be shown all throughout the high school in the newspaper.
Derek took her hand and led her onto the dance floor. Tiffany started crying as she danced with the Spring King. When the dance was over, she immediately ran to her friends crying, "Why did I get paired with HIM? It was supposed to be me and Shane." Her friends said nothing. They didn't know what to say.
The 5 girls were about to walk towards the DJ and see the votes when this marble suddenly appeared right in front of Jessica. Without seeing the marble, Jessica stepped on it and started losing her balance. Jessica grabbed her friends for support, but they all lost their balance and fell onto a table that was wobbly and full of sticky snacks and punch.
The table broke and almost instantly, cookies, doughnuts, cakes, and ice cream fell on top of the girls. The punch completely drenched them. Everyone looked at the now dirty girls, pointed, and laughed.
The 5 girls ran outside, crying in humiliation. The vice principal took after them. "How could this happen? This was supposed to be the greatest night of our high school days." Tiffany cried while picking pieces of doughnuts out of her hair. "Well, have you girls ever heard the expression 'you always get what you deserve'?" the vice principal asked.
"Yeah, but only from unpopular people." Stephany answered, combing ice cream out of her hair. "Yeah, I don't believe in that saying." Nina answered. "Me neither." Her friends answered, tears pouring down their faces. "Well, you girls just got what you deserved." The vice principal smiled before going back inside. The girls were too humiliated to stay at the dance any longer, so they drove home.
The clock shone that it was almost midnight, so everybody got to have a final dance. Hitomi rested her head upon Shane's chest as she moved in time with the song. Joy and Carlos danced up to them and as they did, Joy whispered to Hitomi, "You were right, Hitomi. You could handle Tiffany." "Told you." Hitomi whispered back to Joy.
The clock struck midnight and everyone stopped dancing and left to go home. Hitomi and Shane once again got into Shane's car and started driving towards Hitomi's house. Hitomi felt into her pocket and found one final not from the mysterious person. The note read, "I WARNED YOU ABOUT GETTING TOO CLOSE TO SHANE, NOW PREPARE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"
"Is this a note from Tiffany?" Hitomi asked herself, but she didn't care. She had Shane and that's all she needed. Shane parked his car in front of Hitomi's house. She gave him a kiss on the lips and said, "I had a nice time tonight." "Me too." Shane answered. He gave her a kiss before she closed the door to his car and entered her own house. "Good night." Shane whispered as if Hitomi were next to him before driving to his own home.
End Chapter 15
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Okay, I made up the thing about the spring dances at my school. And for the karioke thing. I like Maaya Sakamoto. I think her voice is good and I like the song "Hikari no Naka e" or "Into the Light" and even though it IS an Escaflowne song. I don't care. Hope ya liked it.
By: Escachick357
Ch.15- Day 6, Hitomi and the Spring Dance
Disclaimer- I don't own Escaflowne and if I did...Van would be with me and me alone.
Hey, I'm soooo sorry that it's been a REALLY long time since I updated, but I had all this school crap and writers block. But, I'm back. Oookay...the new people that I introduce in this chapter are not real people, so as you can guess, none of these people really COME to my school. And I kinda insult popular cheerleaders in my story. No offense to all you popular cheerleaders, but the ones at my school are all bitches, so I'm basing these ones off of the ones at my school. R/R if ya want, but don't flame me.
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"Joey's going to be put into juvenile hall for almost a year and Lyssa will be in a mental institution for the rest of her life?" Amanda asked from the other line of the phone. "Yeah." Hitomi answered from the other line. Amanda softly gasped, "I wonder how Joey's mom is taking it." "Not very well." Hitomi answered.
It was the truth. Joey's mom found out about him being in the hospital. Luckily, for both him and her, Joey was just knocked unconscious from Kyle's pipe slamming onto his head. But when he regained his consciousness, he immediately was forced to go to Juvenile Hall. All day Joey's mom had been over with Andy, crying her eyes and searching for comfort from Hitomi's family.
Hitomi got annoyed quickly. The teachers in all the schools were having meetings so there was no school, Hitomi's parents were at work, and Hitomi was forced to baby-sit Missy, Andy, and Andy's mom. Right now, Andy's mom was chugging down her 52nd cup of tea and was crying loudly. And no matter how hard she tried, Hitomi couldn't get the crying woman to leave.
Hitomi just finished telling Amanda the story, "And I can't get her to leave." "Wow...that really must suck. Especially since your parents are making you baby-sit." Amanda said. "Do you know how I can get her to leave?" Hitomi asked. "Why don't you tell her that you have to get ready for the school dance that's going on tonight and then ask her to leave?" Amanda suggested. "Thanks. See ya, Amanda." Hitomi said before hanging up.
Hitomi took a deep breath and started walking towards the living room. A dance was going to be at the high school as a make up for the students that went to the dance hall. The dress Hitomi just bought was clean and Shane already invited Hitomi to the dance. And if Joey's mom didn't leave soon, Hitomi would never be ready.
Before Hitomi could get to the living room, Joey's mom stood up. "Well, I should be going. Thanks for helping me calm down." She said. She grabbed Andy and drove home. "Jeez. She chugged down nearly all the tea in the house." Hitomi said out loud as she started cleaning up the mess in both the living room and the kitchen.
As Hitomi cleaned the living room, Missy walked in holding an empty tissue box. "Hitomi, we're all completely out of tissues." Missy said, frowning. "I know." Hitomi answered, pointing at a garbage can that was practically over flowing with wet tissues.
"Hitomi, can I go to the dance, too?" Missy asked. Hitomi sighed, "Missy, it's a high school dance. And no one's going to believe that you and Andy are midgets." Missy groaned and stomped off to her bedroom. "God, what a pain in the ass." Hitomi muttered once Missy left, "Oh well." Hitomi continued cleaning.
2 hours passed until the entire living room and kitchen were clean. Hitomi immediately went into the bathroom to take her shower. By the time she was out, it was at least 5pm. The dance was to start at 8, so she slipped into a pair of jeans and a clean shirt for the time being. She lay on her bed and closed her eyes. She had forgotten that she had ever switched places with another girl and that she ever did go to Gaea.
The alarm on her clock changed to 7:15, 15 minutes BEFORE Shane was to pick her up. Hitomi jumped in surprise and slipped on the new dress that she bought after the dance two nights ago at the dance hall. She quickly put on some make-up and took a deep breath. She had finished a minute before Shane actually picked her up.
Hitomi called, "Good-bye." To her family and left for Shane's car when it came into the driveway. Hitomi smiled sweetly as she climbed into the passenger seat. She stuck her hands inside her pockets, expecting to feel another note like the ones she had been getting recently, but to her surprise, her pockets were completely empty except for a special card she needed.
Although she was surprised, she shrugged it off because of how excited she was about the dance. The dress she wore was comfortable, more comfortable than the ones she wore on Gaea. She especially loved the color of it: a beautiful sky-blue color with matching shoes. Shane wore clothes similar to the ones he wore at the dance hall, except these were nicer.
The drive to the high school was a slightly longer one than it was to the dance hall. It took Shane a while to find a parking space for his car because all the good ones were taken. Finally, he claimed the closest parking space to the gym before a car full of the most annoying popular girls could get to it.
Hitomi, although she'd only been in the school for a few days, knew those girls really well: Nina, Ashley, Jessica, Tiffany, and Stephany were their names, all of whom were cheerleaders and spent practically all their time giggling stupidly at every little thing during the English class they shared with Hitomi. Hitomi hated them.
As Hitomi and Shane got to the entrance of they gymnasium, they couldn't help but feel the girls stare at them with eyes of anger. The all made Hitomi feel really freaked out, but she just shrugged it off. "They're just popular cheerleader bitches." Hitomi said inside her head as she got closer to the entrance.
In front of the large doors of the gymnasium were two large, bulk men. Hitomi and Shane grabbed their id cards from their pockets and showed them to the men. The men nodded and let Hitomi and Shane inside the gymnasium.
Hitomi's green eyes grew wide with amazement as she stared at the inside of the gym. Streamers with sparkles hung from the ceiling and all along the walls. At least 50 tables were leaning against the walls with mountains of food. There were about 15 huge punch bowls and tons of cups. And everyone inside had a partner, no matter if it was a friend or more.
Hitomi giggled when she saw the DJ. The vice principal of OHHS had promised to get a really good DJ for the dance, instead he got himself to be the DJ. He looked pretty hilarious with the outfit he was wearing: a disco suit from the 70s and a blonde afro wig. The music he played was a mix of styles and times. Some was rock and roll from the 50s, some was pop from the present, and many more. Half the people in the school was dancing on the dance floor.
"Hitomi! Shane!" A voice from behind them called. Both Hitomi and Shane turned around to see Joy, Amanda, and Nicole walking up to them. Joy and Amanda were smiling, Nicole wasn't. Hitomi knew why Nicole wasn't smiling. Nicole hated dances and dresses, but the only reason she came was because her boyfriend, Kyle, asked her to, otherwise she wouldn't be there at all.
Behind the girls were their dates, Carlos (Joy's boyfriend), Travis (Amanda's boyfriend), and Kyle. "Are you two having a good time at the dance?" Joy asked, smiling. "Well..." Hitomi answered, "We've only been here for 5 minutes and I've liked it so far." Joy giggled then grabbed Carlos' hand once the music changed to a slow song from the 60s. Both Joy and Amanda grabbed Carlos and Travis then drug them onto the dance floor and started dancing.
Kyle and Shane smiled while dragging Hitomi and Nicole onto the dance floor. Hitomi smiled as she stared into the brown eyes of her dance partner. She felt safe and happy when she was with him, like nothing bad could happen to her as long as she was with Shane. But she looked behind Shane and saw Tiffany staring at her, fire rising in her eyes.
Tiffany looked as if she was going to kill Hitomi the second both her and Shane quit dancing. Hitomi and Shane danced a few more dances until both her and Shane decided to split. Shane went off to talk to some of his friends while Hitomi went to talk to hers. Hitomi was laughing joyfully when Tiffany, who was still angry, came up. "I will have Shane. And I will have him by the end of the dance!" Tiffany growled. "What?" Hitomi asked.
"You heard me!" Tiffany nearly shouted, "I will have him and you will be out of his life forever!" Tiffany then stomped off to her own friends. "Why does she hate me so much?" Hitomi asked herself, but stopping when she remembered an earlier conversation she had over the phone with Joy.
~~~~~~~FLASHBACK TO 5PM~~~~~
Before Hitomi got to relax on her bed, she got another phone call. Hitomi picked up the phone and lazily asked, "Hello?" "Hitomi, it's me, Joy." The voice on the other line answered. "Oh, hi Joy. What's up?" Hitomi asked. "You're not going to believe this!" Joy cried out.
"What's wrong?"
"Tiffany is coming to the dance."
"Yeah, so?"
"Hitomi, Tiffany has had a crush on Shane since the 7th grade and hates anyone that becomes his girlfriend."
"So what? I hate her too."
"Hitomi, Tiffany will do anything to hurt or humiliate you tonight."
"It's okay, Joy. I can handle her."
"Whatever. See ya tonight."
~~~~~~~END FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~
Hitomi shrugged off the thought of Tiffany hurting or humiliating Hitomi and continued her conversation with her friends. Suddenly, Tiffany appeared in front of Hitomi holding a cup of strawberry punch. Nina, Ashley, Jessica, and Stephany were right behind her. Nina, Ashley, Jessica, and Stephany softly pushed Tiffany and the punch from her cup went flying onto the front of Hitomi's beautiful blue dress.
The 5 popular girls said fake apologies and walked off laughing hysterically. Joy, Amanda, and Nicole quickly led Hitomi to the bathroom and struggled to wash the stain out of Hitomi's dress, but it didn't work. The bathroom door opened and Libby, one of the most popular girls in the school (and one of the nicest) walked in. Hitomi gasped. Right in the front of Libby's white dress was a punch stain similar to the one on Hitomi's dress.
Libby smiled at Hitomi and told her that she and the rest of her friends saw what Nina, Ashley, Tiffany, Jessica, and Stephany did, so they put the same stain on their dresses. "Also," she reassured Hitomi, "The punch we used for this dance doesn't really stain if you wash it off like you do with regular clothes. Trust me. I was one of the people who set up the dance." Hitomi smiled at Libby, "Thanks."
Hitomi, Joy, Amanda, Nicole, and Libby left the bathroom and stopped. Everyone inside the room except for the 5 girls that hated Hitomi and Hitomi's friends had punch stains on their clothes. Nicole, Joy, and Amanda immediately went to the punch bowl and splashed punch onto their dresses. Shane walked up to Hitomi and brought her into a dance. Tiffany looked angrily at Hitomi but then smirked.
Tiffany knew that during the dance, there would be karioke(A/N: that spelled right?) for anyone who wanted to sing. The karioke had already started, so Tiffany quickly signed Hitomi up to sing and wrote that Hitomi would sing an oriental song. Tiffany softly giggled. She had a feeling that Hitomi couldn't sing and would totally humiliate herself onto the stage.
The vice principal picked up the clipboard and announced, "And now, Hitomi Kanzaki will come up and sing an oriental song." Hitomi gasped. She never remembered signing up to sing, but walked onto the stage anyway. Hitomi was very relieved that she was originally from Japan and had a wonderful singing voice. She was also very relieved of some of the Japanese songs that were on the karioke machine. She picked up the microphone and spoke into it, "I'm going to sing 'Hikari no Naka e' by Maaya Sakamoto."
She then started singing. Her beautiful voice filled the entire gymnasium and although nobody could understand what she was saying, most of the teenagers sang along softly so they wouldn't cover up Hitomi's voice if they screwed up. At the end of the song, everybody was cheering and applauding. Steam came out of Tiffany's ears, but then she realized that she had one final chance of getting Shane.
It was springtime and at this dance, the high school students would vote for a spring king and a spring queen and if Shane became the king and Tiffany became the queen, they'd dance together and Tiffany could get closer to Shane. Now all the votes were turned in and it would only be a minute when the Spring King and Queen would be announced.
At the springtime dances at OHHS, the queen was announced first for some reason. The music stopped and the vice principal walked onto the microphone, "I have now tallied up the votes for the Spring King and Spring Queen. When I call your name, please come up to the stage. The Spring Queen is...Tiffany Black." Tiffany squealed in excitement as she ran up to the stage. The vice principal put a crown on her head before continuing, "And the Spring King is...Derek Micheals."
Tiffany's eyes got wide in shock as Derek came onto the stage. Tiffany couldn't believe that she was paired up with him. The boy was a nerd with coke bottle glasses, huge braces, and zits covering his face. He also breathed through his mouth. She was paired with the most unpopular boy in school.
Tears rolled down Tiffany's cheeks as Derek was crowned. A flash went off, then a few more, all from people with cameras. The first was from the photographer of the school newspaper. Now a picture of her and Derek would be shown all throughout the high school in the newspaper.
Derek took her hand and led her onto the dance floor. Tiffany started crying as she danced with the Spring King. When the dance was over, she immediately ran to her friends crying, "Why did I get paired with HIM? It was supposed to be me and Shane." Her friends said nothing. They didn't know what to say.
The 5 girls were about to walk towards the DJ and see the votes when this marble suddenly appeared right in front of Jessica. Without seeing the marble, Jessica stepped on it and started losing her balance. Jessica grabbed her friends for support, but they all lost their balance and fell onto a table that was wobbly and full of sticky snacks and punch.
The table broke and almost instantly, cookies, doughnuts, cakes, and ice cream fell on top of the girls. The punch completely drenched them. Everyone looked at the now dirty girls, pointed, and laughed.
The 5 girls ran outside, crying in humiliation. The vice principal took after them. "How could this happen? This was supposed to be the greatest night of our high school days." Tiffany cried while picking pieces of doughnuts out of her hair. "Well, have you girls ever heard the expression 'you always get what you deserve'?" the vice principal asked.
"Yeah, but only from unpopular people." Stephany answered, combing ice cream out of her hair. "Yeah, I don't believe in that saying." Nina answered. "Me neither." Her friends answered, tears pouring down their faces. "Well, you girls just got what you deserved." The vice principal smiled before going back inside. The girls were too humiliated to stay at the dance any longer, so they drove home.
The clock shone that it was almost midnight, so everybody got to have a final dance. Hitomi rested her head upon Shane's chest as she moved in time with the song. Joy and Carlos danced up to them and as they did, Joy whispered to Hitomi, "You were right, Hitomi. You could handle Tiffany." "Told you." Hitomi whispered back to Joy.
The clock struck midnight and everyone stopped dancing and left to go home. Hitomi and Shane once again got into Shane's car and started driving towards Hitomi's house. Hitomi felt into her pocket and found one final not from the mysterious person. The note read, "I WARNED YOU ABOUT GETTING TOO CLOSE TO SHANE, NOW PREPARE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"
"Is this a note from Tiffany?" Hitomi asked herself, but she didn't care. She had Shane and that's all she needed. Shane parked his car in front of Hitomi's house. She gave him a kiss on the lips and said, "I had a nice time tonight." "Me too." Shane answered. He gave her a kiss before she closed the door to his car and entered her own house. "Good night." Shane whispered as if Hitomi were next to him before driving to his own home.
End Chapter 15
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Okay, I made up the thing about the spring dances at my school. And for the karioke thing. I like Maaya Sakamoto. I think her voice is good and I like the song "Hikari no Naka e" or "Into the Light" and even though it IS an Escaflowne song. I don't care. Hope ya liked it.