Winter: Insert long dramatic sigh here. Well I planned to update a lot earlier but Bay went lame and I was too worried about him (pulled something in his leg…stupid horse), then I conformed back to mall-ratism, and before I new it midterms are here. Argh. Curse my math teacher for not having the skill of teaching and making the test open notebook. Yes, that is a good thing but I have no notes so I had to borrow a textbook from my cousin (one of the teachers who help kids with stuff) to write my own notes. I have five more chapters to write down. Insert grumbling here.
Wisdom: It's your own fault for procrastinating.
Winter: Oh stuff it.
Wisdom: Excuse me?!
Winter: Insert burp. Hiei do the disclaimer.
Hiei: …Winter doesn't own YYH. Autumn a.k.a Phantom Harmony belongs to Dreamchasereternity and Hinote a.k.a Vladimir belongs to EternalBlackNight.
Chapter Five: Only 181 Days and Seven Periods of School Left:
The next morning Flash shot up out of her sleep panting hard, and wet with sweat. Another restless sleep. But that wasn't the only thing that had woken her. A beeping sound was coming from the clock that rested on one of her night tables; she reached over and hit the button on it to make it stop.
Flash sat there for a minute letting herself wake up. Her black hair was messy and her golden eyes were swollen and crusty. Once she crawled out of bed she straightened out her clothes and left her room to go across the hall and into the bathroom to take a shower.
She walked in closing and locking the door behind her. It was a pretty small bathroom. There were blue tiles on the floor and walls. Every few tiles were black to create some kind of pattern along the walls. There was a white toilet and sink. On the far wall from the door was a stall shower with a crystal door in the right corner. Next to the shower was a set of shelves going into the wall above a pair of cabinets, which held things like spare towels, toilet paper and so on. The shelves held decorative items that you would find in a bathroom.
After going to the shower and turning the water on she opened up the mirror above the sink and took out her toothbrush and toothpaste and began to brush her teeth. Once she was done with that she undressed and stepped into the shower and relaxed under the steaming water before she began to bathe.
Once Flash stepped out of the shower she grabbed a black towel and pulled it around her body and tucked the end in so it stayed on like a little dress that covered her. She pulled a brush from the bottom self that had other things such as body lotion and other hair products.
She brushed the knots out of her wet hair and took her hairdryer and began to dry out her hair straight. Before going back to her room Flash took some body lotion and smoothed it out on her legs and arms.
When Flash walked back into her room carrying her clothes she found her bed already made with a clean set of the school's uniform neatly laid out. She closed the door behind her and dropped her clothes and towel on the floor by her bed and went over to her dresser to grab a pair of undergarments. Once she got dressed Flash walked over to her mirror on the inside of the closet door and began to put on her makeup and jewelry.
"Flash!!!" called Trish from the second floor. "Hurry up or you are going to be late!"
The girl sighed and grabbed her bag and shoes and headed down stairs into the kitchen. The kitchen was of normal size, with a light wooden floor and cream-colored walls. There was a small square table next to a set of windows. While a refrigerator, stove, washing machine, sink and counters lined up along the other wall. The decorations followed as need to match the kitchen.
Hoshi and Mary were already dressed and seated at the opposite ends of the table reading a copy of the morning paper while sipping their morning coffee and eating their breakfast.
"Good morning," said Hoshi as he heard Flash walk in.
"Morning," yawned Flash.
"Are you hungry?" asked Trish as she fussed with a pot in the sink trying to get the dried food off of it. She wore a pair of plain jeans with a white shirt that had its sleeves rolled up. Her hair was pulled back already.
"No thanks," answered Flash.
"Well than you can take the money on the counter and be on your way to school," said Mary not looking up from the paper. "We will see you when we get home tonight."
Flash knew that she was being dismissed so she slipped on her shoes and took then money and left the house and walked to school.
On her way to school she stopped at a local coffee shop called The Kohi-Potto. A lot of University students hung out there when they weren't in class. The high school seniors liked to go there as well to get that college feel. But Flash didn't care about being noticed or getting a feel of any kind. She was a tired, hungry and crabby high school freshman who just wanted a cup of coffee.
After getting her cup of coffee with some of her lunch money she continued walking to school. When Flash got there she noticed Keiko waiting for her by the stairs.
"Flash! Hey Flash!!!!" she yelled as Flash tried hiding among the other students hoping to slip away
Keiko ran up to her. "Didn't you hear me calling?"
"Oh sorry," said Flash cursing mentally. "I'm still a little tired…didn't get much sleep last night."
"Oh okay, well come on were going to be late," said Keiko as she dragged Flash up the stairs almost spilling her coffee.
The girls walked up to the second floor together.
"Well my class is down the hall," said Keiko. "I'll see ya in lunch!"
Keiko waved good-bye as she walked down the hall. Flash continued to walk through the hall to the other side of the second floor where her English level seven class was.
The English and Math classes were put together by level of the students and not grade. The levels are from one to ten; one being the lowest and ten being the highest. This means that in a student's English and Math class they can be taking the class with freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Just as the bell rang Flash was sitting down in the seat that was assigned to her. She sat there quietly as the class continued to talk about various things. When the teacher slid the door open and walked in clearing her throat as a que for everyone to be quiet.
Once the class quieted down the teacher sat at her desk and pulled out a list with everyone's names on it. The teacher was a small woman with raven black hair and dark brown eyes. She dressed in long skirts and a flowing shirt and shawl that always went with her mood. Today she was wearing deep yellow so Flash guessed that she was in a good mood.
"Please stand and call "here" when I say your name," she told the class then began to read off names.
"Takizawa, Flash," she called.
Flash stood up from her seat. "Here."
"Takizawa?" asked the girl next to her, she looked like another freshman. "As in Takizawa Software?"
Flash looked at her. "Yeah…why?"
"That means you live in that western styled house," she said with delight. "It must be so much fun living there. Tell me, what's in like having an American family?"
Flash blinked not understanding why this girl was getting so excited over something so plain. But before she could answer the teacher yelled at them for talking and began to teach her lesson.
"Today class we will review the letters and numbers of the English language before going on to grammar and then spelling," she said. "Now everyone stand up and start saying the Alphabet as I point at you. Flash you start."
"A," said Flash on command as she was pointed at.
The class went of for the next forty-five minutes. Once the bell rang the class packed up their stuff and filed out into the hall to go on to their next class. Flash's new destination was Drawing and Painting.
As she walked on to class she was thinking to herself. I didn't see Yusuke or Kuwabara this morning, come to think of it…I wonder why, their energy seems to be strong.
'Maybe they got hit by one of those moving things,' suggested the woman that Flash was talking to in the mirror…except she wasn't in the mirror, but in her head.
Wow, you're funny Flash thought coolly before ignoring the voice.
In Drawing and Painting the class started on their first project, which was painting a floral scene on a canvas. Flash decided to paint a Cherry Blossom tree with the blossoms falling onto and covering the whole ground, with a setting sun behind it.
But first they had to draw the picture onto the canvas so that is what Flash spent the period doing. The teacher was a very tall man with bleached colored hair and brown eyes, he always dressed in a pair of nice pants and a nice short sleeved blouse but no one could ever tell since he always had his art smock on.
When he came over to Flash she stood behind her and watching her gently draw out the lines on the canvas like she was painting.
"Good job Flash," he said before walking off.
Flash sighed as she continued to sketch out onto the canvas.
End Chapter:
Winter: I know nothing really happened in this chapter…it was more of a filler but I didn't want to put anything big yet cause I need to study and writing would take up more time and I want to try to keep the same (or more) about of chapters I already have.
Wisdom: Yes now you must study.
Winter: Oh yippie.
Wisdom: So please review!
Hiei: Or else!
Winter: Sayonara.
::Credits start going::