Author's Notes: Abby and Nigel are my favourite characters and they will be showing up in later chapters but for now I'm concentrating on Kuki, Hoagie and Wallabee.
Disclaimer: Is on first chapter if needed.
Chapter Two: Too much Fluffiness!
Wallabee Beatles was having a bad day, a bad week in fact and all because of that silly Kuki girl. He had to admit, though he had desperately tried to deny it, that she was smart. Very smart in fact, she had outsmarted him, him! Sure, on the first day he had been the stronger one, the better one but the second day she had completely embarrassed him and for the rest of the week she had been just as bad! He still had another week to go and he was fast losing his patience, not that he had any, he was just coming close to punching her. If it weren't for the number one unwritten rule of the playground: you weren't allowed to hit girls. He would be killed a million times over before the day had ended if Ms Smith found out he had hit a girl. So he was left with forcing himself not to strangle her on the spot, which was becoming increasingly difficult. Growling to himself he strolled into the classroom, trying his best to ignore the beaming girl sitting beside his desk.
"Hi Wally!"
"What? Yah idiot, mah name's Wallabee." He spat out at her as he slid into his seat. Kuki ignored his harsh words and continued to smile rather adorably at him. Stupid Wallabee, he mentally yelled at himself, she is not sweet in any way, shape or form. She's evil, very very evil! In a cute cuddly sorta way. No, stop it! Bad brain!
"Wallabee long name, Wally new nickname for you!"
"What if ah don't want a nickname?" The Japanese girl giggled to herself as if not wanting a nickname was the most stupidest thing she'd heard of yet. He glared at her, which she ignored; instead she offered him a fluffy blue pen.
"Want?"
"No."
"Fluffy notebook?"
"No."
"Bunny sticker?"
"No."
"Cuddly teddy?"
"No! No, no and no again! Ah don't want any of your silly toys, fluffy stationary and girly stuff! Would yah just leave mah alone, alright?!" Kuki took one look at him before bursting into tears. Wallabee looked up to see that the whole class had turned round and was glowering at him. Kuki was not that well loved but making an innocent little girl cry was a very bad thing to do and apparently he'd done just that.
"Wallabee Beatles, look at what you've done!" The blonde turned to see his teacher scowling at him fiercely. Innocent? Yeah right! Wallabee thought to himself as Hoagie got up from his seat and pulled the crying girl into a hug.
"Go and stand outside the classroom, you'll be doing the work at lunch! Hoagie take Kuki to the toilets and get some tissues for her." The boy nodded and led his friend outside, Wallabee stomped after them.
"What did yah do that for?!" Wallabee spun round and faced the girl, who still had tears streaming down her face. He watched as her sweet innocent face turned into a scowl, pulling away from Hoagie's embrace she pointed a sleeved covered finger at him.
"I didn't do nothing. You the bad person, yelling at people all the time. You should just be nice." She spat out, prodding him in the chest. Snarling he whacked her hand away, he then noticed Hoagie smiling. Anger rose inside him, how dare that boy laugh at him?!
"What are yah laughing at fatty?" He spat out, Hoagie's face immediately fell, Wallabee smiled, he had won . . . or so he thought. He was rather surprised when a foot came flying through the air and kicked him in the chest; the Australian went soaring through the air before slamming into the wall.
"You horrible, horrible, horrible. Just cos you got no friends don't mean you can be nasty to other people. Hoagie's nicer than you'll ever be!" He stared at the girl who had flames dancing in her eyes, she then spun round grabbed her friend by the arm and dragged him down the corridor. Leaving Wallabee to sit on the dirty floor and think. Which wasn't about much, instead a single sentence was going round and round in his head. Did she just kick mah?!
Wallabee Beatles had been thinking a lot, something that was not that common, and his thinking made him realise something: that trying to think something through was absolutely stupid! The more you thought about something, the more questions arose, meaning you needed to get more answers. The problem being that you couldn't get the answers because the person that held all the answers hated your guts. Which meant in uncertain terms that he wasn't going to get anywhere. The sound of childish screams rang through the air, disrupting his annoyed thoughts; the blonde clamped his hands firmly over his ears. How was he supposed to think with that much racket? Amongst the many voices he heard Chal's, the school bully. What was that cruddy idiot getting up to now? Wally thought to himself as he looked up to see Kuki and Hoagie surrounded by the bully and his cronies. Wally snorted, he usually jumped at the chance to get into a fight but that Kuki could fight so she was alright and it would be entertaining to watch.
Mind you she might not be able to fight all of them at one time. A little voice whispered in the back of Wallabee's head.
'That's her own fault. She shouldn't have been stupid enough to annoy them.'
You know that Chal picks on people, she probably didn't do anything, you should help her. Growling the blonde pulled himself to his feet, he'd experienced this little voice before, it was what his mother called a conscious. And he knew, from experience, that it wouldn't go away until he had helped whoever it was that it thought he should. Stomping over the blonde stopped a foot or two behind Chal and cupped his hands around his mouth.
"Oy Chal, whaddyah think yah doin'?" The black haired boy turned to face Wallabee, his green eyes narrowed and he wrinkled his nose at Wallabee.
"I'm about to beat them up." He declared turning round, in the process dismissing the boy as if he wasn't anything more than a pest. Bad move, Wallabee didn't like being ignored.
"Ah wouldn't do that if ah was yah." Chal turned round and laughed in Wallabee's face.
"What you gonna do shrimp?"
"This."
"Huh?" Jumping forward Wallabee slammed his fist into Chal's face, the black haired boy staggered backwards. Completely taken back by the boy's sudden attack Chal stared at Wallabee dumbly. The blonde took the boy's momentary lapse in ability to move to his advantage. He slammed his foot into the boy's chest, knocking the wind out of him. Grabbing Chal by the ankles he tugged, the boy landed on his behind with a thump.
"Now yah and your stupid little cronies had better leave them alone or ahm gonna hurt yah again. Got it?" Nodding, terrified, the bully pulled himself to his feet and scampered away, his friends following him.
"You protected us." Wallabee frowned and turned round to face Hoagie and Kuki, who both looked surprised and slightly afraid.
"No ah didn't. Ah just wanted a good fight." Kuki smiled at his excuse, worrying Wallabee; he'd learnt in the past week to be very afraid when she smiled like that.
"You like us." The girl declared and threw her arms round Wallabee in a thank you hug. Startled by the girl's affection Wallabee didn't react straight away, when he regained his ability to move back, he shoved her away from him.
"No ah don't. Ah told yah, ah just wanted a fight."
"Wasn't a very good fight. You let him get away." Hoagie muttered under his breath, Wallabee chose to ignore the boy's comment. Turning round he stomped back to the bench he had been previously been sitting on. Leaving behind a hurt Kuki and Hoagie.
~*~
"Dey're da smartest we've come across yet."
"I know but they need to get along."
"What makes ya think dey won't?"
"Did you not just notice that so called conversation, it wasn't very friendly."
"They'll get along fine."
"Oh really?"
"Just watch and learn Boss, just watch and learn. Not everythin' is how it appears ta be."
~*~
Kuki was rather hurt at the fact that Wallabee had said he didn't like them, Hoagie was too. She knew he cared, he had too! He didn't seem that bad a person, underneath his tough exterior he was a sweetie. Well, kinder than they had first thought, sweetie was a long way off . . . yet. If they befriended the blonde, Kuki was sure they she could soften him up a bit, make him that tiny bit nicer. It was a new resolution of hers, to gain Wallabee's trust and soften him up. She knew it would take a lot of work but she really believed that no one was completely evil. Apart from some grown-ups, mind you, they were a different matter completely. She allowed her eyes to wander over her class; some of her class-mates were nice enough even if they didn't really like her. You got the evil ones, the rude ones (her eyes glanced over at Wallabee) and the mysterious ones. She wasn't sure why they were mysterious, they just were. The very air about them was mystifying, the only time she ever saw them was in class. They seemed to disappear into thin air the moment they walked out the classroom. She had asked Serena about them; apparently they hung around with each other all the time but didn't act the slightest bit like friends. They hardly ever talked to the other children; instead they preferred to keep their distance. They were incredibly smart and had been known to vanish from school for a few days every now and then. Rumours had gone round that they were some sort of alien or evil spies that were here to take over the world. Kuki had giggled at that point, Serena thought it was because she was nervous. In reality Kuki found the rumours funny, if the two were evil spies trying to take over the world, why would they be hanging round a boring school like this one? Some people really were stupid. Thing was, Kuki wanted to know who they were; they seemed like a good mystery. Like the mysterious killer games she had played back home, she needed to find out who they were and what they did when they disappeared. However her first case to solve was Wallabee Beatles, he was more important than the other two.
She allowed her eyes to wander back to the boy, who was sitting grumpily in his seat. She frowned, he seemed worked up as if someone was about to attack him at any moment.
"Wally?" He winced at her voice, hurt flickered through Kuki, she didn't mind him being rude to her but she didn't like him being scared of her. He didn't answer just fixed his eyes on the teacher. Kuki frowned; she wanted to talk to him.
"Hey Wallabee, I talk to you." He continued to take no notice of her, her annoyance grew. She looked back at the picture she was painting. It was art time and she'd been painting a pretty puppy, it was then that she noticed the paintbrush in her hand. She dipped it back into the blue paint and leaned over and made a dot on Wallabee's work. Not that he'd really done any work; he couldn't be bothered to paint so he had doodled all over his piece of paper. He turned round and glared at her, dipping his own paintbrush into his green paint he turned her pink puppy spotty. She stuck her tongue out at him and painted some big pink hearts on his paper.
"Quit it."
"Talk then." Scowling savagely at the girl he picked his paint up and dumped it all over her work. "No." He hissed, Kuki stared at her painting in dismay. Tears welled up in her eyes but she fought them down.
"You nasty person." Snarling at the insult he picked another pot of paint up and dumped it all over her stuff. She stared at the ruined notebooks, pens, stickers and fluffy toys, tears of horror springing in her eyes.
"What on earth is going on, Wallabee did you do this?" Ms Smith had wandered over, her eyes taking in the annoyed expression on Wallabee's face, Kuki's wobbling lower lip and the paint dripping from the desk onto the carpet.
"No, it was me." Both the teacher and Wallabee looked up in surprise at Kuki.
"Well really Kuki must you be so clumsy? Clean it up this instant." Minutes later and Kuki was still mopping up the mess when the bell went. She watched as Wallabee grabbed his bag and walked quickly out the classroom. Kuki hastily mopped the last bits of paints up, dumped the paper towels in the bin before she grabbed her bag, latched onto Hoagie's wrist and followed the boy outside.
Wallabee scuffed his trainers as he wandered along the path; his mind was running at eight hundred miles per hour. Silly girl and her silly confusing ways, why'd she go and do that? He sighed and ran a hand through his mop of hair, life really was confusing at the moment, he couldn't wait till this week ended and he'd be free of her. Never have to suffer her silly girly ways again.
"Hey Wally!" He paused for a second before glancing over his shoulder and stopping. Kuki and Hoagie caught up with him and the three started to walk together, none of them saying a word. It was five minutes later that Wallabee finally broke the silence.
"Why'd yah do it for?"
"Huh?" Wallabee frowned at Kuki, slightly annoyed at her nativity.
"Yah covered for mah, even when ah've been nasty tah yah since yah got here. Ah've done all ah can tah make your life miserable, yet yah are still nice tah mah. Why?"
"Everyone deserves second chance, so what you say? Friends?" Wallabee turned to look at the outstretched hand, his fingers twitched by his side. Slowly he reached forward and grasped her hand with his own.
"Ahm not yah friend, Ah'll just tolerate yah." He muttered, he ignored Kuki and Hoagie's delighted smiles as the trio turned and continued their walk down the street.
~*~
"Go ahead."
"Told ya so."
"Alright, now what?"
"Whattya mean?"
"I mean what do we do next? We've found them, they get along, now what do we do?"
"Dunno but I'm guessing dat we ain't da only ones that have noticed their potential. People will go after dem."
"So we should start keeping a better eye on things and make sure they don't get into trouble."
"Uh huh."
"I suppose we should start now then."
"Yeah. . ."
To be Continued . . .
You've probably worked out who our mysterious pair are but can you guess what they're talking about? I hope not otherwise it wouldn't be much of a story, would it? See you next chapter. MM.