Chapter 5: Laura's debut
Misaki-chan's notes: Yay I'm so happy! I have 7 reviews for my shiyuan fanfic! Thanks for your reviews! I love them and I'm so happy I'm twirling! So please review more( thanks!!!
" So what are the most advanced styles of fencing? Please tell me please please please!!!" Shiyuan begged Shinsani as they walked on the school corridor. She clutched onto Shinsani's sleeve and did a rurouni kenshin cross-eyed smiley. (think: xD) Shinsani was startled by Shiyuan's touch and he raised his eyebrows at her. " Have you heard of the Parent Trap movie? Go rent that and observe the 5 minute fencing before running to me and asking me questions you should already know." He replied, smirking.
Shiyuan pouted and agreed reluctantly. It would have been so easy to just get the answer out from Shinsani but Shinsani wanted her to learn things the hard way. Just like the time Shiyuan forced her baka deshi, Misaki-chan to surf the Internet for 5 hours to download the rurouni kenshin soundtracks even though she could just so conveniently give Misaki the soundtracks downloads herself. So now I know how my poor baka deshi felt. Muhahahahaha. Never mind, I shall go on torturing her. This way, she would have a greater impact and more enthusiasm for Rurouni Kenshin products. Whee! Shiyuan snapped out of her thoughts as she was interrupted by a loud commotion in the courtyard.
" Let's go check it out!" Shinsani suggested as he brisk-walked to the courtyard, leaving Shiyuan standing rooted to the spot at the vending machine. "Hey! Wait for me!" She yelled as she took after him.
" Miss Khoo, I do not think that you have any right to reprimand me at all. WHAT AUDACITY! WHY YOU LITTLE-" Mr Chen Xiao Dong was cut off in the middle of his scolding.
" Well.pardon me sir. I do not think that you should speak in the first place. Firstly, the way I dress does not affect the lessons that I shall have here in this school. Secondly, whoever designed the school uniform is totally old-fashioned, well, no offense anyway. I do not mean to be critically mean. Where was I? Right. I'm just adding a little colour to my uniform to make it more interesting and that isn't a crime, is it? You should back off and if you need any future fashion advice, feel free to visit me. I'll gladly give you some." The girl added in a tone of sarcasm and mocking confidence.
Mr Chen, who was practically fuming, was filled with seething anger. "You..you!!!" He stammered and he wavered. Then he stomped his feet in resignation and headed back to his office. Everybody who was in the courtyard burst out clapping and laughing and cheering the girl on. The nerve of the girl! This was the first time Mr Chen was outspoken by a student. Shiyuan, who had witnessed the whole scene, walked up to the girl and held out her hand.
" Ohayo! My name's Shiyuan. You rock dudette! Nobody has ever outspoken the principal in that manner before!" Shiyuan said in a friendly tone, as the girl reached across to shake her hand.
" Perhaps this should be recorded in the Guinness World Book of records!" Shinsani said, as he walked up to both of the girls. Shiyuan rolled her eyes in a good natured way and replied," Don't be lame. Students outspeak their teachers and principals in America. It's almost as if it was a daily routine."
The girl was about 5 feet tall and she looked like an American-Chinese. With black hair which looked as if they were dyed brown was sifting down her shoulders and her small eyes were gleaming with a twinkle, she had rosy cheeks that never seemed to lose their pink colour. Her school skirt was altered a short length at around the mid- thighs, her blouse were rolled up. The left side of her hair was highlighted in light purple and she wore shocking pink nail polish. " My name's Laura. Laura khoo. Nice to meet both of you!" She grinned.
" Are you of mixed blood?" Shiyuan asked curiously.
" Nope."
" Well you look like one"
" Haha thanks, that's what most people tell me. But both my parents are pure Chinese."
" So are you new here?" Shinsani asked curiously.
" Well, not exactly. I had been in this school when I was seven to nine years old, then I changed school because my parents had to work overseas in Japan. So here I am in Singapore again, so since my parents are permanently working in Singapore, that means I shall be studying here permanently too. Is Singapore that strict?"
Shiyuan was jumping up and down and screaming nonsensical words that nobody could interpret. " YOU LIVED IN JAPAN FOR A WHILE? OMG THAT IS SO COOL!!! I'M A JAPANESE ANIME FREAK AND I TOTALLY LOVE J-POP AND JAPANESE STUFF! WHAT'S JAPAN LIKE?"
Laura burst out laughing at Shiyuan's naive and enthusiastic response and she replied," It rocks. Why not I tell you about it over lunch? I'm in eighth grade this year. My class is 2Courage. Could you lead me to that class? " Shiyuan began screaming even harder and she replied," that's my class too! I have two other best friends in it. WE will get along smashingly, don't worry!" The two girls smiled. They began walking together and chatted away and introduced themselves after assembly, leaving poor Shinsani alone. Shrugging his shoulders, he went off to look for his male buddies to chat away. He just could not stand the gushing between girls.
In class.
It was general science period and the teacher Mr Cham was yakking away non- stop, and of course, wearing that perpetual smile on her face that never seemed to be erased from her face. Laura was rather amused, and she imitated the way Mr Cham smiled while she taught the class about molecules and atoms. Her mouth hung open as she witnessed the public scene of Mr Cham pausing for a while and taking a chance to scratch his butt.
Shiyuan giggled inwardly and said," Don't be too shocked. His daily routines are quite revolting, if you know what I mean. But yeah, he's a good teacher."
" And so, did you know I was a boy scout during my schooldays? Thus boys scouts are clever and they learn science and maths, thus I'm teaching your class maths and science, so sit up and pay attention!" His voice boomed loudly across the whole classroom, awakening those who had fallen asleep and was slouching on their chairs and desks. Laura and Shiyuan caught each other in the eye and burst out laughing hard, causing mr Cham to raise his eyebrows and look at them sternly.
Maths lesson passed by in a flash as both girls were giggling over every small thing that Mr Cham did and said, thus they earned an after-school detention from him. Over recess, Shiyuan introduced and took Laura around the school, letting her recapture her memories of being a child in the same building.
" Everything seems so different compared to when I was studying here when I was eight," She added thoughtfully. " Well they did some major upgrading because the seniors complained everything was too kiddy and they wanted something more cool and sophisticated," Shiyuan said helpfully.
The two girls rushed back to class 2C and waited fervently (yeah, right) for their detention. Their detention was mainly to use the period of 50 minutes to complete and write out notes for the whole science chapter of Atoms and Molecules and Ions and the definitions of them. This detention was not too bad, unlike the detention in Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix where Harry potter used his blood to write out lines in detention. Luckily Mr Cham was not as cruel as Professor Umbridge.
The two girls were soon finishing their detention in half an hour's time and when they looked up, Mr Cham was nowhere to be seen. " That's weird," Shiyuan mused.
" I'm so sorry you had to be punished and stay back for detention on your first day of school Laura!" Shiyuan apologized calmly.
Laura laughed it off and said," Haha that's okay! This day is one of the most interesting days of my life desu ne!"
Shinsani was looking for Shiyuan, as he needed to notify her of the change of dates for the next fencing training. Where could she be? He scratched his head. A thought dawned on him and he realized that Shiyuan was still probably at detention after laughing over Mr Cham like a mad clown during maths period. He ran past 2C and ran backwards again. He popped his head into the classroom and yelled," Yo you two! Why is your detention so long?"
Shiyuan was getting irritated with Shinsani.
" What do you mean by why our detention is so long?" She retorted.
Shinsani snorted and smirked good-naturedly. But Shiyuan took it the wrong way and she was getting a little annoyed. " Don't give me that prissy attitude Shinsani sonny!" Shinsani put his hand dramatically over his chest and said," Sure Shiyuan mommy. Since when was I called Shinsani sonny, eh?"
Shiyuan frowned and she stood up. " Don't take this too far ok, Shinsani Homai!"
"Eh?" Was Shinsani's confused reply.
" Did you come here to mock me? There's no need to, you know." Shiyuan retorted.
" Look I wasn't mock-"
" Oh really? Then what's with the dramatic sarcasm?"
"I just came to inform you that-"
" HEY YOU!" Mr Cham bellowed as he made his grand entrance into the classroom. He pointed at Laura and Shiyuan, and said," Have you two done your homework?" He then proceeded to point at Shinsani and said, " you are not supposed to interrupt my students in the middle of the their detention, Mr Shinsani Homai, got it?"
Shiyuan rolled her eyes and pouted angrily.
Shinsani decided to explain things before they got worse and he got cut off by Shiyuan again and soon they were struggled in a battle against arguing in front of the teacher and Laura.
" THAT'S IT!!! SHIYUAN AND SHINSANI, STAY BACK FOR A DOUBLE DETENTION TOMORROW! OH MY POOR EARS.I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE" Mr Cham commanded, before he walked out of the classroom, breaking the quarrel between the two of them.
Shiyuan's mouth twisted into a snarl and she spluttered angrily," I don't believe this! It's all YOUR fault!"
It was Shinsani's turn to twist his mouth into a snarl and he retorted, " No way!"
" Fine then! Meet you in 2C tomorrow! It's all your fault, mind you!" Shiyuan spluttered angrily.
Shinsani stomped his feet angrily and walked out of the classroom, leaving Shiyuan to fume. How can she be so full of admiration for me when I'm in fencing and today she was just clinging on to me begging me for fencing tips, and now she's reverting back to her old self, picking on me and arguing with me? I didn't even get to pass her the change of dates for the fencing lesson. OH MAN.
" Ano.are you two.are you two?" Laura pondered. " Well.never mind."
Laura was a distraction to Shiyuan's anger and Shiyuan angry mood was immediately replaced with a sense of curiosity. " What???" She asked eagerly, her anger evaporating instantly.
" Are you two a couple? You two quarrel exactly like a couple and you two look so well-matched!!!" Laura squeaked excitedly.
Shiyuan was stunned. Yeah. Stunned. She stood rooted to the spot before regaining conscious and she whacked her forehead and said," Never ever, would I fall for a baka pighead like that Shinsani. Yeah. Never. "
" But I do think that you went a bit too far by shouting away at Shinsani just because he teased you. He must have a purpose if he wanted to find you in class 2C,right?" Laura said thoughtfully.
Shiyuan looked up at Laura with incredulous big eyes and said, " I think you're right. Uh-oh. My spunky mad mood gets the better of me sometimes." Laura nodded in understanding.
Misaki-chan's end notes: I changed shinsani's surname to homai^^ I want to add more waff in the upcoming chapters! Yay this chapter is FINALLY completed!!!=)
Misaki-chan's notes: Yay I'm so happy! I have 7 reviews for my shiyuan fanfic! Thanks for your reviews! I love them and I'm so happy I'm twirling! So please review more( thanks!!!
" So what are the most advanced styles of fencing? Please tell me please please please!!!" Shiyuan begged Shinsani as they walked on the school corridor. She clutched onto Shinsani's sleeve and did a rurouni kenshin cross-eyed smiley. (think: xD) Shinsani was startled by Shiyuan's touch and he raised his eyebrows at her. " Have you heard of the Parent Trap movie? Go rent that and observe the 5 minute fencing before running to me and asking me questions you should already know." He replied, smirking.
Shiyuan pouted and agreed reluctantly. It would have been so easy to just get the answer out from Shinsani but Shinsani wanted her to learn things the hard way. Just like the time Shiyuan forced her baka deshi, Misaki-chan to surf the Internet for 5 hours to download the rurouni kenshin soundtracks even though she could just so conveniently give Misaki the soundtracks downloads herself. So now I know how my poor baka deshi felt. Muhahahahaha. Never mind, I shall go on torturing her. This way, she would have a greater impact and more enthusiasm for Rurouni Kenshin products. Whee! Shiyuan snapped out of her thoughts as she was interrupted by a loud commotion in the courtyard.
" Let's go check it out!" Shinsani suggested as he brisk-walked to the courtyard, leaving Shiyuan standing rooted to the spot at the vending machine. "Hey! Wait for me!" She yelled as she took after him.
" Miss Khoo, I do not think that you have any right to reprimand me at all. WHAT AUDACITY! WHY YOU LITTLE-" Mr Chen Xiao Dong was cut off in the middle of his scolding.
" Well.pardon me sir. I do not think that you should speak in the first place. Firstly, the way I dress does not affect the lessons that I shall have here in this school. Secondly, whoever designed the school uniform is totally old-fashioned, well, no offense anyway. I do not mean to be critically mean. Where was I? Right. I'm just adding a little colour to my uniform to make it more interesting and that isn't a crime, is it? You should back off and if you need any future fashion advice, feel free to visit me. I'll gladly give you some." The girl added in a tone of sarcasm and mocking confidence.
Mr Chen, who was practically fuming, was filled with seething anger. "You..you!!!" He stammered and he wavered. Then he stomped his feet in resignation and headed back to his office. Everybody who was in the courtyard burst out clapping and laughing and cheering the girl on. The nerve of the girl! This was the first time Mr Chen was outspoken by a student. Shiyuan, who had witnessed the whole scene, walked up to the girl and held out her hand.
" Ohayo! My name's Shiyuan. You rock dudette! Nobody has ever outspoken the principal in that manner before!" Shiyuan said in a friendly tone, as the girl reached across to shake her hand.
" Perhaps this should be recorded in the Guinness World Book of records!" Shinsani said, as he walked up to both of the girls. Shiyuan rolled her eyes in a good natured way and replied," Don't be lame. Students outspeak their teachers and principals in America. It's almost as if it was a daily routine."
The girl was about 5 feet tall and she looked like an American-Chinese. With black hair which looked as if they were dyed brown was sifting down her shoulders and her small eyes were gleaming with a twinkle, she had rosy cheeks that never seemed to lose their pink colour. Her school skirt was altered a short length at around the mid- thighs, her blouse were rolled up. The left side of her hair was highlighted in light purple and she wore shocking pink nail polish. " My name's Laura. Laura khoo. Nice to meet both of you!" She grinned.
" Are you of mixed blood?" Shiyuan asked curiously.
" Nope."
" Well you look like one"
" Haha thanks, that's what most people tell me. But both my parents are pure Chinese."
" So are you new here?" Shinsani asked curiously.
" Well, not exactly. I had been in this school when I was seven to nine years old, then I changed school because my parents had to work overseas in Japan. So here I am in Singapore again, so since my parents are permanently working in Singapore, that means I shall be studying here permanently too. Is Singapore that strict?"
Shiyuan was jumping up and down and screaming nonsensical words that nobody could interpret. " YOU LIVED IN JAPAN FOR A WHILE? OMG THAT IS SO COOL!!! I'M A JAPANESE ANIME FREAK AND I TOTALLY LOVE J-POP AND JAPANESE STUFF! WHAT'S JAPAN LIKE?"
Laura burst out laughing at Shiyuan's naive and enthusiastic response and she replied," It rocks. Why not I tell you about it over lunch? I'm in eighth grade this year. My class is 2Courage. Could you lead me to that class? " Shiyuan began screaming even harder and she replied," that's my class too! I have two other best friends in it. WE will get along smashingly, don't worry!" The two girls smiled. They began walking together and chatted away and introduced themselves after assembly, leaving poor Shinsani alone. Shrugging his shoulders, he went off to look for his male buddies to chat away. He just could not stand the gushing between girls.
In class.
It was general science period and the teacher Mr Cham was yakking away non- stop, and of course, wearing that perpetual smile on her face that never seemed to be erased from her face. Laura was rather amused, and she imitated the way Mr Cham smiled while she taught the class about molecules and atoms. Her mouth hung open as she witnessed the public scene of Mr Cham pausing for a while and taking a chance to scratch his butt.
Shiyuan giggled inwardly and said," Don't be too shocked. His daily routines are quite revolting, if you know what I mean. But yeah, he's a good teacher."
" And so, did you know I was a boy scout during my schooldays? Thus boys scouts are clever and they learn science and maths, thus I'm teaching your class maths and science, so sit up and pay attention!" His voice boomed loudly across the whole classroom, awakening those who had fallen asleep and was slouching on their chairs and desks. Laura and Shiyuan caught each other in the eye and burst out laughing hard, causing mr Cham to raise his eyebrows and look at them sternly.
Maths lesson passed by in a flash as both girls were giggling over every small thing that Mr Cham did and said, thus they earned an after-school detention from him. Over recess, Shiyuan introduced and took Laura around the school, letting her recapture her memories of being a child in the same building.
" Everything seems so different compared to when I was studying here when I was eight," She added thoughtfully. " Well they did some major upgrading because the seniors complained everything was too kiddy and they wanted something more cool and sophisticated," Shiyuan said helpfully.
The two girls rushed back to class 2C and waited fervently (yeah, right) for their detention. Their detention was mainly to use the period of 50 minutes to complete and write out notes for the whole science chapter of Atoms and Molecules and Ions and the definitions of them. This detention was not too bad, unlike the detention in Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix where Harry potter used his blood to write out lines in detention. Luckily Mr Cham was not as cruel as Professor Umbridge.
The two girls were soon finishing their detention in half an hour's time and when they looked up, Mr Cham was nowhere to be seen. " That's weird," Shiyuan mused.
" I'm so sorry you had to be punished and stay back for detention on your first day of school Laura!" Shiyuan apologized calmly.
Laura laughed it off and said," Haha that's okay! This day is one of the most interesting days of my life desu ne!"
Shinsani was looking for Shiyuan, as he needed to notify her of the change of dates for the next fencing training. Where could she be? He scratched his head. A thought dawned on him and he realized that Shiyuan was still probably at detention after laughing over Mr Cham like a mad clown during maths period. He ran past 2C and ran backwards again. He popped his head into the classroom and yelled," Yo you two! Why is your detention so long?"
Shiyuan was getting irritated with Shinsani.
" What do you mean by why our detention is so long?" She retorted.
Shinsani snorted and smirked good-naturedly. But Shiyuan took it the wrong way and she was getting a little annoyed. " Don't give me that prissy attitude Shinsani sonny!" Shinsani put his hand dramatically over his chest and said," Sure Shiyuan mommy. Since when was I called Shinsani sonny, eh?"
Shiyuan frowned and she stood up. " Don't take this too far ok, Shinsani Homai!"
"Eh?" Was Shinsani's confused reply.
" Did you come here to mock me? There's no need to, you know." Shiyuan retorted.
" Look I wasn't mock-"
" Oh really? Then what's with the dramatic sarcasm?"
"I just came to inform you that-"
" HEY YOU!" Mr Cham bellowed as he made his grand entrance into the classroom. He pointed at Laura and Shiyuan, and said," Have you two done your homework?" He then proceeded to point at Shinsani and said, " you are not supposed to interrupt my students in the middle of the their detention, Mr Shinsani Homai, got it?"
Shiyuan rolled her eyes and pouted angrily.
Shinsani decided to explain things before they got worse and he got cut off by Shiyuan again and soon they were struggled in a battle against arguing in front of the teacher and Laura.
" THAT'S IT!!! SHIYUAN AND SHINSANI, STAY BACK FOR A DOUBLE DETENTION TOMORROW! OH MY POOR EARS.I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE" Mr Cham commanded, before he walked out of the classroom, breaking the quarrel between the two of them.
Shiyuan's mouth twisted into a snarl and she spluttered angrily," I don't believe this! It's all YOUR fault!"
It was Shinsani's turn to twist his mouth into a snarl and he retorted, " No way!"
" Fine then! Meet you in 2C tomorrow! It's all your fault, mind you!" Shiyuan spluttered angrily.
Shinsani stomped his feet angrily and walked out of the classroom, leaving Shiyuan to fume. How can she be so full of admiration for me when I'm in fencing and today she was just clinging on to me begging me for fencing tips, and now she's reverting back to her old self, picking on me and arguing with me? I didn't even get to pass her the change of dates for the fencing lesson. OH MAN.
" Ano.are you two.are you two?" Laura pondered. " Well.never mind."
Laura was a distraction to Shiyuan's anger and Shiyuan angry mood was immediately replaced with a sense of curiosity. " What???" She asked eagerly, her anger evaporating instantly.
" Are you two a couple? You two quarrel exactly like a couple and you two look so well-matched!!!" Laura squeaked excitedly.
Shiyuan was stunned. Yeah. Stunned. She stood rooted to the spot before regaining conscious and she whacked her forehead and said," Never ever, would I fall for a baka pighead like that Shinsani. Yeah. Never. "
" But I do think that you went a bit too far by shouting away at Shinsani just because he teased you. He must have a purpose if he wanted to find you in class 2C,right?" Laura said thoughtfully.
Shiyuan looked up at Laura with incredulous big eyes and said, " I think you're right. Uh-oh. My spunky mad mood gets the better of me sometimes." Laura nodded in understanding.
Misaki-chan's end notes: I changed shinsani's surname to homai^^ I want to add more waff in the upcoming chapters! Yay this chapter is FINALLY completed!!!=)