New Girl on the Slopes-Chap. 2:
First day of School
By AnimeDutchess
Hello fans! crickets chirp Erm, okay...well, here's the 2nd chapter of my Snowboard Kids story! Hey, why do I keep reminding you people, anyway? Oh well! Here's chapter 2!
P.S.: Here's my Talk Back, where I respond to the reviewers:
Peachrocks- yeah, I'll keep that in mind. I'm glad you like the story!
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In Snow Town Elementary, the two coolest 5th grade teachers were Ms. Dunth and Ms. Mojikalitz, Ms. M for short. They both taught together. Ms. Dunth was a middle-age woman who actually kept up with the times by watching Comedy Central, and Ms. M was her twenty-something year old assistant who was still learning to be a teacher. Ms. Dunth always told jokes that actually helped people learn and made lesson plans, while Ms. M was nice and set up tests and homework, but she could be strict when you break the rules. Coincidentally, all six of the Snowboard Kids had them as teachers this year. But even though they had the coolest teachers, they still thought that this school year really sucked.
By the time spring came to their 4th grade year, all the students got a notice from school saying that instead of having a summer vacation, they would have a winter vacation. The notice went on and on, saying stuff about how weather related problems could be avoided this way, and that maybe it wouldn't be so bad. So then all the kids in all the schools in Snow Town had to go a grade up and wait for their new winter vacation, because technically they were done with the year they were presently in. They only got a week off from school to get the new school supplies, and then they had to go to their new classes.
There were a bunch of riots, of course. None worked. So a week later, all students went back to school, but they were one grade higher.
But anyway, on June 12th, 2004, Ms. Dunth was lecturing the class about fractions. Everyone was listening intently, because Ms. M had hinted that she was working on a really hard fractions test that would count as 20 of their grade. At first, everyone thought It's only 20 but Ms. Dunth then reminded everyone that so far the class' Math grades were only two major homeworks and a quiz they had a couple days ago concerning decimals. This meant that everyone was studying hard, even the slackers. Well, most of the slackers. One of them was sleeping on the job, strangely not being noticed by Ms. M, who had caught him multiple times doing crazy stunts during school hours, including sleeping. The reason she hadn't caught him yet because she was down at the office.
This slacker's name was Slash Kamei, leader of the Snowboard Kids. He really didn't care that he would get in trouble because Ms. Dunth had really pissed him off today. This morning she had announced that a new student from Japan had moved into Snow Town and was coming to the class today. In fact, they had moved into the Keri Mansion, which was thought to be haunted but actually was just an empty old house. Slash wasn't bothered by this, though; he was of Japanese decent himself, and his mom had taught him the language so he knew it fluently. What bothered him was the fact that the new person's last name actually was Keri, and Ms. Dunth put people's seats in alphabetical order no matter what time of the year they came in. So that meant he couldn't sit near his best friend, Jam Kuehnemund, one of the other six Snowboard Kids. Now his best friend was sitting all the way at the other side of the room.
Anyway, Slash was asleep, dreaming that he and Jam were at some random place and they were trying to feed aliens strawberry poptarts for some reason when he noticed that Ms. Dunth's usual hilarious lecture had stopped. He woke up and looked around. He turned to his right to ask someone what was going on, but then he remembered: that's the new student's seat and no one was in it yet. He was also in the first column, which met that to his left there were only windows and no one to talk to, and there wasn't anyone in front of him because he was in the first row. So he turned around to talk to the person behind him: Wendy Lane, another one of the Snowboard Kids and a certified genius.
Wendy actually became a Snowboard Kid by inventing things that enhanced snowboards or actual snowboards themselves. She was very logical, being a genius and all. She was also a very nice person.
"Hey, Wendy, what's going on?" Slash asked her, still half asleep. Wendy rolled her eyes at the spiky-haired leader.
"Well, you were paying attention at the beginning of class, when Ms. Dunth said there would be a new student arriving today, right?" Wendy asked.
"Damn right," Slash said, sounding kinda pissed, "Now me and Jam can't fool around in class!"
Wendy sighed. "Well, Ms. M went to go get the person from the office. She just came in again, and the student is out in the hall. The principal is here, too. Now the teachers and principal are talking about stuff. I really can't hear," she explained, going back to the textbook on her desk. Slash looked at the group of adults at the front of the room. They were whispering together, so Slash didn't hear anything. They were finished anyway, though, because they stopped whispering and Ms. Dunth came forward to talk to the class.
"Kids, we have a new student coming to our class today, and she's all the way from Japan! Isn't that great?" Ms. Dunth asked, obviously exited. The class didn't make a sound. Ms. M then came in front of Ms. Dunth and explained what the middle-aged hipster meant.
"Ms. D means that the new student is a girl, and she's out in the hall right now. We want you to behave and treat her with the same respect you would treat any of your friends, kay?" Ms. M asked, also obviously exited. Shouts of "Okay" and "Yeah" and "Whatever" and "Can I go back to my regular seat?" were heard, but Ms. M took it as I big, "YES, MA'AM!" The principal then moved in front his two 5th grade teacher employees and cleared his throat.
"Well, I hope you treat this new student nicely. Her family came all the way from Japan to move here for some reason, and, well, uh..." The principal was never a good speaker, so he decided to end it there. He waved goodbye to the class and asked the new girl to go into the classroom. Everyone, even Slash, was looking at the door. Then they all gasped as the new girl entered the room and stood at the front of the class.
The first thing Slash noticed about the newbie was her hair. It was black, beautiful, so long it touched the ground, and in a really long braid. He then took a look at what she was wearing. She had a long-sleeved white shirt on with a short-sleeved black shirt over it. She was also wearing blue jeans that became baggy from the knees down and had a single, dangling chain hanging from the right pocket. Her shoes were almost hidden by the jeans, but it was clear that she was wearing black snow boots, too. The thing that held her braided hair together was actually a ribbon the same exact shade of dark blue as her jeans, which were indigo color. He then looked at her face, and blushed. Her eyes were a grayish-blue, and her nose was narrow and long, but not really that long. As she was looking at her new classmates, she saw Slash blushing and blushed back. Then she looked at the only empty seat, which was next to him, and her pinkish blush turned into a fire red one.
Ms. Dunth cleared her throat. "Well, everyone, this is Shiko Keri, your new classmate. Anything you want to tell us about yourself, Ms. Keri? What are your interests?" she asked. The girl now known as Shiko stopped looking at the empty seat and faced toward the students. It was clear that she was nervous.
"Um, well, I like the color black, fiction books, rock music, dogs, anime, manga, video games, and snowboarding." Shiko said, her voice quavering with every word. The last interest got most of the students talking. Shiko immediately froze, fearing that she had said something that the other kids would consider weird. Ms. M came forward to shush everyone.
"Now, class, please settle down." Ms. M said. Everyone immediately went silent. Ms. M showed Shiko to her seat, which was in fact the empty seat next to Slash. She sat down and reached into her desk, found a math text book, and opened it to the page number written on the board.
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It was ten minutes before lunch, and Ms. Dunth told everyone that they could start their homework in class. Everyone immediately pulled out their math worksheets, which had ten problems concerning fractions and how to multiply them. Since Slash was asleep for most of the class, he had no idea what he was doing. He kept erasing things and soon there were used eraser-things all over his desk. Shiko, who had finished the homework rather quickly because she had learned how to multiply and divide fractions in her old school, was watching his frustration. Gee, maybe I can help him. I know so much about fractions, she thought. She tapped the end of her pencil on Slash's desk to get his attention. Slash looked up from his paper, a little confused that the new student wanted to talk to him.
"Need help?" she asked. Slash blinked. He didn't expect that she would say that.
"Um, well, it's kinda rude to ask the new student for help," Slash answered, feeling a bit embarrassed. Shiko smiled. This guy is hopeless she thought.
"It's okay. I did this in my old school. It's easy once you understand." Shiko told him. They spent the rest of the time they had to do homework to, well, do homework. Slash finally understood the homework and was able to do the last few problems without Shiko's help. I better not sleep in class anymore he thought. He put his folder back in his desk when he realized: he hadn't even told Shiko his name!
"Uh, well, my name is Slash. It's nice to meet you," he said, mentally telling himself that he was stupid for not saying that in the first place. Shiko blushed. "That's a nice name. I'm Shiko," she said. Slash blushed back. "I think your name is, uhm, nice too," he told the newbie.
The bell then rang, and everyone was rushing out to go to lunch. Well, Slash and Shiko were still getting ready. As Slash was walking towards the door, he turned back to Shiko. He decided to surprise her and see if she was really from Japan as the teachers had said.
'Hey, you wanna sit with me at lunch? You could meet my friends,' he said in Japanese. Shiko was shocked. Not only did her new friend seem nice, but he could speak Japanese! This was really turning out to be a good day. 'Um, thanks, but won't your friends think it's weird enough that you spent most of your homework time with me?' she asked. Now it was Slash's turn to be shocked. The guys were really gonna let him have it.
'Yeah, well, okay, but I have some friends that are girls that you could talk to,' Slash told her. Shiko breathed a sigh of relief. 'By the way, how do you know Japanese?' she asked. Slash smiled. 'My mom taught it to me,' he answered. The two kids then hurried out of the room, eager to see what the rest of the day would be like.
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Yes, I know that Slash is kinda out of character. I know that I didn't include all the Snowboard Kids in this chapter. They will be making their appearance next chapter, I promise. Thanks to the only person who reviewed! Oh, and whoever reviews this chapter gets digital brownies! Ja Ne! -AnimeDutchess