Anna walked down the street that morning. Today was yet another day of school. Hopefully nothing would go wrong that day.
"Hey Anna!" a voice called out. Too late. Her day already was bad. Yoh had noticed her. He walked by her side, but she just ignored him. Finally she couldn't take it anymore.
"Why are you following me?" she shouted in his face. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Because I want someone to hang around with," he said.
"You won't be hanging around with me," she said, "I'm too popular for someone like you."
"Look Anna," he said, "you may be popular, but just because I'm new doesn't mean I'm going to back off. I'm not like other people. Besides, I'm helping you anyway." She remembered.
"Oh yeah," she said, "That's right. I totally forgot about that." He sighed.
"But as I can see you don't want anything to do with me," he said.
"No wait!" she called. He turned around.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"I'm sorry about being mean to you," she apologized.
"That's alright," he said.
"I think you're really nice, caring, generous, smart, athletic, and hot, by the way," she added. He was silent for a moment.
"Nobody's ever said that about me before," he said. She smiled.
"Well nobody had ever called me beautiful before," she replied. He smiled back and they walked to school together, talking like they were best friends.
When they arrived at school, though, she panicked.
"Yoh!" she snapped, "you've gotta get away from me!"
"Why?" Yoh asked.
"The others can't see me with you!" she hissed. He nodded his head and ran off. She did her trademark strut towards her friends, causing attention from all the popular guys.
"Hello there Anna!" Pilica greeted.
"You're later than usual," Jeanne noted.
"Who said I try to be?" Anna replied. Her friends gave her high-fives as she walked in to the hallway. She sashayed down to her locker, grabbed her text books and headed to math.
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Lunch time finally arrived. She had been waiting all day for her break. She was walking down to the cafeteria when a group of popular guys stopped her. She smiled.
"Hey guys," she said.
"You wanna get some alcohol after school?" Lyserg asked. Totally forgetting that she was supposed to meet up with Yoh after school to get to know him better and for homework help, she agreed.
"I'd love to," she said. They smiled and left. She went to the cafeteria and sat down with her friends at one of the outside tables. She noticed Yoh sitting yet again at the far table.
Not like it matters to me where he sits, she thought. She resumed eating and chatting with her friends.
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Yoh looked at his watch. School had ended fifteen minutes ago and yet Anna still wasn't out. He wondered what was taking her so long. He watched Pilica walk out. He went up to her.
"Ew!" she squealed, "get away from me!"
"I just need to know where Anna is," he said.
"She's not here," she replied, "she left, like, ten minutes ago." Yoh couldn't believe it. He sighed.
"Well, thanks anyway," he thanked. He grabbed his backpack and walked back home.
On his way back home he passed someone's backyard. He heard laughing and talking coming from it.
I wonder what's going on there, he thought. He climbed up the picket fence a little and silently gasped to himself. A lot of popular people that went to his own school were back there, drinking. Not only that, he noticed... Anna. He sighed.
I guess it's not a big deal, he thought. He was still going to help her because he liked her, but he wasn't going to blow up over this incident. He jumped down from the fence and resumed walking home.
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Anna got back home really late that night, extremely drunk.
"Hello Anna," her father greeted her.
"Heeelllooo Dad," she responded.
"Why are you home so late?" her mother asked.
"I was out driiinnnkkkiinnngg," she answered.
"Alright dear," her parents murmured. They were pretty ignorant, unloving parents. Anna stumbled her way upstairs and went to bed.
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Anna woke up the next morning hung-over. She was about to check the time, but instead rushed to the bathroom. When she came out, she checked the time. It was 11:30 AM.
I missed school, she thought. She didn't really care though. If being hung-over was an excuse to miss school, she'd take it. She decided to go back to sleep. She was about to, but...she had to go to the bathroom again. She knew that all day would be consisting of running back and forth between the bathroom. She decided to stay in the bathroom the whole day rather than go to sleep.
Her hangover was about two hours. After it finally ended, she decided to watch some TV in her room. She turned it on and flipped through the channels.
A few hours later, she heard the doorbell ring. She decided to go and answer it, seeing that her parents weren't there. She went downstairs and opened it, only to find Yoh standing in the doorway.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I had to get your homework," he answered, handing it to her. She snatched it out of his hands, placing it on the coffee table in the living room. She came back and found him still in the doorway, the door wide open.
"What are you still doing here?" she groaned.
"Aren't you going to ask me to come in?" he asked. She shook her head.
"No..."
"Well you should," he said.
"Why should I?" she snapped.
"If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have your homework," he replied. "I'm also supposed to be helping you for that matter." She sighed.
"Come on in," she said. He came in and took off his shoes.
"Why'd you do it?" he asked out of the blue. She gave him a quizzical look.
"Do what?"
"Why'd you go out and get drunk yesterday?" he asked. She froze.
"How did you know that?" she asked.
"I saw you," he replied. "You were out with those other guys drinking. I was waiting after school for you for fifteen minutes, but you didn't show up. Finally I managed to get Pilica to tell me that you had left ten minutes ago." She couldn't say a word.
"Don't worry about it though," he said. "It's not a big deal."
"It isn't...?" she asked. He shook his head.
"It's your decisions that you make, not me," he said.
I'm starting to like him, she thought.
"So what's today's homework?" she asked.
"Just some Math and some Spanish," he answered.
"Alright," she said. "You don't have to stay if you don't feel like it."
"Alright," he said. He began to leave but stopped.
"I was sort of wondering if you wanted to come see my house," he asked. She was about to say no, but decided to agree.
"Let me just grab my homework," she said. She grabbed her homework and went down to his house.
He had a really nice house, except he didn't lead her to the front door.
"What are you doing?" she giggled.
"We don't go through the front door," he replied. She laughed.
"Why not? Isn't that common sense?"
"I'm only allowed in the house for dinner," he said. "So I live here." He led her into the backyard and showed him his gigantic tree house (A/N If you've seen "Kids Next Door," you could think of it like their tree house, except this is more of a bachelor pad in a tree) which he lived in. She gasped. It looked like a regular house.
"How do you take care of yourself?" she asked. He shrugged.
"I've already learned how to take perfect care of myself," he said. He led her up into his "room."
His "room" was more of a bachelor pad. That was what she thought. As well as his looks, personality, talents, athleticism, this place made her very attracted to him. Likewise, he was already very attracted to her.
"You like it?" he asked. She nodded her head.
"This is incredible," she said. He laughed.
"I'll show you the rest of the house." He gave her a tour of the house and helped her out with homework.
She got home pretty late that night, so she decided to go to bed. Before she went to bed, one thought kept crossing her mind: maybe she should give Yoh a chance. He had already sort of changed her life, and she was strongly attracted to him. She already sort of liked him secretly. She kept thinking about this until she went to bed. Before she turned out the light, she had a funny thought: maybe all of her life was made up of bad decisions and that she really needed someone that would love her and help her fix her life. She shook her head.
"I don't know what made me think that shit," she thought, "but I won't think about it again." She turned out the light, but couldn't get to sleep right away. That thought kept playing around in her mind.
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