Love Comes To Those Who Wait – Chapter 2
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Anachan – I know, starting in the middle of the year really does suck doesn't it.
Alley Wings - about Ayame worrying so much well you soon see why she does, I did that on purpose ;)
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And now on with the fic!
Ayame sat waiting quietly in the principals office, the only other sounds apart from her rapid heart beat was the steady rhythmic typing of the two secretaries and the ticking of the clock above her head. It had only taken a minute after the boy had told her where to go for her to find the office, she was so glad she had asked. If she hadn't she would probably still be wandering around hopelessly lost.
Ayame's foot bounced nervously up and down as she wondered what this school would be like. Hopefully it wouldn't be like the last one. Ayame closed her eyes at the painful memories of how they had teased and tormented her. They had called her a freak because of her demon heritage. At that school her life had been plagued with cruel pranks such as having paint poured on her, finding rotten food in her locker, hate messages in her locker. The worst though had been the time when she went to the school where no one would talk to her because they were afraid she would eat them. Ignorant humans just because they had never seen a demon before, they just assumed that she wanted to eat them.
Sometimes Ayame wished they had never left California, where the rest of her pack lived. There she had had friends, the pack had stuck together like glue, so she was never alone; there was always another wolf with her. But then her mother had run way and her father had been so ashamed he had decided to move. The fact that her mother had run away still shamed both her and her father, when wolves mated it was supposed to be for life, the few rare exceptions were looked down upon with the deepest distain. As if that wasn't bad enough, Ayame's mother had left no note for why she had committed the ultimate crime, leaving both her and her father wondering just what it as that had made her leave.
Just then the principal opened his door, and ushered her into his office, halting Ayame's thoughts. Walking around to his desk the man said, "Please sit," motioning to a chair in front of his desk, which Ayame did. Opening a folder Ayame assumed to be her school transcript, the man paused before finally said, "so you're name's Ayame, did I say that right?"
Ayame nodded. "Hmm very interesting," the man said and then looked up and put his hands together on the top of the desk. 'Well Ayame, to be honest with you this is going to be hard. You're starting in the middle of the first term of grade 12. (A/N: that's the last grade before you go off to university for those that don't know) But your school effort seems to be intact, I was surprised to discover someone who switches schools as often as you has such high grades. That will help you, so I need to know which options you intend to chose. You must select two of the following," the principle stated handing her a list that listed off the different selections. "There is wood-shop, home-economics, art, gym, environmental education, psychology, drama and macro-micro economics."
It was an easy selection for Ayame she knew without even having to read the list which two she would select. "I'd like to take art and gym please."
"Ahhh," the principal sighed happily. "That's perfect; you'll fit into schedule C no problem. No need for me to go around rearranging things. Okay so that's about it Ayame I'll just send you now to the secretaries and they'll set you up with a map of the school, all your textbook requirements, and then just ask them for a grade twelve schedule C timetable. Well it was nice meeting you Ayame and I hope you enjoy your stay here at Shikon High." And with that he shook her hand and then promptly showed her out the door.
"Well that went well," Ayame thought as she walked over to the secretary's desk. "Umm hello," she said tentatively.
"Oh hello hun," one of the secretaries an older lady that reminded Ayame of her grandmother said. "How can I help you?"
"Hi, I'm the new student Ayame, the principal told me to ask you to get my text books and my time table and a map of the school."
"Sure hun," the lady said getting up and opening a filing cabinet. "Which one do you need."
"Grade 12 schedule C," Ayame said repeating what the principal had told her to say.
"Here ya go," the secretary said handing her two sheets of paper, one timetable and one map. "Now which text books do you need?"
"Um, Bio 30, Chem 30, Physic 30, English 30, Social 30 and Math 30," Ayame rambled off.
"Oh wowsie hun! Do you think you're going to be able to carry all that?" the lady said.
"Yeah," Ayame replied with a shrug, "I'll manage."
"Okay just a second," the little old lady said disappearing into a locked room. She returned five minutes later with a stack of books and a lock. "Okay hun here's all your text books and I grabbed you a lock while I was back there. Now I'm going to write this out for you but don't loose it okay?" the lady said scribbling something onto a yellow sticky note. "Here's all you locker information. Your locker will be number 243, and your combo is 12, 39, 10."
"Okay thanks," Ayame said sticking on the inside cover of the top text book and then grabbing the pile of text books and hoisting them off the counter and walking out of the office. "I'll see you soon."
Walking up the rows of lockers Ayame soon found hers and promptly set down her text books and took her locker combo out and with expert skill flicked her lock open; piling her text books into her locker along with all her binders and notebooks. Then reaching into her backpack she pulled out her locker decorations, various paintings all done by her of wide open fields, mountains, and the forests. Then taking a look at her schedule Ayame realized that she had math and social before their break and if she hurried she could make the second half of her math class. Quickly stuffing the required binders into her backpack and double checking she had pencils, calculator and paper dashed off in search of her math class.
Soon she found her math classroom and taking a deep breath she knocked twice on the door. She heard the teacher inside, stop talking and then there was the click-click of high-heels just before the door opened and Ayame came face to face with her math teacher. "Hello, may I help you?" the woman asked.
"Yeah hi, I'm Ayame I'm the new student from LA," she said.
"Oh hello," the teacher said sounding a little surprised. "I'm sorry I wasn't aware there was a new student coming. Please come in." Opening the door all the way Ayame stepped into the classroom and was greeted my a myriad of curious stares. "Class," the teacher said interrupting the whispering. "I would like you to meet Ayame, she's a new student here from Los Angeles. Ayame why don't you introduce yourself to the class and tell us a little bit about yourself."
"Umm sure," Ayame said turning to face the rest of the class. "Hi I'm Ayame, I just moved here from LA. And I-I'm looking forward to getting to meet all of you," she finished lamely unsure of what else to say. The teacher honestly didn't expect her to blurt out her life's secret to everyone in the class did she?
"Well it's nice to meet you Ayame, and my name is Miss. Li. Why don't you take a seat there in the back, and if you just wait patiently I'll be over there in a moment once I finish giving the class instructions," Miss Li said.
Ayame just nodded and walked to the back of the class and sat in the seat Miss Li had indicated. "Well," Ayame thought watching Miss. Li give directions to the rest of the class. "She seems nice enough, she must be pretty new. She only looks to be about 25 or so." Reaching into her backpack Ayame pulled out her binder, a pencil and her calculator. Listening to Miss. Li teach the rest of the class about co-ordinate geometry Ayame sighed. She had done this in grade 10. From the looks of it she would be miles ahead of the class here to just like at all her other schools. "Well I suppose that's one bonus to being the outsider," Ayame thought. "Your grades skyrocket cuz you've got nothing better to do with your time."
Ayame was just trying to remember she had done something with a friend, when Miss Li came over to her and sunk to her knees and said in a hushed voice because the class was now working busily away, gently she put a packet of paper on Ayame's desk. "Okay Ayame I'm not exactly sure where you are so I've brought you this math exam. If you get stumped on any don't worry; just do the questions you know how to do and leave the others blank. It will help me figure out where you are, and if you need any help on the stuff this class has already covered. Okay?"
"Yeah sure," Ayame said giving Miss Li a smile. Miss Li smiled back at her as she got to her feet and walked back to her desk. Ayame turned her focus back to the booklet and sighed, this was going to be boring considering she had already gone ahead at her last school and finished the curriculum.
Miss Li looked up startled from the exams she was correcting. "You're finished already?"
Ayame nodded.
"Oh, okay, well just give me a second and I'll double check your answers," Miss Li replied taking out her answers sheet. Ayame just stood there while Miss Li. went through the booklet putting checks beside each answer. When she was done Miss Li looked up shock written all over her face. "Congratulations Ayame!" she said sincerely. "One hundred percent, that's outstanding. Well it looks as if you won't have any problems."
Ayame just smiled but her attention had been captured by her demon senses picking up on the small little gasps of her classmates that had heard. She really wished that Miss Li hadn't said that quite so loud.
Hearing the class bell ring Ayame was relieved because with the flurry of everyone packing their bags up she was able to say, "Thanks, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Oh of course," Miss Li said. "Have a good first day."
"Sure," Ayame said turning around and walking back to her desk where she quickly packed up her things and hurried to catch up with the other students in her class. If she stuck close to them hopefully she wouldn't get lost.
2 CLASSES LATER
Ayame sighed hoisting her backpack onto her shoulders. She had just finished her first Biology and Chemistry classes and they had been pretty much the same as Math class. She had been given an exam to see where she was in the curriculum and had aced both of them surprising her teachers Mr. Smith (Bio) and Mr. Taylor (Chem) and if possible surprising her classmates even more. Walking out into the courtyard Ayame smelled the fresh air and was relieved that it was finally lunch time, she didn't have to sit inside a stuffy classroom for an entire hour and she was going to cherish it. Shoving her binders into her locker Ayame grabbed her lunch and her sketch book, because she felt like sketching.Locking her locker up she headed straight to the courtyard, passing right by the crowed lunchroom full of chatting classmates. Sitting at the base of a large tree Ayame leaned her head up against the trunk, she didn't know how she lasted being cooped up inside four walls all day. Being a wolf demon she always preferred the open sky and the grass underneath her. Leaning forward Ayame took out her salami and cheese sandwich and ate it slowly as she gazed into the cafeteria, watching the students inside.
Ayame always loved watching people, it was interesting to see how they reacted, and by watching people you could normally tell those that would be nice to someone and those that wouldn't. As she munched away she kept her eyes open for the boy that had run into her that morning. For some reason she felt as if she knew him......he had looked so familiar and she sensed something between them a bond of sorts....but what was it? She had never felt like that with any other human.....so why had she sensed this bond?.........Oh well, it's not as if I'd ever work up the courage to talk to someone like him anyways.
As she finished her sandwich Ayame's eyes were drawn to a small group sitting eating lunch right beside the window. There was a girl with long black hair laughing at something her friend had just said, she looked friendly. Beside her sat another girl that was obviously her friend, who had long dark brown hair and was wearing her hair tied back with a ribbon at the center of her back, across from them sat a boy with black hair tied in a ponytail at the nape of his neck he was smiling easily and eying the girl with long brown hair with a somewhat evil grin, and the last one sitting at the table was a boy with long white hair. In fact it had been the white hair that had first drawn Ayame's attention to the group; looking closer she was shocked to notice a pair of dog ears perched on the of his head! There was another demon at this school, and not only that he was sitting with a group of humans.
Sniffing the air, Ayame corrected herself, the boy wasn't a demon he was only a hanyou. Turning around Ayame curiously sniffed the air, now that she thought about it; the sent of this school wasn't entirely human. Ayame was startled to discover the scent of a full dog demon somewhere, and what might be a toad demon. Turning her head her heart leapt as she saw the only other group of people outside. She had thought they were humans but her nose had picked up on a familiar scent, the scent of wolf demons!
Hi well I know this chapter was a little boring but next chapter the interesting stuff starts. I'm desperately looking for suggestions about what could happen, the plots not laid out yet and I'm still trying to decide what's going to happen. So please please review and if you've got any ideas please leave them too. Thanx a million.