Author's Note: Konnichiwa and Hajimemashite everyone! This is Que Montgomery, making a spectacular return with yet another foreign exchange student fic. Sorry- I know it may seem a little redundant, especially since my only other furuba fic followed almost the exact same guidelines, but please trust me- I have some WONDERFUL surprises planned!
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue. I'm poor.
Plot: Therese Rouna was willing to do ANYTHING to get chosen for her school's foreign exchange program, even- CROSSDRESS! What happens when this gender bending beauty gets placed with our beloved Sohmas? YukixTohru ref, KyoxOC
Chapter One: Sexual discrimination.
"AGHHHH!" Therese wailed in anguish as she flopped across her bed, succeeding in nothing except sending a flurry of her long, brown hair cascading across her face.
"I know, I said that, too," Therese's friend Lana commented.
Therese shot up again, waving the school notice in the air.
"You KNEW!" Therese asked her best friend, "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I didn't want to be the one to burst your bubble. My sincerest apologies." was Lana's calm answer.
Sighing, Therese fell back on the bed, staring sadly up at the ceiling.
"Yeah, I know. But it still doesn't feel any better."
Lana looked up from the homework on her desk, and gave her best friend a sympathetic smile. "You were really looking forward to that program, huh?"
"Aw, c'mon. I was ecstatic. According to the administration, Saint Jude's Academy hasn't participated in a foreign exchange student program for almost three decades. And now that they're finally starting it up again, they decide they're only allowing BOYS to go? That's SO biased!"
"Yeah, I know. Hey- if you want, we could sue the school for sexual discrimination!" Lana suggested.
"I wish. But my parents would never go for it."
"Nah- mine either."
"I did EVERYTHING to get accepted into that program, too!" Therese vented, "I raised my grades above the cutoff line, I haven't skipped class once, and I sent in my application weeks ahead of the due date! I even got Mr. Darwanitz to send me a reccomendation letter!"
Lana's green eyes flashed with disbelief.
"THE Darwanitz?" she asked incredulously, "The Foreign Cultures teacher that sends a shiver up every senior's spine? You got HIM to send you a reccomendation letter?"
"You know it- it was pretty hard work, too. But that's how determined I was!"
"Well, there's a fine line between determination and insanity, and if you got a recommendation letter from Darwanitz, you must have crossed that line a long time ago with room to spare."
"Ha ha ha." Therese replied dryly. "I still want to go, though."
"Nah, you never were one to give up easily." Lana agreed. Usually if an obstacle arrived in her best friend's plans, it only made her more resolved to get what she wanted.
"I never said I was going to give up this time, either!"
Lana whipped around, "What? Look, I know you said when this whole thing started that you were getting in that program, 'no matter what it took', but unless you're willing to under go a seriously altering surgery, it's not gonna happen. They're only accepting boys, remember? We can't make you a boy, even if we did have enough time- the plane leaves day after tomorrow. We just can't make you a boy by then!"
Therese got up, and somberly walked around the room, deep in thought, and Lana returned to her work, confident she finally got through to her friend. Therese walked over to the dresser she and Lana shared. It was the largest piece of furniture in their dorm room, even larger than the two girls' beds. Lana and Therese had been roommates since both of them had come to St. Jude's Academy two years ago. They had met, actually, right in this room. On that first day of school that seemed so long ago, Therese, still gloomy that her parents had shipped her off to a boarding school, had come into the dormitory to find Lana already there. Lana had smiled, and welcomed Therese to St. Jude's, saying it was her first year there as well. Therese had then said, "Oh, please. The only difference between this place and a girls' reformatory is the tuition. And we were enrolled instead of commited."
They had immediately hit it off, and had been best friends ever since.
Lana was the quieter, more studious one, with long, straight blonde hair and bright green eyes that half the school envied. With a perfect figure and a GPA to match, Therese often found herself thinking that if Lana wasn't her best friend, she would be green with envy.
Therese looked gloomily at the large, polished mirror hanging over the dresser.
Therese was almost the polar opposite of Lana- mahogany brown hair that was between wavy and curly, brown eyes so dark they were almost black, and about as many curves as a yard stick. In fact, Lana often joked that if Therese didn't keep her hair long, it would be next to impossible to tell that she was a girl.
"If I didn't keep my hair long…"Therese said absently, a vague plan quickly taking shape in her mind.
"What was that?" Lana asked from her desk, "Did you say something?"
Therese's eyes scanned the top of the dresser until she found what she was looking for-a large pair of black scissors. Showing them to her best friend, Therese said victoriously, "I said I just found my way into that program!"
My Two Cents: YAY! First chapter complete! I know it was a bit shorter than my usual length, but I promise to make the next one longer, to make up for lost time, okay? Is that better? Good! Now then- on to chapter two!
