13 Shades of Grey
Chapter 08: Violent Tendencies
-O-
Arista kicked the chair in front of her and waited for Aspin to hand her back her Game Boy. Aspin made a sound of annoyance, grumbled and then handed the see-through purple electronic game back to it's owner.
Arista smiled giddily and started pushing buttons, raising her score ever higher. She was playing Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 3. She stuck out her tongue in such a way that gave her more concentration and almost jumped out of her seat when she beat her old hi-score record.
Before she was sitting beside Rei and Kane. But she'd switched seats because Rei kept talking, distracting her, and Kane was just a pain. How did he and Aspin even get together was beyond her. Kane had left a while back, saying he needed to use the washroom. He'd disappeared since, and hadn't come back yet.
Tala jabbed her with his elbow lightly; Arista stashed the game into her shirt pocket and waited for Mr. Dickenson to pass. He knew that she was playing games, but he let her off. After all, listening to speeches from teachers was pretty boring. Giving one was worse. He smiled slightly and walked off.
As soon as he was gone Arista sighed, and took her Game Boy out again. Tala rolled his eyes amused, and pretended to pay attention but caught himself glancing back towards Ruin. More often than not his gaze would travel to the gothic female.
She was currently seated two rows, and six seats to the left in front of him. Sonia sat beside her, talking non-stop. Ruin looked thoughtfully at her friend, adding in her input every now and then. Aspin sat beside Rei and Shahero. The three had started to throw paper at the students in front of them.
Amber was probably with Bryan or Spencer, or one of her cousins. Ozuma was standing along with Hitoshi on the stage, they were playing Double-Oh-Seven while trying to look alert and interested. Tala grinned, he was so glad he'd refused Head boy. The boredom he would have had to endure would have been fathomless.
Arista squealed with delight as she made it one level higher. Tala smirked and surveyed the screen to read her score. It was in the millions as far as he could tell. Beside him, Ian nudged his arm. Tala turned to his left and raised an eyebrow to the midget Russian.
"What?"
"Just watch." Came the reply.
Ian took out his chewed gum and rolled it with his forefinger and thumb. When it was somewhat round, he leaned forwards and dropped it into Shahero's hair. She didn't even notice. For fear of it falling out, Ian decided to take his chances and applied pressure to the gum, tacking it onto the dark-haired girl's hair. Shahero was too busy flicking paper balls to even notice anything.
Tala smirked. When Shahero found out she would kill the living daylights out of Ian. That he would love to watch.
The lights in the gym dimmed to a low glow, a screen was lowered and an overhead was rolled into the gym.
"Oh great, just what we need. A boring film to go along with a boring assembly."
Now he would have to sit for another hour or so and watch a boring film that was probably made just especially for them to watch. He groaned and sunk deeper into his chair. Well, hell wouldn't this be fun?
Arista paused her game and looked up curiously to see what they were going to watch. The squeaking of the wheels on the cart of the overhead stopped. The lights on the stage flashed on. She waited idly to see what would happen now.
Usually assemblies were boring and never had any films or anything. Something was different. She tried to remember any new students coming to her school over the past two months. She drew a complete blank, until she thought about Zeo.
Was he a new student? Or had he just started late in the school year? She couldn't figure it out so she looked to Tala and only met his confused teal orbs. She turned back to her Game Boy and saved her progress then switched it off. She might as well get some sleep out of this. Arista sunk into her chair and leaned her head on Tala's shoulder, making herself comfortable. She closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
Her progress was cut short when she heard a screeching then opened one eye slowly to figure out that it was from the microphone held by none other than Principal Gerro. She groaned and closed her eye, this would not only be boring, this was going to be long, monotonous, and mind-numbing. She ran a hand through her hair and sighed. Tala murmured a noise of agreement and closed his own eyes.
Gerro started talking and then eventually stopped as six students stepped onto the stage. They seemed pretty bored and annoyed.
From what Shahero could see there were four guys and two girls. One girl was short and had pink hair, the other was short and had blue hair or so it seemed. Two of the boys were platinum blondes, one had silvery grey hair, and the last one had red and brown hair. She frowned not familiar with any of them. Another girl stepped onto the stage, she had orange and brown hair.
Shahero's gaze lingered on the blue haired older Kinomiya, her eyes met his and held them. She frowned, things between them had cooled off since she'd embarrassed him at practise. Looking away she brushed her bangs out of her face, and put him at the back of her mind. She turned to Aspin who was turned around talking to Robert. Actually, arguing made a better point.
"How uncouth. Throwing balls of paper at other students is so immature. Really." He tsk'ed a few times. Shahero rolled her eyes at the pretentious male. He could be seriously annoying sometimes, the way he thought he was better than everyone else.
She turned around slightly enough to face him. "Robert, your face is immature."
Robert narrowed his eyes and frowned. "I don't believe I asked for you opinion, Kaeto."
The way he said everyone's last names instead of their first names made her even more annoyed. She got confused when he said someone's last name and she didn't know whom he was talking about.
"I don't believe Aspin asked for your opinion either." She retorted to him.
He hmphed and then turned his nose at the two. Rei grinned and congratulated the two. "Score one more for us."
Aspin smiled and then offered him a paper. She scrunched up one in her hand and aimed it for Daichi's head. It ricocheted off the lanky red-head and landed on Tyson's lap. He turned around boredly and looked questioningly at the purple haired female.
"What?" She asked innocently. He raised an eyebrow and looked at her disbelievingly, he pointed to the paper in his lap.
"Oh. That. Ian did it."
Tyson flung it at the Russian and then added, "Knock it off, dude. I wanna sleep."
"What the hell?" Ian asked confused.
He himself had been trying to catch a few zees. Only to have it snatched away from him by a paper ball. He growled and remained his former sleeping position.
In front of him, Shahero saw him trying to sleep. Well, wasn't this interesting?
"Hey, Arista!" She poked the Russian until she woke, eyes droopy.
Arista wiped sleep from her eyes and stared blankly at Shahero. She could practically sleep with her eyes open. Shahero remembered her telling her that she'd been practising.
She poked Arista again until she was sure the Russian was awake. "What?" Came the snappy reply.
"Do you have salt?"
If you asked anyone else this question they would have said no, but Arista kept spare salt packets. Just so she could spill them on people. She nodded slowly and processed what she had just been asked.
"Oh, yeah. Hang on."
Shahero grinned. Her gaze ran over Ian's sleeping form. He would never see this coming.
"Here." Arista handed three salt packets to the Asian and resumed her ex-position.
Shahero rolled her eyes. Her friends, Sleepy, and Already Sleeping. If Ian would have a nick name, it would have been Smelly, Nosey, or Shorty. Shorty and Nosey made much more of an impact than Smelly. Besides he didn't smell half bad, she noticed as she leaned back in her chair. She ripped open the small salt packet and poured it in Ian's shirt.
Her chair rocked dangerously back as her weight was leaned forwards. She took no notice, and instead leaned forwards even more. The lights in the gym all went out at once. Thunder crackled and whipped in the far distance. Shahero, caught off guard from the surprise, lost her balance and toppled over in her chair. She fell forwards, half on top of a shaken Tala, and half on top of a disgruntled Ian. Arista had been knocked down as well, a long with a couple of students around the four. Aspin held onto Rei's steadying hands to keep from falling.
Shahero's legs were splayed onto Arista's lap. Her head rested in Ian's hands, and her torso was on Tala. She struggled to get up, almost falling over again. She looked around at the cascading effect. The lights were back on, and everyone was staring at the pile of students on the floor. She immediately ducked down, as to avoid being targeted by any suspecting teachers.
She crawled under chairs, followed by Arista and Tala. Tala was struggling slightly seeing as he was almost a foot taller than Shahero, and a third of a foot taller than Arista. He bumped his head several times, and his body bumped into the legs of chairs and students.
Arista was still half-asleep, her brain was foggy and her senses were slightly dulled. Shahero was ahead of her, Tala behind her. She figured she should keep crawling under the chairs until she hit something solid, or until Shahero stopped.
She bumped into something and hissed. She rose only to bump her back onto the bottom of someone's chair. She cursed and lowered her body closer to the ground.
"What the flying fuck?" She rasped, finding her voice dry and hoarse.
"Hey, I see a flying fuck now. Other than that the door won't open. Help me."
Tala was still behind them, trying to catch up. Arista turned and made her way into the second row. She pushed at the door with her might, but it didn't budge.
"It's locked." Shahero stated.
"Way to be Ms. Obvious." Arista rolled her eyes. Behind them Tala panted, looking worse for wear. He crouched down and caught his breath.
"Or someone's holding it." Shahero ended her sentence. She flicked her dark hair out of her eyes and frowned. Tala squeezed in front of her and pushed at the door. Again, it remained stuck. Because of their cramped positions they weren't able to push properly at the door.
Arista turned back into the first row, just as she was about to turn, her feet caught with the fabric of someone's clothes. She was knocked off her knees. She cursed viscously and winced when her head banged on the linoleum.
She looked at the gap between the chairs, and met the smirking face of Brooklyn. She raised her arms and tugged at the sleeves of his arms. His grip on the handle of the door loosened. Shahero pushed at the door, along with Tala. It finally opened.
The three scrambled out and breathed in the clean, crisp air of the hallway.
Brooklyn emerged from behind the door, eyed the trio with raised brows. "Should I even bother to ask what happened?"
"No, so save you breath for something more important. Oh wait, I forgot how boring your life is."
Tala got up and dusted himself off. Arista followed suit as did Shahero.
Brooklyn rolled his moss eyes, his gaze lingered on Arista. Her cheeks were flushed prettily, and her eyes had melded together to form a light navy blue, tinged with amber. He blinked and wondered how they turned like that. Her hair had been left open, displaying silver, red streaked hair. It was a dark red, like the shade of Tala's hair. He frowned, when had she done that?
"What are we gunna do now?" Shahero asked boredly. Not that she wasn't grateful to have escaped from the bowels of boredom. Assemblies were worse than her Academic French class.
"I dunno." Came the reply from Arista.
"Let's decide on something."
"Other than staying here." Arista's eyes widened at the couple making out near the door. "Don't look now but here come the face-suckers!" She used the nickname she'd given to Miyami and Johnny.
"What about-"
"Detention with me for the whole week." Hitoshi's voice interrupted. He materialized from behind the doors of the gym. Stepping out, he came into view, he surveyed the students in the hallway. His eyes met Shahero's, and remained there.
"But, but, we're almost related!" Arista protested.
"Yeah, dude. Lay off." Shahero replied. "You're not even allowed to since your not a teacher."
"What if I did have authorization? Then I'd be allowed to." He stepped forward, closer to Shahero.
"Uh-uh." She almost faltered. Taking a step back she cleared her head. Hitoshi did not look good! Especially when he was smirking. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't! Shahero denied it, but she knew she was warming up to the older male. He was attractive, but she didn't want to like him. Damn it, this wasn't supposed to happen.
Hitoshi watched amused, it looked like Kaeto was having an inner struggle. And by the looks of things, it in some way involved him. He smirked and advanced on the unwary female. He backed her up against the wall, and slid his arms possessively around her waist. He was infatuated with her. Breathing in, he could make out her subtle scent.
Shahero realised who was holding her, and looked up to meet the amused orbs of Hitoshi Kinomiya. She started to wriggle but couldn't seem to break away from his grip. Hitoshi leaned down, and fanned his breath over her face, sending involuntary shudders down her spine. She shivered, goose bumps formed on her arms. Her t-shirt was doing nothing to shut out the cold.
"I don't wanna watch Hito suck face with Senny. Later skater."
Arista started her way down the hall, followed by Tala and Brooklyn.
Shahero watched her friends disappear. Her eyes widened in shock, then narrowed in annoyance. Fucking hell, wasn't this just peachy? Hitoshi caught the fearful look in her eyes, and loosened her grip. So, she was still getting over Brent. He would have to teach that asshole a lesson on how to treat people. Preferably with his fists. He let her go and watched her run down the hall, and turn the corner, disappearing from view.
-O-
Amber had fallen asleep on Bryan's shoulder. She wouldn't have woken up if a fire alarm went off. She could sleep through anything.
Bryan smiled down at his sleeping cousin and brushed the bangs out of her eyes. Amber awoke with a start. She wasn't really sleeping, she was awake, only pretending to sleep. She blinked, and rubbed sleep from her eyes. Stretching her arms in the air she yawned. Her arm stretched forward, bumping into Kai's head. He had also been sleeping, but was and extremely light sleeper. He awoke and opened his eyes still drowsy.
He turned around and came face to face with an apologetic Amber. She stretched again, exposing golden bronze skin. Kai's eyes wandered to her flat stomach, and slowly made their way to her eyes. He cursed himself and frowned.
Kai rubbed a hand on his eyes and yawned. "What?" He asked confused.
"Huh?" Amber replied unintelligently.
She pulled down her shirt and yawned. "Dija say something?"
"What?" Kai was awake now, and aware of Bryan's steely stare.
Amber frowned. How did Kai manage to look so cute? And why was she noticing? Oh yeah, because he was showing strong feelings towards her. Her cheeks flushed a light pink colour. Kai shrugged his shoulders and turned around. He grumbled something incoherent.
Amber shivered suddenly, why was it so cold all of a sudden? The lights flashed on, before flickering off. She growled as light flooded her eyes and left her feeling awkward.
Thunder crackled in the distance. The pitter-patter of raindrops falling could be heard. Electrical storm, she mused before resting her head on Bryan's shoulder. The overprotective male slipped his arm around her shoulder and warmed her up. He frowned in Hiwatari's direction, then kicked his chair.
Kai growled and moved his chair back purposely. He slammed the edge of it on Bryan's knees. The chair rammed its way up and over Bryan's knees, he hissed in pain. Then he writhed free.
Bryan looked hatefully at Kai who glared back. The two boys had violent tendencies, but kept them in check.
Amber pushed Kai's chair back, he looked at her poignantly, then turned away. Bryan met Amber's gaze, she was confused, he figured. Better leave it that way. A teacher came, tapped Bryan on the shoulder, then Kai.
"Follow me."
"With pleasure." Kai mumbled sarcastically. Bryan settled for glaring at Kai's back, and followed the teacher out into the hall, and to the front office.
In the distance they heard Gerro turn the mike back on. He started to talk about the exhibition game that would take place tomorrow. Bryan strained to hear what was being said, as did Kai. If they were on the Senior Varsity Hockey team, they needed to know what time it would take place.
Mr. Sanders, the teacher that had led them away, recognized them as players from the team and reconsidered his lecturing them. After all, he wanted Vaughn to win.
"You boys are on the team, aren't you?" He asked them, his brown eyes questioning.
Kai nodded, "Yeah." Mr. Sanders took Bryan's grunt as a yes.
"Then you should know about that Exhibition game. Go back in, but I don't want any more trouble. Do you understand?"
Kai nodded again.
"Whatever." Bryan turned around and walked back into the gym. Kai waited until he was alone to breathe a sigh of relief. Bryan was someone who had and ugly temper, and someone who Kai didn't want to get on the bad side of.
He walked around to the other side of the gym and entered through a different side of the gym, not wanting to go near Amber while her overprotective cousin was around. He frowned, why did Amber have to complicate things without even trying?