Sorry it took me a little longer to update this time but I've been running back and forth from the doctors to the hospital all week! I'll try and update sooner next time and I hope you like this chapter!

Ch.5-Waiting, Lessons, and a Movie

I tapped my pencil on the desk in a steady rhythm, watching the ever ticking clock with hidden anticipation. The school day was almost over and it had taken all my nerves with it.

Ten minutes left of class.

This was probably the longest ten minutes of my entire life. And while I couldn't wait for the bell to ring and release me from this damned building, I also didn't want it to ring at all. No it's not that I like school and wanted to stay longer. It as more along the lines of once that bell rang, everyone would be running out of their classrooms in a hurry to get to their afternoon activities.

Those halls were torture. Plain and simple. With so little room and so many kids, they got packed full during the five minutes we had to get to our next class. And believe me, I don't do well in situations like that. Most of the kids really didn't care about pushing others around and I wasn't any different with them. I was thrown around like a rag doll until Ray had found me and I had tagged along behind him for protection.

Putting me in those halls was just as bad as shoving a claustrophobic person in a small locker or dumping a case spiders over someone with arachnophobia. Having little to no people interaction in the past, just suddenly throwing me in a building full of people really threw my body off course.

My pencil tapping came to a stop as something bounced off my head. The balled up piece of paper managed to fall on my desk and I just brushed it off onto the floor. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a girl in silent hysterics as she scrunched up another piece of paper; no doubt to throw at me.

I glance at the clock hopefully. Six minutes left. Sighing I went back to tapping the pencil on the desk and letting my mind wander. Even the expected hit of another paper ball didn't knock me out of my train of thought.

That was another thing I couldn't stand about the school. The people... well most of them. No one seemed to like the 'new kid', not that I was really complaining, but still. The fact that no one besides Ray and Kai would be seen around the new kid was almost so pathetic it was funny.

Some people had already started circulating rumors about me, making me even more unapproachable. It was sad that even as high schoolers, people still believed every rumor they heard. That didn't really make sense to me since they didn't really know me. They just chose to believe that I had been transferred to this school after burning down my last school or that I had sent one of my old teachers to the hospital.

Something sharp hit my shoulder and I turned my head slightly to see a newly sharpened pencil lying in the floor. Looking up I saw a girl in a cheerleading outfit giving a high five to some other preppily dressed girl.

I hated people like that. No not just preppy people, after all, there are some nice people that dress and act preppy. I'm not the kind of person who automatically rules someone out because of what they wear; I'm just not like that. I don't care if a person is dressed in designer clothes or rags. If they have a good personality is all I need to know.

But I hate those people that wear only one brand of clothing because everything is beneath them and think that they're better than everyone else. Those 'perfect' people that get everything they want and never have to work for anything at all and then look down on everybody that does. It's just plain annoying!

I looked up again, breaking my thoughts, and glanced up at the clock. Four minutes left.

I felt my heartbeat quickened at the prospect of having to face the crowded hallway, packed full of students ready to go home. A gentle prod from my right made me jump and I turned quickly to find the culprit. Ray's golden eyes stared back at me and I instantly calmed.

"You doing ok?" Ray whispered. After a small hesitation I nodded my head yes. My breath caught sharply in my throat. I had almost slipped! I bit my tongue to prevent myself from making a mistake and tilted my head to the side as if in question to cover up my shock. "Just checking!" he smiled, flashing me a thumbs up before turning to see what Kai had wanted.

I had made the discovery that both Ray and Kai were in all of my classes. And seeing as they were the only people I cared to know, that was a good thing. I turned back to face the front and my eyes lifted towards the clock.

Less than a minute left... As the second hand made its way steadily around the clock face, I could feel the uneasiness and uncertainty rising in my stomach. Thirty seconds... twenty seconds...ten...five...four...three...two...one...

The loud ringing fill the classroom and everyone jumped up and charged for the door. But I guess they did have a reason to be in high spirits today...after all it was Friday. Someone's firm grip on my shoulder made me jump once more and I turned uncertainly to see Kai standing behind me.

"Come on we're taking the back way," Kai instructed as he pointed to a door leading outside that was positioned in the back of the classroom. I jumped up and gladly followed the two boys out of the back door and into the warm afternoon air.

I trailed behind them in my usual state of silence, watching as Kai occasionally shifted his back pack from shoulder to shoulder. Ray talked cheerfully the entire way back to Kai's house, making sure to add me in as well.

"That was a pretty dull day at school don't you think?" Ray questioned as we walked up the few stairs to Kai's front porch.

Did he really just say dull? Shouldn't he have said something along the lines of hectic? If that was dull I'd hate to see what he thought was exciting. With all the teachers constantly trying to get me to talk and the students throwing me around like a dog's chew toy, how could he consider that dull?

But I gave Ray a hollow smile and nodded in agreement. After all there was one thing that made the day seem less tedious. I have to admit when I first met Kai, I thought he hated me for whatever reason and that's why he didn't talk to me much. But after the long school day I had figured out that it seemed that that was just Kai's nature.

The only person I had seen him carry on a conversation with was Ray and it was still Ray doing most of the talking. But even in the school full of students he kept mostly to himself and didn't talk much. I guess I looked at it like an insult, but now that I had discovered that that was just how he acted it was easier to understand.

"So, think you're gonna like the school?" Ray continued.

My head bobbed once more in a nod but my mind was screaming no. Ray tossed down his backpack on top of Kai's as we entered the house, and he slipped off his shoes. I pulled my shoes off a little slower than he did and laid them next to the backpacks.

Grabbing my hand, Ray dragged my to the living room and pushed me onto the couch. "Do you wanna watch a movie?" Ray questioned, directing the question to both me and Kai who was sitting to my left. We both shrugged in reply and Ray turned to a cabinet lined with movies.

"What kind of movies do you like Kuri?" Ray asked as he started looking through some of the DVDs. I opened my mouth and immediately faltered before reclosing my mouth. I really need to be more careful! I had started mentally giving myself a smack to the forehead when Ray turned around, an apologetic look on his face.

"Sorry I guess I forgot," he apologized, watching me as if waiting for me to spring up and take off again. But instead I just shrugged my shoulders carelessly, after all shouldn't I be the one sorry for making them think I couldn't talk in the first place?

"I know! How about me and Kai start helping you learn some words? We'll stick with one word until you can say it and then we'll move on to another one!" Ray smiled and he snapped his fingers at his sudden idea. 'Great...now I have talking lessons?'

"How about a scary movie?" Ray continued. He really does jump from subject to subject doesn't he? I shrugged my shoulders in a signal that I didn't care either way and Ray started digging through Kai's collection of movies once more.

After putting in a movie and turning off the lights, Ray jumped on the couch to my right. I suddenly felt boxed in with the guys sitting on either side of me, but I tried to ignore the feeling, pushing it to the back of my mind as I tried to focus on the movie.

However, before the beginning credits had even finished flashing across the screen I felt myself getting drowsy. Maybe I had worn myself out at school? I wasn't sure but I tried to fight it, forcing my eyes open whenever they had started drooping. But I suppose sleep is one thing I can't beat because nearly halfway through the movie my eyes closed and refused to open no matter how much I tried.

I felt my head fall to the side as I drifted off into a light sleep...

And that's chapter 5! Hope you all liked it!

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