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Mzzlz,
- M
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Song extract:
Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong,
And no one understands you? - Welcome to my life (simple plan)
(Yes I know I am ashamed. I can't think of other songs though… I know! Send ME song extracts and I will change this one!)
CHAPTER 3
FIST FIGHTS AND FRIENDLY FACES
"Shnnwbfgr." Yuna muttered grumpily. Why did school always start so early in the morning? Rolling over, she pulled the covers over her face again, wishing she could just go back to sleep. It wasn't fair.
She wondered what school would be like today. Yesterday wasn't exactly a treat either. She yawned, and got out of bed, shivering as the cold morning air hit her bare arms. She'd forgotten to close her windows yesterday, and now her room felt like the inside of a refrigerator.
She stumbled to the windows and slammed them shut, and started rummaging around her closet, picking out a cute gray skirt and a light blue tee-shirt. She admired herself in the mirror. Not bad. Pulling her hair into a pony tail, but leaving a couple strands loose, she actually looked good. She smiled to herself, and started applying her make-up and re-painting her nails, a silvery-blue metallic color.
Content, she made her way into the kitchen, and got out a packet of coco pops. Opening it, she found a blue light saver. Strange stuff they put in cereal packets now-a-days. She set the toy down, and filled up the bowl and poured milk over her cereal. Grabbing today's paper and a spoon, she settled herself down at the table, and read: Tornadoes beat the Ciflers! She looked down at the picture, and saw a bunch of people all crowding around these other people Yuna presumed were the Tornadoes.
Un-interested she flipped the page and finished her breakfast. Setting the paper down, she cleared the table, and made sure she'd packed everything, before extinguishing all the lights, and departing for school.
This time however, she wasn't able to slide down the banister unless she wanted to ruin her skirt. Sighing, she trudged down the stairs, and climbed into her mustang, ready, but dreading another day of school.
This time she managed getting to school on time to get to her first lesson, but not managing to avoid Squall. He was talking to a slutty girl with really long shiny black hair wearing and a mini skirt, almost knee length boots and a top that revealed quite a lot of her bare back. Yuna wouldn't have thought her slutty if she hadn't been wearing so much make up.
"Hey, Yuna wait up."
Yuna gritted her teeth and spun around to face Squall. "What do you want?"
The girl whom Squall was talking to shot her daggers. Yuna promptly ignored her.
Squall pretended to look offended. She could tell he was quite however. Apparently Squall was the hottest guy in school, and all the girls wanted him, and would melt on the spot if he even looked in their direction. Yuna however, was an exception to that rule. Probably because she was the only one who knew what Squall was like, under all his good looks.
"Whoa." He said, putting his hands up in the air. "Just trying to make a friendly conversation here."
Yuna tilted her head sideways, mocking him. "Oh, really? Somehow I find that hard to believe."
Squall shot her the same look his supposed girlfriend had shot her; she shrugged her shoulders mentally.
"And why is that?" He asked, pretending to be genially surprised. Or maybe he was.
She smiled at him pityingly. "Good bye Squall." She turned and left, Squall pretending it was no big deal a girl had just ditched him, but everyone else thought differently. She felt eyes on her, and saw three girls whispering behind their hands and pointing at her.
"Excuse me." She stopped dead in front of one them. They looked at her snottily.
"What?" one of them asked her.
"I couldn't help noticing that you all seemed to be whispering about me. May I please ask why that is?"
"What's that to you?" Another girl asked.
"Because I do not believe I have ever done anything to any of you, and it is also just plain rude."
One of the girls made the mistake to laugh at her. "So?"
Yuna started getting pissed off now.
"Ooh, touchy. Got nothing left to say have we?" The girl cooed.
Yuna smiled at her, but not in a nice way. "Actually, I do." And with that, she punched the girl in the nose.
Gasping, the girl put a hand to her nose, where it had started bleeding. The other two girls shot her a scared look and scampered.
"Way to go!" She heard someone behind her exclaim. Someone with bright orange hair and the strangest clothes she had ever seen.
"Who the hell are you and why are you talking to me?" Yuna asked rudely. This was very un-characteristic of her. She never got pissed, but when she did, you'd better watch out.
But instead of being taken aback or retorting back rudely he just smiled, stretching out a hand.
"Wakka." He said. "At your service."
Yuna smiled. "Yuna."
"Are you new? I haven't seen you around before." He inquired.
"Yeah. I just moved here."
He grinned. "Cool."
The bell went and they parted, Yuna feeling a little more cheerful, happy that she had at least met someone nice. Not that people would have a very good impression of her, seeing as how she just punched someone in the nose, and had ditched Squall. Something she was sure was called social suicide here.
Whispers still followed her down the corridors, but not giggles or looks of disapproval. She was surprised that people actually talked to her, even if it was only "hi" or "yeah, Melanie sucks. Thanks for punching her." And even though she started feeling a bit more welcome, she couldn't bring herself to go have lunch in the cafeteria.
Once again she locked herself up in the bathroom and spent half an hour writing song lyrics, figuring no one would miss her anyways. Wrong.
"Hey, where were you during lunch?" Wakka asked her, while she was stuffing books in her locker.
"Um… not in the cafeteria… why?"
Wakka shrugged. "We missed you at lunch."
Yuna raised an eyebrow. "We?"
"Yeah."
Yuna was confused. "Who is we?"
"Me and Squall. Hey, this is Lulu by the way."
"Hey." She said to a girl with long black hair, and dressed in complete black and looked quite mean to Yuna.
The other girl nodded at her. "Hey."
Yuna turned back to Wakka. "Squall?"
"No," he corrected her. "Wakka."
Yuna grinned. "No, not what I meant. You said something about Squall at lunch?"
"Oh yeah. Yeah, he kept looking around as if he were looking for someone, and so I was like "hey, you lost someone?" and he shook his head going "Nah, you don't know her." So then I was like "whoa, a girl?" And he was like, "don't worry it's not as if she's my girlfriend or something." So I was like "Oh. Who is she?" and he was like "you don't know her anyway. Her name's Yuna." And I was like surprised and I think he noticed and he was like "you know her?" and I was like, "yeah I think so. Is she new?" And he was like "Yeah. How do you know her?" And I was like "I ran into her this morning when she was beating up Melanie." And he was like "Are you serious?" And I was like "yeah." And then he was like "Oh my God." And yeah, that's it. Basically."
Yuna grinned.
"So, how do you know Squall?" Wakka asked.
Yuna snorted. "Everyone knows Squall."
Wakka nodded. "Yeah, good point. But he seemed to remember your name. That's kinda rare."
"Oh. Well he used to be my boyfriend two years ago but I dumped him because he was an ass."
Wakka was grinning again, but all the people near by had stopped everything they were doing and were all frozen on the spot, staring at her. Luckily the bell went and she they hurried to class, Yuna glad to be away from all the people staring at her. She was quite sure that she'd definitely not made a good impression of herself.
Yuna sat in total silence in the last two lessons she had, trying to ignore the fact that people were constantly whispering and looking at her.
A note landed on her desk, and she looked down at it, surprised.
Her name was scribbled on it, indicating it was meant for her. Awkwardly she opened it and read the four lines that were a scribbled mess.
"Is it true? About Squall? That he used to be your boyfriend? What's his kissing like?"
Yuna shook her head at the paper. Why did everyone care? She scribbled four words on the paper. Yes, yes, yes and why? She looked around the class, and a girl who was staring at her caught her eye and she crumpled the note and tossed it back at her.
A couple seconds later it landed back on her desk. Wow. Cool. Why'd you dump him? Even though it wasn't any of her business she scribbled back: because he was – and still is – an ass.
The girl read her reply and grinned at her, making a thumbs up gesture. Yuna smiled back and then proceeded with writing down why it was so important that leaves had "layers". Why anyone cared about that Yuna didn't know. Yet another mystery to uncover.
When Yuna arrived at the Wertterz's place, she was greeted by Lilac who - when she saw who it was - shrieked and ran at her. Yuna laughed and picked Lilac up swinging her around.
"Yuna!" She exclaimed. "You came back!"
Yuna smiled. "Of course I came back!"
By this time Tommy had joined them too and was clawing at her leg so she would hug him too. Laughing, she set Lilac down and hugged Tommy, who happily wrapped his arms around her neck.
Behind her she saw Holly Fendel, who was smiling down at them. Yuna straightened and greeted her with a smile. Holly smiled back and waved, leaving them alone in the house.
"So…" Yuna asked. "What do you want to do today? I can't imagine you want to stay in here and watch cartoons all the time with this lovely weather?"
Lilac was shaking her head, clearly indicating she wanted to go outside. Tommy however was looking from the window to the TV and back again. It was funny the first time, but when he just kept on looking to and fro she felt sorry for him.
"We could always stop for an ice cream on the way?" Yuna said, trying to sound nonchalant.
Tommy's face cleared up when he heard the word ice-cream.
"Out fide, out fide!" He chanted.
Yuna felt bad about bribing him into deciding what he wanted to do, but didn't give it a second thought the minute they were outside, and the brilliant sun hit her face. Tommy and Lilac stayed good the whole bus ride long, which was only 5 minutes, but Yuna appreciated it all the same.
They got to the play park and Tommy scampered, wanting to try out the new slide. Yuna let him, just as long as he didn't stay too close to the basketball field. Lilac however, was uncertain about what to do. Yuna offered to help her make Barbie's sand castle, and this occupied Lilac for a while, before she decided it was boring, and went to join her brother on the monkey bars.
A couple minutes later a blonde haired girl with a pony tail, and sweaty bangs sat down next to her, and drained her water bottle.
"Hi." She said, after gulping down what was left of her water, and extending a long, tanned hand with long nails and chipped pink nail polish. "I'm Rikku."
Yuna shook her hand. "Yuna." Rikku smiled.
"Hey, I think I know you. Do you go to our school?"
Yuna nodded. "Yeah. I'm new."
"Cool! So, have you met anyone nice here yet?"
Yuna shrugged her slim shoulders. "I don't know. Most people have been ignoring me… or whispering about me. I don't think it was such a good idea to punch Melanie in the nose this morning."
Rikku squealed. "Ohmigod! That was you?"
Yuna smiled wryly.
"That is SO COOL! I mean, no seriously! She totally deserves it. She can be such a bitch sometimes."
Yuna felt un–comfortable, but Rikku hardly noticed, and just kept talking to her. In a way Yuna was grateful that at least someone who didn't have bright orange hair and hung around with a death-girl was being kind to her. But in an other way she felt… awkward. Why was she bothering to be so nice? Probably to be able to brag about it tomorrow that they were friends and be like "yeah, she told me everything that happened between her and Squall."
But soon however, she found out Rikku was not like that. She actually started to like Rikku, and was glad that she was in some of her classes such as maths and biology and French. At least she knew someone.
Soon it was an hour later, and they were still talking, Rikku's basketball match forgotten as they talked about their favourite bands.
"There's this song I really like," Rikku said. "I don't know if you've heard of it… sweet surrender? By Invisible Soul?" Yuna was shocked but tried not to let it show. Of course she knew it. It was her song. But she didn't dare mention it to Rikku. Not that Rikku would believe her in the first place. Instead she settled for nodding.
"Yeah. I've heard of it."
"Isn't it amazing?"
Yuna nodded uncomfortably. "It's okay."
Rikku started going on about all these other songs Yuna had written and Yuna smiled to herself.
"What? What are you smiling at?" Rikku asked.
"Well… I happen to know that Invisible Soul is having an opening concert on Sunday. I thought… maybe you'd like to come along? All these other people will be performing as well. She's doing the opening scene."
Rikku looked so excited Yuna thought she'd faint. But instead she jumped up and started bouncing out of joy.
"Oh my God really? When does it start?"
"Nine. Ends at one." Yuna grinned. "So you're coming?"
"You can count on it. Where do we meet? I'll be by the stage at the centre. Meet you there?"
"Sure." Rikku grinned, and they started discussing their plans for Sunday. Another hour passed, and Yuna panicked when she saw what time it was.
Mrs. Wertterz got home at 7pm, but she wanted to get there early enough to put Lilac to bed before she got home, and make sure they were wearing clean clothes. Undoubtedly Tommy would have found a way to get himself covered in mud, and she didn't want his mother to see him like that when she came home from work.
Rikku grinned at the panic on Yuna's face. "I'm guessing you've gotta run."
Yuna nodded, waved Rikku good-bye, and went to find Tommy and Lilac. She found Tommy easily, he was climbing a ladder to go down a slide, and he helped her find Lilac who was playing in the sand box. Both had managed to make themselves as dirty as possible, and Yuna laughed at their state. She brushed as much sand off them as possible, and they looked considerably better.
"Come on, you guys still up for ice cream?" Tommy and Lilac visibly cheered, and had smiles on their faces the whole time, which lasted until Mrs. Wertterz got home, and Yuna had to bid them good bye.
Yuna smiled to herself later that evening while she was in the shower. She'd managed to make two friends at school today, and Tommy, Lilac and Mrs. Wertterz positively loved her. She was going to the concert with Rikku on Sunday, and nothing could spoil her mood. All she had to do now was figure out a plan to get Rikku to come to the concert and stay until she found Yuna. Which shouldn't be too hard, since Yuna would be right up on stage. She just hoped Rikku wouldn't leave if she didn't find her.
Yuna climbed out of the shower and wrapped herself in a fluffy bath robe, and stepped out of the bathroom, just in time to turn on the TV and see the credits roll up the screen, right before ER started. Perfect timing.
That night, as Yuna crawled into bed and pulled the covers up to her chin, she actually smiled, and couldn't wait for tomorrow to begin. Then, realising with horror that she had committed a teenage crime, she rolled over, pushed any thought out of her head and let sleepiness wash over her, sending her into a world of magic and bliss.
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A/N: Yay! I updated! Be happy! Um… sorry tidusXyuna637, I am a mean person for not taking your advice... I just can't be bothered putting it from Yuna's POV, because then I would mess up the story more because I kinda suck at writing stories from people's POVs… cries . I am such a terrible terrible person. But thanks for the reviews! And also Fantasy-yunit (Meike :-P lol) and greenerpastures42! Thanks for bothering to review! I feel special. :-D Oh, and please be happy! This is 9 word pages long!
Mzzlz,
-M