Juuban High - Day 8

Story by: Elise Haskell and Carrie Rose

Written by: Elise Haskell

Edited by: Elise Haskell

I arrived at school fully healed from my wounds (thank you Gaia!) where I found Shampoo ready to kick my ass, seeing I already had several cuts and bruises I decided to run like a pansy and hide in the bathroom. But this chick is relentless!

"Shampoo kill!" She would call as she ran after me, obviously fully (and magically) recovered from Trunks blast yesterday.

Then the ultimately good happened, Chichiri came out of nowhere and Shampoo ran right into him.

"No running in the hallways, no da!" He warned her all smiles.

After seeing him unmasked I must say that while he was saying this I was kinda off in another world… even after he dragged Shampoo off for swearing. Then Carrie broke me out of my trance by hitting me over the head with a metal chair.

"Damn you Carrie! You watch way too much wrestling!" I started to yell at her.

"You were drooling all over the floor and I could have slipped and broken my neck."

"Yes… and what a pity that would have be- OW! Stop hitting me!"

"We have to get to Trowa - I mean English!"

I looked at her kinda funny and then reluctantly follower her to English where we saw a recovered Ravi sitting in the back all bandaged up. We laughed hysterically until Trowa showed up and we all shut up before he got Heero after us (and what a traumatic experience that would be…).

I sat down in my seat and Youji came up from behind and hugged me. I smiled and he dropped a note on my desk after hugging me for a couple minutes. I opened it up and read.

"Hey Elise-

I was wondering if you were busy this Friday."

I sat… and I thought (which can be quite the painful experience), until I realised that me and Duo hadn't made any plans, completely forgetting about Youji, I realised that I must ask Duo on another date, but I had to do it so the Principal wouldn't find out… he'd have my neck!

So I wrote on the board that I was going to the washroom and left Youji, Carrie and Trunks a bit confused (but hey, Carrie and Trunks were too preoccupied with themselves to really care about me).

I barged into the Drama and pulled Duo out of the room by his collar in mid sentence to the hallway. He fixed himself and looked at me.

"Oi, Elise! What's up?" Duo asked all cheerful.

"Do you care about the school rules?" I asked him showing my desperation and love…

"It depends on which rules you mean…"

"The rules about students not asking their teachers out."

"Well… uh… um… are you trying to ask me out again?"

I jumped up and covered his mouth with my hand.

"If they hear us I'll be dead and stuck with Omi every day! I don't need counseling! I need love!"

"Calm down Elise, look, get back to your class and I'll talk to you about this at lunch. Ok?" Duo asked actually looking serious for a bit.

"Ok!" I said cheerfully and skipped back to class.

I didn't tell anyone where I had gone… but Carrie was still curious.

"So where'd you go in English?" She asked mid-volleyball.

Her distraction took my mind off the game and a volleyball hit my head sending me all dizzy.

"Weak onna!" Wu Fei called bringing me back.

"Well, I see you managed to lift your head and notice my existence in English this morning," I said sarcastically while rubbing my head (that's one of the places Shampoo had cut me the day before!).

"I was just going up for air, but yeah, where'd you go?"

"I went to see Duo and ask if he was free this Friday."

"Elise, if you want to be able to date Duo he has to be a student-"

Before Carrie could say anything else Ryouga bursts into the gym and looked around in wonder.

"Where's the assembly?" He asked confused.

"That was two days ago!" Wu Fei yelled at him and then swiftly kicked him out (literally, Ryouga didn't even see it coming).

"Wow… only took him two days, I'm impressed."

"Yeah…" Carrie replied still in awe of his cuteness.

"Onna! Back to work!" Wu Fei yelled at us and we complied.

Five volleyballs in the head later. Lunchtime! Now I could find Duo and see if he wanted to go on another date this Friday.

I told Carrie to get Trunks and Youji and then wait for me in our normal place, and then I went in search of Duo. He wasn't in the drama room… or the teacher's lounge, or the gym, or any other room that I could think off. So I went outside, but he still wasn't there. So then I decided to check the staff's washrooms.

And then I found him… in there… with Hilde (the social studies teacher)… and they were… kissing?

"Duo?"

Duo turned around and smiled at me.

"Oi! Elise! What are you doing here, this place is only for teachers."

"I can see that…"

To tell you the truth I really didn't know what to say, I figured something might happen with Hilde and him (or him and Heero for that matter *Carrie whacks Elise with another chair*), but I didn't expect it to happen now, when I really didn't want anybody but me taking Duo.

"Elise… um… I'm not sure what to say."

Duo was speechless; it was amazing how I could do that to him. So, I turned and left the washroom where I bumped into Youji. He had been following me. I guess he also heard the whole thing.

"You ok?" He asked taking hold of my shoulders.

I nodded and leaned into him where he hugged me, I hugged him back and tried not to let tears show. I was stronger than that. I mean hey, they were just cartoons, right? Right?

(*Carrie hits Elise with another chair* "ANIME CHARACTERS!!!")

"Want me to take you home?" Youji asked, I guess he could read me better than I thought.

I pulled away and looked at him smiling.

"Nah, I'm fine. I mean, we weren't dating, so what do I care, eh?"

He smiled back and the two of us went back to Carrie and Trunks and we were interrupting something if you get my drift, then we sat down to eat lunch.

It was then when Goku walked by and suddenly my lunch was gone, I realised that in passing he had somehow managed to eat all of our lunches. Out of sympathy we let it slide and the boys didn't go after him.

History was interesting enough, Inu Yasha ignored me and when he looked at me he was glaring at me. The son of a bitch holds a grudge I guess. Damn Shampoo for making him hate me! Damn her to Heaven! I was pretty quiet in History, which was odd, because normally I was talking about this and that to Youji as he would quietly nod, taking it all in.

It was around this point in my silence when I realised how much attention he gave me. He always listened to me, and well, he took care of me, even when I was completely shrugging him off. And in History he sat with me in the back and held my hand, even thought I was completely ignoring him then, he stayed.

Career studies was pretty much the same, only Ravi was there to pay full attention to Quatre and kept asking annoying little question. But Quatre was so nice and didn't get annoyed at all and soon the two were having a lovely conversation about tea and such.

Civics was different.

My Gothic Angel brought his brother Van and they talked about Monarchy. Halfway through Allen and Celena walked in and the four started to talk, ignoring the class. They were in the middle of a conversation of how to wash their guymelefs' capes when Celena turned back into Dilandau.

"VAN! YOU WILL DIE!!!" Then he started to chase Van around the classroom with a flamethrower. The entire school wing was burnt to a crisp and we all got to go home a half an hour early!

And on the way home Youji walked me home, he offered to spend the night, but I said I would be fine. I thought I would…