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Okay. Chapter two is up! What awaits Yuna, Paine and Amanda in the cafeteria? Who is this boy in computer class? Well, keep ready and you'll find out!
Mari laughed at a joke Bryan had just told her in the science lab. Rikku had decided to work with her friend Yuffie at another table, leaving Mari to work with her new found 'friend' Bryan. Their teacher was Mr. Ansem, though as creepy as his eyes were to Mari, he was a kind old man who looked like he should've been teaching history instead of science. But despite his old forgetful disposition, he knew a hell of a lot. They were learning about the science of the heart today, which REALLY didn't interest Mari that much. All she cared about was not screwing up in front of Bryan. As Mr. Ansem read aloud to them about the heart, Mari felt a sudden jolt on her chair, causing her to jump up. Luckily for her, only Bryan noticed, and he gave her a funny look. She grinned innocently at him and made up the dumb excuse, "I thought I saw a bug." He shook his head playfully and returned to reading the text book. Mari slowly turned around to see Rikku smiling at her from behind, her friend Yuffie smiling as well.
"What?" Mari mouthed. Rikku held up a little piece of paper and shoved it in Mari's hand. Mari turned around excitedly and, careful not to let Bryan see, opened it and read:
He's a cutie Mari! You should totally ask him out! If you don't I will!
Mari laughed silently to herself. As much as she hated to admit it, Rikku was right; He WAS cute. But she didn't have time for petty shit like boyfriends and stuff. She had bigger matters to attend too. She suddenly remembered the meeting they had with the Principal after school and prayed silently that Amanda remembered too. Not like she could go anywhere seeing as they didn't have a house here, but you could never be too sure with that girl. Rikku kicked Mari's chair again, waiting for her response. Mari found her pen tucked behind her ear, took out and wrote in reply:
I know he's adorable! But I can't! Besides, like he'd say yes! And keep your hands away!
Mari handed the note to Rikku behind her and pretended to be studying the book as the Professor looked up around the classroom. Minutes later, she heard Rikku and her friend Yuffie snickering. As the Professor looked down again, Mari suddenly had the note in her lap again. She opened it and read:
Lol, okay, you win. I'll stay away. Besides, my boyfriend Gippal would kill me. LoL. Heyy! Me & Yuffie wanted to know if you'd sit with us at lunch later! Yuffie thinks your cool! C'mon PLEASE say yes!
Mari scribbled down her reply and tossed it over to Rikku, who read it and said, "Yes!" Mari decided it was time to tune into the science lesson, before she totally bombed the test Mr. Ansem had warned them about coming up at the end of the week. She sighed, partly in boredom, and partly in satisfaction. I could get used to this… She thought happily to herself.
Amanda followed Yuna and Paine to a table in the far corner. Apparently, like Amanda herself, Paine and Yuna weren't big eaters. They all sat down in the far corner, where they could chat and not be bothered unless intentionally. In that case Paine had said she could handle that. Amanda was fascinated, yet terrified by what would happen to whomever tried to screw with them.
"So where are you from again?" Paine asked, "Unfortunately for Lu, I don't listen to her much in class."
"Pennsylvania." Amanda replied, "It's a ways away."
"Soo, why you here?" Paine asked, "I mean, this school isn't anything fancy enough to leave your home that's like 100's of miles away for. There's gotta be some kind of alternate motive."
"Hmph…" Amanda grunted, not really paying attention to her. Seeing the Jock's enter the cafeteria, she tried to catch a glimpse at that brown haired guy who looked more like a lackey then a friend in that group. And she did in fact see him, in the middle, surrounded by them. Paine looked behind her and Yuna did too, trying to see what Amanda was looking for. Yuna giggled slightly when she spotted him, and turned around to face Amanda.
"That's Riku's buddy Sora." Yuna explained, "He's more like the pack mule of the group- doing everything they say."
"If your thinking of trying him, I'd avoid that," Paine warned Amanda as she spun around, "That bitch Kairi has him wrapped around her little finger like a rubber band."
"What?" Amanda practically screamed, "No! No, no, no! I don't like him. I'm just amazed that he can't seem to stand up for himself."
"He's a loser." Paine replied, showing she was obviously ready for a change in conversation.
"I can see." Amanda said, ripping her eyes off of him to focus back on her new friends. She rolled her eyes, disgusted by how helpless this dude was.
"What are you training for?" Paine asked suddenly, throwing Amanda off guard.
"Um… I…"
"Fighting... Sphere Hunting… sports like Blitzball, Soccer and A LOT MORE… being a preppy bitch… there are endless possibilities… call me crazy, but I'm doing fighting, sphere hunting and magic training." She said magic training in a whisper tone.
"Magic?" Amanda asked, intrigued. Leo warned both Mari and Amanda not to use their active powers, for fear of exposing themselves for what they really were.
"Are you one of those annoying people who doesn't believe in it?" Paine asked defensively, "Because I know quite a few spells I can cast to demonstrate…"
"I believe!" I said, "I kinda have powers of my own…"
"Really?" Yuna asked.
"Yupp."
"What kind of magic?" Paine asked, resulting in a confused look from Amanda, "Black or White."
"I dunno." Amanda shrugged, "Maybe a charmed kinda magic…"
"Sounds interesting." Yuna said, "I myself am taking classes on White & black magic, along with sphere hunting, singing, and I guess gun skills."
'That sounds awesome!" Amanda exclaimed.
"Yupp." Paine said coolly, "You liking this school?"
"Diffidently." Amanda nodded. Then suddenly two boys started towards them, one with a mess of blonde hair and blue eyes, the other with short white hair pulled back with a blue headband that left a few stray hairs poking out. The one with the blonde hair sat next to Yuna while Amanda made room for the white haired guy.
"Oh, I almost forgot," Yuna giggled slightly, "This is Tidus, and Baralai. Their our friends. Guys, this is Amanda."
"Hey." They said greeting Amanda. Amanda smiled back at them.
'We were just talking about how Riku is an ass hole." Paine said.
"No kidding." Tidus said, "I heard him talking about new 'meat'. He must mean you." He said to Amanda, who sighed and rested her head in her hands.
"Great," She complained, "The absolute LAST thing I need right now is for some creepy guy that looks like a demon to be picking on me."
"That's a new one." Baralai commented on her usage of words referring to Riku. Amanda grinned evilly.
"I like it." Paine commented, giving Amanda a satisfied look, "Hey Yuna, think YRP could add another recruit to it?"
"Maybe!" Yuna squeaked. Amanda felt herself welt up with excitement, Hmm… She thought to herself, Making friends here isn't so hard after all.
"So whats next for out class schedule?" Amanda asked.
"Well, if you're on the exact same schedule as us, we have study hall next." Yuna said.
"While me and Baralai get to throw spit balls at the back of Cid's head in Computers." Tidus said mischievously. Yuna slapped him playfully.
"What?" He asked her innocently.
"Be nice to him!" Yuna said, "He's not all THAT bad."
"I guess so." Tidus admitted, "Then again he's pretty fun to get angry…"
"Ugh." Yuna moaned in defeat as Baralai and Tidus planned their spit-balling strategy.
""Yuna, you should know that whenever they're dead set on something…" Paine started.
"Their a couple of think heads…" Yuna finished Paine's sentence.
"So, what are you doing after school today?" Yuna asked Amanda, "If you want we could chill over at Paine's place, right Paine?"
"Yep. We planned to go to my place with Yuna's cousin Rikku afterwards, wanna come?"
"Wait, Riku?" Amanda asked, comfused.
"A girl Rikku." Yuna explained, "Two k's."
"Ohh, okay." Amanda nodded.
"So you in?" Paine asked. Amanda sighed. As much as she's love to go, her and Mari had a stupid meeting with the school principal. It was soo dumb."
"I have a meeting with the Principal." Amanda said regretfully.
"We do to." Yuna said.
"Really?" Amanda asked bewildered. Paine nodded.
"Dunno why, he just wants to see us. We actually didn't do anything this time." Paine shrugged.
"Sure." Amanda said, "I'd love too. Can my friend Mari come?"
"Is she a snot?" Paine asked. Amanda nodded, "Then of course." Paine said. Amanda had to laugh at that one. Paine was just too cool.
While Riku talked about sports, Sora found himself staring at that new girl in the corner. What was her name again? He asked himself, forgetting the events of the past hour or two. As he tried to remember, he felt someone shaking his arm. He ripped his gaze away to see Kairi looking at him curiously.
"You okay?" She asked with a sweetness that was way to sweet to be genuine.
"Yep. Fine." He replied.
He heard Riku get up with who or three of his goons.
"Where ya going?" Sora asked curiously.
"To introduce ourselves to our new meat,- I mean -new classmate, right guys?" Riku asked his three idiots who all nodded happily.
"This should be interesting." Sora heard Kairi mutter to Selphie and her other friend Leblanc. Sora felt somewhat sorry for this girl. She may be over there laughing now, but one taste of Riku will turn her life here into a living hell. He turned to watch what this confrontation would look like, secretly hoping that Paine would finally step up to the plate and give Riku a taste of his own medicine for once. But Sora knew better. As far as he could tell, Paine stayed out of other people's business. Including her friends. Sora wished someone would give him a taste of his own medicine one day, but everyone was too afraid to. He had to admit, he was terrified too. He wanted to see how well this girl could hold back against Riku's torment. He's actually make poor Yuna cry on a few occasions, but Sora didn't think that Tidus had ever found out. If he did Riku wouldn't have kept going back for more.
"Uh-oh.:" Paine muttered casually, not looking back, "Look who's coming."
Since no one wanted to make it obvious they noticed anything, Tidus pretended to stretch and twisted around to see Riku and 3 of his goons headed towards their table. He whipped back around and said, "It's Riku."
"You'd better hide." Baralai warned Amanda, who gave him a funny look. Dude, if only you knew what kind of shit I've had to deal with on a daily basis.
"He can be horrible at times." Yuna warned, her eyes becoming glassy. Amanda looked at her concerned, seeing that somehow, Riku must've hurt Yuna in the past. But Amanda didn't really care about what he said to her, as long as he left Yuna alone. Tidus and Paine turned around casually as Riku and his 3 idiots had made their way up to the table. Suddenly the whole room became silent and was watching the whole scene.
"Something bothering you?" Paine asked casually, "Because as far as I can tell, we haven't said or done anything to you." Paine added under her breath, "Yet."
"I just wanna introduce myself to the new girl." Riku said innocently, looking at Amanda trying to intimidate her. It wasn't working very well. Amanda returned his look with a look of her own that usually scared most male species away. Baralai looked at Amanda nervously, which made Tidus snicker. Riku looked down at Tidus angrily and asked, "Something funny?"
"Besides your face?" Tidus replied cockily. Riku looked like he was ready to haul off on Tidus, but he obviously restrained himself. Instead he redirected his anger at Amanda, who looked like she was about to shit herself trying to hold back from exploding in laughter. This whole little scene reminded her of those Old Western Movies where the bad cow boy comes in with his lackeys and confronts the good cow boy before challenging him to a 'show down'. It was all quite amusing to her.
"I have yet to introduce myself." Riku said to her, "I'm Riku. Consider me the boss of this joint. Any problems, come see me bout it."
"Mhm…" Amanda nodded, resting her elbow in the table and setting her head in her hand, looking up at him with a look that made her look interested but it was obviously to the plain eye she was mocking him.
"Like any of these losers happen to annoy you or anyth-" Riku started but Amanda held up her hand to stop him.
"Okay, whoa there cow boy." She said, "First of all, these guys are my friends, so I'd appreciate it if you'd restrain your big head from calling them losers." Amanda paused momentarily to enjoy the angry expression on his face as he listened to her correct AND insult him, "Second of all, it doesn't look to me like you have any authority over these teens here- you just happened to scare the shit out of all of them, and third of all, the only thing that is annoying me right now is you."
"Very up front." Riku said, looking at Amanda with a dangerously satisfied look, "I like that in a girl."
"Yuna, Amanda. It's time we leave for study hall." Paine said, getting up. Yuna and Amanda nodded, and as Yuna and Paine started towards the door, Amanda walked past Riku, who- out of no where- snatched Amanda's upper arm and held her back. She turned slowly to see him grinning triumphantly at her. Amanda now realized it was deadly silent in the cafeteria- everyone watching to see what Riku planned to do to the new girl. Well, Amanda thought, They wanna show. They'll get a show.
"Is their any particular reason why you feel the need to act like an ass hole, or is it just in your bloodline?" Amanda asked him.
"Fiesty." Riku said, looking back at his goonies sickeningly, "I like that."
Tidus and Baralai went to push themselves up, when the goons surrounded the table, leaving them helpless. Paine took one step forward, with Yuna right behind.
Riku looked back at Amanda grinning still, and his expression changed when he saw her grinning back. He thought she was falling for him.
"See now?" He asked calmly, "I play fair."
Amanda nodded, still smiling, and suddenly, Riku felt a massive pain in his groin. He slid to the ground in pain as Amanda brought her leg down, with a satisfied grin on her face.
"You may play fair-" Amanda said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "-But I sure as hell DON'T."
She took one glance at the goons, who looked like they we're going to shit themselves. They moved out of Tidus' and Baralai's way, letting them get by. With one more triumphant look at the cringing in pain Riku, Amanda turned around on her heel and stormed out of the room, leaving everyone in it stunned. Paine and Yuna stood there stunned for a moment, and regaining themselves, hurried out after Amanda, excitedly.
Sora was just as shocked as everyone else. He couldn't believe what just happened. Now only did Riku's attempts to embarrass her fail, they reversed their target, and he was NAILED! He heard Kairi whisper something to her friends, something very nasty. But he didn't care. He was trying to contain himself from bursting out laughing. About time someone put him in his place! He wanted to shout. But he'd knew he'd probably be crucified for it. So he sat there as usual, silent and keeping to himself.
Mari, Rikku, and Yuffie all headed to the cafeteria early, when they passed Amanda and her four new friends. Mari tried to wave, but Amanda looked like she was way to happy to notice. Mari shrugged it off and her, Yuffie and Rikku proceeded into the cafeteria where it was deadly silent. Mari looked around and saw a kid on the ground, obviously in a hell of a lot of pain. She automatically knew what had happened and why Amanda was so happy.
"Heh.. heh… heh…" Rikku said in the dead silence, then hooked her arms in Yuffie's and Mari's and said, "We'll be going now."
How will Riku react to being embarrassed infront of the whole cafeteria? And why does YRP have the same meeting as Amanda and Mari? And what about Sora? Will he ever get the courage up to basicallytell Riku to go fuck himself? Well let's hope so.
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