AN: i had this finished but i hadn't planned on updating it so soon (in my opinion). but i couldn't resist. X. haha. dont expect my updates to be this quick.
Love Ain't All That
Chapter 2: Befriending a Punk
By: devilofheaven
"I hate waking up on Mondays." Odd groans, lifting himself off of his bed.
He yawns and stretches, looking for his cell phone. He flips it open and squints at the time. 6:15. Looking at his roommate's bed, he notices that he isn't there. "Probably on his jog." Odd mumbles. "That guy is crazy."
Indeed Ulrich was on his morning job. Every morning, give or take a few days, he woke up earlier than needed to sneak off of campus and job, coming back early enough to take a shower.
While Odd was waking up, Ulrich was exactly half-way through his jog before noticing something else. THUD. Thud. Thud. Or maybe someone else? Mentally he shrugs, making the volume on his music device higher.
Ulrich makes it to his school gates and turns off his music device. Panting, he slows his jog to a cautious walk and goes to the corner of the gate. Quickly glancing around, he jumps, grabbing the top of the gate and carefully heists himself over it to the other side.
Soon enough he found himself back at his room, waiting for Odd (?) to get out of the shower. No wait, Odd always took one right after him or later in the day. Maybe it was his new roommate.
Sure enough, a few minutes later he found his thesis to be correct. How? His neighbor had unlocked his door to the bathroom with a tiny click, and the other door closed softly. Ulrich quickly took his place in the bathroom, locking both doors.
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Homeroom 1st Period
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"Hey, Jeremy, we've got a new kid in our class." Odd whispers while walking into his class with Ulrich and Jeremy.
"Huh? Where?" Jeremy asks clueless, looking up from his book.
"Way in the back. She's got her hair in a open-ish bun thingy with a few strands of hair out, she's got dark tight jeans on with a HUGE brown sweatshirt." Odd explains as well as he could with only one glance. "She scares me." He adds as an afterthought.
Jeremy puts his book away and looks in the direction Odd was pointing to. He recognizes her by the shape of her face. She was raising her eyebrows at all of the weird looks she was receiving.
"Oh, I saw her yesterday." Jeremy carelessly answers, waving to her.
She nods slightly at him and turns her gaze away.
"Well she's nice." Odd sarcastically says, taking the seat diagonal behind of Jeremy. "What do you think?" Odd asks Ulrich.
Ulrich quietly takes his place in front of Odd, to the right of Jeremy. He fully turns his body around to look over the girl in the back. "I don't know." Ulrich answers a minute later.
Before Odd could digest what Ulrich had said, their homeroom teacher enters the room. "Hello class. Hope you all had a good winter break, but before I go on," He straightens his tie.
"We've got a new student." All heads swivel to the back of the room.
"Her name is Yumi Ishiyama. She lived in New York." The teacher continues. "Yumi, would you care to talk about yourself."
"No thanks." She lazily answers.
The teacher looks at her in a bit of astonishment before regaining his composure. "Well, my name is Mr. Gardei. You can call me Mr. G if you want." He nervously stacks a few papers on his desk. "Jeremy will show you around the school."
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Chemistry. 3rd period.
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"She really creeps me out." Odd mumbles again to Ulrich and Jeremy while walking into their third period. First, her weird performance in Writing, and then she was in my History class…"
Soon after, their teacher, Ms. Hertz comes in, telling all of her students to stand up. She was going to assign new partners for the next three weeks.
"Ulrich and Odd. Yumi and Jeremy." She continues coughing.
Jeremy walks up to Yumi and brings out his hand. "Hey, I'm Jeremy."
Her mouth forms in an 'O' shape as she shakes his hand, following him to a counter for two lab partners. Within a matter of minutes, Jeremy had Yumi laughing, and acting as if they knew each other their whole lives.
Odd glares at them from afar. "She's turning Jeremy into one of her." He whispers, blindly throwing test tubes at Ulrich to mix.
Ulrich rolls his eyes and places the test tubes back in their normal position.
"Ya know." Odd states, turning his body around to face Ulrich. "You've really got to talk more."
Smack.
"HEY! My head is delicate and fragile." Odd glowers at his friend, rubbing the spot on his head.
"As if."
"He talks!"
SMACK.
"Now that's just getting old!" Odd groans, rubbing the same spot again. "I wonder what their talking about?"
"I think your friend is staring at us." Yumi whispers to Jeremy from a few feet away.
Jeremy turns around to see where her gaze was headed. He watches as Odd tries to hide himself behind test tubes he was holding in front of his face. Then continued to watch as Odd hid behind Ulrich; scaring Ulrich to drop many of the test tube's containment onto Odd's head.
"Yup. He probably was. His name's Odd and he thinks you're scary." Jeremy snickers.
"Well I guess I am…to some people." She throws a shy smile at her new geeky, yet cool, friend.
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Lunch.
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Jeremy and Yumi sat at a deserted table in the middle of the cafeteria. At the moment, the two were comparing schedules.
Jeremy:
1 - Mr. Gardei (Writing)
2 - Mr. Renalds (Algebra)
BREAK
3 - Ms. Hertz (Chem)
4 - Mrs. Kendell (Computers)
LUNCH
5 - Mr. Ennel (Study Hall)
6 - Ms. Patterson (History)
BREAK
7 - Mr. Farel (PE)
8 - FREE
Yumi:
1 - Mr. Gardei (Writing)
2 - Ms. Winglet (History)
BREAK
3 - Ms. Hertz (Chem) – Gang
4 - Mr. Marshall (Study Hall)
LUNCH
5 - Mrs. Kennedy (Acting)
6 - Mr. Renalds (Algebra)
BREAK
7 - Ms. Lonaway (PE)
8 - FREE
"You've got first period with me, Ulrich, and Odd. Second period with Odd. Third with all three of us. Fourth, fifth, and sixth period with Ulrich. Seventh with Odd, and free period with all of us." Jeremy announces proudly.
"Wonderful?" Yumi says with a bit of hesitant in her voice.
"Don't worry about the other two." Jeremy quickly says, noticing her hesitance. "They won't bite." He pauses as if thinking. "Well, at least Ulrich won't."
"Haha."
"No, I'm serious." Jeremy responds, watching Yumi's face turn into shock before laughing.
"Jerk." Yumi laughs, pushing Jeremy lightly.
The two continue to joke around and get to know each other better. Neither of them noticing that someone was glaring at them.
Odd stabs his fork into his pizza blindly, (which apparently he does a lot -) and chews noisily. He didn't notice when his other friend sat down across from him. Ulrich worriedly stares at Odd as he continues stabbing various items of food; almost stabbing himself. He only stopped to grab his drink harshly and loudly gulp out of it, keeping his eyes on Jeremy and Yumi, to slam the drink back down on the table.
When Ulrich finally sees what his friend was staring at, he rolls his eyes and eats his meal quietly. "I wonder who our roommate is." Ulrich thoughtfully says after about five minutes, hoping to get Odd's attention diverted.
"Yeah. Roommate. Cool."
"But, he got into the shower at my time." Ulrich says again, closely watching his dear friend but getting no reaction. "And you know the strangest part?" Odd doesn't even blink. "He had Herbal Essence in there." Nothing. "Did you hear me?" Nada. "EARTH TO ODD!" Ulrich screams in Odd's ear.
"WHA?" Odd screams, obviously irritated. He ceased his eating movements, but he was still staring at them.
"What did I just say?" Ulrich quizzes, leaning back I his chair.
"Something about a watch or something and herbal tea."
Ulrich sighs in defeat.
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Fifth Period. Acting.
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"Good afternoon class!" Mrs. Kennedy claps from the stage all the way down the stairs.
The class file down the stairs and scatter into random seats in the audience. All were quiet throughout the teacher's speech, obviously meaning she was respected. About three quarters into the class Mrs. Kennedy separated the class into fours.
Ulrich. Yumi. William. Theo. Containing three new students. Guess who.
"Hey, sexy lady." Theo winks, sliding up to Yumi.
"Fuck off." She simply states looking down at the paper the teacher had just passed out.
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Eighth Period. Free.
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"Why do you keep on hanging with the creepy girl?" Odd practically yells, merely an inch from Jeremy's face.
"She's nice." Jeremy protests, raising up his hands in surrender.
"Pffft." Odd exclaims, throwing his hands in the air and falling back into his bed beside Jeremy.
"He's obsessing over you two. He won't stop staring." Ulrich adds, walking into his room and sitting on his bed.
Odd groans and continues to rant in a squeaky voice.
"Will you stop talking?" Jeremy asks, pulling his hair.
"Why?" Odd asks, standing up immediately.
"I'm gonna give Yumi a tour around the school."
"UGHH!"
"Look, Jeremy, Odd's not gonna stop. Why don't we come with you?" Ulrich asks, calming Odd down.
Jeremy nods and leaves quickly, hoping that Odd wouldn't embarrass him too much.
"Prepare Ulrich, we'll soon be meeting THE GRIM REAPER in person."
"Odd." Ulrich warns.
"Duhn dun dun dun da datada da!"
SMACK.
AN: erm. i suppose high school schedules should be more complex and different schedules for different days. oh well. by the next chapter i should have a link either in the chapter or on my profile or both to see all of the classes.