Chapter Three

I felt scared thinking of History without Tohru. Things tended to be worse than the other classes, especially today, when I stood up in front of the whole class and started softly to make a speech on the American Civil War before finding out that it was supposed to be on the Revolutionary War. I hid tear-filled eyes with my bangs as I made my way back to my desk after turning in the paper.

"Wow, talk about dense." A low voice said next to me. I peeked out of my hair to see the fire-haired boy was talking. He wasn't looking at me, but I knew he was talking to me. I quickly hid my face again and felt even more embarrassed.

"I-I'm sorry…I'm not very smart…" I replied, my voice barely over a whisper.

"Yeah, I can tell." He answered, and the comment stung. But he didn't say anymore, so the hurt quickly went away. But I felt that I deserved it a little. It was my own fault I was too stupid I couldn't read the assignments properly.

But after that, things started to go a little better. I had found my homework and quietly turned it in.

"Make sure you get your assignments right Sohma-san. I normally wouldn't have accepted your homework, but I'll let you off." I looked down to see that I had gotten a good grade on it. I bowed and felt better. High School wasn't so bad…For now.

"Sohma-san!" A voice called to me when I was getting out of History. I turned to see a boy with dark brown hair. I had never seen him before.

"H-Hello…um…" I said shyly, feeling timid again.

"Hayamo Motohari." He quickly added brightly. "I just wanted to say to ignore what Sensei says, he's stupid. I thought your presentation was good."

"R-Really?" I stammered, feeling my face flush. "I-I was really nervous a-and it was on the wrong thing…"

"Pssh, forget about that! I wanted to tell you something else." I looked curiously at him. "I think you're beautiful." I blinked

"What? B-B-!" Suddenly my face felt like a furnace, with a red color to match. I quickly closed my open mouth and ran away to my class before I could embarrass myself more.

I put my hands to my warm cheeks. Wow. That was…weird. I began to think if he meant it at all, before I remembered what happened the last time I thought that. I knew what he wanted. They all wanted me for my body…and that's what he wants. I quickly shook my head and kept my eyes forward onto my next class.

"-And then he said I was beautiful Tohru-kun…And I don't even know him…" I told Tohru in gym as we warmed up for running. We lined up with the rest of the girls to begin running. We both were pretty bad at it so we were usually last.

"Maybe he likes you Li Na-chan! I can see why too." I smiled at her.

"But…do you think he really meant it?" I asked uncertainly. Tohru nodded happily.

"You know, Yuki-kun has his own fan club here. This school is known to be a little…strange for stuff like that." She started to pant a little harder, making it difficult to understand her. I still felt unconvinced.

"You damn rat! I'm going to beat you this time!" I heard a shout echo across the field, followed by a cool reply.
"It's the same speech every time stupid cat, I'm getting tired of it." As it was the boys turn to run, two strangely hair-colored boys tore off, way ahead of the other boys. They cleared one lap very fast. I couldn't see anything through the dust, only a shiny wisp of silver hair.
"Go! Make the Sohma family proud guys!" Tohru cheered on after them.
"Sohma family? You mean those two are the ones you though I was related to?" Tohru nodded.
"I'm going to introduce them to you alright?" I could barely protest as she tugged me over to meet one of them. The other was long gone after shouting at him and went to get changed back into his regular clothes. The one left was the silver haired one.

"Yuki-kun! How was the run?" Tohru asked excitedly. Yuki gave a smooth smile, his eyes glittered with affection.
"Fine as usual, I would be a lot nicer if that stupid cat wasn't here to bother-" He stopped in midsentence and quickly changed the subject. "Is this a new friend Honda-san?"
"Yes, Yuki-kun, meet Li Na Sohma, the one I told you about." I blushed. Yuki was incredibly handsome, with silver hair that perfectly framed his face and had a charming smile.
"Nice to meet you Li Na-san, strange to have a common surname isn't it?" I nodded, looking down at my feet. My attention was distracted when I heard whispers.

"Look at her, the one with the shiny hair!"
"She's pretty, but she probably thinks that she's all that 'cause she's talkin' to the Prince."
"She's still so new, what a show off, pretending to be to cool. What a freaking loser." This was followed by snickers.

I gave them a sideways glance. And added glare. Not that I'm saying I'm better then anyone, but sometimes under my little self confidence is a hateful girl full of anger. I let some of it out in my green eyes as I glared at them. The gossipers immediately shut up, cowering,
"Don't listen to them." Tohru said encouraging me,
"They talk a lot, but you shouldn't take their comments to heart. I'm going to see Kyo-kun, you talk to Yuki-kun okay?" I mumbled something to her about lunch before she trotted off.

"So, you live around here?" He asked, walking with me. I shook my head.
"My home town is China, but I moved here." I didn't want to trust him too easily, nothing good happens from it.
"I had to go through a change like that too, going from my one cousin's house to another. It was a lot harder then it sounds." I nodded in agreement.
"Me too. I actually didn't have any friends until I came here, and the only person who would talk to me was Tohru-chan." I closed my eyes and thought of the way she smiled at me, a heart so good and kind.
"She's amazing isn't she?" He said. This was something more important than it sounded. I nodded again.
"She makes you feel like there is some real actual good in this place we call a world." Yuki nodded and agreement and we walked in silence
"Um, Yuki-san? I think we should go back before the locker doors close." I told him quietly. We both had walked very far away from the lockers and were going away from the school. He looked back and chuckled.
"Guess your right, c'mon let's go." Something creeped into his eyes as we walked as fast as we could back. I could have sworn my spirits were a little lighter as after we changed and Hayamo caught up to me after class and tried to talk to me again, but I ignored him while my thoughts trailed to gym class.