A/N- YAY! I GOT REVIEWED! shock, heh. Guess I have to update now? Oh well!
Disclaimer- DO I REALLY LOOK LIKE OWN BEYBLADE?
Chapter 2 : WTF?
"Okay, the project I am giving to you will stem for the course of the year and will count for most of your project grade," Mrs. Hiwatari began, pacing around the class like a hawk. "It involves two people observing each others' lifestyle. Every couple of weeks you will spend a day with them, study their lives, their family, homes, lifestyle etc. Then, at the end of the year, you will compare and contrast your findings and present them. Any questions about the subject?"
The group of teens gawked at their teacher. That was their assignment?
Max raised his hand. "These partners you talked about, who chooses them?"
"Well, I do of course!" The older woman replied incredulously.
Tyson was next, "So, we're about to be paired up with partners for the rest of the year, by you?"
"Yes," she replied.
"Can I get my F now?"
"Don't be silly!" she chided him. "Now, first I will hand out permission slips for your parents."
As she passed them through the rows, people were whispering to each other.
"I wonder who I'll get paired with?" Starr asked aloud.
"Hopefully, someone you like," Ray replied.
"I know what you mean. I'd hate it if my partner was a jerk," Kitty put in, idly clicking her pen.
When Mrs. H. was finished giving out the slips, she walked back to her desk and picked up a sheet of paper. "All right class, I'll call out the names each of the partners. I trust that you all know who's who." She looked around at the teenagers' bored faces. "Okay, Starr Akinawa and Tyson Kinomiya."
Starr eyed Tyson, sitting a few seats over. "Fabulous," she muttered dully.
"Next on the list, Ray Kon and Trina Ortiz," the teacher yelled
To this remark, Starr nearly snapped her pencil in two. She detested Trina with a burning passion. To hear her name was like setting off a bomb. Starr wasn't at all pleased one of her friends was assigned to spend the whole year with the "slut bag" as she put it. Ray also happened to be one of Trina's interests, so that just made it worse.
"Rena Markham and Max Tate."
"Looks like we're partners, Max!" Rena smiled
He smiled weakly in reply.
Mrs. Hiwatari called out other pairs, each skipping over Kitty's name.
She looked around the class at the pairs. They either hated each other or were on speaking terms with each other.
"Kitara Ryouku and Tala Valkov."
Her jaw dropped. 'I'M PAIRED WITH FREAKING VALKOV!' she thought. Looking around, she spotted the redheaded bastard smirking at her.
God, this year was going to stink.
After the period ended, and the class filed out, Kitty stayed and waited at Mrs. Hiwatari's desk.
"What do you need, Miss. Ryouku?" The woman asked.
"I was just wondering if you could change my partner. You see, we happen to dislike each other," She started, smiling weakly. "So if you could, can possibly switch me to another person?"
"I'm sorry, dear," she replied, "but I'm afraid that all the pairings are final."
Kitty's face fell. "You mean there's no way of you changing it?"
"I'm afraid not."
Kitty was banging her head on her locker door. "Why. Me. This. Sucks."
"Calm down Kitty!" Max suggested. "You'll knock yourself out!"
"Just ask her if you can switch partners with someone," Starr muttered
"I tried, and she said no," Kitty replied, sighing heavily.
"C'mon Kitty," Ray said, trying to console his friend, "want me to walk you home today?"
"Nah, it's okay. You guys can go ahead without me," she replied.
"Okay."
"Hi guys!" greeted a short girl with jet black hair. "Sorry I missed you for the first few classes. What did I miss?"
"Lan!" Starr cried, grinning. "Nothing, Kitty's just whining about getting Tala Valkov for a partner in Human Studies."
"You have Tala? Lucky!" She smiled
"You want him? Take him!" Kitty replied
"Sorry, I'm not taking the same Human Studies class as you guys are," she said, slamming her locker shut while giving a glare to Max.
Starr stared back and forth between Max and Lan. "What happened between you guys?"
"Rena knows, don't you?" She spat, slinging her backpack over her shoulder and exiting the double doors of their school.
"Rena?" Ray asked, looking for her, but she was gone as well.
Pretty soon, the group of teens lingering in the hallway thinned, and only a few were left standing by the lockers and the front door.
One of the few people left was Kai Hiwatari. He walked passed the various people talking enthusiastically to Tala.
"Yeah? So how long has your mother been planning to teach here?" Tala snickered, poking fun at his blue haired friend.
"Shut up Tala," Kai muttered, shoving his friend.
While all this happened, a tall girl with brown hair stood by the sidelines and watched, slowly approaching the two.
"Kai," she purred in his ear, wrapping her arms around him.
He shrugged her off in annoyance. "What do you want Trina?"
"Is that how you treat me now? I missed you over summer vacation!"
"Trina, we broke up last year. Don't you remember?"
"Well, can't we get back together?" she pleaded, sticking her lower lip out.
God ex-girlfriends were annoying! "If memory serves me right, you slept with every male member of the school!" Kai hissed. "We're ancient history."
"Well, history tends to repeat itself!" she argued. "C'mon, I know you miss me too."
Kai looked at Tala in desperation, only to receive a smirk. He wasn't going to make this easy, was he?
"Well, Kai, didn't you mention that you needed a date for Johnny's party on Saturday? Why not take Trina?" Tala hinted rather loudly.
His friend's eyes widened. "I didn't say-"
"I'm free on Saturday," she interrupted, before Kai could retort.
Tala snickered. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to meet up with someone." He slapped the other boy's shoulder. "Good luck!" he muttered, only so that Kai could hear, and left.
Kitty sighed, walking out the side door of the school into the parking lot. What she wouldn't give for a car right now. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts, that she didn't notice another person walking just behind her.
"Hey, Ryouku!" Tala called, catching her off guard.
"What?" She turned so quickly that she slipped and fell. Cursing loudly, she picked herself up and dusted herself off. "What the hell was that for, Valkov?" she asked angrily
"Sorry," he smirked, "but I needed to talk to you." He picked up her thick History textbook and handed it to her.
"Thanks," she muttered. "So why did you want to speak to me?"
"I thought that since we're stuck with each other until June, that we, you know, act?" he started.
"Like friends?" she put in, eyeing him carefully.
"Yeah, that's what I was going to say." He nodded
"Why are you so willing to put aside out differences? The last time I saw you, you were throwing water balloons filled with juice at me. What makes you think I'm going to say yes?"
"You mean besides the fact that I'm the sexiest guy in school? he replied, half joking.
She gaped at him. "God, you and Hiwatari are crazy. Do you share the same over inflated ego? She snapped, turning to walk in the opposite direction, and then stopping. "I guess your right, Valkov. We should at least try and be friends, even though I still hate your guts."
"Works for me." He shrugged. "So, do you need a ride home?"
"Sure, beats walking." Kitty smiled weakly, following him into the parking area. "What's with the whole 'nice' act, Valkov? It doesn't become of you," she asked, poking fun at him.
"I felt like it." He shrugged again, still grinning.
Kai was pissed off. Not only did his supposed best friend ditch him, alone with his ex, for God knows what, he did still have the problem of getting a date and find out where the hell Tala went!
He trudged to the school parking lot, looking for his friend's red head. It didn't take that long to find him. His eyes then rested on a girl with black hair and blue streaks.
'What the hell is he doing with Ryouku?' Kai thought, fuming.
He watched as Tala led Kitty to his red car and opened the door for her, and then went back into the driver's seat. Before Kai knew it, they were gone, leaving with one question hanging in the air:
Tala and Kitty?
A/N- so that's chapter two. ) Weird and cliché project and situation, I just messed around with the idea. So review me- and I'll be BACK!