Yuna turned to her best friend.
"No way. You are kidding right? I mean, boys? In our school? Okay, where did you hear it from? Because if it was from LeBlanc, then it can't be true," said Yuna, who had started to walk again.
"No, I didn't hear it from her. Besides, have some faith in me girl! You'll see!" she just giggled and smiled to herself, "This year's gonna be awesome!"
Yuna just remained silent. They walked for 10 minutes and turned down a very narrow alleyway that no one else seemed to know about. They assumed that no one else knew about it because after all these years of walking to school, they had never seen anybody else use it but them. They walked in single file, until Yuna reached the small stretch of grass which they cross. They then hopped over a small fence and stood in the middle of a large path that ran beside the road. Rikku walked into Yuna who had stopped in her tracks.
"Oh my word," breathed Yuna, her eyes wide with amazement.
"Told ya!" grinned Rikku.
Walking along the path to school, there were not only girls giggling and chatting about their summer holidays, but groups of boys talking quietly and looking sliaghtly uncomfortable. Yuna just stood and stared.
"So it is true. Our school is no longer just for girls?" Yuna asked.
"Yeah," replied Rikku, "It's gonna be great fun though! These are all the guys from Luca Boys School."
"They probably blew up their school with a bomb they made in chemistry," said Yuna with a smile.
"Yeah, bet it was that one!" said Rikku who nudged her friend and nodded towards a tall guy with orange hair that defied gravity and a fairly dark tan. He was laughing with a guy with spiky blonde hair, and for some very odd reason, an eye patch.
The girls arrived at school and went to their lockers. Yuna bent down and unlocked hers and stuffed her newly washed PE kit into it. Rikku grabbed a couple of text books from hers.
"Hey Paine!" said Rikku happily as a girl with short grey/black hair joined them. Paine just looked at her, which was her was of saying hello. Paine wasn't an unkind person, you just had to understand that she didn't smile and if she said anything at all to you, you should take it as a compliment.
"What you got first Yunie?" asked Rikku, who was scanning her new timetable they had collected in reception.
"Dunno," replied Yuna, who started looking in her blazer pockets for her timetable.
At that moment, Paine quickley moved behind Rikku as a guy with nearly white hair came through the double doors near where they were stood. He walked down the corridor looking at names of classrooms. Paine only stepped out from behind Rikku once he had gone. Yuna and Rikku looked at each other. Rikku opened her mouth to say something, but Yuna gave her a look that said "Are you mad? Don't ask her!"
Paine then said something about getting to registration and they left the lockers.
Once in registration, Paine sat down at the back. The desks were set out in twos, so Rikku and Yuna sat together at the desk beside Paine's. They knew that Paine kinda liked her personal space, and the two girls wanted to talk anyway.
A door to the side opened, and a man with very dark grey, short hair entered. He had a very interesting scar on the side of his face. Rikku lent in and whispered to Yuna "New teacher?"
"Must be," replied Yuna.
"Maybe he's from the Boy's School," commented Rikku. Yuna just nodded in agreement.
The class began to fill with both guys and girls. Rikku and Yuna sat there, watching them all. They noticed that the girls sat on one side of the class, and the guys on the other. This made sense, since the guys didn't know any of the girls and visa versa.
"Settle down," said the man with the dark grey hair. "Now, I am your tutor for this year, and perhaps some of you will have the delight of being taught by me too." He gave a half smile at this. "My name is Auron, and you may call me by this. I hate this "Sir" and "Miss" thing that some teachers insist on. I needn't say anything about bad behaviour, because there won't be any," and with that comment, he opened the register and started to read out names.
"Gippal"
"Here" said the guy with the eye patch and spiky blonde hair that Yuna and Rikku had seen earlier.
"Lulu"
"Here" said Lulu, Paine's twin. She had long black hair that was braided into a bun at the back and she had a similar attitude to Paine's, except that Yuna and Rikku had seen Lulu smile on one or two occasions.
"Baralai"
"Here" replied the guy with nearly white hair. Yuna cast a glace at Paine, but Paine's face remained neutral.
"Yuna"
"Here" said Yuna.
"Rikku"
"Here" said Rikku happily, so happily that some people glanced around at her.
"Wakka"
"Here" said the guy with the orange hair. Rikku smiled; his hair made her laugh.
"Tidus"
"Here" said a guy with very blue eyes and kinda spiky blonde hair. He had a slight tan and was sat next to Wakka.
The registration continued until the bell went and Rikku and Yuna stood up and compared timetables to see what they had together. Yuna grabbed her school bag and headed out the door, but she heard Auron call her name, along with Paine's, Wakka's, Lulu's, and Donna's. He gave them each a slip of paper from their food technology teacher telling them to bring in ingredients for a pie for Wednesday. Yuna folded the note in her pocket and followed Paine out of the room to English.
When in their English room, Yuna saw that Lulu and Rikku had saved them a table. They sat down and took out their books from year 10. Everybody else filed in, most of the boys were late, but that was understandable since they didn't know the school. Yuna watched all the people in her class sit down. LeBlanc and Dona sat on a table not too far from theirs with two other girls that Yuna had never spoken to. LeBlanc was tall with blonde hair and a smug expression. She and Yuna had never really got on at all. Dona was okay really. Yuna felt that if Dona didn't hang around with LeBlanc, she could be a nice person. Dona caught Yuna looking at her and mouthed
"What?" Yuna just looked away.
Rikku was giving Lulu an account of her holiday and her new kitten which was apparently "too cute for words". Rikku stopped talking and looked at the door. Tidus, Wakka, Baralai and Gippal came in laughing and Wakka had his backpack on backwards. Yuna smiled slightly and Lulu rolled her eyes. Rikku smiled and blushed a lot. She then started absorbing herself in looking for a pen. Yuna watched her and wrote her a note while the teacher took registration. It said: Your pen is underneath your book. So who has Miss Rikku got her eye on then?
Yuna folded the note flicked it slightly so it landed on Rikku's book. Rikku opened the note and blushed. She grabbed her pen from underneath her book and wrote a reply. She folded it and flicked it back to Yuna. Yuna opened it carefully so that she didn't tear it and read: Thanks. And what do you mean? Anyway, I am trying to listen to Sir! You are distracting me from my work!
Yuna laughed out loud at this since Rikku never concentrated in class, and if so, it was never by choice. The class went silent at Yuna's laugh and all turned to look at her. Yuna blushed and hid the note quickly in her pocket.
The teacher handed out books, and when he had finished he walked to the front of the class and announced,
"I really think that due to the new additions to our school, we should all work with new people. Everybody stand up and I will assign you a new table for the rest of this half term so you get to work with some new people, and ultimately, some new ideas."
Everyone sighed and stood up. Yuna grabbed her stuff and moved to where Sir had told her to. Yuna was on a table with Lulu, Wakka, and Gippal. Rikku and Paine were right across the class with two guys with brown hair who were talking excitedly about something. Yuna assumed it would probably Blitzball. That's all guys ever seemed to talk about. (Blitzball is an underwater form of basketball crossed with (English) football.) LeBlanc and Dona were sat with Baralai and Tidus. Yuna felt a twinge of something in her mind. She cast the thought away, but couldn't help glance at the table again.
Lulu had introduced her and Yuna to Gippal and Wakka, and was now looking at the task that sir had given them to do on the first chapter. Yuna grabbed her book and opened it. She read half the first page, but had to glance at Dona's table. She saw Dona laughing with Tidus, and next to them, Baralai and LeBlanc were chatting, their books were closed on the desk and clearly untouched. Yuna watched Tidus laugh, his blue eyes sparkled when he laughed, like light dancing on water.
Yuna grabbed her pen and started to write a note in her book about what she had just read in the novel, but her pen wouldn't work. She sighed and slammed in on the desk in frustration. Lulu raised one eyebrow, but then continued reading.
"Here," said Gippal, "Borrow mine."
"Oh, thanks," said Yuna smiling.
"Hey, no probs," replied Gippal, also smiling.
They read the first chapter and started to work on the question. They had little time to finish the question though, and Sir set it as homework to finish.
"Hey, Lulu, can I have your mobile number? Just for this English, I mean, if we are working in a group, it might be good to be able to contact each other, ya?" asked Wakka.
Lulu nodded and wrote her number on Wakka's hand. Yuna was shocked, Lulu never gave out her number, and certainly never wrote it on anyone's hand. Yuna smiled inwardly and reminded herself to ask Lulu about her sudden change of heart about giving her number.
"Hey, want my number Yuna?" asked Gippal.
"Yeah, sure," Yuna replied. It was a good idea after all, since there would be project work this year.
Gippal grabbed a pen from his pocket, and following Lulu's example, Yuna offered her hand. Gippal took her hand lightly. His hand was slightly warmer than hers. He wrote his number carefully on the back of her hand. He then offered her his pen after, and Yuna wrote her number on Gippal's hand. Yuna and Lulu then swapped Wakka's and Gippal's numbers, and Wakka and Gippal did the same with Lulu and Yuna's so they all had each other's numbers.
They all said good bye, and headed for their next lesson, which for Yuna, was History. Yuna and Wakka chatted all the way to History about their project in English and what he had done in the holidays (went to his cousin's in Besaid, where they seemed to have played 24/7 Blitzball). When they arrived, Yuna noticed Rikku waving, and she and Wakka joined her. After getting her books out, Yuna saw Tidus enter with some other guys. Wakka waved for Tidus to join them, which he did. He smiled and sat on the circular table next to Wakka and Rikku, so he was sat opposite Yuna.
He smiled and said "Hi."
"Hiya!" replied Rikku.
Yuna tried to say something back, but when she opened her mouth, no noise came out, so she just smiled.
The chatter all died down when Auron entered the classroom and grabbed a handful of workbooks. He then stood at the front of the class and threw them like Frisbees at people at random. Yuna didn't catch hers but she nearly did. She was quite proud, especially since she usually was very bad at throwing and catching. Her attempt was better than Rikku's though, who didn't bother. She had never caught more than a cold in her life, so she had stopped trying now.
Tidus and Wakka caught the new books that Auron had thrown at them (the girls kept their books from Year 10, but the guys needed new ones).
They all opened their books as instructed and started to write the date.
Okay, thanks for my reviewers. Please keep them coming, and I am very sorry that it took me so long to update. I was busy with my revision for mocks, etc.
Fredryck : Thanks for the review, it was really nice to receive. I have a large plan on my desk, which follows my story and each chapter. And yes, my story has an ending, so it won't just waffle on. Hee hee.
Dancing Summoner (nice name) : Sorry about the slow update. Hope this one was long enough. I combined a couple of chapters I already have, so I posted two together.