(05/14/10)

Minako and I arrived at school and we walked to school.

After the usual hoo-ha of class, we went to the scoreboard, where our exam scores were.

TOP 10, 12th grade

1. Minato Arisato

2. Fuuka Yamagishi

3. Minako Arisato

4. Rio Iwasaki

5. Yukari Takeba

6. Yuko Nishiwaki

7. Pinky Lee

8. Quan Lao

9. Kenji Tomochika

10. Junpei Iori

"Yes!" Quan said, "Top Eight!"

"Alright Quan!" Pinky said.

"Thanks, Pink! Or should I say Ms. Top Seven?" Quan said, "Oh, hey Minato… And Minako! You're on the Top Five…"

"Yeah… Top three! Congrats, girl!" Pinky said.

Minako looked at her name in the score.

"Oh my god! I got third! I got third!" she yelled as she strangled me under her arm.

She kept yelling and jumping.

"Wow… she got third place!" Rio said, "I only got four though…" Rio said.

"Yep! Ninth place!" Kenji said.

Then, he looked at the score.

"JUNPEI?! IN THE TOP TEN?!" he said incredulously, "What the hell?!"

Junpei stood there, looking satisfied.

"Dafaq?" Minako said.

"It's all in a good day's work." He said.

"Junpei aside, can you believe it?!" Minako said, "Thanks bestie!" she said.

"That was all you."

She blushed.

"W-Well… thanks!" she said as she put an arm around me.

Yukari and Fuuka arrived.

Yukari seemed very jovial at first.

But her smile melted into anger and disgust when she looked at the scoreboards.

"Wow! I got Top two! Beside Minato-kun!" she said.

"And I got fifth… two places below Minako…" Yukari said disgustedly.

Minako glared at her.

"What's that suppose to mean, Dragon Lady?"

"Oh nothing… they made you top three? There must be a HUGE mistake! Seeing as Stupei here got tenth…" she said.

Ms. Toriumi was observing us.

"Oh, that was no mistake… I didn't believe it myself, but the scores don't lie… he must have been praying hard!" She said.

"Hey! I studied!" Junpei said.

"Congrats." Kenji said.

Yukari went to me.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?"

She drags me to the side, where Minako eyes us suspiciously.

"What is it about?" I asked.

"I don't like Minako."

I stayed quiet, thinking she had more to say, but evidently not.

"…And so…?"

"I don't want you staying near her." She said.

"Why?" I said, more than slightly irritated.

"Because! She thinks she's so…so… superior because she's top three!"

"That's because she studied." I said.

"Studied…? With you? Figures… what did she give?" she said.

"What do you mean…?" I said, narrowing my eyes.

"I mean she give you money? Or things? Just for you to tutor her or something?" she said, "You two have sex?" she said.

"No! We studied together! Why would you think that?"

"That slut looks like she's asking for it…"

I punched the locker next to her head, caving a hole in it.

"What did you say?!" I said through my teeth.

Everyone looked at us.

"I didn't mean…"

She seemed terrified, then smug.

"Why so defensive? Did you do that little bitch doggie style? Missionary? Dirty 69?" she said silently to my ear.

"You little bit-" I restrained my anger, "I don't want you talking to Minako that way!"

"Why? Is she your girlfriend?" she said mockingly, "You cheater!"

"She's… my friend…" I said, "And I won't let my friends be treated that way, especially by you!" I said.

She growled.

"Also, YOU broke up with me." I added.

"Because…"

"Just accept the fact she beat you. End of story." I said.

"Okay, but know this." She said, "I hate Minako!"

I waited.

"And I'm glad we broke up." She said.

"Good! Were we even a damn couple?!" I shouted.

"Damn you!" she said as she slapped me in the face and left.

Then, I blew on my skinned knuckles.

"What was that all about?" Rio said.

"Nothing… I, uh, slipped." I said.

"You slipped?" Kenji said, "While punching a locker? I'd hate to see the idiot who owns this-" he snickers.

"Wait... That's MY locker!" he said, suddenly realizing the giant dent in his locker.

Rio burst out laughing as Kenji lamented over his ruined locker.

"…Sorry." I said.

"You better be!" he said.

"What did Dragon Lady do this time?" Minako said.

"Oh, nothing… a few insults here and there… made a crack about you, but nothing much…" I said.

"That damn bitch! What did she say? I'm gonna kill her!" she said, yanking off Kenji's locker door with one arm.

"Ack!" Kenji said, "My locker door!"

"Is torn off. Super glue it later, bub!" Minako snarled, "I'm going Dragon hunting!" she said.

"Wait… all she said was that it was impossible you got higher scores than her… then, she made a crack about my mom's ass and I punched the locker…"

"MY LOCKER!" Kenji said.

"Kenji's locker." I corrected.

"Then she left? Good job, bestie!"

"We need to celebrate!" Minako declared.

"Sure. Junes Sunday." I said.

"It's a deal!" we all said.

Later, Minako and I hung out with Leah and Akihiko as Leah talked about her "Dangerously Dangerous" war stories…

"…And this one time, at boot camp, we weren't allowed to have pillow fights, but we did, and it was so much fun!" she said.

"So?" I said.

"Those 'Pillows' were sandbags." She said.

Akihiko gulped.

"Moving on, I hear Junpei got top ten today…" Leah said.

Akihiko, who was drinking an energy drink, became so surprised that the drink came out of his nose.

"What?!"

"True story." Minako said.

"It shouldn't be TOO surprising…" Leah said.

Akihiko narrowed his eyes.

"How?"

Leah looked sheepish.

"Well, that nice lady, Chidori-san, comes over and tutors him…" she said.

"And why hasn't this come up yet?" Akihiko said.

"You never asked." She said simply.

"Figures..." Akihiko mutters.

"Well, good job Chidori, the guy finally tastes good grades… for once!" Minako said.

"Ha! Good one!" Akihiko said.

"Anything new?" Leah asked.

"Nothing."

"Minato's girlfriend had a fight with him!" Minako blurted.

"Ohhh! Love quarrels! Tell me more!" Leah said.

"Oh brother…" Akihiko said.

"Aw, Akihiko, you're such a damn wet blanket!" Leah said.

"Yukari eh?" he said.

"Yep."

Minako related what had happened.

"Well, she seems pretty unreasonable…" Leah said.

"And she seemed utterly depressed when Minato die- I mean, 'broke up' with him." Akihiko said.

"Eh? Forget her! She can eat shit and die! Let's eat! I want some pork chops, Leah, chop chop!" Minako said.

"Two things: Where's your money for the pork chops? And two: Bad pun." She said,

"Really bad pun…" Leah said, shaking her head.

(05/20/10)

Minako, Rio, Kenji and I went to Junes to celebrate our victory…

We played some games at the Arcadia arcade, bought lots of manga at the Bookworms Book Shoppe, looked for CD's at the Iliad CD CT and finally, spent hours at the Karaoke.

Then, we went out.

We walked around the food court.

"Man… what the hell is an Inaba Styled Beef steak…?" Kenji said.

"Ugh… I've eaten old tires chewier than those…" Minako said.

"I have a feeling that wasn't a joke…" I muttered.

"Haha! Why not Wakatsu?" Rio suggested.

"Or Changall café? I'm in the mood for coffee…" Kenji said.

"Ugh! No wonder you're thinner than a lamp post! We need to fatten you up pronto!" Rio declared.

"Fatten me up?!" Kenji said.

"You deaf? Let's go!" Rio said as we went to the second floor, where the Wakatsu was.

She ordered four full course meals for Kenji as we ordered what we wanted.

"Ramen will never get you these types of nutrients! Do you know that ten bowls of Ramen lacks the nutrition required for the body? It's all but empty calories! No wonder why you can hide behind a flagpole!" Rio ranted.

Minako and I ate our food, which was quite delicious…

"A toast!" I said.

"For passing the exams and getting Top Ten!" Rio said.

"Hear, hear!" Kenji said.

After we toasted…

"Do you know why it's called a toast?" I said.

"Dunno." Kenji said.

"Beats me." Rio said.

"Ixnay, bro." Minako said.

"Because the ancient Romans used to put toasted bread in their wine." I said.

"Uh huh." Kenji said.

"Well, that's stupid! Don't they know that would soak it up like sponge and it would completely ruin its chemical compounds and nutrients?!" Rio said, "Ugh! Talking about it makes me mad! I'm glad we're here, where nutritious food is!" Rio said.

"You know what, Rio? You should be a nutritionist." Minako said.

"Or a dietician." I suggested.

"Or an obsessive compulsive housewife…" Kenji muttered.

"What was that?" she said.

"N-Nothing!"

Then, all hell broke loose.

Yukari and Fuuka stormed in...

Well, at least Yukari did most of the 'storming-in' part…

"Hey MINAKO and Minato! Fancy seeing YOU two here!" Yukari said.

"Uh… hey, Yukari." I said.

"Oh, HEY Minato! Wow, you're looking well!" she said, "What are you two up to?" she said.

"Uh…"

"What do you want, Dragon Lady?" Minako said.

"What I want, is MY BOYFRIEND back!" she snarled.

"Your boyfriend?" Minako scoffs, "Minato isn't your boyfriend, so get your tsundere ass out of here while I still let you!" she said.

"You bitch!" she screamed.

"Get out." She said.

"Say that again? I'll rip you apart!" Yukari said.

Minako laughs really, really hard.

"I'd like to see you try."

They engage in a stare off.

Then, Yukari leaves.

"Fuck you!" Minako shouts.

"Whoa… I was sweating bullets!" Kenji said.

"Let's see what she'll do." I said as Yukari seemed to rant about Minako with Fuuka.

Fuuka was really out of place…

Then, we laughed it off and went home.

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