Teacher's Pet

Chapter 8: Ayame's Party

Saturday came fast, which meant Ayame's party came fast. Even though Ayame had started hanging out with a few college girls and started acting and dressing a little differently. Her clothes had lost some of their material and her speech had become more profane. Ayame had also been making more passes at Koga. Not that he minded, but it wasn't really in her mature to do things like that. The college girls that she'd began to assosiate herself with were a bad influence on her, and Kagome planned to tell her.

"Kagome, where does this go?" Inuyasha asked Kagome an hour before the party, as they were adding the finishing touches.

"That's the center piece for Ayame's table." Kagome answered with an armful of balloons.

"Which table is hers?"

"The one with the white and pink tablecloths." Kagome released the balloons and watched them float to the ceiling.

Inuyasha placed the center piece on the table and went to help Kagome bring in the cakes. "I still don't understand why she has to have two cakes."

"Because she likes cake."

"But isn't it gonna be mostly girls at this party?"

"What are you trying to say?" Kagome lifted her eyebrow at Inuyasha.

"Nothing." He shook his head adn changed the subject. "So what are we doing after the party?"

"Ayame wants me to spend the night, but I wanted to go home and watch a couple of movies with Sota." Just as she finished her sentence, her phone vibrated.

Hey Kags, spending the night with Kohaku. Sorry about movie night. I'll make it up to you later. Love you.

"That little punk!" Kagome exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked.

"Sota just cancelled on me!" She pouted. "That's not fair. I'm the big sister, I'm supposed to cancel on him when I have dates and stuff. He can't cancel on me."

"Uh, Kags, he just did."

"Ugh!" She stormed off to the back room to get the drinks.

Finally, it was time for the party to begin. Ayame was wearing an all white strapless dress and silver heels as her guests arrived. Kagome slipped out before too many got there so she could call Sesshomaru.

"Hey Sess." She said when he answered the phone.

"Hello Kagome."

"Whatcha up to?"

"Grading papers."

"Oooh! I'd better have a 100!" She said.

"And if you don't?" He teased.

"I'd have to stay for tutoring, then." Kagome played along.

"In that case, you have a 30 on your test."

"Welllll... I think that we may have to schedule some private tutoring sessions..."

"You two are gross." Inuyasha came out of the party room and found Kagome sitting in a hallway with her phone glued to her ear.

"Oh shush Inuyasha." Kagome giggled.

"Don't tell me to shush. And the party's started. Everyone is waiting on you."

"How is everyone waiting on me at someone else's party?" Kagome asked.

"Because, my dear, you are the life of the party." Sesshomaru said.

Kagome blushed.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "This is gross. Are you coming or not?"

"Yeah. Uh...I'll talk to you later Sess." Kagome didn't know what to say as she hung up the phone.

"I will see you on Monday." Sesshomaru replied.

They hung up the phone and Kagome looked at Inuyasha.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" He asked her.

Kagome shrugged. "I don't know..."

"You wanted to say more before you got off the phone?" Inuyasha guessed.

Kagome nodded. "But like what?"

"How about 'love you'?" Inuyasha was getting good at reading Kagome. He knew that she loved...or was falling in love with his brother. It wasn't something that he wanted to recognize, but he knew the truth.

"I don't wanna say that..." She hesitated. "...do I?"

This time Inuyasha shrugged. "I don't know...do you?"

"I have no earthly idea. I've never felt like this before, but I feel like even though we don't spend every waking minute together, I care about him deeply. I say that it's too easy to judge."

For some reason, this made Inuyasha sigh in relief. "Whatever...let's go in the party."

Kagome smiled and got up off the floor. She walked through the doors on Inuyasha's arm and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Kagome. She was wearing a purple halter dress with purple high heels. The girls stared with envy while the boys stared with lust. Kagome immediately noticed the group of girls that Ayame had called her 'new besties', otherwise known as the college girls, and they were surrounding Ayame, and she was gyrating on Koga's crotch.

"Hey! What's going on?" Ayame asked when Koga stopped behind her.

Koga just pointed to Kagome, and didn't say a word, he only kept staring. The dress hugged and hilighted every curve Kagome had to offer. Though the dress was short, it didn't look slutty, and the heels she was wearing made her legs go on for miles.

"She's only doing that to get attention." One of the girls by the name of Katsuki said.

"Yeah, she's jealous because she saw you dancing on Koga." Another one, Ayumi, egged her on.

"You should go confront her." The eldest of the girls, Katsuki's sister Mizumi, said. "She's younger than you, so she wants all the attention. Well you need to go show her who's boss. And i fshe doesn't back down, whoop her ass. Then we'll finally consider you one of us, on your college girl status."

Ayame nodded and smiled, absorbing all that they were telling her and letting it boost her head up.

"Hey guys. Sorry I was late...I had to take a call." Kagome said with a smile and walked over to the table Sango was sitting at.

"Who called you?" Sango asked.

"Sota." Kagome lied instantly. She hadn't even thought about the answer that came out of her mouth. It was almost a natural lie. 'Oh dear kami! I'm not supposed to be able to lie like that!' Kagome was shocked that the lie had come out so easily. Normally it made her sick to her stomach when she lied to Sango, to her mom, to anybody!

Sango didn't buy what Kagome was selling. She'd watched as Kagome walked outside, seeming to be on the phone, but she wasn't saying anything. Then two minutes later, Inuyasha followed after Kagome. They came back exactly fifteen minutes after Kagome had left. Sango had timed them. That was plenty of time to make out and do whatever they wanted to do... "Oh, what'd he say?"

"He said," Kagome looked around before the lie came out of her mouth because she felt some steaming hot eyes on her. "Who's glaring at me?"

"That would be Ayame, who's headed this way." Sango nodded her head to a fuming Ayame making her way through the crowd.

"What's up Ayame?" Kagome asked, confused.

"You! You're what's up! You're ruining my whole party!" Ayame practically yelled.

Kagome looked around and saw that some people were dancing, some were socializing, and all in all, it looked like the party was fine. "What are you talking about?"

"What the hell is the idea with you wearing that dress?" Ayame was pissed.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh don't play dumb! You know that you're trying to steal Koga away from me! That's why you wore that slutty dress!"

"First of all, if my memory serves me correct, Koga was never yours. Second of all, if I'm wearing a slut dress, what are you wearing? You're damn near naked!" Kagome was telling the truth. If Ayame bent over, all of her business would be showing.

"Ugh!" Ayame pushed Kagome.

Kagome pushed Ayame back, but harder. Ayame stumbled backwards into her food table, which held a large bowl full of red punch. The bowl flipped over and landed on Ayame's head, spilling the colored liquid on the floor and on her white dress. Everyone was 'oooh-ing', while some were laughing. Kagome looked over to see that Ayame's 'new besties' were laughing the hardest. She figured it all out then. Her little friends had been boosting her up, otherwise Ayame wouldn't have done anything like that. Kagome walked over to Ayame, and bent to her level, while still looking quite classy. "You need to remember who your real friends are. I've had your back since we were kids, and you turn on me like that?" Kagome laughed bitterly. "The ones you're trying to impress set you up to make you look like a fool. And they succeeded." She stood up. "I'm leaving. I would take my gift back, but I know you'll really like it, and I'm not an Indian giver. Plus, I know you're not stupid enough to keep hanging with them."

Kagome walked over to the group of college girls who were giggling, and she started giggling and mocking them. "Don't you have anything better to do? Isn't Hiro Watanabe's party tonight? Why aren't you there?" Kagome named a really popular college boy who she just so happened to know. She'd met him at a store one say and they'd flirted. She considered them friends, even though they didn't talk too much, though he did invite her to every single party he had. "Oh that's right. I seem to recall him mentioning that he hated you all. As a matter of fact, no one at your school likes you. Hell, you don't even like each other half the time. But since you have no other friends, you hang out with each other, and find mindless girls to hang around with and torment. You're sad and pathetic." She walked away, with Inuyasha and Sango following her.

Koga looked at Ayame and shook his head. "Why would you do that to Kagome?" He reluctantly helped her up. "She's the one who took the blame for you when you broke my mother's favorite vase. She's done so much, and you turned on her for them? I'd hate for Kagome to turn on you, because then, you won't have any friends, since you've met everyone through Kagome." Koga left the party.

Sango came back into the room because she left her purse, and she looked at Ayame. "You're so stupid," was all she said to the now crying Ayame.

The party was deemed over at that time, since everyone started slowly filing out.

"How does that girl know Hiro?" Ayumi asked Ayame.

Ayame hesitated before answering. "He likes her. He's liked her for a long time now. Now, will you please leave?"

Mizumi snorted. "You're really gonna listen to her?"

"Well look where listening to you three has gotten me. Listening to her has gotten me a cell phone, mostly A's, and a bunch of other stuff. Now please leave." Ayame said again.

Katsuki was on the brink of tears from what Kagome had said. "H-how'd she know all that stuff?" She asked as they were leaving the building.

No one answered her because they were embarrased that a younger girl had shown them up in front of a bunch of people. What they didn't know was that someone in the room had recorded it and sent it to Hiro. When they got to school on Monday, the video of their shame was playing in the coed lobby over and over again, all day. Hiro even approached them.

"Hiro's coming!" Ayumi exclaimed in whta she thought was a quiet voice.

"You know I can hear you?" Hiro asked. "And I just wanted to say thank you for showing me once again why I like Kagome. Hiro laughed. "I need to call her and thank her myself." He walked off.

Katsuki burst into tears, followed by Ayumi, and Mizumi even shed a few tears herself. They went to their dorm room and didn't go to any of their classes for the rest of the day.

I know I kinda threw those extra four characters in there, but don't worry about them. They probably won't show up anymore. I just needed some new people to get this chapter out. Please review!

~KM705.M-san