Chapter 1:
It was a bright sunny morning. Keiko jumped into Kimiko's room and started trying to wake Kimiko up.
"WAKE UP", yelled Keiko. Kimiko jumped. She stood up and checked her alarm clock.
"The alarm clock doesn't wake me up till 5 more minutes. You didn't have to wake me up that early."
"Well, if you hadn't forgotten, today is the first day of school. Don't tell me you forgot already." Keiko said.
"Oh my gosh, I completely forgot! I have to get ready. I still have to dye my hair!" cried Kimiko. Keiko suggested for Kimiko to dye her hair orange to mark the beginning of fall.
"You are so lucky you picked out clothes yesterday girl." Said Keiko.
"No kidding."
"Well, my mom made us breakfast already. Good luck on being late." Teased Keiko. Kimiko let out an evil glance. Keiko smirked and walked out of the room.
Kimiko ran to the bathroom in her room. Keiko was pretty rich (not as rich as Kimiko herself though) so Kimiko had her own bathroom in her room. In it was almost everything a bathroom can have. More than half of the closet consists of different colors of hair dye. It was all organized by color. All the colors that were more similar to each other were next to each other.
Even though nobody wanted to go to school, they were all forced to anyways. Besides, the first day was always exciting. You would find out who are in your classes, all the new people who would enter the school, and the start of gossip. 'That probably was one of the only good things about school.' Kimiko thought as she rubbed the color in.
After dying her hair, Kimiko let it dry. She changed into her outfit, which was a baby pink tee with a "K" on it, a denim miniskirt. She decided to wear her pink flip-flop sandals to match her outfit. Kimiko ambled back to her bathroom and divided her hair evenly. She curled each side of her hair and tied them into pigtails. She was happy she was able to groom well.
"Hey Kimiko, are you coming or what?" called Keiko from down the hall.
"Geez, be patient and hold on, will ya?" answered Kimiko, glad she had just finished preparing. Kimiko walked to the kitchen.
"Heh, I already finished breakfast. You got to speed up sometimes girl."
Trying to be in a good mood since it was the first day, Kimiko smiled back and said, "Yeah, I definitely will. You'll see."
"I'm sure I will. I will look forward to it." Keiko said as she was walking back to her room to gather her things
"Hey, grab mine too."
"Which one?"
"I guess the one with the mouse." Kimiko had many different knapsacks. They were all pictured or shaped with animals or objects.
After eating her two pancakes and glass of orange juice, Keiko and Kimiko both brushed their teeth and headed to school, saying bye to Keiko's mother. Kimiko saw Keiko was wearing a baby blue cami tank with an off-white crocheted shrug with blue-cuffed Capri jeans. The girls had decided that they would walk to school with Clay, Katara, and Sokka.
After walking about three blocks, the two friends arrived at Katara's house. Both of the girls walked up to the front porch together. Keiko pushed the doorbell button. After a few seconds, Sokka answered the door.
"Are you kidding me? You are not even out of the house yet?" asked Keiko.
"Er, we kind of slept in late…" replied Sokka.
"No, you slept in late!" said a girl's voice. Katara walked to where Sokka was with her book bag ready.
"Well don't lie bro. We all would know you were the one sleeping in late." Teased Katara.
"Hey, it not like I wanted to go to school anyway. I'm not a loser, like you guys." This made Kimiko give Sokka a punch in the arm.
"Hey! That hurt!"
The three girls giggled.
In a few moments, the siblings walked out of their house. They both lived with their grandmother.
"By the way, Clay told me on his email his dad won't let him walk to school with us today." Notified Sokka.
"Why?" asked Kimiko and Keiko together.
"His dad wants to take him. He wants to talk to the teachers to see what the school is like."
"Oh, so he's like a daddy's boy." Teased Keiko
"No not really, his dad just doesn't want him to be uncivilized or something."
"As if he's already civilized. Living on a farm." Added Katara.
The conversation continued on as the friends all walked together. They all arrived. Kimiko scanned around the campus and noticed both familiar and new faces. "There are a lot of new people this year." Kimiko thought to herself.
"Hmm, I wonder what classes Yue has this year." Said Sokka.
"Speaking of classes, which ones do we have together?" Katara asked Kimiko and Keiko. The girls all took out their class schedules.
"Hey! All three of us have geography together and it's our first class." Exclaimed Keiko.
The girls continued review each other's schedules as Sokka looked around and tried to find Yue. He seemed to see someone he never seen before. A girl with short black hair with moderately heavy red lipstick waved at him. Sokka ran over to her.
"There goes Sokka.," Said Keiko. "Always off to the girls."
There was another group of girls nearby. They were all trying to flirt with the most popular guy in school. Like Sokka, he was a ninth grader. He was the Champion of the wrestling team in New York State finals. His was just not physically strong, but his brain was also strong. He had a lot of common sense and was placed in all in advanced classes. He was also very popular to the girls and had moved from China last year as well as Kimiko and Keiko from Japan. His name was Chase Young.
"Oh my gosh, it's Chase Young!" Keiko let out a squeal.
"Isn't he hot?" asked Katara.
"I guess he's pretty cute." Kimiko said as she let out a little blush.
Brrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggggggggg!!
The bell had rung.
"I guess its time to go to class." Said Katara.
"I have to go to my locker for a second. I'll meet you there." Said Kimiko
"I have to head to the bathroom." Said Keiko. "Well, I guess we'll meet each other all in the geography then."
"See you there!" The girls all split and ambled to their destinations before class. Kimiko arrived at her locker and took out a small box. The box had several decorations in it. She took out several magnets and started decorating her locker. She also hung up pictures of her friends. Since Keiko's grandmother worked with clay and did ceramics, she often made tiny magnets for the girls for their magnetic bulletin boards. Kimiko took some to school to brighten her locker.
Her favorite magnet was a little teddy bear in a basket. It reminded her of her first stuffed animal. Even though she got dolls when she was little, she also had a teddy bear. It was her only stuffed animal that wasn't electronic so she could sleep with it. It gave her comfort when her parents were not there to comfort her. The other important thing was, it was the first gift she got from Keiko when they became friends for the first time. When Kimiko was about to place it up, somebody from the crowded halls bumped into her. Kimiko dropped the magnet. She gasped. She did not want the special souvenir from her past to be damaged or destroyed. She picked up the magnet at the same time as someone else. Without thinking, she retreated her hand from the person.
"Here," spoke the person. "Sorry I bumped into you." He spoke with an unfamiliar accent. It sounded Mexican like. He was wearing a white hooded, short sleeve top along with green cargo pants, red wristbands on both sides of his wrists, and a medallion.
Kimiko grabbed back her prize possession. "Back off of it mister! Don't touch my stuff or I'll rip your head off!" Kimiko yelled.
"Aye girl, I said I was sorry. No biggie." Said the boy. "Geez sometimes girls can be crazy about stupid things." He muttered.
"I heard that!" Kimiko was ready to punch him.
"Hey Rai, are you coming?" Said someone. Kimiko recognized him. It was another guy the girls thought was hot. He was one of Katara's favorites. It was Jet.
"Yeah, I gotta get away from this noisy girl." Rai stood up and walked away from Kimiko.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………Since it was the first day of school, Kimiko tried to hold her anger in. She would fight back later. Kimiko blew on the magnet and placed it on the door of her locker.
After decorating, Kimiko headed to class. She put on a smile (except it might be plastic) and walked into geography. Katara and Keiko saved her a seat. She sat down with her friends.
"What took you so long?" asked Katara.
"Oh, I just took my time, no hurries right?"
"Yeah, sure."
The bell rang. All the students sat down.
"Welcome to eight grade students. My name is Mr. Gyasto." The teacher started. "May I introduce a few new students to this school." "First, we have Aang." The boy walked up to the front of the room. He appeared to have no hair. He had a blue arrow tattoo. He was wearing a red long sleeve shirt and gold sweat pants. Kimiko thought that was unusual dressing.
The whole class greeted Aang.
"He's actually kind of cute." Said Katara. Keiko made several responses.
"Next, we have Omi." The short guy walked up. Like Aang, he was also bald and wore a red long sleeve, but this time, he wore black pants. He looked like he was wearing his pajamas.
"Pretty short to be one of us eight graders." Commented Keiko.
The teacher continued after the students welcomed Omi. "Now last, we have Raimundo Pedrosa."
Kimiko gasped. It was the same boy she encountered in the hallway.