Chapter 6:
Exactly one year ago, Kimiko remembered her first year of junior high when she moved to America. It was a good start for a new life. She had made a lot of friends, but no external enemies (maybe some internal like Dyris and her friends).
Kimiko's mother once told her that life will be full of people you will love, and people you will completely despise, though the ones you despise, you may end up loving. At first, Kimiko thought her mother's speech was just a corny quote. Her mother told her she will have her "test". Later, her mother had passed away, but she was now testing Kimiko.
Kimiko wished she had taken in her mother's words carefully. Now, she ended up in this embarrassing position with this someone she did despise. Kimiko knew she would never fall in love with this guy though. Or would she?
'Why mother, why?' Kimiko thought. 'Why did you challenge me like this?' As much as she loved her mother, she didn't need to give Kimiko respect lessons. Kimiko was told that she became angry to easily, and that it would cause her to have more foes along life.
She was now sitting at her desk pondering. As if a late paper, a loser twin, and a seat next to a load of crap wasn't enough already. Kimiko would not ask for more. Only she was getting more. Since her seat was next to Raimundo now, people would stare at the two during Mr. Fung's lecture, and make kissing sounds. Kimiko looked over at Clay. He turned away, and looked up at Mr. Fung as he wrote on the board. If Clay were to be involved in making fun of her, she would remember to "kill" him later.
Others started to throw notes at them. Kimiko tried her best to ignore them, but out of curiosity, she opened one of the notes. She looked over at Raimundo, who also was pretending to pay attention to Mr. Fung. Obviously, he must be at least a little embarrassed too. The thought made Kimiko feel a little better.
Kimiko then opened up the note and read it. It was pretty clear that the writer was trying to get Raimundo on her mind.
Raimundo Raimundo Raimundo
Kimiko took the mechanical pencil she dropped and wrote 'is NOT a sexy beast' next to it, and randomly threw it across the room. A paper airplane flew at her. She also opened that one.
KT and RP forever
And how annoying can this get? Kimiko scribbled out 'for' in 'forever' and added an 'n' to spell out 'never'. She scrunched the paper and threw it elsewhere.
Someone else threw a note folded in the shape of a heart. It said 'read me and hold me tight' in the front. Kimiko groaned and unraveled it, ripping some folds in the process.
Kimiko Pedrosa
'This is the worst'. Kimiko thought. She did not like the fact the school was starting to think of her and Raimundo as a couple. Even Raimundo like flirting with her, but she wondered what he really thought.
The whole class period after the incident, Raimundo didn't even look at her once. He was probably still abashed, but it was not her fault.
'It serves him right for flirting with me.' Kimiko thought, but who was really being punished?
Kimiko sat in math class, but she was not very attentive. On the white board was an array of numbers. However, on Kimiko's mind was a band of words saying "Raimundo is sofa kingdom." Kimiko wished she could say that aloud to Raimundo.
"So what is the answer Miss Tohomiko?" asked Mr. Pakku, the math teacher.
"Yes, Raimundo is sofa kingdom." Kimiko answered aggressively. Then she became self conscious and covered her mouth.
"Miss Tohomiko, I will not tolerate that language in my classroom." The class muttered and snickered to each other. One guy yelled out "oooooooooooh…." While Aang just blinked twice.
Kimiko attempted to come up with an excuse. "What are you talking about? I didn't say Raimundo is so fu-, I said he is sucking his thumb."
Mr. Pakku nodded suspiciously. "And what does this Raimundo have to do with our class discussion?"
Kimiko turned pale. She could hear the kissing noises and giggles in the background.
"Think about your boyfriend outside of class, please Miss Tohomiko. Now if you will excuse me." Mr. Pakku strolled back to the white board.
"Old fart." Kimiko muttered soft enough so he couldn't hear. She was starting to hate this.
Kimiko sat down with Keiko at their usual spots at the empty cafeteria table. Kimiko just finished ranting about what has happened to her all morning.
"See, Kim. Everyone knows it." Said Keiko. "Us all and the teachers."
"Whatever. I probably should transfer out of like every class. What's worse is he's not even in my math class, but he's still stuck in my mind like gum!"
"Well guess what? He's in my math class." Keiko added.
"Well lucky you." Kimiko responded sarcastically, and then it hit her. "Wait, did you just say he's in your math class?"
"Yeah, so? You care about him now?"
"Heck no." Kimiko grunted. "But the fact that he's in advanced math with you makes him smarter than me? Ugggh!"
"Actually yeah, I heard he was really good at problem solving, especially at stuff like chess." Keiko explained.
"What a loser!" Kimiko laughed. Keiko shot her a 'hello, I'm in that class look'.
"Right sorry, I just want to make fun of him, that's all."
At the second, Katara sat down, inviting a girl that Kimiko had never seen before. She had short , dark hair held back with a green headband, pale skin like Kimiko's, and wore all green. For some reason, she stared at the wall behind Kimiko instead directly at her.
"Guys, This is Toph Bei Fong." Katara introduced. "She was the person my grandma wanted me to walk to school with this morning."
"Hey." greeted Kimiko and Keiko at the same time. Toph quickly glanced down in Kimiko's direction.
"Hi." She replied. She finally sat down, right across from Kimiko. Katara sat next to her.
"So, your new here?" Kimiko asked.
"You can say that. I just got adopted by my new parents here. Apparently, they know Katara's grandma."
"That's great. Welcome to New York junior high." said Keiko, offering her hand to shake. Toph faced Keiko, but didn't shake back.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that Toph is…..deaf." Katara implied.
"Really? So you can't hear?" asked Kimiko.
"Nope, hearing's just great. I can't see, that's all." Corrected Toph.
"How interesting." Commented Keiko. "Must be hard to live with."
"It not that bad. I can figure out where I'm going when I hear voices and vibrations." Toph explained.
"Man, that's pretty cool. I could never do that in a million years." Kimiko said. The four just continued to eat lunch together in enjoyment. Kimiko was glad to forget about Raimundo for a little while…….
updated! yea, this chappie is pretty short, but i'm trying to get the story to move on faster instead of make it go day by day.