Chapter 3
After class, D walked to the class next to her class to wait for her friends like she always does at the beginning of lunch. As she was waiting, she went through her binder to make sure she wrote down the homework assignment from the last class. When she was looking through her binder, she saw the picture again. She pulled the picture out and looked at it again.
"D!" Au'lun said as he walked out of his class. D looked up at Au'lun. She immediately hid the picture in her binder and gave Au'lun a smile.
"Hey, what's up?" D said acting like she wasn't doing anything.
"Were you waiting for me D?" He asked her as he stood in front of her.
"Um… actually my friends have this class here. I wait and greet them here everyday." She explained to Au'lun her daily cycle.
"Damn that math test sucked…" D's friend Sam said as he packed his stuff into his bag in the class.
"Yeah but seeing that new boy really helped me on the test." Be said to Sam as she stood near his desk.
"What? How did that help you on the test?" Kate asked her as she walked to them.
"Well, hot guys make me remember my math." Be said to them.
"You are a weird person…" Kate shook her head in disappointment.
"Kate, you can't deny that the new guy is hot. Man, was he hot." Sam said to Kate.
"Sam, sometimes I forget you're gay. But comments like that remind me of how gay you really are." Kate said to Sam as she put her backpack on.
"Thank you!" Sam smiled at her.
"Kate, I know you think he's hot too!" Be said as she grabbed Kate's arm.
"Are you forgetting that I have a boyfriend?" Kate said trying to take them back to reality.
"Just because you're taken doesn't mean you can't look." Be said trying to crack Kate open.
"Ok, ok… he is pretty hot…" Kate didn't look at Be when she confessed.
"Uh oh guys, the new guy's off limits." Sam said awhile looking out of the class door. The two girls looked outside the door only to see D talking to Au'lun.
"They look so cute together…" Be said as she watched them. "Damn D… so lucky…"
"I want D to be happy with this guy because she told me about her last love and… She didn't really recover. I don't think she's forgot him yet." Sam said to the two girls.
"Why are they just standing there?" Kate said as she watched Au'lun and D talk to each other.
"D always waits for us there." Be said to Kate.
"Oh… yeah, I forget." The both of them then saw Sam tiptoe to the black board and stand against it.
"What are you doing?" Be asked him.
"Come over here! Hurry before D sees you!" He whispered and waved to the both of them. They both ran quickly to the black board and stood next to Sam.
"What are you kids doing?" They're teacher Mr. Britten asked them as he watched them hide near the black board.
"Mr. Britten, in a minute can you look outside the door for a girl and the new student and close the door?" Sam asked Mr. Britten.
"Why?" He asked them.
"Because we want them to think we're gone." They replied.
"What kind of friends are you?" Mr. Britten said to them.
"We're trying to let them be alone together Mr. Britten! You know falling in love and all that junk!" Sam said to Mr. Britten as he tried to hide.
"Oh! I see, you know you kids remind me of my friends and what they did to set my wife and I up-''
"Can you just do it!" Be said interrupting him.
"Ok, ok, keep your pants on!" Mr. Britten walked up to the door, looked out like Sam, Be, and Kate asked him to, and closed the door.
"Are they still there?" Sam whispered to him.
"No, I think they went to get lunch like normal students."
"If you hate us so much Mr. Britten, we'll leave…" be said as the three of them walked to the door.
"Hey I didn't mean it like that!"
"We know Mr. Britten!" The three of them left the class.
After school, Au'lun drove back to his mansion far away from the school. He drove up to the front of his house where his butler waited for him. Au'lun got out of his car and handed the keys to his butler. Au'lun walked into his house and started up the stairs towards his room.
"Au'lun, how was the first day of… community college?" His mom asked as she walked towards him from the living room. Au'lun turned to his mom and put his hand on the stair railing.
"It was good. Better than any other private college.'' Au'lun started back up the stairs.
"You know Au'lun, there's still time to enroll you into a private prestigious university. Son, seeing that you are the heir to the World's best car company, any university would accept you. Even if you weren't the heir to the Nissan fortune and company, they'll still accept you by just looking at your school records and high IQ.'' She said trying to convince him to leave Bodega College.
"I'm happy where I am mom.'' He kept on walking up.
"I only want the best for you Au'lun. I'm sure Keiko would have wanted the-''
"Don't ever mention her name again mom…" Au'lun interrupted her and went into his room. He shut the door behind him, walked to his bed, and flopped down on it. "Why does she have to bring her up all the time?" He closed his eyes and tried to forget what his mom said to him. As he closed his eyes, D popped up in his mind. Her smiled filled his mind. He opened his eyes and smiled.
"I love community college…" Au'lun turned to his side and started to think of things.
A month later…
Au'lun and D had gotten closer but things didn't escalate as Au'lun wanted it to. Friendship was as far as everything went between them. One day in Journalism, D received numerous phone calls from her ad clients pulling they're ads out of the month's issue.
"What? But you told me-''
"I know Daniene but things happen and I'm sorry for not being honest on my word. I'm really sorry." The restaurant owner said to her. D combed back her hair with one hand and tried not to yell.
"It's fine I'll just call someone else, thank you for calling to inform me.'' D hung up the phone before the owner could say anything else. Disappointed at the thought of staying after school to make calls, she slumped onto the table. Au'lun walked into the office to see D on the table.
"What's wrong D?" He said walking around her and leaning against the table.
"You know how I said we were set for the ads for this upcoming issue?" D said turning her head to look up at Au'lun.
"Yeah'', he shook his head.
"Well, today almost half of the companies called to pull they're ad out of this month's issue and I won't be able to find 10 ads by this afternoon. Our grades will go down because of this." She explained to him as she laid across the desk.
"How much space is there left over?" He asked her.
"At least a half of page'', D said looking at the layout she drew out. Au'lun pulled out a magazine from the back pocket of his pants, opened it to a page, and handed it to D. She sat up in her cheer and grabbed the magazine from him.
"Nissan motors… what's this for?" She asked him as she looked at the advertisement in the magazine.
"Use that ad in the newspaper.'' He said awhile adjusting his glasses.
"What? We can't use any ad from a magazine. We have to have the permission of the company first and we need money Au'lun.'' Au'lun looked at the ground for a while and looked back up.
"Hm… how do I explain this to you... Can you turn the page back two pages."
"Ok," D did what Au'lun asked her to. Her eyes widened when she saw a huge picture of Au'lun leaning against a blue GTR Nissan Skyline.
"Young Mogul takes Car Industry to the next level.'' D said reading the headlines. She looked down at the article. "Young and hot Au'lun Nissan is not only known as the prince of Nissan's growing empire but is also well known in Japan to have been dating one of Japan's well sought out models Keiko Saodeko who just happens to be the younger sister of one of Japan's greatest rock stars Kirito Saodeko." D turned her attention to Au'lun who was trying to act like the article was never printed.
"You're the heir to the Nissan Empire?" She asked him as she looked up from the article.
"… Yeah…" Au'lun slowly replied to her and slicked back his layered neck length hair.
"When were you going to tell me this Au'lun?" D said poking his hip with a marker.
"Um… never?" Au'lun said scooting a few inches away from D.
"So you were going to keep this from forever?" D said pushing him.
"Well… that was the plan…" Au'lun scratched his head and started to laugh.
"And how about this model, were you ever going to tell me about her?"
"Well… um… no…'' Au'lun said to her.
"Why?" She felt her anger slowly build up.
"Like I said weeks ago, there are some things that I need to hide and some things that I don't.'' Au'lun crossed his arms and looked at D.
"Fine, whatever." D went back to work. "So this ad is going to fit that whole half page?"
"Yes, what's the price?" Au'lun asked her.
"$298.'' Au'lun pulled out his wallet, took $300 out, and put it on the table.
"There's $300 for the ad.''
"I'll go give it to Mrs. Dearly but wait, I want to ask you something.'' She said turning to him and standing up with the money and ad in her hand.
"Ok." He said awhile still leaning against the table.
"Why are you carrying a magazine with an article of yourself?" She said getting up and shaking the magazine.
"One of the Asian guys in one of my classes had it and he recognized me so I took the magazine from him. I don't want anyone else to know.''
"You know the whole school will eventually.'' She picked up the money awhile talking to him.
"I know, I'm surprised it took this long." Au'lun said to her.
"A lot of people like me are very dense and sadly we're all in the same school." D said looking down.
"Your not dense…" Au'lun walked up to her and held her chin up to him so they're eyes could meet. "I wasn't being truthful about telling you who I really am. I'm sorry…'' As both of them looked into each other's eyes, Au'lun leaned down to kiss her, but D pulled away from him.
"Um… I have to… uh yeah.'' D quickly walked out of the office.
"Damn…" Au'lun said. He had a feeling she was going to avoid him for a while for what he tried to do. A few minutes later, D didn't come back into the room leaving Au'lun alone in the office.
"I guess she won't be coming back…" Au'lun said to himself as the bell rang. As he was getting up, D appeared in the doorway. She then quickly walked to him, grabbed his hand, put an envelope in his hand, and quickly walked away. Au'lun watched her walk away and looked down at the envelope she put in his hand. His name was written nicely on the envelope. He opened the envelope to see what it was. It was an invitation to D's 18th birthday party. The party was in 2 months. Even though it was far away, he was thinking of what he should get for her. He got his stuff and went to class. The whole time in his next few classes, he tried to come up with something for D but he couldn't of anything that was perfect for her. When he got home, he immediately searched for the most unique present he can find. After hours of searching on the internet, he finally found something he's never seen before.
"…. Wow… It's perfect.'' Au'lun looked at the availability of it in the U.S. "New York?" Au'lun picked his cell phone up and called the airport where his family's private jet was.
"Hi, this is Au'lun Nissan. Have the jet ready in 2 hours to depart to New York. I'll be going to New York for a few days." He hung up his phone, grabbed a few things, and headed down the stairs. As he ran down the stairs, his mom walked towards him from the living room.
"Where are you going son?" She asked him as he stood near the railing.
"New York for a few days, I'll be back on Thursday.'' He said giving his bag to his maid so she can load it into the car waiting for him in front of his house.
"Awhile you're there; tomorrow you have an interview with Entertainment Tonight." She said to him.
"What? Why?" Au'lun said turning to his mom.
"This week they're doing their shows on America's top rising young moguls and you've been picked to be interviewed by them. Good timing that you're heading to New York now. I'll call them and tell them you'll be going to their studio tomorrow.'' She said as she walked away to make a call.
"I hate all of these interviews and crap. First the import car magazine and now this, god… I'm leaving…" Au'lun rushed out of the house and jumped into the seat of the limo waiting for him.
End of Chapter 3