Yawning, you put some coffee on and sat down at the kitchen table. Kioko zoomed down the stairs and jumped in the seat next to you. She got directly in your face, her own plain, and looked you in the eye. Without warning, she screamed, "YOU. LUCKY. BITCH!"
She plopped herself down in the seat and stole one of your pop tarts. "How come you, of all people, get the new sexy kid as your partner, and I'm stuck with miss know-it-all?!" She asked giving you a death glare.
You were still half asleep, so you just sat there in silence. "C'mon Yosh, speak to me. How come you fainted? I mean, I know he's fine, but not that fine!" She saw your emotionless gaze out the glass door and sighed. "I can't help you out, Yosh, until you help me." Standing up, she walked off and got herself ready for school. After about four minutes, you did the same.
Everyone was buzzing around you in homeroom, saying how much they wished they had Gaara as their partner. You had to bite your tongue to keep from screaming out at them about how you wished the same. You had a major headache from too much thinking last night, and you weren't ready for first period.
"C'mon guys, leave her alone. She too, overwhelmed with the fact that she gets Gaara as her partner to chit-chat. So buzz off!" Kioko yelled sitting in her seat next to you. Everyone scattered.
"You are such a drama queen." You joked and smiled.
First period bell rang all too soon, and everyone gathered their things and left, while you sat there a moment before doing the same.
The walk to first period was the longest walk you had ever taken in your entire life. And once you finally got there, you wanted to ask to see the nurse. But, that would be childish and chicken, so you didn't, and sat down.
"Okay class. What we are going to do today is go outside and measure some things. I've decided to put you in groups of four now, so wait for a minute while I decide who will be paired with whom."
Mrs. McDonald mumbled to herself while counting us with her fingers for a few seconds. "Okay, I want Kioko and Margerette to pair up with Kiyoshi and Gaara." Your heart flip-flopped and you actually smiled for the first time. Relief washed over you.
Kioko cheered loudly at Mrs. McDonald and scooted her desk next to mine. Margerette scooted her's next to Gaara, and turned it around. Kioko and Margerette were too busy drooling over him to let him know he needed to turn his desk, so you took it upon yourself to save him the embarrassment.
"Gaara-kun, you might want to turn your desk around." You whispered, and then froze. Did you just call him Gaara-kun?! He froze for a moment too, but turned his desk. You both avoided eye contact with each other for the rest of the period, or rather, day.
The next few days were the same; you did some work, avoided eye contact, and any way of communication unless needed.
Then, oh buddy, then our English teacher, Mr. Julian, had paired you two up to write a story. It seemed as though the teachers had planned this out.
But this time was different. Instead of receiving looks of envy from the female students, you got looks of jealousy. Rude remarks were shot at you from all angles. You ignored them, though, and before long they died out.
There was this one time, when a guy insulted Gaara. Oh buddy was that hilarious. He was jealous because his girlfriend preferred Gaara over him. So he decides he's going to try to tick Gaara off.
It was first period, so you were right behind Gaara, and the guy walked up to his desk, and leaned over to look him in the eye. "Freak!" He spat. Gaara just looked up at him, and blinked once.
You noticed the sand, tracked in from outside by the students, around you start to slide towards the poor kid, and it wrapped around his feet. He freaked and tried to get away from the sand. You leaped forward out of your seat and grabbed hold of Gaara's shoulder. The sand immediately fell to the ground and the boy ran back to his seat.
Gaara turned his head to face you, and the glimpse of the expression on his face was enough to make you tighten your grip, but then it faded away, and he looked at the ground.
Kioko, who had been oblivious to the whole sand incident up until this point, looked back and forth from you, to your hand, to Gaara a few times, before shouting out, "ALL RIGHT YOSH!" You couldn't help but laugh at her ignorance and you released him, and sat back in your seat.
Later that day, you were walking to fourth period, and the boy from earlier was talking to his buds about Gaara. "Yeah he's some kind of freak. He just sat there, and then a bunch of sand grabbed hold of my feet, but I wasn't scared. I punched him in the face and the sand let me go. He's just a wimp."
You stopped, and stood there for a minute. Then you slowly turned around, and with your free hand, balled it into a fist, and whopped him in the face. He didn't see it coming, and just stood there in shocked silence, holding his hand over his eye.
"You better watch your mother fucking back. I ain't afraid to beat some punk ass kid who hides behind his momma." And with that, you continued your way to your next class.