Second Period: Math
I walked into the classroom and saw Kouga Wolf. Too many memories from my younger years came flooding back. He hadn't seen me yet so maybe if I just back out
of the classroom I could – "Hi Kagome, nice to see you again." Drat. I was so close.
Let me explain, Kouga Wolf was a childhood friend from middle school who did some pretty horrible things to me. I guess you couldn't really call him a friend. We met
when I was I the seventh grade, my friend Yuki introduced us and we immediately hit it off. It was like we connected.
Everywhere I was he was and vice versa. I know it sounds a bit stalker like but that's just how close we were. Then one day at lunch we were talking and he
started acting funny.
He kept looking over his shoulder at this group of boys. He knew I didn't like them because of the rumors that went around about them. Rumor said they were jerks
that sweet talked girls to get in their pants. They would do anything for sex. They were basically man whores. Not my type.
I went through the experience of one of them trying to hit on me earlier that year. Lets just say that he ended up with a nice purple, blue and black eye for the next
two weeks. I'm not that easy.
While I was in the middle of a highly interesting conversation about why I hate my principal so much, Kouga placed his hand on my thigh and began to rub it lightly. I
paused and looked at him like he had grown a second head.
He had this odd look on his face. His eyes held something in them I had never seen in them before. I had seen that look before but I couldn't place where. It was as
if a mist had covered them, and he was… smirking? I suddenly had a flashback of when one of the guys in the group had tried to get me in the janitor's closet for
some 'private tutoring'. He had the same look in his eyes as Kouga held right now.
Without so much as a second thought I picked up my bottle of ice cold water and proceeded to pour out every drop of it on his pants. "You will pay for that bitch!"
I believe those were his exact words. I then proceeded to curse him out with the foulest of words. Sadly Yuki and Hojo were nowhere to be found so I had to tough
it out on my own.
See? Its things like that that ruins great friendships. After that things got much worse. He began picking on me in school, getting the popular girls to pick on me etc.
Life couldn't have gotten much worse than that.
Anyways, back to the present. This was a chance at a new start. I certainly wasn't going to let him ruin it for me! "Too bad I can't say the same about you." There
that was a good comeback. Okay, maybe not so good a comeback, but hey it got him to walk away.
Third and Fourth Period: Theatre Arts
Luckily, this was one class I didn't have everyday so I would only have to see him every other day. As soon as class was over I rushed to my third period. It was
going to be my favorite period of the day: Theatre Arts.
I never really wanted to be an actress, I just like to act. I actually wanted to be a famous chef, but theatre would do until I was a junior. The school doesn't allow
students to take culinary arts until eleventh grade. Yea I know add that to the list of reasons why life sucks.
We went over the basic protocol of the theatre such as lighting, sound, dressing rooms, etc. Boooorrrring. Then the teacher had us chose a monologue to cold read
as this would be our first assignment in his class. I chose a monologue called "The Cat Lady" because after reading it I personally found it hilarious. It goes like this:
What is it with boyfriends and cats? You'd think I was some kind of jezebel with the infidelity issues that plague my relationships. Duchess and Duke, my precious
purring pusses, are more like my biological children than they are my lovers. And yet every boyfriend I've had has ultimately threatened, "It's me or the felines,
Phoebe."
Oh grow up, I say. I am not an extremist pet owner. Sure, I serve my kitties fresh mahi-mahi for dinner, but with royal names like Duchess and Duke, how could I
insult them with a mixed medley of mackerel mush? And yes, I take them to an animal behavioral psychologist once a week but for one reason only. With all these
men in and out of their lives, how else will they learn to trust?
And so what if I paint Duke's claws pink. He's artistic. His scratch-work on the side of my couch is frame-worthy. I say, a man who can't handle a woman and her cats
is a man that belongs in the doghouse. And frankly, I think their jealousy is transparent on a "king of the jungle" kind of level. Cats have everything men want. They
come and go as they please. They only want affection when they initiate it. They cower to no one. And lifting the lid on the toilet is not even an option much less a
requirement.
Top it off, Duchess and Duke have something else my exes don't have but want. Me. Unconditionally. Therefore, I balk at the notion that I will end up a lonely
spinster with a dander-infested apartment that steam-cleaning companies turn away. I am not nor will I ever become The Cat Lady. That tale ends here. Now if you'll
excuse me, Duchess and Duke are late for their Feng Shui class.
You see what I mean? Well no one else in the class picked the same monologue so everyone who cold read had something new. I heard a lot of interesting ones,
and some really bad ones. I could already tell who actually wanted to be in this class and who was just here because it was mandatory by the state. Where I live,
you have to take at least one year of any type of performing art.
Well when I got on stage I instantly got nervous. I love to perform, just not in front of people that I don't know. And that whole, 'picture them in their underwear'
trick? DOESN'T WORK! I introduced myself slowly, and read my monologue as correctly as possible. The teacher had this weird look on his face, and it sort of creeped
me out a bit.
"Ok now with that monologue, add a little more emotion please Kagome." He stated with that odd look on his face as if he was waiting for someone to pick this
piece. So I reread the piece with more of an attitude so that the character could come out in my voice without me moving at all. Once I finished, the entire class
stood up in applause. I blushed heavily and sat back in my seat. The rest of that class went by quickly. The first assignment all day was to memorize the monologue
by Friday.
Skip to the Next Day
I couldn't wait to get to first period. See yesterday, I saw Sesshomaru before eighth period and he gave me a single white rose. He called it 'The beginning of a
wonderful friendship' flower. I thought it was romantic. But I wasn't going to fall for him that easy.
When I walked in the classroom he wasn't there yet so I sat down my stuff and waited for him. About three minutes later he busted into the classroom out of
breath. Everyone looked at him weirdly as he tried to regain his breath. I wonder if he knew that the late bell wasn't going to ring for another six minutes.
I watched him silently as he walked to the back of the classroom where I was sitting, and stopped in front of my desk. He asked for a hug and I gave him one. While
in that hug, he kissed my neck and I involuntarily shivered. I had never had that experience before.
He smiled at me and asked why I shivered like that. What was I suppose to tell him? That because he kissed my neck my legs felt like jello and it was hard for me to
speak at the moment? I think I'd rather not.
I told him it was because no one had ever done that to me before. It was an unexpected shiver I told him and he got this sad look upon his insanely good looking
face. I told him it was the good kind of shiver. The kind that made me want to jump on him right then and there but I didn't tell him that part.
He smiled and we began our usual conversation on stupid stuff. Then it got more personal. Things like what we like in a guy/girl or what are our turn ons and turn
offs. We even talked about any of our sexual experiences. And oddly I felt comfortable with speaking to him about things that were so private.
Finally I got around to exchanging numbers with him so that we would be able to talk in our other class periods. We exchanged phone numbers, email addresses,
and myspace info. The bell rang to send us off to second period and we hugged once again, him kissing my neck and me shivering, and we went to our respective
classrooms.
Today was going to be a great day.
Well this is the end of chapter 2. I tried to make it longer and hopefully you enjoyed it! Remember to Review and Comment. I love to hear your thoughts!!