Yukii: Second chapter! I really should be revising for exams... but uh... I can't be bothered.
Kakashi: What do you want me to do about it?
Yukii: I don't own Twilight... wish I owned Edward! Please review!
Fall.
Swimming. Yes! I don't have a swimming costume with me so I can't even participate! We reached the P.E department and the teacher ordered me to put some worn out plastic blue shoe coverings. He then told me to sit on the bench at the other side of the pool. I entered the pool area and the smell of chlorine stung my nose. As I walked around the pool with my hand to my nose, the guys and the girls came out of the changing rooms. The guys smirked and nudged each other, making some indecent comments that they thought were out of ear shot range. Not for me. Behind me were Lisa and Rachel, whispering about me.
"Why did Melissa bring her along to our table? She's so ew." Lisa scoffed.
"I know! I mean you can't even see her face... not like we would want to anyway! She's a total loser." Rachel added, laughing nastily.
I ignored their comments and went on my way to the bench. Lisa pushed past me, with a little too much force on my hip and I let go of all my reflexes. I could have saved myself from humiliation and from getting wet but I was meant to be human. I plunged into the cold water and shot back up, clinging onto the edge. I left my hair plastered onto my face, looking like the girl from "The Ring".
Oh shit. My glasses.
"She's lost her glasses!" Melissa cried.
Rachel "offered" to retrieve them and when she came back up, one of the sides were snapped off. Great.
"Looks like they were already broken" Rachel said as she handed it over to the teacher.
Thanks for breaking them, I thought.
I got out of the pool with fake difficulty and Melissa guided me to the changing rooms. There were howls of laughter, echoing off the walls. The loudest laugh that I could hear were Lisa's and Rachel's.
I sat on one of the empty benches in the girls changing rooms as Melissa ran out to get some towels and clothes. Kicking off my footwear, I brushed away some wet strands from my face. Melissa returned and placed a towel on my head and P.E kit next to me. I towel dried my hair and saw Melissa turned away. I got undressed and redressed into some tracksuit trousers, white t-shirt and some trainers. I continued to towel dry my hair and Melissa turned round.
"You know we have a hair dryer... it's right there, beside you." Melissa pointed out.
"Um... towel drying is fine..." I felt reluctant to use the hair dryer. She'll see what I truly look like.
Melissa looked at me with disbelief before grabbing the hair dryer and kneeling down in front of me, taking control. She turned on the appliance and started to dry my hair. Her hands started to brush back my hair and she suddenly stopped.
"Oh. My. God." Her hands dropped to her side, the hair dryer still humming away in the back ground.
Here we go.
"You're ... absolutely ... gorgeous!" Melissa exclaimed.
I waited for her daze and shock to blow over.
"I mean people say that oriental women were beautiful but... you're beyond that! You're like a model!" She continued to dry my hair, her complaining about me hiding and then something dawned on her.
"Oh my god, you HAVE to go out there and strut your stuff!" she said as giggled in excitement.
"What?"
But before I knew it, she had grabbed me by the arm and led me back to the pool area, with my hair still slightly damp.
"Wait-no! Hold on a sec!" I waved my free hand in front of me, trying to act out my disapproval but she wouldn't hear me out.
I desperately wanted to escape from her grip. I can't reveal myself. I'll attract too much attention.
"Come on!" Melissa insisted.
I got out into the light in the pool area and looked at everyone. Their wide eyes looking back at me. Even the teacher stared.
Silence.
"We're back! Mr Foley, we're just going to the dryer to dry these clothes." Melissa exclaimed.
I shuffled past Mr Foley to the exit, my head hung low to hide myself and the class were whispering immediately after we left.
I shoved my wet clothes into the tumble dryer located within the P.E department. Apparently fully clothed people fall into the pool quite often. Damn bullies. When the drying was done, I wore my warm and dry clothes and shoes. The voices were louder this time.
"Did you see her? Damn she's fine!"
"More than fine my man! She's beyond hot."
"No way is she the same girl as before."
Melissa picked me up from the tumble dryer room after getting changed. In her hand was my schoolbag and she came over, sweeping back my hair to make sure I kept my hair out of my face.
"I'm sorry about what happened... Lisa and Rachel are just..." Melissa sighed and did not continue. Instead she changed the subject.
"Can you see without your glasses? Do you have a spare pair or contacts?" She was worried.
I reassured her that I had a pair of contacts in my bag and we parted ways as she left for English. Whereas I had Biology.
Upon entering the class, I registered with the teacher and saw that nearly every desk was full. Except for one. Every desk had a pair at it so that means I will not have a partner in Biology, meaning that I won't have anyone to talk to or sit with.
Good. One less hassle.
I already had enough on my hands. The people in the corridors stared and even now the whole class stared. I sat at the empty desk and smiled happily at the empty seat next to me. The guy in front turned round in his seat, leaning over onto my desk.
Luke.
"Hey Emily! So the rumours are true."
"What rumours?"
"Words travels fast. They said that the "loner" girl from this morning turned into the talk of the school! They said that some mysterious hot girl came out of the changing rooms with Melissa after you went in with her."
Great. Attention. And was Luke flattering me? He better not be.
"Anyway, I thought I might wanna warn you... you actually do have a biology partner but he's absent today... he's seems to be always absent on a sunny day... Anyway yeah this guy is really popular so the girls around here might eh... hate you. He's rejected every girl who has confessed to him. Like Lisa and Rachel. Harsh isn't it? He thinks he's better than everyone else you know... I think he might be gay since he's turned down some of the nicest girls around...not that Lisa and Rachel are that nice with all that makeup...jeez... anyway he's extremely unsociable so yeah don't count on having someone to talk to during Biology..."
This is perfect! Even though I don't want a partner, it won't really be like having a partner if he's so unsociable and even more so if he has no interest in girls. This was a good thing.
"Luke, turn round and shut up! Class has begun!" The teacher scowled at Luke, her wrinkles deepening as she frowned. I heard Luke "eep" and he quickly turned round.
The day ended with more stares and whispers. They were compliments but I really didn't need that right now. I drove home, knowing that that was my true safe haven and I hope that the next day won't be as hard as this...
Yukii: I wanna play vampire baseball!
Kakashi: You're human... even I can't keep up.
Yukii: Stupid human reflex.
Kakashi: Do you want to drink blood?
Yukii: I like pomegranite juice...that's kinda like blood...
Kakashi: Only the colour, Baka...