I walked in to the cafeteria with my head held high. I got my food and walked over to where my friends were and sat down. Tadase and Utau were talking to each other, when I sat down they both looked at me.
"Amu, you're late again." Tadase said teasing me.
"Wow, that's everyone's favorite saying today." I said leaning on the table and rolling my eyes. " Amu, how many times were you late today?" Utau said chiming in to the conversation.
"Three times, why?" I said starting to eat my lunch. I wasn't hungry, but I just forced food into my mouth to avoid talking. I didn't swallow because the food here sucks. "No reason just wanted to know,"Utau said taking a bite of her salad.
Tadase and Utau were talking about something, I don't know I wasn't paying attention. I snapped out of my daze when I realized Utau was looking at me. "Amu, you need to swallow the food to eat." she snapped at me. I shook my head 'no'and kept the food in my mouth. "If you're not going to swallow than spit it out," Tadase said handing me a napkin. I gladly took the napkin and spit out the bite I took from my food.
"If you don't like the food stop getting it, " Tadase said. "I know but I'm hungry so I try to eat it." I said complaining. "Here," Utau took my hamburger off its plate and dumped some of her salad on it. Tadase took the other half of his sandwich and put it next the salad. "Thank you," I said smiling at both of them.
"Yeah, yeah. So, why were you late?" Utau asked me.
"Right, forgot to mention that you have a cooking assignment. It has needs to be done in pairs and you're paired up with your desk partner." I said reaching into my bag for the instructions.
I pulled out the paper and gave it to Tadase. "So what's so bad about your partner?" he said looking the paper over. "My partner is Ikuto," I told Tadase.
"What's so bad about working with my brother?" Utau asked me. She was glaring at me a little. I could tell she didn't like it when I talked bad about her brother.
"He's not as bad as people think he is." Utau continued.
"Yeah your right, he's terrible." I said with a smirk. Utau just laughed and walked towards me. She gave a light side hug then walked back to her side.
"Utau, can you get Ikuto to come over here. I need to talk to him." I said grumbling the last part. She didn't even respond she just got up and walked over to where he was sitting.
I watched her walk over to him and make a girl move out of her seat and sit down. "What do you need Ikuto for?" I turned around facing the right way to look at Tadase. "I just need to know when we can work on the project together." I said digging in my pile of junk for a pen and a notebook.
"Oh," I heard Tadase mumble. "Why do you want to know, jealous?" I said teasing him. A faint blush went on Tadase's face and I couldn't help laughing. But my laugh was cut short when Utau came back with Ikuto.
"What do you want?" Ikuto asked coldly. Utau sat down next to me again and Ikuto sat next to Tadase. "We need to set times of when we can work together." I said getting ready to write.
"Fine, you can walk home with me and we can start working tonight." Ikuto said with boredom in his voice. "I'll be waiting by the fence at the end of school."
"Okay, but can we stop by the store to get some supplies?" I asked knowing the answer would already be no.
"No," He said then walked away with his hands in his pockets.
I closed my notebook, put my pen in the spine and put it away. I looked at Tadase with a frown on my face. "Sorry I can't walk home with you today."
"Don't worry; I'll be fine walking home by myself for one day." Tadase said with a smile.
I can tell he isn't happy about this, but doesn't want to show it.
"Come on, the bell is going to ring soon." Utau said gathering her stuff. As if on cue the bell rung. I quickly gathered all of my things and headed for my next class.