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Ah Hell.
"Today we will be studying ancient Japanese culture and the Vampyres in it."
My head hit the table with a big thudand some people glanced at me but most of them ignored me, used to my over dramatic responses. However, Drake was apparently curious about my reaction because his notebook slid ito my view a few minutes later:
Whats with the facedesk?
I clicked my pen and wrote underneath it in my scrawly handwriting:
Long story
Sliding the notebook back to him, I heard Neferet ask, "Now, for the basics of Japanese culture, who can tell me how many writing systems there are."
No one raised their hands as Drake scribbled a reply to me. So Neferet decided to deepen my already deep hate for her,
"Reika, you're our local expert. Why don't you tell us."
"Three." Was all I said.
She sat there waiting for me to say something else but I just blinked at her with a bored expression on my face.
"Would you please tell us what they are and elaborate on each one?" I sighed and began,
"Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are the writing systems in Japan. Hiragana is used for words that are native to the Japanese language whereas Katakana is used for foreign words. Kanji are Chinese characters taken to fit Japanese words."
"Thank you." She said, seemingly satisfied with that answer, "Now I want everyone to find a kanji in this chapter and write it in your notes along with the meaning. Make sure the character is meaningful to you and not just this assignment."
Before I could write my kanji down, Drake slid his notebook back over to me:
I'm not going anywhere
I sighed and wrote back:
I'm Scottish but I was born, raised and Marked in Japan. I don't like people using that against me
Before he could write anything back, I wrote down my kanji:
きつね (1)
狐 (2)
Fox
Favorite animal
I noticed that for the rest of class, Drake didn't slide his notebook back over to me. The one thought that registered for the rest of class was:
This is why I Hate vampyre sociology
o.o.o.o
The bell rang and I ran out of the room as fast as I could. However, I remembered Drake and stopped outside of Neferet's room. He came out laughing at me. Laughing, he had the nerve to laugh at me. I glared at him and stalked off to the gym. When I got there, Dragon nodded to me and I went to go get changed for class. There was no way I was doing fencing in jeans, that's just torture. I took off my jacket and hung it up next to my folded jeans, I also shoved my bag full of Mountain Dew into the small locker next to my jacket.
I walked out and Dragon tossed me a foil. When I got to the center of the room, Dragon started warm-ups. My body had begun to relax as it went through the overly familiar moves. I feinted left and then lunged right (3). After warm-ups, Dragon paired everyone up for standards. However, when I looked around for someone to partner up with, I noticed there were three familiar people standing around Dragon. I decided that I needed to break up this little mini-party. As I came up behind Damien, I poked him in the kidney, he squeaked and jumped about a foot to the left. I took the place where Damien had stood before I poked him in the side. Dragon gave me a look and I just grinned, showing my sharpened canines. He shook his head and looked back at Z,
"For the next week or so I'll have Damien drill you in opening maneuvers." He then looked at Drake, "I'm assuming you have never had previous instruction in fencing either."
"Yea, that's right." Drake said with a small nod. Dragon looked at me and I sighed as my previous thoughts came true. He nodded to me, "Rei will instruct you for about a week. After that, we'll see where you're at and go from there."
I gripped my foil and put Drake in the beginning stance as dragon left. After getting numerous glares from him when I corrected his stance, I felt that Drake was going to be okay at fencing if not better then okay. Then again, I had a feeling that this was going to be fun teaching him.
When class ended, I ran for the showers and changed quickly. I was starving. I tossed my hair into a messy bun and grabbed my bag. When I got outside the gym, Drake was waiting for me with a sheepish look on his face. It actually looked kinda cute on hi-. Wait a minute, did I seriously just think that? I shook my head and looked at him.
"Umm…I was wondering if I could sit with you at lunch since I don't know anyone." He stammered and I chuckled a bit,
"We're gonna need a bigger table."
"I mean, I could-." I cut him off as I sent a text to Stevie Rae that we were going to need another table on the end of the booth.
"No it's fine. Though I do feel slightly bad about throwing you to the Twins. Oh well."
I led him to the dining hall where I grabbed a bunch of mini corn and bread. Taking a Mountain Dew I found in my bag, there were two seats open from the table Stevie Rae had stolen from some other group of kids. We sat down and the Twins stopped min-sentence as their gaze locked onto Drake.
"Friends," I said, addressing the rest of our group, "This is Drake McIntire. Prof. P stuck him with me to show around." I pointed to Erin and Shaunee with my fork, "Drake, those are the Twins, Erin Bates and Shaunee Cole." He nodded to them,
"The one with the weird Mark is Zoey. The countrified one next to her is Z's roommate, Stevie Rae. The only other guy here is Damien Maslin, he's gay." He greeted each of them, even Damien.
"So what were we talking about?" I asked, eating a mini-corn, earning me a weird look from Z.
"Erik Night likes our Z." Damien said, throwing a look at Erin and Shaunee who rolled their eyes.
"Wait, you mean the Erik Night with the cute butt right?"
"Is there any other?" Erin asked sarcastically
"Good point." I said, "Well this will push the Queen Bitch over the edge."
"Our thoughts exactly." Shaunee said.
"So next time he smiles at you, say hi. That's all." Stevie Rae said to Z.
"Easy," Shaunee said
"Peasy," Erin finished
"Wait a second, Z didn't say hi to him?" I said nearly choking on my mini-corn
"She didn't even smile at him." Shaunee said and I stared bug-eyed at Z but then looked at Stevie Rae,
"Hey Stevie Rae," I spoke up, "Wanna take Drake to Taekwondo for me?"
"Sure…" She said, trailing off slightly. With that, we ate our lunch in respective silence. Other than my plot for mini-corn to take over the world, my head was empty for once.
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Xqulth: So…footnotes first!
Pronounced- "Kitsune" which is the Japanese word for fox.
Kanji for "kitsune" provided by Jisho . org (w/o spaces obviously)
I know nothing about fencing sooo… yea…I'm sorry if that got screwed up and that is actually not possible. :D
Anyway, thanks for your guy's awesome reviews. They are always appreciated. Next chapter should be up soon enough.