- A Beautiful Tomorrow - An Ambient Generation

. . . Knocking on Forbidden Doors . . .

Okay finally Alice gives Yuri his learning lessons. It's gonna be one hella of a mess of course! Also Nicholai says something "special" to Alice. Sorry for the wait, some people have been urging me to put this up, so I did! Read on!

Alice was shortly awakened after her nap by Michelle, leaning over her bed.

She was startled when she saw her. None of the homeless people ever came into her room.

"Sorry to wake you up," Michelle apologized. "But there's a boy downstairs who keeps talking about being tutored or something."

Alice inwardly groaned and rubbed her eyes, sitting up. "What time is it?" she asked anxiously.

"'Round 6." Michelle turned and left her room.

Alice slid off of her now rumpled sheets and went to her mirror to tighten and straighten her ponytail.

Cleanliness was a virtue.

She quickly walked out of her room and down the actual empty staircase.

There, standing in the front hall stood Yuri Hyuga himself. He kept shifting his weight uncomfortable and glancing into the living room where all the homeless people were watching T.V. as usual.

Alice felt her throat go dry. What was she supposed to say to him?

"Uh. sorry for keeping you waiting." She greeted him lamely, gripping the sleek wood banister.

Yuri scowled in reply. "Those people are fucked." He declared, glancing into the living room again.

Alice was restraining herself from sighing when Terry all of a sudden lumbered out from the kitchen.

"Alice, your mother-" he stopped talking as his eyes fell upon Yuri, who jumped back suddenly.

"No!" Yuri snapped. "You can NOT have my clothes. GO! Leave me alone."

Alice gave him a look. He didn't really think Terry wanted his clothes did he? She cleared her throat. "Terry, we'll be finished by 7." She half-heartedly beckoned Yuri forward.

"Where are we studying?" Yuri demanded coldly, following her.

"My room." She replied shortly.

"Your ROOM?" he repeated. "Your BEDroom?"

"Yes." Alice snapped, feeling annoyed before curiously adding; "Why?"

"Well." Yuri shrugged nonchalantly. "I'm a pretty hot guy."

Alice glared at him before stalking disgustedly past. She pushed open her bedroom door and didn't wait for him. She could hear him laughing.

Obviously.

Smirking to himself, he walked proudly into her room, glancing around. "Not bad." He said, still smirking to himself.

Alice wanted to rip that smirk off of his face.

"Will do." She muttered.

Yuri put his hands in his pockets. "SO... Where do I sit?"

Alice surveyed her room. "There." She said, pointing. "By the foot board."

"Why not the head board?" Yuri asked.

"Because I'M sitting there." She said.

"Rar." She heard him mutter under his breath.

Alice leafed through her books while he disdainfully looked around.

"It's good that you're sitting all the way there and I'm sitting here. That way I won't risk the chance of touching you. Freaks are really contagious."

She ignored him and once she got her stuff, she too got onto her bed, but sat as far away as possible from him.

"Good God, Elliot." He breathed. "What the fuck is up with your skirt? You get it from the charity center or something?"

Alice tried to ignore him. She really did. But she couldn't help glancing at her torn attire.

"Okay, what do you need help in?" she asked, sticking to the point.

Yuri shrugged, actually staying quiet.

Alice chose not to stare at him.

"I need help and I need advice." He stated.

"Advice?" she repeated. She stared at him.

He leaned back comfortably. "Yeah. Like, how do I get girls to get in bed with me after a first date?" he grinned his nasty grin he saved just for her.

Alice cringed in disgust. Sicko.

"I don't know!" she snapped. "Stick to the topic!"

"This is the topic!"

"Mr. Hyuga if you don't-"

"MR. HYUGA?!" he repeated before bursting into laughter. "What the fuck are you calling me Mr. Hyuga for? Am I supposed to call you MRS. ELLIOT?" he laughed harder.

Alice felt herself go red. Well what else was she supposed to call him? She definitely wasn't calling him by his first name.

Not now. Not ever.

That was for sure.

"What do you need help with?" She said, through gritted teeth.

"I don't need YOUR help." He snapped.

"What's so hard about AP English?" she cried, "All we ever do is read stories and takes quizzes!"

"Exactly."

"…What?"

"It's so easy. I don't need your help." Yuri shrugged. "I can do it myself."

Alice was ticked off. "Then why did you come?"

"Uh, hello? Iasant sort of FORCED me to. Get it?" Yuri gave her a look.

That was it.

That really was IT.

"GET OUT!" she screamed.

He easily slid off her bed. "No prob. See ya later freak."

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I am in BIG trouble, Alice thought as she walked down the halls at school the next day.

Miss Iasant was going to ask her how tutoring went and she was going to tell her that it didn't happen, and then Miss Iasant's crestfallen face flashed through her head.

Just like Mr. Simon's.

Alice swallowed, mentally scolding at herself. She should have kept her patience with him.

Patience was a virtue…

Alice's heart was pounding. How could she let this happen? Just two days ago she made herself promise not to let down any teacher. And now, she had done it again. Alice regretfully clenched her teeth. She hated-

"Ah, Ms. Elliot!" Miss Iasant smiled at her, coming out of a classroom up ahead. She started walking towards her rapidly.

Alice's through went dry. She quickly forced a smile on her face and said respectfully; "Hello Miss. Iasant, how are you?"

Miss Isant's smile widened. "I'm doing good. How was the tutoring lesson?"

How was the tutor lesson? It was hell.

"It went very well, Miss Iasant." She heard herself lie. It sure hurt to lie. "I explained our AP procedure to Mr. Hyuga and he seemed to catch on-" she choked on her words when she saw Yuri himself come up from behind Miss Iasant.

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Yuri heard everything. He watched as Alice stuttered when she saw him.

"-really well." She finished.

He gave her a look. What the hell was she talking about?

Miss Iasant nodded. "That's excellent. I hope his grades pick up. He really was a good fighter."

Yuri stepped up beside her. "Hello, Miss Iasant. How are you?" he asked smoothly, mocking Alice, who was shrinking back.

Miss Iasant beamed at him. "Just the man! Are you pleased with your tutoring lessons, Yuri?"

He saw Alice trying to give him pleading looks to go along with it.

He flashed the teacher his irresistible grin he always flashed girls with. "I'm afraid everything she told me was pretty pointless."

The look on Alice's face was priceless.

"You see, I already knew the things she told me." Yuri continued sorrowfully. "Maybe she just isn't a good tutor. Maybe we need to get somebody SMARTER."

He hit the jackpot.

Alice looked as if she was going to cry. Yuri gloated to himself inwardly. Take that freak.

Miss Iasant looked confused and Yuri dearly wanted to slap her.

"But maybe," she began.

"No!" Alice quickly cut her off. "You SEE, Miss Iasant, yesterday's lesson was brief. I just started him off with the basics so he could completely understand how the class was working and maybe he would get the idea and it could be easier for him." She finished breathlessly.

Yuri scowled at her when Miss Iasant nodded smiling. She turned to him.

"Of course she knew everything she told you, Yuri. It was just the basics! Very wise, Ms. Elliot." She smiled faintly at Alice. "I can actually see this tutoring going somewhere."

They both watched as she walked away.

"Smooth move, dork." Yuri turned and left also.

Miss Iasant was insane to actually think they really hit if off with tutoring. He decided to not make it easy for Alice.

Not now. Not ever.

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Alice prayed throughout the morning that Miss Iasant wouldn't ask Yuri anything in AP English. If he answered something wrong, she was dead meat.

She didn't even help him with anything.

But of course, Miss Iasant asked him. She asked him the minute class started.

And since Alice had arrived 5 minutes early, there was no escaping it.

"Yes, Mr. Hyuga. Now that you are being tutored by one of my smartest students," Miss aIsant flashed her a private smile. "Let's see how your tutoring lesson affected you. You get to answer my first question."

From the corner of her eye, Alice saw Yuri turn red with dread, but he kept his face care-free and cool.

And confident. And obnoxious.

As usual.

Alice turned her attention back on the teacher.

"Let's start with the easiest question because for Yuri, being tutored or not, I doubt he can answer the hard ones." Miss Iasant laughed. A few kids laughed with her, but Alice was too nervous to laugh.

Otherwise she would have.

"What is 'Lord of the Flies' about?" Miss Iasant asked.

The whole class groaned but Alice sighed with relief.

The question was too easy. He HAD to know it.

She turned her attention on Yuri, like everyone else.

He was chewing on his lower lip. "Um."

Miss Iasant tapped her fingers on her desk. "Come on Mr. Hyuga." She said. "Everyone knows this answer. You should too."

Yuri glanced down at the cover of his book. "Uhh. It's about a. a guy. With um. with blonde hair-no curly blonde hair and… and he looks gay and he uhh-" he continued to study the picture on the cover.

A lot of girls started giggling at his 'cute clueless-ness'.

"Be serious, Mr. Hyuga."

Alice wanted to crack her knuckles; she always did that when she was nervous, but knew it would be extremely rude.

"...And the boy is in um, in a jungle. That has a red bird-no, I mean, lots of birds-"

"Mr. Hyuga do you know what the book is about?" Miss Iasant asked sternly.

Yuri widened his innocent brown eyes before shrugging and glancing at the giggling girls.

Miss Iasant sighed. "Mr. Hyuga, the book is about a boy and-"

"and a group of kids who gets stranded on an island, then loose their memory and go crazy and start worshipping a pig." Yuri continued in a bored tone. "I know."

Everyone stared at him in wonderment.

Miss Iasant stared at him in surprise.

The giggling girls stared at him in admiration.

Alice glared at him disgustedly. He just did anything for attention. Even if he had to play stupid for half of the classes' time!

However, she silently sighed with relief. What a surprise, he actually knew.

Alice held her head in her hands. If THIS was bad, she knew it was going to get worse.

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"Hi Yuri."

"Hiya Yuri."

"Hello Yuri."

"HEY YURI!"

"Sit with us Yuri!" a blonde cheerleader pleaded, scooting over.

Yuri grinned and slid into a seat at the cheerleaders' table.

"Hey babes," he greeted them, flashing them his 'I-know-u-want-me-but-you-cant-have-me' grin.

"So! How is your practice going?"

"Yeah!"

"I love your hair, Yuri."

"Did you hear about the spring dance, Yuri?"

"I KNOW! Your hair is so cute!"

"You have a date for the dance yet, Yuri?"

"Oh my God I love your shaggy brown hair, Yuri! Did you dye it?"

"Hey," Yuri protested. "I can only answer one question at a time."

The whole table started giggling.

Yuri hated it when they did that. He acted like he didn't, but he really did. It made him feel so stupid, it degraded him.

You ARE stupid, asshole, he reminded himself.

One of the cheerleaders leaned over and pinched his cheek. "So cute!"

He hated it when they did that too. And they did it a lot.

"Hey! You hurt him!" a redhead cheerleader scolded before kissing his cheek. "There, boo boo's all gone."

Yuri smiled just to please them.

Okay, this was getting REALLY overrated.

He glanced around, looking for something-someone to save him from this abuse. His eyes landed on Alice Elliot, sitting by herself.

"Listen chicks," he stood up. "Yuri's gotta go."

"Awwwwwwwwwwww" they all whined.

"We'll miss you!" another cheerleader cried tearfully.

Yuri inwardly rolled his eyes. "I'm gonna miss you too, honeybunchers." He grabbed his tray and started for Little Miss Freak.

She was happily munching on a plum and reading a book.

God, she must've been the worlds' most boringest person.

Yuri was only a few feet away from her when suddenly-CONRAD came from out of nowhere and sat down next to her.

Yuri's jaw dropped open. What the fuck just happened?

I was about to go bother that freak and all of a sudden, her new geeky "boyfriend" comes and joins her.

Yuri furiously glared at the back of Nicholai's dirty blonde head.

That's it, he was off the team.

Of course Yuri didn't have the privilege to take him off, but being the leader of the Martial Arts program DID count.

Just then, Nemeton Highs' biggest bitch slinked up to him. Veronica Vera was the biggest bitch because she had the biggest B O O B S.

"He-e-e-e-y Yuri." She said, perfect glossed lips stretching to a perfect smile.

Yuri shifted his gaze when he noticed that Freak and Geek were staring at him now.

"Hey babe." He said, staring at her chest purposely.

Sure she had the biggest rack at school, but Yuri was ready to bet a thousand bucks that they were fake.

Probably stuffed with some plastic shit.

He didn't really know.

Yuri raised his gaze from her boobs to her face and flashed her his same I-know-u-want-me-but-u-cant-have-me smile.

Veronica pouted her lips. "Sit with me?" she purred, taking hold of his arm.

"Sure." He said. "Anything-for you."

The big boober grinned coyly at him.

Oh shit, her nose must be plastic too, he thought, groaning privately.

When she smiled, her face showed lines around her mouth and like a normal person, around the nose too. But her nose just froze and the area around it stayed perfectly still.

Yuri backed away. No way was he going to date a Barbie. Hot or not, he was getting a natural chick.

"Never mind, beautiful." He gave her a phony smile. "I just remembered I gotta go eat with my Karate buds today."

"But-"

"See ya." He bolted.

Gross.

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Alice watched as Yuri ditch Veronica, biggest boobed chick at Nemeton high.

Was something missing here?

She uncomfortably turned her gaze back on Nicholai.

He had just told her that he was extremely sorry for pushing her and wanted to be friends.

"I'm also here for another reason." Nicholai continued.

Alice looked at him. "Yes?" she said, politely.

"The spring dance, next week-will you go with me?" he asked all in a rush.

Her mouth fell open. "But-"

"No! You HAVE to!" he pleaded. "Please? I-I really want to go with you."

"But-"

"Please, Alice! PLEASE! I-I've been watching you for such a long time now-I really like you! You're so pretty without make up and-and your eyes! They're beautiful! So big and blue-you are so. so. cool!" he blurted.

Alice flushed. She had never been told all of that so she didn't really know what to say.

Say something nice back, she told herself.

But what?

Your beautiful and I love your eyes?

"Please go with me?" Nicholai asked again.

Alice hesitated. She had never been to dances and didn't want to start going now.

"Yes, of course." She heard herself say.

….Alice hated when she did that.

Talk without thinking first.

The green eyed boy grinned at her. "Great! I'll pick you up at 7: 30 next Friday!"

He got up and left, smiling broadly.

Alice bit her lip.

What have I gotten myself into?

Ooooh Nicholai asked out Alice! Isn't that cute? Blah! I really stressed on Veronica and her boobs, I thought it was funny. Haha. I also put Terry in here.. did I say that already? Oh well. I don't know what else to put in this author's note other than I really loved writing this chapter. Now, a word for my slaves- I mean reviewers!

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