Chapter 2-A New Home
"Finally," Alex sighed as she finished hooking up the internet. "Everything's in place." She took out her laptop and checked her mail. Nice, she thought, mail from Jess, Tan, and Mika. She decided to check her mail from Mika (her nickname for her brother Michael) first. It read:
Hey Al. How's Japan? First lets start by answering your
questions about Ohio State. Well my roommates are great
and we finally got the TV hooked up. You would think
with 10 guys and 1 who wants to major in engineering we'd
get it up faster but anyway, I found a couple of bike trails.
One led me 15 min. towards North Campus. I also tried to
get to Target but I think I went in the wrong direction. I don't
start classes until Wednesday so I can't really say how hard
my psych class is yet. I'll write soon. Cya.
'Well I'm glad he's okay,' thought Alex as she opened up her mail from Tan (Tanya):
Hey. What up? I can't believe you had to move. Especially
in the middle of the year. Me and Jess compared our schedules,
including yours, and we would've been in Science, English,
History, and Math together. The 7th graders are so small it's
so funny. Jess is all like, Oh my god I feel so tall. It's hilarious.
Its gonna be so tame w/o you to smack people. Well G2G.
Tons of HW. TTYL.
"Dammit," mumbled Alex as she thought, We would've been in the same classes for once. She opened up Jess's (Jessica, and if you don't know that you must be really stupid.) e-mail:
Oh my god Al, I wish you were here. I miss you so much.
Also…JS3 IS ONLINE. On the 2nd day back I went to the
guys table as usual and John was acting really weird. After
school, while I was at my locker, John came up to me and
asked me out. Oh my god oh my god oh my god I am so
excited right now. I haven't told Tanya yet though. I'm sorta
in one of those moments. I'm not going to tell anyone else
about this until I'm over my moment. I can trust you though
because 1) you're not here and 2) I can always trust you. I
don't want anyone else to tell her otherwise she might get
offended. On a different subject, WE HAD LIGHTING
TODAY! I believe this is a record considering we still have
a month before the musical. I just wish you were here.
I need you to yell at the 7th graders who joined just to be
apart of the musical. They're all High and Mighty. They don't
even understand how to hang a light. I wish you were here so
we would have at least 3 competent people. Well G2G. HW. Cya.
Alex's already cerulean eyes turned into an even deeper cerulean blue. Might as well go food shopping. I should also check out the school. She turned off her laptop and got her wallet. She was about to go out the door when she remembered there was a street tennis court somewhere. Might as well go there too. She got her tennis bag and went out.
First she went to Seigaku. When she arrived, she saw the tennis courts. She had the urge to start playing. No Alex, she thought to herself, Get all your official papers done then go to the public tennis courts.
She went into the main office. "Uh, hi" she said, "Um, I'm here to get my papers done. I'm a transfer student from America."
"What's your name?" asked the secretary.
"Um, Alexandra Kantaro," replied Alex.
The secretary went through some folders. "Ah, here we are," she said when she found the folder, "Alexandra Kantaro from New York, U.S.A. Just fill out the forms inside this folder."
15 min. later, Alex handed the folder to the secretary.
"Okay," said the secretary, "Here's you uniform."
Alex saw a green and white outfit. The blouse was white with green sleeves and collar with a pink bow thingy. The mini skirt was also green. Alex almost made a disgusted, perplexed look but she stopped herself. Barely. "Um, do you have anything with pants?" asked Alex.
"Only the boys' uniform," said the secretary.
"May I wear that?" asked Alex.
"Are you sure?" asked the secretary with uncertainty.
"Very sure," replied Alex.
"Very well," said the secretary as she changed the uniforms.
"Here you go."
"Thank you," said Alex as she left. Where to now? she thought as she left the school grounds. She checked her watch, Better go food shopping, she thought, I spent a lot more time than I thought I would at the school.
She went to the supermarket and bought enough food to last her for about 2 weeks. She can cook. You didn't think her parents would let her live by herself if she couldn't cook now did you? As she was walking out of the store she bumped into someone and fell down. How, I don't know because the person is shorter than her as you will soon see. Alex looked down as she rubbed her shoulder. That felt like a racquet, she thought.
"Oi, Ochibi, you okay?"
"I'm fine Eiji-senpai."
Alex's head shot up. She recognized that voice. "Ochibi?" she said, wide-eyed.
Ryoma for that's who she bumped into looked at her. "Ordoriko?" he said confused.
"Sh it is you," she said.
"Why are you here," he asked.
"Guess Nanjiroh didn't tell you. Or told you in a round-about way," chuckled Alex.
"Probably," mumbled Ryoma.
"Hey Echizen who's this?"
Alex remembered that there were 2 other guys. She shut up.
"Oh this is Alexandra Kantaro. She lived near me in America. This is Momoshiro Takashi," he explained as he pointed to the spiky-haired dude, "And this is Kikumaru Eiji." He pointed to the redhead. "Momo-senpai is a 2nd year and Eiji-senpai is a 3rd year like you."
"Hi," whispered Alex.
"Hey, you play tennis?" asked Momo, seeing your tennis bag. Alex nodded her head.
"What type of player are you?" asked Eiji.
"All-rounder", she whispered.
"Oi, you want to play a match?" asked Eiji.
She shook her head no. "I'm saving it for the intra-school tournament," she explained.
"Where are you going to school?" asked Ryoma.
"Uh, Seishun Gakun" (Long name for Seigaku).
"Hey that's were we go," said Momo.
"Nice," said Alex. "Well gotta go. Ja ne."
"So," said Momo after Alex left, "What do you remember about her, Echizen?"
"Why do you want to know?" asked Ryoma.
"Just wondering, in case I get to play her."
"Why not ask Inui-senpai?"
"Cause she's a girl so he probably wouldn't play her and she's from America"
"Okay. She's really athletic, flexible and sometimes does acrobatic play. She has good stamina but she probably built it up since the last time I saw her. She used to dance when she was younger, that's why I call her Ordoriko. Also, it pisses her off since she's a total tomboy. Knowing her she somehow got a boys uniform. Also if you see her eyes get even a tint of red run away. Her eyes change color if she's really angry or sad. Red for angry, and a cerulean blue for sad. I've only seen her with a tint of red and she beat up a football player. I think it was because he was bugging her about how she liked a football player and would never get him. I think he said that the other football player only liked girls that acted like girls. I don't really know but the good thing is that she doesn't get mad easily, so that rumor is probably untrue."
"Wow, said Eiji, "I don't want to see her with her eyes fully red."
"Me neither," said Momo. "Well we better get home."
"See ya," said Eiji and they all went in different directions to their houses.
Back to Alex's
Now that that's all over with, where in the world is a barber shop. A salon would work too……gahhhhh I should've asked Ochibi……