Chapter 3: You're Unforgettable

One period later, Kyo had managed to cool down after the morning episode with the biker kid Zeke. She hadn't exactly forgiven him but she felt several times calmer than before.

Since her 4th period class was right next to the lunch room, she had no trouble rushing ahead and saving the table for Virgil, Charlie, and Chester's group of geeks and outcasts. Chester always kept thanking her for doing this while she just shrugged it off as if it were nothing. As she pushed through the eager group of her classmates to snag the table, she thought she saw someone out of the corner of her eye. Kyo turned her head to see that the crazy Zeke guy was slinking into the lunch room, lunch sack in hand. He must have had a close classroom too.

Zeke felt guilty as he found his usual loner table and took a seat at it. The incident from this morning was still hanging over his head. He knew many people were afraid of him due to his height: 6' 4". Nobody dared to challenge him on anything or even attempt to socialize with him. Everyone assumed that he wanted to be left alone. As he opened his soda can, a thought hit him that had puzzled him for a while. If everyone was afraid of him, why wasn't that girl afraid of him? Had she not realized how tall he was? Or was height indifferent to her? The way that her amber brown eyes had flashed angrily at him as she yelled at him, lingered in his mind.

Zeke was still lost in thought as Kyo walked past his table. She hadn't noticed him at all as she claimed the table close to the windows for the group. As soon as she walked by, Zeke snapped out of his trance and his eyes followed her to her table. He became focused on the fact that she had blue tips at the ends of her black hair. He blinked to make sure that he wasn't hallucinating or anything since he had never seen anyone do something like that. Not that he ever paid attention to stuff like that.

Kyo began eating her lunch as she waited impatiently for Virgil and Charlie to show up. Virgil was in the lunch line and Charlie was paying for his. She took a bite of her rice ball she made yesterday and could feel a pair of eyes on her. And oh, did she need to guess who? Kyo looked up to see Zeke staring at her, wide-eyed and almost like a deer caught in headlights. For not once did he blink his gray-blue eyes as he kept staring at her. She folded her arms and glared at him. If he wanted a staring contest, he was getting one.

Meanwhile Zeke could hardly ignore the quick beating of his heart as Kyo glared at him. He didn't know why but something about her eyes and that sharpness to them when enraged was, God, tempting. It was as if they were taunting him to challenge her in some form. He felt his cheeks grow hot and he put down his soda. He could hardly pull his gaze away from hers.

"Hey Kyo," piped up Virgil as he took a seat next to her. Charlie walked up with his tray and he took one look at Kyo, then looked at Virgil. Kyo was not paying any attention to anything that Virgil had just said. Virgil cleared his throat in an attempt to get Kyo's attention but it failed.

Charlie took a seat at the table and shook his head. "Forget it Virg, she's not listening to you," he announced as he ripped open his bag of chips, "She's looking at someone and she seems to be in dead concentration."

"I can still hear you guys," Kyo replied, eyes still glaring at Zeke, "Mr. I'm-So-Cool-Because-I-Ride-a-Motorcycle-Zeke decided to turn lunch into a staring moment." Charlie groaned and hit his head on the table at those words. Virgil closed his eyes and secretly wished that this wasn't happening. As he opened his eyes slowly, the sight he saw wasn't as bad as he thought it was. Actually, to the contrary, Zeke wasn't glaring back viciously but rather longingly and almost dazed. Virgil shook himself a little to make sure he was seeing this scenario correctly. Zeke was staring at Kyo almost like a lost puppy dog. Whoa.

Charlie continued to bang his head on the table as Chester and his nerd pals came up. "Hey guys!" chirped Chester as he took his usual seat, "What's new? And uh, Charlie are you okay?"

Virgil cleared his throat again before sharply calling out, "Charlie! Cool it man! Zeke's not glaring at Kyo, he's looking at her like he's in a stupor." Charlie raised his head from the table and looked over at Zeke. His jaw dropped in shock at the sight. No way, this couldn't have been the toughie biker rebel that wanted to kill them for yelling at him!

"I must be having a funky dream," muttered Charlie as he blinked a few times. Virgil shook his head no and confirmed that it was for real.

Zeke became so caught up in staring at Kyo that he didn't realize that two girls were standing near him. One of them waved her hand in his face and he snapped out of his daze. The other girl shyly asked, "You're kinda anti-social, creepy, and yet so cool. Can we sit with you?" Zeke blinked before processing what had just been said to him. Were people really asking to sit with him? Or was it a silly dream?

"Oh, uh sure," Zeke replied, caught off guard, "Here take a seat." The girls looked at each other and squealed excitedly as Zeke made room for them.

"Hey the biker kid surrendered," commented Kyo lazily, "Guess that means I win the staring game."

As the two girls chatted with each other, Zeke went back to staring at Kyo. Even though these girls seemed pretty nice, he couldn't help but feel lonely still. He didn't want them to be with him. He wanted her to be sitting next to him, making small talk about being herself and not a clone of the other girls. Her dark hair with the weird blue ends. Those sharp, vicious, yet haunting, amber brown eyes looking straight back at him. One of the girls said something to him and he quickly snapped back to reality.

"Uh, sorry about that," he apologized politely, "I'm out of it today. Guess its good that the weekend is here." The girl accepted his apology and she turned back to her friend. Zeke meanwhile, had an idea. If he wanted her to be sitting with him, well, shouldn't he ask her? It was worth a shot. He stood up slowly and politely excused himself.

"I'll be back in a bit," he called over his shoulder to his tablemates. He closed his eyes, inhaled deeply then strode over toward Kyo's table.

"Uh oh," muttered Kyo as she watched Zeke approach the table, "Looks like Mr. Smooth is back for round 2. This is where I take my exit stage left and get the heck out of here." She rose from the table and grabbed her messenger bag as she speed walked to the lunch room doors.

Virgil grimaced as Zeke approached their table only to find that Kyo was gone. He opened his mouth for the first time since their encounter and asked, "Hey you, do you happen to know where she was headed?" Virgil shrugged at him and muttered that he didn't know. Charlie played along with Virgil's tactic and claimed the same tale. Chester, since he didn't even know Zeke, cheerful pointed to the lunch doors, thinking that he was doing Zeke a favor. Zeke thanked him and took off for the hallways.

"Way to go Chester," grumbled Charlie as he gnawed off the corner of his sandwich. Virgil held his head in his hands and prayed that a fight wouldn't break out. Not that Zeke would ever dream of attacking Kyo because she was a girl, but she might if she had the nerve to do so.

Zeke thrust open the lunch room doors and strode out into the hallway. Kyo was nowhere to be found. His shoulders slumped and he slunk off to the boys room. In frustration, he threw himself against the wall of the bathroom nearest to the door and groaned. Never before in his life did he feel his heart beat incredibly fast or his face burn as hot as the welding sparks from the soldering gun he used in Shop Class. He pressed a hand to his pounding heart and found himself having a hard time breathing. Only did he realize what this set of feelings were: he was in love. He, Zeke Thompson was in love with the glaring-eyed Asian girl.