If you like Yuki I'm really sorry cuz I really trash her in this chapter. And if you do cheerleading I trash that too so I am so so so sorry!
Kel sat up to the sweet tweeting of her sparrows as they flew around her head. She sat up and looked at the clock seeing it was six, she got out of bed and looked through her pile of clothes in the closet.
Kel picked out a green shirt that said 'Pick up Football' and a pair of jeans. Kel would have regularly went for a run in the morning then lift weights, but the weight lifting sets were being sent separately so the Mindelans wouldn't have them for another week. Kel hadn't been able to find her running shoes in the mess of boxes, so she couldn't go running.
Kel settled for doing push-ups and sit-ups instead. She grabbed her clothes and threw them into the bathroom, and then she turned off the shower. Kel jumped into the warm shower and scrubbed herself hurriedly. She dried off her auburn shoulder length hair and put it up into a ponytail. Kel looked into the mirror and saw the regular hazel dreamer eyes she saw everyday. The small petite nose that was the only thing on her face that looked fragile.
Kel shook her head, 'I'm starting to get as narcissistic as Oranie.' Kel thought thinking of her sister that would stand in front of a mirror for hours on end. Kel sighed thinking of her brothers and sisters. They always picked on her, but that didn't mean she didn't miss them. 'For gods sake I even miss Conal,' she thought thinking of her older brother that had held her over the top of high bleachers at Mindelan High.
It was thanks to Conal that she was afraid of heights, and why she had never tried snowboarding or skiing. She didn't like the thought of the ski lifts being so high up. The very thought of it made her queasy. Kel brushed her teeth and went to the kitchen to eat. She found her mother looking happy with a batch of pancakes laid down in front of her.
"Hello dear, I made pancakes for you."
"Thanks mom."
"Will you need a ride to and from school today?"
"Nope I already have a ride from Neal, he's the boy that was here yesterday." She said reminding her mother.
"Okay..." Kel gobbled down her pancakes and went back into her room. She gathered up all he school things and football gear. She put her school stuff into a blue backpack and football gear into a sports bag. As if on cue the doorbell rang and Kel's mother opened the door for Neal.
"Would you like some pancakes Neal?" Ilane asked kindly.
Neal's eyes doubled when he saw the large stack of pancakes, "Well if you insist and since there seems to be more than you can eat, yes please Mrs. Mindelan." Ilane dished out four pancakes and Neal gorged them down like it was nothing.
"You ready to go Kel?" Neal asked whipping off his mouth.
"Yes I am Neal."
"Well m'lady your chariot awaits you." He said bowing. The two walked out and Neal drove them to the high school.
Neal parked in the junior parking lot and they walked to Algebra two together.
"So Kel nervous about your first day of school?" Neal asked teasingly.
"Not really I've already been to a high school before, and I hope this one won't be any different."
"Well room 73 looks like we're here, oh yeah try not to get a close seat that way you don't get picked as much and Mr. Ivor doesn't give you death glares." Kel nodded her head in understanding, and they both got through the door as the bell rang.
Kel walked up to Mr. Ivor who was wearing a bright orange shirt with casual jeans. She handed him her schedule so he could see that she was in the class.
"Mindelan, you will sit in the seat behind Nealan."
"Mr. Ivor for once in your life can you call me Neal?"
Kel walked to the seat behind Neal and whispered, "Nealan?" she asked with a smirk on her face."
"Yeah well Keladry I don't like my full name like some people. Maybe I should go by my middle name Kevin or maybe I should change my name to..." Neal rambled on while Kel listened to Mr. Ivor teach them about theorems.
As the bell rang Mr. Ivor yelled over the din, "Tonight's homework is page 68 and problems 1-72 even."
"Hey did you understand any of that?" Neal asked as the walked to their next classes.
"Yeah you just have to-" Neal gave out a cry of excitement as a short peppery Yamani passed them in the hall.
"Yuki! Over here! Yuki!" Neal shouted drawing attention toward himself.
The short raven-haired girl looked around until she saw Neal's head jumping up and down in the crowd. She gave a squeal of delight and ran towards him. She jumped and planted a kiss on Neal's lips while Kel watched confusedly.
When Neal finally got his lips away from the Yamani he said, "This is Yuki, she's my girlfriend." As if he couldn't stand it any longer he started planting kisses on the Yamani's face again.
Feeling awkward in the situation she walked away to go to her world history class. 'I guess Neal wasn't going to kiss me last night. It seemed like he was going to too.' Kel sighed wistfully and found room 142.
She handed Mr. Olau her schedule and she was assigned a seat behind a guy named Owen Jesslaw. He seemed to be talking excitedly with two people to his right that looked like they could have been brothers. She tried to concentrate, but all she heard was the mindless babble and frequent word jolly. The bell rang and she was happy to get out, although her head swarmed with the word jolly.
She walked to the room right next door to her history class, which was reading and writing in Common. She was assigned a seat in front of another boy named Garvey Runnerspring. He kept on tugging on her ponytail and kicking her ass. She tried to ignore him but it went too far when he went and kept snapping her bra against her back.
She spun around in her chair and said, "If you have a problem with me bastard then tell it to my face. But if you don't I suggest you stop playing with my fucking bra." She said whispering angrily.
"I like your ass." He said seductively. Kel narrowed her eyes and pushed him out of his desk. His nose hit the ground before he could stop himself with his hands. Mr. Yayin seemed to have just noticed that something had happened.
"What happened here?" he asked Garvey.
"I fell down." Garvey said smirking up at the teacher, but his eyes went through the teacher to Kel.
"I can see that, but did someone help you fall down." Mr. Yayin asked, his eyes going narrow.
"Nope I fell all by myself, now can I go to the nurse? I believe my nose is bleeding and its not exactly sanitary to be bleeding all over the floor."
"Yes you may, and you can take someone with you. Take Keladry with you."
Garvey's smile widened, "Come on Keladry." Kel reluctantly followed the obnoxious boy who was grinning like the Cheshire cat.
"I think you owe me something Keladry, since I didn't tell on you." Kel rolled her eyes.
"It's the most traditional thing to say, and anyways everyone would hate you if they saw you telling on a poor little girl like me."
"I know why you are reluctant."
"Oh please enlighten me o' great one." Kel said rolling her eyes.
"You're playing hard to get." Kel snorted.
"Yeah that's exactly what I'm doing, because I want you to want me even more than you already do."
"I could have any girl I wanted, I have friends in high places. Lets face it every girl wants my friends and me. Since you're new I guess you just don't know the laws of the school. Joren Stone, Vinson Genlith, Zahir Alhaz, and me rule the school."
"I bet your mommies and daddies are so proud." Kel said dryly," Well here's the nurse's office and goodbye." Garvey grabbed her hand before she walked away.
"My dear, this is just one of many days of the school year. I shall see you tomorrow." He walked through the door of the nurse's office and Kel went back to her reading and writing class.
The bell rang again and Kel was assigned to read a chapter on a book. Kel happily went to lunch, but discovered how hard it would be to find Neal among the huge crowd of people flocking into the lunch area.
Kel walked around till she found the raven-haired girl that was Neal's girlfriend.
"Hello I'm Keladry Mindelan, I met you this morning with Neal." Yuki's eyes glowed with recognition.
"Oh yes that's right Neal is line getting himself and me some pizza. You can sit by me while I wait for him to come out with the food." Kel nodded her thanks and sat beside Yuki.
"So you're new here?"
"Yes I'm from Mindelan."
Yuki giggled, "Did you know your last name is the same as the place you at?"
"No I had no idea." Kel said putting a look of shock onto her face as she looked at Neal's ditzy girlfriend. The girl was rather beautiful, but lacked the brains.
"Do you play any sports?" Yuki asked getting over her fit of giggles.
"Yes I play football-"she was interrupted by Yuki's squeal of delight.
"You do cheerleading! I am the captain of the varsity squad."
"No, no I play football not-"
"I know I'm so excited about the cheerleading this year too! Maybe I can help you get up to varsity that way we can hang out together." Her face was full of enthusiasm.
Kel sighed, "Please don't interrupt me this time. I play football, not cheering on the football. I play quarterback." Kel talked slowly as if she was talking to a small child.
"But why would you do that, it's not like anybody would want to date you. And the quarterback is always the target for most girl's devotions." She said confusedly.
"Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe I don't want to date anybody." Yuki seemed to find this the funniest thing she had ever heard and didn't stop laughing until she saw Neal walk up to her.
"Neal! I missed you so much!" Yuki shrieked with delight. She pecked him on the lips and she stood up. She smoothed out her hot pink mini skirt and made sure her baseball style shirt was a little bit above her belly button.
"Hey Kel how was history and Common?"
"They were fine, but this one guy named Garvey Runnerspring kept bugging me and-"Kel was interrupted as Yuki sighed wistfully.
"Garvey is hot! I wish I were in your class, what class are you in? Maybe I can transfer." She said seemingly forgetting that her boyfriend was right next to her. Neal coughed uncomfortably and Yuki looked up gave Neal a kiss on the cheek.
"Anyways, he kept bugging me so I pushed him off his desk. He hit the floor with his nose first and he got it all bloodied up. It was interesting"
"How could you do that to Garvey?!? He is one of the most popular boys in the whole school even though they are sophomores." Yuki said in shock.
"Well I'm proud of you Kel, Garvey and the rest of that gang are a bunch of asses."
"Thank you for your support Neal." The bell rang again and Yuki had Japanese so the couple had to split up. As their paths were about to split they gave each other a long kiss, while Kel looked around boredly.
The two finally broke apart and Kel and Neal set off for room 32, ceramics. There were about twenty kids in the class and each kid got their own wheel. Behind Kel was one of the boys Garvey had told her about, Joren Stone.
He had baggy jeans on and a tight fitting black shirt. The shirt revealed his washboard stomach and strong-arm muscles. His hair was longer than most boys, because his was long enough to put into a horsetail. His hair was platinum blond, that it looked almost white.
His eyes were the coldest eyes she had ever seen, they seemed to be made of ice and malice. On one of his ears he wore a small gold loop earring that made him look like a rebel. While she made her observations he made his own of her.
The girl Garvey had told him about sat next to Neal Queenscove and talked to him animatedly. She wore a green football shirt and to his great satisfaction low jeans. She wore no makeup which was strange for a high school girl, but it some how suited her. She had chocolate brown hair that was highlighted from the sun, and it would have looked better down.
Her hazel eyes made her look even more innocent and she looked like a day dreamer. 'I can see why Garvey was attracted to her. She seems so innocent, but she looks like she could give a good fight.' He thought as he saw her powerful arms, stomach, and leg muscles. 'She bloodied up Garvey plenty good, it would be even more perfect if she happened to be a cheerleader, then I could have some fun with her.' He thought smirking.
As Kel sat listening to Mr. Oakbridge talk about the proper way to make pottery she felt something hit her back and turned around to see the boy Joren raise his eyebrow in question. She looked to see what was on her back and saw a gob of wet clay was on her green shirt. She took the clay off and dipped it into yellow paint, she waited till Joren wasn't paying attention to her and threw the clay like a football onto Joren's chest. His eyes widened in surprise and Neal chortled as he watched what had happened.
Lucky for Kel the bell rang and she ran out of the class to go to biology. Neal followed behind her since he had already taken chemistry and physics; all he had left to do for high school was biology.
Back at the ceramics classroom Joren was trying in vain to get the yellow paint off of his shirt. 'That girl has a lot of spunk, she'll do, yes she'll do.'
As the bell rang for biology Kel sat in a table group containing Neal and two of Neal's friends. Their names were Cleon Kennan and Faleron King. Half way through the class Joren showed up and sat with his friends, across the other side of the room. Kel couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when she saw how far away Joren and his posse was.
As the class wore on Mr. Lindhall passed around a skeleton of a lizard bird. It was the first sign of a bird ever living. When the bell rang Kel let out a happy sigh, 'Next is football. Finally I get to blow off some steam.' Neal showed her where the girl's locked room, and she stopped him from following her in, she found to her great dismay that her P.E. locker was right next to Yuki's.
"Oh my gosh we get to be locker buddies and everything!" Yuki said happily.
Kel put on a forced smile, "Yup we sure do." Kel put on her football equipment and football jersey she had gotten from Neal. She laced up her boots as Yuki applied more makeup to her face. Yuki slipped on her cheerleading top and skirt.
Several shrieks were heard throughout the girl's locker room as girls thought that Kel was a boy.
"Eeekkk!"
"There's a boy in here!" at this yell Yuki looked around trying to find the boy.
Kel and Yuki went out to the football field and Kel put on her helmet to see how they would react if they thought she was a boy throwing a good ball, opposed to a girl throwing the football.
Yuki fled to the group of cheerleaders and started gossiping about boys and who made out with whom that day. Kel found Neal and walked over to him. He seemed to be searching for her bobbing head and didn't even realize the tall figure in front of him.
"Neal its me." Kel whispered.
"Kel! I didn't even recognize you."
"That's the point you moron," she said as she hit the side of his head. As the first bell rang the captain got the team to take a lap around the football field and got everybody to stretch and do push-ups."
Cleon, Faleron, Owen, and Neal all ran with Kel. The five were the only ones they planned on telling for the first day. Coach Wyldon came out and had the quarterbacks split up onto three teams. One team would be jogging while the other team played against each other. Although there were four quarterbacks trying out.
Kel sat out in the beginning and would keep switching with much to her disgust Joren. 'Why is it that Joren has to be a quarterback, why not a wide receiver? Something besides a quarterback.' Kel watched as Joren made superb passes to his wide receivers, which happened to be Zahir and Garvey. Neal was also a wide receiver, but he never got passed the ball.
"What's your name boy?" Coach Wyldon barked out to Kel.
"Uh...Kyle Mindelan sir."
"Well you are going to switch spots with Joren so he doesn't throw out his arm." Kel bit her tongue to suppress a retort.
She jogged out to the field. As she passed Neal she whispered," Go long." He turned around and smiled at her. She was hiked the ball by Owen and she took a couple steps backwards to give herself some space before the other team blitzed. Her offensive line contained Vinson, Cleon, and Faleron. The rest she had no idea who they were. She looked up to see a stray person come at her, because Vinson had let him through.
She looked up to see Neal by himself at a good fifty yards away. She faked to the right and threw off her attacker, and she threw the light ball towards Neal. Everyone's heads went up as the ball spiraled over their heads and headed towards Neal's hands. Neal took a couple steps backwards and caught it. He saw he was at the touchdown line and threw the ball down on the ground. He did a little victory dance to rub it in the other team's face.
Everyone was struck with awe as they looked at the bow they had never seen before. Coach Wyldon was the first to get his voice back, "Tell me again son what your name is."
Kel slipped off her helmet and said, "Kel, Kel Mindelan." Her ceremonial movement caused another silence, but Joren broke it.
"A girl, why aren't you with all your cheerleader friends?" Joren asked sneering.
"I can do whatever I want Stone, if you haven't noticed I just threw the ball farther than you, with one of your little friends letting someone through." Kel said narrowing her eyes to slits.
'Gods the girl I thought was perfect is a football player! What an embarrassment! She's a sad excuse for a female.'
"Little girl, you should just go home to your mommy." Garvey said smirking.
"Well in case you haven't noticed there isn't girls team or else you would be there."
"Why you wench!" He leaped to grab Kel, but was stopped by Neal.
"Tut tut, you really must learn some manners Garvey. There is a lady in our presence."
"That little slut isn't a lady." Kel looked at the ground in embarrassment. She heard a cry of pain and looked up to see Garvey grabbing his nose.
"Miss Mindelan, I suggest you meet me after school, until then you are dismissed." Coach Wyldon yelled. Kel walked away ashamed. She went to the bleachers and ran the stairs.' Might as well get back into shape since I missed running this morning.' She ran up and down the bleachers till the bell rang. She walked down to Coach Wyldon.
"Miss Mindelan, I would like to discourage your joining the football team. You will be a distraction to my team."
"Coach Wyldon they would be more distracted at the cheerleaders with their shorts skirts, than of me playing with pants and a uniform."
"Just think about it please, there are many scouts that come to our games, and you will take the glory away from my star players since you are a girl."
"Sir I'll tell them to stay away from me and to look at those players that are the 'stars.' I just want to play sir."
Coach Wyldon sighed, "Very well it looks like I can't do anything to stop you, but be warned I will train you harder than any boy. Since females are naturally weaker than males." Coach Wyldon walked away while Kel glared at his back.
Kel jogged back to the girl's locker room, and found it desolate. She relished the quiet that made the sound of her cleats ping of the walls. It reminded her of whenever she played football and stayed a little bit after practice, at Mindelan Junior High. She would miss the quiet school that hadn't had too many kids going to it.
She dressed back into her clay ruined green shirt and jeans she grabbed her backpack and sports bag. She saw Neal lying on the ground with Yuki making out; Kel lightly pushed Neal's back. He sat up abruptly looking around with swollen lips.
"Sorry about that Kel, c'mon Yuki it's time to go home."
"Alright Neal whatever you say darling." She got up and whispered suggestively into his ear. Neal's grin got wider and wider.
"Uh Kel I'm going to call my cousin he'll get you home. Yuki suffered from a fall to her head when they were practicing. So she needs to be taken care of." Neal led Yuki to his black car and Neal speeded off without another thought.
Kel sat down on the curb of the street hoping that Neal would at least remember to call Dom. A half an hour later Dom showed up in a red convertible mustang.
"Sorry I was late, but Neal seemed to have forgotten he was supposed to call me to pick you up. He sounded a little...distracted when he called." Kel blushed and hopped into the car.
"Thank you for the ride Dom."
"Any times Kel, if Meathead ever forgets you again, don't hesitate to call."
"So how was your first day of school?" he asked sounding very fatherly.
"Well I bloodied a guy's nose, threw paint onto a boy's shirt, and threw a really good touchdown throw."
"Sounds like you had an eventful day."
"Very." She said smiling.
"Thanks for the ride Dom." She said as the car pulled to a halt.
"Any time Kel, and tell me if you need anything." Kel grabbed her things and walked through the door. She was bombarded with questions on her first day and patiently answered them all.
When the questions died down she took her heavy football out to the back yard and used chalk to make circles on the fence. She practiced her throwing accuracy for over an hour and finally went inside to do homework. She worked in her pink bedroom and fell asleep to the peaceful cheeps of Crown's concerned cheeps.
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Well I hope you liked it I want to apologize to the people who like Yuki and who are cheerleaders. Sorry I do stereotype cheerleaders I know, but deal with it or don't read. I know Neal was way out of character, but he's in 'love.' So he would have followed Yuki off a cliff. Well anyways thanks to you people you reviewed this fic! You guys doubled and went above my expectations. And you lovely people are:
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queen-of-sapphires- yur right! I'll go back and fix it, I went back and read it, and Kel wouldn't have been that way at all. Hopefully she isn't too ooc in this chapter, but this story was really just spur of the moment type of thing. Thanks for the major point out and review!
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Thanks so much for giving me at least five reviews I love you so much! And now I wanna put something funny my friend said:
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Now a Lesson on American High School :D
1st year into high school is called Freshman- Kel and Owen
2nd year into high school is called Sophomore- Joren, Garvey, Zahir, Faleron, Cleon, and Vinson
3rd year into high school is called Junior- Neal and Yuki
4th year into high school is called Senior
For the sports levels, I didn't know if you knew them or not so here they are :)
The lowest is freshman (F)
The middle is junior varsity (JV)
The highest is varsity (V)
Any way please review people, I don't have a demand but that doesn't mean I don't want reviews. So please review and until next time!