Tender is the Night Chapter 2
See disclaimer on chappie 1.
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"Okay, you studied the textbook just last night, you can do this Kagome!" Kagome muttered to herself.
"Number one: Simplify tangent times cosine over sine! This is impossible, you liar!" she said to herself yet again.
Peeking around the room she noticed that she was the only one stuck on the first problem. Hojo looked up at her with a smile on his face. Kagome sighed, apparently he had managed to forgive her for not showing up for the date last night. "I wish he'd just take a hint" she sighed. But somehow she didn't think so.
45 minutes later…
"Free at last!" Kagome cheered mentally, until Hojo approached her. "Hi Hojo, sorry about the date last night, but I had to study for this math test you see…" she said sheepishly.
"Oh! So that means you're free to go to the movies with me tonight! See you later!" he said cheerfully and then walked blissfully down the hall, while Kagome stared open-mouthed behind him.
"Wait Hojo! WAAAIIT! Oh, it's no use. Maybe I can get Sango to tell him off for me. She's the most cold-hearted, horrible---"
"Well, excuse me for not being a doormat!" Sango broke in suddenly right behind her, "So how did your math test go?"
"You don't want know, trust me."
"Hmm, maybe you should have gone on that date with Hojo after all."
"NO WAY!"
"Kagome! Sango! Over here!" yelled Erika and Akane from outside.
Once they caught up, Akane said, "Did you notice how weird the teachers seem today? Mrs. Narusegawa gave me a D on my history essay!"
"You would have gotten a D anyway. I saw you writing it in the library right before class!" Erika said.
"Shut up!"
"Actually, I did notice that Mr. Soichiro was a little different today. He didn't frown at me when I turned in my math test today! It seemed like he wouldn't look anybody in the eye. Maybe he's not feeling well...ah! Maybe I did better on that math test than I thought I did!" Kagome said.
"Not unless you got Hojo to give youhis answers. Is that why you're going to the movies with him tonight?" Sango taunted her.
"YOU ARE!" Erika and Akane squealed in exact unision.
"NO I'M NOT! You mean you heard him Sango? Why didn't you help me?"
"Well maybe I would have, if it weren't for that 'horrible' remark. Besides, you guys would make a good couple. Dumb and Dumber"
"See! That's what I mean by horrible!" Kagome yelled, pointing her finger at Sango.
"Oh, never mind," Akane said, "look, here comes your math teacher."
"Come to fail you at last Kagome" Sango muttered to her, grinning.
"Come along ladies, everyone needs to go into the quad (center of the campus) now" Mr. Soichiro said, and then walked away.
"He is acting strange, he was just staring at the ground while he talked to us!" Kagome thought to herself.
They walked toward the quad and noticed that nearly every student was there, and all the teachers were just walking around ushering more students in.
"Oh shoot! It's starting to rain!" Akane yelled. "Teacher, can't we go back inside?"
"No, just stay here. And no bathroom breaks either!" a teacher yelled.
"Hardass…" she muttered.
Kagome just remained silent and looked around. Everybody was asking everybody else what was going on, and there was nothing on the calendar about an assembly. It was sprinkling slightly, and the sky was cloudy and it was incredibly cold. "Sadistic teachers" she mumbled shivering slightly.
She noticed Sango staring up at the sky, almost hypnotized. "Sango?" she asked, butSango ignored her. She glanced upward, but a sudden scream drew her attention.
It was a freshman sheknew from art class named Rin. Kagome knew her to be a biteccentric and nervousat times, but this seemed differnet. She was screaming hysterically while pointing up at the sky. "Oh my God! They're coming! They're coming! RUN!" and then she sprinted away from the group towards the cafeteria, but the teachers blocked her way. Everyone immediately looked to where she had pointed, with foreboding and an awful familiarity in their thoughts.
There, I'm done with chapter 2. Please review and tell me what you think!