Next chapter. I'm writing an other story right now but it's set in summer and it's cold and raining here so I'm not so much in the mood for that. But I like the idea and I think I could pull it off.
Back to this story. The chapter is set some time after the first chapter, maybe some weeks. I think it's a bit porous but I think the further I get the better it will be.
"Mornin' Kino-san!" Meiko sat down with a wide smile on her face. "How are ya?"
"Good." Aki replied. "And you?"
"Me too." Meiko started unpacking her stuff.
"How was your training?" The brown haired asked politely. Meiko moaned.
"Hell." She laid her head on her desk, her face turned to Aki. "Feels like Katemasu-kun has to compensate something." She smiled nicely. "Yours?" Aki sighted.
"Not much of a training." She replied honestly. Both looked at each other.
"Don't we have tough lives?" The black haired asked rhetorically. She sat up straight again. Her straight fringe had become messy so she stroke through it some times. "Imagine how it's when we're old." She chuckled.
The teacher entered the classroom.
"Up" The class president said with a strong voice. The whole class stood up. "Bow" Everyone did as they were told. "Sit" The class sat down again and it was quiet. Just like every morning. The teacher looked around in the classroom.
"Starting from today we will have a new student in our class." He wrote down the boys name while the guy entered the room. He had platinum blond hair and a fierce look on his face. "Introduce y-"
"HUUUUUH?!" The teacher was cut off by a sudden yell.
"What? You guys know each other?" The teacher asked Endou who had jumped up and starred at the new guy.
"No, it's not like I really know him..." The brown haired boy confessed. The rest of the class stared at him. He seemed to have some kind of inner monologue and grinned madly.
"Okay, just sit down." The teacher said uncomprehending.
"Ahh, yes" Endou replied startled and sat down. Than the teacher introduced Gouenji Shuuya who had transferred from Kidokawa Seishu. Nothing spectacular, Meiko thought.
~T~
When the break started Meiko immediate turned to Aki. "That was strange." She smiled amused.
"Yeah..." Aki barely listened. She stood up and walked to Endou, leaving the other girl alone.
"Well, thank you." The black haired said slightly annoyed. Aki hadn't heard her. Meiko looked to the seat of the new guy, whom Endou already seemed to know. The soccer freak wanted him to join the soccer club. /Normally rats abandon a sinking ship./ The girl thought and snickered. She liked Aki, she really did, but she couldn't understand why she would hang out with the soccer club. It was obvious that the club was completely useless and the members were all either boring or dumb. And everyone knew unnecessary clubs were disbanded sometimes. It was weird that this one had hold up for so long.
"Disbanded?!" She heard Endou yell. She smiled. It was about time if you asked her. If she would be the principal, the club would have been disbanded once it was clear that nothing useful would come from it.
She saw Endou rushing out of the classroom. Next period was Math. Had she done her homework? She couldn't quite remember. Slightly nervous she looked into her notebook. Lucky! She did do it, even though she hadn't understand a bit of it. Aki sat down next to her.
"Did you do Math?" She didn't realise the other girl wasn't listening. "Did you understand it? Because I didn't." When there was no reply she looked around. Aki starred into the air, lost in thoughts. The rest of her classmates didn't bother with her. She felt somewhat dumb. So she just pretended to look through the assignment again and again as if she was trying to understand it. She looked up slightly. No one looked at her. She relaxed. Sometimes it was nice not to be the focus of attention.
~T~
"Meiko, you're late." A guy with chin long, dark grey hair and glasses said.
"Yeah, for like a minute or so!" She protested. "That's pretty close in my case." The guy rolled his eyes.
"You should really concentrate on the training more." He looked at her reproachful. "We have matches soon."
"Katsu~!" She cried out. "Can't you loosen up a bit? It's still months till than." She walked to a bench at the sidelines of the field and laid down her bag and towel. "And I'm winning whether or not I train" She added low.
"It's still Katemasu-senpai for you." He ignored her request. "And we shouldn't let our selfs let go. You especially." When he didn't look for a moment she stuck out her tong. "I saw that." He let her know.
"So what?" She replied. "Does 'not let yourself let go' mean 'train until you die?' now?" Than she started running around the field. /Idiot/
"It always has." He yelled but she pretended she didn't hear that.
"Did they notice we're here?" A small guy at the side of the field asked.
"Who knows." Another, bigger guy said. "Let's just warm up."
~T~
After they had run for a while and stretched, they started to play little practice matches. In the middle of a game they suddenly heard a strong voice yell.
"Come join the soccer club!" Katematsu was so surprised that he missed the ball. It flew straight past him into the face of the energetic young goalkeeper.
"He's been shot!" The other player, the tall guy screamed. "Get an ambulance!"
"Stop panicking" A girl with shoulder long brown hair tied to a side ponytail said calm. "It was just a tennis ball."
"And it's my fault!" The tall guy began to scream again. "I'm sorry! So sorry! It was an accident!" The brown haired girl sighted. She walked to Endou and helped him up.
"Sorry, he is very annoying most of the time." She smiled polity but cold. "My name is Watare Mizure. The grey haired boy is Katematsu Hiro and they boy who´s nuts is called Miraki Ichi." She looked around. "The smaller boy is Kiriko Nita and the black haired girl-"
"Endou-kun?" Meiko had just now finished her game with Nita and finally noticed her classmate. "What are you doing here?" Endou grinned. Than he pointed at the sign he was holding. 'Gathering members to defeat Teikoku Academy!' Meiko smirked.
"So you have a match?" She asked amused. The guy nodded.
"Just a second." Katematsu interrupted them. "You know each other?"
"Kinda." Meiko replied with her eyes fixed on Endou. "We're classmates. And Neighbours. But not so much childhood friends. We did play some times when we were little but we never really had much contact." She explained fast. "So you're searching for members? Why here?" Katematsu felt kind of shoved by side.
"I'm going everywhere." he admitted. "People who love to play soccer may be everywhere."
"Yeah." She nodded. /But you found none 'till now so why bother/ She scratched her head. "Well than, good luck!" Endou turned to the other members of the Tennis club.
"Does anyone of you want to play soccer?" They looked at each other.
"I'd rather not." Miraki replied. "I'm already overstrained with the Tennis rules. Soccer rules would throw me off completely."
"Me neither." Kiriko said. "I don't like that sport at all." He admitted.
"So, no. No one of us wants to play soccer." Katematsu concluded. "And to be honest, you guys are so uncool. It would be embarrassing to be seen with you." Meiko boxed his arm and glared at him.
"Come to me if you change your mind. I'm training at the steel tower plaza." Were Endous words before he went on on his scout.
"Why did you punch me?" Katematsu looked at the girl who still glared at him.
"You could have been nicer to him. At least he's trying." She hissed.
"And be as backstabbing as you are?" He crossed his arms. "If you're honest you have to admit that you thought the same. You don't think they can do anything. He won't even get four more members.. That's just one of his daydreams." He paused. "Do you even know who Teikoku is?" He asked Meiko. She shock her head. "They are the elite in the Japanese high school soccer. They are merciless. And they destroy the schools of the teams they beat." The boy turned away from her. "It's better if someone wakes him up before he's sleepwalking into his death."
"Doesn't change the fact that you were an ass hole." Anger rose in her. She went to the bench and grabbed er stuff.
"What are you doing?" The grey haired asked slightly interested. She didn't turn around.
"Leaving." She yelled. "Done for today." Katematsu wanted to say something but Mizure stopped him.
"I don't think she wants to talk to you right now. You should just leave her." He looked into her eyes. Than he nodded.
"Let's get back to our training." He ordered, still looking after the black haired girl.
That's it. I think I jumped to much, but I wanted to show roughly how Meiko is around others and I tried to start the story.
PS.: The boy, Katematsu, is the boy you see in the first episodes playing tennis. That is also not his real name, since I don't now if he has a real name (I couldn't find one). His personality is completly made up by me.
