Hey ppl! This is chapter three of Pocky Sticks and Choco Bits. Warning: There will be a lot of pocky eating! (How else will they get rid of the supposedly-life-time-supply of pocky sticks?) Oh, and keep those reviews coming! Anyway, This covers the boring topic of school! I'll try to spice up the topic as much as I can! Forgive me if it's not too good. The next chapter will be better, and my favourite scene of the story is coming!

Hit it, Rima-san!

~Crystal Cavern

Pocky Stix

Chapter 3: The Boredom of School

~Rima Touya~

Monday

It's Monday again…That means school. Remember when I said that I hated school? I still do, but now that I have pocky, it's not that bad anymore. I'm nibbling on a pack right now. Joy…

Update on Senri; I think he gave up on smiling altogether, and I am glad because of that. Yay. Joy.

Today was boring. My highlight of the day was lunch. It will probably be the best part of the day for the rest of my life. Some girls same over and said that I was going to get fat. Fat chance. They were the ones who were fat… Compared to me. I've never gotten fat before. I don't plan to start now. Pocky is so good… Ask Senri… He'll tell you. But don't get him excited. If you make him smile, I'll pulverize you. That's not a threat…It's a promise. Fun. Yay. Joy. Don't you love my enthusiasm?

Senri and I met up during break. I brought four packs of pocky sticks. Most of them were mine. I set it up in my mind. Four for me, one for him. Senri only asks for one every once in a while. He's not shy. I'm not mean, or a hog. I just like pocky sticks more than him.

For language arts, we had half an hour to write something that we liked. I chose pocky, of course. All the other humans were acting strange. They complained that they could think of anything to write about. Right… as if. They do so many weird things. Why not write about that? I've seen human children run around all day, slapping each other. They call it 'tag'. I've seen them throw a ball around in circles. They called it 'catch'. What is the point of throwing a ball around if you do not gain anything? What the point of slapping people if you don't hurt them? It seemed that their intention of the game was not to hurt them, but then why slap so hard?

The old ones (they call them 'grandparents') complain that their life was too short, and that they were too old. Oh, I have to agree with the looking old part, but I had parents older than them. Humans look so wrinkled when they grow old. It looked weird. Almost as weird as Senri's laugh… but not quite.

That night I read a book on my bed, my covers on my lap, and a pile of pocky sticks right beside me. The book was written by some vampire. A level B, like me. It explained the patheticness of level C's, like how they didn't have many powers. All they did was gorge on our prey, and they didn't have any powers. They. Are. Useless. I had to agree.

And that's basicly Monday.

Tuesday

Tuesday... We had a fieldtrip. We went to a garden. We were supposed to admire stuff and learn how to plant a garden. I had it pretty much in my head. You stick a bunch of seeds in the ground, and you wait.

Anyway, the school bought a few and was asking for a place to plant them. They said that gardens, parks, churches, and rich people's houses would be good. I volunteered my house. I don't really consider myself rich, but the schoolteachers thought it was wonderful. There was enough earth around it my house, though. It would make a perfect garden. After they grew into fabulous trees with good strong wood, Senri and I could use them for… target practice. Yes, that would be fun.

While we were in the gardens, admiring the flowers around noon, Senri and I ate pocky. I dropped one by accident, and a bird snatched it. I wanted it back. That was mine. Senri acted faster. He killed the bird. This is what he told me.

"Hmmmm… You dropped one." I took it, and was about to eat it when I stopped. My arm held it to Senri. My mouth said, "No, you can have it, Senri." That was not my intention. I had wanted to eat it, but it seemed as if I wouldn't let me. Then I watched as he ate it…out of my hand again. This was becoming a habit. The other students weren't watching. The girls were too busy saying stuff like, "Oh! It's so pretty!" and "Oh. My. Gosh. I have to get one of those for my garden." The boys were teasing a Venus Fly Trap. They used a toothpick, and they were poking the sensitive hairs of the poor little plant. I feel so bad for it. Oh well, I'm going to eat more pocky. One of the guys said, "You know what? I wish I had telepathy powers. Then I could tell the plant, 'sucks to be you!'" What a mean boy. They deserve to like short lives.

That was Tuesday.

Wednesday

Wednesday was different. It was Senri's birthday. I didn't know what to get him. So I have him half of my remaining stash of pocky sticks. Now he could eat his, and I could eat mine. It's a good plan, don't 'cha think?

I walked up to Senri before school started. I handed him a bag with a picture of smiling noodles on it. "Here." I said emotionlessly. "Happy Birthday, Senri Shiki."

He took it. "Thanks. Noodles?" he asked, without even peeking in the bag.

I shook my head. "No. Not noodles… Better."

"Then why did you put it in a noodle bag?" Senri asked, still emotionless, but I could tell that he was getting happier by the second.

"Oh. You'll get it once you open it." I said.

He looked inside. "Liar. It is noodles." Inside the bag there were packages of instant noodles.

"No. I won't lie to you, Senri. You know that!" Emotion is hard to control. When you're happy, you want to show it. I smiled, just a bit.

"Rima, you're smiling. You haven't done that in a while."

"What? You don't like it?" I asked, taken back.

"No. It's just that you haven't smiled in a while. I thought you forgot how to."

"I wouldn't forget, silly!" I said. Then I turned my back to him. I calmed myself down. I had used all my emotion cards up. Now I was me again. I heard some shuffling.

"Eh…." Senri said amused. "It's not noodles…"

I turned around, to face him. "Nope, it's not. It's pocky. Just so you would have some when I'm not with you."

"Thanks, Rima."

"Course."

"I get it now. The noodles over the pocky. The time we went to that place. The pocky was hidden under the noodles."

I looked at him, dumbfounded. "You just figured it out? I thought you got it when you dug through the bag." Can't blame him. He can be a bit slow when it comes to girl stuff.

Then the bell rang. We exchanged a glance.

Dammit… We were late.

And the consequence was an hour of detention. And then sensei also gave us a long lecture. We had to write 300 lines. That didn't matter. Pocky pulled us through.

That was Wednesday.

Thursday

Let's just say that today was the boringest day in my life, even though it is the best day of the week. I brought pocky, of course. But, it was still boring. There's nothing worth writing about. So I won't write much.

First let me explain why I hate Fridays. They were boring. If you asked people, most of them would say that Friday was the best day. That's because it's the last day of the week, and the next day is the weekend. But. If we didn't have school on Friday, then Thursday would have been the last day of school, and we would have had a three day weekend. That's why Fridays are horrible

The end of Thursday.

Friday

The sun was so bright, that I slept in today. I am a vampire after all. I hate Fridays anyway.

So instead, I ate pocky all night long. Senri kept me company. We didn't say much, but just having him there calmed me down.

Whew! Finally finished. I know this chappie was not too good, but hey, school is a tough subject! Next chapter: Things finally get better! Senri will ask Rima a particular question. (That send them to… I can't tell!)