Chapter 8: Two Obnoxious Foreigners (or Why the Exchange Students Should Go Back to Where They Freaking Came From!!!)

Starring: Candice, Hiro, Gabriel and Adam! (less characters in this one.)

Candice's POV

Candice sat down at an empty seat on the bus. She was tired and didn't want to talk to anyone. Hiro sat down. So much for that plan.

"Hello!" he said cheerily. He waved, although they were only inches apart. Candice rolled her eyes.

"Look, just do me a favor, and don't talk, okay?" Candice said pointedly. Then she turned to look out that window. Hopefully that would shut him up. It did- for about two minutes.

Gabriel's POV

Gabriel was beginning to get sick of Adam's habit of popping up completely uncalled for. This time he actually frightened him and forced him to jump back a bit. The sound he made was something like:

"Gwyah!"

"So, where's your dad? I don't know about you, but I am personally exhausted." Adam said, completely ignoring the fact that Gabriel was now standing on one foot and almost lost balance, causing him to bump into an unsuspecting girl. He quickly apologized and turned back.

"Okay, first of all… YOU SCARED ME TO DEATH!!!!" Gabriel screamed this last part, throwing his arms in the air above his head. Adam shrugged. Gabriel sighed and (remembering that Adam seemed to be a total douche and didn't really care about other people) decided to move on. "Second, we only live a couple of miles away so we walk."

Adam groaned.

Candice's POV

The bus pulled to a stop and Candice grabbed her bag and practically jumped off the bus. Hiro had had a bit of trouble with the "don't talk" part and after telling him to "Oh my gosh, shut up," he had begun reading his comic book with too many (loud) reactions. While reading, he had frantically screamed out "いいえ! それをしてはいけない!"to which several students had turned around and stared at him. They then stared and Candice, who proceeded to yell, "shut up!" and hit him with her bag. This went on for pretty much the entire bus ride.

Once outside, Candice hoped that Hiro would not have time to get off and the bus would drive off with him still inside. No such luck. He happily climbed off the bus and ran to her side like a puppy. Her puppy.

"Is this where you live?" he inquired excitedly. She shrugged him off and began to walk.

"No," she answered

"Well, then, why are we here?" Hiro asked quizzically.

"Because," she replied "this is the closest stop to the mall."

Gabriel's POV

Adam lagged behind Gabriel. Gabriel liked it better this way. Unfortunetly, his distance wasn't far enough to block off the sound of Adam's consistent chatter.

"Why does it have to be so blasted hot?" Adam called up to Gabriel for the fourth time. "I thought you said it was close,"

"I said it as a few miles." Gabriel replied, not bothering to turn back.

"Well, how far is a mile? I'm still in the metric system you know! Bloody Americans, have to over complicate everything."

"Well so far, we've walked about two. It's about three miles to my house, so-"

"I am so zonked, you have no idea," Adam said.

"You're what?" Gabriel asked

"Zonked."

"What is-"

"I am tired!" Adam replied.

"Well what do you expect me to do carry you!" Adam stopped and turned around. Gabriel sternly said:

"No."

Adam sighed.

"Fine," he said, "but as soon as I get there, I'm going to doss."

Candice's POV

The greasy lump of meat was thrust in front of his face. Swaying to the side, Hiro peered at the girl holding the- "thing".

"What is this?" Hiro asked politely.

"Dinner." Candice said, offering the meal again. Hiro took it gingerly, looking at it in disgust.

"Thank you, but I am only aloud to eat sushi," Hiro said, bowing his head and presenting it again to Candice. She sighed.

"Okay, you are the exchange student and I am the host. This is traditional American food!"

"But-"

"Ah-ah-ah," she said, signaling for him to stop talking by waving her finger. "If you don't eat it, I'll take it as an insult. You don't want to insult me do you?"

She was in his head. There was always a weak point for everyone, no matter how… bizarre.

"No! Not at all!" Hiro replied quickly. "I am sorry for any disrespect I have caused you."

"Ya. I'll get over it. Now eat up,"

Hiro's POV

Hiro looked at Candice and then looked to the "dog". He knew it would be rude not to eat it, but his father had made it clear he was to only eat Japenese. Candice was right though, he was in America, and he should eat American food. He took the meal in both hands shrugged his shoulders and took a bite. It was soooooo worth it.

The hot dog was gone in seconds.

By the time they had reached the house it was dark out. Candice reached the front door first and then turned to face Hiro.

"Stay here for a sec," she said, turning to go into the house and slamming the door behind her.

Hiro stood outside and rocked back and forth on his feet. He wandered around in circles for a bit, and then started to get bored. He was wondering what was taking Candice so long and wanted to know what she was doing. He started to peek through the window, when the door flew open, hitting him from behind and causing him to fly over the railing.

Candice looked around.

"Hiro?" she called.

"hai," Hiro said climbing out of a bush.

"Oh my gosh!" said Candice running down the stairs. "Are you okay?"

"Hai, ah." Hiro said rubbing his head. Candice gave him a hand.

"What happened? Why were you behind the door?"

"I was seeing where you were and-"

"What?" she said dropping him. He fell back into the bush with a: 'Aiyee!!'

"Oh, sorry!" she said, again helping him up. Then looked at him sternly and said:

"What did you see." She stared at him with something that looked like fear, but Hiro couldn't image why she would feel like that so he decided it was probably anger.

"I didn't see anything! It's too dark in your house, you should really buy a lamp." Hiro said seriously. Then an idea came to mind and his face brightened up. "Or I can show you how to make a lantern out of origami!"

Candice sighed. "C'mon, I'll show you where you're staying." She said, waving her hand to follow her. He did so.

I'm sorry, but I'm really just too lazy to finish this chapter so here's a summary. Pretty much Adam thinks the house is small and Gabriel's dad told Gabriel that he signed him up for an exchange student so he could meet people and stop being such a recluse. I figured you guys would rather have the chapter now then wait like 5 more days for me to monolog something I can sum up in two sentences.

Okay, so I lied earlier about Adam and the slang thing, but I found an oxford dictionary of slang and couldn't resist! I'm not from Britain, so if you are and my slang is outdated or doesn't make sense in the context, sorry!!! I was just having a bash ;D Send me a message if I'm saying it wrong (please don't leave it in a review though)

Okay, so now that I'm finally home from my big long road trip, but I am also volunteering, getting in shape for track next year, babysitting nonstop, taking fencing, writing two other stories, learning a song for a band competition, and practicing a dance routine for color guard at my school so it might take me a bit longer to put up the chapters once the sequel comes out. Sequel will be called High School Heroes: On With th Year. Oh, I also found out there's a song called Lydia the tattoo lady! I was like "hey! I bet they named Lydia after that!" and my mom was like "really." I feel smart. Anyway, I might add her in just because of that…

I was going to have a scene where Gabriel carried Adam to his house on his back just because I had so much fun laughing at it, but decided it didn't really fit. Too bad ;p

Sequal should be out soon! This was just sorta the introduction to the characters. Like I said before, it will be called High School Heroes: On With The Year, unless you have any name ideas that are better. If you do, please post them bellow! :)