I was lying on my bed, thinking.
Nii- sama? I thought that she lived alone…And what's with sama at the end? Strange.
Yuzu snapped me out of my day dreaming when she called from the bottom of the stairs, "Ichi- nii, time for dinner! I made your favorite!" I wearily clomped down the stairs, head still filled with thoughts of Rukia. I later found out she only had one class with me, biology.
"Ichi, you seem distracted. Something happen at school?" hawk eyed Karin asked me. I shook my head and dodged a blow to the face. My dad.
"Ichigo! Tell your Papa what's wrong! We're all a family and--" I landed a kick to his head. "Oh, you're getting good…" He dropped to the floor, unconscious.
"Dad? Oh, Ichigo, now he can't eat dinner!" Yuzu said, fanning his face. Karin rolled her eyes. "He'll be fine."
After a quite dinner (because Dad didn't wake up), I went to do homework. I got through it quickly, having no friends in this new town. I tried reading ahead in Wuthering Heights, but couldn't get to far without being distracted. Rukia's beautiful smile swam in and out of my day dreams.
I suddenly jolted up from my bed. I had fallen asleep thinking about Rukia, so naturally, she was in my dreams. I was thinking how great the dream was… But it was slipping from my memory… Something about a garden… No, a place with huge buildings… Ah, it's gone.
I looked at the clock. Four thirty in the morning. I got up and took a shower and got ready for school. By the time this was done, it was five thirty. I really need to get a life… I thought sadly.
Something tapped at my window. I glanced out the window into the slowly rising sun and squinted in the half- dark. Nothing was there. I opened the window and looked down the street, getting the same radar. Just as I was about to close the window, something caught my eye: A small bush, blowing in the breeze when it wasn't even windy.
"Hello?" I called out the window, and then felt foolish as I did so. Nothing was out there! I slammed the window in annoyance, causing a picture frame to fall off my desk; the one where I'm five years old, no front teeth, posing with my mom. I picked it up slowly and put it back on the desk. Mom… I inherited her soft brown eyes. Or so Yuzu and Karin tell me.
When I got to school, there were only a couple students milling around on benches or frantically trying to finish homework. A girl from my biology and algebra classes walked up to me. The brunette girl with the huge boobs. I tried not to stare.
"Hi!" She said cheerfully. "Ichigo, right? I'm Orhime Inoue. If you need anything, feel free to ask." Orhime gave me a dazzling smile, and I realized she was pretty cute when she smiled. I couldn't help but smile back as I said, "Thanks, I will." She was the friendliest person I had met since coming to this school. The bell rang.
"Walk to class with me?" I asked, nervous she would reject me. Orhime blushed, catching me off guard. "Yes, sure." She said shyly.
As we walked to class, I realized I could talk freely with her. She mostly did the talking, which was fine with me. She told me the crazy things she day dreams and the erratic way she cooked. I laughed and smiled with her, and whispers erupted around us. Mostly about some girl named Tatsuki.
Next period, I found out the hard way who Tatsuki was.