The Familiar Face
Chapter 2
Getting to Know You, Again
AN: please note.
this
means its part of a memory or flashback.
if you just see this without any of the two lines it just means emphasis on the word. Or most of the time, thoughts.
Wally spent the whole rest of the day thinking about her. It was crazy! He couldn't pay attention in class. Well, it's not like he did anyway, but this was getting annoying. He couldn't keep his mind straight, even during basketball. That, was pushing it.
He found himself looking around for her in the halls, in his classes, and during lunch. Yet, there was no sign of her. He thought maybe she was gone forever. That he had lost her, again.
'Wa-wait, again?' He thought. 'I only just met her. She's just some dumb girl! One, pretty, nice, powerful, and- ugh! I'm losing my mind!' He thought to himself as he got off the bus the next day.
He went to his locker and opened it, he was about to pull his out his math out when he saw a piece of paper folded on bottom of the locker he picked it up and unfolded it.
It was his schedule...
Wait a minute.
Oh! He was so STUPID! He quickly put back his math folder, grabbed his backpack, and flung his locker closed. He noticed no one else was in the halls and ran down to the the other side of the school.
Man, it can't start like this! If he gets a tardy on a whole new semester... His mom will kill him! Suddenly, could see it! He was about to make it, he was so close! Until...
ring
Man! He was so close. He slumped on his shoulders and walked into class.
"Wallabee Beatles. Why am I not surprised? I will let you off the hook this time Mr. Beatles, but don't think it will be a regular thing. Your seat is assigned on the board." Called out a voice so proper and fancy it reminded him of a butler, expect he was rude and Wally would never hire him. That was Mr. Jensen for you, he could be fun, but was always pretty annoying.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Wally answered. "And it's Wally."
"Just go to your seat Mr. Beetles." Mr. Jensen said with a sigh.
Wally turned to the board and searched for his name. He was glad to find himself sitting in the back. He could now easily listen to music easily now without Mr. Jensen seeing.
He turned and headed down the row until he saw who was sitting in the seat next to his. It was the girl! She was just seating there watching as Mr. Jensen went on talking about how things worked. Wally took a breath and sat down.
After awhile of her listening, and him staring. A time for talking came, that's one reason a lot of people like Mr. Jensen. He doesn't like to teach for more then 15-20 minutes. So for the rest of class he lets them talk, play on their phones, and go to the bathroom and such.
"Umm..." Wally started. The girl turned to him. "I'm uh, sorry about yesterday..." He said.
"Oh!" She blushed, "I mean, it's my fault and-"
"No it wasn't, I was looking at my schedule and wasn't watching." Wally cut her off.
"Well, either way I am sorry." The girl said.
"Me too." He agreed. Their eyes connected and the both turned away and blushed.
They sat in silence for awhile, taking slight glances from left and right. It wasn't till Wally cleared the slience with a cough.
"So... Uhh, what's your name?" He asked.
"You know, you should introduce yourself first." The girl said.
"Huh? Why?" Wally asked.
"Because the boy always just does." The girl said. Wally sighed. Man, this girl is stubborn, maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Yet, he was too curious to back down.
"Here, how about we say our first name at the same time, alright?" Wally reasoned, the girl nodded.
"1...2...3."
"Wally."
"Kuki."
They both then were taken back. Yeah, Wally had heard weird names before. Like a guy that was in his History class last year. His name was Nigel. What kind of name was that!?
But it wasn't the lack of strangeness that set him off. It was that... feeling. The feeling that he has heard the name before. Something from that seemed like yesterday.
"Numbuh 4?" Asked the girl as she walked into his room.
"Oh, hey there Numbuh 3!" Numbuh 4 said. "Is there somethin' goin' on?"
"Oh, no. I just wanted to talk to you." Numbuh 3 said sweetly.
"Oh, alrigh'." Numbuh 4 said. They stood in silence for awhile, until Numbuh 4 remembered something.
"Wait here, Numbuh 3, I got somethin' for ya." He said. He ran into a different section of his room.
He was out only seconds later, holding something behind his back.
"I know I already apologized for this quite sometime ago, but I wanted to uhh make it up to you the right way that I can." Numbuh 4 said. Then held out in his hands, a smaller version of...
"Mister. Huggykinz!" Numbuh 3 cried with joy. She took the toy from Numbuh 4's grasp as he chucked.
Numbuh 3 held it up, staring at it. Like it was suddenly going to talk to her.
"C'mon Numbuh 3. Try it." He encouraged.
Numbuh 3 then have the toy and a hug and squeezed him. Then out came a lower type voice from the doll.
"I love you!" It cried out.
"I love you too Mister Huggykinz!" Numbuh 3 said with joy.
Numbuh 4 smiled, even if he had a small plant of jealousy for the doll. He was glad he could make her happy.
"Thank you so much Numbuh 4!" The girl said as she gave the boy a hug as well.
"It's no problem Numbuh 3." Numbuh 4 said, blushing uncontrollably.
Numbuh 3, much to Numbuh 4's disappointment, soon came out if the embrace.
"Umm, Numbuh 4?" The girl innocently asked.
"Yeah?"
"What's your real name?" The girl asked.
"Ya don't know?" Asked the boy.
"Well... I guess I'm so used to calling all kids in the Kids Next Door by their code names, I forget about their real names." Numbuh 3 said.
"I don't know Numbuh 3, I don't really like it that much." Said Numbuh 4 looking away from his secret crush.
"C'mon Numbuh 4! I bet it's fine!" Numbuh 3 said in her encouraging voice. Numbuh 4 turned away in embarrassment.
"... Wallabee." He muttered, Numbuh 3 didn't really hear.
"Wha?" She asked.
"My name is Wallabee Beetles, but I prefer Wally." He said.
"Oh!" She said, she then smiled happily, "I like that name, Wally. It's fun to say."
"Yeah, yeah." Numbuh 4 said.
"Can I call you that?" She asked.
"Wha?!" He was shocked.
"Can I call you Wally?" She asked.
"Why?" He asked.
"I don't know... I just like calling you that." She chirped happily.
"Ugh... Fine. But, not in front of the others al'right?" Numbuh 4 said, knowing he would never win that kinda of fight.
"Yay!" Numbuh 3 said happily.
"What's your name then, Numbuh 3?" He asked.
"Oh! My name is Kuki Sanban." She said.
"Kuki... That suits you." Numbuh 4 said.
Numbuh 3 giggled. "I know! Tell you what I'll let you call me Kuki, okay? Since your letting me call you Wally."
"Al'right then mate, ya gotcha yourself a deal." Numbuh 4 said.
Numbuh 3 giggled, "Whatcha giggling about Kuki?" He asked. Yet, still feeling a bit awkward using her real name.
"You called me 'mate'. That's a strange word Wally, what does it mean?" Numbuh 3 asked.
"Mate? It means friend mostly, I guess. All us Aussies, use it."
"Oh~ So, I'm your friend?"
"Of course ya are! Ya think I'd let some random girly call me Wally?"
Numbuh 3 just giggled.
'What... What just happened?' He thought. A memory, that he had never thought he had seen before just showed up, now, it was gone again.
'Well, that was weird.'
"Umm, Kuki. That's an interesting name. It suits you." Wally said out if the silence if staring.
"O-oh, you think I'm... interesting?" She asked.
"I-I guess so..." Wally blushed.
All the sudden, the bell rang. Kuki immediately got up and grabbed her bag. She was about to leave when Wally tried to catch up,
"Hey! Kuki, wait up!" He said.
"Hmm, what is it?" She asked.
"Umm, I was wondering... If I could walk you to next class." Wally asked nervously.
"That would be great! Thanks Wally." She said cutely.
"No problem! So, what's your next class?" He asked pulling out his schedule.
She pulled out her schedule and looked at it for a second or two.
"English, Miss. Leysen." She said.
"Sweet, I have that too. Trust me, you'll love Miss. Leysen, and that's a lot coming from me." He said.
"Oh! I can't wait to meet her!" She said happily.
They started walking down the hall, also having an occasion shove from other people. Wally decided to figure more about her.
"So... Kuki? That sounds kinda foreign." He said.
"Oh! Yeah, my family is Japanese. I was born in Japan but raised here. I do go to Japan a lot though to see family." She said.
"Japanese? That's pretty cool! Does that mean you speak Japanese?" He asked.
"Yeah, we speak it in our house. I usually just speak English though." She said.
"What about you? I understand you have some kind of accent and I haven't really heard the name Wally around."
"Oh, I'm a Aussie. My folks and I lived there till I was like 8 or 9ish. Great place. I visit there sometimes, not a lot but yeah."
"Umm, what does Aussie mean?" So, she wasn't the smartest cookie in the jar but was not completely dumb. But, he felt like he already knew that.
"Oh! Sorry, it means I'm from Australia." Wally said.
"I see." She said.
"So, what stuff do you like to do?" He asked.
"Oh, I like to draw, play with my younger sister, and play video games." She said.
'Video games?' He thought, 'Thats weird I should be surprised..."
"So, Wally. What do you like to do?" She asked.
"I like basketball, when I was younger I was like a champ at anything with a ball. I also like video games and some hand-to-hand combat." He said truthfully. Kuki looked at him weirdly for a second, he wondered if she was thinking the same thing.
"Hey, Kuki?" He asked.
"Yeah?"
"Does... This sound familiar to you?" He asked.
"Yeah..." She said.
They then reached the classroom, a couple minutes early but, it didn't really matter. Wally went over and opened the door. They both went into the room and since English was a free seating. They sat next to each other in the front. Wally having the corner.
As class started a couple minutes later, they both couldn't get it off their minds of that they wanted to know each other, but they already felt like they did.
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