The next day at school, the seniors had a meeting in the gym at 11:00. Orihime was one of the first in the gym, she took a seat on the front row of the blue bleachers. She decided while she waited for the meeting to begin to do some of her homework. Her mind was buried in her work.
She soon felt the presence of someone close to her. She looked up to see who it was, it was one of the guys that passed her after school yesterday. He had bright red hair and was muscular.
"Hi." he smiled.
Orihime stared into his eyes, he gave her a bad vibe. "Hi..." she said a little nervously.
"Do you know what this meeting is about?" he asked.
"No." she said trying to go back to her work.
"Hey, I got an idea." he said.
"What's that?" she asked not looking up at him.
"We should hang out after school." he said.
Orihime stopped writing in her notebook. "Uh, well, actually I have plans after school." she explained.
"Oh, well then we can just hang out now." he smiled.
Orihime had picked up her pencil again to continue writing, "What do you mean? We have this senior meeting right now." she said.
"Yeah, well, you and me could just skip." he smiled.
Orihime looked up at him, "I don't skip." she said sternly.
He put his arm around her, "Oh come on!" he played. "This meeting is lame and we only have two more classes today." he persuaded.
"No thank you." she said trying to nudge him off of her.
He put his hand on her chin and looked into her eyes, "I'll make it worth your while babe." he grinned.
Orihime then felt someone else tug at her from behind freeing her from her captor. She slid across the bleachers away from the guy with red hair. She looked back to see who was pulling on her arm once she stopped moving. It was Tatsuki.
Tatsuki stood up in front of Orihime and put her right arm in front of Orihime in a way of protecting her.
The red haired guy put his chin in his hand, "Oh, so you think you can protect her?" he smiled.
Tatsuki glared at him.
"Well," he said standing up. He was much taller than Tatsuki, but Tatsuki didn't flinch.
"If it's that important, why don't you say something about it?" he said smiling widely.
Tatsuki's eyes softened for a second, but then returned to her glare. But Orihime couldn't see Tatsuki face.
The guy walked closer to Tatsuki and quickly thrusted his chest towards her then walked off.
Tatsuki glared at him until he walked away.
"Tatsuki..." Orihime gasped.
She slowly turned around and smiled at Orihime.
"You didn't have to do that." she said a little angry.
"Do what?" Tatsuki texted.
"Put yourself in harms way."
"Hmph, I could've taken him." Tatsuki texted and smiled.
"I didn't mean like that. I meant... emotionally."
Tatsuki then understood what Orihime meant.
"That guys is Renji, he's a jerk. He picks out the imperfections in everyone and goes on that."
"I don't think being mute is an imperfection." Orihime said.
Tatsuki smiled.
"Hey, Tatsuki, sit down. The meeting is about to start." a teacher demanded.
Tatsuki sat down right beside Orihime, they smiled at each other.
The meeting dragged on, Orihime tried to pay attention at first, but found it boring and went back to her work. Tatsuki took a pen out of her messenger bag and pretended to mark on Orihime's homework.
"Quit it..." Orihime whispered and laughed.
Tatsuki left her alone for the most part, but found herself unable to sit still. She took out a piece of paper and wrote a note.
When the meeting was over, Tatsuki handed the note to Orihime.
"Oh, thank you." Orihime smiled.
Tatsuki nodded.
Orihime opened it, it said, "Hi" and had a picture of Tatsuki drawn waving.
Orihime laughed, "You're weird."