Did I mention the grades? It might be confusing but bear with me please. There are two ways it could work. Please message me which one would be better.
We could go with the American School with 12 years making it a high school with 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade. Freshmen/1st year will be 8th and 9th grade, sophomore/2nd year will be 10th and 11th and senior/3rd year will be 12th grade.
Or we could go with the Russian School which I think is up to 10 years of schooling so 8th grade is 1st year/Freshman, 9th grade 2nd year/Junior and 10th grade 3rd year/Senior.
Sorry if this is confusing
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"Sumimasen [I'm Sorry (You'd say it to strangers or superiors)] everybody this is all my fault." I apologized as I clasped my hands together and bowed as the entire Seigaku Regular Team was on the ground after drinking Inui's juice [except Kunimitsu who returned all my balls and Fuji who miraculously lived through drinking the juice].
"Data, data." Inui mumbled as he furiously wrote in his notebook.
"Practice is dismissed!" Kunimitsu shouted as the others regained consciousness.
They all slowly but surely got up and went into the locker rooms to change into their uniform.
"Hoshi go get changed, class will start soon." Kunimitsu told me as I nodded my head and changed out of my soccer uniform.
Once into my school uniform I walked into my first period class and my worst subject…English. Students where already pouring into the school building since the bell just rang. The halls where bustling with noise as students caught up in the latest gossip or talk about the homework assignments they had done last night. I walked into the English classroom that was already half filled with students who where talking amongst themselves in groups. A bunch of girls where around a certain desk and shouting stuff and what not. Fan girls. I furrowed my brows in confusion. I'd admit that there where a few cute guys in the class but none of them where cute enough to make this much a fuss over. I saw two familiar girls amongst the crowd. One had her hair in two pigtails and the other had her hair in two braids. Tomo and Sakuno. I saw Tomo turn around and once she stopped me she ran up towards me and dragged me in the front of the group.
"Eh Ryoma! This is Hoshi! I don't think you've meet her before. Hoshi this is Ryoma Echizen." Tomo introduced as I blinked at the guy in front of me.
"Ah Pirate Boy…" I stated as all [most] of the girls freaked out on me.
"Your Tezuka's Imouto-San. The one that sucks at tennis." the boy known as Ryoma stated as I nodded my head.
"Hai, hai, hai I know. I suck at tennis." I said nonchalantly as I waved my hand in the air as if it would fling away the topic of me stinking at tennis while I turned my gaze to the window.
The bell rang causing everyone to take their seats as the teacher waltzed into the classroom. The teacher was a middle aged man with a *cough*round*cough* belly and a *cough*bald*cough* head. He always wore a business suit and carried around a leather briefcase. He was the kind to always come into the class with a cup of coffee in his hand and if not then you would know it was a free period while he dozed off.
"Ohayo class." the man greeted hearing a few mumbles arise from the class. "I said Ohayo class!"
"Ohayo Ginomata-Sensei!" the class chimed as Ginomata gave out a happy smile.
"I'll be passing out the English test from last Friday out. While I do please write down 'My favorite Sensei at school is Ginomata-Sensei' in English." he announced as a few groans could be heard in the class.
I took out a piece of paper and tried my best. Really I did but…like I said my worst subject was English.
"Not your best Hoshi. I expected better from you. After all your brother was the best in his class when I had him." Ginomata tsked as he placed my test on my desk that had '65%' written in big red letters.
I sighed and averted my gaze from my test to the large windows that hung on the west side of the classroom. I hate it when people judge me based on me being Kunimitsu's little sister. This wasn't my best grade nor was it my worst. I've gotten a 55 on an English test sometime at my other school. Once Ginomata finished passing out the tests he walked up in front of the board and clasped his hands together. How many cups of coffee did he have? He seemed extra happy today.
"Ok who would like to come up and write down what they wrote down?" Ginomata asked as his eyes that where hidden behind giant brown framed glasses scanned the room. "Raise your hand." he said as a bunch of hands rose up.
I also rose up my hand thinking that I would have a safe chance of not being picked. Oh how I was wrong.
"Hoshi." Ginomata said as I lowered my hand and sent him a nervous look.
"Gomen. It was a Bobblogesture [The classroom activity of not knowing an answer but raising one's hand anyways (often after determining a sufficient number of other people have also raised their hands, thus reducing the likely hood of actually being called on) Source: PockyRulez from Lunaescence]." I answered nervously as he shook his head.
"Nonsense! Come up and write down what you wrote on your paper!" he said as I nervously went up to the board. "Don't be shy." he assured me as he handed me a piece of chalk.
I wrote what I wrote on my paper. It doesn't sound right if you ask me. I'm too embarrassed to even tell you what I wrote. All I'll tell you is that the class busted out laughing and I had no idea why. I really am the suckiest at English. As I walked back to my seat I tripped on…I don't know what. I looked behind me to see a…banana peel? [the banana peel from OHSHC makes it's first debut in my stories!] Someone just kill me now. Hard to believe I'm Kunimitsu's sister, Ne? if you thought the class was laughing hard when they read what I wrote on the board then you haven't seen nothing yet for the entire class laughed like there was no tomorrow! With a face that could make Clifford the Big Red Dog jealous I made my way back into my seat with another sigh. Luckily Ginomata was nice enough to just push everything aside and continue on with the lesson. During the duration of the class I could heard a few girls whisper bad things about me. Another thing you should know is I get picked on. Just thought you'd wanna know incase your some super hero who's reading my life [or my 8th grade life] story and was bored. My school is Seigaku [I think you know that already] and I'm in class 1-A [This is how I'm writing down the classes]. So…anytime you can drop by would be nice, you know I don't want to be a burden I mean there could be a giant dinosaur attacking or evil gorillas could be attacking Canada for all we know so- wait...I'm rambling on again am I? that must've been one long rambling since the bell had just rang. I stood up and collected my stuff like everyone else and was goanna leave the class but Ginomata just had to stop me.
"Hoshi can I talk to you for a second?" he asked as a group of girls whispered amongst themselves as they passed by.
I casually walked up to him and stood in front of him in the almost empty classroom [I think you know where this is going].
"Hoshi I won't lie to you but…you suck at English." wow. Straightforward. Don't get many people like that in Japan now don't we? "I looked at your English grade from your previous school and it wasn't good either. If you fail the English Test in three weeks then I'm goanna fail you. I know that learning a second language is difficult but you have to get a good grade or I'll have to fail you for the trimester [my middle school does trimesters…they divide the year into three terms so…I think I'll use this here]."
"I can do better it's just…the spelling is weird and everything and the language is just so…"
"Difficult?"
"No."
"Boring?"
"No.
"Worthless?"
"Close."
"Stupid?"
"Bingo!" I exclaimed as I pointed a finger at him.
"Hoshi…study…and if your grades don't improve in one weeks then I'm giving you a tutor. Now get to class your goanna be late If you don't hurry." Ginomata said as he moved his hands in a shooing motion.
I nodded my head and left the classroom quite quickly worrying about getting to my next class. My next class was P.E which I was good at. I changed into the P.E uniform which was a pair of blue short shorts, a white t-shirt, and running shoes. I tied my hair into a pony tail and meet up with Sakuno and Tomo in the gym.
"Ohayo Sakuno, Tomo." I greeted my two friends happily as I walked up to them.
"H-Hoshi-Chan! Ohayo!" Sakuno greeted shyly as Tomo waved.
"Why did Ginomata-Senpai ask you to stay after class?" Tomo asked as I just waved my hand.
"Sa [it's like a mini-sigh. No meaning] it's nothing Tomo-Chan." I assured her as I closed my eyes and smiled.
The bell then rang a few seconds later. The gym teacher then walked into the gym. She has long brunette hair tied up in a ponytail and grey eyes. She always wore a blue and white sweat suit and matching running shoes. She brought a silver whistle up to her lip gloss covered lips and blew on so hard it was as if she was trying to scare off a stalker.
"10 laps around the courts!" Nana-Senpai shouted.
"Hai." the class chorused as we all walked outside to the tennis courts which where empty and seemed lifeless.
"On your mark…" Nana-Senpai started as everyone lined up. "Get set…" she took out her stop watch. "GO!" she shouted as the class took off running.
It's times like this that I'm thankful Onii-Chan always has me run. I was way ahead of the class since most of them weren't…physically fit…skinny but not fit. Plus I play soccer so I run a lot. I overlapped Tomo and Sakuno twice since they…well they sat down so it was impossible to not overlap them although they got back after a minute of resting. Before I knew it I finished my 10 laps [note that one lap around the tennis court isn't that long…I think…so if your fit like Hoshi then 10 laps should be easy…believe me I tried and I'm not as fit as Hoshi. Oh now I'm babbling in no time and was only slightly panting for breath since I conserved my energy well.
"Good job, as usual Hoshi." Nana complimented as a boy with greenish black hair and topaz eyes just finished his last lap.
I think his name was Ryoma…I'm not good at remembering names. I even forgot my name a few times. Anyway about a few minutes later everyone in the class had finished their laps so we went on to our lesson.
"Ok today in gym we'll be starting to play outdoor sports. The order will be tennis, soccer [football], baseball/softball [boys/girls] and archery." Nana explained as a few groans of disappointment could be heard and a few squeals from fan girls about seeing some Ryoma play.
I groaned among the few others. This was goanna be a long period.
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Ok…worst gym period ever. First I hit my partner in the head twice…and I managed to hit the back of Ryoma's head with a tennis ball…and he was two fricken courts away!?!?!? What gives? Did the tennis gods decide to give my brother amazing tennis skills and In exchange I get sucky skills? Well…not like I care…I hate the sport anyway…it's just so…ugh…I can't even find the word for it. Anyway after apologizing countless times to both people the bell rang. I sighed again. Time for algebra.
Faded
Well here I am now in History waiting for the final bell to ring till I can go. Maybe if I leave unnoticed then I won't have to help train the Regular with my 'terrible yet good for training' tennis skills. I tapped my pencil on my notebook impatiently as I watched the seconds tick by on the clock that hung just above the door of the classroom. I scanned my eyes over the students who sat in front of me to see a few dozed off, some where writing notes to each other and the rest where secretly chatting. Finally the bell rang. I swiftly packed my stuff and rushed out of the room, walking down the crowded hallways while trying to be unnoticed by any of the Seigaku Regulars. I finally made it outside without being noticed. I walked towards the gates that where only a few feet away. I was smiling at my accomplishment as I approached the gates.
"HOI HOI HOSHI-CHAN!!!" Eiji called as I froze in my spot.
"Lucky!" Momo said as all the Regulars [Save for Kunimitsu] closed in on my.
"Heh, heh…what are you guys doing here?" I asked nervously as I twiddled with a piece string coming out of my messenger bag.
"Tezuka said that If we found you and brought you to practice with us then he wouldn't have us run laps today Nya~." Eiji explained.
"Soka [I see. Full length is a so desu ka]…" I said as nodded my head. "Well Ja!" I shouted as I turned around and tried to make my escape.
But my attempt was futile for the Regulars grabbed the back of my shirt just as fast as the author of this series can grab a bottle of Dr. Pepper [which is fast].
"Not so fast Hoshi." Momo said as he shook his head from side to side making a 'tsk' noise. "You see we don't wanna run so your goanna come with us…" Momo trailed as Fuji hauled me over his shoulder. "So we don't have to run."
"This is kidnapping!" I shouted as they carried me to the courts.
"Please Hoshi-Chan. We don't wanna run laps nya~." Eiji begged.
"Aniki is goanna make you run laps anyway." I pouted as we reached the courts.
"We got her Tezuka." Fuji said as he set me down.
I flattened out the wrinkles in my skirt as I continued my pout.
"Hoshi go get changed." Kunimitsu said as I sighed and nodded my head.
I headed to the locker room and quickly changed into the clothes I wore earlier today for practice. I packed my stuff and put it next to the Regular's stuff. Once on the court Kunimitsu tossed me a spare racquet and the evil neon yellow ball which I fumbled with a bit.
"Ok everyone! Freshmen pick up the balls! 2nd and 3rd year start rallying and Regulars gather up!" Kunimitsu ordered as everyone went to their designated spots. "Ok Regulars you will try to return Hoshi's balls today. If you fail…she will run a lap for every ball you miss." Kunimitsu explained.
"Nani?!" I shouted as I looked up at him wide eyed.
"Helps build your stamina." Inui stated simply as he started to scribble something in his notebook.
"Aniki that's just plain mean!" I pouted as he looked at me.
"I can make it 10 laps every ball they miss." he threatened as I shrunk down.
He may be my brother but he can be mean. But…he is doing it because he cares.
"First up is Ryoma." Kunimitsu said as Ryoma and I entered the court. I served the ball, just barley hitting it, which amazingly went to Ryoma's side of the court but when the ball landed in front of Ryoma it just…sat there…
"Nani?! Move!" I shouted to the ball from the other side of the court.
"You hit the ball with the tip of your racquet causing the ball to have a lot of spin therefore it stopped once it landed...it was a lucky shot in your case." Inui explained [I think that's how it should go…correct me if I'm wrong].
I nodded my head and threw the ball up in the air again and swung. But missed. I tried again but missed.
"Ah…this may take a while." I said as I continued to try and hit the ball.
"Ryoma-Kun!" Tomo yelled from the fence causing Ryoma to turn his head so the back of his head face me.
"Watch out!" I shouted as the tennis ball hit the back of Ryoma's head.
He slowly turned his head towards me, an annoyed look on his face. I looked to my left and started to fiddle with my fingers as I whistled a happy tune. Tennis isn't my thing.