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Ill never forget you

Bridget walked up to take the piece of chalk on the teacher's desk. As she wrote her name on the huge board, she could feel her classmate's stares on her back. She shivered slightly, but was careful not to let anyone know. Bridget hated transferring. She hated all the paperwork. She hated all the mutters and snide comments and she walked into the class after they find out about her work on marine biology. But she especially hated how dramatically they changed when they found out about who she really was.

So this time, Bridget had decided to transfer, as a different person altogether. 'Let's see how they treat me as Bridget Verdant' she had thought to herself at the time, but now she was having doubts, huge doubts. "Hello" she said shyly. "Speak up sunshine, we can't hear you" someone yelled, and a few unkind sniggers followed after. Bridget tried again "Hello…"she said louder this time "my English name is Bridget Verdant…" she paused "and I look forward to being your classmate" she rushed with small abrupt bow.

Bridget was worried that maybe she was giving out too much information, but she so hated to lie. "Thank you Bridget." The teacher said "Please take the empty seat by the window. Over by Kinimoto-San" she instructed.

Bridget searched for said seat, and found it, beside a boy with strange purple hair with a small plait hanging on the side. He was leaning back in his chair, with his feet on the desk, and staring around at the class with a board expression. Despite his posture he was really quite handsome. Suddenly he looked in her direction, and their eye's met.

His eyes were the most startling shade of onyx, with a ring of lighter purple around the irises, filled with suspicion, mystery and…shock? Bridget felt her feet move towards her seat, but her eye's never left the strange boys.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity she reached her seat and turned her head to the window breaking the connection. But she could still feel his gaze on her back.

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Pai watched her and felt the strangest feeling of de ja vu. When their eye's met he had felt so surprised. Her eye's were blue, blue as the ocean, sapphire blue, the sight of them sent his blood pumping. They looked so much like…hers. Not once had he ever forgotten her eyes and to suddenly see an exact copy of them, Pai found him self unable to look away from her, even when she had turned away from him to view outside the window.

"Hey, Pai!" he turned to Kissu who was hissing at him "hey, what's with the moon eye's"? You OK?" he asked concerned, which was rare for him, since he was usually self centred about anything other then his long term crush for Ichigo.

Pai nodded at him and Kissu just shrugged and turned back to gawk at Ichigo who was asleep…again. That girl could sleep through a hailstorm; it was so surprising that she could be the star of the school gymnastics team.

Pai turned back to the green haired girl who was still staring out the window.

"Bridget!" she jerked out of the day dream she was so obviously in and looked up at the teacher "maybe you'd like to tell us a little about some of the work you did on Marine biology, and why you chose this particular subject as your line of study?"

Pai didn't even want to try to figure out what she just said, and he was supposed to be a genius. Bridget however had gotten to her feet and was trying to find the words to say "w-well, I specialize in Marine biology, especially porpoises like the Neophocaena phocaeniodes or the black finless porpoise…" in the back of the classroom someone snored loudly, people sniggered. Bridget looked uncomfortable, but the teacher only encouraged her to speak on, so she continued.

Was the woman stupid, anyone with half a brain could see that the girl was so nervous, she probably wanted nothing more then to crawl under a rock for a long, long time. So why wouldn't Bridget just tell her so?

"The Neophocaena phocaeniodes is one of the world's most endangered animals. It lives in the coastal waters of Asia, especially around India, China, Indonesia and Japan. A unique fresh water population is found in the Yangtze River. At the western end, their range includes the length of the western coast of India and continues up into the Persian Gulf. Throughout their range, the porpoises stay in shallow waters…" another person snored and this time the laughter was unmissable. Bridget blushed furiously and bent her head in humiliation.

Pai bristled, he hated this kind of thing, again he wondered, why wont someone just tell that stupid student teacher to put the poor girl out of her misery and let her sit down?

"…close to the shore, in waters with soft or sandy seabeds. The Finless Porpoise almost completely lacks a dorsal fin. Instead there is a low ridge covered in thick denticulate skin. This demonstrates that the body shape that has evolved to be the optimum for sharks, dolphins and porpoises is not the only possible body shape for a marine animal."

She took in a breath, surprised about being able to say that much with out someone else snoring "Marine biology is the scientific study of living organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. Marine biology differs from marine ecology as marine ecology is focused on how organisms interact with each other and environment and biology is the study of the animal itself."

As if on queue, another, much louder, snore echoed through the classroom and this time the roar of laughter made her practically shrink into the floor, it was painful to watch. At least was for him, for the rest of the class, it was a barrel of laughs. "What a nerd" he head someone shriek from behind him, as his friend laughed while the student teacher tried in vain to get the class to settle down.

Pai glanced back at Bridget, and was shocked with what he saw. She was standing so still in the centre of the class with her head bent, clearly fighting the urge to run away, she stayed in the centre of the room as her classmates made fun of her, and for what/ for being smart, for being good at the ting she loved?

But why was she just standing there? She should stand up for herself, or at least make a run for the door as fast as possible. Was she brave? Or just to scared to do anything?

Then she looked up. Everyone else wouldn't have seen, they were too busy, but he saw. In the corner of her eyes, she was crying. Then it hit him, she wasn't just embarrassed, she was miserable, humiliated, and she was trying her best to catch what dignity she had left. Obviously, this has happened before. "Look, she's crying…" someone began, but Pai didn't even let him finish. He had had enough.

"WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP!!!" he yelled, and the whole class became silent as all eyes, including hers, were on him. It pay's when your father practically runs the school. He turned to the student teacher "Miss, I thing Miss Verdant has had enough" he implied pointedly. And with that the teacher stuttered thanks and told Bridget to sit down.

Bridget walked into the lunchroom. In the three hours of her new school, Bridget was…having fun for the first time in her life. The first person to talk to her was a red haired, cat like girl named Ichigo who was captain of the gymnastics team, along with her friends Pudding, and a first year, with short blond hair a cute baby face. Minto, a rich girl with slightly longer, short blue hair and a complex for her hero, Zakuro. And Zakuro a purple haired beauty, with a cold face.

It wasn't as if she hadn't had friends in all her other schools, but they were all fake. They made fun of her at first, then the second they found out she was rich, then they changed their tune. When the kids in that classroom started laughing at her, she didn't what to do. Frozen on the spot she had tried to force the tears in, but not because of the whole Marine Biology, heck she thought it was boring too; But because they were proving her family and especially her father right.

Everyone had all said her idea was stupid, that becoming someone else was a stupid and that it wouldn't make any difference. But they didn't understand, she didn't want people to befriend her because of her name, she wanted people to like her because of her and that's all there was to it. And at that time at the classroom, she felt terrible, because they were proving her family right. Until that boy had defended her. Since then people had left her alone, if they had a problem, they kept it to themselves and Bridget was Ok with that.

"TAR-TAR!" Pudding suddenly screamed as she ran and glomped someone "HEY!!" the person in her hug complained "LET GO OF ME YOU MONKEY GIRL! SOMEONE GET HER OFFF ME!!"

The girls (except Zakuro) chuckled to themselves at the two. Pudding finally pulled away to reveal a boy, about a few inches shorter then her with bright brown hair and slightly pointed ears "AND MY NAME IS TART! NOT TARU-TARU, NOT TARB, NOT TAR-TAR, TART" he yelled to everyone who looked used to it.

Bridget then found the need to go to the bathroom and slipped away. She was half way there, using the map that the student teacher had drawn for her earlier that day, when she suddenly bumped into something.

"Im sorry" Bridget cried, rubbing her head as she got herself off the floor. She looked up to see three beautiful girls, 'the Becky's'. Ichigo had told her about them, they were three super rich, super snob's who thought they were so much better then everyone else, and used their wealth to make everyone miserable.

"Well, well" said the one with short, cropped dark hair "if it isn't the little marine biologist" she snidely. Bridget tried to walk past but the other two blocked her "listen "she snapped at Bridget "Just because Pai-sensei stuck up for you back then, doesn't mean any of us will ever accept you" she sneered. Bridget was speechless 'Pai? Who was Pai? The boy who stuck up for her? ' "N-no! Wait! You don't understand" she tried to explain but a firm hand gripped the wrist of the Becky holding her, made her stop in mid sentence.

"Isn't bullying against the rules" the person said coldly to the girls and the Becky instantly broke out in a blush "Pai-sensei" she cried. Bridget turned round to see that it was indeed, the purple haired boy from before. "we-we weren't bulling her" she floundered about for words "we were just…" but Pai cut her off when he took Bridget by the crook of her arm and said coldly to them "I hate people like you"

Pai didn't know what came over him when he rescued Bridget; he blamed it on her looking so much like Retesu. And seeing her like that, like a cornered animal, he just did what was right. But Pai had not expected the response he got from her after he had wheeled her away from the three girls. The second they stopped Bridget snatched her arm from his "why did you do that" she asked. To say Pai was surprised was putting it mildly "excuse me, they were threatening you" he pointed out. "I know" she said "but you didn't need to say that to them, it's obvious that they all really admire you, and that must have been terrible for them" she said looking back behind them.

Pai was stunned, she was defending them? "How can you defend them after that?" he asked stunned. "Because, I've learned that people only act like that, because there is something that they are bothered about. I don't like to judge people until I know all the facts" she said still looking behind him in the direction of the girls, as if contemplating the idea of going back or going to…where ever she was heading.

Pai didn't know what to say, she was so different from the girls he was used to, they were all stuck up and beautiful. And because they were beautiful, they were so vain. But Bridget seemed different. She didn't seem…Fake, yeah, that was the word for her. Bridget was real, she didn't hide who she was, and if she would only get a confidence boost, then…who knows?

Suddenly the bell rang and Bridget jerked "oh no, Im gonna be late" she cried. She bent over and gave his a polite bow, before adding with a smile "but still, thank you for this morning. Because of you I was able to get some of my confidence back. Arigatou." And with that she ran off.

Pai watched her go, still stunned. She was indeed similar to Retesu, but in some ways different. For one her specialty was marine biology, Retesu's was obviously music. But still…very similar.

Kissu was always telling him to get over Retesu, maybe this way, it would be easier. So that's how Pai left that afternoon for biology, with a new interest in Bridget Verdant.

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