Chapter Four:
I remembered the battle last night, it had gone on till early hours of this morning. I crashed when I got home, a little bruised. As I showered and got ready, I realised I had less then three hours of sleep. I yawned and grabbed my stuff for school, skipping breakfast and slowly making my way to school. I pulled my timetable out to see what I had first, I smacked myself in the face when I saw I had a free period. I groaned, I could have slept for another hour, or had breakfast. Deciding to get some breakfast I popped into the diner.
"Rei, you look so tired." I heard Andrew's worried voice.
I smiled and trudged over to where he and Darien were currently sitting.
"Late night?" Darien asked. He gave me a knowing look, I nodded. We hadn't used him in the fight, we didn't need to.
"Kind of...hope...goes...fast." I said through yawns. They gave me a knowing look. Already filling in some of my blanks. Lita walked in next and joined us, Andrew had left ten minuets later, to pick up his sister.
"I have sport next." I groaned.
"We all have sport, its Seniors Sport."
I groaned even more, I was dreading this, it meant we will be placed with the year above which meant I had some explaining to do. The doorbell rang and in came...
"REI!" I turned to see Hilary walking this way, she was with Max, she smiled and waved shyly.
"Hi...Hilary." I said through yawns. I still hadn't woken up just yet.
"Rei you look tired." Max said, stating the obvious.
"Just a little." I smiled.
"So..." Hilary started, she looked away from Darien. I finally clicked.
"Hilary and Max this here is my friend Darien."
Darien shook both theirs hands and smiled a polite hello. He excused himself to go and collect Serena for school. Max and Hilary joined the table. I got a message from Mina and Amy telling they they were at school and will see me in Sport. I groaned yet again.
"I don't want to do sport." I said, stretching out my sore muscles. I hadn't fully recovered from the fight.
"Me either, I just want to sleep." Lita joined in, she rubbed her tired eyes and yawned.
"What is the sport we are playing?" I asked. I had no clue and my brain was to fried to find the answer.
"I think there is the choices between, basketball, soccer, bowling and rowing." Max said tapping his chin in thought.
"I wanna do soccer, I can stand there." I said.
We had spent an hour just talking. I started to like Hilary, slightly, she was alright. I still kept to myself with her and Max.
As we were walking I had been talking to Max about our short stories due next week.
"I am writing a psychological thriller. I am actually liking my work so far." I reached in and handed it over to him. He started to read it.
"Wow Rei this is amazing. You have to let me read it when you finish." he hadn't taken long to read through the first two chapters. I nodded and made a note for it. We walked into the school grounds, I was reading Max's work.
"This is great Max, can I read when you finish it?"
"Sure, I guess we can trade stories."
I laughed and handed it back. I walked to my locker, I threw my bag in.
"So the Queen of Ice actually does smile. You scared to like people?" came Emily's voice. I shuddered, I couldn't help it, it was so annoying. I would much rather listen to Mina sing then her voice anyday.
"No, it's people like you she doesn't want to socialise with." came my saving grace. I turned back to thank the person when my brain finally saw who it was. I wanted to smack myself in the face.
"Well well Kai, nice to always see you too." Emily's voice dripped in venom. She clearly didn't like Kai. I had no idea why. He was nice and funny plus he was smart too. She huffed and stormed off, I waved goodbye to her retreating back.
"What happened to you yesterday?" he asked, leaning against the lockers.
"Sorry, I had to help a friend." I went with the half truth.
"Alright. How is the physics assignment coming?"
I bit my lip and turned bright red, I had forgotten about it completely. I was such an idiot, what was I going to say? I didn't like lying about things I didn't need to.
"I spaced on it. I haven't finished it yet." I said, looking down. I know I was going to either just pass or fail that assignment.
"I see. When is it due?"
"Tomorrow, late tomorrow. It's my last class."
I felt really stupid, I was meant to keep on top of my schooling. Sailor business was important but so was school.
"Can I see you timetable?" he asked.
"Sure." I dug through my locker and grabbed it out, handing it to him. He read through it and then pointed to my period or Art.
"Is this overly important?"
"Not really." I admitted, I was terrible at art, I was in with Serena and now I think of is so was Tyson. I never thought about it.
"Good, I can meet you in the library if you want help?" he asked.
"Ok then." I nodded. The teacher didn't mind us studying in the library and I had finished my project already, so I guessed it was alright to fib.
Kai and I walked to the Gym.
"What are you choosing?" I asked.
"Probably basketball. Tala is doing it as is Brooklyn." I nodded. I had got to learn that Tala was his closest friend, then followed by Ray. I felt like a stalker knowing this but it was what Hilary had blabbed to me about.
"How about you?" he asked when we entered.
"Soccer." I headed off to meet up with Lita who was standing in the Soccer line.
"So we ready to do this?"
"Not in the slightest." I replied. We walked up the line and finally signed our names down. We were sent to change, when we were dressed we headed to the field. Lita and I started to stretch, talking about how sore we still were. We were put on the same team which was good and then given a game plan. The girl next to me, Tammy or something started to talk to me.
"Wow, Kai, Tala, Brooklyn, Michael and Ray is with them, they are watching us."
"What?" I turned to where she was looking, she was right, they sat on the side, dressed in their gym clothes.
"Look out." someone yelled. As I turned Lita was in front of me, she caught the ball.
"Hey Idiot, watch where you kick it." she yelled, kicking the ball with more force then necessary back at the guy. It hit his gut and he fell over winded.
"Come on Rei, pay attention. You make Serena look good." we both turned to where our princess was. She was trying to block the goals but instead copped the ball to the head. She fell over and started to cry. I sighed.
"Mina has her, its her turn remember?" Lita said pointing at the other blonde in our group. She stalked over to Serena and pulled her aside. Probably the Sailor lecture we all copped sometimes. I had started it and regretted it ever since.
The game got started, I blocked out the guys who were currently yelling things from the side. Well Michael and Tala were. The game came to an end and I jogged over to my bag, taking out my water bottle, I took a massive gulp.
"We are the champions." Lita sang as she reached me, I laughed and shoved her away when she got close. We grabbed out stuff, I turned to see if the guys were still sitting, they weren't.
"Wanna go watch a match?" Lita asked. I knew she wanted revenge on Michael, who she was currently dating.
"Sure."
We headed over to the courts and sat down in the stand, I saw Kai and Tala shooting, they never missed. Michael came running up the stands, kissing Lita on the mouth.
"Good game babe." he smiled at her, she blushed and giggled. Lita never giggled. I was left in shock at this.
"Good luck." she kissed him and he ran back down. I starred at Lita, open mouthed.
"What?" she said. She leaned on her hands ans sighed, watching her boyfriend.
"AH...nothing." I said, turning back to the match.
Kai looked up when Michael pointed at us, he nodded his head a hello, I returned it. We watched the boys basketball team, it was very violent. I hadn't seen anything so violent before, well except on missions. I kept flinching and making noises and Lita yelled. I grabbed onto her when she wanted to knock some sense into someone. The game finished, of course Michael's team won by 40 points. Lita raced down to go and sooth her boyfriend, leaving me feeling alone and awkward. I wasn't to sure what to do. I started to kind of pick at my shorts when I head someone sit next to me.
"Enjoy the game?" Kai asked.
"It was violent." I said. He nodded, I saw the side of his mouth twitch.
"Do you ever smile?" I blurted out.
He turned to look at me, it was a mixture of, what-are-you-on? And a are-you-serious? Look. Then he did something that blew my question to smitheries. Her smirked. Her actually smirked.
"Depends really."
"On what?" I asked, my curiosity was really bad. I may not like to talk to people but when I do, I soak up everything about them like a sponge.
"If someone amuses me."