Chapter 1. The way it began
-Kagome-
My math test was placed down in front of me on my desk. A bright red A+ stared at me, I stared back. Overtime I just stopped smiling at high grades, is 100 really the best I could do? Cause I felt like I could do better.
"Another A+"
A voice from in front me said.
"Surprise, Surprise"
Two heads turned and cocked their professionally waxed eyebrows at me, smirking. Kikyo and Seshora, two of my best friends. I pathetically smiled.
"Yay me?" I tried to make it sound like I was surprised, but I they both know I make good grades. Kikyo has always teased me about how much I study.
"Kagome an A+ is a good mark." Kikyo said blankly.
"It's perfect!" Seshora threw in.
Our teacher dropped Seshora's paper on her desk, then turning to Kikyo dangled hers in front of her face; she looked disgusted to have to touch it. She snatched it away, as I glanced to Seshora who was disinterested in the whole conversation. Kikyo stared at it, frustrated. Eventually she turned her head and allowed her tongue to hang out of her mouth.
"BLAHHHHH! F-" she said tossing it across the room.
"It could be worse," I said.
"As in?"
"Oh…"
"Whatever, lets see Seshora's grade."
Kikyo tilted her head, leaning to Seshora's desk. The paper remained upside down.
"Does it matter?" Seshora said as she folded it and dropped it into her bag.
"I could tutor you guys." I offered, already knowing the answer I was going to get.
The two of them looked at each and then turned back to me.
"And waste our weekends studying?" Kikyo retorted," I think not. I have better things to do."
"Sure you do." Seshora sarcastically grinned.
"Well excuse me for not having modeling gigs to run off too every Sunday afternoon" Kikyo rolled her eyes.
I smiled at them. It amazes me that neither of them cared if they failed or not. Not to mention they were right about the having better things to do thing. Seshora was so pretty she'd started to make a career out of it and Kikyo does…whatever Kikyo does in her off time. I'm not sure I want to know what she gets into when she's not supervised.
"Kikyo! Pull down your shirt before I send you to the principles office." Shouted the teacher from the front of the room.
"Uhhhh. I need to go on a diet." She whined pinching her stomach.
"Kiki," I exhaled, using her pet name.
She rolled her eyes at me. Kikyo's not fat, she knows it too. She knows that she's pretty, but she needs attention. Doesn't matter who its from, she just needs to be admired. Her mom has never been the most supportive, even when we were little she never paid much attention to her. When puberty hit Kikyo started looking for attention from other people. Sometimes I worry she'll get the wrong kind of attention from some guy and end up getting hurt. I guess that's why I've always made a point to dote on her a little. I couldn't bare to think of my best friend hurt.
"You know what I'm going to say." I smile.
"Nope. Refresh my memory."
"You are thin. You are Hot. And everyone's jealous of you."
"Ha!"
I looked to Seshora for help, but she was off on her own planet in her sketchbook as though we hadn't been talking at all. I worry about them sometimes.
I worry, but I love them both.
-Kikyo-
Guess who got another A+ on their math test? Kagome. And guess who got another D? Me. I still don't understand how she gets such good grades; it's hard to believe she studies that much. I'd rather die that stay up more than an hour studying, I can barley stand the six agonizing hours which we are forced to perform five days a week. After math class Seshora and I said goodbye to Kagome and made our way to the east side of school. It was actually a bit of a relief, I needed some air without sweet and darling perfection in it.
"Skip next class with me." I said to Naraku who was jamming a binder into his locker.
"Don't have to say that twice." I groaned slamming the door shut.
I turned to Seshora who was digging through her backpack. When she looked up I asked, "Do you wanna come?"
"Maybe."
She mumbled as she stared at the long row of lockers. She didn't use her locker much, except when she wants to hide stuff, or when she makes mysterious trades with people of unknown identities. She's always up to something.
"Did you forget which locker is yours? What's the hold up?" Naraku said leaning against the wall.
"No I'm trying to remember which key fits this lock" She said as she fumbled with a crowded key ring.
"Why the hell do you have more than one lock?" I retorted, getting bored of waiting.
"I have my reasons" She grinned finally finding the key and twisting the key releasing the lock. The door swung open revealing a brown paper bad inside. Scribbled on the outside was a not that said 'just for you sweetie '. She looked pleased as she quickly stuffed it into her purse and relocked the door, with a different lock.
"I'm ready now".
I gave Naraku a confused look but all he gave me was a shrug. I guess he didn't know about it either.
The three of us left the school and crossed campus, ducking through a hole in the fence. Once we were through we headed down hill until we came to a small, Privet River, which was surrounded by large smooth rocks and a bunch of trees. This was our spot. We settled our selves in the normal places on our usual rocks.
"I hate school." I whined running my fingers through my long hair. Naraku agreed while digging through his pockets.
"Smoke?" He offered. I took one but sighed as he lit my cig up
"For once this isn't gonna be enough to fix a bad day." I took my first drag. It felt good, but it was still didn't fix a shitty day.
"Wanna go find some coffee?" he suggested. I shook my head.
"I wanna bury my head in the sand." I grunted. Naraku laughed but after a morning of Kagome's annoying flawlessness, drowning in the river looked pretty good.
"Well if that doesn't work out, try a swig of this".
I looked up just in time to see Seshora pull a bottle of liquor from the brown bag that had been in her locker. I've always known Seshora to have a bit of a dark side. She always acts like an angel in from of anyone who might get her in trouble, but in the privacy of the woods with Naraku and me, she's a whole other person.
"Where did you get that?" I said intrigued by the possibility of a fun afternoon.
"I have my ways" She giggled, taking the first drink. She's always turning up with fun surprises like this. I'm pretty sure she gets it from some of the upperclassmen burnouts, but she's the only one who could ever afford stuff like this. Her parents have always been wealthy, but I know those swimsuit ads she poses for pays her pretty well. I guess it does pay to be pretty.
"She's right I do need some of that." I said reaching eagerly for the bottle.
"We all do." Naraku agreed signaling for the bottle after me.
Seshora smile knowing she had put us in our perfect moods. As the two of them relaxed in silence I observed them. The only words that came to mind were beautiful. Very beautiful. Naraku was light skinned, with dark hair, really quite long for a boy. Which was at the moment pulled back into a loose ponytail. His black shirt, tight jeans, and combat boots finished off his edgy look perfectly.
Seshora had a look that could only be described as gorgeous. Her translucent skin, and blue cat eyes were unearthly. She had longer hair than anyone I'd ever known, to top that it always fell into perfect golden waves. She was almost always wearing black, and it suited her quiet, elegant personality. Black, skintight pants, a red tank top, black high-heeled boots and a leather jacket. She was the epitome of cool. I wonder if her jobs pay her to dress like that, I mean seriously, who wears high heals all the damn time anyway?
Seshora thrusting the bottle back at me broke my thoughts, I guess it was my turn again. I took another sip. Whatever it was, it burned. I was beginning to feel the buzz as the drink made its way through my system.
"Kagome was wearing your shirt today." Naraku broke the silence.
I thought back to the cropped pink shirt she had on. It was mine, in fact.
"The color almost fooled me, but something that shows off any stomach can't be Kagome's." He smiled at me. I rolled my eyes knowing he was right. Kagome's mother is quite strict, especially with clothes. I offered her the shirt out of compassion, and because in return I got to wear her miss sixties jeans, which I happened to be wearing now.
"Does it kill you?" He asked.
"Does what?"
"That she looks hot in something you own?"
The very thought made me want to blow steam.
"How about that new movie?"
I heard Seshora laugh at my random change of subject. She turned her head towards me and cocked an eyebrow.
"It's absolutely killing you."
-Kagome-
"Is this even real meat?" Eri complained, poking the schools lunch special with her fork. It was meatloaf, but I was convinced it was road kill.
"I don't know how you can eat stand to eat poor defenseless little animals like that!" Ayame crinkled her nose, a look of superiority on her face. Ayame is a hard-core vegetarian; she won't even eat milk or eggs.
"Fish isn't meat, and I would rather eat 'school surprise special' than the tofu shit your eating." Seshora snorted, picking up a piece of her sushi lunch, that she brought daily.
"Anyway." Sango sighed, rolling her light brown eyes, "Can we go back to the dance topic?"
We all nodded in agreement.
"Are we going to do dates in or out of the group this year?" Sango asked looking around. I saw Yuka take out a pen and take notes, she's so organized.
"I think we should do dates in the group." Kikyo suggested as she drew little X's all over Naraku's wrist.
"I agree." He said, a few others nodded in agreement.
"Why can't we intermingle this year? We should really get to know other people." I stated, looking around to see everyone's reactions. I noticed a twitch in Seshora's movement as she took a bite of her sushi, and a few others shift uncomfortably in their seats but Kikyo was the only one to say anything.
"As much fun as that would be, I'm not going to prom with some A class loser I've never spoken to before."
"Kikyo!" She knows I don't like categorizing or insulting others. However she ignored me.
"Kikyo is simply saying we might as well go with some one we can level with, instead of someone who barley knows us." Seshora explained, although I didn't understand her reasoning. What's wrong with making new friends?
"They do have a point Kags, why go with a stranger and make it all awkward?" Ayumi pointed out, soon everyone was agreeing with her.
"Fine. We'll do group dates."
"How are we going to decide who will be with who this year?" Yuka asked, clicking her pen.
"I think we should put the girls names in a hat and us boys randomly pick one. We take whoever we get." Hojo said triumphantly.
"Good plan, but we have a problem." Sango said after thinking about Hojo's plan, "There are two odd girls out."
We all went silent after realizing this. Last year that hadn't been an issue because we'd two other boys in the group, twin brothers. They had just moved away because of their dad's job.
"Whoever the odd girls are can find other dates." Rin said pointing out the obvious.
"That works. Now how has a hat?"
-Kikyo-
The gods are on my side today! We did the dance hat draw and I got with Naraku. If I were with any of the other boys I would be board to death. The other great thing is that Kagome is the odd girl out! HA HA HA!
Koga is with Ayame, Hojo with Ayumi, Hokaku with Yuka, Ginta with Eri, Miroku with Sango, Sesshomaru with Rin Naraku with me, and poor little Kagome is all by herself. Now she has to hunt for a date.
What the hell am I saying? Hunt? All she has to do is scream 'I NEED A DATE!' and all the boys will come running. But since all the cute boys are in our group, so she won't be going with a Mr. Hottie that's for sure. I wonder who Seshora will bring, or if she'll even show up. She's not always big on social events.
Tomorrow is Friday so after school, us girls will all go dress shopping for prom. The dance is next Friday, and we have the Thursday before and that Friday off, so the girls will be going to a hot springs before the dance. The dance is semi-formal so we almost everybody is gonna wear a short dress, but I've been planning for something long and sexy since we all decided to go. Well date or not, I'm going to make sure that I have a much better time then Kagome Higurashi. And that's a promise.