Story: AN AFFILIATION OF SORTS (chapter 2)
Authors: ALLjapan
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Chapter 2
Title: Chapter Two: Making Friends, Always, Always.
Lanna walks in a little late and sees again Ayumi; she’s sitting alone and Lanna looks around before going over to meet the teacher. "Hello, I'm Lanna Howling...I’ve just shifted to this class.”“Ah, yes. Lanna Howling, I was checking my emails this morning and saw the one announcing that you’d be in my class.” Lanna nodded her head numbly as she stood and avoided eye contact. The teacher had mad hair that was a burgundy purple color that curled and twisted everywhere. That doubled with the bright red lipstick and long lashes almost made Lanna want to turn straight. She chuckles inwardly as she continues to listen to the teacher, “I hear you were really good with math and calculus at your old school right?” Lanna nods and meets the teachers strangely emerald eyes respectful and obedient. “Oh great! You should have no trouble then should you? Well best you go take your seat. The table over there will do.” Lanna nodded her head a final time before walking over toward her table that the teacher had pointed to. She saw Ayumi sat at her own desk, unfortunately a desk in the back of the Calculus class. Lanna sees her as she pulls out the textbook and two notebooks required for the class, and then she folds her arms over the books and lays her head down, appearing to fall asleep almost immediately. Lanna shook her head slightly at this and then turned her attention to the unclaimed empty seat across the room from Ayumi. Only cheerleaders and their jock boyfriends are sitting near the desk, and they smile fakely at her and Lanna can’t help it as her skin crawls in memory of Ayumi’s term for her; ‘fresh meat’. Lanna, she immediately chooses she doesn’t like the looks of them, she glances over at Ayumi sadly before taking the seat assigned to her and letting out a sigh staring dead set at the board in a resigned state.Across the room Ayumi's eyes open a bit and she glares at the head cheerleader, Brittany, as the blonde smiles sweetly. This only makes Ayumi’s eyes darken for she and Brittany went way back, and they had hated each other for years. Lanna looked over and caught Ayumi as the red headed girl looked past her with a glare; she was about to smile at her friend but instead she frown and looked at beside her and to the blonde who had Ayumi’s attention. The blonde in question smiles to the new one, holding her hand out and introducing herself as Brittany Lane, cheer captain. Lanna smiles and takes the hand deciding without delay to not like the girl and still smiling she introduces herself as Lanna while she tries her best (not) to crush the cheer captain’s hand. "Pleasure to meet you."The cheer captain giggles and starts taking notes. Ayumi huffs irritably and lays her head down again. She had the inkling of a thought nibbling at her consciousness. ‘Why am I so pissed that Brittany is trying to be friends with Lanna anyways...’ She thought to herself as she felt her eyes draw down in sleepiness. She usually wouldn’t have a care in the world...Lanna makes her notes oblivious to Ayumi’s inner musings and she begins writing down her own notes. Writing them down; but none of them truly sank in. Her eyes glancing over at Ayumi every now and then; the red-head was sleeping again. She was also aware of Brittany’s occasional smiles that she falsely returned. She had chosen side. She was going to be friends with Ayumi. If the little red-head would allow her to be so. And in her heart Lanna felt that this was the right decision. There was something about the other girl which intrigued Lanna. Besides. Pushy cheerleaders were the last sought of person Lanna would want to hang blindly around. They were all shallow minded in her opinion. False pretty little dolls bought at cheap prices. And so that is how the rest of the class went. Ayumi snoozes away for the rest of class, flipping the bird at Brittany in her head. She dreams about beating the snot from her worst enemy, though she'd never do it in real life...Lanna takes notes returns false smiles while trying not to let Brittany or the others see her roll her eyes, as she triiiied to concentrate at least enough to write cohesive notes. The class doesn’t seem to take long to finish and Lanna walks over to Ayumi at the end of class touching her shoulder lightly. "Heyy, Yumi, class is over now; time for lunch."She opens one eye. "We already ate, silly." She closes her eye again, not wanting to budge out of stubbornness and pure exhaustion.Lanna shook her head, "hmm, no, that was just recess Ayumi; surely you know your timetable?" “Nah... I'm good.” Ayumi buries her head in her arms, snoring softly within a minute. Lanna shrugs and decides not to bother. It wasn’t her business if Ayumi chose not to go out for lunch...though she wanted to be friends she decided to leave the girl for now. They’d have an opportunity to talk later anyway. She then sauntered out of the class her bag slung casually on her shoulder and her mind already wandering onto the topic of what was for lunch. Lanna does however, stop at the door for one last moment looking back before saying; "fine, see ya tomorrow Ayumi; I have art next although I doubt we share that class too..." ‘Che, she probably can’t hear me’; she thinks to herself. Ayumi lifts her head a bit, watching Lanna walk away... More to the point, staring at the other's delicious butt. She lays her face on the desk, trying to hide her burning cheeks.Lanna walked out into the sunlight cheerfully a soft smile on her lips as she looked around. She had to admit the school was larger than it had appeared in the brochure.“Hey, Lanna right?” Lanna spun a little and her face nearly dropped at the sight of Brittany waving at her pessimistically to come over to join her. Lanna considered rejecting but pulled on a smile that stretched awkwardly across her face like a painted canvas. She approached Brittany with slight caution but tried not to show it.“So, like, how do you like the school? It’s your first day right?”“Yeah first day.” Lanna begins to walk as Brittany does putting a hand into her school jackets pocket. “And it’s been great, thanks.”“That’s good. The teacher is SUCH a bore don’t you think?”“I guess. She has weird sense in hair style.”Brittany lets out a laugh that is a bit too loud and Lanna struggles to not step away from her as she pats Lannas arm. “She TOTALLY does, doesn’t she? And her clothes are like so old; even dinosaurs wouldn’t like them.”Lanna laughs stiffly nodding her head. “Ah-ha-ha. I guess she does...”“I hate math anyway stuuupid subject. It’s just numbers. All you need in the world is to look good and stick with the right people. Then you’re set!”Lanna struggled not to laugh at the stupid sureness that was found in the blonde’s words. It was almost as if the cheer captain almost believed that nonsense. In fact Lanna wouldn’t be overly surprised if this were true...“Hey so I was like, thinking, would you want to sit with me and the cheer team today? We’re just chilling out but;” Brittany’s eyes slide over to Lanna. “I thought I’d offer you to sit with us anyway.”Lanna knew the hidden message pretty well. This was her chance to either get into the circle or she’d never be accepted at all. Then again it could also be a ploy; she and her friends may only be asking Lanna to be sitting with them as a joke. Because although Lanna was fair on the eyes she also wore glasses and had a quiet look and way about her which immediately set her apart from the “cool” kids on most occasions.“Well?”Lanna realised she had been thinking too long. She looks at Brittany’s dolled up face before smiling honestly at the cheer captain. “No thanks! I’m going to the library.” And so there it was.The line had been drawn. Lanna walked with a skip in her step toward the library and Brittany stared after her with her mouth agape in a totally lost in an “OMG did that just happen” expression.
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