bloody lovely chapter 2: new student

I was ten minutes early when I parked my bike in the usual spot (the very best spot out of the whole lot) and walked to the doors of Z. Knight High, the most exclusive school in the state of California. As I walked through the doors the volume went down for a seconded and then got even louder. The guys were doing the stupid pick up lines and the fake girls who think there my friends approached me.1

“Hey there K” Marina said when she got to me. Marina, a.k.a, the leader of the “Six Sticks”. She is the most awful, mean and ugliest girl ever. She believes she can do anything just because her dad is rich, but the truth is her five groupies are all in it for the money. So once it disappears she’ll be alone.2

“So I hear that your not goanna come to my party. You mind explaining why?” she continued “I mean really its goanna be really fun and a party with out the ‘great K’ isn’t a party at all, so how about it? Why don’t you just--”3

“Are you still talking?” I cut her off “what gives you the idea that you can call me K. only my friends can call me that. And I’m not going to your lousy party.” I said in my coldest voice. It was really simple to stare her down (not only because she was shorter). She didn’t really have any back bone at all.4

“How dear you say that to Marina.” one of her flunkies said. “She was just trying to--”she stopped when I looked at her.5

“I don’t think I asked you to interfere.” I looked away from her back to marina. “I don’t like it when people think they can use me. You want me to go to your party so more people would come, correct? Well I suppose that’s too bad for your plan. Now if you’ll move out of my way I wont have to embarrass you any further.”6

None of them said a thing, they just moved. I walked pass them to my locker and put my jacket in. I grabbed my math and science book out of the compartment at the top. And put my helmet in its place.7

Then I heard the most comforting voice ever. “Yoo-hoo! Kitty-Kat!” my friend Sherly came up from behind me and gave me a big hug. “You didn’t call me at all this weekend! I was worried that something might have happened to you.” 8

Sherly was a really nice girl and my only true friend. She was a pretty mocha colored girl with strait black hair that ran down her back. We would sometimes call each other twins because we were so much alike: same shoe size, same styles, same hair color, and sort of the same personality.9

“Sorry Shari. I meant to call but I got sucked up in chores. I mean you know my dad can’t cook. He’s only good at being a sergeant.” I replied, laughing a little actually. She laughed along with me.10

“So did you hear about Marina? Oh My God! Can you believe her?!” we started our usual rant on people and how they want to use us and junk.11

“I know what you mean she’s trying to get me to go to her rinky-dink party tonight. Ugh! She’s just so aggravating”12

“Uh aggravating?” she asked. I had completely forgotten that my vocabulary was a little more advance then hers.13

“Uh, you know annoying and stuff. Well any ways let get to pre-cal. I herd Mr. Wilson got a hair cut that made him look dorkier”14

“Really how is that possible?!” she laughed 15

We walked down the hall and up to the second story to room 108. On our way we started to get more whistles and some glares from the prep girls. Not our fault that there jocks had a sudden liking towards emo’s (ok maybe it was just us). But oh did those girls hate us. Some of them act nice to us just to get to the guys who liked us, but Shari and I are too smart for that.16

We had finally got to the hall were our class was. 17

“So k… your not gonna keep on looking for this boy are you?” Shari suddenly asked me. She was the only one who I told about my desire too find him. I just couldn’t forget about him.18

“Sheri… you know the answer. He saved my life and he brought me to Clovis… I need to find him. I’ve gone through too much to give up now.”19

“Yeah but kitty, you don’t think about any other guys but him. I mean Mike and Tyler asked you out and you rejected both of them. There the hottest emo guys in the school. Its not gonna hurt to go out with some one.” 20

“I don’t care about any other guys but him.”21

“Kitty you don’t even know the boys name. How do you expect to find him?”22

“I don’t know … but I will. I know I will Sherly I just need some more time.” I started to sound like I was pleading a teacher for an extension on a homework assignment. 23

“Kitty I don’t know you’ve been looking for him for ten years now. If you haven’t found him by now then how would you expect to find him ever.” I could tell that she was truly worried about me. 24

“Shari… I just have a feeling that is I look hard enough I can find him I know I can. Please just trust me on this.”25

“Okay but please kitty don’t put all your hope into finding this guy.” She said as we walked in to the class room and took our seats in the back corner. The bell rang two seconds later and Mr. Wilson walked in.26

“Class we have a new student to day…” he started I leaned back to Shari and whispered. 27

“Told you so doesn’t he look awful” we giggled and then she looked back to the front of the room and her expression changed. Her chin almost hit the table. “Shari, what is it?” she didn’t reply and she didn’t look at me I fallowed her gaze to the front of the class room.28

There he stood the boy in my dreams. The boy I’ve been looking for over ten years. The same boy who I’ve longed to see again. He was standing there in front of me.29

But the thing is… he was emo now. His black hair had blue and silver streaks in it. He was wearing black skinnys and a My Chemical Romance tee shirt. He wasn’t just a beautiful boy any more. He was a hot emo now. His eyes though, they were still that beautiful liquid blue color I remember. 30

I had almost jumped up and ran to him if Shari hadn’t pulled me back down to my seat. I could feel the tears treating to come out, but I held it all back in. I couldn’t take my eyes off him.31

“Class this is Zero Raymond.” Zero… that’s his name. Mr. Wilson looked around the class room and found an empty seat. “I expect you all to welcome him to our school. Now Mr. Raymond you can sit in the back next to Miss. Campbell.”32

Oh. My. Gowd. That’s me! I almost lost it, but then he walked up towards me all my nerves went away. Then I felt Shari nudge me. I knew exactly what she was thinking.33

When he sat down next to me I leaned a little closer to him and said “so your name is Zero?” I was so glad my voice didn’t crack. He turn towards me and just looked at me.34

Then he spoke is voice was like honey to me even though what he said was something that broke my heart. “Who are you?”35

I felt completely shocked but then I figured that I must look different from when I was a kid so I tried again. “I’m Katharina remember we met when we were kids.” He has to remember me now right?36

“Sorry I don’t know who you are.” He said coldly. I had thought my heart was already broken but now there smashed in to a billion peaces.37

“No its okay… my mistake; I thought you were someone I knew. “I turned my head towards the window and tried to stop my hand from shacking.38

He doesn’t remember me. I spent 10 years looking for him. He was in my dreams every single night: loving me in my dreams and saving me from my nightmares. I had never forgotten about him… but there sits claming that he doesn’t know me. My heart was grounded in to dust in just a minute. “K…” I herd sherry say but I could talk. I was just too broken. Mr. Wilson continued with the lesson, but I didn’t hear a word he said. As I looked out the window I didn’t see anything. I was about to panic but then I didn’t care anymore. 39

It felt like for ever till the bell rang, but when it did all my senses came back. I had gotten up in time to see him walk out the door. “K? Are you alright?” I felt her hand on my shoulder trying to reassure me. It was plain obvious that she had heard the whole thing.40

I glanced back at her and she had a worried look on her face. “I-I’m fine Shari. It was dumb of me to think that he would remember me…” I felt hot tears run down my cheek.41

“Come on.” She grabbed our bags and started to pull me out the class room. I pulled my hair in front of my face so no one could se me cry. She pulled me in to the rest room which was luckily across the hall. When we got in Sherly started to bang on the stalls “EVERY ONE GET OUT NOW! Hurry up! Go, get out! The three girls rushed out the restroom and she opened up every stall to make sure no one was there. I walked over to the mirrors and dried my eyes. 42

“Kitty what just happened in there?” she asked43

“What did it look like? I just gave my heart to the boy of my dreams and he broke it in 2 seconds. You were right it was stupid of me to chase after him after so long. I was an idiot!” I punch down on the counter. My hand started to hurt but I didn’t care. 44

“Kat… listen I wasn’t right, you’re not an idiot, and its going to be okay. Don’t you give up on every thing. You worked so long and hard for this are you going to just throw it all away?”45

“You don’t get it! He doesn’t even remember me! What am I suppose to do huh?! If he couldn’t even remember me what makes you think that he even cares about me?!” I glare at her trying to get her to back off.46

“He saved your life! That’s how I know! He wouldn’t have done that if he didn’t care about you…”47

More tears came out “but what do I do…” my voice broke again.48

“Girl what do you think?! Make him remember; make him fall in love with you again. I should be that hard for you I mean you got Mike and Tyler.” She smirked a little and then pulled me into a hug. “I know you can do it. Make that boy fall head over heals for you.” She stepped back and smiled at me.49

“Oh Shari… you really want to get to Tyler so much that you would want me to go out with Zero. That’s so kind of you.” I said sarcastically.50

“Yup!” she started to laugh a little and I soon laughed too. “Now lets go before were late to class.”51

“Okay just let me check my eye liner.” I turned back to the mirror and checked if my liner was running or not. It wasn’t but I still asked Sheri to barrow hers. I darkened the rim of my eyes. 52

“Go any darker you might hollow out your eyes.” 53

“Hey I’m supposed to be getting an emo guy to fall for me right?”54

Yeah but you might get Tyler too and just because were emo doesn’t mean the girl code doesn’t apply. Remember rule #5 you take the guy I like I’m aloud to kick your butt.”55

“Ha, ha. You can have him okay. I’m not interested.”56

“You better not.”57

“Oh scary.”58

“Let’s go.” I said giving bake her eyeliner. When we open the door there was a line of girls waiting. Sherly and I walked away front them like we didn’t even se them but once we were around the corner we started to crack up. “Come on ha, ha we better run to class.” We started to run as fast as we could to our next class (or at least Sherly was running as fast as she could to keep up with me.).59