I waved good-bye then thought, why go back home when I could go to Ian’s house; he should be home for practice. I shut the front door and walked over Ian’s house.
I knocked on his front door and waited. Seconds later a little boy, looking exactly like Ian minus all the black, was at the door, “hi, aren’t you the neighbor girl?”
“Uh, yeah. Is Ian home?” I ask.
He smiled, “Ian!! Your friend is at the door!!” he yelled, “so…your pretty”
“Um, and how old are you?” I ask.
“13” he said with a smile.
I gave a sheepish smile then played with my bangs. Then Ian came running down the stairs, with no shirt on, “Yo! Jamie! Stop harassing her!!”
Ian’s abs was sooo hot, I felt like drooling, but I kept my cool composure, “h-hey Ian I was wondering if I could, hang out with you”
“Sure, come on up to my room” he ran up the stairs and down a hallway.
“Come on! His room is this way” the boy, that I was guessing washis brother, said and grabbed my hand. He pulled me up stairs and in the opposite direction Ian went in, “here!”
He walked me into a room, Ian’s room. The black one with all the posters, “just stay here, Ian will be in soon” the boy left. I got curious and popped my head out Ian’s room. There was a room open next to his, and it was pink. Everything in there was pink. I popped my head in and saw a little girl in there playing with a dollhouse. She looked up at me, and stood up, “who are you?”
“Eh? Oh me!! Sorry I’m your new neighbor, I stopped by to see Ian, he didn’t tell me he had a sister” I say and stand in the doorway.
She smiled, “you can come I if you like” she said.
I step in and looked around, everything was pink, the walls, the rug, the bed sheets, the light color was pink, and so was most of her toys, “so how old are you?” I ask.
“I’m 5. My name is Jade,” she said. She had dirty blonde hair like me, and big blue eyes, also like me.
“Jay-jay-kun” I say. She giggled, “So you like that nickname?” I ask.
She nodded and took my hand, “do you like dolls?”
“Yea, I remember when I was 5, I loved playing with dolls. Oh!! By the by, my names Caitlin” I say.
A few seconds later, Ian came in, with a shirt on this time, “there you are Cait-chan, I thought I lost you. Come on”
“I’ll play with you later jay-jay-kun” I say and pat her head.
“Ok” she said and resumed playing with the dollhouse.
“Wow, normally she’s so quite” he said and brought me back to his room, “so, whatcha wanna do?”
“I don’t know it’s your house” I say.
“Do you wanna go online?” he asked.
I had and idea, “hai! You can talk to my friend from America online!”
“Uh sure” he went over to his computer and turned it on, “so, what’s their screen name?”
“Her screen name is Gaara24, Gaara is a Naruto character,” I explain.
“I know” he got on to aim, his screen name was Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star.
“Just type in Gaara24 Kay?” I say.
“Ya” he did so and typed to Steph:
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: hey
Gaara24: uhh…do I know you?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: this is Ian, cait’s neighbor. I have cait here with me
Gaara24: ohh!!! Ok!! So are you hott and emo?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: lol, ya, so tell me about you
Gaara24: uhh brown hair and brown eyes, I’m short, grrr cait I know your laughing
And I really was laughing, from the beginning
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: lol she is
Gaara24: smack her for me
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: sure
Ian hit me in the head, “hey? What gives?” I yell at him
“Your friend told me to do it” he said:
Gaara24: so how do you like cait?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: she’s cool…
Gaara24: do you like her?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: yeah, she’s my friend
Gaara24: no I mean like, like her
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: uh, yeah, she’s my bestest bffl
Gaara24: I call being the godmother of your first child!! XD
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: lol, were still so young
Gaara24: do you like corn?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: ?? That’s random but I guess…
Gaara24: cait knows what I’m talking about, XD I love that face XD
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: ok, my fav is ^.^
Gaara24: I love that one too ^^
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: ^.-
Gaara24: ok, I g2g I <3 you both
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: we <3 u too
(Gaara24 has signed off)
“See, isn’t she awesome” I said and hugged him.
“Strange but awesome” he said, “Hey look, jonouchi is on” he said:
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: hey jonouchi
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: hey, hey
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: so whatcha doing?
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: doing HW ugh…
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: ohhh… I finished mine
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: hey, what up with that cait girl
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: what about her?
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: y is she so preppy?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: cuz she a happy emo? What’s wrong with that?
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: nothing its just that, she’s so hot and shes emo, isn’t that odd? I mean most hott girls aren’t emo
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: idk she’s cool like that
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: mmmm ok
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: alright I gotta hang with cait now
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: 0_0 she was there the whole time?
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: ^^ ya
^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^: ugh well tell her I said hi and c ya
Emo{>.< }Soccer{XD}Star: Kay bii
(^^JonouchiXLovesXgirls^^ signed off)
I was laughing my butt off while Ian signed of, “he’s funny” I say and clean my face, smearing my makeup all over my face and hands, “Aww man”
“Here, I have eyeliner in the bathroom, you could fix yours if you want” he said. I smiled and followed him out to the hall and to the bathroom, where he was before.
“Here” he handed me the eye liner after I washed my face in the sink, “thanks Ian. But why do you keep eyeliner?”
“Cant a guy try and look pretty?” he joked. I laughed harder than before and I couldn’t get the eyeliner on because my hand was shaking.
“Here, let me help” Ian took the eyeliner and helped put it on my face, “there, now your beautiful”
He put the eye liner away and we both walked out and down stairs to the living room, “so, now what?”
“Uh, now we watch a scary movie” I say and sit on the couch.
“Ok, fine. But if its too scary, don’t cry to me” he said and put ‘Halloween’ on.
Only 5 minute into the movie, I started shaking and holding on to Ian for dear life, “god. How can I enjoy the movie with you on me?” he asked.
“What’s happening? Is he gunna die? Ahhhhh! What was that?” I was asking so many questions, and not paying attention to Ian at all.
When the movie was over, I was still terrified, “I-Ian? C-can I stay over?”
“Why? Because you’re a big chicken?” he asked smiling at me.
I got my courage back and stood up straight, “ha! Me? A chicken? In your dreams emo boy” I say.
Then there was a ‘boo’ sound behind me and I jumped and fell on the floor, “ah ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!”
I looked up and saw Jamie, Ian’s brother, laughing at me, “why you little runt”
I attacked him and gave him noogies while Ian watched, laughing.
“Ya you can stay over cait-chan” Ian said.
“Great! Thanks a bunch!” I say and hug him.
The next morning, I woke up next to Ian in his bed. I looked at the clock and saw it was 7:30 am and that the alarm rang 3 times, “Wahh! Ian wake up were gunna be late!!”
I jumped out the bed and ran out the room, down the stairs and out the front door. I ran back into my house, took a quick shower, got my uniform on, put every other article of clothing I needed on, shoved my eyeliner in my pocket, grabbed my books and ran out the house to be met with Ian, running to the school with me, “we can make it!! I know it!!” I yelled taking deep breaths with every step.
Ian and I ran non-stop to the school, not even stopping to cross a street.
Once we got to the school, we had 5 minutes to get to our lockers and get into class. “Bye Ian I love you!!” I yell and run to my locker, pushing passed people. I got to my locker and quickly opened it on my own this time. I got all the books I needed and ran to class. I didn’t have much time left, but my classroom was right there. I slid my books into the class and did a flip into the room and landed with a perfect spilt, right before the bell rang.
“I give you a 10 for making it in on time but a 5 for the entrance. This isn’t the gymnastics squad” mayu-sama said, “but that was pretty impressive”
I smiled and stood up, dusting off my outfit. I grabbed my books and sat in my seat, next to arisa, “that was impressive”
“Thanks” I say as I put my eyeliner on. I looked around the class and saw there was another new kid. He had bright orange hair, an odd color but it went good with his beautiful amber eyes. All the girls were crowded over him and he looked like bursting. I heard people saying, “he’s related to sohma-kun?” so I’m guessing he was yuki sohma’s cousin. But what’s his name?
I walked up to sohma-kun, “Excuse me sohma-kun?” I ask.
He turned to me and smiled, “good morning dorrer-san. I liked your entrance this morning” he said.
“Um thanks. I heard people saying the new kid is related to you, is he your cousin?” I ask.
He frowned at the subject, “yes he is unfortunately”
Unfortunately? I’d be appreciative to have a cousin that popular. All of a sudden, there was a burst and the kid jumped out the window. I got worried that he wouldn’t make it down in one piece and an over there, but saw him land on his feet. I gave out a sigh of relief and went back to sohma-kun, “what’s his name, that daring kid?”
“Kyo sohma” he said. I smiled at the name. It sounded so nice. Kyo. That name also sounded so familiar, like a friends name of mine.
“So, he doesn’t look anything like you” I say looking at sohma-kun.
“Yes and for that I’m grateful,” he said. I gave him a smile and looked away, “dorrer-san,”
I looked back at him, “hmm?”
“In English class, I saw you were having trouble with kanji-” my face went red from embarrassment. Ahh!!! I can’t believe he saw me…but its true…I cant read Japanese writing!!!
“Uh ya. Well you know I don’t come from here so it’s hard to learn new writing and stuff” I say.
“Well, maybe you could stop by my house after school and I could teach you how” he said smiling. Me? Invited to sohma-kun’s house. By sohma-kun himself?! The popular boy in school? This is so weird…
“Uh, I mean I couldn’t!!” I say, he frowned, “I can’t steal your home time away from you just to teach me how to read and write in kanji”
He smiled again, “I don’t mind. Not at all”
“Umm, I guess I could. If you’d like me to,” I say fixing my hair.
“Ok, then look for me after school” he said smiling at me. I blushed even harder, then looked away, “ok, see you then”
I can’t believe sohma-kun just invited me to his humble home. The thought ran through my head all day in school. I got so side tracked that I got in trouble a numerous amount of times. But why am I getting all worked up about yuki? Back in America I hated the poplar kids in school, why do I all of a sudden like the poplar kids…
By the end of the class day, I was looking all around for yuki.
“Hey cait-chan. who are you looking for?” Ian asked while all his friends came by me.
“Sohma-kun” I say looking around.
They all looked at each other, “that popular boy?” kureno asked.
“Isn’t he part of the student council?” jonouchi asked. Sai nodded.
“Yes. He asked me to look for him so we could go to his house and study writing in Japanese” I say then finally find him, “sohma-Kun!!”
“Dorrer-chan. Are you ready to go?” he asked.
“Yeah” I say.
“Sohma-kun!” I heard tohru yell.
We all turned around and saw tohru, “tohru-san, hi what’s up?” I ask.
“Oh hey, I’m just trying to catch up with sohma-kun,” she said.
“Oh, okay” I say, “well, I see you guys later in the day ok?”
“Yeah I guess,” sai said while shrugging.
“Let us go” yuki said. Tohru and I followed yuki out the school and down the street, “so tohru, did sohma-kun invite you to his house too?” I ask.
“Uh, well yeah. Don’t tell anyone. But I live with him” she said a little ashamed.
I thought about it, but nothing came. Why would she have to stay at yuki’s house? “Oh, its ok I won’t tell. And that’s perfectly fine, I don’t mind” I say with a smile. She smiled and so did yuki.
We entered the gates and to the, not too far back was a not too small, Japanese house. It was so pretty, “wow sohma-kun I like your house”
“Thank you dorrer-san” he said and opened the door.
“We’re home! And we brought a guest” tohru yelled going into the house.
“Guest?” an older man said coming to where we were. He was a very beautiful man, Short black hair and nice black eyes. He looked about 26ish, “Oooo a high school girl. Is she for me?”
I blushed. “Shigure don’t be vulgar” yuki said and smacked him upside his head, “yuki, it isn’t nice to hurt people in front of other people”
Yuki didn’t say anything but took off his shoes, tohru did the same, “oh, could you take your off?”
“Oh sure, sorry” I say and take off my shoes.
“So what’s your name?” the one named Shigure asked.
“I’m Caitlin dorrer. I just moved here a couple days ago and sohma-kun invited me over to study kanji since I’m not familiar with the writing” I say.
“Ahh yes, a little study date I see yuki?” Shigure asked.
“Please don’t mind him at all” yuki said to me.
“Shigure! What are you chatting on about now?” a familiar voice said. I looked at the stairway and saw kyo come down the steps, “I was trying to”
Once he saw me, he stopped and looked at me, “oh, its you”
