In an Alternate Universe -Day 01-

Day 01

 My glasses rested calmly on and still on my face as I gazed about the classroom and eventually stopping on the boy in sitting in front of me. No, he is sleeping. It is barely the third week and he i sleeping, but I can't blame him, summer seemed to had ended abruptly. The teacher continued rambling about his class rules as I tried to bury my imagination with words from my book but constantly stared at the boy sleeping front of me. When the teacher finished, he began to explain a kind of meeting-new-people-and-move-or-else kind of activity because he was most likely to lazy to teach us anything and/or grade. I'd rather not participate.
 He noticed the boy sleeping in front of me. "I won't be explaining this again." he said beginning to tap his pencil on the boys head.
 The boy calmly sat up, opening his eyes, "Maybe you shouldn't assume you will have too."
 I slide down a bit in my chair and bury my face in my book. Maybe he wasn't sleeping.
 The teacher shook his head and probably muttered something about our generation under his breath. He gave us the go ahead to move abound and the boy immediately turned towards me smiling.
 "Estheim Hope." He said looking directly at my peaking eyes.
 "Akiyama Akira." I whispered into the seam of the book hiding my face.
 "I'm sorry? I couldn't quite hear you." He teased playfully poking at my book.
 "Akiyama! Akira!" I said placing my book down.
 "I heard you." He said smiling, "I was just teasing you" I picked my book up. I will not lie, I kinda like him.
 "You shouldn't be so intimidated. Are you completly new here." He asked.
  I nodded.
 "You don't know anyone at all? Friends? Lovers?
 I shook my head. "You?"
 "Me?"
 "Do you have any of what you mentioned?" Specifically lovers.
 "All but a lover." He looked the opposite direction, "But I wouldn't mind one."
 My heart jumped, maybe skipped a beat, "Estheim-sempai_"
 "Sempai? How old are you?"
 "Sixteen"
 "Eighteen...you are a senior though."
 "I skipped."
 "So then you are quite smart?" He pasued, "That was a stupid question. I aplogize."
 I nodded. Hopefully he  won't try to be as the toehrs have and leave me, "I don't have friends because of my age...I'm guessing you will go away for the same reason as well."
 He looked back at me, probably feeling guilty or regretful. "No. And you shouldn't think that way." He smiled, "You are...you're too adorable for me to just blow off like that."
 I felt my face go completly warm and hid completly behind my book. "Do you really mean that?"
 "I think so...but if I had to be honest..."He paused, "I think you like me and if that is true then our feelings are mutual." He said taking the book from my hands and looking me directly in the eye, "But we have barely known each other so there is probably a lesser chance of us going out at the moment.. So then friends?"
 I broke our gaze and reached for my book but he moved his arm away faster. I laid my head directly on face down on my desk. I didn't mark my page and hopefully he saved it.
 "Estheim-sempai, please! I was on a good part!"
 "But you didn't answer my question."
 "Estheim-"
 "I wonder how much this will sell for on the internet?" He sad closing the book completely and turning it every which way, looking mat me every 2 seconds.
 "please don't!" I cried, "I didn't even have a book mark on my page! I'll never find that page again!"
 "Don't worry, I marked it with a lone paper. He paused, "So will you? I promise I won't you down."
 I let out a sigh, "Fine, can I have my book please?"
 "Your face is red by the way."
 I put my head back face down on my desk again.
 "Here." he said placing the open book on my head. "I'm sorry."
 I pulled the book off and preceded to hide my face behind it, peaking over with my eyes."I do want to be your friend." I whispered.
 He nodded, "Lunch after this?" I nodded, "Accompany me to my table with three other friends?" He said standing up, "Just follow me...and leave the book."
 The bell rang and Hope leaned against his desk waiting for everyone else to empty the room before he left. I followed him closely as though I were a little duckling thinking a dog were its mother. I followed him through the cafeteria and outside an area only for seniors to a small table. When he stopped I wasn't exactly paying attention when he stepped so I ran into his back. He didn't appear to mind though.
 "Hope!" a male voice said, "Looks like a little softy followed you outside..."
 "This is Akira and she is in fact a senior." Hope said.
 "What is she to you?" A female voice asked laughing.
 "your girlfriend?" The same male voice asked.
 Hope watched them laugh thinking a tad, and quickly resulted to grabbing my right hand, "She is indeed my girlfriend."
 "What!?" I screamed jerking my hand away and turning the opposite direction.
 "No she is not but it made you all shut up so I can do a proper introduction. Akira, this is Alyssa, Haris, and Mei."
 Alyssa, wore the female uniform as normal s can be with short blonde hair and blue eyes. mei wore it as well but with knee high socks of white and a green sweater, which was against the rules, who wore half and most of her hair in a pony tail letting some hang on both sides of her head. Lastly, Haris, who had black hair and wore a sweater vest over the normal boys uniform.
 "This is Akira, she is not as bad as you are thinking she is." He turned leaving me there going back inside, hopefully to come back out.
 "Runt." Haris muttered making Mei and Alyssa laugh.
 I turned around calmly with a stern look on my face. I decided I'd be better off alone in the classroom. As I walked through the roaring cafeteria, I walked past Hope. Looking away, my expression fell from stern to sad. Before turning the corner leading to the outside balcony, I turned to look back at Hope. Sure enough he was looking at me, I gestured for him to follow but not directly behind me.
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 I sat on the very end of one of the many benches outside that was screwed deeply into the ground by a couple of vending machines. Hope sat on the very opposite end, his silver hair shining brighter then it was in the classroom and his eyes standing out even more.
 "This isn't such a bad place to sit back and relax." He said turning his head toward me with narrow eyes. "You can see the ocean from here." I gazed up from my hard stare at the cracks in the sidewalk, "What did they say? I know they said something. I've known you fro an hour and I can already see through your emotions."
 "They  called me a runt. And I know that isn't something I should get so worked up over but..."
 He scooted over a bit, "But what?"
 "What does it concern you?"
 "Because I like you. You seem to have a personality that is different from what I am normally around. Plus it's been three weeks...I want to know you more." He scooted over more."Look, I'm not try to pity you...I am caring." I stood up and walked towards the rail gazing at the gleaming water. "Akira?"
 "Estheim-Semapi... please...help me."
 Hope stood up and walked next to me, "Of course." He leaned closer, "With what exactly?" I stepped one foot back.
 "I don't like being emotional...or not very confi-" I paused, "Confident."
 "Of course." He leaned towards me lightly kissing my forehead. My face immediately burning hotter than the sun. "I can't turn down something like that."
 "One more...one thing." I said griping both of his arms feeling off balance.
 "That is?" He said leaning closer.
 "The nurse..." I said before completely blacking out.
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 When I came back to life I heard the typing of a keyboard, then the sound of book pages turning over and over as though someone were nervous. The room glowed shades of reds and oranges though still blurry. I placed my hand to my face and felt no glasses.
 "Ahno!?" I whisper-yelled.
 I heard a chair scoot back, "Akira? are you OK." A female voice asked.
 "Yes."
 The nurse slid through the curtain smiling, "What is the matter."
 "I can't see." I whispered, pointing to my eyes with both hands.
 "Ah, Hope has them." The nurse said peacefully. She slid the curtain open all the way revealing Hope sitting worriedly against the wall. The nurse nodded her head at him smiling  and he walked over slowly.
 "Here," he said sitting on the bed. "I'll put them on for you."
 I closed my eyes tightly, "Thank you. For you know...bringing me here. I hope it was too much trouble." The glasses slid on. Hope brushed stray strands of hair out of my face. I opened my eyes to meet his gaze, my heart as always skipping a beat.
 "Your face is red again." I looked towards my right. "I had to carry you through the entire school...like a princess." I looked towards my left.
 "I'm...I'm sorry! I hope it wasn't any sort of inconvenience for you!"
 "No. Don't apologize. I actually liked it." I looked right again.
 The nurse came back to take my temperature. "Akira, you are to take a shot each night...correct?" I nodded, "Did you forget to take it?" I turned my head side ways, "Be sure to take it tonight. Other than that you are free to leave."
 I stood up and slipped my shoes back on thanking the nurse. Hope took my bag smiling and walked out of the nurses office. I followed him closely. As we walked out the building I could tell my steps would be fast then slow, fast, slow, my vision blurry then normal, blurry, normal. Hope waited each time I stopped or slowed down and when we were off campus he took my hand and walked the same pace I did.
 "I can carry you home...if you'd like."
 I shook my head. As much as I'd like that...I turned him down. We continued down, getting slower and slower as the sun fell further and further. At any moment I felt I would easily fall. I did. Thankfully Hope caught me as I fell forward. I apologized quickly. He shook his head at me and kneeled down in front of me with his back facing me.
 "Your arms..."He started, "Wrap them around my neck." I did so, "Hold our bags." I griped them tightly as he stood up holding my legs. "It's fine if you lay your head don my shoulder...back or something." He paused, "Where do you live?" I told him my address
 Slowly he began walking again as the night grew colder, "I must be a burden on you already." I started, "To make you do all of this. We barely know each other."
 "Stop saying things like that. You are not and never will be to me. Why would you even think that?"
 "Because no one has ever done something like this for me...ever"
 "Well, I don't see you in that manner. Plus, I've told you already, I care about you."
 "Why did you kiss me?" I said after a long silence between us.
 "Your key?"
 "Front pocket in my bag."
 "I kissed you because it was written on your face."
 Another long silence. He flipped on the light in my hallway and walked though the house to the very end opening the door. He sat me on the couch and walked to my kitchen. He came back with a glass of water placing it in front of me on the coffee table. He sat to the right of me looking around in silence.
 "Your parents?"
 "They are...no longer alive."
 "Then who takes care of you?"
 "Myself...and a friend of my mom who graduated three years ago from collage."
 "She bought this house for you?"
 "I gained a large amount of money from my parents jobs. My dad a doctor...my mom a lawyer." We paused, "Don't go...please.I am alone here and it's nice to have someone here. I mean, you can leave if you want."
 Hope pulled me into a tight hug and pulled me onto his lap as he laid down on my couch. The beating of his heart. I stared at my T.V. and began to cry softly. He placed his hand a top my head and began to brush my hair back slowly.