I was bored when I was on holiday (in Ireland XP) and decided to write a fic. This was the first thing that came to mind. Yes, it's the horribly over-used and clichéd high school setting, but you can bite me XD
Disclaimer: Don't own. Anything. Seriously.
Welcome to Life Chapter 1 – People Hate Me GAARA POVOh shit, I'm gonna be late again. It's the third time this week. It's not my fault, no really! It's uh…Kankuro's, yeah, it's all Kankuro's fault. If he hadn't taken so damn long in the shower…
I'll just disregard the fact that I woke up two hours before him (I have problems sleeping) and couldn't be bothered to move before he did.
Anyway, I run up to the front door of the school just as the office lady-person-thing closes it. There's a stupid rule at our school, the doors are shut and locked 15 minutes after the bell rings so the late people are caught.
People like me.
I bang on the door and try to open it. The office lady smiles evilly at me, sits behind the desk and raises a slender finger to point at the side entrance, the entrance next to the headmistress's office, the entrance that late people get caught in.
Ooooh, that's harsh.
I glare at the lady and she turns her super-fake smile up a notch. It's actually quite scary.
Office Lady: 1
Me: 0
I sigh in defeat, there's no way I can win…unless…
Right, it's time to go army style. Tsunade's (headmistress) office has a window that lets her see the entrance I am now forced to go through, but if I can crawl under it and keep close to the wall…it's worth a try.
Quietly, I open the door and immediately throw myself to the ground. I lay still for a while, nothing happens. Smiling slightly to myself, I precede worm-style to the other side of the window. Surprisingly enough I am not seen.
Office Lady: 1
Me: 1
I feel a victory dance coming on. I moonwalk across the hall, spin around and start to strike night-fever poses.
It's then I remember that I'm in plain view of the office lady. I look over to find her barely able to suppress her laughter. God damnit.
Office Lady: 2
Me: 1
I blush ferociously and hurry off to my first class, which is math, which is in the complete opposite direction. Gah. This means I have to walk by the officer lady again. I keep my eyes fixed on the floor and rush past but I can still hear her giggling.
Officer lady: 3
Me: 1
When I take over the world, she'll be the first to go.
Finally, I reach my math class 25 minutes late. I burst (rather ungracefully might I add) through the door and almost trip over. Every single pair of eyes in the room falls on me and I do the worst thing possible. I squeak. Yes, you read right. Now everyone's laughing at me and I want to cry, but I don't, because that would totally ruin my eyeliner.
Shut up, I'm not camp.
"Ah, Mr Sabaku, you finally decided to join us I see?"
Stupid dumbass teachers, always coming up with smartarse comments, maybe they just sit at home thinking up ways to torture their students. I can't really see teachers having lives outside school because that would…
"AIIIEEE!"
Once again everyone's eyes are on me. This means that rather girly scream must have come from my mouth. Whoever prodded me in the side is going to pay.
I look down and THE Sasuke Uchiha is looking up at me with his gorgeous, ebony eyes.
"Sorry I poked you" he said in his cool, smooth, perfect voice, "you were daydreaming."
My knee's turn to jelly, my cheeks flush red and my mouth hangs open. I must look like some sort of mutated hippo.
Wow, I wonder where that came from…
WAIT!
Back to current situation:
Think Gaara, say something really cool and witty to impress him.
"UmsorryI'vegottogositdownnowbye" And with that oh-so-sophisticated remark I dash across the room and fling myself into the seat between Neji and Sakura. Neji looks like he's about to wet himself and Sakura's smiling at me.
"Gaara, you're so unbelievably smooooth."
Neji can no longer contain his laughter and Sakura bursts into a giggling fit.
I hate maths.
I hate Sakura.
I hate Neji.
I hate office lady.
I hate Sasuke.
Okay, so I don't hate Sasuke. In fact, I have a minor…moderate…HUGE crush on the boy. But that's just the problem, he's a boy and so was I the last time I checked. He's also the hottest guy in the school.
Oh how cliché, school freak falls for school hottie. It's so 'teen movie' I could vomit.
The teacher is currently going on about Pythagoras Theorem. I turn him out. I couldn't understand the first 7 times so now I'm not even gonna bother.
A ball of crumpled paper smacks against my left temple and falls onto the desk. I don't even have to look to know it's from Neji. I unfold the note and read what it says.
'Meet me tree. Lunch. N'
I turn around and nod to show him I understood. He smiles and winks.
Neji and I have this weird thing going on, he's not my boyfriend but when we're both single we much around with each other a bit. He and Sakura are my best friends.
Neji is effortlessly smart and popular with the girls (and guys). He skips class and misbehaves a bit but he's a straight A student so the teachers overlook his faults. He has so many fangirls, I suppose I should feel really honoured that he picked me to fool around with, but we've been best friends since we were tiny so I'm past all that.
Sakura is also a straight A student. She works hard and doesn't misbehave at all. She's often called goody-two-shoes or a geek but her happy, easy-going attitude means people find it hard to hate her. The only person that truly despises her is Ino as they both fight for Sasuke's affections, along with most of the other girls in the school.
Another reason I can't like Sasuke, I couldn't betray my best friend.
I'm a total freak. My natural blood-red hair and 'scary eyes' are enough to make the average 3-year-old cry and my mind isn't all there. I suck at all lessons apart from history. I have an excellent memory and all the dates in history just seem to agree with me.
I have no idea why Sakura and Neji hang out with me.
Oh, the angst of a teenage freak.
A/N: Woop! This is the longest thing I've ever written :o! I have the next two chapters written, so if you like it just leave me a review and I'll continue