Always a sad beginning....Hey there! I'm Toru your average 15 year old girl, almost turning 16, so i'll finally have my freedom to drive a car. As you may have read, i consider my life as hell. Some people think i exagerate but seriously you need to understand my pain. I live with a tiny little girl, that adores cheerleading and who can't wait to join the squad and my mom is a total, let me digets this, hottie. And she knows it, so i'm the latter of the family. I'm the plain boring one. So when they told me that we were going to live Russia (Yeah, i'm also shocked people), to go to America i almost had a heart attack. Not that i have anything with the country it's just that my sister and my mother are going to kill me. From all the latest trends and oh! The horror! I forgot to tell you, we're going to an american school. So you can imagine the hurt i've been getting from my sister!I don't really give a damn about fashion i just keep a track of it, to still be able to wear something. So, it's been mayhem in the house!! And today, unfortunately we're in America! And it seems that some people don't enjoy books like i do! I look around and trust me, i'm already blinded by all the yellow cabs and the huge signs!!It's blinding i tell you. My mother and my sister are looking around mesmorized and i just roll my eyes. This is even worse than Russia! We finally reach a small house in a little neigborhood and it looks really good. except that it's an estate and i probably won't be able to make a trot to a local newspaper joint or something! I walk out still holding my book and as uncoordinated as i am, i trip and fall face first on the front step. See what i mean, by being the boring one of the house? My sister just skips over me and goes in the house to scream. this is going to be an awfully long day!!
The next morning, of course i find myself in a long corridor with my sister. Kate is over excited with the idea of joining the cheerleading squad. I roll my eyes and try to find the class i'm supposed to be in. I finally reach the class and when i walk in, the whole class looks at me. Looking, myself, at some of those people i can already say i'm under dressed. I mean, i opted for jeans and a white shirt that opens over my chest and just a bit over the stomach. Under it there's a black shirt and i just added a simple necklace. I try not to show my amazement and walk to the guy's desk. I can see people sending each other questionning looks. Probably wondering who this girl with clear brown skin, long dark ebony hair and striking green eyes is. I stop in front of the desk and he takes the paper sheepishly as if i woke him up from some deep slumber.
"Just find a seat somewhere" he yawns and i look at the class.
The place is full, except if he wants me to sit on the huge guy sitting at the back of the room, who's probably taking up two chairs! I finally spot a girl with short spiked white hair and i just hop over to her. She smiles at me and i notice she's sporting some pretty huge dental equipment, yikes! I smile politely and sit next to her. She looks at me and then looks back at the board. This is going to be a long day, i can feel it! I look out the window and look at the field, Kate is running up and down doing some pirouettes. She looks fee, but over my dead body, am i going to do that with her!
The bell finally rings and i walk out, but the dental girl follows me.
"Hey, i'm Cece." she smiled and i had to bite my tongue not to start laughing.
"Hi, I'm toru." i smile back and she looks forward.
"Strange name; where are you from?" she asks and when she said strange i could have pointed directly at her, but who would want to be rude?
"My dad was Japanese, he chose it." i smile and then bump directly into a well built figure. my coordination, of course leaves me and i fall backwards hitting my head pretty hard on the bricks. Ouch, i'm so heading to the nurse's office!
I open my eyes slowly and my head hurts really bad. I then hear Cece's little laugh and see she's talking to someone and then sitting next to her, i see a brown haired guy staring anxiously at me. Wait a minute, this can't be where i am! I'm in hell, remember not Heaven!! He stands up and walks to me.
"Hey, there sorry about that. I didn't see you." he explains and i look at him.
"I'm pretty noticeable, you know." i snapped and my head hurt so i winced.
"Yeah, at cheerleader practise you annoyed me so much i probably noticed you. But there it was as if you were..." he started explaining and i guessed he suffered Kate's flirting gene. I sat up, trying to hide my pain and looked him in the eyes.
"That was my sister, i'm nowhere near like her. I'm reserved and i hate cheerleading, so if you may excuse me..." I stood up and noticed he is indeed taller than me but no reason, to bump into me that way. "I'll be going to class."
"So if you're not Kate, what's your name?" he asked grabbing my arm and if i had a book, i would have probably hit him. Instead i sighed and jerked my hand off.
"I'm toru her older sister and you're bugging me now! So leave!" i screamed and he blinked as i walked away. Only he still followed me.
"I'm Luke..." he explained but i sprinted out and for once, my feet held to the ground and i entered my next class. My head still spinning....
Kate and i made it home after school and i just walked up to my room, no looking back and sat in front of my computer. I immediately logged on to messenger to see if i could unload on anyone. Only i noticed a little message:
Hey there, this is the school cheerleading squad captain. we just saw your sister and we might have thought she had a shot, but we're wondering if you would like to join. It's in the first free period, then at lunch and finally at the end of school. You may be thinking, how do they know me but we saw you today and you might just have the proper physique for a cheerleader. So please answer us soon....
I stared at the screen before cursing myself for staying thin! How can this happen to me?! Don't they know, i hate the... sport?! Can we even call it a sport?! I ran downstairs and cornering Kate that was practisind one of her pirouettes. Seeing my face she rolled her eyes.
"I told them not to waste their time." she sighed and i kept staring at her.
"You told them we were RELATED?!" i snapped and my mom looked at us.
"We're kind of the only people in that school, that have ebony dark hair, graan eyes and brown skin." she pointed out and i let go of her shirt.
"Still!!! I'm not a cheer maniac llike you! I don't live for the dumb thing! My life is in books, the internet and my Mac!! not your stupid hip-hip thing!" i shrieked and our mother decided to step in.
"What's wrong honey?" she asked me and i pointed to the culprit.
"She told the cheer captain that we were related!" i snapped and my mom blinked.
"Your sisters of course..." she started but i shook my head.
"I know we're sisters even though we don't have the same D.N.A! I'm sure of that! But they looked at me and thought i was perfect for the stupid thing." i shrieked and my mom started clapping.
"I always knew, you were part of those crowds and not the geeks!" she shrieked and i stared at her.
"You thought i was a geek?!" i shriek again and she patted my back.
"Well, honey you sure act like one, i mean did you see all you know on computers and sometimes when you laugh.... oh god! And then the science fair... thankfully you have a fashion sense." she points out and i look at her. My own mother, my blood, thought that of me!
"You're my mother! You don't think about my laugh, ot which social group i'm in! You only love me, not judge me! And all you pointed out is intelligence!" i scream poking her.
"Now, that hurts and listen to me. You can be all that and a cheerleader." she smiled and i shook my head.
"You won't make me! I'm not going to live your sick dream! You hear me! Your sick dream isn't in my life! I'm not like those girls! i'm just healthy and can't seem to put on weight!" i point out and run upstairs.
Pins hurt and those skirts are awfully small. Sometimes, i think I'm an alien on this planet! S.O.S, come save me!!!!
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