those who came before| wcnderlvnd

CHAPTER 2

I walked trough the floors for a while, until i turned left, where some of my classmates where standing.

I breathed in and out.
'okay...there we go' i thought and plastered on a nice smile, fixed my posture.

Just when i started walking towards the people, i recognised my best friend, athena.

Athena's mother was japanese, just like me and my parents, but her dad has greece roots, as far as i know. When i first met her, i was very surprised that her name was athena, since we look very alike, i thought her name was also japanese.

"Hey ayame !" she called. I smiled and hugged her when I arrived at the crowd of people. "What's up?" i asked. She laughed "These school girl students are in their fangirl era"

I frowned "wha-...fangirl? for who is it this time?"
She shrugged "I dunno. But I did hear he is our age and is pretty well known." she stopped and whispered "i'm not sure ayame, but a girl told me he's a model"

I bursted into a loud laugh "And i'm the next queen of england !". She rolled her eyes in annoyance "Stop it now! it can be true" Athena scolded.

"right, right, i'm sorry " I tried to hold in my laugh, but then again, i couldn't stop myself.
I snorted "sorry". "Ayame! that guy is supposed to move in town ! melanie from my physics class told me he has transferred to this school because..you know.." she stopped and looked around.

"every second person is either rich or their parents are well known. He probably thought he wouldn't have a big role here." she told me. I nodded "yeah that makes sense. But it still sounds unreal to me. He's probably just 'handsome' for people around here. There's is no way, i mean, can you think of an model sitting next to you in class" i told her back

"it's surreal. This is real life, not a wattpad story named 'The boy model in my class'. " i said, jokingly.

She nodded and opened her locker putting her books inside of it "Anything new in your life?" she asked, closing her locker again and turning back to me. We started walking towards our classroom. "Uhm.." i tapped on my kin. "Omg ! i so forgot to tell you!" i exclaimed. Her face expression changed "What happened?" she asked, slightly curious and slightly worried.

I groaned and tilted my head. "My dad wants me to date..."
Her lips formed an 'o' as she started smiling "w-..who is it?"

I glanced back at her, my face full with frustration "nate."
She gasped "don't tell me...nate jakobs?!" her voice went from load to silent as she put her hand on her mouth.
I nodded whining. She laughed at me, giving me a tight hug "you poor soul."

She let me go, eventually. I sighed. "I REALLY don't want to." i said.

She nodded "i know, i know. You aren't that type of girl who, A, dates a boy like nate abd, B, your not even a girl who dates." she said while counting Point A, and Point B with her fingers. It was true tho. I've never thought of dating anyone.

I wanted to open my mouth to tell her we should hurry to class, because we have maths and our teacher, ms.appelsmayer is very strict about being on time, but a friend of athena interrupted as she popped out from behind athena.

I close my mouth. I immediately felt weird. I always do. Whenever people i don't know come along with athena i feel so anxious, because I can be weird and cringe and sometimes selfish with athena since she knows i'm not always like that. But i'm so curios what first impression i will make to other people who have never seen or met me. I find everything weird at that time. I don't know what to say, i get nervous, i stutter. That's how it goes.

"ayame?"

A voice woke me up from my thoughts. I blinked at athena and her friend. "Oh..uh.."i stuttered "i'm sorry did u say something?" i blurted out. She looked at me confused, "uhm..yea.." she started smiling

"a model can't be in our class, huh?" she asked me, but it didn't feel like a question. It felt like she knew something i didn't.

I looked at her for a while "that's what i sayed. Yes." i squinted my eyes "why did u-"
"TURNS OUT YOU KNOW THAT PERSON!" she shouted.

"WHAT?!" i shouted back. My jaw dropped "You are some joke! who..what..i.." i breathed "what person? the so called 'new guy' y'all are talking about? what's with that boy anyways...." my voice went from confident to unsure. I was thinking...a famous person i knew? who..? my cousins boyfriend was pretty famous...

"that boy..." athena's friend interrupted. I shook my head towards her. And that's when i really saw how nice she actually looked. She seemed super sweet.

Then she continued as she smiled at me. I smiled back, leaning onto some lockers behind me. I was kinda stressed though, we had 15 minutes until class started and i didn't wanted to be late.

"The boy who will transfer here tomorrow is a friend of a girl in my class. She told him about how this school is and then she was joking around like 'don't mess with our it girl ayame kobayashi tho, her dad owns a company' and stuff, i know, not very nice to hear for you" the friend from athena told me.

My brows lifted. That caught me off- guard.
But it looked like the girl wasn't finished.

"So.." she continued "when that girl who was joking around with him told him your name, he told her that he knew an ayame. He told her that once a girl whose name was also ayame kobayashi visited the school he was going to. Coincidentally he mentioned that she moved to this school 1 year ago."

My face went blank.

My old school. I don't have good memories with that timeline. My eyes shifted as i glanced back at athena. She was looking at the girl who was next to her and slowly back to me, her face looking puzzled "you moved here and came to this school 1 year ago.." she said.

"So..." my head turned back at the girl immediately "wait...what's your name?" i asked her. "Larissa" she said. I nodded "okay..larissa..uhm..what's the name of that boy? because i think i'm starting to understand.." i asked her, questionably
She looked at me thoughtful "i think...something with k.." she mumbled. Then she snapped "oh right ! keito! keito lee. He got pretty famous among the past few months, he was in an magazine."

Just then i went numb. Everything around me went silent. I tried to catch breath as i heard that name. Keito....
No...that couldn't be...It couldn't be him. It can't be him...i can't...i don't want him around me...

I almost started crying. If he comes near to me...my role here will change. I will become the little weird clutz i was when i was in my old school. I couldn't give up on my personality that i have here now. I'm not the person who i was when i was in my old town...

But something inside me also jumped when i heard his name. Something inside me wanted to squeal and be happy and excited. A spark in me lighted up when i heard kaito lee.

I shook my head. "Thank you..for the information..larissa." i smiled and looked at my smart watch. Athena just opened her mouth, she probably wanted to ask me about keito and who he was, but my jaw dropped as i saw the time.

"SHOOT! we have to hurry athena! only 5 minutes until maths ! our classroom is on the other side of the floor !" i grabbed her hand and rushed away.

"Bye larissa !" she could manage to shout to her  friend.

But i still couldn't believe this. This sounded way to surreal. Way to cliché...something is behind this, and i'll figure out what. After maths.