Whatever! Book One: Freshman Year

Episode I: Whatever

Atsuko's POV

I sat up out of bed and looked at the alarm clock on my bedside table, 8:00. "Well lookey there, I'm late." The new school year's starting today and I really couldnt care less. I put on my only clean T-Shirt, the purple one. I threw on my beach shorts and sandals along with my beanie as well as my sweat jacket.

'It's gonna be a long bike ride to school.' I thought to myself. I swung my messanger bag over my shoulder and headed out the door with a three day old' riceball. I shoved the whole thing in my mouth and hopped onto my bike.

I got to school about half an hour later, and left my bike in the bike rack without putting a lock on it because I honestly didnt care if it got stolen. And then I walked inside the building.

???'s POV

We sat in the auditorium for the welcoming ceremony and all that jazz. When suddenly the whole thing was interupted by the guy who walked in.

"DON'T WORRY I'M HEAR. SORRY I'M LATE." He said loudly enough so that everone in the auditorium could hear him. He walked over to the nearest row of seats and sat down on the outside seat. The room was silent for a bit longer... And then the ceremony continued.

When the ceremony was over I ajusted my glasses and exited the auditorium. The day continued on boringly. They just had the teachers introduce themselves and introduce the classes and stuff like that. The day ended and we were all sent home. I had to ride my bike home some kids had to walk or ride the busses or take the subway. I exited the building and walked over to the bike rack. Then just when I thought the day wouldnt get worse it did. (It was a bad day because it was so boring.)

"Hey Dork-chi!" Said the dumbest and meanest guy in the school. He shoved me down on the ground and my glasses skittered across the pavement. One of the bully's cronies stomped on them and they shattered.

'Crap! My parents are gonna kill me, not if these guys do first!' I thought.

Atsuko's POV

I noticed a kid near the bike rack getting hell from the school bully Ryu Hibiki. I think the kid's name is... Daichi Haruka! Yeah that was it!

I walked over to the group and tapped Ryu on the shoulder. He turned around and asked, "Whadaya' want Atsu?"

"Oh hey there Ryu! Yeah um, that guy that your kinda steppin' on down there? Ummm, might I ask why you feel the need to do that?" I inquired rather politely.

"Why wouldn't I feel the need to?" Said the total baka.

"Oh of course! Silly me, why didnt I think of that before? Well anyway. Maybe you should try fighting fairly, and fight a person standing up." Ryu took that the wrong way. He threw a punch at me and I grabbed his wrist, turned to the outside, pushed my elbow down against his, and brought him to the ground. I sat on him and pulled two juice pouches from my bag and tossed them both to Daichi.

"Hey. Could you put the straw in one and give it back to me? You can have the other one." Daichi did and gave the juice pouch back to me. I started drinking it while I was still sitting on him and holding Ryu in a pressure lock. I looked at the other thugs expectantly, waiting for one of them to attack me. But they just ran away with their tails between their legs.

"HAHAHA!" Daichi and I both laughed.

"Just so you know this. I didnt intentionally mean to pick a fight with this baka, what I meant was that he should've let you stand up and then kick your ass," I told Daichi.

"I thought as much. Well... Whatever."

(Daichi and Atsuko): We don't know why. But from that day forward, we were best friends.