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"hey now," he spoke, pausing a moment,"It's whatever you want to call me by. I don't really care anymore. I just... well... no. nevermind. It's cool whichever you wish to call me." he said to her. Coy was what Kelly always called him, just to get on his nerves, because she knew he didn't like it. Coy guessed that part of him actually wanted someone to call him Coy again instead of Dean. "Aww... haha. That's cool I guess. I know it makes me feel all warm, special and fuzzy inside." he said teasing her a little.

Cory looked down to the paper,"HEY... that wasn't cool." he said and laughed at the same time. "that's not fair... teasin' a guy like that. Thinkin' I was actually going to hear you talk today or somethin'." Cory turned back around so he was sitting right in his chair, as if to 'ignore her' jokingly. He turned his head to see if she was watching and stuck his tongue out at her.

My apartment was trashed. Mom and dad hadn't been home for a few days, went to stay at grandmas for a while, but I had a project to finish, though I could get it done a little better here. I tossed on my side, squishing my face up against the arm of the sofa. Through the dimness of my living room I could see the clock flashing "8:00." I swear its not 8, I felt like I had only slept for an hour, oh wait.

I looked down at my cloths, they were wrinkled and worn and I could feel the all around neglect on me. I guy came staggering out of my room, pulling the last bit of his shirt down over himself and I groaned, feeling the throb of last night in my head.

"Don't you have school or somethin' kid?" He asked, grabbing his bag and stepping out the door. 'SO like me' I thought, thinking about how I didn't even know the guys name who had walked out the door. Truth be told, my parents weren't home often... and anonymous sex was just part of the routine. "Look whats happened to you Seany-boy." I huffed to myself, pushing myself up and bracing my arms on the back of the sofa to stretch. "Aw ******** it." I said, falling back down to the sofa, my head hitting the arm with a thunk. I rolled my legs off the sofa and, facing some resistance, stood up. I ran a through fingers through my messy hair, there wasn't any time to tame it down or to change. With another sigh I grabbed my bag and slung it over my shoulder.

It held nothing but a text book, a planner full of unfinished assignments, and my iPod tucked away in one of the more discrete pockets, why did it feel so heavy?

"You know that hurts me, right?"
"Shut up, Jim." I said back to the voice as I heard a soft echo ringing by my ear as I ventured out into the sun, boasting a nice half hour tardy on my way to school. What did I care, they were lucky I even went anymore.

"I don't care if you screw around with other guys, Sean... just not so... slut like."
"Jimmy, I said to shut up. Not hard to understand." I said smiling.

I saw a pair of laced up boots hover down in front of my face and I pushed between them, continuing down the street.

"Call me Jasmine, I like it better."

"Whatever." I groaned, glaring back at the man standing on a piece of ground I couldn't see, his dark hair framing his face so that the shadows hit it just right, accentuating his high cheeks and and nice nose, really bringing out the color of his acid green lipstick. "Dammit Jazz... I miss you."

At that he faded, I had been silencing him lately, I couldn't stand seeing him but not being able to feel his presence. High school was a dump.

I pushed my way into the door, not looking into my reflection in anything, sure I looked terrible. I let out a deep yawn as I staggered into the front lobby and the principal approached me. I could almost laugh at his terrible combover if I didn't know I needed to be polite to keep myself in the school for the day.

"Mr. Uppman its your lucky day. I don't really feel like dealing with you and you have bigger things to do." he huffed at me and I gave him a smug look. "Gym. Now." he said.

I shrugged and head for my locker. He grabbed my shoulders and turned me to face the gym, gave me a little pat on the back and I decided not to resist.

I held my breath, the shy part of me always seemed to fall out when I stepped into something out of my element, out of my routine and I rubbed my pale forearms as I stepped into the gym door, my dark brown eyes scanning over the set up and I spotted the circle of chairs. One of them had my name on it, not literally, but I took it none the less and stared at the floor, watching the wooden pattern swirl with my unsteady vision.

She smiled, her blush deepening a bit more... Strange that was possible. She was beginning to like him more... He was taking away the pain...

"Aw, thanks," she said with a brighter smile than before... Once again, if that was even possible. She was surprised at how much he observed her... She barely knew thing about him, and yet he already had the premonition that she was anything but anti-social. That was good...

Her face looked confused... a cute kind of confused face... One someone might make when she were fooling around. "No, thank you," she said.

She laughed hearing his comment. "Aw thanks," she said with a smile. Honestly, she had never really been around guys other than her brother. But... This was a completely different feeling... Seventeen and never had a boyfriend... People might have thought that strange... But she had been protected by her brother Jason... had been watched over. She smiled at him. She wanted to get closer to him... In a way... It made her feel weird... Awkward She figured she wouldn't think too much on the matter, for fear of awkward moments.

She laughed. "Yeah, I'm almost thinking on ditching out on this... it's just taking way too long to start and I'm not the kind of person who likes to sit around... I like being out... Running around, having fun," she said, her eyes bright, her smile big and her laugh... Real. She felt great, really...

Ryu made a kind of growled, pissed-off noise. "God ********' dammit!" She had walked into another door. God, she wasn't used to being all blind. She couldn't believe the doctors had decided to remove her other eye as well. Sure, she may have had lead infections in it, so what?

Ryu shrugged. She just needed to find her way into this school whatever thing. Using her cane, she tapped around the doorway until she found out where the opening was. When she got through, her arm was grabbed by a slightly worried principal. "Ah! Ryu! You are here. Please, go to the gym for a surprise."

Ryu stared at him, or where she thought she was, through her sunglasses. It made people uncomfortable to be stared at by someone they knew couldn't see them. "Er..." He said nervously. "Would you like me to take you there?"

"Would you like me to break your nose? Just point me in the right direction." The principal seemed not to take offense from this, and turned her shoulders, then giving her a little push to let her know that was the right way. She shrugged, got her cane in front of her, and started tapping and mentally counting.

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When she entered the gym, Ryu could tell that there were a few people already there. She just knew. She could tell. Kind of like you can tell when someone's looking over your shoulder. Tapping off, Ryu counted her way to a seat, and sad down next to Matt and Adrian. She reached in her pocket for a cig, then realized she wasn't allowed to smoke, not just in here, but at all. She swore under her breath and placed both hands on the head of her cane. She didn't care she was showing the world she only had one thumb. If they didn't like it, that was their problem.

I stood up and grabbed the back of my chair, turned it around so the back of it faced in and leaned over the edge of it, my chin set on my arms. "Alright so, does anyone know what this whole shebang is supposed to be about?" I asked to the whole group. I looked around to a few blank faces and sighed, grabbing onto one of the rings on my finger and turning it around on my knuckle.

"haha good." he said and smiled at the note of her saying that she would pull him along with her. Coy looked at her and shook his head laughing,"haha... not just yourself... But you remind me of my old friend Kelly. She's not here anymore though. It's cool though." Coy had spoken sort of softly about it. In a way Serena seemed to say his name in the same way, which is what basically lead him to that conclusion. He looked around in the gym. Nothing was going on, he took Serena's hand,"Do you trust me?" he asked her.