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It was 6:00 am and a melodic ring could be heard drifting about the cramped little apartment.
A yawn broke through the alarm clock's sound, and it was silenced.
Asami opened her large green eyes and looked around, hoping that the sun was still safely tucked behind the eastern horizon, but she frowned upon seeing the hinting dawn.
"Ugh... Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday." She moaned as she stretched in her small bed, finally working up the resolve to get up.
She shuffled about, getting ready for the day, doing her long black hair into its customary bun. She slipped on her school clothes, which today would be a white t shirt and some black jeans. After pulling on her sneakers, she looked into the mirror and shrugged.
"Not too bad." She said, rubbing some lotion on to her hands. She looked at the screen of her tiny flip phone and quickly grabbed her backpack and coat before heading to school.
She raced down the steps of her apartment building, and smiled at whichever passers by she happened to encounter.
"Ahh... She sighed as the fresh October air wrapped itself around her body.
"At least it won't be so hot on my way back to school." She mused as she watched the sky above her, streaked with beautiful puffy clouds.
Finally, she walked into her school, Western Shores. She rolled her eyes and took a deep breath as she made her way quickly up the concrete steps of the building that were lined with people of all walks of life, just there, taking it easy, laughing and joking.
She hated coming to school, but she knew that she had to do well if she wanted to get out of that tiny cramped apartment someday. She had goals and one of them was proving to herself that she was perfectly capable of getting out of the bleak situation she found herself in. So she trooped through each day at school, mostly ignored by her classmates. She didn't mind...
She liked it that way.
She liked keeping to herself, studying and glued to her books, absorbing as much as she could from the pages...
She looked all around the patio, and a group of kids caught her eye, it was Tahno and his clique who were causing general unrest by being loud and obnoxious.
She rolled her eyes again when she heard a loud belch that echoed through the large main hall.
"Eww." She breathed as the crowd erupted into laughter.
She quickly pushed her way through the crowded halls to run toward the gym.
Just her luck to have P.E during her first period.
She burst through the doors quickly and marched towards the center gym and was relived to be the first one there. She sat near the bleachers in the far corner of the gym and pulled out her new book she had just borrowed from the library days before and adjusted on her earbuds, making her small mp3 player tune her favorite song.
It was called The Chairman's Waltz from a movie called Memoirs of a Geisha, one of her favorite movies.
It reminded her or herself to a certain extent...
And just as the song began, she lifted her gaze up, and was met with the most pleasant sight...
In he walked with that confident strut, his hair messy yet completely under control.
She looked at the way his lean muscles rippled through his white shirt, making her throat tighten and her face feel a few degrees hotter.
He stretched just as his younger brother Bolin ran in after him, followed by more students.
Just as she was observing him roll his shoulders, he shot the breifest of glances in her direction.
"Oh!" She gasped, lowering her gaze and covering her face with her book.
Mako. Mako the boy that sent her heart a flutter and filled her thoughts.
Ever since the first day of school, she couldn't help but feel drawn in by his gorgeous gold eyes, and that sly grin. The fact that he was so athletic and strong only worsened her infatuation.
"Alright people, line up!" Yelled their gym teacher suddenly, pulling her from her thoughts.
She quickly put away her things and joined the ranks, all the way at the end of the line.
"Good morning class."
"Good morning Mr. Ghazan." They all said in unison.
Asami's eyes wandered to the handsome boy that was about four people away.
She smiled at the sight of the back of his head, feeling giddy but also slightly creepy.
"We're gonna start volleyball this week, so today all we're gonna do is practice forms and proper technique, got it?" Yelled their teacher.
Everybody grumbled, but said nothing as their teacher made his way towards the closet where nets and poles and volleyballs were stored.
"Change out people, come on." He said.
Everybody made their way into the locker rooms and began to get ready.
Asami quickly got into her T-shirt and shorts, and emerged first out of the girls, just as Mako emerged from the boys locker room.
Asami did her best to not smile, but it was so hard... Especially as he looked in her direction for the second time that day and gave her a tiny polite smile.
Asami felt her knees wobble slightly, but managed to offer him a smile back, just as everybody flooded the floor.
The rest of the period went by in a blur, Asami tried her best to pay attention but her mind kept wandering back to that smile...