The scene was beautiful, goreous, peaceful, it suited the very maidens that lived here. Cherry blossoms fell, scenting the fall air with their sweetness. Pink, small, sweet...the opposite of the girl who stormed through the park like a tiny tornado. In fact, the only thing she had in common with flowers and blossoms was small stature, but that didn't stop her mouth. Black hair and a black dress, and cold gray-blue eyes that were always tainted by a very displeased and snobby scowl. Her careless walk crushed the few flowers growing at the entrance to the park.
 
"There it is," she said out loud as obnoxiously as she could, spotting the dorms in the distance, "WHY wasn't there ANYONE at the gate to greet me? HM?" She balled her hands into fists and closed her eyes to scream louder into the sky, "I had to find this MYSELF?? What kind of low class, poorly run, abominantion of an institution is this? Doesn't anyone know WHO I AM???" Furious and red faced, she looked around at the seemingly empty park. "UGH!" She stomped hard, her pretty black shoe making little more than a tap on the brick walkway.
 
"Someone had BETTER get my luggage from the gate," she grumbled, "if they think I'm getting it they are very mistaken." She grit her little teeth, stopped and crossed her arms. "WHERE IS EVERYONE?!" She screamed. If one thing was certain Asami hated being alone, almost as much as she hated everything else. All her yelling frightened away a bird in a nearby tree.
 
She saw it fly almost, it seemed, in slow motion. It was so majestic, so free. Asami loved anything with wings, but birds were her favorite, she so wished she could become one and just fly away from this awful place, from everyone and everything. Birds were her favorite things.
 
"Stuid, dumb bird." she said, tapping her foot. Still no one, she was still alone. The thought made her eyes sting and a knot start in her throat. This, of course made ehr even angrier, "they better hope it doesn't rain on my things," she said through clenched teeth. Then her hands shot to her sides, she closed her eyes and ran toward the dorm. Asami the Brat, however did not see the girl she was about to collide with step into her path, a collision that would send them both to the groud with at least one bruise each.

"Eek!' A squeaky voice chimed out as a girl who seemed to be lost collided with a rather loud girl. There was a moment while falling that she looked straight up, and saw a very cold gaze in front of her, as if the girl before her were stone. It sent an extra shiver up her spine, and that caused her falling back to be exceptionally painful. Her collapse ended with a loud thud.

The girl landed on solid concrete, the paving of the walkway that she was on. Her face was decorated only in innocence. The very same innocence that made her frantically scramble to her feet and bow apologetically several times.

"Gomenasai! Gomenasai! I-I'm new here a-and I was l-lost!" She said, over and over again. It was evident that she was tearing up, less from the pain than from actually hurting the girl in front of her. She was always running into new people, literally. She had a very bad habit of crashing headfirst into total strangers. It was a curse, she swore.

"I-i'm Kendall. Kendall Kohma. Gomenasai..." She tried her best not to sound like she was about to break down and cry. This was her first year all alone, without her big brother to protect her.

"Will you be quiet?" The other girl scowled, rubbing the bruise forming from the impact, "Stop your blubbering, it's YOUR fault you're lost, and SINCE you're lost, you should be LOOKING where you're going. Duh." Asami brushed off her clothes, "Ew, you got a hair on my dress. That's disgusting." She pointed at the lone pink strand against the black fabric, "get it off!"
 
If the girl were to reach for it, Asami would snap "Don't touch me!" And brush it off herself, "How dare you, don't you know who I am? Ugh, you are SUCH an idiot." Asami crossed her arms and tapped her foot, noticing the girl was struggling to hold back tears and felt bad...jsut a little. But it didn't show...much.
 
Looking off into the distance as if disgusted withthe sight of the girl she muttered, "What were you looking for anyway huh? Ants on the ground? What kind of person doesn't look around when they're looking for something? Ch-" She sniffed, and waited, "Well? I asked you a question." She glared over at the other girl and wrinkled her nose, waiting impatiently for an answer.

"G-gomenasai..." Kendall began to tear up even more, her hair falling in front of her face to cover that up. She bowed again, and the ground below her then had one wet point. She lifted her head slowly, and a stream of a tear that had fallen remained on her otherwise clear skin. There was just one thing that she could not shake. This girl, as rude as she was, wouldn't have just asked her something if she didn't want to talk to someone. Maybe this wasn't such a mean girl after all?

"I-i was looking for my room mate. I just got here this morning... I didn't see her, so I went to greet her at the gate! Oh!" She bowed again. "Gomenasai, but do you know a girl named Asami Takashi?"

She wiped the tear from her eye, and sniffled a little. She truly hoped this girl would know her, or at least be able to confirm if she was nearby. Who knows? This girl might be her. And she may be mean, and rude at first, but... Well, Kendall was the one at fault. Maybe tis girl was just having a bad day? She wouldn't give up on making a friend in this girl if it were possible. After all, she was the first girl Kendall had met here so far.

There was a slight smile to her face now, personifying the inner hope she had that things would work out. Without her brother here, she felt so weak and helpless. He was always protecting her, and he did have to call her names sometimes, but that was so she would snap out of some crying fit and realize her brother thought better of her. She could take a verbal beating, if need be.

"Oh so NOW they send someone, you should have been at the gate fifteen minutes ago. What were you doing? Picking your nose?" The girl sniffed, "Well you better hurry, my luggage is at the gate and you better get it before it rains or you'll be in trouble. For your information MY name is Asami Takashi, anyone can see that. Duh, I mean, only an idiot wouldn''t knot whoI was. I mean really." she made a disgusted noise, "what are you smiling at, get moving!" She said bossily pointing back at the gate with a hand on her hip and leaning forward over the girl.

The growing bruise on her forehead gave a comical appearence to her scrowl, her round child-like face all twisted up in a manner that didn't suit such a pretty facade. "Don't tell me you don't know the way," she said and huffed like it was a huge inconveinience, "Fine I'll walk back to the gate, but you better grow a brain in the dumb pink head of yours if you want to be MY roommate. Asami Takashi DOES NOT tolerate insolence."

She turned on her heel and marched back toward the gate, she stopped, "Well?" She said in effort to command the girl to follow her, "C'mon KenDORK, that was your name right? KenDORK? Hurry up. Geez you're dumb." She waited for the girl to move before continuing her heated rush back to her luggage.

Internally, Kendall couldn't help but compare this girl to another that she knew. A certain red robed friend of her brothers, who thought he was the greatest thing to ever live. Granted, she had met him rarely, but when she did see him, she watched as he and her brother would often get into playfights to solve disputes. It was comical, the relationship those two had. She stopped seeing her brother's friend when her brother started dating.

As she took note of all of this, she heard the girl lashing out at her. While she was used to such treatment, it didn't make it any easier to deal with. She did in fact start tearing up, and followed the girl as they went back. There was one thing that she simply couldn't cry about though. The girl twisting her name as an insult. Things like that, never really got to her, because to her they just didn't make sense. She always responded more to insults than twisting of names. Name calling was another weak spot of hers.

"Gomenasai... I-i'd be glad to help you, Asami-sama." She almost had to force herself to speak, for she knew that there was another onslaught of something negative coming her way if she did. Still, she had this nagging feeling, this lingering sense that just wouldn't go away, that this girl wasn't actually as rude as she tried to be. Everyone has some good in them, no matter how deep it is. So she wouldn't just give up and say this girl was mean. No, she would keep being nice. After all, if she were nice all the time it may eventually make the other girl ask why, and then she could explain it all. It was rare of her to speak her mind, but she would if she was asked.

Come to think of it, when they got back to where they started from, Kendall decided that maybe it was better to just be herself for once. Maybe, just maybe, she could get through to Asami if she was. In light of this, she began crying quietly to herself, which was caused by a mix of the other girl's insults sinking in and her own inability to decide who she should act toward this girl. She was very careful, though, and held any luggage that she was handed to carry away from her face so as to not damage it.

She glanced back, "About time you showed a little respect," but then she realized the girl really was crying. "Oh come on you crybaby, it's not that bad." she swallowed, being nice was not her strong point, so she covered it with something she was better at, arrogance. "If anything, someone like you should feel honored and proud to be in my presence, let alone touching my belongings. Plus we're going to be living together. You should consider yourself the second luckiest girl on the planet...well the third, no the fourth...because I'm the third. I WOULD be first, but the Etoile and her partner take up the first two spots. You'll see. I'LL be Etoile one day. Who knows, if you're good enough I MIGHT even let you be my partner." She stopped to look the girl up and down critically, "Might." she emphasized.

All that talking had been Asami's way of trying to cheer the girl up. --Not that she cared that the girl was crying, "and stop apologizing," she added, "it's annoying." She pursed her lips and walked toward the dorms, as they passed deeper through the park, there were older students from all the schools chatting. "Why didn't any of THEM come help me?" she glared, making a big show of passing and glaring down her nose at the older students. "Dumb as cattle," she said to Kendall, "hold you're head up, if you're gonna be MY roommate you can't be all mopey like that. You're better than THESE ingrates." she said, loudly insulting the upperclassmen as they passed and marched on like the little princess she most certainly was not.

And there it was. That inner good she just knew was there. So, Kendall wasn't just a total nutjob with a big heart after all. Well, yes, she was, but this time she was right! Just knowing that the girl was finally being reached put a smile on her face, and she nodded. Not about the girl's comments about the student body, but about acknowledging her dreams.

"Right!" She chimed in happily. Sure, she still had a tear to her here and there, but who didn't right after they were done crying? There was something else she was curious about, that she assumed it would be safe to ask about now. Sure, this girl was a LITTLE snobby and rude, but that didn't mean she didn't have some care deep down! People like this though, they rarely expressed how they really felt. Of course, Kendall was the same way; Just instead of being rude and mean, she cried a lot. Both of these girls had a long way to go.

"Asami-sama, you're so knowledgeable about this school already! I transferred here after public school, because big brother said I would grow up faster here. I'm so happy I met someone as strong as Asami-sama already!" This, she said after being verbally beaten down. One would wonder of her sanity. Especially the upperclassmen she noticed were overhearing Asami's remarks. She was unsure of how to react to this, so she quieted down a little, but she still had to ask Asami something.

"I was wondering, Asami-sama, since I didn't learn very much about Miator before I came here, could you teach me? Pretty please?"

Inwardly, she was glad the other girl felt better, but outwardly her tone was the same, "You talk too much," as the girl spouted praise, then at her question, "Tch," she snorted, passing the upper classmen, "What's to teach? Miator is the best school on Astraea Hill, no, the whole world, otherwise I wouldn't be here. That's all you need to know." She walked a few paces, "one more thing. Someone on this campus is the Etoile," She said, eyes suddenly bright with admiration, "She's like the Queen of all the schools, And her partner is like the princess. Even I would bow to her, she's the prettiest, most proper girl in the world. And if you ever see her, you'd better treat her like the royalty she is...but not better than me."

She stopped suddenly and turned to look at the girl, "Actually Kendull your first task as my roommate is to find out who the Etoile is, but don't talk to her. You have to introduce us, and I might even let you watch." she said, her tone snobby as she raised her eyebrows, half-closed her eyes in the same face her mother always made at her. "If you succeed I'll let you brush my hair."

Filled with pride she marched on, leading the way, her false sense of power now fed by the "minion" behind her.

Kendall couldn't help but giggle a little. This girl was so into her role, it made her happy to see somebody with such a strong sense of self respect. Of course, she had no idea if it was real or not, but it was definitely convincing. As they approached what came to be seen as the other side of the park, and came closer to the dorms, she hatched a little idea. Maybe it would help her get the info that Asami wanted. Why she held the other girl in such a high respect was a mystery. maybe because she knew people like her?

"Oh! I can do that! My cousin has been here for four years, once I find her I can ask her!" She said happily. As she started to think to herself, she might seem to be spacing out to the other girl. She was thinking of where her family member may be, and how to go about meeting them. How was Arceia doing, anyway? The few times she met her, the girl was almost as shy as Kendall herself. She always had her face buried in a book or seemed too distant to talk to, but on the occasion they did speak, they got along decently enough.

Now she drifted to another thought: Arceia was three years older than Kendall and Asami. Would those two get along? Did Arceia have the patience that she did to actually handle snobby rude remarks? Would the two be able to actually meet the Etoile? These things just couldn't stop coming into her head, and she started to worry.

She snapped out of it after she stumbled, almost tripping on a crack in the pavement. Thankfully, she caught herself quickly enough so that none of the luggage was spilled over.

She listened, looking bored as the girl went on about her cousin. Cousin. Family. Someone this girl already knew here at school, while Asami knew no one. Jealous grabbed Asami by full force just in time for her to see Kendall trip and almost drop her things-or so Asami thought.

"Watch where you're going stupid," she said "if you're cousin is so great why aren't you HER roommate huh? Ugh, why did I have to get stuck with an idiot?" Of course the girl didn't consider that Arcei went to a different school, upon learning so she would respond, "In that case she probably doesn't know anything unless she's student council or something." And if she then was shot down once more by learning that the girl was on the student council, the last words from her mouth would be, "Oh well, maybe she at least knows who the Etoile is."

They walked quietly for a few paces, the strawberry dorms up ahead, her forehead hurt from the bruise caused by the girl behind her. "When we get to the dorm I demand you get me some ice for this," she said pointing at her forehead.."and...get some for yourself too, you look stupid with the bruise on your face." (was there a bruise? i can't remember ^.^; though there's surely one on her bum!) Strutting onward, Asami ignored the lonliness she felt from the jealous that Kendall had family here and she didn't even have so much as a familiar face, she became angry. "Can't you walk any faster? I'm tired and my head hurts." She quickened her pace, frowning, fists at her side as she stormed on.

Kendall honestly had no idea where Arceia was, nor if the girl would even recognize her. Her face had changed so much in the past year, her eyes had been changing color now in the light. She heard the girl start insulting her again. And just when she thought she had gotten through to her, too...

"G-gomenasai..." She said, sniffling as she started to tear up more. Her face was full of red cheeked, wet eyed near-crying. she was both embarrassed of herself for crying so much, and upset by what she had been called. She felt a few tears roll down her cheek, and stood more at attention, speeding up a little.

"W-we're almost there. O-our room is M5. I've already put my luggage there, but I haven't set up yet. Y-you can have first pick of the sides if you want."

While she spoke, her voice broke a little. She hid her face in her hair so nobody would see that she was crying, and hoped that this girl was just in a bad mood. She really did want to make a friend here.

((Gah, short >.<))