Cowboy Bebop Fan Fiction ❯ Bebop High ❯ Chapter Two Revised ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Bebop Highby: Setryochi* * *Spike sighed sitting back in his chair. Mrs. Wending was chattering about another project. “You’ll be working with partners and I’ll be picking who you work with,” she ended. Faye yawned, this class was so boring. How could anyone pay attention when they were half a sleep?“Spike Spiegel, You’ll be Faye Valentine’s partner.”“What?!” both Spike and Faye shot up in their seats and yelled in unison.“Settle down, I’ve choosen your partners and I don’t intend to change them so you’ll be working together or you’ll recieve a zero for this. And let me remind you this project is worth five letter grades.” Faye and Spike groaned at the same time and looked at each other. They sighed and sat back in their seats looking as if they wanted to die.“How did I get stuck with such a lunkhead? He probably doesn’t even know what class we’re in right now!” Faye thought thinking she’d have to do everything on her own.“Gah! Why’d I have to get stuck with her!? She probably doesn’t even know what way is up!” Spike thought figuring he’d be doing most of the work.* *“Wait up!” Faye jogged up to Spike.“What do you want?” he asked not looking at her.“We have to do the project together, remember?”“Oh yeah..” “Well, at least you’ve acknowlegded we have to work together,” she rolled her eyes, “I thought I was going to have to do all the work.”At her last statement Spike began to laugh, “That’s funny, cause I thought I was going to be the only one working!” he slapped his knee hunched over laughing histerically. She stopped crossing her arms over her chest and tapping her right foot impatiently, “Are we going to do this or not?” Recovering from his sudden outburst he looked up at her, “Yeah sure,” he paused taking a breath. “What should we do it on?”* *The purpled haired teen sighed frustratedly, “Damn...”“Find anything yet?” Spike asked poking his head out from behind a book case. “No...” she sat on the floor in the middle of the isle. They had been at the library for over an hour and couldn’t find anything. They had no idea what they wanted to do and everytime one of them found something, the other would disagree. The teacher had given them a choice, she wanted them to learn culture, so they needed to pick a country or some sort of tribe. Spike strolled over sitting down next to her, “I’m tired,” he yawned and stretched out. His left hand knocked a book off the shelf. It made a loud thud in the the quiet book castle. They both looked around making sure nobody was looking at them for making such a loud noise, after a minute they both sighed and slumped over. Spike picked the book up meaning to place it on the shelf when he read the title.“Hm...” he said opening the book to read it’s contents.“What is it?” Faye asked peaking over his shoulder. Looking at her through the corner of his eye he became annoyed, ‘I can see I’ll be going through this all year. That looking over the shoulder thing is annoying.’
“It’s a book on Japan, seems pretty cool,” he paused looking at some of the pictures, “Wow, that looks complicated.”“Ooooh! I wanna see!” she grabbed the book from him looking inside the book to see what he had seen. Slowly, she turned the book to it’s side, then upside down, then back again. “Can’t read?” he asked amused at her confussion. “What’s that?” she asked pointing to what looked like chicken scratch on a sign. The picture was of a city in Japan, there were lots of signs with... scribbles on them?“Well it says here,” he started placing his finger over the words, “That translated that means restruant.” he grinned.“Wow, how can they read that stuff?” she asked.“Dunno, but I think we found our project,” he closed the book.“Wait, who said I want to do it on that place?!” she said standing up.“Well, don’t you want to know more about those ‘scribbles’?”“Well...”“C’mon, we’re doing it on this,” he began walking away to go check the book out.Faye did want to know more about it, but... Oh well....* *Slowly she walked into the house. Spike closed the door after she had entered. They had decided to go to Spike’s house to work on the project. Mostly because he was complaining the library was uncomfortable, they would have gone to Faye’s, but she assured him her house was unavailible because of some renovations.“Nice place,” Faye said, she felt uncomfortable in the huge living room. The carpets were a bage color and the walls a creamy white, the funiture was also a cream color. There were some plants around the room set on different tables that happened to be made of a white marble base, and a glass top. “This way,” he said pointing to a hallway that led deeper into the house. They made their way to his room. He hadn’t said much and he wasn’t really happy about bringing her to his house. He looked like he hated her being there.“Hm... “ she mused looking around his rather big bedroom. He had a simple bed with black bed sheets, the same color carpet as the rest of the house and plain white walls. The walls had a few Bruce Lee posters scattered on them. In a corner of the room was a small stand with a Tv on it with a VCR and a few video tapes randomly placed or stacked around it. The room was quite simple compared to the rest of the house.“Sit where you like,” he said motioning to the unmade bed and the rest of the room. Faye found a chair that belonged to the cluttered desk on the wall to the right. She pulled it out and sat down waiting for further instruction. Spike sat on a small stool infront of her book in hand, “So what’s the first thing we need to have for this report, essay thing,” he asked unenthusiastically.“Well, we need the population, traditions, location-”“The FIRST thing,” he cut her off.“Um... I guess we should start by telling them where it’s at,” she tucked a lock of hair behind her ear.“Sounds easy enough,” he said opening the book.Faye sat wondering why he was so secretive and plain. ‘What’s with him? He’s got this nice house and his room looks like this! He seems to be disgusted with it all, I wonder why.’“Faye?”“Faye...?”“...FAYE!”& #8220;Ah! What?” she looked at him confussed, she had spaced out and was called back abruptly.“Would you like a drink or something to eat?” he asked standing up and heading to the door.“Well I uh..” before she could refuse her stomach answered for her by growling.“I take that as a ‘yes’,” he began to walk out.“No really I’m fine!” she protested.“Right, whatever you say,” he walked out. Fifteen minutes later Spike returned with three sandwhiches, a bag of chips, and a glass of soda. Faye looked in awe at all the food. It was insane! All that just for him? She watched as he bite into his sandwhich. She began to feel even more hungry. She licked her lips, those sandwhiches and chips were very tasty looking right now.“So, do you want to continue to work on the project or would you rather call it a night and part ways?” he asked shovling in some chips.“I think I should go, you seem busy with your food,” her stomach growled giving away her real reason for leaving. “I offered to get you some,” he gulped down some soda.“We can work more on this tomorrow, do you mind if I take the book home to get some research done?” “Sure take it, I’ll look on the Net for some more stuff too. I’ll print up a few pictures while I’m at it.”“Ok, well,” she grabbed the book, “Bye,” she waved and left his room.
Spike sighed running his long fingers through the green mass on his head. ‘Where are ya’ Julia?’ he wondered. He looked around but there was no sign of her. He had been waiting at the mall for an hour now. She was really late and usually she wasn’t. He was starting to worry, Julia wouldn’t have ditched him would she have?“Spike,” he heard from behind him. He turned quickly grabbed the girl and kissed her without looking to see who she was. She struggled and tried to push away. ‘Julia knows I always do this, why’s she trying to escape?’ He opened his eyes letting the girl stumble out of his arms.“Spike what is WRONG with you!?”“F-faye?” he asked dumbfounded.She wiped her mouth glaring at him, “What kind of sick joke is that?” she started spitting and making gag noises.He mumbled a low “sorry” and turned away from her. “I was waiting for someone else, didn’t expect YOU to come up. What’re you doing here anyways?”“I was shopping and I seen you so I decided to come say hi, geez... Next time you do something like that I’ll slap you so hard!” she clenched her fists.“Don’t worry, it’ll never happened again.”“Right, well I have to go catch my ride, see ya’ later,” she walked away tossing her bag over her shoulder. Spike grumbled, ‘damnit, I fuckin’ kissed the wrong girl, I hope nobody seen that. Julia doesn’t have to know about that silly incident.’ The Bruce Lee cowboy was pulled out of his thoughts by the sound of another female voice. This time instead of grabbing her and kissing her, he’d wait and make sure it was the right person.To his liking it was her. The one he was waiting for. He had waited a long time to see her because she hadn’t been in school lately and wasn’t able to call. Last night was the first time he had heard from her and she only talked for five minutes telling him to meet her in the middle of the mall at 2:00 in the after noon.“Howdy,” he waved.“Hey,” she hugged him gently.“What’s been going on Julia, why haven’t you been in school lately?”“Well,” she looked away. She was worried about something, Spike knew right away she was troubled by something. She looked back towards him smiling a sad, quiet smile. She was pleading and sympathetic at the same time.He cupped her right cheek with his hand, he looked into her eyes searching for an answer. Her smile faded as she placed her own hand on top of his and nuzzled her face into the palm of his hand.“I have to leave for awhile, Spike,” she said not looking at him.“What? Why? Where are you going?” he asked turning her chin up gently to look into her eyes.“I have to, my parents want me to go stay with my Aunt and Uncle in North Carolina. I can’t say why, but it’s for the best,” she tried to give him a reassuring smile but it didn’t help much.“Why can’t you tell me?” he grasped her shoulders. He didn’t want her to leave, she was all he had. His grip tightened as if that would be enough to keep her there.“Please I can’t, don’t make this any harder than it is. I’ll be back, I just can’t stay here for now. It’s too much, Spike!” She twisted out of his grasp and turned to run away from him. Spike stood there watching blankly as she ran to the nearest exit and out into the street.* *Spike laid on his bed staring at the ceiling. He kept asking questions aloud, as if the walls, furniture, and other objects could hear him. “What’s going on, Julia?” He would pause to ponder all this before asking more questions.“When are you coming back to me?” The lanky young adult was snapped from his trance when the phone rang.“Julia?!” he asked as the phone was torn from the charge box.“Uh.. No? Spike it’s me, Faye,” came the voice from the other end of the phone line.“Oh, you,” he stated dryly.“Gee, thanks for caring. I was calling to see if you wanted to work on our project some more.”“Um... Aren’t we almost finished though?”“Hello?! Where have you been!? We haven’t even got the first page finished!”“Argh...” Sigh. “Well... Come on over and we’ll work some more on it.”“Hey, you don’t sound so well, what’s wrong?”“I’m fine, just come over so we can get some of that out of the way.”“Ok, be there in a few,” she hung up before he replied with a good bye.The phone rang again and Spike picked up, “Dude just come over all ready!”“I was going to but I thought I’d call first,” came the icy male voice on the other end.“Oh, Vicious, sorry.”“Spike, Me’n the boys were gunna go out and have some fun, you wanna come?”“I can’t, Faye’s coming over so we can finish our project.” Spike sighed.“Who cares about that bitch? Look, I heard what happened with Julia, let’s go out and have some fun and try and get your mind off of things, k?”“Well...” “You know you want to, Faye’ll understand.”“All right, but I can’t stay out all night, I gotta get some sleep. I’m supposed to meet some people from my dad’s company tomorrow.” They both hung up saying quick good byes. Spike grabbed a blue, button-up shirt and slipped it on over his shoulders. He was wearing a white wifebeater so he left it unbuttoned, he grabbed his wallet, stuffed it in the back pocket of his semi-baggy jeans and stalked out to wait on the porch for Vicious.A car pulled up, Hop in!” Vicious called from inside the car. They stopped just in front of the house. Spike stood up and walked to the car full of guys. They opened the door, he got in, and they sped off. Spike didn’t care where they went tonight, as long as he could feel better.* *Faye knocks on the door for the fourth time wondering if Spike had heard her at all. She huffed and rang the door bell a few times. “Gr! Spike!?!” She yelled but was cut short when the door swung open and a small woman in a maid’s uniform appeared before her."May I help you?” The woman asked a little annoyed."I... Uh, sorry...” she laughed nervously, “I’m here to see Spike, we were supposed to work on our school work tonight.” Faye said blushing.“Spike? Oh he left fifteen minutes ago. He probably wont be back for awhile. Sorry dear, would you like me to give him a message?” She smiled kindly reaching to a table next to the door to get some paper and pen. “Yeah, sure.” Faye started, “Tell him he’s an asshole!” Faye stomped off leaving the poor woman at the door staring after her.
Faye walked with her arms crossed over her chest holding her books tightly. She mumbled under her breath about how Spike was a jerk and she wanted him to die.“Hey girl!” “Huh?” Faye looked over to see a yellow car pull up with three other girls in it. They were the girls she had met at school. “Where you headin’?”“Home,” Faye walked up to the car.“Hop in, we’re goin’ down to the bar to play some pool and see some of the guys.” “Sure, why not?” Faye got in and reacquainted herself with the three girls. At the wheel was Racheal, she was kind of short, with brown hair, and a bad attitude. In the front passenger seat was Gena, she was the “strong silent type.” She doesn’t talk much but when she needs to, she’ll let you know what’s coming to ya’. She had black hair and was rather tall. And in the back seat with Faye was Charlotte. Charlotte had long blue hair and sparkly purple eyes. She was more in touch with her inner child and often rambled about silly things.“--So I went up to her an’ I was like ‘What? You gotta’ problem?’” Racheal was talking about a fight she had gotten into a few days ago when they walked into the bar.“You think we can get any drinks?” asked Faye.“Yeah,” started Gena, “We just flirt with the older men until they buy us drinks thinking we’re of age.”“Oh,” Faye nodded and decided to go along with it. ‘If it’s flirting they want, flirting they get,’ she thought devilishly. Faye walked in and sat at the bar. She was wearing a black mini skirt and a red tank with black sandals, normal attire but it would do. The bar was kind of dark so it wouldn’t matter, as long as a little leg was showing you could get away with murder in a place like this. It wasn’t too long before Faye had flirted a guy out of a nice drink and was pulled away to go play some pool with the girls. “C’mon Faye!” Racheal pulled her away from the man saving her another lame conversation.Racheal pulled Faye over to one of the tables were the other girls and a few guys crowded around.“This is Joey,” Racheal started pointing to the boys as she named them, “Vicious, Sean, and Spike.”Faye narrowed her eyes, “Spike!?”Spike looked up to see Faye’s angry finger in his face almost poking his eye out. “You could have told me you had plans! I can’t believe you had me come over like that and then you leave! Gah!” she threw her hands in the air trying to keep from hitting him.“Faye, I can explain,” he started.“Shut up the both of you!” Racheal slid between them and pushed them away from each other, “We’ll settle this over a nice, friendly game. Boys VS. girls.” She smiled to them, “We’ll settle it that way.” She handed both Spike and Faye a pool stick.* * *Whelp, wha’do ya’ think so far? Hehe... Wanna know why Julia left? Bwahahahahahah! You’ll just have to wait and see!!! RR please!!!Set-chan