Competition pt 3

Disclaimer: I don’t own Maizu and Avatar! They belong to Mike and Bryan.

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Mai’s POV

I felt really good this morning; I had this wonderful dream last night where I was chased by Jet in a castle, and my dream prince saved me. He took me on a romantic date to a fancy restaurant; it was decorated just the way I wanted a fancy restaurant to be. My prince is being more gentlemen; he opened the door for me, he pulled a chair for me to sit on, and he gave me a red rose. It all ended when he gave me a kiss.

When I was woken up by my alarm clock, I suddenly felt the urge of happiness. Yesterday, I was all sad and gloomy, but now I felt great and brightened up, all thanks to that dream! I wish this happened for real! Jet is still stalking me; he’s had a crush on me since the fourth grade. When I first saw him, he looks about 12. I was only about 10 when I met him. That guy is a real stinker! Everyone knows he had a crush on me for a long time.

As a walk over to my English class, I felt a hand grabbing me by the shoulder with a familiar voice saying,” Hi Mai! How are you feeling today, alright?” I know who that voice is; it’s Zuko. Why would he ask me how I’m feeling today? “I’m feeling great today, Zuko! Thanks for asking”, I replied in a cheerful way. I better not get to happy or I’ll end up like Ty Lee.

When we got to our English class before the bell rang, Mr. Kuei wrote something on the board. He wrote: “No Homework Today!” I quickly whispered, “Yes!” Yeah, no homework for English! Whoohoo! I wonder what we had to do today; I know we had to review grammar.

30 minutes later…

I was right; we do have to review grammar. I starting to feel very tired from Mr. Kuei’s rambling about a subject, verb, etc. I can’t stop my eyelids from fluttering. Then someone passed a note to me. I took the note and read to myself quietly.

Mai,

How are you? I got something to ask you, its something important. Yesterday, I saw how gloomy you were and I want to know what’s up? I know there’s something on your mind, but you need to tell me what it is. I hated Jet as much as you do! I don’t like how’s he’s been treating you. That’s why I have been escorting you to your classes yesterday, just for your protection. Jet will never bother you again, I promise you. Meet me today after school!

Zuko

I looked at Zuko, who is facing the board, listening to Mr. Kuei’s rambling. He looks as if he’s interested in English. I quickly hide the note before anyone would see it. Crap! I almost forgot, it is a 2 hour block day today! I had 1st, 3rd, and 5th period for 2 hours. I looked at the clock on the wall and we only had an hour and 35 minutes left. Stupid block days!

1 hour and 35 minutes later..

Finally English is over; all we did in the first hour is to just review grammar, and in the second hour, we just play outburst. Zuko is really smart in English, he understands everything. From that note, what does Zuko want to talk to me about? I had no time to think about that because I had Science with Ms. Hama. She’s okay but crazy at times. I heard she is the worst teacher in the whole school but Coach Zhao is 10 times worse than her.

My schedule:

1. English

2. Math

3. Science

4. Study Skills

5. P.E.

6. Art

That’s my schedule. Wednesday block days are better than Tuesdays.

Zuko’s POV

Here I am just walking down the hallway, minding my own business until Jet came along beside me. Jet said,” Hello Zuko! How’s it going with you today?” I felt 

sudden anger rise; why would he ask me that question if that’s not any of his concern. Besides what does he care about anyway? “Hi Jet”, I replied sarcastically. Jet replied with a low laugh, and then he pushed me down.

He said with a smirk,” Oops! Sorry, I didn’t mean to push you down! Freak!” I got up instantly and pushed him back. He looked at me with an evil expression, saying,” Oh this is going to be fun!” He punched me in the gut very hard. I fell to my knees, clutching my stomach.

Then he said something that really made me angry. “You are not worth anything, Zuko! You’re just a Goth kid who is so gloomy and always nosing around in my business! I just had one chance to dance with Mai, but you are in my way! You are unnaturally stupid, you know that! You better stay out of my way, Freak or I’ll destroy you!”

That’s it; I’m not backing down this time. With that, I tackled Jet to the ground; we began wrestling in the middle of the hallway until we stopped at someone’s feet. We looked to see an old woman looking down at us with a blank expression.

She said, ”Well looks like we got a couple of hog-monkeys, hm”, smiling. Jet and I both got up to look in the eyes of the older woman. She said,” Well Jet looks like you started another fight, hmm? You’ll go to on-sight NOW!” She pointed in the direction to where on-sight is. Before Jet walked away, he whispered in my ear,” You stay out of my way or I’ll kill you!”

After he left, the old woman turned to look at me. She said,” You must be the new student here, eh?” I nodded. “My name is Ms. Hama, and I teach biology. Welcome to this school, I understand that you run into a bit a trouble with Jet. Whatever you do, just stay away from him. I heard he got suspended twice for starting fights here at this school. So tell me young man, what is your schedule?”

I showed her my schedule. She said,” To go to room D-8; you go straight and take a right at the corner. It is about three classrooms down. If you need to know where else to go find your classrooms, you just go get a map from the main office.” I went over to room D-8; I had Chemistry with Mr. Tyro. I hope he’s nice.

When I entered the classroom, Mr. Tyro looked at me and smiled. He motioned me to come over to his desk. He introduced me to everyone in class. He told me to sit next to the guy with a baseball cap.

When I sat down next to him, he turned to look at me. I remembered this guy from the first day of school. He blinked at me before I said anything. He kept blinking and blinking as if he wanted to say something to me. I don’t know what he’s saying to me. I’m guessing that this guy must be quiet.

Then I got confused when he mouthed out his words. He took out his notebook and wrote something in it. He tore that piece of paper out of the notebook and passed it down to me. I read it what it silently to myself. The note says:

I know you made a bet with Jet yesterday on a girl, by the name of Mai! You and Jet are going to have a rough competition to whoever is more gentlemen gets to take her to the dance, right? I must warn you; when you have a competition with Jet, don’t get too completive, even over a girl, or you’ll get beaten up by him after school at 3:00. He’s known to beat up guys who try to flirt with Mai.

Then I wrote back and passed it back to him. I wrote, ” Why does Jet stalk Mai so much?” He passed the note back to me, and I read his reply:

Jet’s been having a crush on her since the fourth grade. Every time he goes near her, incidents happen such as ‘pushing her in the mud’, ‘ramming into her at lunch’, and ‘spilling spiders all over her.’ That’s why Mai hates him now, for all the mean things he done to her. Here’s something you don’t know; he’s seventeen and also a sophomore!

My eyes widen when I read the last part. I wrote, “How did he become a sophomore at seventeen”, and gave it to the mysterious guy. He wrote back to me. His reply says:

Jet got held back in the fourth grade twice! The reason(s) for that is when he had failing grades, and he bullied a couple of boys. He did the meanest things to them by stealing their lunch money and giving them wedgies. So yeah, he was 12 when he met Mai, who was also 10. It was like love at first sight for him, but not for Mai. By the way what happen to your eye?

Why would he ask me that? I know other people stare at me because of my scar, but I’m use to it now! I had this scar since I was fourteen. Every time I look at it, it brings back such horrible memories. It reminds of the day my father burned my face.

Finally bell rang, and it’s time for lunch. Yes! I would finally have the chance to talk to Mai. While I gather my stuff, the mysterious guy whispered in my ear,” My names Longshot. I already know your name is Zuko. Just so you know, stay away from Jet.” He walked away after he said that. Man, that guy is just as mysterious as a spirit.

As I was walking to meet with my friends and my sister, Jet walked by me and called me a bad name. He called me the A-word! What did I ever do to him? It’s his fault he’s a jerk! God, it makes want to go burn him to a crisp! I can’t do that here because I could get expelled from this school, and my mom would be furious. She wouldn’t be anyway because she promised to never treat me like my father did.

When I finally found my friends, I sat down with him at the table, we sat at yesterday. I heard my sister ask,” Having a rough time, huh?” I looked up at her with a surprise expression. How does she know? She must’ve understood body language. Well, at least she understands because you could tell by her expression. I told her,” Yeah I did! I just had a fight with Jet in the hallway.” “Oh my gosh, did you really?” asked Ty Lee, who sounds very concern.

I nodded back her, saying,” Before you say anything, Azula, no firebending this time. Just some wrestling and sarcasm! He also threatened to kill me if I don’t stand out of his way!” “WHAT! He shouldn’t threaten you like that! Why that jerk, why couldn’t he be sent to military school?” whined Ty Lee.

Then Jet and his gang walked by us. Jet called me the A-word again! He stood behind Mai and started massaging her shoulders. Jet told Mai,” Hey there pretty lady, how would you and I go to the dance together”, in a flirty way. Mai scrunched up her face with anger and told him,” No!”

Jet said,” C’mon you know you want to! We’ll have the most awesome night of our lives! Will come with me?” He’s trying to convince her, in which that got even more angry. She whispered out a “No!” I stood up from my seat and yelled,” She said No, Jet, so why don’t you back off?”

Jet glared at me, he said,” Oh you again, this is the second time you stood in my way. If you stand in my again, I’m going to hurt you till you’re paralyzed! Got it?” I didn’t move until Azula muttered,” I’ll handle this!”

Azula strutted towards him in a sassy fashion. She stalling him right now. She turned her head to look at me and mouthed,” Take her away from here and got to someplace private.” I nodded in agreement. I offered Mai my hand and she took it. I dragged her over to someplace private like the library.

When we got to the library, the librarian noticed us. She smiled at us, and went back to what she’s doing before we entered. We sat at a table at the center, and a moment of silence stood between us. I broke the silence by asking,” Sooo…what do you do in your free time, Mai?”

Mai blushed in a pinkish color and stuttered,” Um-uh I-I d-do some shuriken-jitsu after school on Tuesdays”, moving her eyes to the left, not bothering to look at me. “Cool”, was all my reply. Her pale gold eyes are so pretty that it makes you want to go stare at them forever. Her hair is so smooth looking; no frizz, no curls, etc. It makes me want to go touch it!

Her gaze fell on me and I gazed at her back. Our eyes are locked as our faces went closer to each others until our noses touch. I feel her warm breath against mine. As we are about to kiss, the bell rang, Dang it! We parted after the bell rang, and it’s also time for 5th period with Coach Hot head- I mean Coach Zhao!

Mai’s POV

I was so close to kissing Zuko. Why does that bell have to interrupt our romantic moment? Great, I think I fell in love with him! I hate P.E. because of Coach Zhao! He’s the strictest teacher in the whole school. I almost got a detention for not participating. I hope I’ll survive P.E. for 2 hours with Ty Lee and Azula.

In the first hour, we had to do a 3 mile run. Coach Zhao said we had to do 12 laps in 30 minutes. Like how is that possible if everyone in this class are not more athletic as the professionals yet. Coach blew his whistle and everyone started running. I was running along sided with Ty Lee. Azula ran by us, backwards. What a show-off.

So far we did 8 laps and my legs are starting to hurt, so we decided to walk for the next few laps. After those few laps, Coach Zhao screamed at us to run so we ran to finish up this last lap. We ran as fast as we could. Azula said with sarcasm,” Boy that was fun.”

When we finished our 3 mile run, Coach told us that our time is 29:58. That was close to 30 minutes. Then Coach hot-head screamed at us to go to the gym to play dodgeball. I hate dodgeball. Oh that’s going to be fun! NOT! I hope I’ll survive that as well!