Snippet #1789025

Maya Kenkon


Glancing around, Maya could see a whole room of potential new friends, each one special and unique. The girls were pretty and the boys were handsome. “This is going to be a great year!”,she said with a large smile, optimism beaming from her as always. There had been a bit of a struggle to get in the school due to her father’s somewhat dubious background but she had managed to get in, though she insisted in working in a noodle shop down the street to help her father with the payments. Lately, the dojo had been losing a few of its students. Her father said it was due to that damn McCoy (his words not hers). She had simply urged the job issue without to flaring up her father’s temper by mentioning the rival dojo. Once her father flared up then her father’s former underlings went up as well, then there was talk of a raid and she had to calm them all down. “I still don’t get what the issue is”, she muttered, smoothing out the extremely long skirt her father insisted on wearing. She felt it made her look like a Yanki, a female teenage delinquent, though the large and good natured smile on her face told otherwise. She glanced around, looking for someone to talk to. Everyone seemed to be grouping up or talking with their senior buddy. She wasn’t sure who hers was but she hoped they would become good friends.


Reaching down, she tapped the side of her over- sized sneakers for good luck. It was something her mother had taught her when she was young. She said that demons of bad luck always attacked the feet first and the tapping noise scared them off. It was silly and childish but it gave her hope. Studying the people as best she could with one eye, she quickly spotted a blue eyed male who seemed to be flirting with everyone. “He’s cute though not as cute as…” a light pink blush crossed her features before she quickly pushed it back down. No, he was off limits and it would only anger her father. Turning her head, she glanced a few rows down at the brown haired male (Jack), her cheeks flushing once more.