Kouji Daisuki, the most popular boy in all of the Tomoi High School, had been assigned a seat next to her. Trying to avoid the dark brown eyes that always made her heart pound so loudly , Saimi glued her gaze to her lap.

As Kouji made immediate friends around the area, Saimi grew nervous. After all, this was the guy that she had a crush on ever since she was in junior high school. But all these years, she had never admitted her feelings for him out loud to anybody. And as the years passed by, the chances for telling him grew slim as Kouji found his way up in the crowd and Saimi found her way down.

Not being able to resist, Saimi glanced at Kouji. He was laughing carefreely with his friends. Azure eyes, hidden by the thick black glasses Saimi used for looking at the board, widened as a red tinge of blush came unto her cheeks. Hitting herself mentally, she turned away and tried to calm her beating heart once more.

Anyway, even though Kouji had not found his way to popularity, it didn't matter. Why would anybody want to have a girlfriend as shy and quiet and cold like herself? It was a hopeless cause. She sighed. But no matter how much she had tried to not care about him and get over him, she just couldn't. One look at those eyes would bring back those feelings she so much hardly try to get rid of.

Meanwhile, as students in the back were chattering cheerfully about the new school semester, the HR teacher was going through the roll call. " Saimi Yuemeno..." Raising her hand, Saimi said. " Here."

As she said that, Kouji finally seemed to notice who he was sitting next to. Smiling flirtaciously, he said huskily. " Hello, Saimi... You know, that's a nice name..."This time, he had gone too far. Saimi had instantly turned a bright tomato red. Before, Saimi even had time to register and analyze the fact that he had complemented her name, some guys near Kouji laughed out loud. One of the boys even managed to choke out between his laughs. " You're too much, Kouji... I see you haven't lost your touch with girls over the summer." Kouji began to laugh too, along with the others, at her.

The bright red of blushing suddenly turned to a more brighter red of anger. Saimi was shy. She was also the one for showing little emotion. But she was never the one to take in the insults thrown at her. Before she could restrain herself from attention, she quickly grabbed the heavy textbook she had on her desk and smacked Kouji in the head.

Every attention in the class was now centered on Saimi and Kouji. Not one sound was heard in the classroom. Even the teacher had frozen with the crowd. Everybody stared intently to see what would happen next.

Saimi froze too. She couldn't believe she had done such a thing. Not even a second after she had hit him did every drop of the anger fueling through her system vanished but fear had overtaken her. Through the four years of observing him, she knew that he had a very short temper and the change in his mood could change from cheerfulness to unsustainable anger instantly.

As the seconds ticked by, the silence in the room grew more intense as Kouji slowly lifted his head. Saimi felt her heart rip when brown eyes glared at her underneath the blonde bangs in undeniable anger. He stood up and without hesitation slapped her hard enough so that she fell back and the glasses broke. Her dark blue ponytail was now loose and tangled.

Streams of tears abruptly trailed down Saimi's milky face behind the cracked glass lense. Her small hand gently carressed the now bruising cheek. Kouji was about to slap her again when the glasses gave way and shattered unto the floor into several pieces.

Time stopped again as Kouji stared at Saimi's dark blue eyes that was overflowing with tears. The hand that was about to slap her was frozen high above his head. However the time spell was broken by the bell that signaled for the ending of HR.

Without hesitation, Saimi quickly grabbed her bags and ran out of the room. A boy with black hair came up to Kouji and grabbed his shoulder. " Why did you stop?" As cruel as the question sounded, it was normal to be said in that school.

Tomoi High School was a special high school where most of the students were sons or daughters of very rich and successful companies. Kouji happened to be the son of the richest company and that partly the reason why he was the most popular. However, some students in the high school had just gotten into the school because of their high intelligence of education. Saimi happened to be one of them and was considered to be an outsider. And students like Saimi who acted that way to the "superior" was considered to have "cross the boundaries " and was punished. So it was no surprise that the boy asked the question.

But Kouji remained silent. He replayed the scene when he saw her azure eyes filled with pain and overwhelming emotions. When he saw that, he wasn't able to cause her more pain. He was never the weak one but something else in her eyes had stopped him. But what? He wondered to himself.

Determined to find out what it was, he ran out of the classroom following after her and leaving the whole class in a state of shock.

Meanwhile, in the girls bathroom, Saimi washed her face. Splashing the clear water unto her tear-stained face, she looked up to the mirror. She breathe irregularly. It had hurted so much. And it hurted more that the one who caused her pain was the first and only crush she ever had. She had been too vunerable and she hated that. She closed her eyes and splashed more cold water unto her face and mentally hit herself. It had been four years. And through those years, he had never once paid any attention to her until now just to mock her and make a fool of her. She had to become more strong... more cold. As she splashed water unto her face again, all the tears had been washed off and her heart began to clear. As she dried her face with a paper towel, she walked out of the girl's bathroom with her heart renewed.

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Hello everyone~!!! ^^~ angemyst here~!!!! I hope you like the story so far. Anyway, if you do, please R&R so I can at least know what you think~!!!

Anywayz, Hopes of Love was inspired by the song by Mandy Moore, " Crush". And I know it sounds familiar because of that "school system"... rich vs. poor? Anyway, I have no idea who "created" this school system but I just thought that this would fit in nicely with the story plot I have in mind. Anywayz, besides that, everything here is original 100%! So don't go off plagerizing~!!!! And if anyone have the same plot as mine, I'm sorry but this is a story I really thought up. I thought since there are so many stories invoving "cold" boys and "perky" girls relationship, why not create the opposite.... Well, it was interesting to me...^^-;; So if anyone plagerizes me I will personally hunt you down and you won't like what I do to you~!!!!!! So please don't plagerize...k? ^^- thanx~!!! K.. enough of my chattering.... Don't forget to R&R~!!!!! ^^- I'll personally appreciate it~!!!!!...k...I'll stop...^^;; hehe...