TALL GIRL, knb

02 ; tall girl at school

"WHO THE FUCK IS THAT!?"

Irina looks around in boredom as she follows her manager to the teacher's lounge, they needed to get the last of her paperwork ready so that she can attend as a 2nd year. Attention is garnered on the group as the 2 foreigners are far too tall to be normal. Even if Yosen is known for having students of multitude different countries, the girl still stood out against the rest.

"Oi, stop dazing out," Stephan says in Russian as he nudges the girl, "he's gonna give us a tour of this place."

Irina shrugs but bows lightly to the old principal who smile warily as the girl has to bend a significant amount to show respect.

"Lead the way please," she says in Japanese as she points her head to the exit. The old man nodding as he walks out the room with 2 giants tailing after him.

"These are the classrooms,"

"that's the cafeteria,"

"this is the first year's side of the school."

"This is going to be your class."

"Can she introduce herself?" Stephan asks as they stop in front of her future homeroom. The girl is an entire head and a half taller than the door. She deadpans as she stares at the plaster on the wall before staring down at the 2 adults next to her, "it'll be good for her to socialize with her future classmates early won't it?

She glares at the back of her manager's head for his suggestion. So? She's gonna have to introduce herself again in a week to these people, why do it now?

"That would be a good idea," the principal glances through the window on the door as the students write down their notes. Knocking politely to get the teacher's attention, he opens the door and lead the pair in.

Irina ducks down a significant amount to get past the door. Immediately, all attention is on them as the girl throws a lazy look down at the other sitting at their desks. There are a few gasps and eyes widening at her stature.

"This is Irina Violetta, she's gonna to be your new classmate by next week," the principal introduces her as she bows towards her future peers.

"treat me well." she says as she stands up to her full height, tracksuit ruffling as she puts her hands in her jacket's pockets. The sleeves are purple with her name etched in the back.

"Any questions?"

"How tall are you?"

"215 cm"

"Were are you from?"

"Russia"

"Why did you pick Yosen?"

"He picked it for me," she points her thumbs towards Stephan who stood by the door, "It's close to where he works."

"Are you interested in sports?"

"Yea, volleyball," she grins, "heard y'all got a pretty shit team."

There are offended gasps all around before it is followed by a round of silence, Stephan face palm's at the girl's attitude but he can't say anything about it. She is right, Yosen's female volleyball team is practically a speck of dust in the Japanese leagues and Irina is one of the brightest rising stars of the Russian volleyball youth association.

"It doesn't matter though 'cause i'm the best," she points at herself, "My name is Irina Violetta, I'm going to be the one who'll carry the team towards nationals. Remember that."

After her dramatic speech, she changes her posture so that she's leaned on 1 leg, hand going back in her pockets as she turns to look back at Stephan who can only sigh and shake his head.

"Let's move to the gyms," the old man says as he urges both the girl and the man out of the room. Stares following them all the way, most of the attention on the bold girl who claims that she will be the one they need, "The volleyball team should be practicing so you'll be able to introduce yourself to them too."

The trio walked out the building and towards the gymnasium instead.

"Did you have to antagonize your fellow classmates?" Stephan hisses under her breath as he glares up at the girl, "You need to at least make friends."

"None of them are on the volleyball team though," she points out, "we're going to where they're practicing right now so that means that everyone in the room isn't on the team."

"At least try to make 1 friend," Stephan shakes his head at the girl's laid back attitude while she just shrugs.

"This is gym number 2," the principle gestures to the red doors in front of them, "This gym is for both badminton, volleyball, any sports with a net really. Gym 1 is for basketball and sports with a hoop while gym 3 is an indoor swimming pool. I'll show you them after this."

The principle opens the door as he leads the 2 of them to the coach. The whole team has basically stopped to stare at them now, people seemed to be doing that a lot whenever Irina is in the room. It's her height, everyone knows that, but it's getting repetitive now.

"Coach," the old man smiles as the group exchange bows, "this is the new member i was talking about."

"Irina Violette!" the coach says happily as he approaches the girl, looking up in wonder to meet her eyes, "I've heard lots about you!"

"It's a pleasure to meet you coach," the girl bends down to bow at him once more, the man lets out a whistle as he takes in her full height, "I'll hopefully start working with you next week."

"The pleasure is all mine!" the man offers her a grin and a handshake which she returns with a smile of her own, "my name is Takeda but you can call me anything you like."

"It's nice to meet you again Takeda," Stephan interjects as they also shake hands, "We're on a bit of a tight schedule but i'm sure we can work out Irina's schedule for both your team and the under 19."

"That'll be no problem!" Takeda laughs joyfully, "I'm glad to have such a talented young lady on my team! You're all free to leave whenever, don't let me hold you. I'll introduce Irina properly to the team next week."

The group bowed to each other once more before the trio is leaving towards Gym 1.