Chapter 1: The First Day

Ok, first day at my new high school should be easy…I hope. I started to make my way down the path to the main door, not good, already getting looks – just stay calm, breath. Ignoring the mutters and people pointing at me I pushed the main door open, OW! What the? I sighed when I saw the 'pull' sign on the door – a couple of girls near me giggle as I pulled open the door and went inside. The next thing I'd have to do was find the office to get my timetable, how hard can that be? Not knowing where to look I just wandered around the corridors, until I turned a corner and crashed into someone in a hurry.

"OW! Thanks a lot JURK!" a girl said up from the floor, she had long black hair and hazel eye's, as she looked up the sudden anger on her face turned to surprise. "You're the new guy!!" she jumped to her feet. "I'm Lei Fang! Nice to meet you!" she said excitedly, she turned round and waved to someone "Hitomi! Come see this!!".

Another girl ran a short way down the corridor holding her books to her chest.

"What?" she asked almost as excited as Lei Fang "I found you a friend! I present to you the new guy!" the girls' face lit up.

"Hi new guy! My names Hitomi! Pleased to meet ya!" she stuck out her hand, which I shook.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Max" I said cheerfully. Wow they're cute! I thought to myself.

"Oh, before I forget," Lei Fang started rummaging through her bag – she then unfolded a slightly crumbled piece of paper and handed me it. "Here's you're timetable…looks like you and Hitomi can get to know each other" I looked at Lei Fang puzzled "She just started the other day". I looked at Hitomi who was jumping up and down shouting.

"It's true! It's true!" she stopped abruptly "Class!!"

I glanced around no one was in the corridor. Before I could say a word Lei Fang ran off down the corridor and Hitomi grabbed my hand and pulled me through a door nearby. I sighed a breath of relief the teacher wasn't here yet.

"Quick sit down!" Hitomi sat herself in a seat and I took the one opposite her.

Hitomi neatly tucked her school skirt under her legs and started fixing her shirt and tie, I tugged the shelves of my white school shirt and lowered my tie a bit so I could breath.

The classroom door swung open and I straightened up thinking it was the teacher, a light blonde, long haired girl stepped in – she was wearing a very posh looking uniform. As this girl cleared the doorframe another blonde stepped in, she was wearing a school skirt but had ditched the white school shirt for a low cut tank top – she was also wearing a cow boy hat. Whistles and clapping came from the boys at the front row, but they faded as another girl came in. She stuck out from the other two due to the fact that her hair was white and… she had a very interesting and reveling dress sense. The skirt she was wearing was cut short and looked like it had been cut by a pair of scissors. Black strapped high heels and a top that reveled a great deal of her cleavage.

Thinking I'd seen enough, I started to get some stuff from my bag, wait – what class is this? I looked over at Hitomi who pointed to her textbook 'English' it read. Mouthing a silent 'thank you' I pulled the identical textbox from my bag and took out a notepad and pencil. As I was doing this the three girls made they're way to the back of the classroom the light blonde one raised her hand and they stopped.

"Looks like we have a new student" she sounded French and posh. "Well slap ma horse, isn't he a looker?!" said the blonde wearing the cowboy hat – she sounded American.

A pail hand knocked my books from the desk and the white haired girl sat on my desk, her eyes were blue just like the other two but…they were like ice and almost looked grey – almost like the eyes of a wolf. But these ones were cold and heartless and held no emotion. I backed my chair back unnerved by her, but she stopped me by placing a heel on the top of right arm – she put a small bit of pressure on it and smiled as she noticed I was in mild pain. She leaned forward on her long, smooth, pail leg not taking her eyes of me for a second.

"What do you think Helena?" she said coldly her eyes still fixed on me – she sounded British.

"Hmmm, Tina is right but – as long as he hangs out with this loser he is below my standards" Helena points to Hitomi when she says 'loser' then folds her arms.

Another pail hand comes into view and I try not to squirm with discomfort, the hand is holding a small blade to the white haired girls throat – oddly, she seems calm about it.

"Hey, are these three bothering you?" a sudden voice asks coolly I turn, a girl with grey hair and crimson red eyes who's dressed in complete black – except from a white shirt that stands out from under a black no sleeved sweater. I open my mouth to say something but the white haired girl pushes her heel into my shoulder harder as if to say 'keep quiet', I feel a small pop and a stinging sensation – great…she broke the skin.

"Christie…" says the grey haired girl "remove you're foot". Christie smiles at the request and turns to the girl

"You didn't say the magic word" she taps something against the girls thigh...oh great…another knife, the two are in a stand off they just stare at one another until "Ok, have it you're way Paine" Christie lowers her knife and so does Paine. Christie jumps off my desk and goes to the back of the room with her friends, way to make friends I think to myself while nursing my shoulder.

Paine sits down in the seat to my right and Hitomi is fiddling with the buttons of my shirt

"Oh geez!" she jumps back the colour in her face fades, I look down to see a huge trickle of blood run down my chest.

"Got a first aid kit handy?" I ask surprisingly calmly.

Hitomi now looking like she's about to throw up, points to a small green box on the wall at the front of the room. Before I can move Paine is already going to the front of the room, removes the box from its place and sets it down on my table. Bandages, butterfly strips, sterilising strips and bigger bandages, I sigh nothing much of use for a wound this big. Using the butterfly strips to close the round hole in my shoulder and cleaning it with the sterile strips I get to work bandaging the wound.

"You look like you've done this before?!" Hitomi asks surprised "Well, when you spend a great deal of you're time playing computer games, you tend to pick things up!" I succour the bandage with a safety pin, as I button my shirt back up I notice Paine raise an eyebrow, but I don't ask.