Disclaimer: I don't own MG/HYD characters, because if I did I could actually afford a pack of gum.,

The door opened slowly with a loud creak disturbing the professor in mid sentence. In annoyance he looked up to take a better look at the tardy student preparing to release his wrath on the unsuspecting victim. All the students relaxed and sat back in their seats waiting for the show to begin anticipating the public humiliation to start.

"Why are you late?!" he bellowed in extreme annoyance.

The girl stood paralyzed for a moment. Her brown doe like eyes plead for mercy at the man's wrath. Her long black locks hung down her back. She looked like a mess with strands of hair in her face. Her clothes were just as disheveled. She wore a simple white knee length skirt with a now wrinkled t-shirt top. She wasn't exactly what men would call a classic beauty, but she had a kind of innocence about her that made her beautiful. At that moment, all the words were erased from her mind.

"Uuumm.Sorry," was all she was able to mumble.

"Sorry is not an acceptable answer, young lady! At this school we have certain rules that must be obeyed. You should feel privileged that this prestigious school would let someone like you into this fine academic institution. As punishment you will be staying after school for the next month cleaning all the boards. Do I make myself." The professor paused in shock at the figure that appeared behind her.

The room suddenly went deadly silent. It had been weeks since he had showed up to school. The tall, lanky man lazily leaned against the doorway locked by the girl standing with her head lowered to the professor. Dressed in a plain wrinkled white button shirt and tan khakis his cold, dead eyes bore down into the professor making him utterly speechless.

The girl looked at the suddenly dumbfounded professor wondering what the fuss could be about. She spun around letting her long black locks flail into her face. She pushed the few unruly hairs from her eyes and stared in disbelief. She had never seen anything more beautiful in her life until now. He now looked into her face, but his mask was clearly on his face like a stone statue. She watched as his lips opened and she held her breath waiting to hear the words of god spurt forth from his lips.

"You're in my way," the boy muttered pushing her aside. He walked past her without any further acknowledgement.

She could feel her face burn red with embarrassment. She cursed at herself at being swept up in the moment by fantasies of this godlike specimen professing his undying love for her. She would never be that lucky in a million years. "Sorry." she whispered in an inaudible tone. She turned back to face the stumbling professor now gushing over the returning student.

"Hua Ze Lei shao ye! It's a privilege to have you back in my class. Please take a seat." The professor was now smiling like an idiot and bowing over and over again ignoring the girl to his side he had been s violently lashing out at before.

The boy stopped and glanced up at the professor for the moment. Without a word he turned back around ignoring the man's advances of getting on his good side. The professor's mouth dropped. To be rudely ignored by a boy at least 20 years his junior was unbearable. It was an extreme blow to his ego and he could feel the anger rising in him once again. No, he would never direct it towards the young man. It would be suicide to often Hua Ze Lei, the son of one of the schools' founders. No he would take it all out on the girl. He turned back towards the girl with a look of murder in is eyes.

The girl stared dreamily at the boy's departing back wondering who he could be and how she never had noticed him before. It was virtually impossible to not notice someone like him. He appeared like an angel out of the heavens. However, these thoughts were quickly disrupted by the shrill screams of the professor.

"Are you listening to me?! I want you to tell s the reason you were late," the professor fumed. He pushed her slightly causing her to fall back a few steps. "Get on your knees! You will beg for forgiveness from the class for disturbing their lessons!" He used his weight to forced the girl down pushing on her shoulder.

She didn't know what else to do, but go along with his outrageous demands. She looked up in despair preparing herself to do the act required of her. She looked for any signs of a friendly face willing to stand up for her, but they all looked down upon her in disgust as nothing more than mere trash. Tears now began to stream down her face. She was never strong enough to stand up to others. With her background, her kind was used to being treated this way for they had been brought into this world to step into this role of society. Her frail, petite frame made her look like a huddled mass of a child on her knees waiting for her punishment.

The boy stopped in the middle of the aisle to look down on the pitiful creature with her face to the floor. Although his face remained unmoved, he couldn't help but feel a sense of pity for her. Without even realizing what he had done he spoke up. "She was late because of me. Apologize to her."

The girl looked up in awe at her savior wondering why he had done that. He had probably done it out of pity for me, she thought to herself.

The professor once again was dumbfounded at the sound of the boy speaking again. He usually never allowed more than a few words to come out of his mouth. Now he was speaking up for this girl forcing him to apologize, nonetheless. He had no choice, but to let her off the hook this time. Jealousy ran through his veins that the young man had chosen to say more words to this pathetic girl than he had ever said to him, the professor. He forced a fake smile o his face. "My apologies," he gritted trough his teeth. "Forget your punishment. I did not know you were with Hua Ze Lei shao ye. Please take your seat and we ill continue with the lesson."

The girl got up from her knees feeling all the eyes now upon her. All the girls were glaring at her with venomous looks wondering why Hua Ze Lei would be with such a waste of space. She nodded her head to the professor and quickly ran through the aisle trying to find an empty seat. There was only one unoccupied seat left. She timidly took the seat staring at the person who was beside her. It was not a dream after all. He was even more breathtaking up close. "Hua Ze Lei." she muttered to herself.

She snapped put of her trance and pulled out her books ready to begin taking down the notes the professor was now furiously scribbling away on the board. After an hour professor's tedious droning she could feel the energy seeping out of her. It was only when the sudden feeling boredom and exhaustion took place did she let her guard down. She leaned back in her chair and let out a sigh. She glanced over to her right and to her shock the young man was staring right at her. Feeling completely unnerved she smiled at him, but he just stared right through her before turning his attention back to the window to stare out the blue sky. She felt her heart sink, and once again emerged herself in her work to hide her disappointment.

After class she stood up from her seat and gathered up her things throwing them into her bag. She thought of making another futile attempt to thank her angel in disguise, but to her dismay he was already walking out the door. She opened her mouth to yell at him to wait, but she was interrupted by three other voices.

"Yo, Lei why didn't you tell us you were back already?" a cheerful voice shouted from the doorway. The tall, lean boy leaned against the wall playfully combing his long hair with his fingers. He wore red button shirt that was left slightly open emphasizing his finely chiseled chest. He was equally as handsome as Hua Ze Lei, but he emitted an open aura that was friendly and inviting.

A second boy stepped forward from outside and gave HZL a warm embrace. "It's good to have you back." The second boy appeared much more mature than the other two. He wore a white shirt with a polo sweater on top and khaki pants. He pushed up his silver framed glasses that had fallen to the tip of his nose. All the girls in the room gasped in wonder at him beginning to whisper. He looked up and smiled sending them swooning. He winked at them and proceeded to join the conversation that had begun between the other two.

Finally, a third voice boomed from the hallway. "Lei! Ximen! Mei Zhou! Stop standing around and let's go! I'm tired of all these annoying people staring at us!" The boy peered his head in and looked around in disgust at the other students. On top of his head there were unruly curls that matched his fiery spirit. He spiked up his hair with a headband giving him a sort of pineapple head, t girl laughed to herself. He stood in a domineering manner giving glares to all those who dared try to make eye contact. Wearing a pair of black jeans and a sleeveless shirt he appeared the most immature out of the group. He definitely wasn't the least bit as handsome as his friends.

Without any protest the three boys shrugged their shoulders and walked out the room. The girl grabbed her bag and ran after them. She noticed as the pack of four boys walked through the halls people were silenced and forced to stare in awe. Crowds would part like the sea for them. Feeling impetuous she lunged forward and grabbed HZL's arm.

"Excuse me!" she screamed.

HZL stopped feeling a small hand grab onto the sleeve of his shirt. The rest of his group stopped as well. They all turned around and looked down at the little girl who boldly approached them. HZL just looked down at the hand on his arm and released her from his grip.

"Lei, who's this pretty mei mei? Have you been keeping her a secret?" the playful boy laughed nudging his friend. He looked at the innocent girl who was now speechless.

"You would think Lei would have shared his find with us, Mei Zhou," the more serious boy laughed looking checking out the girl.

The girl put on a brave face and ignored the teasing by the other two boys. She turned her compete attention on Lei. "I just wanted to thank you for before," she stammered.

"Why would Lei help such an ugly girl like you? Stop wasting F4's time before I give you a red tag little girl! Lei, did you really help this girl?" the curly hair boy yelled. He walked up to her and was now towering over her.

"Let's go," HZl coldly demanded. "She's nobody important." He turned around and waked away leaving his three friends wondering what kind of relationship these two had. Mei Zhou and Ximen just shrugged and ran after their quiet friend.

The girl could feel he anger rising in her. HZL had just brutally rebuked her and in front of that snickering pineapple head.

"Serves you right," he laughed. He waved a haughty hand in the air and strode away laughing his head off.

The girl couldn't take it any longer and felt the searing hatred flowing through her veins. She ran forward and punched him square in the face sending him flying onto the ground. He clutched his cheek where there was now a dark red imprint. "That's it. I was going to let you off the hook, but nobody dares strike Dao Ming Si! You've just written your own execution." He stood up and pulled a red slip of paper from his pocket. He flung it at the girl.

She watched the infamous red tag fall to the ground in front of her. She had been forewarned up entering this high school of the legendary red tag. She looked up in realization that the four boys that stood before her were F4, the four richest bys in Taiwan whose parents owned the high school. She calmed herself knowing what lay ahead for her, but there was just too much going on in her life to deal with and this was currently the least of her problems. Death was something she had already eluded once before. She no longer felt that fear of death after all she had been through."Do your worst!" she defiantly smiled before storming off feeling the growing stares on her back.

HZL sighed to himself wondering if he should have done something to stop it all, but it was too late. He couldn't help but smile a little thinking about the look on Ah Si's face when that girl hit him. What did it matter what that girl did? She was just another face in the crowd trying to get close to F4 probably.

His smile silenced the laughter of Ximen and Mei Zhou who were shocked by their companion's sudden show of emotion. They both warily looked at each other thinking about how only one another girl had ever managed to get the lonely boy to smile, but she was gone now. The grabbed Ah Si's arm who was now oddly grinning to himself.

Ah Si wrestled himself away from Mei Zhou and Ximen's arms. He touched the red spot on his face and smiled to himself once again. "Da Jie." he muttered to himself before walking away in a dreamy state leaving Mei Zhou and Ximen in utter confusion.