AN: Okay, so...to be completely honest, I don't really know where this story is going yet. Castiel is a bit of a difficult character to portray in writing. He's so simple, but so hard to write! Also, I made up the characters' last names and I actually think this story is going to be a bit AU and it's not really going to follow the actual game, though some events may be incorporated into the story as well.

Anyway, here's the first chapter. I hope all you readers out there will enjoy this ^_^ Reviews would be nice, too~ Let me know how I'm doing!


"Ew. I can't believe she thinks those socks are in style."

Reina ignored the disgusted looks that the blonde girl, the Asian girl, and the brow-pierced girl threw at her. They loudly degraded Reina's sense of style as they passed by and they laughed. Reina simply shrugged and closed her locker as she exited the school to go home. Rena couldn't help but glance down at her thigh-high socks that she had paired with a pair of blue shoes, black denim shorts and a green panda shirt. Was it really that tacky? Reina thought back to the model who wore the same exact outfit on the cover of a fashion magazine that she'd seen at the store. She looked good in it, so why didn't Reina look the same? Reina sighed and decided that she didn't care as continued on her way home.

It was tough being a transfer student, especially when it's the middle of the school year. With her parents divorced—her mother was a photographer while her father as a cruise ship captain—Reina was given the choice of living with her mother in the city or with her father by the sea. Reina chose to live with her father, who decided to relocate to the east coast of the country. It wasn't that Reina hated her mother—it wasn't anything like that—but the choices that her mother was making seemed rather dangerous. Her father seemed like the safer choice for the time being.

The port city of Il Mare was home base for the Elegance cruise line, which was famous for its long cruise trips that could sometimes last up to six months. Elegance's cruise ships stopped at various exotic locations and most of the guests on those cruise ships were wealthy business moguls and retired millionaires.

Il Mare was a fairly large town that was trapped in between the mountains and the ocean. The weather was fairly pleasant, despite the fact that it sometimes rained during the fall season. There were a few schools in the area and a new mall had just been built by the beach to spark more income from tourists.

Reina lived alone in a small apartment on the fifteenth floor of an apartment complex that shot straight up like a skyscraper. Reina didn't mind living alone; she thought of herself lucky. Why have your own room when you can have your own apartment? It was practically hers, anyway. Reina was thankful that her father provided for her; his checks were sent to their mailbox at the post office and Reina's father gave her the responsibility of depositing his paycheck into the bank in his absence. She bought her own groceries and paid the rent, electricity, and internet bills.

Her father, Mr. Belle, came home for a week and a half once every three months. Reina loved it when he came home—which was something she surprised herself with—not because he brought home souvenirs, but because he always came home with a hug. Reina sighed as she lay in bed and stared at the dark ceiling as she collected her thought of what had happened in the past few days.

Two days ago, Reina had enrolled into Sweet Amoris High School as a junior. The class president, a slender blonde named Nathaniel, helped her with the papers. Reina made her first friends: an orange-haired girl named Iris and a brunette named Melody. She ran into a nerdy boy named Kentin; his name sounded vaguely familiar but the only thing Reina remembered about him was that he was a childhood friend who moved away because of his father, who was in the military. Reina cringed at Kentin's actions—he seemed a little too eager to be of help.

Yesterday was Reina's first full day of classes. She had a fairly easy schedule: algebra, geography and world cultures, P.E., biology, culinary arts, and health. Reina was glad that she had at least three of her six classes with Iris and Melody. The day went fairly smoothly but Reina was disappointed that there were only a handful of teachers who taught various subjects; Sweet Amoris was very different from her old school. At her old school, there were departments and there were a lot of teachers who taught a lot of subjects. What wasn't different, though, was the fact that haters were everywhere. Reina accidentally bumped into a blonde hair girl and she quietly apologized for the accidental contact. The girl, however, made such a big deal about it that Reina just turned around and walked away. Reina could tell that the girl was royally pissed because she was shouting at the top of her lungs while childishly stomping her foot on the ground,

"My name is Amber Diana L'auville! You don't know who you're messing with!"

Amber's two followers, Li and Charlotte, made no effort to calm her down; Li was busy fixing her lipstick and Charlotte's attention was focused elsewhere.

As Reina exited the halls, she bumped into someone's back and an ungracious grunt escaped from her lips. Embarassed, Reina covered her mouth and she looked up to see who she had bumped into.

"I'm sorry."

Reina looked up and met dark eyes.

"Who're you? I've never seen you around here before."

"Well, if you haven't seen me before, then, obviously, I'm new here."

The red haired male blinked as if a thought was processing through his mind, and then he smirked, turning around to face Reina.

"I'm Castiel."

"I'm Reina Belle."

"Belle, huh? I'll remember that."

Reina squeezed her eyes shut and rolled onto her stomach, her cheeks feeling hot from the memory of meeting Castiel. Reina chuckled, chiding herself for feeling embarrassed with her encounter with Castiel. It's too bad that her father had left last night—they could've had a good laugh about Amber and her friends. Reina sighed and turned on her iphone, turning on some music and falling asleep to a soft ballad.