Chapter 1- The Beginning

X Middle School, his old school all the memories, it was where he had started out and now was back, not even giving it a second thought he walked on, head down reading the stack of papers that was his transcript. Crap, he thought to himself, not again I thought that I had finished with it. Realizing that his foot had just kicked something, he looked down and noticed that he had reached the bottom of the stairs, looking up he saw the doors leading into X's hallways. Stuffing his transcript into his bag, he walked up the stairs and pushed open the doors. This was the part that he really hated about new schools, figuring out where the hell he was supposed to go even though he had attended the school had apparently been completely remodeled so he had no idea where to go. After wandering in circles for a few minutes he walked into someone. Looking up from the map of the school he was attempting to use he realized that he had walked into a girl, who was actually shorter than him.

" Sorry," he muttered quickly " but do you know where I can find the Safety Patrol office?"

" No problem," she said with a small smile, " yeah I know where it is, here I'll take you there." She walked around him, and he turned following as he shoved the useless map back into his bag. " I would take a guess and say that you're new here" she said, " am I right?" After glancing at her a bit uneasily he looked around, and pretended to be interested in the lockers that they were passing.

" Yeah," he said still looking at lockers, " today's my first day."

" Oh wow," she said, " by the way, my name is Meagan Sheltzer, captain of the X Middle School cheerleading squad."

" Cool," he said " my name s Cody Hunter, I'm not the captain of anything." She laughed lightly, looking over at her, Cody noticed the blush that was appearing on her face, letting a quiet sigh; he turned back and watched the lockers. He should of known; a lot of the girls at his old school had been like that too. She liked him, he could tell. Damn he thought while looking at the lockers, I hoped that this school would have changed or at least be different but it's the same as when I left just like the others don't think of anything else. Although she is kind of cute, but she is like the others. Cody knew that a lot of girls liked him at his old school, just for his looks, not for who he was. Thinking about it he could sort of understand why they liked him, he knew that he was arrogant but he didn't care about it. He had shaggy hair that was as black as night with some blue streaks in it, which fell just past his eyes, and electric blue eyes, to go with it. His build was average, thin, strong, a bit on the tall side but not too tall. His clothes were normal basically; he wore baggy black pants held up with a belt, a white shirt with a very high collar that went past his mouth, and a blue jacket, which was a bit baggy. He also wore sunglasses inside and outside, as they weren't very dark. Satisfied with his self-analysis he turned his attention to the door that she had just pointed out.

" That is your home room," she said, " you go there after first period, according to your schedule."

" Kay," he said, " after first period, got it." She smiled and walked down another hallway. Holy crap he thought to himself how big did they make this fricken school? Just as he finished that thought they stopped at another door marked in big bold letters, Safety Patrol.

" Thanks" he said as he reached forward to turn the knob and enter the room.

" Oh no problem," she said with a smile, " if you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask." With that she turned and walked away leaving him to go inside. Shaking his head, he turned the doorknob and walked inside.

It was a simple office, about 12 desks two in a row, with absolutely no one sitting at them actually there was nobody in the office at all. Although in that little office to the side with a door shut, there was a light on so he assumed that that was where Junior Commissioner Vallejo would be, he hadn't seen him in almost two years now. Walking over to the door he glanced down at the desk that he was passing, and saw a photograph of a girl with a man he assumed was her father and another taller girl he assumed was her sister, to young to be her mother. They all had black hair; the first girl that he noticed just had a black short dress on. Whoa he thought to himself, she's pretty cute, so is her sister. As that thought was finished, he heard a door open and looked up into the face of a boy who seemed very mad. Seeing that this was the Junior Commissioner he put on a polite smile and reached out a hand to shake his, but his hand never came.

" Get into my office," he growled, " now."

" Uhh ok," he said slowly. He walked into the office, and heard the Commissioner slam the door behind him.

" What's the deal man? It's been almost two years Vallejo," he asked slowly.

" Don't give me any attitude," he snarled, " I know all about you, I read your file. You have quite a history to you and not just from what went down here and I don't want to have to deal with your crap, got it? I thought that I knew you when you were here, but I was wrong."

" Whoa man," he said softly, " I'm not like that anymore ok, and I've changed alright?"

" People like you don't change," he snapped " your file tells me a lot about you, you fight, you steal and do just about everything else. I don't want you back at this school but it is for community service so I'll just deal. This school is your last chance, if you screw up here you'll end up in a juvenile prison, so if I get any trouble from you at all I'll have Principal Folsom kick you out of here so fast, you won't even have time to say what. Understood?"

" But I haven't…." he started but was cut off by the evil glare from Vallejo, " yes I understand."

" Good," he snapped, "also I will be informing the rest of the safety patrol of your past and they will be watching you, maybe even tailing you. So if they see you do anything that is against the rules, they will tell you and you will be gone. Even if once they were your friends I highly doubt that they won't tell me if you do anything. Get it? Good. Now get out of my office, your desk is the one straight across from here, so I can keep an eye on you."

" Yes," he muttered to the floor, standing up he turned without another word and walked out the door back to the main part, sitting down at his desk he dropped his bag with a scowl and looked up at the ceiling. I should of know this is just like the last school, he thought grimly, yeah just because I did some bad crap in my last schools doesn't mean that I'm going to do I here, he didn't even give me a chance, man I hate that! I thought that coming back to X might mean that I would have some friends like last time I was here, but I guess not. Maybe I should just continue with my plan, or just get kicked out again, but I don't really want to go to prison… I'll see how the day goes; maybe everyone else will be different… I hope I can at least have my old friends back, here at X Middle School. Sighing deeply he glanced up at the door to where the rest of the safety patrol was walking in, first person that he recognized was Karen Tehama, an old friend but she didn't notice him or maybe not even recognize him. Then it was Joseph Anza another old friend, they had been best friends before he had moved, then they had just lost touch with each other. He walked right down the aisle until he was right beside the desk that Cody was at and then he just sat down at the desk beside him and completely ignored him probably thinking that he was a suspect or something. Until Cornelius Fillmore walked in, smiling to himself, they had been real close once as well they had ran together before they got drafted into the safety patrol, he waited for the explosion, but it didn't come Fillmore just walked right by him. Then he stopped right behind him and backtracked, looking closely at Cody's face, he saw a glimmer of recognition come over him until.

" Cody…?" Fillmore started and was cut off by Vallejo coming out of his office and shouting for quiet. The morning meeting was about to start and everyone sat down including Fillmore, this was going to be a long day maybe a good one though, he could tell already.