Lian watched as her grandson stomped around their house muttering something about a stupid Will Stronghold. That name had been infamous in her house ever since her daughter had come home the first day of school complaining about a Steve Stronghold and how he was the biggest jerk she had ever met and just like her son she too stomped around the house in anger.

However no matter how much the rest of her family hated the Strongholds it was nothing compared to her hatred of them. They had taken her son and daughter from her and managed to ruin her grandson's life in a week. If it was up to her she would have taken a torch to the stronghold house and burned it to the ground in some type of dramatic irony but she couldn't she promised her daughter that she would take good care of Warren while she was gone.

-22 years Earlier-

Fen dragged her feet as she made her way towards the school gym. Her mother knew everything she was sure that was her mom's superpower and at that moment Fen wished it was hers too. If it was she would be able to know why her whole class seemed to be giving her dirty looks. She spared a glance at the girls standing in front of her, yeah they were still glaring at her.

She started going over everything she had done this morning maybe it was the fact that she forgot to brush her hair or the fact that her overalls stopped about an inch above her knees. Out of the corner of her eye she saw two boys move towards her. she panicked. What was their problem it was her first day of school how was she supposed to know what to wear.

"Hey." The taller guy said rudely grabbing her shoulder. Fen tried to ignore him but he continued while his friend just stared. "Are you Chinese?" She kept her mouth shut suddenly realised this had nothing to do with her clothes. "Where are you from?" He asked his question again.

"Hong Kong." She whispered hoping he would just give up and leave her alone but he kept going.

"Come on Steve leave her alone." A guy who would have been cool if not for his ridiculously thick glasses snapped looking angrily at the guy with his hand still on her shoulder.

"Oh come off it Barry. I don't even know how she got into this school, she's probably a…" His sentence was cut short when a flaming fist smashed into the jerk's face.

One second everything was clam and the next all hell broke loose as the shorter of the two jerks tried to punch the dorky kid in the face. Using the confusion created by the fight to her advantage Fen took off running down the hall desperate to get away from everyone, it wasn't even lunch and she already hated everything about this school.

Barren smirked as he followed Boomer and Steve to the nurse's office his own future black eye was nothing compared to the burn marks the other two now had across their faces. He wondered where the girl they had been picking on went. He hadn't really expected her to stick around but he at least wanted to see her again before the end of the day. She was pretty to say the least.

As the three of them entered the nurse's office his smirk broke out into a full on smile as he saw the girl from the gym sitting on the couch crying. Barren stumbled over the other two guys in a rush to get the spot next to her.

"Hey!" He smiled sitting down next to her. She didn't even look at him. "What's your name?" Barren asked not ready to give up so easily.

"Piss off." She whispered wiping her eyes with a tissue. Their conversation ended suddenly when the nurse who had been checking Steve suddenly got kicked through the window. Barren managed a quick glare at the guys who instead of checking to see if the nurse was okay sat there laughing at her.

"I better go check on her." Barren smiled not taking his eyes off her as he stumbled out the giant hole in the window. He was going to make her his girlfriend by the end of the year he was sure of it.

The next day Barren made sure to get to his class extra early so that he wouldn't miss seeing the girl from the gym if she was in hero class with him. So far the chances she was in his class weren't looking so good the bell had rung almost five minutes ago and there was still no sign of her. Unfortunately he had seen Steve, Boomer, and some kid they both seemed to know with a big head literally.

Just as they were about to start class the door opened one last time as the pretty girl from yesterday walked in. She looked as though she would have preferred to jump off the edge of the school than spend the next hour in this class.

"Miss Peace nice of you to finally join us." Mr. Baker said not looking up from the class list. "Well don't just stand there I see a seat next to Barren go on now." Barren nearly jumped out of his seat and cheered as the girl looked around the room he assumed looking for a better seat before taking a seat next to him.

"Well" He smiled at her. "You know my name now can I know yours?"

"It's Fen." She whispered trying to focus on what the teacher was saying as Barren just kept going on and on asking her all kinds of questions. What was his problem? It wasn't enough that his friends had singled her out before they even went into power placement but now he had made it his mission to make her miserable.

A/N Hey everyone don't you guys just love author notes I mean they are especially useful when say you only have 995 words and then you can just put in a note and suddenly your story in 1000 + words long yah! Anyway leave a review and tell me if you like or if you have any ideas on how to make it better.

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