Unchained Melody
By TornPrince'sSmile

Chapter one: Damn Bikes

"The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error" –Buddha

She pleaded and begged her father not to send her there; to that hell. That hell with bullies and preppies—with jocks and nerds… where he worked.

Her name was Juliet Kolbe; she was related to the most hated prefect on the grounds of Bullworth Academy. He was Seth Kolbe. Of course he wanted her to go there; that's where he worked—he got a fairly good discount if he sent Juliet there. Plus, he could keep a close eye on his daughter.

Juliet had gone to a private school near Bullworth, but it was mainly girls. She got in more trouble, especially with skipping school and she wasn't the perfect role model… Truancy, violence, and back talking to the teachers wasn't the best thing to do, Juliet even admitted that to herself.

"Dad, please! You know how it is there, why would you send me there?!" she questioned, rather loudly. Her father's face grew red as he stood from his chair.

"You know damn well, girl! And don't you even dare to raise your voice at me! I house you, feed you, and even clothe you!" Juliet pushed her hair behind her ear and looked at her hands.

"Yes father." She didn't even try to fight back anymore; she knew what was going to happen anyways. So she just bared it, for now.

./...\.

Juliet twisted her foot around; she was loosing all feeling in her feet as we speak. She had been waiting for the vice-principal or secretary, someone! For a minute or so, she stood perfectly good, watching prefects walking by, searching for trouble makers. While watching, she heard a biking coming from behind her.

Turning suddenly, she saw a boy; maybe a year or two older than her with a ginger buzz cut and a golden stud in his ear. The boy was looking back at her and her three bags she had brought along. He opened his mouth, like he was going to say something, but instead ran into the brick wall that held up the 'Bullworth Academy' sign.

Juliet gasped and held in a giggle at the same time as she left her place and ran over to this strange boy. She reached out a clothed hand; he completely ignored it and pulled himself up. While he brushed off some, imaginary, dust he opened his mouth again.

"You the new kid everyone is talkin' 'bout?" Juliet held in a sigh. She had already been dubbed with the nickname, 'new kid.'

"Nah," Juliet said with a sly smile, "I just carry 'round three heavy bags for fun." The boy stood there with an unfazed look, but the corner of his mouth twitched. The awkward silence was killing her.

"Uh, my name's Juliet—," but she was cut off short.

"Miss Kolbe!" a shrill and unfriendly, female voice yelped. Curious, Juliet turned and saw the women she had once met in the principal's office when she was visiting one day.

"Miss Danvers." Juliet said briskly and nodded her head towards her.

"I don't wish to stand here all day Ms. Kolbe!" she yelped again, tapping her foot impatiently.

"Yeah, but that's what I was doing all day today…" Juliet whispered. The boy that stood behind her chuckled lightly at her remark and smile. Juliet smiled also and turned towards the mystery boy that ran into the brick wall.

"Uh, see you later…?"

"Hopkins. Jimmy Hopkins." Juliet smiled again.

"See ya' Jimmy." She waved a little as she was far enough away.

'That's one weird chick,' Jimmy thought to himself as he picked up his bike and avoided Seth, one of the prefects, for the millionth time today.

./...\.

"Miss Kolbe; how pleasant to see you after a week." Dr. Crabblesnitch said, placing his hands under his chin. Juliet said nothing as she watched his every move. He reached into the desk and pulled out an over-sized folder.

"Well, either you've been very naughty or you're an overachiever Ms. Kolbe."

'Or maybe my father bullied him into putting everything I do in there.' Juliet said to herself and smiled, curtly.

"Both."

"Ah…" Dr. Crabblesnitch opened the folder and pulled out papers among papers and then finally a yellow sheet of paper she remembered to well.

"Bad, but not as bad as some here at Bullworth. Truancy, detention, back-talking, violence… nothing I haven't seen before." He coughed, trying to clear his throat. "Here at Bullworth, we will clean up this trouble… this evilness." He smiled, curtly, at her at tapped his nose. "And remember to keep this clean. You may go." He shooed her out of the room and put her file back. Slowly, she walked out and put her three backpacks on her back and followed Ms. Danvers out of the main school building.

./...\.

"Since we had no more room for another snot nose brat, we place you in a single room. There are rules for this dorm Ms. Kolbe! No boys and I am very persistent with girls getting up and cleaning their rooms. There are room inspections every day…" Mrs. Peabody said in a stern voice. In other words, she was a complete bitch, but Juliet nodded slightly and watched her go into the other dorms; checking.

An hour and a half later...

Juliet collapsed on her bed, watching the dust raise and fall again. She also blew air out of her mouth, watching her black locks float up and down again from the sudden air that had escaped her mouth.

"I unpacked, and it only took me an hour and a half!" she yelled sarcastically. She slowly turned her head and stared at the clock. It was nine o'clock exactly. Juliet yawned and got up to her wardrobe and pulled out an over sized sweatshirt and pulled it over her head.

"Might as well go for a jog around town."

./...\.

Juliet could see her breath on the still night air. It was a cold winter night; she could feel the chilly air under her sweatpants and in her old, ratty sneakers. Her raven threads bounced around her flushed face.

"Bad night to run." She slowed her pace as she landed outside a huge house.

'Must be in Preppies territory.' She slowly pulled out her IPod shuffle and plugged in her earphones; just incase those good for nothing's came out and wanted to start something, she couldn't hear them. As she ran along the sidewalk, she slowly hummed the songs that rang through her ears.

"Headstrong to take on anyone." her voice slowly faded into heavy breathing as she made her way around.

./…\.

Juliet made her way back to the campus around eleven and as she snuck past her father and the other prefects, she stumbled into something—or someone. As she opened her mouth, someone covered it and pulled her back into the bush just as another prefect's flashlight shown over. She slowly starting biting the person's hand as the prefect looked away and then bit down hard when he turned the corner. The hand retreated suddenly as she heard a familiar voice.

"Jesus bitch, I just saved you from being busted; can't I at least get a 'thank you' or 'you're my savior Jimmy.'" Yep, that was definitely Jimmy alright. Juliet just scoffed and crossed her arms over of chest.

"Yeah, sure Jim-bob." Jimmy slightly stiffened.

"Uh, Janette, right?"

"Juliet." She corrected harshly, but smiled all the same.

"I got the first letter right didn't I?"

"Whatever." As she started to crawl out of the bush, she looked back at her 'friend'.

"Thanks Jimmy." As she left, she swore she heard a 'welcome'.

(A/N: Wad' ya' think? I thought it was pretty good and I liked how she 'met' Jimmy because that happens to me whenever I play; always running into walls. I even set a record! (Lol) I've ran into the wall a total of 125 times. (Says so in the stats.)