"Why would you do this?" Rin gasped, tears falling down her face. The boy next to her had his head turned away, so she couldn't see his face. His voice was a different story, though. It was so sad..so remorseful.

"I'm sorry. The reason I made you go through all this wasn't to hurt you. It was because-"

"Rin! Hey, Rin! Wake up!"

"..Huh?"

"I said wake up! The teach is staring at you."

Rin Kagamine kept her eyes closed for a moment longer, before slowly opening them, revealing bright green colored irises, and lifting her blonde head. The teacher was glaring at her, with one of the most pissed off looks Rin had ever seen.

Aw, crud. I knew I shouldn't have stayed up past midnight texting.

It hadn't really been her fault. She had needed to vent her feelings to someone because of her stupid dad. Yesterday he had gotten drunk, again, except without her mother Neru to yell at, he yelled at her instead. Several times he became so enraged while yelling that he picked up a knife. He never actually hurt her, though. Not yet anyway.

"Miss Kagamine, if you are not willing to pay attention what on earth am I going to have to do to get you to learn?" Rin winced as spittle flew out of the teachers mouth, spraying everywhere. Eww gross. No wonder she isn't married yet.

"Well Miss Rin? What do I have to do to get your attention?" Rin snapped back to reality.

"What?" The whole class snickered. The teacher sighed, staring up at the ceiling with a frustrated look on her face. Uh-oh. Did I say something wrong?

"Principal's office, Rin. Now."

"But I-"

"Now." The teacher glared at Rin, causing her to shrink back into her desk. Talk about scary. What did I even do? But she got up anyway and, glaring at a giggling Miku who sat nearby, slid out through the door into the hallway.

This sucks. This was the third time this week she had been sent to the principal, and it wasn't even Wednesday yet! It's like all the teachers decided to ruin my life at once. Rin made a face at the thought of her fat and sweaty science teacher huddled under a lamp with her other teachers, planning evil.
Maybe they had decided to ruin her life, but it wasn't like she would ever know. All she knew right now was she was going to get her butt kicked, and then have to talk to her drunk dad over the phone, explaining why she was waking him up from a nap again. Perfect.

Rin turned a corner, getting closer and closer to her destination. The Devil Den. Hooray. "I hope Ms. Sakine has had her cup of coffee already today," she muttered as she knocked on the door, and then leaned on the wall and began to wait. And wait. And wait. What the heck is taking her so long? Rin thought irritably to herself, her arms crossed over her chest as she stood. Maybe she didn't have her cup of coffee, and was taking a nap. Or maybe she left. Or died. I'm hoping for the last choice. Sighing, Rin stared at the shiny plastic floor of the hall, watching the light reflect from the tiles. The silence didn't last long, though.

"Miss Kagamine?" Rin looked up. Oooh. Looks like she really didn't have a cup of coffee yet. The school principal, Ms. Sakine Meiko, usually was an okay looking lady. She wasn't too much older than Rin, maybe 30 or so, but she looked older because of working. She had a short bob of brown hair and hazel eyes that could be attractive, if someone taught her how.
But, today, she just looked like a harassed old lady. Not good.

"Yeah, that's me." Rin waved and tried a small smile, but it didn't work becase the next thing that came out of Ms. Sakine's mouth wasn't nice at all.

"Get inside, kid. You've already been here before, you know the drill." Ouch. This won't be pretty. Wincing, Rin stepped inside of the office. Everything was familiar to her. The chestnut desk and old plastic swivel chair, the bookshelf behind it, the awards lined on the wall...and the InStyle magazine flopped on the chair where the student was supposed to sit.

"Oh cool, is this the November issue?" Rin raised her eyebrows as she flipped through the magazine, pausing once or twice on some pages. "Tsk tsk. Leave it to that guy to make a break in the music stations!"

"Hey! Don't touch that!" Ms. Sakine hissed as she snatched the magazine from Rin's fingers. Rin pouted as the magazine was tossed into the drawers of the desk. "So, remind me again why you're here?"

Rin shrugged and looked up towards the fan the whirred around on the ceiling. "I dunno. Maybe Ms. Yowane has a few screws loose." She looked down at Ms. Sakine, and was surprised to see her sitting at her desk with her face in her hands. Someones having a bad day~! "You okay?" The woman looked up at Rin, who raised an eyebrow. "I think you need another cup of coffee."

"Don't try to get all chummy with me!" Ms. Sakine snapped, her eyes flashing. "This is school Rin, and if you can't apply to the rules then I'm afraid more drastic measures will have to be taken. And," she looked Rin straight in the eye, "You don't want that. Trust me on it."

"So we're making threats on this, now? I swear, I don't even know what I did wrong!"

"You obviously were going against the rules if you're here, don't you think?"

"Well, maybe I WOULD be paying attention if school was interesting at all!"

"Don't you dare-" The bell cut off Ms. Sakine, ringing high and loud through the hallways. Lunchtime.

"Weeeell," Rin smiled, drawing out the word, "It's lunch time now, so I think I'll be going." She stood up, and, with a kick to the chair so it scooted in closer to the desk, she sauntered out into the hall way.

Talk about saved by the bell!

Neko: Umm so yeah! That's the first chapter. Remember, this is a collab with iLen-Rin so I don't know when the next chapter will be in, but hopefully you all will like this and keep reading. Jenn writes the next chapter... Review please! :)