CHAPTER 1

go ahead as you waste your days with thinking

when you fall everyone sins

Saya sat alone in her room. It was after her first day of school. In her head she kept repeating, what did I do, what did I do! How could I. She had gotten to school, fine. Her classes were easy, since it was the first day, all the teachers did was basically go over the rules, about a hundred times. Lunch, was different. Saya ALWAYs hated lunch when you were the new kid. Where were you going to sit? Who were you going to talk to? And most of the groups didn't want the new kid intruding on their territory. She looked around the cafeteria until she saw a small pale girl with shoulder length shiny straight blonde hair and blue eyes, a medium sized girl with olive skin, waist-length brown hair and brown eyes with yellow-green highlights, another medium sized girl with olive skin, only hers was darker, and she had almost-black hair that reached midway down her back with oarnge highlights in it. They were all sitting together, and for some reason, Saya felt weirdly drawn to them. So she figured, might as well give it a try, and began walking over to them.

She never got to their table. On the way, she saw a boy tormenting a chubby girl. He had platinum blonde hair and tan skin. He was calling her a fat ho, saying her mother was a slut. And she was crying. Saya meant to just walk past, but somehow found herself stopped by him.

She whispered in a girl sitting near thems ear, "Whats his name?"

The girl replied , "Dennis"

Saya went to stand in front of them, and said "Shut the fuck up about her, Dennis"

"What, she your friend or something, bitch?"

"No, but your just such an asshole I had to come over."

"Yea, whatever bitch." Dennis said, walking away.

The girl said softly, "thanks, I guess ."

Saya replied " No thanks needed, it wasn't really because of you I came over."

Then she walked over to the table she was going to in the first place, only Dennis punched her on the eye on the way over. It didn't really hurt but he should have known better than to mess with THIS girl. Saya's eyes turned completely slate grey and her fists came up. As she punched him in the nose, hail began to rattle. It broke through the skylight in the gym, and crashed against the floor. She punched him again and again as he yelled insults at her, throwing all her rage onto him. She wouldn't stop even when the guidance counselor came over and pulled her off him. The principal came too, and Dennis and Saya were dragged to the office, since the hailstorm had abruptly stopped.

"Sit down." the principal ordered.

They did, and then he began, "I'm ashamed of both of you. Saya, you've gotten off to a VERY bad start in my school. Dennis, you've just added ANOTHER incident to your criminal record. Both of you have detention together during lunch for the next two weeks. Got it?"

Dennis replied " Suuure," and Saya nodded her head yes.

So now it was only her first day of school, and Saya had already gotten detention for two weeks, pretty much OBLIVIATING any chance of meeting the other girls before it was too late, and even worse it was with Dennis. How come she had to get involved in the first place, she chatised herself.

Saya walked over to the mirror in her bedroom. Staring into it, she tried to make it show her who she was. All she saw was a girl with waist-length slightly wavy, smooth golden-blonde-red-brown...sienna, hair which she termed VERY dirty blonde, green-grey eyes, a full red mouth, and nothing else. By that she meant, she saw her appearance. But nothing of who SHE was.

Her mom yelled "Come down for dinner, Saya"

She had wasted her whole day thinking.

Another day and you've had your fill of sinking

With the life held in your

Hands are shaking cold,

These hands are meant to hold

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Saya moaned as she woke up and slammed her alarm clock off. She REALLY didn't want to have to wake up and face the world all over again. And again. And again. But she had to, so she heaved herself out of bed. In a sort of half asleep daze, she mustered enough thought to put on a pair of size 1 younique flared jeans and a tight dark purple tank top. She took a shower, then gazed sleepily into the mirror as she brushed her teeth and hair.She looked in the mirror and decided that she needed to make today better than yesterday. Or she would fall further then she could ever make it back.Then she ran downstairs, took a look at the clock, decided their wasn't enough time for breakfast and ran out the door. She began the 20 minute walk to school. On the way she saw the girl with long brown hair from lunch yesterday. The one she had wanted to sit with. Kind of scared and shy, Saya ran to catch up with her anyways. When she was next to her, she slowed down to a walk and said,

"Hi., umm, im saya and, well yea.."

"Hey, I'm Seva, whats up?" The other girl answered warmly.

"Nothing much, except for two freaking weeks of detention, but I'm ok otherwise. Maybe they'll let me off for good behavior." Saya said humourously.

Seva laughed, "That was cool what you did to Dennis. He SO totally needed someone to stand up to him."

"Hey, thanks, it wasn't really anything, he was just being SUCH a jerk, you know?"

"Yea, well everybody else is to scared to say that, so you rock. Your probably like a hero in school by now. Uh-oh, thats the late bus, it always comes just as the bell rings. We better run"

Seva and Saya ran up the hill together and got there just after the bell rang.

"We'll be on time. Hey, by the way, do you wanna sit with me and my friends at lunch today?" Seva asked.

"That would be so totally cool, except I have detention, remember?" Saya replied, hating herself for having gotten detention more than ever.

"Oh, yea, well the offer still stands for when you get out, kay?"

"Cool, Cya"

Saya noticed that the blonde girl was in her first period and the one with the almost black hair was in her third, but didn't quite have the courage to talk to them. Then at lunch, she had to report to the office for detention. She went inside and put on her famous innocent girl act. Well, it wasn't famous, but it should have been. Mrs. Sanchez , who ran detention, was pulled in more than Saya had ever even HOPED. She was one of those women who likes to see the best in everybody, and when Saya sat demurely in a desk with the best cross between puppydog and little girl expression on her face, Mrs. Sanchez called the principal almost immediately.

468-9954 she dialed .

"Richard, I think there's a mistake. I have the sweetest girl, Saya Ayre sitting here, supposedly for 2 weeks."

"No mistake, my dear Maria, she punched Dennis Kjetland in the nose."

"Well, then she must have been BADLY provoked. You know Dennis."

"Maybe we can shorten the time span."

"Actually, I'd like to release her now for good behavior if you don't mind"

"Well, its your call Maria. Let her go I guess."

"Thanks, ever so, Richard"

Mrs. Sanchez called Saya up to her desk.

"Im going to release you now for good behavior, sweetheart. But remember, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here."

"Thanks so much! Mrs. Sanchez, and I'll remember that" Saya said , her good-girl act still on.

Dennis glared at her as she skipped happily out of the room, and she turned and smirked back at him. As soon as she made it out, she slowed to a walk. Even though she was happy to be out of detention, she shouldn't have even been in there in the first place. And she still really wanted someone in this school who would tell her everything was ok.

She walked to the cafeteria and this time made it safely to the table where Seva and her friends were sitting. Seva grinned at her and set off introducing.

"Hey Saya, guys, this is Saya. She's really cool, I met her on the way to school.Im a poet, and don't I know it, anyways, remember, she stood up to DENNIS yesterday? Yea, so you probably know she's cool. SO, Saya, this is Lissanne, but we just call her Liss" she said, pointing to the blonde girl, who was picking at her nails, but looked up and flashed a grin at Saya. "And, this is Shaina," she said, pointing to the almost-black haired girl who smiled and winked.

Saya sat down next to Seva, and saw Shaina steal Liss's lunch box. Liss didn't notice, and Shaina passed it under the table to Saya, winking. Saya hid it in her lap, barely concealing a giggle.

"HEY! Where'd my lunchbox go!? SHAINA. Where is it?"

"Uh uh, I don't have it."

The bell rang and everybody laughed as Saya handed the lunchbox to Liss.

Then Shaina said,

"Hey, guys, call your parents and then meet me after school. We can have a sleepover at my house. KK?"

"Even me?" Saya asked, astonished to be included so quickly.

"OF course you, dummy" Shaina replied.

They find out about their powers at the sleepover. So you better read the next chapter, LOL