So this is my first fanfic, so I'm sorry if it's not the best. I would love to have some reviews so I can get better at writing! Anyway, hope you like it! :)

Chapter 1

It was a quite boring, August Tuesday for all of Bejing Elementary School. Cinder Linh Blackburn could barely keep her own eyes open in the last 15 minutes of her 8th grade English class. They were given a 30 problem test at the beginning of the period and is expected to finish it before class ends. Cinder though, was stuck on question 25 and slightly panicking to figure it out. Her best friend Iko is sitting beside her so she, discreetly as possible, leans over and asks for the answer since Iko is already finished with her test.

Iko! What's the answer to question 25?" Iko turned over her paper to check, but their English teacher, Mrs. Benoit looks up from her laptop and squints intensely at Cinder, clearly saying (with her eyes) for her to sit back in her seat.

Cinder begrudgingly leans back in her desk and decides to just guess on 25 and hope it's correct. Cinder looks up at the clock, "only 10 minutes left" she whispers to herself quietly. She finally finishes the test a few minutes later and turns her paper over so nobody can cheat off of hers. Not having anything else to do, she grabs her pencil off her desk and starts twirling it expertly in her fingers.

5 minutes before class ends, the classroom door opens to reveal a ,rather good looking, boy with black hair and chocolate brown eyes. Mrs. Benoit looks up, nodding at the boy, and calls for the classes attention. "Class this is Kaito Rikan. He will be in this class for now on, so please be nice. Kaito go sit in that empty seat over there." She pointed at the seat on the right of Cinder. He nodded and walked over to his new desk and sat down. Cinder tried not to pay attention to the boy and instead focused on the pencil twirling in her fingers. "Woah how do you do that?" Cinder heard a voice from her right say. She turned and looked at Kaito, embarrassed that he noticed her. "Umm well I've just had practice" Cinder answered him quietly. He then smiled at her and shrugged his shoulders "well it's pretty cool" he said. Cinder held in the blush that tried to creep up her face and replied "thanks Kaito" to him. "Oh just call me Kai. Kaito seems kind of silly to me" he said. "oh okay Kai." "What's your name?" He asked. Internally sighing, Cinder stops twirling the pencil and turns all the way towards him. "I'm Cinder" she answers. "that's a cool name! Nice to meet you Cinder." He grins at her and she smiles back.

The recess bell rang and Cinder was glad to be out of class. Once outside, someone poked hard at her shoulder, which made her turn around. "OH MY GOD I saw you talking to the new kid Kaito!! He's sooo hot!" Iko practically yelled, squealing and jumping up and down, her blue braids bouncing with her. "Iko we don't even know him. Why are you acting like he's some kind of celebrity?" Cinder asked, bewildered at Ikos excitement. "His father is super rich and has been on TV! How do you not know who Kaito is??" Iko answered, looking at Cinder as if she had two heads. "Well...I don't really watch TV since Adri never lets me." Cinder said, looking down at her dirt covered shoes. "Oh yeah... sorry Cinder I forgot." Iko apologized. "Oh it's fine I honestly don't care about television or whatever." Iko opened her mouth to reply, but stopped when they heard a loud thump followed by soft crying, with laughter all around. They turned to see a group of kids circling around something that they couldn't quite see. They ran over to the crowd and shoved to the middle to see Crescent Darnel, the smartest girl in Cinder's class, curled up on the concrete with her backpack contents spilling everywhere and a bruise on her cheek. Iko ran to go get the teacher, leaving Cinder alone. Laughing loudest of them all was, of course, Levana Blackburn with Sybil Mira at her side laughing and taunting too. Before Cinder can step in and help the poor blonde girl, a boy with dirty blonde hair, bright blue eyes and devilish dimples shoved through the crowd with a concerned expression. "Are you ok Cress?" He tried asking, but Cress just hid her face more, still weeping. So Carswell Thorne grabbed her hands and led her out of the circle and to the nurses office. Cinder even thought she spotted Thorne blushing slightly at their connected hands. And even with Cress still teary eyed, Cinder saw the small smile on her face.

After they walked away, Cinder turned to Levana and slapped her across the face saying, "what the hell is wrong with you Levana! What did that poor girl do to you!" Levana, holding her face with her perfectly manicured hand cursed at Cinder and answered "she refused to give me the answers on the test today so that nerd deserved it!" Cinder is about ready to punch her white teeth down her throat, but before she was able to, hands grabbed her shoulders from behind and forcefully lead her away from the group of kids. So forcefully that she couldn't rip out of their grip.

Once they let go of her shoulders, she whipped around and yelled "why would you do that!" While also recognizing Kai in front of her. She immediately apologized for snapping at him, but he casually waved it off. "I understand what she did was wrong, but you don't want to get in trouble for punching her." Kai replies instead. "Who was that witch anyway?" He asked, curious. "Her name is Levana and she always gets what she wants. She's a spoiled brat and thinks she's better then everyone else." Cinder answered, still very angry. "Who was the girl with her?" he wondered also. "That's Sybil Mira. Pretty much Levana's partner in crime. She follows Levana's beck n call all the time." Cinder rolled her eyes.

A whistle sounded and everyone turned to see yard duty coming over to the group to scold them, while (hopefully) suspending Levana and Sybil. "A student told me you shoved one of your peers over and hurt her. So let's go to the office miss." But Before Levana could object, a boy with dark skin replied "I shoved the girl over! It was me not her!" Cinder recognized him as Aimery Park. Levana's other servant. The yard duty grabbed his arm and dragged him away to the office, Levana smirking behind him. Cinder rolled her eyes and turned back to Kai. "Thanks for pulling me away before I got myself in trouble." Cinder said. "Oh it's all good. I couldn't let someone so pretty and considerate get suspended for standing up for a peer." Cinder blinked, trying to make sense of what Kai just said to her. Did he just call her pretty? Before she could ask him, the bell rang for all the kids to get back to class. So Cinder just turned

and walked back to the room.