This is my first fanfic ever, and this is the first chapter. I'm still writing the other chapters, and depending on how well this goes I may upload the whole story. We'll just have to see.

Chapter One

Normally when someone enters High School it's on the first day of the new semester of the new school year. They go in new just like everyone else, so they do not feel out of place. Even those entering the second year of high-school are accepted with open arms. But whenever someone enters halfway through a semester, they are immediately labelled 'The New Kid' no matter what they're like.

And that's how Adrian Ivashkov felt when he walked through the school gates of St. Vladimir High School. The moment he walked through those large, iron gates and received several looks from a couple of students, he knew he was going to be the gossip of the school over the next several weeks. It was the same wherever he went. Students would talk to each other, saying stuff like 'have you seen the new kid yet?' which would last for no more than three weeks, with everyone staring at him as if he was some strange boy with a hidden past of some sort.

Hopefully it would be a little different this year. After he got kicked out of his last school for smoking on site Adrian's parents got in contact with their family friends, the Dragomirs, and found out that their daughter Vasilisa was in a Boarding High School that were still accepting students. With some quick paper-work and a kiss goodbye Adrian now lived at a school where hopefully he was able to smoke on school grounds.

Adrian had never met Vasilisa but both teenagers were given a brief description of what each other looked like. Right now Adrian was sent to his first class, scanning for a girl with long, platinum blonde hair and bright jade eyes, who had pale skin and was quite tall for her age. And the moment he walked into his first class he spotted the girl who was a candidate of the description he was given. And from the looks of it, the girl had spotted the boy she was meant to keep an eye out on; messy brown hair and emerald eyes who was tall and most likely wore the school uniform in his own personalised way. She stood up and walked over, smiling, as the teacher wasn't in the classroom to tell her to sit back down.

"Adrian Ivashkov?"

"I'm guessing you're Vasilisa Dragomir?"

"She prefers to be called Lissa." A voice came from behind Adrian making him jump out of sudden fright. He turned around for his eyes to go wide, to see the beautiful girl behind him. She was a little shorter than Lissa, but her bigger boobs and slimmer figure made up for it. Her brown hair looked thick and was also long like Lissa's, but whereas Lissa's hair looked like it was naturally curly, this girl's hair was naturally wavy. And her beautiful brown eyes stared up at his'. "Hey, if you want to drool over imagining my body naked, do it when class isn't about to start."

"You just met me, how could you say something like that?"

"That's just typical Rose Hathaway for you!" A boy with bright red hair, freckles and blue eyes jumped onto Rose's back chuckling away. "And I am Mason Ashford. It's nice to meet you; Lissa has told us that you were coming to this school."

"Can't see why you would want to come here. This place is a dump."

"Hey, it's not that bad Rose!"

First impression from the three he suddenly met, Lissa seemed like a very caring person who was obviously nice and wanted to be friendly to everyone. Rose, according to the red-head, seemed very…confident…of what she says. And if Adrian tried he was sure he could be friends with the girl who was now smiling at him. And Mason seemed like a great guy. He looked like one of those guys that could befriend anyone he could.

The teacher, who had his path blocked by the four teenagers, cleared his throat making them all look at him. Lissa looked like she expecting the teacher to start yelling at them and looked rather…scared of the teacher. Rose and Mason however had blank looks on their faces and walked away before the teacher could even open his mouth. Lissa moved right up to Rose's side and stayed close to her. Adrian took a glance over his shoulder as he followed the three towards an empty desk which he assumed was going to be his', to see the teacher slightly irritated over the fact he didn't get the chance to yell at the group.

"That's our homeroom and English teacher by the way." Once Adrian had settled in his seat and placed his bag under his desk, Mason inched over with a wink on his face. "Stan Atlo isn't liked by many of the students. He's a bit of an old douchebag in my opinion. He gets mad easily so don't call him Stan unless you're prepared for a speech."

"Ashford!" The red-head flinched and faced the front, immediately putting a cheeky grin on his face. Many of the students around caught a glimpse of his expression and all started to laugh. "Be quiet back then. And you!" Adrian turned his attention to the teacher, seeing him staring at him. "Are you the new student."

New student. New kid. Pretty much the same thing. Adrian let out a small sigh.

"Yeah."

"Mind coming up to the front and introduce yourself to everyone. Not that you need to for Vaslisa, Rosemarie and Mason." A scowl came from behind Rose who leant back in her seat, crossed her arms and glared at the teacher at the front. Apparently she didn't like her full name, and she knew that Lissa didn't either.

With all eyes on him Adrian had pretty much no choice but to move to the front and look at all the new faces of his classmates.

"Well…my name is Adrian Ivashkov." That itself got several students gasping. The Ivashkov family were well known in the city as being one of the biggest companies who worked in computers or business. Even though he was the son of the current director, Adrian never was interest in what his family done. "Let's see…I guess I'm okay at sport and stuff, but I do like art a lot." A small group of girls sighed heavenly when he mentioned art. Maybe being an artist was a hit with some of the girls at the school. "Oh, and I was kicked out of my last school because I was caught having a fag behind the science block." Faces fell. Lissa shook her head and sighed. Rose and Mason grinned at each other and bumped fists, pleased at what Adrian had said. Stan sighed.

"You can return to your seat now Mr. Ivashkov. Maybe it's best you don't tell other students about your previous school incident."

"But it's okay if I have a fag in between lessons?"

"You shouldn't be smoking in the first place! You're underage!"

"Didn't stop me before." The entire class, including Lissa, Rose and Mason, burst out into hysterics as Stan went bright red in the face. A couple of guys held their hands up asking for high-fives as Adrian walked past their desks, which he accepted and slapped their hands.

"Everyone quiet! Open your text books to page 45! Ivashkov, until you get your text books in the upcoming week, share with Ashford!"

"Yes sir."

In the first five minutes of meeting him, Rose, Mason and Lissa knew this year would be very interesting with him around. Lissa was glad she was able to meet Adrian after being told so much about him. Apparently, he was good at Art. He sold a couple of masterpieces and also along with his cheeky personality he did get in good with the crowd. Mason was just thrilled to have someone interesting in his classrooms. His best friend Eddie Castile was put in a different English, Maths and Science classes so those three topics were a little boring for Mason as he only has Rose and Lissa, who always paired up in the class together. And Rose, well, she was just thrilled to have another guy to make her school life a little more interesting. She just hoped that he was into parties, which he did seem to be in when the lesson ended and they moved on to their next lesson.

"Eddie and I were planning on having a little party when you arrived and joined out circle of friends." Mason patted Adrian on the back as they walked towards their next lesson together; Science. The three topics were normal taught first three lessons, and then the chosen subjects that the students chose would be after lunch. "So you in?"

"Will there be alcohol?"

"Of course."

"Then I'm in."

"A party animal?"

"Please. There's no word to describe how much I love parties, along with alcohol and cigarettes." Adrian winked at Rose who smiled at him back. Mason shot Adrian a quick glare, but then it faded when Adrian chuckled and patted the girl on the back. "Just promise me you'll get wasted with me."

"Of course." Rose turned next to her, looking at Lissa. "How about you Liss? Coming?"

"I might as well, if you're going. And the others."

"There are more?"

"Five more. Three more guys and two more girls, including Eddie. You'll meet them at lunch."