Chapter 1

SWAPAKK!!

"How many times do I have to tell you to come home right after school?!" the man bellowed at the young girl with a hard hit of the back of his hand. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She cried. "I've had enough of your lies and excuses!" SHPAK! Came another hit from the man. Before he could continue to hit the girl, a door opened and a voice of a woman came, "I'm back!" She said. As the girl lay there on the floor of her room, she held her hand to her right cheek and before the man left he kicked her in the leg and left the room with a loud bang of the door.

She wept and wept crying in pain and sorrow. "Why?!" She said. "Why does he have to do that to me all the time? Especially if no one is around!" She cried. She climbed to her bed and cried herself to sleep. Hours has passed when she was awakened by noises, she noticed it was in the middle of the night, the moon shining brightly through her room. She got up and changed into more comfortable clothes and went downstairs to the kitchen. She turned on the lights and took a glass of milk. "That feels better." She thought realizing she was hungrier than she thought she was. As she walked through the hallway to her room, she heard rustling noises. It came from her parents' room. Her heart pounded against her chest and knew that her parents were doing something.

"What do I care anyways?!" She thought angrily to herself and shut the door tightly behind her but silent enough not to bother her parents. As she walked around, she had this feeling as if someone is around her. Thug… Thug… Thug… Her heart beat loudly against her chest. She gulped and shook her head. "No. There's no one here. Of course not." She thought to herself assuring. As she laid in bed, before she could close her eyes she suddenly saw a pair of menacing red eyes and suddenly she felt some kind of cloth wrap around her nose and mouth. Running out of breath, she was sure she was wide awake and before she could scream, everything went blank.

When she woke up, she was panting and sweating. But she was in bed back at the house. "Oh, gosh that was scary." She said to herself. "What was?" Came a low voice and she looked up. "Gah!" She pulled up the blanket to cover herself and there in the shadows of her dark room was the same pair of red eyes she saw last night. "W-what…" She stuttered in fright and her sweating doubled. "Something the matter?" Mockery tinged in his voice. "I… You… Night…Scary…" She was very spooked she couldn't speak properly and so she had to lower her blanket to let some air in and take some sweat away. As she gulped to calm herself down a bit, "You're not…gonna hurt me…are you?" She said at last. "Maybe, maybe not." The man replied. This, of course didn't help. "This can't be happening!" She thought to herself and shut her eyes tightly. When she opened them, to her relief, there was no pair of red eyes looking at her from the corner of her room. Instead there was her Mom waking her up.

"Chris," She said. "Wake up. You okay?" Sitting her daughter up, whom you now know as Chris. "Yeah, I'm okay. What time is it?" She asked groggily. "It's an hour before you go to your new school." She replied. "Oh." Was all that she said, not realizing what her Mom said. "I suggest you take a bath first. You're sweating all over." "Okay" Then she walked to the bathroom and slipped in and took a quick shower.

When she came down for breakfast, "Ready for your new school down the block?" Chris's dad seemed to be in a good mood today. Or was it just because her Mom was around? "New school?" She said as she ate a spoonful of Cheerios from her bowl. "Uh-huh."

"Down the block?"

"Yep."

"So that means I'll just have to walk a few blocks to school and not ride the car and possibly get late?" She asked hopefully. Her dad placed the newspaper he was reading and eyed Chris, his mood shifted. "She said yes already." He said. "What's the name of the school?" Chris pressed ignoring her dad's glance. "Meiou High." Her Mom replied after took the last bite of her egg-sandwich. "Whoa. No freakin' way." Was all Chris said after she finished the rest of her meal. "If I were I'd start walking to school 'coz it'll take you about 15 minutes to walk there and the school requires you be there at least 10 minutes before bell rings." Her Dad said and got up to leave for work. "At least you have the car for yourself now, right?" Her mom said with a smile to her husband. "Of course." He replied, rolling his eyes. "Okay, see you later!" Her mom waved. Chris's mom told her about her new school and helped her get her things ready and as Chris left she said, "Looks like this week will be unusually interesting…" Stepped out of the house and started walking to school, and as usual, her face showing no emotion at all but just a plain straight face of a 16-year-old in her uniform walking to her new school "down the block."

Well, that's my first chapter. I hope you enjoyed it, even if I think myself it wasn't very great. It took me a while though to get this thing in proper order. Please review if you want me to continue... Thanks! D