Chapter One

A bright spring morning in the beginning of March in Boston, Massachusetts, a class of kindergartners are wondering about the brightly colored room, some talking to friends others playing in the play section of their classroom. At the sound of a bell, the kids scramble to their seats, tiny hands thumping on the desks as they expectantly looked innocently at the door, waiting for their teacher. Suddenly the door opens and the teacher walks in. The class goes silent at the sight of the small blonde haired boy walking shyly behind their teacher, light sea blue eyes watching the other children warily.

"Everyone, this is your new classmate, Wolfram. Try and be nice to him okay?"

"Yes Teacher!"

Nodding, the teacher gently pushes the boy toward the other kids, smiling encouragingly.
Taking a breath, Wolfram walks over to the only empty seat at a table beside the window and sits down quietly, avoiding eye contact with the other two kids at the table.
"Today," the teacher said as she looked about the room, "we will be working on the animals you started in class on Friday. I hope you worked on them during the weekend!" The teacher smiles, walking among her students as the kids get out their pictures and start to work. Wolfram looks around the room, looking like he was wondering what he should do, not knowing where some paper was and too shy to ask anyone.
"Here, paper."

Looking up, Wolfram sees one of the boys at his table offering him some clean paper, a goofy smile playing on his face. Taking it, Wolfram nods, looking away as soon as he could to avoid any conversation. Slumping in disappointment the boy that gave him the paper turns back to his drawing, stealing curious glances at the new boy sitting next to him, wondering if he would be his friend.
After a few minutes the other boy who was sitting next to Wolfram gets bored and looks to where Wolfram was calmly drawing a picture of a bear.
"Don't you talk," he asks, looking curiously at Wolfram. "You're not mute are you? My mom works with people who don't talk and they're really boring. You're not like them right?"
Wolfram ignores the boy, instead focusing on his drawing.

"Hey hey. Answer me!"
When Wolfram still doesn't respond, the boy gets annoyed and roughly shoves him, Wolfram falling back with a surprised cry. Hearing the commotion, the teacher runs over and gasps when she see's Wolfram sprawled on the floor.

"Wolfram! Are you alright? What happened," the teacher asks, bending down and checking the boy, head to toe, for any injuries.

"I'm fine. I just fell." Wolfram says calmly as he kept his eyes down and sat up.

"Be more careful next time! Would someone help him to the nurse?" Wolfram really didn't want to be taken to the nurses but he knew he couldn't argue with a person older than him. Then he heard the same voice from the boy who had given him paper.

"I will," the boy exclaimed, excitedly jumping out of his chair and walking over to help Wolfram up.

"Thanks Yuuri. You know where the nurse is right?" The teacher smiles thankfully, inwardly cheering that Wolfram had already made a friend with one of her best students.
Yuuri nods and pulls a reluctant Wolfram away, leading him out of the classroom and down the art covered walls. Wolfram felt so small in the big school and wanted to just be left alone, but with the grip that Yuuri had on his hand he didn't expect to be released any time soon.

"You can let go of me. I won't fall." Wolfram grumbles, trying to pull his hand out of Yuuri's strong grip.

"No. I don't want to."

Wolfram looks up, surprised, and takes a better look at his classmate. 'Black hair, black eyes, wearing a green shirt with cars on it. He was the same as most of the others. Why then, is he being nice to me…'

"Wolfram! Wake up dearie!"

The dreaded noise of my mother's voice from the front seat jolted me awake from my sleep that had allowed me to remember my first day in kindergarten. I didn't know why I was remembering it but I was sure of one thing as I ran my fingers through my hair with slight stress. I was about to finally be free of my overbearing family and start college at the famous Blood Pledge University in Shin Makoto, Sweden.