I don't own Digimon, I only on the characters in this chapter, and their digimon that will appear in later chapters. If they by coincidence have the same name as another digimon, this is accidental and they are different.
Chapter One
Anthony was late, as usual, it wasn't his fault yet he would be blamed. His alcoholic mother meant that he had to look after her, meaning that he had to make sure she was okay before he could go to school. It wasn't fair, ever since his father, but no that thought was to upsetting, how could he do that. Memories flashed into his mind, still raw and painful after 3 years. He suppressed them, he couldn't afford to face them his mother needed his help.
"Anthony," the shrill voice of his teacher rang out, invading his mind and returning him to the present. "Why are you late?"
"I," he struggled to think of an excuse, but was past caring if he couldn't "I was, um walking and-" with a wave of his teachers hand he was cut off, and told to sit down.
"I will speak to you at the end Anthony. Really you take this too far." Anthony glumly sat in his chair, quickly putting on an uncaring façade; he couldn't be seen as weak. His and his mother's life depended on it.
Chris watched Anthony with amusement, he saw the flicker of depression that crossed Anthony's face, saw him struggle with the emotion before replacing it with his usual one on apathy. The boy intrigued him, he didn't understand, why. He craved attention yet to him, it seemed Anthony either detested it or was uncaring. The mentality he possessed was beyond him, and annoyed him, he wanted attention and Anthony had stolen it from him. This reasoning caused his next actions. He took a piece of gum, brought it to his lips, placed it inside, and began to chew. When he felt the gum was a sufficient consistency, he took the gum, from his mouth and threw it at Anthony, unfortunately it missed. –Damn, he thought, followed by, -Double damn, when he saw that it had landed in front of Lauren a girl, who in all senses was a bitch. She was Kara's friend and Kara was staring directly at him. She whispered something to Lauren, who looked down. She smirked evilly and she whispered back, Kara looked shocked and started to shake her head. Lauren picked up the gum, and placed it in her hair, looked at Chris and screamed.
"Lauren, what on earth is wrong dear?" said the teacher, who only got a scream as a reply, "honestly girl, stop that noise, what's the matter?"
"He threw gum at MEEEE!" She cried, pointing at Chris, and carried on screaming.
"Okay that's enough!" the teacher said, and Lauren stopped screaming crocodile tears streaming down her face. "Kara, is what Lauren says true?" She shot an apologetic look at Chris and nodded, slowly.
"Chris detention, one day lad you'll going to regret all you've put me through this year."
Chris sat in his chair stunned, he couldn't believe it. Anger coursed through him at the injustice of it all.
"You Cow!" Chris shouted and shoved his way out of the classroom.
Kara felt ashamed, but she couldn't turn against her friends, who were giggling in the corridor. She hated what they had become, what she had become.
"Oh MY God, Lauren did you see his face," giggled Kimi, "but your poor hair!"
"Not really, I've been meaning to get it cut for ages, and now Daddy will pay for it."
Kara felt disgust at the people in front of her, and despair; afraid she may become these monsters."
"Aren't you ashamed?" a strange male voice said behind her. She turned it was Luke Parish, a strange boy who'd been moved up into their year, from the year below. Her friends were not impressed
"What do I have to be ashamed about little boy?" snarled Lauren.
"I saw you put the gum in your hair."
"Is that an accusation?"
"I saw you put the gum in your hair."
"Prove it."
He turned and left before staring into Kara's eyes, "aren't you ashamed." He walked off.
"Little freak, what does he know, why would you be ashamed of making fun of that loser." Said Kimi, yet Kara felt that he was more stating fact than asking a question.
Outside the detention hall, Kara waited, she had to apologise, to explain her actions to Chris, just felt so bad; her friends had all gone to there homes, she explained her absence with saying her Mother was taking her shopping.
"I knew you'd come." It was Luke.
"Why are you here?"
"Same reason as you, I feel bad for not telling the truth."
"Who said I felt bad?" Kara asked; she didn't like this kid, she felt like he could too easily get into her head.
"You're here aren't you?" Silence descended upon them as they waited.
The time passed and suddenly people started to trail out, last out was Anthony, finally followed by Chris.
"What are you doing here?" demanded Chris, when he saw Kara.
"To apologise, I feel awful about earlier, it's just that I-"
"I don't care about your excuses, just leave me alone." And began to storm off, Kara followed.
As they were arguing Anthony had begun to walk home, he expected a detention, he just hoped that his mother was okay; as he reached the door to leave the school a voice stopped him.
"Its okay you know, to be annoyed, or upset. Nobody would blame you." Anthony turned and Luke was there.
"What do you know?"
"I know I'd be upset if I got a detention for looking after my mother."
Anthony was shocked. He didn't think anyone knew as he was always so careful around school, with what he said and how he acted; if anyone found out it would be bad. He needed to find out what Luke knew and quickly. However he heard voices behind him it was Kara apologising to Chris still.
"Just forget it." Anthony said to Luke and pushed open the wooden doors. As he did he heard a tearing and saw a white light. Luke, Chris and Kara all looked toward the door and a white light engulfed them.
The door to the school, slammed shut, yet when it closed the white light vanished, leaving the school corridor empty. Everything, from lockers to bins had disappeared, even the door handles had vanished. The corridor was bare; all was gone, including the children.
So here's the first chapter, 2nd one should appear in 2 weeks or so. Sorry it's a while but I have far too much work to do at the moment, if I finish sooner then another chapter will be written and posted.
Also reviews and constructive criticism welcome.
