AUTHOR'S NOTE: Welcome to chapter 1 of A-ko's Mistake! Getting right to it!


A-ko felt the room slowly begin to appear in her eyes. Ugh, what time was it?

"A-KO!"

A-ko heard a yell from her window. It was the voice of her energetic friend C-ko.

"A-ko, we're going to be late for school!" C-ko yelled.

Uh oh. A-ko scrambled out of bed and stuck a bagel in her mouth as she got dressed. She then swallowed the bagel and replaced it with a toothbrush.

"A-ko!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" A-ko said back, bolting out the door. She didn't know how C-ko managed to do it every day; she always beat A-ko out of bed and ready for school.

"We gotta go!" A-ko yelled, grabbing C-ko's arm. She had made a promise to Miss Ayumi that she wouldn't be late this semester!


And that promise had shattered, on the first day of the semester.

"A-ko, I don't believe you!" Miss Ayumi yelled at A-ko in the hallway. "You promised me you weren't going to be late this semester, and here you are on the first day of the semester, back to your usual patterns!"

"But my alarm clock-" A-ko tried to argue.

"I've had enough of your excuses! It's always alarm clock this, giant robot fight that, you've always got an excuse! A-ko, I've got no choice but to give you detention!"

"DETENTION?!" A-ko yelled in shock. "But I'm an honor roll student! I've never had a day of detention in my life!"

"Well, A-ko, you're about to start."

"Ugh!" A-ko yelled, slamming the door behind her to reenter the classroom. Later, as Miss Ayumi was teaching, C-ko began whispering to A-ko.

"A-ko, what's the answer to number 4?" C-ko whispered.

"C-ko, I can't tell you that, that's cheating!" A-ko whispered back to her.

"Well, I forgot to study and I really need your help!"

"No way!"

A-ko said that last one a bit too loud, as Miss Ayumi heard and marched over to the two girls.

"I can't believe you two!" Miss Ayumi yelled. "Whispering in the middle of a quiz! And A-ko, you've already been in enough trouble today! C-ko, you now get detention and a zero on the quiz; A-ko, you get a zero on the quiz AND a double detention!"

"A DOUBLE DETENTION?!" A-ko yelled in shock. "My parents are gonna kill me!"


When the bell rang, A-ko began heading to the detention room with tears in her eyes. She was such a failure...she was so busy moping she didn't notice C-ko was behind her.

"Hey, A-ko, wanna have a picnic?" C-ko asked.

A-ko was way too peeved to be dealing with this.

"C-ko, I have detention." A-ko said. "I can't have a picnic."

"Well, what about after detention?"

"No, I'm not feeling like a picnic right now after everything I've had to go through today."

And that was A-ko putting it nicely. She felt like screaming in C-ko's face for ruining her perfect detention-free record.

Soon afterwards, C-ko began blubbering.

"WAH! YOU HATE ME!" C-ko sobbed, pounding on the floor. "THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE A PICNIC!"

A-ko had enough.

"C-ko, if you don't stop crying, you'll be sorry!" A-ko yelled. She didn't know what she meant by "you'll be sorry", but she was about to figure something out.

C-ko just kept crying, completely ignoring A-ko.

"THAT'S IT!" A-ko yelled, grabbing a pocket knife her father had given her for safety from her back pocket. In a fit of rage, she ended C-ko's life with one jab, causing the sight in front of her to become painted red.

At first, A-ko felt relief to have a stop from the crying. But then she looked down and saw...

A-ko gasped in horror at her own actions. What kind of monster was she? She was the daughter of superheroes, and she was acting like a supervillain!

"Oh, gosh." A-ko muttered to herself. "What have I done?"

In a rush, she dialed 110 and said, "Help! My friend's bleeding everywhere!"


AUTHOR'S NOTE: And that was the first chapter of A-ko's Mistake. What did you think? R&R requested, but please no excessive foul language or hurtful comments about the story or to other review writers.