*Click* He cocked the revolver.

"Times up kid," I could smell the gunpowder in the room. My life to him was as easy to snuff out as a baby's. The gun was loaded; he only needed to pull the trigger.

"Bang!"

"Emily! Wake up this instant!" I rose groggily and wiped at my eyes. I saw my teacher, Ms. Fenner, leaning over me after slamming a French book on my desk.

"What?" I asked in an irritated voice.

"Well, I am sorry that my French class is so boring," Ms. Fenner said, "that you feel the need to-"

I cut her off, "Yeah, I heard this in science last period," I irascibly replied.

Ms. Fenner's face turned a bright red but she calmed her voice and said, "See me after class."

"Ugh…." I moaned as she turned back to the board.

"Caught sleeping again, Emily?" At that sarcastic voice, I whipped my head to the left where I saw Chiyoko grinning at me. She was half Irish and half Chinese with freckles and a small mouth. Her eyes were a hazel color and she had long, wavy chestnut hair.

"Oh, and you pay such good attention yourself," I replied in the most sarcastic tone I could use. Chiyoko was a naturally intelligent student, so she never paid any attention during class. The teachers couldn't scold her because she always got perfect scores on everything despite her doodling in all of her classes. And even though she doodled all the time, she was still no good at it. She knew that, and yet, she still did it all the time.

"Well, I don't get caught unlike a certain someone," She said in a sing-song tone. She was always snarky and sarcastic, but I knew she was just kidding around.

"Chiyoko, you shouldn't be so mean to her," I turn to my right where I see Justin. Justin was the most handsome guy in our school. Like Chiyoko, he was Chinese but he had soft black hair cut short. His eyes were a deep brown and his face was angelic when he smiled. Just seeing his smile would make me, or any other girl melt. His only flaw was that he was well aware of the fact that he could get anything he wanted just by smiling and asking in a sweet voice. Maybe it was his gorgeous smile, or the way he was always there for me, but over the past year that I had known him, I had started to like him. I had never told Chiyoko though. I have gone through many different scenarios of which I could tell her in my head, but, in the end of all of them, Chiyoko was laughing so hard that she was literally crying.

"I'll stop teasing you both," she said with her devilish grin, "when you guys stop sleeping through at least 5 of your 6 classes. Even I'm not that bad. And no, PE does not count." Both our faces blushed red. It was true; both of us combined could only stay awake for 30 minutes at the most. The only difference was that Justin could maintain straight A's while I got B's and C's. I was an outcast here at our super academic school. Here, you were considered failing if you had a seventy-five percent in any of your classes.

I looked at Justin and then at Chiyoko. If I didn't have them, school would be a living hell. People always gave us weird looks though. Chiyoko and Justin were tall for ninth graders. They were both around 5 feet 7 inches and good looking, while I was just an average Chinese girl who stood at only 5 feet. I had mid-length straight black hair that was always tied up and brown eyes. I felt like the odd one out in my group.

*Ring*

"Emily, come over here please," Ms. Fenner said. I groaned again.

"We'll wait outside," Chiyoko said as she walked out the door.

"Don't worry, she's nice," Justin said reassuringly as he followed Chiyoko out.

"Only to you," I could hear Chiyoko saying as the door slowly closed shut.

As I was being scolded about my study habits and behavior, I became envious of my friends. They didn't have to stay up all night working. They didn't have nightmares like me.

"Do you understand?" Ms. Fenner asked.

"Yes," I replied in a monotone voice.

"Good," she said, "and get more sleep."

I sighed. "Easy for you to say…" I mumbled.

"What?"

"Nothing!" I replied as I swung my back pack over my shoulder and dashed out the door.

"Are you okay?" I spun around to see Justin looking worried.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Thank goodness," Justin let out a big sigh, "I was a little worried because she's caught you sleeping so many times." His face changed to reveal his big, beautiful smile.

"Thanks for worrying," I turned my face towards the ground so he wouldn't see that I was bright red.

It had not caught the attention of Justin, but leave it to Chiyoko to point it out. "Hey Justin," she said, "Remember, you shouldn't smile like that around her or she'll melt like all the other girls." Upon hearing that, my face turned even redder. For some reason, Chiyoko was the only one immune to Justin's smile. She said it was because she had a built in barrier to pretty boys.

"Oh, my bad," he said as he turned his face into a forced scowl.

*Ring*

"Oh crap!" Chiyoko said, "We're late for our next class! Come On!" We all started running because the later you are, the more yelling you get from our geometry teacher. As we ran as fast as we could, I started laughing. I loved school. It was the only time I could spend with my two best friends and I could always escape the troubles of work when I was with them.

~okay this was kind of long for my first chapter ever. I promise this will be KHR related but it might take a while for the characters to come in. I hope you enjoy it!~

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn if I did that would be cool