A/N: First of all, I don't own Neopets. Secondly, I started writing the first two chapters in 2004, when I was 10 years old. Those were edited by my 11 year old sister, so sorry if there are any spelling mistakes or anything… I don't have the time to fix them at the moment. I'm now 13, and I feel like completing this story. I'll be writing others, but not about Neopets, and trust me, this story is very good… in my opinion, haha. Very dramatic, and it is better than it may sound at first. Anyways, I hope you enjoy it! R&R, I take the good and bad comments. And suggestions for the story are always welcomed, of course. I won't really be doing any more "Author Notes" throughout the rest of the chapters. Also, I'll try to write a chapter a day. When I'm finished, I'm sending the story to the Neopian times. Hopefully my story makes it in! Lotsa love to my readers!

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In the Neopia Central Elementary School Gym, Mrs. Skye, a yellow Kau, a.k.a. the gym teacher, addressed the children with her deep booming voice. "Today, we will be playing a nice, traditional game of Gormball! Kally and Rico, you two will be captains, so pick your teams." KrystalMoonKally09922, a Faerie Gelert, grinned proudly and announced, "I pick Cheryl, Maxine, Meri, Kei, Konala, and Alex." Like usual, the teams were divided boy against girl.

RicoInvincible (Rico), a Halloween Meerca, smiled self-centeredly, showing his ivory white fangs. "Bob, Nick, George, Ronald, Kyle, Peter and, um…" He stole a glance at a moehog standing sadly by the wall. "Uh, that's it."

Mrs. Skye looked at the purple Moehog that was left. "Even teams. Kat, you will just have to sit this game out. Again." Mrs. Skye muttered the last part of her sentence and handed Kat a lollipop before going to start the game.

Katherine6930 sighed. No one liked her only because of her species. She was the only Moehog in the school, making her situation even worse. Well, actually, there was another Moehog in school, but he was male, and ever since he'd gotten a Cloud Ixi Morphing Potion, his social status had shot up. Kat's family couldn't afford those kinds of things. She had no friends, and she got bad grades in school because of it. Her parents often had long conversations at night about Kat's future.

After 30 minutes past, the energy-filled game of Gormball was over. The kids walked by Kat snootily, all drenched in water. The bell rang, and Mrs. Skye dismissed the class. Everyone ran out the school building yelling and screaming while Kat lagged behind.

Kat opened her Neohome's door, 1337 Money Tree Boulevard, and trudged in.

"Heya, Kat!" Mrs. Petunia Hog, a Faerie Moehog, greeted Kat the minute she stepped into the house. "How was school?" Mrs. Hog looked up at her daughter from the table.

Kat shuffled her feet awkwardly.

"Fine, I guess." She shrugged.

Mrs. Hog knew Kat didn't mean what she said. She sighed pointedly, but perked up a minute later. "I made some cookies with your sister, want some? Your favorite, chocolate chip!" 0oMargareto0, a Pink Moehog, grinned from her chair, and cookie crumbs fell from her mouth.

"No thanks, Mom, um…I have homework..." Before Mrs. Hog could say any more, Kat ran to her room and slammed the door, crying silently. Margie (0oMargareto0's nickname) looked startled for a moment, but then grabbed a cookie and crunched it with her mouth open, spraying cookie crumbs all over her bib.

A few minutes later, Mr. Hog, a Halloween Moehog, arrived from work. He was a scientist – he tried to make new, more efficient and inexpensive medicines for different diseases.

"How was work, Marshall?" Mrs. Hog asked, cleaning Margaret up.

"Wonderful, Petunia! I may have discovered one medicine to cure every single known disease!" Said Mr. Hog cheerfully.

"Bless Fyora, we could be dirty rich!" cried Mrs. Hog.

"It hasn't been tested yet, though," Mr. Moehog replied, "I only know that it could cure every disease because of the chemicals and ingredients and all those fancy formulas. It just needs to be tested by someone."

"Dinner's ready!" shouted Mrs. Hog. Mr. Hog saved his work on the computer and came downstairs to the dining room. Margie was sleeping, so she wasn't at the table. Kat practically flew to the table, relieved to be distracted from her math homework. She was very hungry, since she had given up her lunch money, 20 neopoints, to sit at the table where the cool neopets sat for five minutes. They didn't even look at her.

"Boy, Kat! You seem like you could eat a herd of Kaus!" exclaimed Marshall Hog at the dinner table. He stared as Kat ate every single scrap of food laid on her plate, which was unlike her. Usually she just ate half her plate and left the rest for the next night's dinner.

Kat shrugged, and said sheepishly, "I am a growing girl, I guess."

After everyone finished eating, the Hogs watched Neopia's Funniest Videos on TV to cheer the family up. After an hour full of laughs, Kat went back to her room to finish her homework. She couldn't concentrate. Her father was still laughing like crazy about the funniest video that won 500,000 neopoints. Kat wished it was her family that had won the neopoints, but her family didn't own a video camera. She looked up to the ceiling for a few moments, then back to her unfinished paper. The remaining problems were:

20x9
63+123
66-54

81/9

Kat gave up and wrote zero for all the answers though she knew zero wasn't the answer to any of them. She changed into her PJs and flopped into bed. 'Maybe it's my dad,' she thought. 'I wish my dad was like Agent 00 Hog. Maybe his job makes me unpopular. Or maybe it's just me. Maybe I need to start helping out the family. Maybe…' Her thoughts were interrupted by her drifting slowly to sleep. She knew the next day would be as dreadful as the last, if not even worse.