I groaned and Zach shook his head. "Listen it's either go to Gallagher or die." which was sadly true. Not that they would do the killing themselves, the CIA would. I know too much and now had a whole life story full of knowledge that the CIA couldn't let out to a street rat. I let my face hit the table hard and Liz jumped. It was either freedom and death or prisoners in Gallagher Academy for spies(saps). Sadly the only option that lead to living was Gallagher. "You know we could get the paperwork for you before the school starts, my parents are Gallagher trustees and-" "Thank you Cinder." Cammie said and i sighed in relief, dumb kid won't shut her pie hole.

Some guy from the CIA was there to see if i would join up and seemed like he was made of stone. Still, silent, emotionless. Boy they sure grow em like sad saps. "Okay let me get this straight." i said and rubbed my temples. "If i join Gallop." "Gallagher." "Bless you, if i join this joint i get to live, if i don't i die?" i said and Double-o stone face(Chuck) nodded. "Yes, that is the deal. Just sign your name here and you'll be ready to attend." he said and shoved, slid a paper my way with a little 'x' for where i could sign but before i could join i would have to be debriefed and physically checked and stuff and before the school training starts. I looked at the paper with pure dread and sighed in defeat and took the pen. And wrote my name on the page. Chucky boy laughed a tiny chuckled that didn't suit him and smiled just a bit as he added the page to a whole stack full of them and it took us an hour and a half to finish it all.

The weeks passed by and i was added to Gallagher Academy, school for saps. This was officially the worst day of my life. I was stuck with a bunch of girls who i didn't know and a bunch of teachers that i didn't give a hoot for. And what was worse is that i was stuck with the girl who was sibblings with the guy i had tripped over. And what was even worse was that she was the daughter of Liz, who was my teacher for one of my classes. So far i only remembered the names of my roomies. Caramel(Liz's kid), Felesity(Bex's girl), and Ashley(Cammie's kid). Yay. (Sarcasm.)

The school year started and i was in pain. All the stuff they teached was easily mastered by yours truly, well P.E that is. I was sparring with a kid who I had to punch hard so I did, so he was out cold for an hour and forty minutes so I was bumped up to 8th grade P.E. which I also was moved up to freshman. The 8th grader was trying to get up but she seemed to have a broken arm. My bad, they said to twist so i did that. So now i'm in freshman P.E. with Mel, Lexie, and Ash in the barn. I was in our room struggling with some work on countries of the world. Beef, i didn't use the term COW because that seemed to Gallaghery.

"Need help?" Mel said and walked up to me with a book. "If it involves books and chapters I'm out." i said and gestured to the 4 inch thing. She shook her head and laughed. She put down the book at her bed and raised her hands up in i-come-in-peace mode. I scooted over and patted the spot next to me and she smiled, scratch that freaking glowed and sat next to me and looked at my page. "Pronouncing Japanese?" she said like it was the a, b, cs. "Yeah, i'm not a Gallagher like you." i said and she let that brush by, Lexie on the other hand put her book down and glared at me and mouthed. 'Don't you dare hurt her.' and i signed language back. 'And what are ya gonna do about it. Serve me tea?' and i smiled. She got off her bed and grabbed me by the ear. "Don't you dare make fun of me kid." she spat and i laughed. "Kid? Is that the best you got? Boy they don't teach you guys nothing 'bout anything in this joint." i said and Mel corrected me. "Its they don't teach us anything in here." "No they don't." i said and laughed as her bewildered expression as it dawned on her what i made her say "Wait i didn't mean that!" she said and i laughed at her.

Mel blushed so hard tears came to her eyes and i laughed so hard tears came out of mine. But i stopped when i heard her sobbing and quickly wiping her tears. Lexie had me in a death grip and i managed to get out. I sighed at her patheticness and ruffled her hair. She looked at me surprised. "Its called reverse psychology kid, i make you say what i want you to say without you realizing," and she finished for me. "That i had said it." she said with a nod. And Lexie didn't leave at all. "I know it just that, i-i didn't mean to and you were laughing and i-i couldn't help it." she said innocently and a pang of guilt hit me as i realized that i was like that too. So we worked out a deal, i would teach her merry-gang of Gallaghers about people that would fit into social life and not in a hole underground and they would help me get to be a freshman.

Mel laughed as i put my fists over my eyes and groaned as i tried to say good-morning in japanese. "Come on, one more time. OhayƵ." she said and gestured for me to do it. "Its sounds like you're saying the state Ohio." she beamed as i was made process. "Yeah, say it like ohio but with the accent." and i nailed it with a few fails. Lexie didn't leave and at this one point i was foolish enough to ask while we were brushing our teeth. "Is it just me or do you have a weak grip?" And she demonstrated how hard she could go which was hard and i gagged on my toothbrush. "Hard enough." i choked out and Ash tried to get her off me.

Later i work on my side of the bargain and told these kiddies the outside world stories. "So you wanna know about the outside world kids?" i saided with the most sarcasm i could do and Mel had a NOTEBOOK out to take NOTES! She nodded enthusiastically and raised her hand. "Yes Mel?" i said and pointed to her like a half-asleep teacher. "Can you trust people out there?" she said in a low whisper and i cupped my hand over my ear. "What? Your too low." "Can you-" but i cut her off and looked at her with one eyebrow raised. "I was kidding Mel." i said and she dropped her hand and wrote it down. "Oh Mel, don't forget to write that Gallagher is a school for rich saps in the outside world." and she literally wrote most of it and stopped at the word saps and lowered her pencil and looked at me. "You did it again." she complained quietly and i cupped my ear. "What?" "I said-" i raised my hand again and she stopped and realized i pulled it on her twice.

Mel had like a whole 3 pages full on my short summary that you can't always trust someone. that, that trust that you have can only be given to people you A) know very, very well B) know patterns of behaviour C) seen them before D) know where they live 5) can tell if they're lying, like a small habit of shifting their weight from foot to foot, eyes darting, pupils straight, stuff like that. You got to make sure you know what they got, like a fancy car, a hacking computer, job, hobbies, things they like and don't like. And if you're foolish enough to trust them. "You know for a thief you would make a great Covert Ops teacher," Ash said and I gave a half-hearted smile. "I'll take that as a complement." then a question hit me. "Are Headmistress Cammie and Zach married?" and Ash blushed and Lexie laughed lightly. Mel smiled and answered for me. "Not yet, they're planning to do so next month. Ash over there is too embarrassed to say that they aren't." Ash got off her bed and hit Mel with her pillow and whined at her. "You said you wouldn't tell a soul," she said and Mel covered herself with a book. "I only said to some of the kids who asked," she said innocently and I butted in. "She did say SOME of the kids, not all of them." and ash covered her face with a pillow.

I woke up in the morning thanks to Lexie and Mel who dragged me to the closet and changed my clothes for me and dragged me to the library where they slammed a book near my head and yelled in my ear. "How do you say good morning in French!" Lex yelled and i jumped up and hit her in the face with my elbow instead and blurted. "Ohio state!" a teacher passed by and hushed us. "Girls please," they said and walked away. I scratched my neck like i always do and looked down at my new skirt and shirt. Hey that rhymes. "What the?" "We got you out of bed," Lex said simply and smiled and rubbed her chin and Mel hid behind a bookshelf and softly cried out. "Lexie made me do it." and I groaned and faced the British. She smiled smugly at me and i shot back. "What do you want? A cup of tea with two sugars?"

We went to 'The Grand hall' which sadly to say was grand indeed with great food i sat with a bunch of saps and my roomies. Then after headmistress and Zach came up everyone stood up and they said this really goofy pledge that I mouthed instead because if your mouth if you don't pledge it. Then everyone sat down and a sign above is read English-American and everyone switched from whatever space world they were speaking into human and i sighed in relief. "So," said a rich sap boy across from me. "My sources tell me that you were entered here by force because you found out all of Gallagher's secrets but your accomplice got away but was shot down. Is that true?" i just sat there and blinked and looked back up at the sign. Yep, still human. "My name's Dan so is it?" Dan said and i just blinked some more and a girl next to him shook her head. "Sorry about him, he's like that. Hi my name's Anna Bree but you can just call me Bree." she reached out her hand to shake and i shook it. "Kana, human," I said and she laughed.

Dan somehow kept coming up with wild stories but i just ignored him. Then all my classes were a bore, I was this one lady in Culture and something, C&A and somehow I was moved up to freshman and the whole thing was strange, the room was neat and showy and stuff and we drank actual tea, who would have guessed. Then whats-her-face said something about teacups and I felt like yelling. "How up to date with the world are you guys?" but i didn't, who would want to get in trouble on their first day. Miss French talked on and on about stuff i didn't care about until she said something that caught my attention. "Ladies and gentlemen i will be teaching Drivers Ed in two days and going by roomies." she didn't say roomies but i like to switch this up a bit. I've been taking cars to drive from far distance from time to time in my search for my parents so might as well oil my rusty driving with the saps.

I headed to Liz's class and i heard the thudding for feet behind me. "Kana wait." cried a breathless Mel and she waved a paper like it was a white flag in the middle of a war. I paused and looked back. "What?" i said with my sarcasm moving its way through my words on its own. "You forgot your homework." she panted and flopped on the floor with exhaustion. "How fast do you run?" she said in amazement, " I had to sprint to catch up." i looked at her and grabbed the page and helped her up. "Uh, Mel. i do whats call walking in the outside world," i said and some girls whispered passed us quite loudly for a private conversation.

"Oh look its that teacher's pet." one said. "Bet she just gave the street rat a cheat sheet." another whispered. "Why'd they even let them in any way, the rodent is only here because she found out about Gallagher, why'd they let little miss wanna-be spy in?" the third said. "Why do you breath," i asked them out loud, i didn't face them but i knew they were watching. "You'll die anyways." i said rather smugly as Mel wiped her tears. They gasped and high-tailed it to class calling me names. Mel just looked at me like a goddess just landed before her. "Thanks Kana." she said and walked over to Lexie and Ash who were waiting by the stairs.

I got into class and Liz smiled at me. "How do you like Gallagher?" she said like a scientist hoping for an answer to their experiment. "Uh, like it's too much homework and not enough well, work." Liz shook her head, i went to my seat and people started talking. "Street rat this." or "Rodent that." then someone took their seat next to mine. "H-hi." said a deep shy voice and it sounded oddly familiar. My face was facing the cold metal of the table i looked up for a sec and then gasped and the blood flew from my face like a tsunami flowed it out. It was they guy from my first visit to Gallagher. Let me curl up and die now world. I mentally banged my face against the wall and wish i could do so now but Liz started class.

He held out his hand for me to shake. "We didn't officially meet last time, my name's Roger." he said and i just looked at him. He blushed after a while and slowly retreated his hand. "Kana." i said plainly and he smiled triumphantly as to getting to know my name. Liz started talking about something and holding chemicals but i didn't listen. "She already did this lab thousands of times but she somehow always messes it up." he whispered and i laughed. "And if it's okay with you i wouldn't mind forgetting about what happened the first time we meet." he said and held out his hand like a business owner making a deal with the client. "Ditto on that." i said and we shook on it.

Then a hand shot up in the air and i realized it belonged to the girl who insulted me and Mel earlier. "Mrs. Sutton, what would happen if we theoretically that is, created a clone or robot and trained to it be like us?" she asked and looked my way with an evil sneer. "That might not work Miss Avias but i like the way your thinking outside the lab." Liz said like she had no clue to what her real meaning of the question was. I raised my hand and decided to have a little science like payback. "Another question Kana?" Liz said and i smiled. "But of course Mrs Sutton, what would happen it you got a rocket from NASA and mixed the rocket fuel with a car's? Would it still work or will it be a useless peice of junk?" Liz smiled and shook her head. "It would probably be a flaming disaster. So no, it wouldn't work." she said and got back to the lab. Roger hid behind the table and when i looked at him confused he motioned me down and whispered ever so quietly. "Mess up." an i ducked down with him. Liz shook the tube of liquid too hard and it exploded and some kids ducked just in the nick of time. I laughed and some others joined me. The group of three got blasted with it and when the fog of black disappeared they were covered in hot pink ash.

Liz looked at her notes and blushed and realized she did something wrong and Bex came through the door with a fire extinguisher. Then the sprinklers went off and we were all soaking wet. We were excused to have a free period even though it was our last to change into our drier clothing. Roger laughed still and his white peter pan shirt stuck to his torso with the water. His khaki pants all wrinkled and his tie loose from his collar. He brushed his hand threw his sandy blond hair and smiled at me. "Told you she messes up." and i laughed along with him. "The black smoke and hot pink ash covering the kids were enough to prove your point." I said and I walked over to my suite and changed. Wait am I still smiling?!

I shook my head, oh no no no. Don't you dare even the-he's cute. AHHHHG! No bad girl you just met are you kidding me! Whatever. I changed and walked out just as a wave of students made their way to the Hall to get dinner. I felt a hand on my shoulder and a whisper of "What is the capital of Japan?" I grabbed the hand and hit a pressure point and I said the first thing that came to my mind. "Godzilla. Wait-what?" i let go and turned to see Ash rubbing her wrist and Lex with an eyebrow raised. Mel laughed. "It's Tokyo Kana." I shrugged and rolled my eyes. "Whatever." Dinner was okay and I finished what felt like two years worth of homework and about a whole day with Mel talking and teaching.

Once I was done I went over to the bathroom and took a shower. It was surprisingly relaxing in there. I felt my foot beat against the smooth floor of the tub and the light plop of the water drops felt like the beat to the music.

"In the night

So far away

You said you'd stay

But look at me

Look at you

A million miles away

I'm all grown up now

Livin' in the big old city

Come at me now

Ya know ya can't hold

A light to my glow

You can't out shine

What's in no you can't defy meh

Listen to the beat of the drum

Listen to the beat you can't defy meh

I glow so brightly but you can't slip by me."

I hummed a small part where the background sang and then I bobbed my head.

"When you left I felt so broken

You left me there

Broken into pieces

Now you can't say

I was the one that left you."

I got out once my little song ended and Ash, Lex, and Mel just started at me. "What? They didn't teach ya that it's rude to stare?" I asked sarcastically and Lex had a smug smile on her face. "Gee, you should have told me you sing so I could have had my tea ready for that little concert of yours." She teased and I blushed. Well, mazeltov, ya sure laugh all ya want but it ain't a crime to sing in the shower.

"You're not that bad of a singer actually." Ash complemented and went back to reading her book. "Well w-whatever." I growls and got my clothes and went back into the bathroom to change. Once I got back out Lexie still had that freaking smug smile. "What no song this time. Ah and I had tea and everything." She said and I swear if I don't kill her by midnight. I looked over at Mel whole stayed surprisingly quiet the whole time. "What no fact that I was off beat or something?" I asked and she looked up at me surprised.

"Oh no, I was just thinking about how come I haven't heard that song before." I blushed harder. I looked out the window and crossed my arms. "Well, that's because I made it up. How do you think other songs are made. People make em up." I huffed and Lexie laughed. "Well, at least we know we have a future vocalist in our suite." She said and I threw the nearest thing at her. Which oh so happens to be a pillow. That night I couldn't sleep for some odd reason. "Maybe it's something I ate?" i whispered to myself. "Nah that can't be it. Maybe it was Liz's weird pink dust thing."

I just layer there wondering what was keeping me up. No, it can't be something I ate. I rolled into my side. Man, the world outside this window sure looks great right now. Well since I have nothing to do and can't sleep. How about a little night trip around the school. I quietly got out of the room and walked the halls of the school. I let my and lay on the wall and as I walked it felt the walls curves, the edges.

The school at night sure is fun. I thought to myself but then I thought I saw something move. I took my hand off the walls and walked over to the figure and gasped.