Hey. I made a mistake in the last chapter. Mr. Robertson is supposed to be Mr. Rogers. I changed it back. I also realized I made Rene WAY too young. She was supposed to be nine in the last chapter. Just thought I should tell you.

A year or so had passed since I first got to the Whammy house. I was put in class with Matt and Mello. There were other kids to but I never learned their names. They wouldn't talk to me anyway because apparently I am stupid here.

I didn't understand a thing we were learning. I manged to teach myself math up to a sophomore level but that still wasn't enough. It was the same for Science.

The only thing that didn't confuse me about this place was the reading. That I could handle, along with the memorizing.

"Rene. Are you paying attention?" The Teacher turned to me.

"Yes I am. Sorry." He nodded and went back to explaining how to solve logarithms.

A bell rang somewhere in the building. "Ok. You may leave for lunch now." Everyone stood up and started to leave. "Rene say here for a moment. I need to talk to you."

I heard some of the other kids snicker at me, but they had all left within a minute or so.

"Rene why haven't you been doing your work?" I sat back down. This would take awhile.

"I don't get anything. These guys are like... Genius smart. I can't keep up." I could think of a better way to explain it.

"But Your smart too. Other wise you wouldn't be here."

"Well then I guess I'm not smart enough. Why can't I go to a normal school?" He just shook his head.

"You would have to talk to Mr. Whammy about that." He waved his hand, dismissing me.

I stood up and went to my normal lunch spot, L's room.

I walked in just in time. A kid had brought L's lunch and an extra, and was about to take the extra back. I grabbed it and sat down next to L. He was, as usual watch his crime shows, in his pitch black bedroom.

"Who did it?" IT was a minute or so after into the show. So by now he had already guessed who did the crime.

It was obvious that he was the top letter. He was so smart that he didn't even have to take the classes. They let him do what ever he wanted, even if it was only staying in his room all day.

"A co-worker of the fiance." He sat there, not eating or anything just watching the show. He didn't even look like he liked it. The only emotion I ever saw on him was where they said who the criminal was. Then he smirked for half a second.

"L." The intercom came on. "There is something interesting on channel 43. I think you should watch it." Mr. Whammy, or as L called him, Watari, did this some times. L would watch for a while and then call Watari back saying he didn't like it or something like that and then go back to his show.

"Fine," L huffed as he changed the tv channel.

The channel was The news. It was taking about how somehow some of the Crown jewels of a bunch of countries had gone missing and there was no evidence on how it happened or who did it.

L watched it for a moment and called Watari back. "I will take it."

"Ok I will get some things ready for you." It turned off again.

L turned to me. "Ok, leave."

"Why?" He sighed.

"Cuz" Then he just grabbed my arm and dragged me to the door. He pushed me out with his foot and shut the door in my face.

"Hey!" I stood up and tried to open the door. It was locked of course.

With nothing better to do I went to my room. I looked more like someone lived in it now. I had some of my books on the bookshelf and school work on the desk. I even had new purple bedsheets. I would have do some work on the laptop I was given on my first day of classes, but L, in his rush to get me out, must have forgotten to take my stuff out to... including my lunch. I was about to leave again when I noticed a fancy envelope siting on my desk on top of my work.

I sat down and opened it, because I already knew what it was.

After a Kid has been here about a year, they are a letter of the alphabet. And now I was getting mine.

I pulled out the single piece of paper that was inside the envelope on the paper was a fancy R. I really should have guessed. But I was happy anyway. I spent an hour or so just siting there looking at it. But I got bored eventually.

I ended up walking around. I was walking down the seconded floor hall on the other side of the building, when that weird little white haired kid stuck his head out of his room.

"Hey come do a puzzle for me." He had strange look kind of like L's but his was just different.

"Tell me who you are first?" He tilted his head and started to mess with this one piece of hair.

"Fine. I am Near. My letter is N. Now will you come in?" I walked over to the door, but didn't go in.

"Why?"

""You are Rene. Your letter is R. You eat lunch With L. Lets just say you are interesting to me." I just shrugged and walked in.

"Here you do this puzzle and I will do this one. We will race and see who finishes first." He had sat down on the floor and got out two brand new 1000 piece puzzles. I slowly sat next to him and took the puzzle he had given me.

"Ready? Start... now!" with that we both opened the boxes and started to do the puzzles.

I never really liked puzzles. They confused me and gave me a headache so it didn't surprise me that by the time Near finished I was only a forth or so done.

"You only got that far? Well then, If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then you're nothing but a loser. You are no longer interesting." I was about to tell the little brat who was a loser but he pushed me out the door. Let just say I felt really stupid, something I had a tendency to do a lot here.

I walked around for a while not doing anything, and found myself standing outside Mr. Whammy's office. I sighed and knocked.

"Come in." I opened the door and walked in. Mr. Whammy was sitting at a huge desk organizing some papers. "oh You must be Rene. I am sorry I have not had a chance to meet you in person yet." He wave a hand to a chair in front of him. I sat down.

"You must be here to ask about going to a normal school, instead of the one we have here, right? Mr. rogers told me that you weren't doing well in you classes." I nodded.

"Well, I might let you but you have to do something for me first. OK?" I nodded again.

He wrote a note and put it in the file he had been organizing. Then he handed me the file. "Take this to L. Then come back. I will tell you what I plan to do."

"But L locked his door. I can't get in?"

"I am sure you will think of something."

I stood up and left. I had to get this in to L.