Things followed this pattern for the next several days. Amy would attend classes, go out with Chris and her friends after school, and then head to Chris's house to do homework.

Amy loved Chris's mother. She was an extremely nice woman who was always making the most amazing meals for the two girls to eat. Amy actually found herself looking forward to going to her house, even if they were just going to do homework. It took her mind off the fact that she wasn't allowed to see her father all day.

"Hey, Amy," Chris said as Amy took her usual seat next to her in their first class of the day. "I'm so sorry, but I have plans after school today and then I have to go to a dinner party with Chet tonight, so I can't make our usual study date."

"Oh, it's okay," Amy replied, trying to hide her disappointment. "I have a lot of homework to work on so I can just spend time in the library."

"I'm sorry."

"Really, it's okay. I'll survive. What's one night going to hurt?"

"If it's any consolation, the dinner party will probably be really, really boring. I'd rather be doing homework with you."

"You're too kind, but I'm sure it won't be that bad."

After school, Amy headed for the library. She took out her books and did all of her assigned homework which took longer than usual but nearly long enough. She had forgotten how boring it was without Chris to keep her company. Nevertheless, she did her best to pass the time until it was safe to return to Welton.

How she longed to be back in London where she could just go wherever she wished whenever she wanted.

After what felt like an eternity, the sky had darkened and she was allowed to go back to the school she was not allowed in.

As she walked back, she could've sworn she heard footsteps behind her, but when she paused, she heard nothing. Her heart began to beat a bit faster as she quickened her step. Perhaps she was just being paranoid, but she didn't want to risk it.

The school was in sight. She was so close. If she could just get inside those doors, she would be safe.

She wasn't close enough. A boy who seemed to tower over her quickly stepped in front of her. She could smell alcohol on him.

"Hey, hey, pretty girl," he said drunkenly. "I've been watching you for a while. How about we go and have some time all to ourselves? Would you like that?"

"I believe you've had a bit too much to drink," she said, hoping he didn't catch how her voice slightly trembled.

The boy laughed. "Don't worry. I won't let that interfere with our fun. Nothing can stop me from showing you a good time."

He came closer to her and put his hands on her arms.

"Get off me," Amy said firmly.

She attempted to pull away from his touch, but he strengthened his grasp on her shoulders until he was pressing his body against hers.

"Get off me! Get off!"

Suddenly, the boy was roughly shoved away from her. Amy looked over to find Neil.

"Hey, get out of here," he ordered. "Before you get in trouble for underage drinking and attempted assault."

The boy smirked as he stumbled off. "I didn't want anything to do with her anyway."

Neil looked over at Amy. "Are you alright?"

"I am now," she answered timidly. "How'd you know I was out here?"

"I passed by one of the windows in the hall and saw someone following you. Come on, let's get you inside."

Neil escorted Amy inside the building and up to her father's room.

"Mr. Keating?" he called as he knocked on the door.

"It's open."

The two teenagers walked in, and he bolted upright at the sight of his daughter's frazzled state.

"Amy, what happened?"

"Someone tried to attack me on the walk back."

Her father sighed heavily. Then he gently pushed her out the door. "Come on. We're going to see Mr. Nolan about this right now."

As Amy walked down the hallway, she looked back at Neil. "Thank you," she said to him.

Father and daughter marched down to Mr. Nolan's office. He knocked on the door as courtesy if nothing else before barging right in.

"Mr. Nolan, we have a serious problem."

"And what problem would that be, Mr. Keating?" Mr. Nolan asked dryly.

"Before tonight, I was happy to follow your rules set out for us. I didn't particularly like them, but I understood why you set them. But tonight, my daughter was nearly assaulted on the walk back because she had to make it in the dark. From now on, I would like her to be able to come back in broad daylight so this incident doesn't happen again."

Mr. Nolan looked over at Amy and took note of her haggard appearance. "Very well, Mr. Keating. Your daughter will be allowed entrance into the building after she finishes her classes."

"Thank you. Now with that being said, I fear the lack of interaction will be harmful to her education and development. I would like her to at least be able to eat meals in the cafeteria with the others and perhaps study with them if she can work it out."

Mr. Nolan looked at him hardly, clearly not wanting to agree to the new conditions. But he understood that Mr. Keating had a point. He couldn't just force the girl to lock herself in her room all day. His superiors would give him an earful for that.

"Alright. She is allowed to dine with us, and I'll allow her to join a study group. But please try to keep contact with the students to a minimum as much as possible. They cannot let her presence keep them from getting proper marks."

"Thank you, Mr. Nolan," Amy said quietly. "I'll do my best to follow your rules."

"You are dismissed."

The two of them exited the room and began heading back to their own.

Mr. Keating looked at his daughter. "Amy…are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm okay. Neil stopped him before he did anything to me."

"Did you recognize the person at all?"

"It was dark, but I don't think so."

"I'm so, so sorry. I should've known it wasn't safe for you to walk back in the dark."

"It's okay. At least now I get to be on the campus during the day. Who knows?" She looked at him with a sparkle in her eye. "Maybe I'll meet someone."

John smiled a little, recalling how much he and his wife teased her about finding a boyfriend. "Why don't you stop by one of my English classes tomorrow? I think you'd really enjoy it."

"But…Mr. Nolan said—"

"Mr. Nolan said you're allowed on campus during the daytime. My classes are during the day."

Amy smiled. "Well, lucky for you, one of your classes falls during my lunchtime. So I'll swing by for a little while and then get back for my next class."

"Perfect."

Amy walked into school the next morning a bit nervous about going to her father's class. After all, there weren't any girls in the entire building and to be surrounded by a bunch of teenage boys who longed for female interaction made her a bit wary.

"Hey, how was your day yesterday?" Chris asked.

"It was fine," Amy said with no smile.

"Uh-oh, what happened?"

"I…I got attacked on the walk back to the school."

"What?! Oh, it's my fault. I'm supposed to be the one who drives you so you don't get caught in a situation like that. I'm so, so sorry."

"Chris, it's not your fault. Nothing happened. One of the boys from the school saw and chased him away."

"Good. Really, Amy, I'm sorry. I should've made sure you had a ride."

"It's okay. I won't be at lunch today, though. I'm going to head over to Welton and sit in on one of the English classes my dad teaches."

"I thought you weren't allowed to go there during the day."

Amy smiled a little. "One good thing came out of last night."

As soon as it was time for Amy to have lunch, she gathered her things and walked briskly down to Welton.

She wandered through the halls for a bit before she finally found her father's classroom. She lightly knocked on the door and opened it.

Everyone turned to look at the newcomer, and she felt quite small under all of their gazes.

"Ah, Amy," her father smiled. "Boys, this is my daughter, Amy. She's going to be sitting in on a few of my classes. I warn you, though, behave yourselves, or we may both have to leave this school." He looked back at Amy. "Amy, there's a desk for you there in the back."

Amy stepped forward and took a seat at the empty desk. She looked up and saw Neil looking back at her. She gave him a small shy smile, secretly thankful that the only boy she actually knew was in this class but equally embarrassed as she recalled their awkward encounter the night before.

"Now, let's continue," Mr. Keating announced. "A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. And don't use very sad, use…" He pointed to one of the boys. "Come on, Mr. Overstreet, you twerp."

"Morose?" the boy guessed.

"Exactly! Morose. Now, language was developed for one endeavor, and that is? Mr. Anderson? Come on! Are you a man or an amoeba?"

The boy looked up at Mr. Keating nervously but said nothing to him.

Mr. Keating, realizing he wasn't going to say anything, looked to Neil. "Mr. Perry?"

"Uh, to communicate," Neil answered.

"No! To woo women."

Amy laughed to herself and rolled her eyes as the boys chuckled.

After class was over, she started to quickly walk out before all the boys hounded her like a pack of wolves. Not only that, but she didn't want to be late for her next class.

"Amy!" she heard behind her. She turned to find Neil approaching her.

"Hey, I can't talk long. I've got to get back."

"I know. I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Things were pretty…rough last night."

Amy's face reddened in embarrassment. "I'm fine, thank you. At least now I get to be on the campus during the day. Uh…Mr. Nolan said I could join a study group here, and I know we don't have exactly the same workload, but I thought I'd ask if I could join yours considering you're the only person in this school that I know."

"I wouldn't mind," Neil said with a smile. "I'm sure the others will be thrilled…"

"Yeah, about that. You might need to prepare them for this. If your grades start to slip, and the administration even remotely feels I'm responsible, both my father and I will get kicked out."

"No worries. These guys will be perfect gentlemen. Well…I'll take care of Charlie."

"I get out of school around 3:00. When do you meet?"

"In the evenings at 6:30 after dinner. We usually meet in the common room, but we'll go to one of the classrooms so you can be away from all the prying eyes."

"I'll see you then."

After school was out, Amy walked back to Welton so she could get some homework done before she attended dinner that evening with her father for the first time.

She went straight up to her room and took out her books and completed what homework she could.

A couple hours later, there was a knock on her door.

"Amy?" her father said as he peeked his head in. "It's time to head down for dinner."

"Alright."

Amy stood up from her desk and joined her father as they walked down to the dining hall together.

The second Amy stepped into the room, all eyes once again traveled to her. It was even worse than when she had stepped inside the classroom. Her father seemed to sense her uneasiness because he gently put his arm around her shoulders. Many of the boys turned around after that.

Amy went up to where all the teachers were and sat next to her father. A lot of the teachers were looking at her as if at any moment, she was going to turn into a siren and seduce all the boys at once. She tried her best to just ignore them and finish the food she was served. It ended up being difficult when they were all giving her the evil eye every ten seconds.

After the longest half-hour of her life, dinner ended and she went back up to her room to gather up her supplies for the study group.

There was another knock on her door as she just finished putting everything in her bag.

"Come in!" she called.

Neil opened the door. "Hey. I, uh, I thought I'd walk you so you could see where we'll be meeting."

Amy smiled and tossed her bag over her shoulder before coming out and closing the door.

"The other boys aren't going to be…uncomfortable, are they?"

"I don't think so. Cameron might be a little, but that's just because he's a stickler for the rules. Charlie will try to flirt with you, but if you just show him you aren't interested, he'll back off. As for the others, I don't think they'll have a problem."

They made it the classroom Neil had talked about and walked inside. Amy recognized all of the boys from her father's class.

"Amy, this is Cameron, Pitts, Meeks, Knox, Charlie, and my roommate, Todd."

"It's nice to meet you all," Amy said shyly.

Charlie bolted over to her and took her hand as he lightly kissed it. "En chante."

"Are you sure about this?" Cameron asked. "Won't we get in trouble?"

"Mr. Nolan said I could join a study group, I just have to keep my contact with the other boys to a minimum," Amy answered.

"Works for me," Charlie smirked.

"So, Amy, what are you working on?" Neil asked.

"Well, I'm kind of struggling in math," she told him. "So if anyone is good at Calculus, I could really use a few pointers."

"That would be Meeks's strong suit. I'm sure he'll help you."

"I'd be delighted," Meeks said with an awkward smile.