YEAH THIS IS CHAPTER 2 AND ITS 200 WORDS LONGER THAN THE LAST CHAPTER.

(12:00 classroom)

It was a rainy lunchtime, so everyone was inside the building. Gino and Maggie were reading, well Lisa was helping Gino to brush up on his English reading. Chris Muntz, Nelson's little brother was bullying some nerdy looking kids even though the teacher had only been gone for five minutes.

"You're doing great Gino" Maggie said a little too enthusiastically and with dreamy eyes...

"Thank you Maggie, but don't you have better things to do with your time? Helping me must be so monotonous for you" Gino responded

"Oh no. I'm happy to help, its just nice having an intelligent conversation"

Chris Muntz came swaggering over towards the table they were sitting at, Maggie shuddered, this wasn't going to rank in her top ten pleasant experiences.

"Its time for your beating Maggie"

"WHAT! why would you do that?" Gino demanded

"She's a nerd, she deserves it, she's a friendless loser"

"I think you should leave her alone" was Gino's response

"Why, what are you going to do about it?" Chris said mocking the new kid

Gino smirked at the bully "try it and find out" he said, Gino pulled out a sharp looking machete "holy crap" said Chris as he ran away

"Gino why did you bring a weapon to school?" Maggie looked worried for him

"What this thing?" he twanged the blade and Maggie could see it was nothing more than a child's toy that looked quite realistic from a distance or to the really stupid.

Maggie nearly fell off her chair laughing. She couldn't remember the last time she had laughed so much in school.

"It is my Halloween machete, I brought it just for fun"

Chris Muntz had ran to Principal Skinners office and blurted out that the new kid had brought a weapon to school on his first day, Maggie and Gino could hear Skinner getting closer...

"My parents will kill me - not supposed to get into any trouble on my first day" Gino looked worried

"Give it to me, I'll hide it in my backpack" Maggie offered

"Why would you do this for me?" Gino questioned

"Because you are my new friend and I don't want you to get into trouble, plus Skinner won't be too happy with Muntz if he doesn't find a weapon" Maggie winked at Gino

Gino smiled at Maggie and handed over his replica machete, Maggie quickly tucked it away just as Mr Skinner rounded the corner and bounded towards them, Chris Muntz lagging behind.

"That's him Mr Skinner, he pulled a knife on me!"

Gino looked up at Mr Skinner and said innocently... "this is the boy who threatened to beat me up if I didn't give him my lunch money"

"WHAT" Chris spluttered "he's lying"

Chris moved towards Gino and rifled through his pockets looking for the weapon but all he managed to find was a red and black cell phone

"I don't have a knife just my phone that I have for family reasons"

"You shouldn't have that in school boy" Skinner boomed

"It won't happen again sir" Gino said apologetically

"It had better not happen again, we don't need another Bart Simpson" Skinner informed the new boy

Maggie's eyes narrowed at the mention of her big brothers name being used in such a negative manner and Gino's eye twitched, he had heard the name of his fathers nemesis. Maggie was about to say something in Bart,s defence but Principal Skinner was already striding away, threatening Chris with a weeks worth of detention.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful, they took a test in the afternoon, Maggie and Gino aced the test while the rest of the class glared at them. They sat chatting getting to know each other. Maggie helped Gino with his English and Gino taught Maggie some choice Italian phrases. It was a much better first day than Gino had expected, he had a friend.

Well that was chapter 2 now its time to review