Disclaimer: I don't own Black Cat/ credit for Vanessa goes to Chronian Demoness XIV

Chapter 3

When I got back the mansion was pretty quiet. Most of the lights were off too. That had to mean Karl was out looking for me. I was going to be in so much trouble when he found me. I walked down the hallway that led to Karl's office. When got to the door of his office there was light coming from under it. I lightly knocked and waited for him to answer it.

"I'm sure Train is fine. He probably just went for a walk to clear his head. He was pretty upset." I heard Vanessa's voice coming closer to the door.

"I'm sure you're right, Vanessa, but I feel like it's my fault that he took off like he did." Came Karl's voice as the door opened. I could tell from both of there faces they hadn't been expecting to see me in the doorway.

"Train!" Vanessa exclaimed as she pulled me into a hug. It felt weird. The last person that had hugged me had been my mom. "You had us so worried!"

"Sorry." I mumbled into Vanessa's shoulder.

"I'm glad you decided to come back, young man, but I'm still going to have to punish you." Karl told me. I nodded. "You'll know you're punishment when you get home from school. Now, go get some sleep. I don't want to get a call saying you were sleeping in class." I nodded gain.

I turned around and headed upstairs to my room. I didn't realize how tired I was until I put my head on my pillow.

The next morning I was woken up to someone shaking me. I pulled the blanket over my head and tried to go back to sleep, but the shaking continued.

"Come on, Train. You need to get ready for school or you'll be late." Came Vanessa's voice.

"Let me sleep." I mumbled into my pillow.

"Train, " Vanessa started in a firmer voice, "Get up or I'll have to get Mr. Walken." That got me out of bed. "He's downstairs at the table waiting for you. Here's your uniform. Mr. Walken said he'd give you a drive today but you'll have to walk after this morning." And with that she headed downstairs.

I got out of bed and looked at the pile of black clothes sitting on the end of my bed. Interesting choice of school colors. I put the uniform on and looked in the mirror. Black shirt, black pants and black shoes. The only thing that wasn't black was a blood red tie. I tried putting it on but it didn't work out that great.

"Train, you're going to be late." Vanessa said as she knocked lightly on the door and opened it. She laughed as she saw what I was trying to do. "You've probably never worn a tie before have you?"

"No."

"Here. I'll show you how to do it." Vanessa showed me how to tie the tie and stepped back. "There. Now you better go eat breakfast before you're late." She told me as she pushed me out the door of my own bedroom.

I went downstairs and found Karl sitting at the dining room table waiting for me. He had a cup of coffee sitting in front of him and he was reading the paper. I walked over and sat down to wait for my breakfast.

"I see your uniform fits," Karl started, "I know you don't like the idea of going to school, but you might find this school a little more interesting than other schools."

"I doubt it. All school's are boring and they're punishment grown ups invented so they could get all the kids out of their ways," I told him.

"This school is probably anything but boring. I'm sure you'll find it to your liking, Train."

"Whatever."

We sat in silence until breakfast came out and we still didn't talk. Well, at least I didn't. I was busy eating the pancakes the chef had made me. They were the second best pancakes I had ever tasted. The first being my mom's. After awhile, Karl finally broke the silence.

"Finish that pancake than get your shoes on, Train," He started, "If we don't leave in a couple minutes you'll be late for school."

"Yay," I mumbled, "School. My favorite place in the whole world."

"What was that Train?"

"Nothing." I told Karl as I got into his limo. At least staying with the mayor of the city meant you got to drive around in a limo.

After awhile the limo stopped in front of a normal looking business building.

"Um, Karl…"

"Yes, Train?"

"Where's the school?" I asked. I looked through the window and couldn't see any building that looked like they might be a school.

"Right there," he pointed to the building we were parked in front of.

"But, that's just a building."

"Train looks can be deceiving. When you go inside the rest of the students should be there. The principle always gives a speech at the start of the year. You'll find out everything during that. Have fun," Karl called as I closed the door and headed up the few steps to my new 'school'.

Karl had been right when he had said looks could be deceiving. The building looked exactly like a school on the inside but looked like a normal business building on the outside. I wondered why. There were a lot of students around too. When I walked by some of them watched me pass. They were probably wondering who the new kid with the weird hair and eyes were. I couldn't wait until they started making fun of me. They'd learn pretty quickly that I wasn't going to be an easy target.

I looked around out of the corners of my eyes and noticed some green haired guy flirting with a group of girls. I wished one of them would slap him across the face. That would be pretty funny especially because he looked like Mr. Popular even if he was around the same age as me.

I kept walking to where I noticed quite a few students were heading when there was an announcement.

"All students report to the auditorium please," A voice said over the loud speaker. After that all the students started heading towards one single room and I followed. I grabbed a seat near the back and leaned back in my chair. I had a feeling this was going to be a long day.