"How are you still working on the same weapon? Do you honestly have no life outside these walls?" I joked waltzing up behind Caius whilst putting in dark brown eye contacts. I'd gotten so used to putting these in over the years that I could do it without a mirror.

"Well, look at it this way. If there is one tiny, tiny flaw with this weapon it probably wouldn't just be the end of your enemy it would be the end of you as well. And anyway what I do outside these walls is private. Shouldn't you be at college now?" he muttered back not taking his eyes off of the many computer screens before him as the light flickered across his glasses rapidly. One of them only had repeats of different anime shows on, whilst another was mostly covered up by different drawings I randomly did every now and then for him. He did go upstairs to the main house on occasions, more often than what Wymore did although Caius was much more confident in wandering upstairs to meet new people that were renting out some of the rooms. Other than that he spends most of his time in the Hide. I can't really complain though of course because it has helped with giving new up to date weaponry and the odd adjusted car or motorbike.

"Pfft, don't remind me. If I could stay here all day everyday rather than go to college, I so would," I muttered rummaging through a nearby draw for a working pen. I didn't actually need a pen, I did art at college and whenever we were meant to take notes...We just doodled on our pieces of paper instead and given our teacher would print off what was mentioned in the lesson anyway we didn't actually need to.

"And you could if it wasn't a request from your father that you went through school and college and tried to be remotely normal," retorted Caius keeping his eyes glued to the screens, one hand controlling the mouse that darted around the other picking up his coffee. It annoyed me how I was expected to go to college given I could easily understand the information that riddled the computer screens everyday. I could speak five different languages including French and Japanese and that was through my father not any school learning program. I could more than effortlessly recite Shakespeare quotations from many of my favourite books, in fact I could quote anything from any book that I had read and any film that I had seen. Yeah I had a lot of time on my hands before I started college. I joined the local secondary school but because of a few disagreements with at least ten different students I had to be home schooled...By Wymore which was an experience to say the least given he was about 10 years old then and had just graduated from Yale. He's a child genius and like most little geeks he hides away from the world tinkering with different mechanisms, doing experiments (mainly of the dangerous persuasion) and in his free time he plays people online at games like World of Warcraft. Such an entertaining and enthusiastic house I live in. Oh and because the house is so large with multiple rooms that would just collect dust and never be used I rent them out to tourists and occasionally have old family friends to stay...occasionally being the main word.

"What's not normal about me?" I joked. Caius spun around on his chair to face me with a straight face.

"Stupid question? Fine I'll go to college, but if I get a call today I want tomorrow off alright?" I questioned as Caius turned back round.

"Caius? Caius?"

I sighed heavily, grabbed my stuff, nicked Caius's last piece of toast and left. I had to walk to and from college everyday. We didn't see it fit for me to ride one of my many motorbikes to college given I'm trying to remain as unnoticed by pretty much everyone. I've not really explained about myself have I? Well I suppose I could now but I'll save it for later all I'll say is that I'm most definitely not your average kid. There were two ways to college from the Sawyer home: through the busy town or through the supposedly 'haunted' woods. To be honest the woods was a quicker route and given everyone believed it was haunted I was able to walk through there undisturbed cause most even ran away when a little field mouse would brush past a leaf. Plus it was more peaceful than the hustle and bustle of the packed streets.

Normally I'm the only person that walks through the woods, I get the occasional group of year sevens that think they're cool trying to be brave but the look on their faces when I simply jump out from behind a tree and say "boo" is priceless. For some reason though, two new faces had decided to trek through the woods today as well. I did recognise them both though, small world. The short girl with black hair that was pretty much jumping all over the show was Ellis Richet. She was a sweet girl, hyper at all times (no surprises there) and pretty well respected. I had no problem with her whatsoever it was just her friend that she was with I felt weird around. Crispin San, tall with bleached blonde hair, he was quiet but you could tell so easily when he wanted to say something. He didn't get along with many people at all most just left him alone but obviously you had the idiotic guys that thought it would impress their girlfriends by throwing things at him or ruining his art work. He pretty much kept himself to himself and had little involvement with anyone other than Ellis. There was just something about him that made me feel on edge around him but I never stayed long enough to try and figure out why that was.

I slunk along behind them quietly going completely unnoticed until we reached the road but even then I carried on alone to college. I didn't have time for friends: well it was more I didn't want to make friends. I'll explain that later as well.

"Hey Methuen, I tried talking to you earlier but I don't think you heard me," Ellis said as she happily perched herself next to me. Why she was in my art room when she didn't even do art I had no idea but she made it clear before the bell went.

"Yeah sorry about that, I just have a lot on my mind that's all," I lied keeping my head down fiddling with a pencil idly.

"Oh, oh I didn't realise...Oh well don't worry I was just going to see if you could do me a favour but it wouldn't be fair..." she muttered.

"Wouldn't be fair if I didn't even ask, got to be an important favour if you're asking me. What is it?" I replied, her face suddenly lit up which gave me a bit of a bad feeling about what she was going to ask of me.

"Well my friend who I was walking with earlier, Crispin San is moving into your art class, problems in his last one and I only trust you to like sort of watch over him kind of thing," she explained. Something in my head screamed to say no but I couldn't say no, Ellis was one of the few people who cared to speak to me plus I had to keep up the impression that I cared about petty problems of others.

"Yeah okay, I'll keep an eye on him for you," I retorted. She laughed and jumped off her seat to hug me in thanks. She then quickly darted out of the room and re-entered with Crispin. He looked really shy in comparison to earlier and almost afraid to be in here but out of everyone else in the class I probably looked the most welcoming.

"Methuen this is Crispin, you've probably already met..." She was cut off mid sentence by the sound of the college bell signalling the beginning of lesson.

"Oh God, I'm late but yeah I'm sure you'll get along. Thanks Methuen, see you later Crispin," she shouted as she ran out of the room. There was an awkward silence within the room whilst Crispin settled down next to me. Luckily our teacher for art was quite a character so she would be able to easily bring the class together to try and include Crispin. I started to flick through my sketch book as the teacher entered.

"Right, I'm sorry to say that your regular teacher, Mrs Fellows isn't well today so I'll be taking your lesson," I didn't even need to look up to see who it was. Caius.

"I'm Mr Proctor and don't worry I have work that will cover today's lesson," he explained with a grin on his face which seemed to get bigger when he noticed my shocked angry look on my face.

"Right I'll pass around the sheet that explains what to do," he began.

"Sir, Mrs Fellows normally gives us the work and lets us go home," chimed one of the students opposite me.

"Well I'm not Mrs Fellows and you'll stay in this room until the lesson is finished," Caius muttered with a smile as he handed them one of the sheets. They all sighed and I laughed to myself quietly. I peered round at Crispin and he was already getting on with his work. I did feel sorry for him but I was still on edge of talking to him.

"Ah, Methuen Keyes, there's a note from reception here for you," Caius announced whist he was relaxed out at the front desk. He tilted a piece of paper in my direction for me to go and get it. I rolled my eyes and walked over to pick it up off of the desk. He just sat in the chair grinning at me when I reached the desk. I kept a straight face, gave him slight evils and returned to my seat. Everyone but Crispin glared at me as I opened the note.

Guess what Tom!

I'm your teacher for the day. I'll explain later but I'm mainly here because Wymore mentioned about something happening at college that you may need back up for.

I should've known, it is Caius after all and I don't see Wymore leaving the hide. There wasn't much else in the note, just Caius mentioning where a change of clothing and the weapons were hidden and a rough time of when to expect whatever to happen. You're probably a bit confused as to what is meant by the note but I will explain that soon I promise I just need to get through the rest of today first. Of course that's easier said than done.

Luckily the rest of the lesson flew by after Caius gave me the note. As soon as lesson was over I headed to the ladies toilets on the second floor, got changed into the black clothes that Caius had brought along and hid in an off limits cupboard and waited for him to come and say the coast was clear. I was going to take my contacts out and take off the long brown wig before I had to rush off but everything kicked off earlier than expected.