Okay... In this chapter, we finally meet Terrance and his gang. I was especially excited to write interaction between Ferna and Mimi. Why? Well... Remember my AN a couple chapters ago? Yup, it's gonna happen. lol Not right away, but in a little while.

Aaaand enjoy! ^_^

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Chapter 10: The Gang

"Mimi, honey! Time for school!"

'Ugh... My head...'

Mimi awoke and winced from the pain in her throbbing head. "Ow... What..."

'...Oh, right... The stuff in the fridge... Hnn... My skull...' She gripped her head and slowly got up, only to get another surprise.

"Wah? W-Why am I naked...?" She tried to remember after her second sip, but had no luck. Her head was swimming in blurry and incoherent thoughts. '...Oh well...'

She looked at herself in the mirror. '...I'm so filthy... They'll all know... W-What if they can smell it on me? Oh, gosh...'

She quickly grabbed an outfit and got in the shower. She scrubbed hard between her legs, trying to erase the nonexistent scent of her defloration. She stopped when it actually started to feel a little good.

'W-What's wrong with me? I shouldn't think that kind of thought! I'm so unclean!'

She got out and got dressed, then practiced making false masks of emotion on her face before going downstairs.

"Honey, do you want any breakfast?"

"Ah... N-No, I'm not hungry. And besides, I'm gonna be late, so... I'm gonna head out now."

She ran out the door without another word, ignoring the strange look shot at her from her mother.

She sat down on the bus. She couldn't shake the feeling that they all knew, even though in reality no one did. 'They're all looking at me... They know... Hah...'

She started to tremble and her palms became sweaty. She was panicking at this point. 'N-No... I just have to make it through today... I-It's Friday! The best weekday ever! I'll forget about it at school... I-I hope...'

She tensed up and yelped when a kid sat down next to her. The kid eyed her, rolled his eyes, and sat somewhere else. She gasped to herself.

'W-What's WRONG with me? I LOVE people! So why am I so freaked out?'

Tears began burning her eyes and she curled up slightly. 'H-Help me, God! Forgive me for my abominable actions! I NEED you!'

The bus arrived at school, and she waited for everyone to shuffle off toward the building. This was normal. She got off and walked slowly, then looked upwards.

An action which immediately turned out to be bad.

Her heart sank. It was Lucas, complete with his usual scowl. She suddenly ran away toward the old storage shed, just wanting to get out, to escape from the man who had completely broken her.

As she ran, she smacked into a girl. The girl turned around, glaring at the nuisance who disturbed her cigarette.

"...The hell? Who're you, Girly?"

"Ah... S-Sorry... M-My name's Mimi..." She got up to shake the girl's hand, but she scoffed and turned around to her previous position.

"Ain't gonna make a friend outta me, girly... I don't want none o' that."

Mimi blinked, confused. "Why—"

"Oy, Ferna! Where the hell'd you go?

She was interrupted by a voice, this one much more manly. Which made sense, considering it belonged to a large boy with green hair.

"I told ya, dumbass, I'm having a cig! Hold your damn horses!" She took a puff of said cigarette and exhaled a stream of smoke. "Impatient ass..."

Mimi stared at them both. 'W-What did I get myself into?'

The boy looked down at her, seeming to just now notice her existence. "...Oh. Hey. You the newest member o' my gang...?"

'G-Gang? Oh no!' She shook her head, her entire body trembling. "N-N-No, I don't know w-what y-you're talking about...!"

"Damn... We need another chick..."

Ferna growled and looked at her. "Jeez, why the hell not, Girly? Ya look like you could use some toughenin' up."

"T-Toughening...? What do you mean...?"

"Ugh... I MEAN that you're shakin' more than a baby deer or somethin'. You ain't got nothin' to be scared of, we ain't gonna hurt ya. Unless ya piss us off or somethin', in which case I'll PERSONALLY beat ya down."

"...Um... I-I suppose if it's just to toughen up a little... It'll be okay..." She smiled hesitantly and looked up at Ferna.

"A'right. Cool. Follow me, Girly." She tossed the cigarette down and stomped it out before taking her further back into the woods next to the run-down shack.

Mimi began to tremble, both with fear and excitement. 'Maybe they can help me get over what happened...'

They came to a clearing where 4 other people were gathered, soon made 5 by the large green-haired boy from earlier. "Sit down over there, girly. We'll begin the initiation soon, 'kay?" She flashed Mimi a smile, but Mimi no longer had the ability to see into people's smiles to find sincerity.

So Mimi simply nodded and smiled back. Ferna walked over to the green-headed boy, and Mimi looked at the others as she took her seat on a tree stump.

She saw a small, frail-looking boy with a mask on, and what seemed to be a sword on his back. Next was a thin, but not scrawny, blonde boy on a laptop. After him, she saw a huge man, with long blonde hair streaked by a forest green color. Mimi assumed he wasn't very emotional, due to the indeed emotionless look on his face. He almost seemed like a statue... After the man came an acrobatic-looking girl with an emo-style haircut. She was sitting on a tree branch. Mimi blinked at this. '...Like a bird...?' The girl let out a sigh and leapt down.

'...D-Did she know what I was thinking...? Oh, no...' Mimi instinctively curled up a little as Ferna walked back over to her.

"Ready, Girly?"

"Huh? O-Oh, yeah, I guess so..."

Ferna grabbed her by the shoulders and forced her to look up. "Hey. No hesitatin', got me? You'll get your ass kicked appearin' weak like that!"

"O-Okay! Sorry!" She tried not to look scared by the girl's sudden forcefulness. But how could she not be? She was scared of EVERYONE now.

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Mimi? In a fight? Le gasp! lol Next chapter... I dunno yet. lol I gotta write it. But until then... Review as always!

Peace Out, Yo!

~DarkLordK~