Life's a game. You have to options. Either you play along or you sit in the bench, watching other play it.

- Uknown

Rachel wanted to scream but they had gagged her and Muskaan who looked at her with wide fearful eyes. The boys in front of her all had matching uniforms, Black pants and Navy blue blazers. There were about 13 of them from what Rachel could see.

"Hey where exactly do you think you're taking us?" Rachel shouted. She had taken off the gag. The boy looked at her "Keep it down."

"Don't tell me what to do!" Rachel was furious.

They dropped her to the ground. "Cook it."

She eyes the animal. It was a bird of some kind. Gross.

"No way. You cook it." Rachel crossed her arms.

"You cook it, or the little one gets it." Muskaan was suddenly surrounded by 3 of the boys.

"OK fine." Rachel said. She got a fire going and poked the sad bird on a stick, letting it cook from all the sides.

The boys looked at her in awe, "What it's not that hard to make a fire."

Their expressions said otherwise.

"You can't just poke anyone." Muskaan said solemnly to one boy who was poking her mangy curls. "That's rude."

"Leave her alone." Rachel said. "I'm cooking your stupid bird alright."

"Easy boys." The boy had a dark brown hair, with a pink streak down the middle. Edgy. "She'll stay put."

"There." Rachel said dropping the bird in front of the boys who didn't waste a second to devour it.

"What school did you guys run away from anyway?"

"We didn't run away. We're from Edgecroft Prep. We were on a bus to Venice when the driver disappeared, stranding us here."

"Where's Julian?" Muskaan asked.

"Most likely the girls took him."

"Wait, we're in Italy?" Rachel struggled to speak. She was in Italy. Oh god. Anywhere but here.

"Yes." One of the boys said but it was Muskaan stood up. "I want Julian right now. Bring him here."

"That's strictly girl's territory." The boy with the pink hair said. "I'm Hector by the way."

"Well Hector, why don't you go get him?" Muskaan crossed her arms. Even at 4 feet 5 inches she looked threatening.

"Like I said, girl's territory. We don't bother them, they don't bother us." Hector said standing back.

Italy. They were in Italy. They were in Italy.

"Wait you said the driver disappeared?" Rachel asked suddenly realizing something. She looked at Muskaan. "The pilot on our plan disappeared too. That's odd."

"Damn right." Hector said. "We've been waiting for almost a week for someone to help, but so far no one's shown up, until you two."

"Three." Muskaan said. "Our other friend is with the girls."

"Hey we're just trying to find some help." Hector said gently to Muskaan who had taken an instant dislike to the boy.

"We're looking for help ourselves. I don't know how we can help you." Rachel added.

"Well you can cook. We hunt. You cook. Simple." Hector said. Rachel glared at him. She would play along for now, she snuck a look at Muskaan who nodded, and then they were going to break Julian out of girl prison.