Authors note:

Yep I'm back again! This was going to be one of the last quick posts as I had already written the first three or four chapters already.(I've got it as a huge wad of paper at home!) Sorry for the delay, it should have been up about two months ago!!

Anyway the story must go on as they say, and so without further ado onto the second chapter!!!

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Chapter two

I'm late!!

Matt was late! His class had been kept behind for ten minutes. So just his luck that it also had to be raining as well. Usually he walked home or just went straight to band practice, but not today. No, he had promised Tsunomon that he could come with him. So in order to remember he had left his guitar at home, that way he would have to go home to get it. Now, usually that plan would have worked fine, but oh no, not today.

Today just had to be the one day in the entire year that his Maths teacher was away. Then on top of that, the supply teacher they got, Mr Nakayama. A particularly nasty teacher on any day, was in a bad mood. A seriously bad mood!
He had decided that the class had been decisively noisy,(you could have heard a pin drop). So they had all been made to wait for ten minutes after the bell had rung.

So now Matt was in a bad mood as well. The rain only added to his misery. So he ran, he knew it wasn't the greatest idea in the world but, it would enable him to make up at least five of those lost ten minutes. Plus he would take the shortcut. That was bound to let him make up some more time. On he ran, he didn't even slow for the 'Steeple steps', as he and Tai had dubbed them. So he didn't notice the strange man with the walking stick, until he was falling head over heels down the steps. Nor did he notice the white haired lady who kicked him till the whole world faded into darkness.

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I think that was even shorter than the last chapter!! Oh well quality over quantity that's what my other readers say. So R and R peoples'.