A/N Hey, Hey! Still reading! I am very proud of you! By the way translations of any sort, or explanations will come in the [square brackets] Sorry guys! I have to be my own beta reader :( Don't have spell check on my compy, so excuse those nasty spelling thingos that reallly seem to piss people off :P Oh, this is the second time I posted this, but with my own proof reading....no spell check, so it's still pretty nasty. There are some things in life I will never learn, such as how many 'm's there are in communism.... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "It is…Theo," Krishna announced. "Theo. I guess that means that we will learn all about Theology next week," Mohammad said. "Baka! [idiot/fool in Japanese] Theology practically means religion," Kamiko laughed, "we are doing theology, studying religions here, but what I want to know is which one." "That's a good point. What religion is Theo? Since he doesn't go to my school, I wouldn't really know. I haven't really discussed religion with him before." Christina wondered. "Me and Mohammad have been best friends with him since Primary school, and I haven't thought twice about it. If we ever discuss religion, he never mentioned his faith. Its like we don't even count him. Like before when Christina listed everyone's faith. She missed Theo, and we didn't even notice that until now." Buddha explained. "Ha! I didn't even notice. Whoopsy daisies!" Mary said. "Well, I guess we have to find out on Monday, when we next see him," Mohammad said. "Oh, but I wanna know now!" Mary whined. And so the conversation went on, and the more this mysterious faith became bigger. No one knew why it was such a big deal, but everyone just wanted to know. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Finally Monday had arrived and it was time to go to school, which Buhdda and Mohammad eagerly awaited. As soon as they got off the bus, and reached their school they were on Theo Alert. They squeezed themselves into the hall, which was crowded with boys trying to get to their lockers, which wasn't a very pleasant smell either. "Hey, watch it!" Some kid yelled as Buhdda brushed against him. Finally they spotted Theo's locker at the bottom row, with Theo kneeling down to get his books out. There was clearly no way to get through the density of kids. "Hey, Theo, mate!" Mohammad waved to him. "Yo Mo! Wassup?" Theo saluted. "Nuthin' much, hows about you?" Mohammad shouted back at him. "Actually, We were wandering, what's your faith?" Buddha shouted out. A few heads turned. "Faith?" Theo yelled back. "Yeah, ya faith!" "In what" "Ya know, like your religion" Buddha carelessly shouted. More heads turned. A kid with black tick rimmed glasses that resembled Harry Potter's turned around, put his hands over his mouth and gasped. "Did you just say the 'R' word?" "Hey, these kids are freaks!" A boy with a rather big build pointed and scorned. A few of his friends laughed. "Well, I'd rather be a religion freak then a government lover," another large kid stepped into the scene. "Hey, butt out, kid" the other kid gave him a hard shove. "Hey, piss of, Lard Arse Government lover!" Government hater gave a large shove that sent the other kid toppling. A boy walked over to the kid and gave him a kick in the side "Lard Arse," he commented as he walked of. Another kid holding science text books dropped his books, and walked over to the boy that kicked Lard Arse, and punched him. "What are you, a Jesus Freak, Sam?" The boy sneered. "'Ey, don't hurt my friends, Science Nerd, " Government Hater moved in menacingly. "Oh, uh, no hard feelings, Josh," Science Nerd backed away. No other boy tried to make any more moves. After a while, everyone just got back to what they were doing. "Uh, thanks Josh," The trio thanked him. "No problems. I just don't like to see people being picked on," Josh said, modestly. Everyone had finished unpacking their lockers, and began to move towards class. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The bell had gone for the first class, so neither of the boys had time to ask Theo the Question, or get the answer. Both Buhdda and Mohammad had history first, and Theo had Information Technology. In class, they were learning about the benifits of Socialism. That's the name they gave communism, to make it sound more positive. The teacher, wearing a white blouse and a blue skirt that was almost worn like a full length dress and thick rimmed red glasses entered, and promptly wrote the word 'socialism' up on the board. Next to it, she wrote the word 'communism'. "Goodafternoon, Boys, " she greeted, "today, we are going to be comparing socialism with communism. We all remember that comunism is the type of government that was in place early 20th century. The last country to enforce it was China. Socialism is what we have today. We have a global President, and all the land masses have their own prime minister, then each state has a premier, and finally, each city has a mayor. Simple, eh? Now, call out the differences, and I will chalk them up." "Um, in comunism, there was a strong patriotic feel of the country, and people were very racist to other countries. But today, the Earth is all one people, not many countries." a small boy in the front row said. "Well said, Jimmy. We all know that we don't use the term 'countries' any more, but land mass. We only use that term in Hisotry, to descibe past politics" The teacher added. "In comunism, everyone was forced to be the same, but in socialism we are all made equals." Yeah, right. He's saying the same thing, only make it sound worse for comunism. Plus, I don't feel very equal! Buhhda thought to himself. He often thought what it would be like to live in China back in the late twentieth century. It was his ancestor's country, and the only reason he chose to do history was to learn about it, because history was the only place you were allowed to discuss countries. His grandfather told him a lot about China, in secret though. It was much different. Communism involved giving your money away, but Socialism involved giving your individuality away. Buhhda would prefer being poor, but free. He was tempted to point this difference out to the class, but decided not to, but instead daydreamed untill the end of class.