QOF: Hey my fellow reviewers, thanks! Wild-Roze, thanks for pointing out my mistakes but I'll think about your offer. And yes, I'm 12 years old. Well like in the baby show my sister watch, Small Is Powerful! Believe It! Hehe........BUT I'm not small and I don't watch that show.

Chapter 2- Friends and Foes

St. Peters' High was not that bad. It was pretty normal except the fact that it was a reform school! I had just figure out that St. Peters' High was in Russia! Great, I bet grandmother is baking cookies right now to greet me back home. Oh, I forgot. I don't have a grandmother! The place I was born in, Russia. I thought it was a local reform school in Japan but no, it was located in Russia. It was also like a boarding school.

"Hey dude, watch out!" Someone cried to me. Before I knew it, I knocked into something hard. A pole? Who would be stupid enough to put a pole in the middle of the hallway? As I focus my vision, I saw a very angry pole. Correction, a very angry teacher looking at me as if she was going to bite. Who would have known it was a teacher when your vision was blurred especially when she was very skinny? I stood and dust myself.

"Detention for bumping into a teacher without apologizing," She then took out this notepad or something and began to write something down. Then, she tore one page and gave it to me. I apologised quickly and looked at the paper. It was some kind of pass. Great, I already had a detention on the first day of school in St. Peters' High.

"What is your name boy?" She asked me. I looked at her. Her voice was very cold and it sent shivers down my spine. My mouth opened but nothing came out. My throat seemed to have something choked in it. I have never felt so nervous before. This school had been giving me the creeps.

"Kai Hiwatari," I managed to answer. She paused and examined me. Finally, she told me to go to the principal's office to get my schedule, school uniform, school map, code and the number of my locker and room number. She must have known that I was new. After she left, this girl came up to me. She was quite pretty. She had blond hair, emerald eyes, fair skin and a perfect body. I wonder what her name was.

"Hey, I'm Victoria Francisca. You must be new. I see that you had an encounter with Miss Frandez eh?" She seemed to be nice but her voice sounded confident. She did not seem to be nervous. She must have been the one who warned me to watch out just now.

"Yea.......I'm Kai Hiwatari," I tried to strike up a conversation with her. After having a pointless conversation, she gripped on my arm firmly and dragged me to a room. I think it's the principal's office. I assumed that the man in the room, who was in his twenties, was the principal. He started to tell me about the history of the school and the behavior he was expecting from me. I nudged Victoria because I was in desperate to get out of another lecture.

"Mr. Tan, may I do the honours of telling Kai the history of this school and the behavior he was suppose to be while showing him around the school?" She asked politely, doing the puppy pout. Anyone who thinks that she was cute would surely fall for that. Guess what, Mr. Tan was one of them.

Finally, I was allowed to leave the room. The receptionist there gave me my schedule, school uniform, school map, the code and number of my locker and room number. She told me that I need not wear my school uniform for the first day of school. She was too sweet. Plus, she called me sweetheart. When I turned back, I almost had a heart attack. There Victoria was, right in front of my face. If someone had pushed us, we would have kissed. Luckily, no one was there except Victoria, the receptionist and me.

Victoria showed me where my locker and my room were. She had showed me almost the whole school except for one place. I figure that the boy might be murdered there. I slipped out of Victoria's grip to explore. Victoria did not seem to notice that I was gone.

As I approached the mysterious place, I felt a hand gripped onto mine, pulling me back. The hand was soft and smooth.

"Don't you know it's against the school rules to broke into that part of the school?" When I turned back, I saw a black-haired girl with blue eyes staring at me. What is up with girls these days? Was staring part of the new trend? I glared at her and she seemed to get back to reality.

"Oh, sorry," She apologized. Did I just see her blush? Man, girls are hard to understand. She noticed that her hand was still gripping onto mine so she dropped it. Finally, my hand was free from the evil clutches of a girl! Behind her, there was Victoria. She looked really mad. Maybe jealousy?

"Didn't I tell you not to go there?" I swore I could see steam coming out of Victoria's ears. Maybe I was just imagining.

"Hi Victoria?" I laughed nervously, trying to sneak out. Then, I saw Victoria and that black-haired girl glaring at each other. I could see Victoria gritting her teeth and the other girl clenching her fist.

"Priscilla," I could hear Victoria hissed the girl's name. Were they fighting over me? Couldn't be. Could it? While they were playing staring, I slowly tiptoed out of the place. Why was the hall empty? Maybe the bell had rung. Probably the students were in the classroom but the odd thing was, all the classrooms were also empty. Then it hit me. Lessons will commence at 2.00 p.m. for the first day of school. Now was only 1.00 p.m. One more hour to wait till lessons start. I wander around the school, finally got to my room.

Victoria had only showed the way to my room, not how it looks like. I pushed the door open and saw that my bag, full of my stuff, was in one corner of the room. When I got to the middle of the room, I scanned my surroundings. The room was spacious, big enough for two people. Then I realized there was an extra bed. So I will be having a roommate.

A few moments later, I heard footsteps. When I turned back, I saw an overweight guy looking at me strangely. Probably wondering who I was. I greeted him and took out my hand to shake with his but he just nod. He walked over to his bed and listened to hard rock. Probably he was a punk, you could see it in the way he dressed himself. Great, I am going to have lots of fun with a friendly chap. You do notice there was a hint of sarcasm in it right? Never mind.

After several attempts to talk to him, I gave up but I found out that his name was Harry. Harry Potter. Just kidding. His name was Harry Eyre. Then I decided to enter my homeroom earlier than everyone else.

After what it seems like hours of wandering and looking for my homeroom, I began to wander where Victoria was when I really need her. Was it the right corridor or the left one? Great, I'm lost. How the hell was I suppose to know where my homeroom was?

"Lost?" I heard a voice said. I turned around. I saw a guy and a few others, about the same age as me. They all looked fierce. I clenched my fist, just to prepare in case these guys want to have a fight. Look like I was right.

"Look kid, if you think that you could steal my girl away from me, then you're wrong. By the way, I am Josh Reed," What was he talking about? I assumed that he was the leader.

"I'm Kai Hiwatari and I don't know what you're talking about," I said as calmly as I could. That guy and the rest of his company reminded me of Ethan and his clowns. I knew that every school had a few jerks like them.

"Don't fool me. I saw you with Victoria," So he was talking about Victoria. I should have known. Then I had an idea to tick him off.

"It's not my fault she thinks I'm cuter than you," That really hit him. I knew I had to tell a lie but it was a bit of the truth. All the girls back in my old school had thought I was cute, that was the reason why Ethan always picked on me. I could see his face burning with rage. Oh boy, here it comes.

I quickly dodged the punch and kicked his legs. One of his clowns punched me, giving me a black eye. Josh picked me up by the collar and threw me to the wall. Damn, my back hurts. Then, all of them start to punch and kick me as if I was a human punching bag. After being satisfied, they finally stopped. I tried to stand up and wiped away the blood from my mouth before taking out my pocketknife. It sure comes handy in a situation like this. I lunged myself towards Josh and pinned him down. Josh yelled for his clowns, Ben, Randy, Pete and Carl. Before his clowns could do anything, I placed my pocketknife at his throat.

"Run Reed, run. Don't come back. You don't want to end up all in a pool of blood right?" I threatened and began to chuckle evilly as if I was Chucky from Child's Play. The others looked at me as if I was crazy. Sure enough, I was crazy at that moment. I finally took the knife away from his throat and put it back in my pocket.

" Boo," I hissed softly. Actually, my voice seemed to be more mature and frightening when I said that. Josh and his clowns scampered away into all directions and was finally out of my sight. They should have seen their stupid faces. I chuckled to myself.

At that moment, I realized that I was in a bad condition. A black eye, a bleeding nose and a broken left wrist. I need to get to the nurse but I had forgotten one little problem. I was still lost but it seems like lady luck was there for me. I could see that the nurse was just down the left corridor.

When I reached the nurse, she gave me a surprising look and quickly checked on me. After washing my wounds and wrapping them with bandage, I was allowed to leave but with the help of someone, Victoria. Now she was like my babysitter. You know, show me around school, helping me out with my homework, keeping me out of trouble and all that stuff. Great.

School had start and it was like the usual. Just like back in Japan. Spitballs in my hair, getting detentions and all that stuff. School had end and detention was fun. Threatening people was my idea of fun. I got back to my room.

After having a relaxing shower, I changed into a white shirt and black boxers. I saw Harry sleeping in his bed, drooling and snoring. He was even worse than Tyson. As I laid on my own bed, I thought about the people I had met.There was Harry the punk, Josh and his clowns the pathetic jerks, Miss Frandez the pole, Priscilla the blue-eyed girl and there was Victoria, the angel. I mean what was wrong with me? She was just another girl.

" A beautiful one in fact," A voice echoed in my mind as I drifted off to sleep.

QOF: Well, that's all this chapter. I haven't got to the scary part yet but I'll gradually go to that. Next chapter will be a LITTLE surprising. Please Read and Review!!!!!!!!