CC Q.O.D: Hides Hey all…laughs nervously long time no see huh? Well I can take the blame for this, ya see, my old pc broke, and this file (along with many others) were stored on it, and I hadn't backed it up as it just broke down suddenly. Anyhow, here it is, we already started on future chapters, but this one is just a little late

Merodi: But it's still good!

Faith stormed through the halls, more pissed at herself. How could she have acted like that? She had been such a bitch, but she was scared half to death. Then Bryan…she growled. He treated her like his girlfriend so much, it made her sick. She was so caught up in her thoughts, she didn't see the girl walking down the hall and both collided.

"Watch where you're fucking going!" Faith growled, expecting it to be a rival gang member. She looked up and saw a Japanese girl, hurriedly trying to pick up her books.

"I-I-I-I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" she replied.

"Oh shit! Nah! I'm sorry! I thought you were someone else!" Faith replied hurriedly helping the girl pick up her books. After they were all picked up, both stood, the girl dusting off her clothes. "So, what's your name? Ya new here or sumthin?" the girl nodded blushing.

"My name's Sayuri Kaimei. I'm an exchange student from Japan. How about you?" Sayuri asked, extending her hand. Faith took it and shook her hand.

"I'm Faith Roskov, member of the Dark Raiders. You'll hear about us in a day or two, and you'll also hear about the Shadow Strikers, they're all the assholes of Seaside Lane." Faith rolled her eyes.

"And if you know what's good for you, you'll stay away from the trashy Dark Raiders." A voice cut in. Sayuri turned and looked to find a pink haired girl looking at them, a bunch of cheerleaders surrounding her. She was the only one who wasn't shaking out of the cheerleaders. Sayuri found this funny. She was brought out of her thoughts by Faith.

"And what exactly do you want Mariah? To get your other leg twisted out of shape?" Faith replied smirking. Sayuri got the fact that Faith had done that to Mariah's leg, which was covered in a bandage. Mariah huffed, and then smirked.

"From what I hear you had a good time with Tala last night, ne?" Faith went in for the attack, but a hand grasped her shoulder. Sayuri turned and saw a girl that looked sort of like Faith. She had long black hair and green eyes.

"Don't start Faith; we don't want to get you thrown out again. And besides," she said, turning to Mariah, "don't you have someone to visit in a hospital somewhere? Or did he die of brain damage?" the girl smirked. Faith chuckled darkly.

"In Ray's case that's a minor injury. Why else would he date that?" she inclined her head toward Mariah, who huffed before storming off. Sayuri turned to Faith, asking with her eyes who this was. Faith shook her head before slapping it. "Where are my manners? Sayuri, this is my cuz, Aeris Marle. Aeris, this is Sayuri Kaimei."

"Hi, you new?" Aeris asked, looking the girl over. Sayuri nodded.

"Yea, just moved. Who was that...bitch?" Sayuri asked, having a serious disliking for the pink haired girl.

"That was Mariah, a social slut, member of the Hells Angels. They suck," Aeris replied, before smirking. "So how'd ya meet Faith? She attack you or something?"

"No! I bumped into her!" Faith replied indignantly. Aeris and Sayuri laughed. "So," Faith began, trying to change the subject, "What ya got first Sayuri?" the girl took out a schedule from her pocket.

"Science." Aeris and Faith high fived.

"Same class as us girl. You can hang with us." Aeris said, and Faith nodded grinning. "Maybe you can take Bryans attention away from Faith." Sayuri's eyebrows furrowed.

"I thought Mariah said something about Tala?" Faith looked down and Aeris stood puzzled. Aeris turned to her cousin.

"What was she talking about?"

"Last night, Tala—" Faith stopped herself "Ivanov, he was supposed to rape me in the bathrooms of Midnight- that's our club by the way- but he didn't he just kicked my ass. Severely." Sayuri was lost. She nervously tucked a strand of lavender hair behind her ear. The bell rang.

"C'mon, we better get to class." Sayuri said. Faith laughed and Aeris shook her head.

"We always go in late, but if you want you go ahead, go to the back of the class, and tell them Faith sent ya." Aeris said. Sayuri quirked an eyebrow. "You can mention me too, but it'd be guaranteed if you said Faith's name first, since Bryans in loooooooooooooooooooooooooooove with her!" Aeris stated, and then began making kissing noises. Sayuri laughed, and Faith punched her younger cousin.

"Cut that out." She turned to Sayuri "the feelings are sooo unwanted!" Sayuri nodded and began walking towards Science. Aeris turned to Faith.

"He was told to rape you?" She asked incredulously. Faith shrugged.

"Kai's words were 'take her into the bathroom and have your fun'. So yea, I'd guess that's what he meant." Aeris shook her head.

"It was Ivanov who stopped Kai raping me. He seems to be ok." Aeris paused and noticing the look she was getting for her cousin, continued. "For a Striker that is." The girls walked to class. "Faith, why did you write Ivanov's name all over you book?" Faith blushed and shrugged.

"I dunno, I was thinking and scribbling, and his name just…appeared!" Faith replied. They continued the rest of their walk in silence.

Sayuri walked down the halls, nervous. Would those friends of Faith and Aeris accept her? Were Faith and Aeris really her friends or where they just trying to humiliate her? Before she could think of any answers she was at the classroom door. She entered and saw a few guys checking her out. A lavender haired boy at the back turned around and looked expectantly at first, then seeing she wasn't who he was looking for turned away.

"Hey baby! Wanna try it later?" someone shouted. A few chuckles were heard. Sayuri flipped him off and walked to the back of the room, her books in her hand.

"Uh…excuse me. Are you guys the Dark Raiders?"

"Yea, what of it?" a maroon haired boy with a baseball in his hand asked. All eyes turned to her. Criticising her.

"Uh…Faith and Aeris said I was to say they sent me. I'm Sayuri Kaimei." The lavender haired teen raised an eyebrow at her hand and she quickly placed it by her side. "I'm new."

"Yes, I guessed, and how exactly would you know Faith?" he asked, eyebrow raised.

"We met in the halls." She replied, shakily, not really liking this guy. A tall burly blonde nodded his head and stood from his seat, letting her sit down. She thanked him, and was sure she heard someone hiss 'Spencer'. Just as Bryan was about to question her again, a shout was heard, and two bodies fell through the classroom door, limbs flailing. Faith and Aeris stood up, and Hilary spoke up.

"You two are late! I'm telling Ms Tate!" Aeris turned and flipped her off, and Faith replied, a scowl on her face.

"Oh go suck on a doorknob bitch" They turned from her, and Faith upon seeing Sayuri smiled. They walked up to the back. "Guys, this is Sayuri, I kinda ran her over in the halls, Sayuri this is Bryan, Spencer, Michael, Johnny and…" she pointed to each name, and came to an empty chair. "Where the fuck is Keli?!" everyone shrugged.

"So Faith, you ran over a civilian? How fast were ya goin? 60, 70, 80 miles an hour?" Johnny stated, earning a punch in the arm. Keli walked in a few seconds later.

"And this is Keli!" Faith finished. Keli looked over the new girl and nodded.

"Is she new in the gang?" Faith shook her head at Keli's question.

"She's just a friend. For now, maybe later she can join. Where do you live anyway?" Faith questioned. Sayuri smiled and thought for a moment.

"I live at 12 Seaside Lane. Do you know it?" Everyone's mouth dropped open. Johnny was the first to answer.

"SHE'S A SPY FROM THE SHADOW STRIKERS! LET'S PUMMEL HER!" Johnny shouted. Faith stood in front of a now creeped out Sayuri.

"Back up there, shit for brains, ya wanna pummel her; ya gotta get through me" Faith pulled out her switch blade "first. Comprende?" Johnny looked at Bryan who nodded. "Now, just because she comes from Seaside Lane doesn't mean shit. Now, do you know Kai Hiwatari?" Sayuri shook her head. "Tala Ivanov?" she shook her head again. "Anyone else in the Shadow Strikers?" she shook her head a third time. "So I say she's cool." Spencer shrugged, earning questioning looks from everyone else.

"Hey!" he said, hands in the air "she seems too nice to be friends with Hiwatari." Faith shrugged, Aeris nodded, while everyone else just continued with what they were doing. Faith began stabbing the table out of sheer boredom. Sayuri gave her a funny look.

"Why ya doing that?" Faith shrugged.

"Nothing better to do. So, whatta wanna do tonight? Hang with me and Aeris? We might go out, ya know, get drunk." Sayuri grinned.

"Sweet! We can go to my place. You know, so we won't get disturbed, and my parents have tons of alcohol!" she squealed, but Faith and Aeris looked doubtful. Aeris was the first to speak.

"I'm not sure Sayuri, that's Shadow Striker turf, if we're seen there, there'll be big trouble. And I mean big"

"Nah, it'll be cool, I mean, we can go in secrecy. I get picked up by limo, and the windows are tainted and the limo gets drove right into the garage nobody will see you guys go in."

"But what about leaving?" Aeris asked. Sayuri thought for a moment before snapping her fingers.

"I got it. You guys can stay at my place, then in the morning the limo will bring us to school and no one will be the wiser."

"Bryan won't agree to it." Faith muttered, taking a sidelong glance at Bryan. Then she smirked. "But what the fuck? I'm in." Faith looked at Aeris. "C'mon cuz!" she whispered and Aeris sighed and relented.

"Fine, we stay at your place. What time will we meet you at?"

"I have history last period." Faith stated. Sayuri frowned.

"I have social studies." Aeris smiled.

"That's ok, Faiths class is right next door, mines is on the other side. Faith and I will deliberately stay behind for five minutes, you do the same."

"What should I say?" Sayuri asked, Faith shrugged and looked towards Bryan to see if he was listening. He wasn't.

"Just say you're having trouble with one thing or another and the teacher will explain it to you. We'll meet you out here at 4.05." they all nodded and stood up as the bell rang. "That was fast." Aeris laughed and they all headed out for lunch. Faith realised something and grabbed both girls' arms.

"Dude, we can't be seen with her!" she hissed. "The Striker shit will suspect something's up if we hang around with you. So what we need you to do Sayuri is pretend you spoke to us for a few moments, and we began dissing you, and you dissed back, and you left us alone. You're not friends with us, and the Hells Angels will probably accept you into their gang…" something dawned on Faith and her face held a mischievous look on it. "…and you can spy on them and tell us what they're planning." Sayuri nodded and grinned. The two Dark Raiders caught up with the rest of the guys and Sayuri walked towards the café. As she began walking someone roughly grabbed her arm.

"Sayuri Kaimei?" it asked. She turned and met a pair of blue eyes. "Are you Sayuri Kaimei?" he asked again. She rolled her eyes.

"Yes, who are you?" she asked, inclining her head slightly.

"I'm Tala, Tala Ivanov. My uncle knows your Father? Well, he asked me to take care of you, show you around." he saw the look he was getting from her and gave a small, sympathetic smile. "Don't worry, The Shadow Strikers will take care of you. I was new here a few days ago, and The Shadow Strikers took care of me." Sayuri put on a fake smile and followed him through the Halls to the Cafeteria. She saw Mariah and groaned.

"You…" Mariah began as she saw Sayuri come close "I saw you with those trashy Dark Raider bitches earlier." She spat, glaring at her, Sayuri just shrugged.

"The bitches were giving me a hard time. I was going to follow you when you left, but I didn't know if I'd be welcomed, you know, just in case you thought I was with them" she stated, spitting the end part out. Mariah smiled.

"Oh," she said "I did get that impression, but now that everything is cleared out, why don't you come with me to Cheerleading try outs?" Mariah squealed delightedly. She grinned when Sayuri nodded her head. "Great, c'mon, I'll take you to go meet Courtney and Felicity!"

"Cool!" Sayuri squealed, and then let herself be dragged away by Mariah. Kai turned to Tala and gave him a look.

"So, did you do your job?" he asked amused. Tala shrugged. "I don't think shrugging your shoulders is an answer, Tala. Did you do it?" Tala sighed and shook his head.

"Bryan got in too soon." He smirked. "But if you look at her neck I'm sure you'll see my mark." Kai smirked at Tala, and the Shadow Strikers stared at him, very impressed.

"How the Hell did you manage that one?" Enrique asked, as he knew how difficult Roskov could be. He had asked her on a date in the fourth grade and she had turned him down, saying he was the 'ickiest' thing she'd ever seen. A year later when he asked out her cousin, she said the exact same. Tala grinned and tapped the side of his nose. The bell symbolising their break had ended sounded and Tala and Kai headed towards math.

"So, how did it get there?" Kai asked. Tala looked at him.

"She actually kissed me." Tala stated, noting the look of shock he got from Kai. "But only because she wanted to try and get me near a pipe." He added quickly. "Too bad I figured out her plan." Kai smirked and nodded.

"Too bad." An idea was forming in Kais mind, a plan to destroy and estrange Roskov from the Dark Raiders. "Tala, we're gonna change that story a little. We're gonna tell Mariah that she kissed you and then offered herself to you, claiming you looked better than Bryan." Tala grinned at Kai's suggestion.

"Ya know, that's evil. I like it."

The first time the rumour had reached Faith, she thought someone was playing a huge joke on her. But after the fifth or sixth time, she realised someone had begun that lie. She stormed down the halls, trying to avoid anyone she knew, but fortune never seemed to go the way she wanted, and as she turned round the corner to enter the math department, she came face to face with the rest of her gang. She looked straight into Aeris' eyes while everyone tried to avoid hers.

Bryan was about to say something, but Faith cut him off. "Since none of you are even looking at me, I'm guessing you believe Ivanov's fucking lies." She spat, brushing past them all and heading towards her most hated class; math.

She stormed towards math, shooting glares at anyone who even looked her way, and that included teachers. She knew by now probably everyone had heard the rumour, and she was not only humiliated, but enraged. She threw open the classroom door and took up her usual seat, the back and by the window. Slowly the rest of the class began to fill in, Hiwatari and Ivanov strutted in, both shooting her very happy smirks. She growled and flipped them off, but that only made their smirks widen. They sat down in the middle of the room, talking very closely. She growled again, and pulled out her knife, beginning to cut away at her pencil. Once it was sharpened to a point she grinned. "Hey! Ivanov!" she shouted. Tala and Kai turned to her both smiling. She threw the pencil and it hit Tala right in between the eyes.

Tala grabbed at his forehead while Kai shot up. She smiled innocently and pointed at the door. He turned and saw Balkov staring at him. "What was the meaning of that Mr Hiwatari?" he questioned. Kai shrugged.

"She shouted something at Tala," he said cockily, hoping to get her in shit.

"Did you?" he growled at Faith. She smiled sickly sweet.

"Only that I had a great time with Tala last night when I offered myself to him," she noticed Kai grin at this point. "But he couldn't even get a hard on. Shit, he had a fucking maggot." The whole class suddenly burst into laughter and Balkov yelled at everyone to shut up. Some still snickered, and Faith stood up. "Your office sir?" she questioned. He shook his head.

"Out of my school!" he yelled, his finger pointing to the door. She picked up her stuff and began walking towards the door. Just as she reached it she turned to Tala and blew him a kiss.

"Next time I'll buy you some Viagra." She stated, before walking out the class. Balkov slammed the door shut, and had a fleeting look at Tala, whose face was almost as red as his hair and he saw a small dot on his forehead. He stepped up to the front of the class.

"Now, next week there will be a dance held in the hall and I expect all of you to set a good example to the younger students." He noticed a few kids whispering and passing small notes. "And not like the one Miss Roskov just decided to show. Her words were not suitable for school and if I hear anymore words like those the student will be getting expelled. Immediately!" he shouted, slamming his fist onto a desk, causing all the whispering kids to jump. He nodded and headed towards the next classroom.

When Faith had gotten outside she had just began walking when a voice called her. It was Bryan. When she turned, he was leaning on the wall outside her math class staring at her intently. She gave him a bored look. "What?" she said.

"Are they true?" he asked, pushing himself up from the wall and heading towards her. They began walking down the hall.

"What?" she spat. "That bullshit someone began spreading about me? No, they're not fucking true! I kissed him to get him near a pipe, a pipe I intended to use to bash his fucking brains in, and then climb out the fucking window. He kicked it before I got it." Bryan looked at her sceptically, his violet eyes scanning hers. He shrugged.

"I'm fine with that." He said. He had hoped to keep his voice indifferent, but a twang of spite entered it. Faith looked at him, her eyes filled with amusement.

"Don't tell me you wished it had been you I'd kissed then planned to smack with a pipe." Bryan looked away.

"It'd be worth it." He said, turning back to her. Faith sighed, then leaned in and gave him a light kiss on the lips.

"Happy?" she questioned. Bryan pushed her into a wall and leaned in close. He shook his head and kissed her, his tongue slipping inside her mouth. Faith didn't try to stop him, but she didn't participate either. Bryan broke away and turned to the door beside them. Faith turned too, and saw a very irate looking math teacher, as well as a very shocked class, looking at them. Aeris and Michael were sitting at the back, their eyes wide open, and Ian and Enrique sat down right by the door, their eyes even wider.

Bryan shrugged indifferently and grabbed Faiths hand, leading her out of the school. A few seconds later Aeris and Michael joined them. Aeris grabbed Faiths hand from Bryans and pulled her away while Michael whispered a 'congratulations' to Bryan.

"Why the fuck did you let him do that?" Aeris hissed, glaring at her cousin. Faith just shrugged and snuck a quick look at Bryan, who was too busy talking to Michael.

"Since people saw me kissing Bryan, including those two idiots, people will start talking about that, rather than what happened." Faith turned away from her cousin as tears formed in her eyes. "It's like…what Ivanov fucking said about how I came onto him, when he fucking tried to rape me? I can't take people coming up to me and asking 'did you really ask him to fuck you?' It's just…" she broke off as she sobbed. Aeris looked over to Bryan.

"Hey Bryan! I'm taking Faith home alright! We'll see you later." She shouted over to him, beginning to lead a now crying Faith away. Bryan nodded and began walking back into class, Michael following his lead.

Bryan was grinning at Michael. "She turned it all around." He told him, earning a curious look from his friend. "That while rumour, she humiliated Ivanov by insulting his manhood." Bryan snickered then added "right in front of Hiwatari." Michael rubbed the back of his neck.

"Bry, how do we know she didn't offer to fuck him? I mean, she didn't seem like she was fighting it to me, and also, there weren't any marks to say they forced her to Midnight." Bryan growled at him.

"So let's say she did want Ivanov to fuck her, why the hell would she kiss me if she did?" Michael shrugged then stopped at his classroom door.

"I dunno, but I'd watch myself." Bryan growled at him one last time before Michael entered the classroom, slapping Ian on the head and calling him shorty as he walked past. Bryan stormed to his class, throwing open the door then stomping up to his seat. Johnny was giving him weird looks, but Bryan ignored them.

"She ain't getting away with that, Kai" Tala hissed, wiping the small stain of blood from his hand.

"She won't. But we obviously can't fuck her around right now, she'll be too protected." Kai replied, standing up as the bell rang. Tala stood up too, and both began heading towards history. Kai hadn't taken history, but the geography and history classes were side by side. "We'll wait until the dance."

As they approached the history department, Ian and Enrique came running up to them, panting. "She kissed Falkov!" Ian shouted.

"Who?"

"Roskov!" Enrique hissed, looking around. Kai quirked an eyebrow and Tala merely stared.

"She kissed him?" Kai questioned, highly entertained. Ian shook his head.

"She kissed him then he pushed her into a wall and they kissed again!" Kai snickered and Tala just looked shocked. "Dude, what happened to your head?" Tala rubbed his forehead again.

"Bitch threw a pencil at me." He said simply, before walking into his class.

"What's his problem?" Enrique questioned Kai.

"Roskov insulted his manhood in front of everyone," Kai said. All three Shadow Strikers clenched their fists. "But she'll pay."

Tala flopped into his seat, glaring at some of the students who were grinning knowingly at him. Suddenly Falkov walked into the class. 'Don't tell me he's got this class.' His mind groaned. He almost groaned aloud as Bryan began heading his way, then took a seat beside him. "Who the Hell do you think you are?" Bryan hissed at him. Tala just looked evenly at him and smirked.

"Jealous your bitch decided she wanted to fuck me before you Falkov?" Bryan growled and Tala sucked his stomach in slightly as he felt something sharp and pointy laying gently on top of his shirt. "I ain't afraid of you Falkov."

"Doesn't seem that way." Bryan smirked. Tala released a breath he hadn't realised he hadn't been holding in as he felt Bryan flick his switch back in. Bryan pushed the chair out and stood up. "Keep away from her Ivanov, or next time, that knife will have found a new home."