Scarlet "Lettie" Ah Lam Adkins (Female #7) hurried along the school corridor, hitting people with her flying chunky jewellery as she ran past.

Students watched with bemused faces as Lettie tried to run with the black high heels that she had worn to school that day. Lettie just laughed of the looks trying to remain focused on the fact that this was the second time she was late to class that week and needed to arrive on time.

When she finally arrived outside her classroom door, she took of her shoes. She massaged her feet quickly and with a sigh of relief, repeated the first lesson of fashion to herself in her head: these shoes are impracticable and give me excruciating pain, but if the clothes look fabulous than the wearer should put herself through anything to look fabulous.

She opened the door, silently nodded apologetically to the teacher Mrs Stevens and sat herself in the empty seat between her two best friends Liberty Newman (Female #1) and Noel Anderson (Male #5)

Noel leaned over into Lettie's ear whispering "your shoes are fucken fabulous"

Lettie chuckled to herself and beamed with happiness.

Mrs Stevens spoke up "now Lettie, if you had arrived at school on time which I must say is not a common practice at this school you would have learnt that the class is going to be going on a compulsory camp this Saturday which will run to Tuesday. The class will be arriving at around five at the school grounds where we will be taken by bus to the camp site. I know this school is fairly laid back, but this is a special camp and you must all arrive very early".

Mrs Stevens looked down hesitating for a moment and swishing back her hair nervously and there was a small moment of silence till she finally said "We will be going on an artistic camp designed to bring out your creative talents, but I have been asked by the camp organiser not to speak about it as if something like a goal motivational course and all the self improvement must be done at the camp"

Mrs Stevens then bit on her lip again looking down to the ground as she spoke "You will have the first period off today to study for your upcoming exams, consider it a free period while in second period you will divide into your various drama groups"

She looked up to the class for a brief moment as if about to say something, but hesitated then shook her head silently and then quickly walked out of the classroom slamming the door behind her.

Tanya Yosser (Female #10) jumped in shock when her teacher lammed the door, loudly landing onto the floor, to which the class erupted in harsh laughter while Adam Edward slowly heaved the girl's large body up back into her desk.

Tanya's cheeks glowed from humiliation, as she quickly grabbed some of her notes about Wagner and pretended to analyse them.

She was one of the school's top musical students, but would lately never play in front of anybody due to her belief that she was the ugliest gawkiest girl in the entire school and she was afraid that people would call her a "lumbering inept giant" again like they did at her first concert. She was slightly overweight and the second tallest person in the entire school with mousy hair covering most of her face. She would occasionally play her violin for her two friends who sat beside her, Adam Edward Lewis (Male #1) and David Summers (Male #6).

They were sitting at the front of the class offering a place of solitude while the rest of the class talked piercingly into each other's ears. They did not talk often, but their relationship grew out of trust and solace as their group provided safety against the bullies who belittled them.

Adam flipped through his chess book content and completely absorbed in vast quality of information that such a book could provide him. He seemed somewhat unaware of what had happened in the previous few minutes, while David looked over his shoulder.

Concerned for Tanya, he whispered into her ear "What made you jump like that. We do camps like this all the time"

Tanya shook her head, still embarrassed and shocked by what a fool she had been "I don't know. It just doesn't seem normal that teachers get so uptight around here. I…don't worry"

David nodded in agreement while she returned to her Wagner notes; her checks still a noticeable bright red.

Today he would have to be careful with Tanya; she seemed upset as it is being laughed at by the entire the class. It was hard caring for his friends who seemed to have no to little self esteem sometimes, but he felt he had to look after them. It was all he could do after what he had been through. His thoughts trailed off to the film and media students who seemed to be having a large argument about who knows what.

Liberty Newman's blue and brown eye both filled with rage as she suddenly screamed at Alex Cooney (Male #7) "How dare you even try and compare Amelie to a bad American comedy such as Notting Hill. Amelie is filmed with such simple sweet love while Notting Hill is just simple American trash."

Alex Cooney known for his short temper yelled back "Well I'm sorry that I didn't enjoy such classics such as the ever boring title ExistenZ or the apparently cult classic Ghost World"

Liberty Newman sat there stunned, but finally lit up "Well my friend you can't really say a thing because you saw White Chicks…..at the cinema" she added with a sweet smile of victory

Everyone laughed until finally Mignon "Mimi" Strickland (Female #5) popped in from yet another exciting hurried gossip conversation with Noel to add in a sly voice "But I liked White Chicks, sorry for interrupting"

Everyone laughed even harder while Mimi grinned to show off her white straight teeth. She then turned back to Noel and began discussing the latest parties and rumours about who the latest person had slept with while Noel sat there laughing and gasping as she revealed every latest piece of gossip that had occurred. Mimi loved Noel to bits and loved how confident he was with himself while Noel thrived of the attention girls gave him and the friendship they could offer.

Mimi chatted to everyone in the class, popular or not and loved doing it, but she enjoyed the chats with Noel the most, as he can be so strong against criticism while Mimi, inside her exterior bubbly personality was very sensitive and often cried about the jokes people said to her even if they weren't meant to be harsh.

Mimi's main group of friends lay to the right on the edge of the room all huddled in a corner. They were pretty much labelled as the popular group, but popularity was not a really important asset at a Steiner School as people saw beyond the popularity and looked more often for a person's creative skills or interests.

These people interests were pretty much predominantly focused on the upcoming party that was going to occur on the Friday night.

Liam Forster (Male #4) sat up huddled around the large group of girls surrounding him, darting deep gazes to each of the girl he had found irresistible or worshiped at some at some point in his lifetime while staring at Hannah Morgan (Female #6), his best friend for the longest.

She seemed preoccupied with something else at this time and although was occasionally laughing when Lauren McCarthney (Female #3) juvenilely giggled about what she done at the last party, was nervously twitching her head in the direction of Paul Kenny's (Male #4) direction.

Lauren McCartheny giggled again while staring at her beautiful exteriors on the mirror of her metallic ruler, while her friend Kellie York (Female #2) emphatically rolled her eyes making Liam laugh.

Kellie considered herself lucky to be in such a great group even if it did only contain one boy, but she longed for the weekend to start earlier, so that she could go surfing again. She sometimes found it hard to survive in a group where no one was athletic, but she loved to imitate Lauren harebrained looks and sayings and she loved to hear Lauren's signature giggle.

While Lauren sat in the desk launching herself into vulgar gurgling noises, April Jones (Female #1) sat at the back of the classroom twisting her died bright red hair and fiddling with her dolphin earrings that her mother gave her telling her how "normal" she looked now that she had them on. She sat by herself with several empty seats around her increasing the void that she wished would grow larger, while she scribbled her latest depressing poem. Her desire to leave and go home to her only real friend, her mouse Emily increased, as Kev Purdy (Male #8) droned on about his latest award in his so called up coming musical career while his girlfriend Gretchen Rosalie (Female #9) and friend Alexander Thompson (Male #9) casually listened on.

Gretchen Rosalie sketched a large rose into her desk while pretending to listen to her boyfriend Kev Purdy chatter about why he thought Australian rock was becoming much to Americanised. Her thoughts drifted to her latest painting. She arched her horn rimmed glasses and decided that she would paint a woman in a circus.

Kev Purdy looked up to his girlfriend's features and was so instantly inspired that he decided that he should write a song about her that Friday night. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed Aquina Matsuda (Female #8) cruelly staring at them.

Aquina sat by herself staring intently at each member of the class. She was not maliciously staring at them at all and her thoughts were hundreds of miles away while she stroked her shell necklace.

She suddenly returned back to classroom as Paul Kenny let out a large obnoxious laugh.

Paul Kenny, Sam Jakerman (Male #10) and Gavin Bryce (Male #2) sat huddled around the one table playing poker and drinking shot shots of vodka that they had smuggled through to the school.

Gavin Bryce having just won the round sat back in his chair thinking he was the king of the world. He looked over to Mimi's direction, caught her eye and then winked at her while licking his lips.

Mimi shuddered in disgust. She couldn't stand Paul Kenny and Sam Jackerman, both being hardcore stones, but Paul Kenny was a lot more arrogant, thinking that he was god's gift to women while Sam Jackerman could barely string a sentence together. The so called intellectual Gavin Bryce was a pompous self righteous asshole who was essentially the leader of the terrible three.

Noel whispered something into Mimi's ear just loud enough for Gavin Bryce to hear about a "small manhood" and Mimi laughed hysterically.

Gavin Bryce stared at the Noel of them muttering under his breath "fucken gothic poofta".

Noel Anderson was simply below him. I mean look at that dumbass punk gear his wearing. What a fucken loser.

Mrs Steven leaned against the door to hear the muffled laughter of her favourite class of students. Why did it have to be them? These types of things shouldn't happen to a Steiner Class. Steiner schools are specially designed not to teach the average curriculum, so that students can get more out of the more artistic subjects which were designed to bring out a more creative calm person. They even had meditation classes and had sessions detailing the need to not condone violence in society. Why did Australia have to become so closely aligned with the US? Why did her class in a little unimportant Steiner School in Canberra have to be chosen? She wasn't ready to deal with the issue as she realised that she would never hear her children's laughter ever again. She didn't think her children would be ready to deal with the fact that they would be heading into the second live Battle Royale Program.