Please read this again. Made a few modifications


Introduction...
They stood in an office room. A boy stood in front of a desk and took orders from a man in sitting at the head of the desk.
"Follow your sister and take her this."
"Sir yes sir."
He left the room and went to follow the person he called kin


Chapter One...

Sitting by a window seat I closed my eyes and began to listen to my music. I was on my way to to Hong Kong, China to have the CI annual meeting and I to meet up with old friends again. 'Why the heck was I assigned to sit beside Casey of all people!' I thought as we were taking off from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. 'At least I'm not stuck with the EXTREMELY dense Bryan.'

Ok, you were wondering of who I am? My name is Nicole Lyan. I'm a Filipina missionary kid along with my childhood friends Casey, Bryan, and Brian. We are the original group that formed when we were four or five. Even when others ended up joining us, none got as close to anyone like we did.

It was a requirement that our mission group in Asia always had an annual meeting every October. This is when all of us teens were on semester break. Casey and I being the oldest, were both in our freshman year while Bryan and Brian were in eighth grade.
We were all friends…well at least most of us were. Casey and I held a past that I never forgave myself for. I was hurt from a lie that was spoken to me and I never got over it. The resulting product from the chain of events that happened, I swore to myself that I would never love again. This was not the fact that I resulted in hate, but the fact that I made stupid and shallow decisions when I fell for him. I didn't want to do that again and that resulted in my emotionless, irritating self.
It was that time of year when those events happened and we were now on the plane to China. Fear built up within me for I didn't want to screw it up again. On the way we did our own thing. I wasn't tired so I listened to my mp3 and meditated while Casey was talked to Brian. Bryan was asleep the entire time.

"What's with her?" Casey asked glancing at me.

"My problems aren't your issue," I replied with my eyes still closed and still concentrated.

"You are way too weird," he said rolling his eyes.

"Get used to it. If your going to be a missionary to Japan then you are going to have to get used to their customs," I stated in a monotone voice.

He didn't reply but got back to his conversation with Brian. It went on for another few hours then the plane landed. We got through customs, claimed our baggage and left to the hotel that we were going to hold the meeting at. When we got our stuff unpacked, we all went around the hotel to get situated. All of the teenagers and kids were going to be babysat. It was not fun, not good, and not the best thing that could happen; however, none of us could do anything about it so we were just going to deal with it anyway.

I was walking around and listening to my music not paying attention. In my mind I was still yelling at myself not to fall for the trick again. Since my world was out there in space, I eventually ran into someone that caused me to fall on the floor.

"Ouch," I said in a monotone voice.

"Sorry about that!" A boy with blond hair and freckles apologized.

"I wasn't paying attention. It's my fault," I said still emotionless. My black, wavy, shoulder length hair was in a mess.

"My name's Max. What's yours?" he said all happy and hyper.

"Uh, my names Nicole," I replied a little confused.

"Cool! Hey do you want to meet my friends?" Max asked giving me the puppy eyes. This Max guy could just be a little too weird.

"Um, I guess?" I was really lost but I followed him to room 2857. He wanted me to come in but for safety reasons, I stayed outside.

"Hey guys! Meet my new friend! This is Nicole!" He declared still sugar high.

"Oh joy. You found another friend. I thought I told you to chill it with the girls." A boy whined behind a laptop.

"Yay! Another friend! Do you want any food?" Another guy said holding a bag of chips while his face was stuffed full of masticated food.

"Hi. My name's Rei." Another teen with Chinese features who looked serious but kind greeted.

"That's Kai over there in the black, blue and red. He doesn't talk much." Max said.

"Why don't you come in?" Rei offered holding his hand out to bring me in.

"I'd rather not. I don't even know you," I said coldly.

"Man! You sound like Kai!" Tyson said with his mouth still full of food.

"Don't pressume, I don't care and swallow your food. I don't like seeing masticated food in someone's mouth," I replied turning around to leave.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Max exclaimed a little hurt.

"I got to meet up with my group," I said.

"Can we come?" Rei asked curiously.

"Whatever. If you want to." I said rolling my eyes.

All of them asked the boy in blue who reluctantly approved. Soon they all followed me to the lobby and the boys were all ready there waiting on me. Brian looked at me, then at the guys, then back at me and asked, "Who are they?" I almost introduced them but it wasn't necessary. They introduced themselves and surprisingly, they all got along.