"What were you thinking!" The principal yelled, leaning over his desk.
It was a hot summer afternoon. For the tenth time this week the boys had been called to the principle's office. All four of them just sat there, staring into space.
The principle sat back down, wiping the sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief.
"Well, what do you have to say for yourselves? Mr. Hiwatari?"
A blue haired boy stood up. He wiped his short, light-blue fringe out of his eyes.
"Nothing until my lawyer gets here."
And with that, he walked out of the room.
"What about the rest of you boys?"
The shortest of them, whose nickname was "The Chief", spoke next.
"I actually don't have anything to do with this, so I'll just leave now."
He adjusted his glasses and then left.
"Anyone got sugar? I really could use some about now."
The blonde-haired boy walked off twitching.
The remaining boy just sat there, arms crossed and eyes closed.
"Now, Raymond, explain to me why you attacked Tyson."
At the same time, a girl the age of 14 was at the front gate of Halloway High. She was escorted by two security guards that were chatting to her casually while holding her arms, which were handcuffed behind her back.
She smiled and looked up at the three storey high, enormous C-shape building filled with dormitories and classrooms, atop a property of 5 acres that had multiple tennis courts and football fields.
All of which was surrounded by a 5-metre high barbed wire fence and the whole thing rigged with the latest security systems and cameras. A maximum-security facility for the worst of the worst. The place where they "fixed" the world's worst delinquents. It was like a rehab centre for pyromaniacs, gangsters, the regular offenders, and the one's with attitude problems. It was Halloway High, or, as the residents call it-
"Hellmouth High. This is gonna be fun!"
She skipped, or at least she tried to, down the pathway to the front doors.
After the yelling and the pointing, Ray walked out of the principles' office. The boy with blue hair was waiting for him in the hall.
"Kai, thanks for waiting!"
Ray was smiling as he walked over. Kai, however, wasn't.
"Idiot! Why did you bash Tyson?"
"Well…" Ray said, worried. "You know how Tyson is! He's the most annoying person in this whole school!"
"You know this is a five man job!" Kai was angry now, and stepped closer.
"Okay okay okay!" Ray put his hands in front of his face as if to shield himself from Kai's glare.
"We can't afford any slip-ups!" Kai stopped and put his hand on his forehead, then mumbled, "Why am I surrounded by idiots?"
At that moment, two security guards holding a girl walked past them. Ray and Kai looked up to see who it was.
The girl smiled innocently and said "hi" to them before they went into the office.
"What about her Kai? She fits the part perfectly." Ray said, still looking in her direction.
Kai turned around and started to head back to his dorm.
"What a drama queen," Ray muttered.
In the principles' office, the two guards let go of the girl.
"Come sit down Sydney," Fitzy said.
He pointed to the chair in front of his desk, where Ray had just been.
The girl sat down and smiled sweetly.
"This looks like a really nice school, Mr Pronciple! I think I'll like it here." She smiled again.
This is really scary -Fitzy thought- She acts so normal and innocent, is this the right girl?… -He looked at her file and his eyes bulged- What kind of psycho am I dealing with!
"Y-yes, of course you will. I'm sure you'll make lots of good friends. Here, I'll t-take you to your dorm."
He got up and led her out the doorway. They walked down numerous corridors, until-
"A-ha! Here we go! This is your new room! You get one all to yourself because you're such a special girl."
Really she wasn't special; she was one of the worst cases they had seen, the worst since…
She looked up at him innocently and said:
"Really? Wow, thanks! You're the greatest!"
Sydney gave the principle a BIG hug, then ran into her room and slammed the door shut.
It took a while for Fitzy to recover, but when he did he yelled through the door:
"Lockdown's at 9:00pm!"
He started walking away and shuddered. What is she? He thought.
Back in their room, Kai and Ray were arguing.
"Why not Kai?" Ray was whining now.
"Dammit Ray! Just shut up! I'm trying to concentrate!" Kai put his hand over his forehead again.
Ray sulked over to his punching bag and started punching away like there was no tomorrow. At that time, the blonde-haired boy came through the door and collapsed right in front of it. His normally bright blue eyes were faded.
"Gimme…Gimme…" He extended his hand out and waited.
Ray kept punching away at the bag not caring, and Kai just looked at him.
"Get up Tate! You're blocking my view of the floor!"
The blonde-haired boy just lay there motionless with his outstretched hand.
Then, all of a sudden a brown blur moved through the room at phenomenal speed, slamming the door open and hitting the blonde-haired boy in the head.
Why didn't I do that! Kai thought.
The boy jumped up instantly, grabbing his head in pain.
"Ahhhhhh, Kenny! What'dya do that for!"
The brown blur that was Kenny had already sat at the desk and hooked in his laptop.
"Dizzi nearly went flat! I had to save her! Dizzi! Are you all right?"
The others all rolled their eyes.
"Talking to a computer? Honestly, am I the only sane person here?" Kai muttered.
Kenny said nothing, already heavily immersed in his work.
The blonde-haired boy fell onto his butt and started snivelling.
Ray looked at him and felt sorry for him.
"Awww… Here Maxie, I got a sugar cube for ya!"
Max's head snapped up and his eyes widened.
"Really?" He wiped the forming tears from his eyes.
"Here doggie!" Ray raised the sugar cube from his pocket and Max stood on his knees with his hands like paws.
"Woof! Woof!" Max yapped at Ray.
Ray dropped the cube into Max's mouth. Then he knelt down and patted Max on the head.
"Good boy!"
Ray continued to hug the barking Max and pat him on the head until Kai had had enough.
"Cut it out Ray. Just… I dunno… go vandalise something."
"Right! Ray yelled.
Ray marched out the door.
"Hey Max," Kai knelt closely to Max and pretended to whisper. "Max, the cafeteria was stocked up today! And guess what they got!"
Max started to bounce and get exited.
"What what what?"
"Let's see if you can guess. The first letter is S…"
He didn't even get to "U" before Max shot out of the dorm at the speed of light.
"Why do I even bother with these people?" he muttered.
Finally, he was alone. Except for Kenny, but that doesn't count.
"I hate to admit it, but Ray may be right for once, for once."
"What about, Kai?" Kenny turned around and looked at Kai, his eyes covered by his hair as usual.
Must be a nerd thing-Kai thought.
"Chief, can you do some research on someone for me?"
"Who will it be? Do you want me to get the dirt on Fitz? Do you want me to fi-"
"All I want is info on that new girl. Anything and everything. View the tapes from this morning. Learn her name. She might be just right."
"Just right for what?"
"She might be just the right girl for the job of fifth member."
Meanwhile, Max had already had the largest amount possible of sugar for a human being without exploding and is cartwheeling around the hall in extra hypo mode.
"Sugar is fun! Like flying Peter Pan evil pirate ahhhhh!"
Max crashed into Fitzy, bowling him over, but he still kept spinning down the hall.
"What the! Security! Tranquilliser guns! Now! This boy's had an overdose!"
How the hell did he?…. Dammit Kai! He thought as he pulled out a small peashooter with a tranquilliser-tipped point.
Also meanwhile, Ray had set all the bins on fire, thus enabling all the pyromaniacs to go beserk and set even more bins on fire and laugh crazily and evilly. Ray then climbed onto the roof and started throwing tiles onto the ground three storeys below.
On ground floor, the second-worst teacher in the whole school, the deputy principle, saw Ray on the roof frolicking and throwing tiles. At the same time, Ray saw the deputy and froze.
"Oh crap!"
He aimed the next few tiles at her, trying to knock her out.
She's just too fast! He thought.
The deputy ran under cover, and called for the guards.
Instantly, ten men were up on the rooftop.
The men held him down, so he couldn't escape.
"NO! NOT THE BUTT! ANYTHING BUT THE B-"
One of them shot him right in the butt with the tranquilliser, making him instantly fall unconscious.