It had to come sometime… Snob College's first PE4C, Pathetic Excuse For Chapter.

I will be the first to agree that this doesn't actually constitute as an actual chapter. It's way too short for my liking, but the split didn't really seem to work otherwise. So… sorry. –Runs away-

I promise the next chapter will be a more decent length. X.X

Oh, and happy new year to you all. :)


The first thing she set eyes on, on her first damn day back, was a bunch of silly, gaga girls running around in circles.

She had to admit that she had assumed they were thinking up new and inventive ways of drying their nail polish, until she saw them crying.

"Jann-Lee's parents! Our school must be cursed with bad luck! First Irene, then Helena's mother, then Jann-Lee's parents! It's so terrible!"

"What's he going to do now? Ohh!"

She managed to get more then a sob out of Hitomi, thank goodness.

"Jann-Lee's parents were killed on their way to China, his home-country. An aeroplane crash, nothing anybody could change. Thing is that he has no relatives left, so we don't know what's going to happen to him."

"How did you find all this out? What with Jann-Lee being so social…" she said sarcastically.

Hitomi rolled her eyes. "Yeah. Well, he has a crush on Leifang; see, even though they both pretend to hate each other. It's so obvious. Anyway, he mentioned it offhandedly just before and the result is what you see now." The brunette gestured to the group of sobbing girls.

"You don't seem overly interested."

"Being concerned about everybody's wellbeing is fair enough, but if you were to get too absorbed in everybody's misfortune, you would be nothing else." Hitomi smiled wanly, but something in her eyes was betraying hidden emotion. "Just ask Helena. Apparently the memory has stirred up the whole thing with her mother and she's had to go home. She's never really gotten over her death. She feels it's her fault."

Ayane snorted. "Ah, the bitch's sob story. Tell her to give the dog a fucking bone, because nobody with half a brain cares."

Hitomi shook her head, her half-smile morphing into a full one. "Never mind. Come on, let's go, I need to find Tina."

She walked off with Hitomi without another glance at the stupid girls.

Maybe this year won't be as bad as I thought…