The end of summer vacation… Aw man! I can't believe summer was already over. This sucked. The last few weeks of vacation me, Ulrich, and Jeremy used to pack up our stuff and take it over to our new school: Kadic High School. So far the only cool thing about our new school is the dorms have three people to a room, so all three of us don't have to worry about finding each others room incase Xana attacks during the night again. The dorms at Kadic High School aren't much bigger than the ones in junior high; basically there's more closet space, there's another dresser, two beds on each side of the room but one of them is a bunk bed. That's pretty much it. Of coarse when I saw the bunk I called top. One more bad thing about this place: uniforms! Gah! Guys get to wear black "dress pants" (why call them dress pants when they're just pants?), a nice long sleeved button up shirt, a blue tie, and a black vest to go over that! Ugh! The only freedom we have with our cloths is what we wear for shoe's and socks, and this weird little golden pin that's supposed to be the school emblem or something. The same thing goes for girls, but they wear skirts instead of pants and they get a choice of long skirts or short skirts.

"Come on Odd." Ulrich said as he and Jeremy waited for me at the door.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I said as I finished buttoning up my shirt, today was our first day and I wasn't looking forward to it.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" Jeremy asked as I walked towards them.

"What?" I looked down to make sure I had everything.

"Your vest." Ulrich chuckled.

"Aww… Why do we have to wear these things? I feel like such a dork in them." I grabbed the vest and started putting it on.

"To think you were calling them monkey suits last year…" Jeremy laughed

"Oh yeah? A monkey huh?" I started jumping up and down, acting like a monkey, "Ooh ooh ah ah!"

I jumped behind Jeremy and acted like I was combing through his hair for bugs.

"Hey! Odd get off." Jeremy said as he smoothed his hair back down.

Ulrich laughed harder when I started going through his hair and pretended I found a bug,

"Ooh…" I said in my own monkey way and acted like I ate the bug, "Yum! Big juicy, got more?"

All three of us laughed as some one knocked on the door.

"Hello?" Jeremy opened the door

"Hi guys, what was so funny?" It was Yumi, she had a uniform too, the long skirt one.

"Odd the monkey." Ulrich replied.

"Hey," I said, "if they're going to make me wear the monkey suit then I'll just have to play the part."

We all walked down the hall, Yumi introducing us to the people she had met earlier last year. Then we picked up our schedules, and just my luck, I had no classes with any of them.

"Bummer buddy." Ulrich said as we walked to our first class, "Maybe we'll have better luck next semester."

"Yeah, hopefully." I waved goodbye to him and walked down a different hall way to my Algebra 1-C class.

The room was filled with people talking about what they did over summer and what they were doing for home coming. I took a seat in the back row and slumped down into my chair. I saw an older guy hugging one of the girls and over heard them saying how much they loved each other… I sighed. I was still kicking myself for letting Hope get away. I missed her so much; I wonder where she is now.

"Odd Della Robbia…?" I heard the teacher call.

"Huh?" I looked up at a short cubby bald man.

"Are you Odd Della Robbia?" He asked

"Yes."

"Then say 'here', I'm taking roll, pay attention."

"Yes sir."

I looked around the room again but listened incase he called my name again.

"That's every one." He said, "Now I want everyone to grab a book and-"

"Sorry I'm late." A girl with long jet black hair with fiery red ends walked in.

When I first heard her voice I could have sworn it was Hope…

"Name…?" The teacher barked and picked up a clip bored.

"Kane…"

"Jamie Kane?" The teacher looked at her, "I don't have you until fifth period."

"Jamie's my cousin, I'm Hope Kane."

My heart stopped and my eyes shot up to the girl standing in front of the class.