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Chapter 10: Oddball

That Wednesday we were in Drama, doing some stupid thing where we were interviewing each other. Me and Miriam were working together; I was a mad-brought-back-to-life-psychopathic murderer while Miriam was a headless bride out for revenge. Chloe and Fiona were both models, how predictable.

I raised my eyebrow at them on the stage, talking about how fantastic they look and how many guys like them. Have they no shame? I leaned in closer to Miriam, 'they could never be models but they sure could be porn stars…' she laughed and looked back at them.

After that lesson was over I walked to my locker by myself- since the others didn't have the same lessons as me today. Groaning about the amount of homework, I reached my locker only to find a certain idiot leaning against it with his eyes closed. I sighed. 'Oi Hiwatari, you're on my locker.'

He sneered down on me. 'No shit Sherlock.'

'Well can you get off it?' I grumbled, hoisting my bag onto my shoulder since the strap had fallen down. I could fell a bead of sweat trickling -yeah, even in this weather- down from under my beanie hat that I had on as an attempt to keep the cold out, and down my face. They never have proper central heating in school.

Kai stared hard at me as though inspecting a painting. I squirmed uncomfortable, still waiting for him to move. He opened his mouth suddenly, 'You remember when you promised that you would do anything when I beat you at badminton?'

'Yeah, like hell I do.' I groaned. 'You would NOT have beaten me if it wasn't for my so-called-friends though.'

'Then come with me to the winter dance.'

WHAT THE FUCK!

I blinked, once, twice and again just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Did he just ask me, me! His supposed enemy, to the winter dance! Isn't he supposed to be going with Chloe or one of her bitches?

'Why the fuck do you want to take me there!' I burst out, shaking my head while in my head I was telling myself to act calm but outside I was shrieking.

He raised his eyebrow in that way that he me feel as if he can see right through me and I tried to pull myself together which was hard seeing as my heart was doing 100 miles an hour down the road in my chest. He sighed, 'Do you really have to ask the most stupid questions?'

I frowned at him, it wasn't a stupid question and I still didn't know why he asked me. 'Maybe I'll go…' I said to him, knowing full well that I wouldn't ever go to such a place with Hiwatari.

'There's isn't a maybe Cryssie, you made a promise. That you're gonna fulfil.' He called me by my first name. Hm, and I thought we were on last name basis.

'Well tough.' I grumbled, 'I'm already going with someone.'

Something flashed in his eyes. I couldn't tell what it was.

'Who?' he growled.

I blinked. Why did he want to know so much? 'Jon.' I raised my eyebrow, 'is that a problem to you?' I hadn't seen Jon he had been off school for the past few days, Kane said he was ill and I didn't feel it was wise to go visit him.

Kai muttered something under his breath before slamming his fist into my locker, grabbing his bag and walking away.

I raised my eyebrow as I saw him leave. What was up with him? Well I know why he asked me to the dance, he wanted to make a fool of me, taking me to the dance would've been the perfect opportunity for him to publicly humiliate me. Che, as if I'm that stupid. But still… for a second I thought he was being serious. That's when my heart was beating faster then it had ever done before…

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I sighed, looking at myself in the mirror. This weekend would be the dance and I really hated it. I know I was going with a fucking sex god (well yeah) but still… this things freak me out. I was never popular in my other schools and going to these sorts of things never really appealed to me. I would never have been able to go out and have fun without knowing that it would be spoilt later on. My dad made sure of that.

But still, I thought as I smirked, the thought as going and pulling a few pranks definitely sounded nice…

I frowned at the girl that was in front of me. I couldn't see anything wrong with her but… there was something about her that didn't seem right. Not just the clothes that looked weird or the hair but something inside. I realised that this was the person that everyone saw when they looked at me. Mariah once talked to me about it; she told me that I looked as if I had seen too much as if I didn't really know what was going on. I didn't want to talk to her about it and told her that I didn't know what she was talking about.

But I knew exactly what she was talking about. I guess that it's just people didn't know what had happened to me, what my life is like. How screwed up it really is. I wouldn't ever be able to tell them, I too embarrassed… ashamed of them. They wouldn't understand, none of them could ever imagine being in my situation. I can't tell them. I can't tell anyone.

I sighed again, and looked at my reflection again. I was short but not too short. 5 foot 6. I wasn't skinny either nor curvy. Mariam is tall and thin, willowy and elegant. Mariah is hot and curvy, sexy and mysterious and Jo's petite and fun, laughable and playful. Me? I didn't know where I stood. Somehow I could always find something wrong with me; something that I would say is terribly about me. I'm not particularly curvy, nor thin or tall or playful. What am I? Maybe I'm an oddball. Someone who didn't really belong in the world she's living in.

It didn't matter about telling them, I would be moving soon, I'm sure of it. He promised us a new life but he would be dragged into his dark world again and like before he's ruin our lives and scurry us to another place only for it to happen again.

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'Cryssie?'

'Yeah?'

'You don't look well.'

I raised an eyebrow at Jo playfully. 'Why thank you for telling me,'

She stretched. It was before registration and the teacher hadn't arrived yet so everyone was talking. For once she wasn't snogging Tala, actually he hadn't arrived yet. 'No problem. What's up with you and Jon anyways? You two almost seem to have got together.'

'Yeah, well it isn't my fault that you stepped in just as things were getting good.' I moaned darkly at her.

'Seriously? Ha, I knew it! I knew it from the beginning.'

'Yeah yeah, we all believe you.'

Jo muttered something under her breath that I couldn't hear. 'I'm gonna go find Tala, you coming?' she asked me. I rolled my eyes, yeah as if I'd come with her to find Tala. 'Come on Cryssie, please. For me?' She looked at me with her sad eyes and I sighed. I'm such a softie.

'Alright but if you start making out with him I'll have to hit him.' She smiled as we got up and started walking down the corridor. 'Where do you think we'll find him?' I asked.

'I dunno but he should be here by now.'

'So you're dragging me with you around the school looking for him when you don't even have the faintest clue where he is!'

'Yeah, that sounds about right.'

'You annoy me so much you know.'

She winked at me. 'You can't say that to your bestest best friend who's stuck by you through thick and thin.'

'Thick and thin my ass, where were you when I got knocked out cold when Hawa-' I stopped. Something caught me eye in one of the empty classrooms, it was a glimmer of a red jewel that was covered with the blue sea. At least that was what is looked like but I had other thoughts.

I narrowed my eyes as Jo stopped and looked at me curiously and walked back so I had a clear view of the classroom. I shoved the door open to reveal the couple that was engrossed in the middle of hot and steamy kissing marathon.

I heard a gasp from the couple and another sharper one from Jo who was standing besides me, her wide eyes filing with tears.

Tala and Maya was the couple sitting on the desk, Tala's heaving breathing and Maya pulling her shirt down was more then enough to tell me that they were doing more then kissing in here. Seconds past but it seemed like hours.

I glared at Tala. How dare he! I knew trusting him with Jo was a terrible mistake, he was nothing but a player, a stupid arrogant player! I turned my attention to Jo. Tears were flowing freely on her face; she choked and ran away her cries ringing around the classroom.

I decided what I was going to do in a split second, looking a Tala's face that didn't show any emotion, I strode up and smashed my fist into his nose once more.

'FUCKING HELL CRYSSIE, YOU BITCH!'

'You're such an idiot! How could you do this to her, how could you!' I snarled at him, my eyes filled up with hate. Tala pushed a startled Maya out of the way before slamming his fist into my jaw.

Pain shot across me face as I stepped back, my eyes watering.

'You know what? I'm so sick of you telling me what I should do, what makes you think you can insult me and hit me without me retaliating?' He spat out.

I didn't care, all I knew was he hurt my friend, hurt her on purpose and he wasn't sorry for it. He made her feel special, like she was so precious and now it was like he didn't care at all, like he cared nothing for her feelings to him.

'You're just player…'

Swinging me foot round, I kicked him in the stomach only to find his hand blocking me path and then punching me in the back. I groaned as I hit the floor but got up again to smash the heel of my hand against his nose. I missed as he twisted round but got his eye instead! I heard a crack and grinned satisfied as he sat moaning on the floor, clutching his eye.

I stepped in to do more harm before his leg swung up, catching my lip and tearing the skin. I tasted blood, my tongue darting out the catch the droplets that ran down from the corner of my mouth. Pain didn't matter; I just needed to cause him more pain then me! Tala was standing up now, a dark bruise forming around his eye. Maya had run off, how predictable.

'What makes you think you know everything huh? What makes you think you can take control of everything?' He asked me panting, his head cocked to one side, eyebrow raised waiting for me answer.

My own breath was jagged and irregular. 'I know enough Tala.' I swung my arm once more, aiming for his nose and cried out in frustration when it was blocked. His fist shot out, slamming into my stomach forcing the wind right out of me. I gasped, collapsing on the floor trying to catch my breath.

Tala stood above me, looking down at me distastefully. 'I've always hated you Cryssie, I've hated your type of people. You're so bias, always a one sided argument.'

'You're… the one… who hurt my… friend.' I gasped out, my shoulders shaking as I struggled to breathe. 'And I've always… hated… you!' I shot up, head butting Tala in the jaw forcing him back.

Once again I fell to the floor, sweat dripping down my brow breath heavy with pain. My lip was now throbbing agonizingly whilst my head was spinning and my stomach was aching with pain!

I punched him once more, crying out in frustration at his arrogant form. How could he do this to her? And I can never trust him, not for a second. I heard him groaning, leaning against the table his hand over his hand, eyes screwed. For a second a thought I was going to cry, I'm so emotional, but then a hand grabbed my elbow before dragging me out of the classroom. My eyes were wide with shock, I didn't know anyone knew about our fight but we did make so much noise.

I was dragged down the corridor into another empty classroom before being flung onto the floor and then had my body and arms pinned down by someone sitting on my stomach. I blinked and looked up before growling when I realised who was sitting on top of me, pinning my arms down on the cold floor.

Kai Hiwatari.

That's who was sitting on top of my stomach, whose face was inches from mine since he was pinning my arms down.

I felt his breath hot against my neck.

'Hiwatari,' I growled at him, 'there really isn't a need to sit on me. Your fucking dickhead of a friend punched me there and it kinda hurts.' Understatement. OW! It hurt so damn much!

'I have to, otherwise you'd probably punch me to go back and kill Tala.'

Che, yeah.

'Well why you stopping me? He deserves to die, treating Jo like that.' I spat at him.

He sighed. 'You just don't get it. Tala doesn't understand things like that,' he relaxed the pressure on arms but laid on top of my chest instead. I gasped sharply, who gave him permission to go and put his head on my chest! 'Tala still likes Jo you know.'

'One: yeah, it sure looked that way to me and two: why the fuck are you lying on my chest!'

'One: yeah, it's true and two: it's tiring probing myself up by holding your arms.' Kai told me, murmuring into my chest. Ack!

I frowned. 'What do you mean Tala still likes Jo? He was snogging Maya I think that proves he doesn't give a shit for Jo's feelings. Please get off me, I promise I won't hit you and run, I wanna know about this too much.' Actually I was just getting this weird feeling that I was enjoying Kai sitting on top of me with his head on my chest and it was disturbing me. I didn't want his head on me. Besides, I felt too vulnerable being under him and not being able to move.

He moved off me. Good!

Wiping the blood of my jaw, I leaned against the table looking at him. Once again he had his arms folded in front of me staring at me with that expressionless face, actually it always looked angry and serious. Damn those blue triangle tattoos on his face, they make him look too sexy…

'So?' I asked him gruffly, trying to massage the pain out of my stomach. My head was spinning and I felt really faint. 'What's the deal with Tala? You said he still likes Jo when he was so obviously making out with Maya.'

He raised an eyebrow at me, 'he thinks he's gonna go off Jo so decided to end it. The thing with Maya was planned; he doesn't feel anything for her but just wanted a way to split up with her without ruining his reputation. He still thinks that girls are something to play with not serious and his feelings for Jo will disappear sometime soon.'

I snorted at him rudely, my head still spinning. I thought I was going to faint… everything seemed to unfocused, 'Isn't that what you think? That girls are toys and feelings always disappear after a short period of time?'

He ran his eyes over me. 'I reckon I might've stopped thinking that.'

I rolled my eyes, making my head pound even harder, Who was he kidding, he had a different girl on him every week and he makes sick jokes at any girl who passes him.

I made a disgusted noise at him and turned away, still licking the blood from my mouth, preparing to walk out of the doors but before I could that he grabbed my elbow again and swung me round to face him. 'What the fuck do you wa-!' I didn't get any further.

Because he had crushed his lips on mine, kissing me.

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Hahaha, I'm so cruel leaving you on a cliff hanger. I thought it was time that Kai and Cryssie kissed and since I took so long to update, I thought this was the perfect time :-D

In the next chapter, you will find out more about Jo and Tala's situation and how Cryssie will react. Will you push him back, disgusted or kiss back, hot and passionately? And what about Jon? Doesn't she like him? Only I know… and I shall choose the time for you to find out ;-)

If you read this fanfic, you might think I hate Tala but actually I quite like him. He's a v. nice person :-)