Yes, I know that I said the other fic would take precedence, but I've got a bit of a writers block on that one, so I'm working on this one instead. Can't make up my mind, can I?

Hell

Sephy's POV

First day of school. Great. Just bloody wonderful. In case you didn't already know, my name is Persephone and I hate school. There is absolutely no point to it. I always get crap about my name, being a death goddess, and so on and so forth. I still haven't got around to sitting my parents down and having a long chat to them about why they decided to burden their daughter with such a name. Don't get me wrong, I like my name and all, but I just don't like the comments that come with it.

So, off to school. When we get on the bus, there's a huge mob of kids at the back, our favourite spot, so we sit at the front. Personally, I'm all ready to walk up to them and start a fight, so I can let a bit of my irritation off on them. But no, sadly not. Clio grabs my arm and pulls me into a seat beside her. I sigh in frustration. I hate losing to the kid of the group. Very good for my ego, I dare say.

We walk through the school gates. We've agreed to stay together as much as possible for today at least. Me and Kasmira will probably end up killing each other. A group of boys come up to us. Ryelle takes a good hold of Gaia's arm, just in case they're going to flirt with her. A fight on the bus is alright, there's no teachers there to stop you, but at school you usually get detention. Picture me looking resigned.

The boys are seriously cute! The blond one starts talking to us. Oh dear, flirt alert.

"So, you girls must be new?" he says, smiling at us. Ryelle tightens her grip. Kaz goes almost immediately into flirt mode. She is so fake!

"Yeah, we are" she replies, batting her eyelashes at him. "Why, are you offering to show us around?"

The guy looks pretty surprised, but recovers quickly. I exchanged glances with Cassie. She at least has her head screwed on straight when it comes to boys.

"Um, Kaz, I think we're supposed to go meet the head." Cassie says, grabbing her before she can protest and dragging her towards the school. The rest of us follow fairly quickly.

"Kaz, can't you ever get by one day without flirting?" Ryelle asks when we're out of earshot. "You just have to flirt with every guy in the school by the end of today, don't you? You're making a fool of yourself!" Kaz looks pretty surprised at her outburst. We all do.

The bell rings. Saved. At least for the moment.

The next half hour is a whirl of timetables, classes and teachers. In short, hell. My first class is with the entirety of our quartet. Excellent. Time to give the teachers a run for their money. Or rather, time to watch Clio give them a run for their money while we sit in the back of the class filing our nails and talking about boys and make-up. It's very useful having a genius in our group. Tee hee, tee hee. We walk into class.

"Ah, you must be the new students. I'm Professor Hawthorn, your English teacher. Now, if you could present yourselves to the class, in Japanese if you prefer." The old duffer we have as a teacher sits back in his chair and looks at us expectantly.

Ryelle takes first shot. "My name is Ryelle Riverson. I'm English."

"I'm Clio Teresca. I'm Greek."

"My name's Gaia Smith. I'm American."

My turn. Here goes nothing. "My name's Persephone Boreale, but I prefer Sephy, and I'm Greek too." And now we sit back and wait for the crap to start.

A blue-haired boy seems to be deep in thought.

"Isn't Clio the name of one of the Muses? The Muse of history? And Persephone's the name of the Greek goddess of the Underworld, just like Gaia's the name of the mother of the gods. Right?" The teacher smiles at him. Teacher's pet alert.

"Yes, I believe so." Turning to us, he says: "This is Rowen, our resident genius."

Gaia smirks. I've got to tell her to stop doing that, it really isn't that attractive.

"Hey, cool!" she says in a very fake innocent voice. "Clio's our resident Einstein. I..."

She trails off as I gave her a look. She has got to stop taking umbrage at everything.

Classes go fairly well for the morning, no major incidents, fights, or anything at all. Something is going happen. I just know it is.

We make our way over to the shade of a well positioned tree and proceeded to compare notes with Kaz, Cassie, Alyssa and Diana about our morning.

"Um, excuse me, but this is where we usually sit." We all turn around. It's the five boys from this morning. Shoot. I told you something would happen.

"Oh, sorry, we'll move." Ryelle says, getting up. Very smooth, Ryelle, now they have to let us stay.

"No, it's ok, don't bother." The speaker was a black-haired boy this time.

Ryelle smiles at him. Kaz has been teaching her how to flirt, and I must say she does it much better than Kaz herself. Maybe that's why she blew up at Kaz earlier, cause she wants first dibs on the black-haired one.

"Thanks" Cassie says, drawing attention off Ryelle. "So, what are your names? We may as well get acquainted."

The boys grin.

"I'm Sage." That's the blond one from earlier. Still as cute as ever.

"Resident Casanova." another boy adds. "My name's Kento."

"I'm Rowen, for those of you who don't already know me." the blue-haired guy says, glancing slyly at Gaia. She doesn't bat an eyelid. Good girl.

"I'm Cye." Fairly cute, brown hair, green eyes.

"I'm Ryo." This time it's the black-haired guy who's talking. He's got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Tiger-blue.

I shake myself and give myself a mental slap. Ryelle saw him first and it's obvious she likes him already. I don't want to argue with one of my best friends about a boy. They're not worth it. I argue quite regularly with Kaz about boys (and everything else), but that's just for the enjoyment of having an argument with her. It's not that I don't like Kaz, but our elements clash and we're not that tolerant of each other in our element forms.

We introduce ourselves, and get the usual name business. Oh well. Can't have everything.

The boys all seem nice. Kaz walks away at the end of lunch with a date with Sage. I myself don't see why he likes her. I'm not jealous, though. He's not my type. Ryo however... STOP IT! I wonder if Ryelle will admit she likes him. I'm a matchmaker of the first quality, as any of my friends will tell you.

On the way home we drop off at the shops to get a few things. Kaz is already thinking about her make-up for her date. When we get home we all decide that it's an every girl for herself evening. Nobody bothers about any-one else. Relief.

So? Comments, etc...? Come on, people, I love you and everything but I'd love you a lot more if you reviewed. That's just a nice little hint.

Carline