When I got to school (in a surprisingly good mood) I skipped over to the tennis courts-which is my usually 'hanging out' spot- and went to greet my friends.

"Hiyaa!!!" I said almost bouncing on the spot. "Hey" Hotaru greeted me friendly, "What's up with you? I thought you'd be tearing your hair out or something" She added. "Nope" I said grinning widely. "Why? Do you not have to get the bus anymore?" Ask Sanumi my other friend. "No I still have to get it" I said still grinning. "Who are you and what have you done with Mikan?"

"It's me!! Look basically what happened was, at first it was horrible but then on the second bus-the Graham Park bus- I fell on one of the guys and he was totally hot!" I rushed out happily. "You did what?!? What did he do?" Hotaru asked worriedly. "Nothing, he was really nice, he even helped me up.

They looked at each other doubtfully. "It's true!" I said. "Stay away from that bus, it must be a trick or something" said Sanumi with unnecessary concern. "No way! He's great. Trust me; I know what I'm doing"

"Whatever. Just don't say we didn't warn you" said Hotaru obviously figuring that she couldn't make me change my mind. "I wont I said finally sitting down. The rest of the school day was followed by me replaying the scene in my mind. I got in trouble a few times for missing my name in the registers and for not answering when I was asked something but I didn't honestly care.

"Right, that's it Mikan!" yelled my music teacher snapping me back to reality. "If you're not going to listen then you can go to detention" I was suddenly alert please don't say after school please, please, please I prayed over and over in my mind. "12:30 sharp, you can stay in all lunch" phew I smiled secretly to myself.

"Am I going to have to do that young lady?" she asked obviously hoping for a reaction so she could lay into me some more. Whatever. I wasn't going to give her the reaction she craved. I wasn't going to quake in fear at the thought of a whole lunchtime detention.

When will these teachers learn? I'm not like the other kids. An hour outside of the cold and in peace and quiet. A whole hour alone with my thoughts. Yeah I'm terrified "Detention sounds like fun" I said nonchalantly. She didn't buy it. "Well how about detention every lunchtime for the next two weeks?" She asked smirking. She folded her hand across her chest triumphantly. I wasn't going to let her win.

"Sign me up!" I said trying to sound as excited as possible. "Freak!" I heard someone mutter. She did nothing to stop the horrible comment but I didn't care, I wasn't going to back down now. "Okay then I will, see you at lunch" she said frustrated.

I was proud of myself, I hadn't let her bully me like she always did. "Why don't you do everyone a favour and stay home tomorrow? Mikan."

"Your poor mother, she must need a lot of therapy huh Mikan?"

"You're the reason I need ulcer medication Mikan"

I'd heard it all before.

Anyway, I'm not going to let her cut into my thinking time. As soon as she turned to begin writing on the board I went back to day dreaming. "Ahem" I heard her clear her throat irritated. "Are you listening or are you praying you never come into contact with a wooden stake?" she asked. The class filled with laughter. "Actually I'm trying to think of less painful ways to kill myself then through you're lesson" I replied. The laughter now turned in my favour.

I heard the squeak of chairs turning to face me. Most of the class didn't like me but they always found my irrelevance amusing. "That's it, Mikan. I'm sending you to the principal's office, go now, and don't make any stops on the way" she ordered angrily whilst scribbling a note down. If she got any angrier I was sure she would burst a blood vessel.

I got up took the note from her hand and slammed the door on my way out without looking back. I tried to read the note but the writing was so rushed it was difficult to make out. I could just see the words 'disrupted' 'rude' and 'expel'. Oh crap.

I decided "losing" the note on my way to her office would do no good so I just walked as slowly as possible to the principal's office. She decided to expel me for two weeks as this wasn't the only bad thing I'd done so far this term. Great!

I couldn't let my mum find out. No way, she would kill me. What to do, what to do??? I thought of this morning and suddenly a flash of inspiration hit me…