The British Standard chapter 2
That following Monday, Josie woke L up around 7:00. "L, come on. Time for School." She says shaking him. L covers his face up "No, I don't want to." Josie tears the covers off of him and makes him get up. "Ok, now I'll help you put on the uniform. Someone said you like help." L frowns as the shirt's thrown over his head. "There, now head down and get some breakfast." L, still frowning, does that.
When he gets down there, he sees Watari and jumps on his lap. "Good morning, L. You look nice." He says as L sits and stares at a plate of pancakes in front of him. He slowly eats them and jumps off Watari's lap. "L, I know this is new for you, but as I said, I don't know exactly we'll be here. I'll help you with your shoes and we'll go." L kinda smiles and sits waiting for Watari.
They get to the school. It's a special academy for the upper class of London. They walk down the hall and find L's classroom. "L, looks nice, doesn't it?" Watari says opening the classroom door. L looks around but doesn't say anything. L's new teacher, Mr. Polini, sees them and walks over. "Good day, are you by chance Watari?" Watari nods "Yes, and you must be Jefferson Polini." Mr.Polini nods "Yep, oh then this must be Lawliet." Watari nods "He likes to be called L, if you don't mind." L peeks around Watari's leg at his new teacher. Mr. Polini looks down at L "That's fine. Watari, I'm going to start soon; I'll take L to his new seat for you." Watari bows and turns towards the door "Bye L. See you after school." L waves and Mr. Polini takes him to his seat. "I think you'll like it here, L. Everything is ready for you. Get out a pencil and a notebook and we'll start in about five minutes." L nods and sits down in his normal, huddled fashion.
As the bell rings, more of L's new classmates come in and sit down. One in particular makes L extremely upset. His name was Joey Peterson and he sits directly behind L. Joey sits and laughs "If you don't sit the right way, you'll get in trouble." L tries to ignore him, but it didn't help any. L hopes that he'll shut up and puts his thumb under his upper lip. "Wow, you do that too. You're a weirdo, Ryuzaki." L tries harder to calm his nerves, but luckily the class starts and he relaxes. He places his feet on the floor reluctantly and listens to Mr. Polini's rules.
After the math lecture on adding and subtracting, Mr. Polini leads the class down for lunch. L is separated from Joey in the line. L looks at the semi-fancy food, but the fancy cake at the end of the line was what he really wanted. Joey watches as L takes a slice. Joey gets a scheme in his head as he heads down the line.
L sits between two boys he met earlier, Rob and Kevin; he did it so no confrontation between him and Joey occurs. "Well, this will be ok. This cake looks as good as Watari's. L thinks to himself. He reaches for the cake and Joey plants himself on the other side of the table directly across from him. "Hey, weirdo, I forgot to get my cake, I'll take yours." Kevin and Rob step back, they know what Joey is capable of. Joey takes the cake from L's hand and eats it. L gets really upset and stands up on the table. "That was mine, Joey." Joey mocks him and L leans back and gives him a good hard kick in the mouth. "That's what you get for getting between L. Ryuzaki and his cake. I've been top of my karate class the past two years." Joey just lies on the floor with a fat lip. Mr. Polini sees what happened and runs over to stop it. "Boys, come with me." L and Joey stand up and are taken to the office. Joey holds his bloody lip and sits down. L climbs on the chair beside him but doesn't look at him. L starts talking to Mr. Polini and Joey just sits not wanting to speak. L finishes up his story and Joey denies every word of it. Mr. Polini calls Watari on the phone to come down and L gulps like he has a whale in his throat.
Watari walks into the office and tells L to come out to the hall with him. "So, you kicked him? Why?" L gets teary-eyed "He took my cake, Watari." Watari frowns "All that for a piece of cake, eh? You do have a problem with that, don't you?" Watari takes L back into the office. Joey's lip had stopped bleeding. Watari steps down to L's level "I'll see you later, L. Don't let him get in the way." L smiles and hugs Watari "Ok, see you later." Watari walks out the office door. "Apologize to each other and we can go back." L says sorry to Joey and Joey just sits still. "L, thank you. You can go back. As for you, Joey, I'm calling your mother." Mr. Polini says and L goes back to the cafeteria.
He walks through the door, when someone blocks the way. "I saw what Joey did to you. Are you ok?" she says. L nods "I'm fine, besides, I'm the one that kicked him. I'm Lawliet. Please just call me L, it just sounds better." She laughs and her long brown hair tickles against L's arm. "I'm Margaret. I know full names are boring, so just call me Margie. It's nice to meet you, L." L smiles and Margie takes his hand. They sit down and wait for lunch to be over. Until then L tells Margie about a turtle he saw.
The rest of the day, the two are hard to separate. The final bell rings and Watari picks L up from school. "So, did the rest of the day go better, L?" L nods "Yep, it was, Watari. I made a few friends. I got to know this one girl named Margie really well." Watari smiles "That's good. Josie has supper started." L smiles as they drive down the road to Aunt Josie's house.
Keep reading. Chapter 3 in the making.