Okay, due to a review I received earlier, I just wanted to let you guys know how hard it tis for me to write this with Penny in a good light. I am a hardcore Caina fangirl, so I, like most people, despise Penny. It's so hard to make her seem like a person too, when all my fangirlness is screaming "DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE PENNY!" So I just wanted to let you know that I hate Penny, hate writing her as a decent person, and do plan on making her evil as chapters go on. She isn't really mentioned in the first few books from what I recall, so I can really do whatever I want with her up until about the LIES point.

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, B SYMPHONY?

Anyway, review and get a magical surprise in the next chapter! And feel free to give suggestions! I love them almost as much as reviews! :D

I woke up early the next morning. No one else was up yet, so I dressed silently and went to try and find my way to breakfast alone. I walked through hallways that all looked the same for a while before finally seeing someone at the end of the hall. I sped up, hoping to ask for directions. "Um, excuse me?" I asked, and the person turned around. It was Caine. I felt my stomach fill with butterflies.

"Hello, Bridget." Caine said smoothly, flashing me a quick smile. "Are you lost?"

"Well…yes," I admitted, blushing. "How did you know?"

"I remember being new," Cane said sympathetically, placing a reassuring hand on my shoulder, which made my heart beat faster. "I know how hard it is to get around in an unfamiliar place. So, you're trying to get to breakfast, aren't you?" I nodded, and Caine steered me down a different hallway, never taking his hand off my shoulder.

Once we got to the cafeteria, Caine and I got breakfast and sat down at the same table as yesterday. We talked for a few minutes, and Caine was the perfect listener, nodding and laughing in all the right places, and patiently waiting to speak. Soon more kids started to file into the room and get their breakfasts. Penny came first, and she looked jealous when she saw Caine and I sitting together. Waved her over and she sat down next to Caine, making me jealous. Isabella was next, looking perfect as usual, but not in the way you'd think. Her hair was sloppy in a way that looked grungy and stylish, her acne-less face in her usual smirk. Even the way she wore her uniform suggested, "I'm badass and I sure as hell know it, so back off, b!tch." Next to her, I just looked plain.

When Diana arrived, all conversation between Caine and I stopped. His eyes never left her from the second she entered the room until she drew close enough to notice his gaze and object. Diana also gave off a tough girl vibe like my sister. Sure enough, she and Isabella immediately started talking, while Caine watched Diana silently.

"Ugh, I hate Dekka so much," I heard Diana say, and I shifted my gaze to the kids in the cafeteria, trying to see who Dekka was. "Yesterday in class she was just staring at me, and I kept thinking, ew, I'm not gay."

I saw Drake entering the room, half asleep. His hair was askew and he had dark circles under his eyes. He was walking in the opposite direction of a tall African-American girl who was carrying a tray of oatmeal and a glass of orange juice.

I noticed Caine's eyes darken, but in a second it was gone, replaced by a look of exhaustion. He reached out his arms and yawned loudly, but his eyes never left a spot right in front of the girl's feet. Suddenly the girl tripped over thin air and went sliding across the floor as her food went flying. She got up with a calm expression that hid fury, but then she saw Drake, who had been hit by the orange juice and the oatmeal. Her eyes widened in what looked like more surprise than fear, but some of the kids sitting nearby had expressions of pure terror on their faces, staring up at Drake like he had a mutated arm or something.

"Oh my God," Isabella whispered, equal parts horrified and laughing, "Drake!" He was fuming, shoulders rising, ears practically steaming. One kid started to laugh but a look from Drake shut him up immediately.

"YOU!" He screamed at the girl, and lunged, knocking her to the floor and wrapping his hands around her neck. Just then the principal entered.

"DRAKE MERWIN WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF-" The man froze when he saw that the girl on the ground wasn't my sister. "Dekka?" He asked incredulously, and the girl gasped for breath in response. "DRAKE MERWIN! STOP STRANGLING DEKKA!"

Two huge men came in and peeled Drake away, who was still screaming threats and obscenities. They dragged him to our table, where my sister put an arm around him to try and calm him down. The principal helped the girl up and assisted her in a walk out of the cafeteria and to the nurse's office, or possibly the hospital. "She'll be all right," Caine observed apathetically. "Nurse Temple's shift is almost over by now, but she'll probably take the time to help her."

Drake still had a manic look in his eyes, teeth bared in a way that looked almost animal. Still, my sister never wavered. She didn't show any fear, but she slapped Drake's face hard. His head whipped towards her, and I was terrified at the pure bloodthirstiness of the look he gave her. "Drake," Isabella said slowly, "Calm down. Find your happy place. Remember the puppy?"

It sounded completely crazy, but Penny gave me a look that said I would be brutally murdered if I questioned anything. "A golden retriever…" Drake said, still angry, but his breathing was slowing. "It's eyes got all milky."

"Yes, it did." Isabella said, nodding slowly as she held Drake's face in her hands, looking straight into his eyes, keeping him from jumping up and mauling someone. "Now, just imagine Dekka, but her eyes are all milky, and she's split in half, and her guts and blood are all over the place, and there are bugs crawling around inside her, eating her from the inside out." Drake laughed then, a happy laugh that disturbed me almost as much as what my sister was describing.

"Well, on that happy note, I'm getting out of here before he kills me," Diana said, standing up and skirting around the puddle of oatmeal and juice on the floor to return her tray. Drake's wild eyed manic glare was back, but my sister slapped him again.

"Drake!" She yelled in his face, and his eyes focused and looked somewhat less crazy.

"I hate her," Drake said in a dark tone. "She covered me in f**king oatmeal."

"Hey," my sister said with a mischievous grin, "You look cute in oatmeal." Then she kissed him, and we all looked away awkwardly. When they were done, Drake still looked annoyed, but nothing like the psychotic look he had had in his eyes earlier.

"Whatever. I'm going to go change, maybe beat up Bug on the way." Drake said, standing up.

"Not without me, you're not," Isabella said, and then I realized why they were together. They both liked seeing other people get hurt. The two of them left, and Penny went to go put away her tray when Caine turned to me.

"I've been meaning to tell you," Caine said charmingly, "Your hair looks really pretty today. You should do it like that more often."

I beamed back at him. "Thanks," I said, trying to hide how good it made me feel.

"Anytime. See you around?" He asked casually, and I nodded. Then he left and I rushed to find Penny and tell her what had just happened.