Disclaimer: I don't own Black Cat/ credit for Vanessa goes to Chronian Demoness XIV

Chapter 2

A few weeks had passed and I still wasn't talking. It's not that I couldn't, it was just that I didn't feel like it. I said hi to Vanessa and Karl sometimes, but other than that, I kept my mouth shut. My life couldn't get much worse than it already was. I mean, my parents were dead, the man who killed them and taken care of me for a year was dead, but at least now I was being taken care of by the mayor of Rubeck city. I just wondered for how much longer.

Karl still didn't know about my parents. I knew he was suspicious of why I had a gun the first time we'd met, but I hadn't told him or Vanessa a single thing about what had happened to me in the past year. I was trying to forget all about those things but I couldn't because of the stupid nightmares I kept having.

I was brought out of my thoughts when I heard Vanessa calling my name. Supper was probably ready. I looked down from the branch I was sitting on. The tree was right next to the side of the mansion and some of the branches nearly touched my bedroom window. The tree was one of my favourite places to be here at Karl's.

"Train! Where are you? Supper is ready and Karl has something to tell you!" Vanessa yelled. I waited until she was just below the branch I was sitting on before I jumped down.

"Hi Vanessa." I greeted her after I landed. She screamed. I just smirked.

"Train! How many times to I have to ask you not to sneak up on me. You're just like a cat. You should where a bell or something that will make noise so we know when you're coming." She told me. I continued smirking. "Supper is ready and Karl is waiting for you. He has something to tell you." I nodded and followed her into the house.

When I walked into the dinning room Karl was already sitting down, just like Vanessa had said. As I sat down he finally looked up.

"Hello Train," he greeted me.

"Hi," I told him, "Vanessa said you had something to tell me."

"I do. Seeing as how you've been here for a few weeks now, I've decided to enroll you in school. You start classes tomorrow."

"WHAT?!" I couldn't believe he was making me go to school, "THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL YOU CAN MAKE ME GO TO SCHOOL!"

"Train, you're living under my roof and you're 10 years old. You should be in school."

"You can't make me do anything! You're not my father!" I yelled as I got up and stormed up the stairs. I stomped down the hallway and slammed my door shut. Karl couldn't make me do anything I didn't want to. I opened my window and climbed out onto the branch. At least I could get my mind off things. At least I hoped I could.

"Vanessa, what am I going to do with him?" I heard Karl's voice drift up from the open window of the dinning room.

"Don't worry, sir. I'm sure he'll come around. He just doesn't seem like the type of person who likes doing what he's told. He prefers to do what he wants." I had a strange feeling the person they kept talking about was me.

"Vanessa, did you notice the look in his eyes when he mentioned his father. They seemed sad."

"Maybe something happened to his father. Train will tell us when he feels like. Besides, he'll have to get used to you telling him what to do, you are the mayor after all."

"I hope you're right. He'll hate me for what I'm about to do though. I'll have to ground for using inappropriate language for a boy his age."

"He'll be mad for a little while probably. And at least he's talking now." I climbed down the tree and headed to one of the other trees that were closer to the wall. I need time to think. And someplace away from the city. Immediately the woods just outside the city came to mind. My dad had always taken me out there and I loved them.

I jumped onto the wall and climbed down. Karl would be looking for me soon so I had to get away fast. I ran down the streets until I had no breath left. I walked instead. I wanted to be under the trees where no one was there. The only things out in the trees were the animals and they couldn't tell me what to do.

I climbed into a tree and sat on a high branch. I was just on the edge of the forest and I could still see the city. The sky was getting darker and the lights were starting to light up the sky. At least out here I could see the stars. Seeing them helped me think.

Karl and Vanessa had probably realized I wasn't in the mansion and were probably out looking for me now. They probably thought I was still in the city. I looked up at the moon and remembered my parents I missed them a lot and I didn't care about much anymore. They were gone Zagine had taken them away from me and there was no way of getting them back.

You're desire to kill is flawless. Zagine's words rang in my head. I had wanted to kill him so badly and then I found him half dead in alley. I finished him off and I felt nothing when I did it. After that I didn't care what happened to me and I still didn't. At least not completely. Staying with Karl and Vanessa was starting to break the shell I'd made.

Zagine had told me not to trust anyone and not to show emotion. Showing emotion was a weakness and trusting someone was asking to be betrayed. For the time I had been out on the streets I hadn't trusted anyone or shown emotion. When I first came to Karl's I didn't trust them, but I think I started to. I had no idea what to do. I climbed down the tree and headed back to Karl's mansion. I might as well let him punish me and then be stuck going to school. What was the worst thing that could happen. I got made fun of like at my old school. Like that was going to happen. If anyone tried to make fun of me they'd regret it.

I walked over a bridge just outside the city and took one last look up at the night sky. I turned around and headed in the direction of Karl's mansion. I just hoped I wouldn't be in too much trouble.