Disclaimer: I don't own Black Cat/ credit for Vanessa goes to Chronian Demoness XIV/ partial credit for Jessica and Tiffany goes to Chronian Demoness XIV we created them together

Chapter 6

The days passed and my plan was slowly started. I had a feeling that I was going to regret the out come afterwards but I'd hopefully be able to put up with it. Jessica and Tiffany helped even if I was having trouble getting rid of them whenever we weren't in class. Jessica always seemed to be waiting for me by my locker in the morning and then Tiffany would appear out of nowhere.

I could tell Jenos didn't like the attention they were giving me. It seemed that Jessica and Tiffany were the two most popular girls in school and with them hanging out with me all the time I was slowly becoming the most popular guy in school. Most of the girls would say hi to me when I passed them in the hallway and almost all the guys were starting to respect me as one of them. Being the best in Combat, Marksmanship, Weaponry and Stealth probably helped.

Jenos started hanging out with me because Jessica, Tiffany and a few of there friends were always with me at recess and lunch. But no matter how hard I tried Jessica wouldn't leave me alone. The only time she wasn't right next to me was in Combat and that made it my favourite class. She was okay but it was annoying when she never left you alone and kept looking at you like you were some prize that she wanted really badly but knew she'd probably never get. It probably really hadn't helped that I had tried flirting with her to convince her to do something for me and the flirting had worked a bit to much.

Eventually all the girls were paying more attention to me then they were to Jenos and I was happy my plan had worked. What better way to get back at Jenos then to have all the girls pay more attention to someone other than him. The only problem I had now was trying to stay away from Jessica, which was near to impossible. Sometimes my life really sucked. I looked forward to going home at the end of each day.

One day as I was leaving I heard someone call my name. I ignored it and kept walking. I really didn't feel like staying at school especially since I had been able to get away from Jessica and she was probably looking for me so we could walk home together…again.

"Train, slow down," Someone gasped as they started walking next to me. I looked at them out of the corner my eye and noticed it was Jenos.

"What do you want?" I asked as I kept walking.

"What did you do to make all the girl pay so much attention to you?" He asked. I just shrugged. Honestly I had no idea. I might of tried flirting with a couple of them but it might have been two or three.

"You must have done something."

"Look. I don't know what I did. I said hi to a couple of them and then all of sudden they all knew who I was." We were getting closer to Karl's mansion.

"If you don't like the attention you can always tell them I'm free."

"Whatever."

"Look, I'm sorry that I pulled all those pranks you. Just please hook me up with one of them. Like Tiffany. Please!" Jenos started begging.

"Fine. I'll mention it to her but I can't promise anything." I told him as we came to the gate at the end of Karl's really long driveway.

"So I guess we have a truce now?" Jenos asked as I stopped.

"Yeah. I guess so." I turned to push the button to let the guard know he could open the gate.

"Why are you at the mayor's house anyway?" Jenos asked.

"Because, I live here."

"You're the mayor's kid?"

"No, he's just letting me stay here for now."

"So where are your parents?" I closed my eyes so no tears would try to escape. Every time I thought about them it took everything I had not to cry.

"Gone." Then I walked through the gate and closed it before Jenos could come in. He called my name but I ignored and headed to the tree just outside my window. I usually used by bedroom window to get into the mansion. There was a huge oak tree that had a branch that nearly touched my window. So I just climbed up the tree and used the branch to get to the window. I went and laid down on my bed. My hands were clenched into fists and my eyes were shut tight. I started to think of different of things. Anything to get my mind off of my parents.

Karl and Vanessa still didn't know what had happened to them. They had asked but I had ran up to my room and locked the door. They discovered then that my parents were a touchy subject. I stayed up in my room until Vanessa came to tell me it was suppertime. I got up and headed downstairs to see what the cooks had made.

The next day at school, Jessica was waiting for me at my locker like every other morning.

"Um… Train…" She seemed nervous about something.

"Yeah?" I asked.

" Um… I was .

"Go out with you?" She nodded. "Uh… I don't know."

"Okay." Jessica's eyes started glittering with the treat of tears. One thing I couldn't stand, even when I was younger, was crying girls.

"I'd need to ask if I'd be aloud before saying yes. I wouldn't want to say yes then end up having to cancel." I told her with a forced smile.

"Kay. I'll go to your house after school today and you can ask or I can ask for you." Before I could say anything she started heading towards where Tiffany and her other friends were. "See you later Train!" She called.

I stood there wondering what I had just done. I was pretty sure that I had just said I was going to ask permission to go out on a date with Jessica. The same girl who I couldn't stand being around for more than an hour.