I'm sooooooooo sorry for the lack of updates! X.x I've been super busy with stuff such as pulling up my Geography grade and training my new puppy, planning my Birthday, and Mothers day!

By the way.. happy late Bday to me! :D it was the day before Mother's Day wooo lol so yeah anywayysss lemme talk bout the story (for those that care)

I FELT SOOOOO STUPID AFTER TYPING THIS UP! In my composition book Rin's new friend was Teto! And after going over it and typing it not till the last page did I notice my mistake! TETO DIED! Omg I feel like such an idiot lol x.x so I had to redo that entire section aghhhh! AND -IMPORTANT- changes have been made to Chapter Five- New Beginnings Miku's personality has been changed! cuz i have already used her so i ended up changing bits of that chap :P so yeah

But anyways enjoy the story and be expecting more updates :) expecially since it's towards the end of the school year! Just during final week though I'll be busy as heck so no updates during then! So…

ENJOY THE STORY :D *FINALLY* Lol

DISCLAIMER: i do NOT own Uglies by Scott Westerfeld nor do i own Vocaloid :[

IMPORTANT! READ ABOVE AN! CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO A PREVIOUS CHAPTER!

Chapter Seven-

Torture Begins

(Rin's POV)

I locked my vision on the ground, trying to avoid as much eye-contact as possible. It's kind of a prey survival-tactic. 'Don't make eye-contact with the predator.' Well, in this case … the predators. It's that sort of thing.

I stood there motionless as the teacher began to introduce me, something that I myself should have done, but I think she caught on to just how nervous I really was and saved me the trouble. The introduction, although short and brief, seemed like an eternity in my mind. My hands threatened to sweat off my arms as I stood there.

My hearing also seemed to intensify. What use to be just whispers were now relentless shouts that threatened to dismantle my eardrums.

"Kagami-san, please take a seat." I jumped, shocked by how loud her voice was compared to earlier.

"O-okay …"

I glanced up, the first time looking anywhere other than the floor since entering, and inspected the room for a seat. The only one unoccupied was behind Len. For the first time I felt the need to thank Len for my life's sake. I grabbed my bag as I began to make my way towards the window seat.

I slumped in my chair as Len turned around to face me.

"Not so bad so far, huh?" he whispered.

I snorted, "No comment."

"Trust me; it's not as bad as you think." Trust you? I just met you!

I rolled my eyes and he smirked before he continued, "and if you do need help feel free to ask."

"Thanks, but no thanks, Len." I grumbled as the teacher began the lesson for the day.

The concepts and the formulas were really confusing. I only learned one thing today in class:

Algebra Sucks.

It didn't help at all that every freakin minute Len would turn around and say things like 'You sure you don't need help?' 'Oh, good job you got one right, but these are wrong' 'See, you gotta find the greatest common factor here and switch this over there, making this positive and that negative' and 'Rin, this is so easy! Don't you think?' As if it was easy!

I did need help, but I wouldn't let him know that. It's a pride thing I guess.

I wanted to ask the teacher about a few problems, but whenever I would raise my hand students would start groaning and yelling at me to put my hand down. You can tell that they don't like Miss Yowane. I don't see why though, she's really sweet. They must know too because they keep going up every thirty seconds to ask for 'help' on their homework when clearly, they are just lazy.

But, yeah, so homework sucked. And also, Len is in all but two of my classes: French and Geography. So, I get at least an hour and a half of freedom!

BRINGGGG!

Oh my GOSH! More freedom!

I literally jumped out of my seat and bolted out of the door.

When I got out of the classroom I then realized I had no idea where to go. So of course, being the idiot that I am, I stood in the hallway while getting bumped by protesting students. I stayed dumbfounded until something hard hit my head.

"Ow!" I turned around to find my attacker.

"Hey," Len stood there with a large book in his hand, "don't leave class next time without your book, it'd be bad if you lost it." He explained as he handed me said object.

"Oops."

"Yup, anyways," he dug into his pocket and brought out a folded sheet of paper and handed it to me, "here's your schedule. It's the same as mine just about. But you'll need it just in case we get separated. Plus it has your locker combination on it." He pointed to the top of his schedule in reference and showed his combination. 46-16-32, huh? I mentally made a note to myself, just in case I would ever want to mess with him later on or something of the sort.

"Okay, thanks." I waved him off casually before heading away from him. Well, that is until he pulled me back.

"No, Rin. Art class is this way."

I groaned. Art was not one of my strong points. In fact, I sucked at drawing. One time someone mistook my giraffe for a Brachiosaurus!

"Can I have a different class?"

"What? No."

"Why not?"

"Your schedule is already official. I can't change it." Len stated as if that was obvious.

He can't change it? It's my schedule!

"Fine. Take me to my deathbed! I don't care anymore!"

"Okay, it's this way."

~In Art Class~

1/4

Dear Diary,

Art sucks.

More than usual.

Aren't we suppose to be like … drawing or something?

'Cause… we're not.

The teacher keeps rambling on about shading and crap!

Anyway, better go before Len sees that I actually use this thing and his pridefulness and crap kicks in.

Cya!

P.S. Len's Locker combination is 46-16-32 his locker is #92 :] mwhahaha

P.S.S. I'm bored SAVE ME!

Bye… for real..

Maybe..

No, but seriously, bye!

"What are you doing?" Len asked while peeking over my shoulder.

I quickly shut my journal before he could catch a glimpse at what I was writing in, "Oh nothing. Just… taking notes on value."

"Right…"

"Anyways, shouldn't we be drawing?"

"Value is an important part of drawing."

"Yea, sure. Whatever, Len. Whatever helps you sleep at night. When will we get to the good stuff though?"

"Later."

"How much later?"

Len shrugged, "I don't know"

"Len! Rin! Stop flirting and pay attention!" The teacher stopped what she was doing at the board and scolded us, "Rin I'll let you off the hook, since you're new here, but Len you know better. Pay attention."

I sighed and leaned back in my chair. I hate school… it sucks. I hate Len he sucks. Most importantly.. I hate Algebra and Art. Ughhhh.

I looked at the clock to fill some hope in my dreary life, but of course it just made everything worse. Only 5 minutes had passed in class and we had 40 minutes left to go. Quietly I pulled out a book from the bag to pass the time that I had gotten from Len's house without him noticing. It seemed interesting, but we'll see about that.

I looked up to make sure the teacher wasn't looking, and flipped open the cover of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.

BRINGGGG!

Woah! I quickly looked at the clock and notice all 40 minutes left in class had gone by. I was on page 53 of the book. I folded the edge of the book and stored it back inside of my bag… This book was a keeper.

I felt a tap on my shoulder.

Without even bothering to look I started talking "What is it, Len?"

"Len? Sorry Rin-chan, but I don't think I'm your twin. No matter how much I wish I was, because that'd be so cool to be your twin. I mean I've always wanted one."

I turned around to only find Shion, Kaito.

I sighed, "I told you we're not twins."

"oh, yeah sorry. You're adopted." He smirked at me, it seemed like he was just trying to get on my nerves.

"Yeah.. sure whatever. Anyway… do you know what happened to Len?"

"Your twin? He's in Biology right now."

"oh," He left without me? I quickly set down my backpack and whipped my schedule out. I have…. French. The class Len doesn't have with me … crap. "do you know where the French room is?"

"Yeah. It's down the hall take a right, go down the other hall and it'll be the very last door on the right. Room 203."

"Kay thanks!" I waved him off and sped-walked down the direction he told me to go.

Soon enough, I ended up in front of the doors to French 1. I was actually quite excited for French I had always wanted to learn it, but you know, home alone and such. So never went to school.

The moment I opened the doors… pure chaos. Everyone had their phone out, or any other electronic that could be named and were totally goofing off. The teacher didn't seem to care. In fact… I think he was asleep.

I went over the middle row of desks and sat behind someone with blue-greenish hair. They were in long locks on both sides. She wore a light gray outfit with teal trimmings and highlights. As I was sitting behind her I noticed she had her headphones in and was munching on a leek.

I set my binder and book bag to the side of my desk before pulling out my new-found book.

No more than 20 seconds of reading I noticed the tealette looking at me.

"You like Yellow, huh?"

Without missing a beat I joined in, "Yeah! It's my favorite color! It's awesome!"

"Nice to meet you, my name is Miku!"

"I'm Rin!" I smiled at my instant companion, who knew that such a simple question could form an instant bond.

She took her headphones out of her ear and put away her iPod before continuing, "So did you change classes, or did you transfer here?"

"Oh, I transferred here I wasn't really going to school at all before. So I kind of just started going."

"Oh, so who made you do that?"

Oh.. a … er a friend of mine." I had to resist gagging on considering Len the creeping pervert a 'friend'.

"Ah cool, so your parents…? They didn't…?"

I instantly felt a pit form in my stomach, but I refused to let that get in the way, "They aren't with me anymore so I kind of live with my friend now."

Miku's face instantly changed, knowing she hit a sore spot, "I'm sorry, I didn't know"

I smiled reassuringly, "It's okay. It'd be kind of creepy if you knew."

Miku and I shared a quick laugh before she continued, "So what about your friends' parents? They didn't do anything?"

I tried to think about it, I really didn't know anything about Len's family… "Umm, I'm not really sure; I've never met them before."

"Ahhh, okay." Miku took a quick bite of her leek before continuing, "So who is this friend of yours?"

"They're a childhood friend of mine." I quickly lied, great way to start off a friendship, Rin! "So who is the teacher?"

"That's Mr. Boutin. We sometimes learn stuff in his class, but usually we just have 'free days'. It's weird though, when he does teach us we learn a lot. How? No idea. It's cool though! Oh! He also has an awesome French accent, he actually grew up in France, so we actually have a legit teacher."

"Wow awesome! Usually Language teachers suck."

"I know! It's cool because we know that we're actually learning the right stuff."

Miku then proceeded to finish off the rest of her leek, then frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"It's all gone."

"You must like leeks a lot to be eating them raw like that."

"Of course I do! But I just like food in general."

"Me too!" I couldn't miss this chance, I mean come on. Food's like the greatest subject in the world!

"Food's amazing!" Miku must have thought that same thing as me, because she seemed pretty into it like I was.

"I know, right?"

By the end of class, all we had talked about was:

Food, music, and guys.

Best friend so far? I think so.

Once the bell rang we were both pretty upset, but we swore to sit next to each other at lunch. Thank goodness that lunch is only one period away. So far school's not so bad since I met Miku… Crap never caught her last name!

Once I pulled out my schedule all my happiness faded away. NOOOOOOOO Geography!

I sighed as I swung my backpack over my shoulder and made my way to room 104.

Once I had found the room, it was totally different from French… complete silence. I scanned the room for Len. I ended up finding Len and Miku, both sitting at total different ends of the room. Len made a toothy smile when I looked at him, but I ended up sitting by Miku instead.

Len seemed pretty shocked I had someone else I knew, like he was expecting me to be some kind of friendless anti-social person. Guess I proved him wrong.

"Hey!" Miku greeted me happily, "I had no idea we had this class together!"

"Me either, now Geography won't be half bad anymore!"

"Don't press your luck, Mr. Honne makes this class 100x worse than it needs to be."

"Are you serious?"

"Yea he makes us take notes all the time and gives us loads of homework, but don't worry he doesn't even care what we do in the class as long as it's not loud talking. So we'll work together!"

"Good, because Geography is my worse subject ever."

"It's easy, just boring"

"And that's the hard part! Staying awake!"

Miku giggled before facing the front of class, "We better pull of out our stuff if we don't want him to get mad, because trust me it's awful. He gets pissed off really easy too!"

The rest of that class ended up in us whispering and giggling the entire period and the occasional glances from Len.

Once the class ended I needed no help from my schedule to know where to go next. IT'S LUNCH TIME!

(Len POV)

I ran to catch up to Rin, only to find her talking to Miku. I sighed and decided to head to lunch by myself, this seem to be the exact same thing that happened with Teto when we were younger, she started talking to someone new and then completely forgot about me.

I shouldn't have brought Rin to school, then she wouldn't have befriended Miku.

I mentally slapped myself for being so selfish.

(Rin POV)

As me and Miku headed to the lunch table I noticed Len sitting four spots away from me and talking to his friends. Next to him I also saw Kaito and some other guy who I hadn't seen yet, but I swore that I would start talking to him soon … no matter what.

Ohhhhh Who is Rin seeing? :o Read next time to find out! And also if you didn't read the top AN then lemme say this again I am sooooo sorry for not updating :o and I wish I had made this chap longer in my composition, but I didn't so your just gonna have to wait another week for chapter 8 xD lol so Yeah :P oh and this chap makes all my friends laugh cuz Mr. Boutin is really my french teacher and he ALWAYS falls asleep during class xD lol