Monday, August 27

7:20 am

Chris's House

I woke up to my alarm clock. I got dressed in the clothes that I had set out the night before. I ate breakfast, which happened to be cereal, because it was on the table. That's what I always usually ate for breakfast when I could when I was out in the streets and lived in locked up public places.

Chris was still asleep, because he's in college, and his classes start around ten o'clock! He's really lucky, because I have to go to bed early and get up early. It sucks, but of course, school has always been like that, and it was for him and everyone else, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

My backpack was a bag that crossed over my chest and hung at my waist. It was denim with random punk buttons all over it. A flap was what kept it closed, and you would simply lift it to find all the different pouches you could stuff in. All I had was paper, pens, pencils, and a spiral notebook.

The only way I got into the school was Chris saying that he was my older brother, and that our parents died. He said I lived at his house, and now I actually do. I hoped he would let me stay, because of course his mom was dead, and he might get lonely or something.

I felt, a presence. I heard a horn honk, and I remembered that I was going to be riding a bus for the first time. With my small black purse on my shoulder, and my nervousness, I opened the front door and looked at the school bus. I walked down the sidewalk, and opened the little white fenced gate.

The bus windows were all open, and I heard some people say, "Wow, what a cute house!" That made me feel a little better. I walked up the stairs into the bus, and the bus driver greeted me.

"Hello," he said. He made me feel uncomfortable. Very. He stared at me. I didn't say anything back, and I started walking down the easel. Someone tripped me, and I fell to the floor, hitting my lip hardly. I felt blood come from it. I got up and turned around to see a girl laughing with her friends at me, but I didn't hear any sound.

'Kill them, they hurt you,' said something inside me.

'No,' I said back in my head.

"Hey aren't you that girl that saw your mom dead and cut into pieces?" Silence covered the bus.

I wiped the blood from my mouth, and simply said, "Yeah."

"Aren't you sad?" Some people asked.

"Of course," I said looking down. Come to think of it, Chris didn't seem that upset about her dieing.

"So," said the girl that tripped me, "I guess you think you're pretty cool stuff, being on TV and all." She stood up. The whole time I was wondering why the bus driver wasn't driving or telling us the sit down.

"No," I said, "I actually didn't want to be on TV."

"Okay then, hat girl," she said, pushing me. What was this girls problem? Why was she bothering me so much? What did she have against me?

"Don't. Touch. Me." I told her.

"Uuuuuwwwwww!!!," went the whole bus, getting louder and louder.

Then something happened. Something that almost made me faint. A cut suddenly appeared on her face, and blood started gushing out. I just stared, and she just stared at me. She knew I didn't do it. She knew I didn't even touch her.

"What the hell?!" she screamed, touched her face, and seeing her blood covered hand.

"Trina!" said one of the girls, staring at Trina's face.

"I'm Rika, nice to meet you," I said, shaking her blood covered hand and I made my way to the back of the bus.

"Girls, sit down!" finally said the bus driver. Trina's friends helped her clean up and put a bandage on her cut. I didn't cut her, and I didn't know who did. Apparently there was another diclonius or silpelit on the bus.

Sitting across from me on the bus, were two girls. One with short blue hair, and one with even shorter pink hair.

"Don't mind Ray, she's always a bit fat meany!" Said the one with pink hair.

"I'm Mayu, and this is Nana," said the girl with the short blue hair. I stared at Nana's hat.

"I'm Rika," I said, pointing to myself. "Did you do that, Nana?"

"No," she said.

I was confused. I couldn't feel another presence anywhere close besides her.

"It was probably Roy," Mayu said.

"What?!" I said, as the bus started moving.

"You know who he is?" Nana questioned.

"Yah…" I said.

"I heard about what happened to your mom on TV," Mayu said, "I'm so so-"

"She's not really my mom," I said.

"What?!" They both said.

"I'm living with Chris, my friend, and I just came across it. My parents are dead. I'm homeless, but he's letting me live with him."

"Then you're just like us!" Nana said, pointing to Mayu and herself.

"Do you live with anyone?" I asked.

"Yah," said Mayu, "Kouta and his cousin Yuka. Both of us."

"What are you Nana?"

"A silpelit," she said, simply. "What are you?"

"She's a human of course silly," Mayu said.

"But…" she whimpered, "She wears a hat!"

"Well she wears it because she likes it!"

"I'm a diclonius," I said.

"Wow, just like Lucy!" Nana said. Mayu looked shocked.

"But let's keep all of this our little secret," I said, putting an index finger over me mouth. No one else was listened at all to our whole conversation.

We were at the school, and the bus door opened. "What grade are you in?" Mayu asked.

"8th," I said.

"We're in the same grade, all three of us!!" Nana exclaimed and smiled. We all exited the bus, and I saw what looked like a dark boy going into the school, about twenty feet away from me.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"Who?" Mayu asked.

"I don't know, he just walked into the school."

"Show me him at lunch, and I'll tell you who he is," Nana said. He seemed very mysterious, very dark and gloomy. A lone wolf.

The bus doors closed, and he drove off. Everyone was running around everywhere and talking. The school was pretty much just a big rectangle made out of bricks. Nothing special at all, but everyone had smiles on their faces. I was surprised no one recognized me at first from TV, which made me happy.

Us three walked into the school, and up to the front office to get my schedule.

"Hi, my name is Rika, I'm new."

"Oh yah you're that girl that got transferred because you were bad at your old school," the woman said.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me," she said. "Here's your schedule," she said as she handed it to me. Again, just like in the bus, a cut appeared on her face, and blood started gushing out. I ran out, because I knew she would think I did it. I looked to the right, only to see the dark boy turn the corner.

"It must be him," I said.

"What?" Nana asked.

"That boy that I saw before. It must be him that's cutting people's faces, but I didn't see him on the bus, so I don't know."

"Wow…" said Nana, "I wonder who it is."

"I wonder why he's doing stuff when people are mean to you."

"I wonder that, too," I said, confused.

"Okay, so you have advisory/homeroom with me and Nana, with Ms. Stone," she said taking the schedule politely from me. "She's a real bitch, watch out for her. We both had her for advisory last year, too." They had gotten their schedule in the mail, but I hadn't, because I guess Chris's mom threw it away, since it way sent to her house.

"Yah, she's a big meany too!" Nana said. At the office I saw someone who appeared to be the nurse taking the lady to her office.

"You didn't do it, so don't worry about it," Mayu said, "Of yah, and one more problem. Stone won't let you wear that hat in her classroom."

"And I don't have any extra hair bows! Poo!" Nana said.

"Okay, well pray for a miracle," Mayu said. "We really need to get to class. The bell will ring soon."

They both let me down what seemed like a maze of tiled floored hallways, and past a billion lockers. Most people started finally staring at me, I think because I was the new girl, and because I had been on TV about a tragic story, right?

"And here we are," Mayu said, all three of us entering the classroom. It was a simple classroom. A chalkboards, desks, and a big teachers desk. No posters or anything were around though, which puzzled me. I thought that all classrooms have some posters in their room. Maybe it was just because it was the beginning of the year.

"Is it always this plain?" I asked.

"Yah," Nana said. "She never puts up anything on the walls!"

"Nothing, never," Mayu said.

"Well that sucks," I said.

"Young lady, you may not say that in this classroom," someone said behind me. Oh, the joy was just beginning. I turned around.

"What?" I asked.

"Don't 'what' me," Ms. Stone said. She was very fat and ugly with short grey hair. "I said you can't say that, and you can't wear that hat either!"

"Her mom just died, be nice on her!" Some boy with brown hair and green eyes said as he walked into the classroom.

"Oh, you're that girl. That girl that murdered her mom and cut her up into little pieces."

"What are you talking about, Roy did it!" said that boy again.

"Psh, as if. She was a really bad kid at her old school. Oh course she did it, but no one thinks she did." Now I was getting really pissed off. "That's whys he got transferred here, because she was so bad, the school couldn't stand her. Now they make us take care of her. I think she should be in jail. She did so many bad things, and she murdered her own mother!"

"Shut up," I said.

"What did you say?! Go to the principals office!" Now more people started gathering around in the class room, even people who didn't have her for advisory.

"That's not true." She was worse than my old teacher that I killed.

"So what now? Are you going to kill me like you killed your other teacher? She never did anything to you! You just pulled out a knife and cut her in half like you cut your mother into little pieces!"

"Shut the fuck up, you don't know what you're talking about," said a boys voice. It was the dark boy. Everyone grew silent. "Leave her alone, she's new. If you don't I. Will. Kill. You."

"Uuuuuuwwwww!!!!" Echoed everyone again. I didn't see his face, unluckily, but as he walked past me he put something in my hand, out hands touching barely. It was a note and two hair bows. The note read, "Just in case." Were he touched my hand there was a pulse, and it started going numb. I swear when he first touched me, my heart stopped beating.

Words from my dream echoed in my head, "If anyone hurts you. I. Will. Kill. Them."

"I swear, one day that boy is going to get in a lot of trouble," said a random girl from the group of kids. Then, I heard a clap. And another clap, and soon enough everyone was clapping about that boy standing up for me.

Ms. Stone didn't say anything, and didn't look at anyone, she just went to her desk and sat her big fat butt down. The bell rung, and everyone said, "Oh!!!" The people that had another class ran out of the classroom to their classes. I almost got ran over, but Nana pulled me out of the way.

I sat at a desk near the back of the classroom, near the window. That boy that first stood up for me sat near me, and so did Mayu and Nana. "I'm Mike," he said, reaching out his hand, me shaking it. "I guess someone else got you covered." He had short spiked blonde hair and green eyes. He seemed outgoing.

"Oh, no thank you so much!" I said. He was talking about the boy who gave me the bows. "Um," I was reluctant to ask, "Who is he?"

"Well all the girls love him, because they say he's so hott and mysterious. An enigma. But he really just seems like a jerk. He hardly talks to anyone, and at lunch he sits alone. If anyone comes up and sits next to him, he moves to an empty table. He was here last year. All the girls that confess their 'love' to him, he just shoos away, like bugs. He claims he's madly in love with this girl. People have asked him about her, but he usually doesn't answer. But when he does, he usually says 'I don't know.' I think he just made her up in his head because he… well actually I don't know why. It's just weird. And another weird thing is that he always wears a hat, exactly like yours, just coal black."

"What's his name, and what's the girls name?" I asked.

"His name is Dustin, and the girl he loves is Rika, why?"

"I'm Rika."

"Psh," he shooed away the thought of me being her, "Everyone claims they are. Like I said, everyone likes him."

"No, I'm serious."

"She's serious!" Cried Nana.

He looked at me with squinted eyes, deciding to tell me, "Take off your hat."

"I'd rather not."

"Then I won't believe you," he said, "I know what Dustin really is. I know why Nana wears a hat. Yall are all just like Roy, aren't yall?" Nana and I got a shocked look on our face. "No, no, don't worry," he smiled, "I haven't told anyone, and I never will. But can you show me your horns after class?"

"Maybe," I said. "So, everyone is avoiding me, why?" No one else was around us.

"Because everyone in this school are bastards, except for a few people. They heard that you're a bad kid… but, is that true?"

"No," I smiled, "Oh course not! Everyone was just really very hateful to me in my old school."

"Well, you probably won't get a lot of luck here either, unless you do something awesome or something," he said, "Everyone thinks you killed your parents and you know the whole story."

"That sucks that those rumors spread past just my school," I sighed, "I thought I was going to be able to start over and have some real friends."

"I'll be your real friend," Mike said.

"Me too!" Said Mayu.

"Me three!" Exclaimed Nana.

"Thank you, all three of you. I haven't really had a lot of friends, ever, except for Chris."

"Oh… your 'brother'?"

"Yah."

"Okay, well now that that's over, would you tell me your name?"

"I told you, it's Rika. I'm in love with Dustin."

"No, no seriously."

"Rika… Please come here," said a teacher in the door frame. She was tall and slender, with medium length brown hair and green eyes. She looked like she was in the middle of her thirties, and she wore glasses.

"Told ya," I said as I got up and went over to the teacher. "Is there a problem?" I asked.

"Yes, there is a problem. Ms. Stone claimed that you told her to shut up, after she said she claimed the truth!" Everyone was listening and perked their heads up. "Please come with me." All we really did was step around the corner. "Good job! I thought you were going to let her beat you all up!"

"Huh?"

"Oh, she's horrible to everyone, but everyone never tells. Plus, the principal is a real looney, so she won't fire her! You got to show her you're not scared of her or she'll mess with you all year!"

"Ohhh," I realized, "So you're on my side."

"Yah," she said, smiling.

"That's nice to know."

"Well if you ever need to talk, then I'm just right across the hall from Ms. Stone. I want to put an end to this crazy school and crazy teachers."

"Then why do you work here?"

"Whelp, I don't really know. I guess there just has to be one nice teacher!"

"Umm…"

"What? Don't be shy!" She smiled.

"I have a question," I confessed.

"Ask away."

"But it's about a student, well, two."

"Okay, I know mostly everyone. Especially if they're popular or something."

"Could you tell me about Ray, the bully?"

"Well… let's see… her real name is Rachael, and she's just pretty much a bully. She's nothing special. She usually gets kids to gang up with her on people who aren't like everyone else."

"Oh… She tripped me in the bus and made my lip bleed."

"Oh! Are you alright?!"

"Yah, oh course," I said.

"What's your name?" She asked me.

"Rika." She gasped. "Yah, I know." She gasped because obviously she knew Dustin was in love with me. "I want to know about… Dustin."

"Well, he's mostly a mystery to everyone. An enigma. He doesn't show emotion a lot, and he hardly talks. One of the very few things most people know about him though is that he claims he's madly in love with a girl named Rika, with I suppose is you. But seeing that this is your first day and you don't really know much about him, I come to think that both of yall are diclonius' and used telepathy to trade ones thoughts, and in the process, fell in love."

"Then you'd be correct," I said. "But I didn't know he was real until yesterday. Someone told me about him. What is your name?"

"Mrs. Shirakawa," she said, smiling because she was happy that she was right. "But just call me Mrs. Kawa." A shocked look came across my face

"I know who you are, and I don't think I can trust you," I said. She was Dr. Karama's assistant. What was she doing here?

"Oh no," she said, "Don't worry, I quit that job. It was all very emotional. You're secrets are safe with me."

"Thank you," I said.

"Everything okay?" Said a boys voice. I turned around.

"Oh, I ur, um," he put his finger on my lips, shushing me.

"Sit with me at lunch," and then he walked off.

Authors Note:

XD So I hope everyone is liking this story! Here's my stats for it so far…

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… and I only have 5 comments! (& 1 isn't even a comment) So all the other 31 people that are reading this need to leave a review! Like I said in the summary, you'll get cookies! X3 But seriously, the only reason you would be reading this is because you like it, and are curious (I think…) So just leave like a short comment saying that you like it or that it's good! It would mean the world to me! So I'm sure many of you are wondering, "Hey, what did Roy's note say?" Well yall will just have to figure that out! I'll give you a hint: It's the same kind of secret code that was in Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events, the movie. Yah, it's not that hard to figure out, believe me. There'll be some more secret coded letters from people in the story in the future, so yall have to really think. Congrates to the people who knew what the first one say.

So just to make sure yall know, Mrs. Kawa is in the anime, and like I said before in the story, she was Dr. Karama's assistant.

I'm almost done with chapter 5, so it'll be up REALLY soon! XD Hope yall look forward to it. The next chapter is where the introductions are over and the story starts! Oh, and Mayu and Nana aren't going to have a big role in the story, I don't even think I'll include Yuka or Kouta… just to let yall know. This is my story.

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