A/: Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait! On with it!

Chapter 11

HIRO'S POV:

The next day was a Monday, so that meant the first day of the 7th grade at a new school.

Tadashi had bought me pencils, paper, folders, notebooks, pens, and a backpack.

On Monday morning, Tadashi shook me awake.

"Hiro, Hiro its time to wake up," I heard someone say, my shoulders felt like they were being moved.

"No….Mom, five more minutes.." I mumbled.

"Get up Hiro, it's your first day at the new school!" I sat up, rubbing my eyes.

It was only Tadashi. "Okay, Okay, I'm up," I said, getting out of bed. I took off my sweat pants and threw on my shorts and my T-Shirt. I put on my shoes and brushed my hair and teeth. We ate in silence and walked down stairs.

We met up with the rest of the group and we all piled into Wasabi's van.

When we got to San Fransokyo Middle, Tadashi walked with me to the front office.

Him and the lady at the desk talked for a while and I was given my schedule.

The bell rang and I hurried to room 181, Math, Mrs. Sankey.

I walked into the room, and a very tall lady with brown hair and brown eyes told me where to sit.

"Okay class, we will begin our lesson , but first we have the high school questions of the day!" she said.

I asked the kid next to me what a high school question was.

"It's when she asks us questions that are high school level. So far, no one can even think to answer any," He said.

"The first question is," she started writing on the board. She wrote:

At a party, everyone shook hands with everyone else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were there at the party?

I thought for a moment, and then raised my hand. Since I was in the back, I had to stand up since I was so short.

She looked surprised and pointed at me.

"The answer is 12," I said, and she looked stunned.

"How did you get that answer?" she asked.

"Since this sum is n(n+1)/2, we need to solve the equation n(n+1)/2 = 66.
This is the quadratic equation n2+ n -132 = 0. there were 12 people at the party." I said, and then took a large breath." I said, and then drew in a large breath. Everyone stared at me in shock and confusion.

"How did you do that? You have no work on your paper," she said.

I pointed to my head and smiled.

She looked confused again and carried on with her lesson.

By the end of the day, I was so tired.

The news of the boy who actually solved the problem spread around the school like a wildfire.

Every single one of my teachers had tested my brain, and praised me for getting everything right.

I walked out of the school, waiting for Tadashi, when suddenly three boys from a couple of my classes came up to me.

"Hey kid, what's your problem?" one said. I reconized him as Drake Andrews, from my science class.

"Umm….I don't know what your talking about," I said, trying to act tough.

One of the others kids grinned and cracked his neck. I knew him too. His name was Tim Blanco.

"Sure you don't. coming in this school and acting like a know it all on your first day?" Tim said.

The other kid just smiled evilily. He was Shane Irvin.

Suddenly, Drake and Tim grabbed my arms, pulling my behind the school. They threw me to the ground, but kept a strong grip on my arms so I couldn't run away. Shane then gave me a swift kick to the gut.

I gagged and felt the air leave my chest. I coughed up some blood.

"P-Please, S-Stop," I said weakly. Shane was about to hit me again when I heard my brothers voice.

"Hiro…Where are you?" he was yelling from the other side of the building. Shane gave me another punch to the gut and ran away, his dumb friends behind him. I stood up weakly and headed towards the front of the building. Tadashi saw me and ran over. He must have noticed the bruise on my face because he looked worried.

"Hiro! What happened? Are you okay?" he said, inspecting my black eye.

"Y-Yeah I'm good, I just fell," I lied, and he seemed convinced, but not quite.

"Okay, if you say so," He said walking to the car, where Wasabi and the group waited.

"Hey Hir- WOAH what happened?" Honey said.

"He fell," replied Tadashi for me.

She looked between Tadashi and I and I smiled and nodded weakly.

"How was your first day of school, Hiro?" asked Tadashi. Everyone smiled and nodded, wanting to hear how my day went.

"Well in math, the teacher asked a really hard question that no one could answer, and I got it correct," I said. "And that's the most exciting thing really."

Everyone looked surprised.

"Wait, do you have Mrs. Sankey?" Fred asked. I nodded.

He smiled broadly.

"I had her too. She always have a high school question every morning, and no one could ever get it," said Fred.

"What was the question Hiro?" Tadashi asked. I remembered right away.

"It was 'if there is a party and everyone shook hands with everyone else, and there were 66 handshakes, how many people were there?'" I said.

"And, what's the answer big guy?" Tadashi asked.

"12"

"everyone gasped.

We were soon at the apartment building, and we parked in the private garage. We walked up to the 3rd floor and went in our separate rooms.

By now it was 6. We ate dinner together, Pizza, while Tadashi told me about his nerd school.

"Wow, I really want to go there when I'm in college," I said.

He chuckled and got up to bring the empty dishes into the kitchen. I helped him clean up before changing into sweats and sat on the couch. Tadashi sat down next to me, after putting in a movie. We watched until I couldn't keep me eyes open, and I fell asleep.

TBC…