Chaos Academy

Chapter 3

Paradise City

Kaz's POV

One good thing happened when I got to the room. There was my guitars. Electric and bass with the amps. I smiled.

At least there's something to take off me my about Tom.

There was a note taped on to the electric guitar. It read:

Kaz, here are your guitars with the cases, amps, and some extra strings. I also put in some money. Half for you and the other half is for Galleria. Love you, Mom

"Sweet," I mutter under my breath, picking up the money. My eyes widen. There was $1,000 for me and the other half for Steph.

"Holy code …"

Okay, Tom's lie pissed me off, but this made everything better. I plugged in my electric guitar, put on the strap, and took out my iPhone and went to Music.

There was a ton a songs, but one I thought perfectly fit Miami.

I put in my headphones, a click on "Paradise City" by Guns n Roses.

Take me down

To the very Paradise City

Where the grass is green

And the girls are pretty

Oh, won't you please take me home

I started to play. This was about the only way to let me relax. It was also my way to figure things out.

Per normal to me, I didn't noticed that the amp was cracked up ALL THE WAY UP.

It sounded like … I really don't know how it sounded like. Partly because it was so loud and partly because I had on headphones on and I really didn't really know.

"KAZ! ARE YOU OKAY?"

Tom yell made me stop. I lowered the volume of the amp and took my iPhone and guitar with me to the door.

Both Tom and Peyton were there. Without thinking, I let the both in.

"What the hell was that Kaz?" Peyton asked.

Just an urchin living under the street

I'm a hard case that's tough to beat

I'm your charity case

So buy me something to eat

I'll pay you at another time

Take it to the end of the line

"Huh?"

Rags to riches or so they say

You got to - keep pushing for the fortune and fame you know

It's all a gamble when it's just a game

You treat it like a capital crime

Everybody's doing their time

"I said, Kazzy, what the hell was that?"

I rolled my eyes. "Oh, that was my guitar." I showed it to them. It was black, with rolling red flames. The bass was the same, except that bass was red with black flames.

"But dude! It sounded like an explosion!" Tom said.

I smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, I was playing. I didn't notice that the volume was so loud."

"But, my bro, you do rock that thing out." Peyton said, pointing at my guitar.

Tom nodded. "That's for sure. Since when do you play?"

"Ever since I could walk I could play. It's helps me organize my thoughts," I whispered, playing again (at a much lower volume).

"So …" Tom looked away, not being able to look me in the eye. I felt so guilty. I had overreacted. Yeah, I thought I had a good reason, but looking back, it sounded stupid.

"Tom, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that. I was acting dumb." I confessed.

Tom smiled faintly. "Yeah! We're all besties again!" Peyton shouted, pumping his fists in the air.

Me and Tom rolled our eyes. And I started to look around.

Tom explained why he never told us about Luna. Me and Peyton nodded, understanding.

The room looked amazing. I wasn't really looking at it when I first came in, but now I was taking it all in.

The room was a deep shade of red with swirls of light blue and yellow. There were three beds, one with a dark red comforter and black pillows, one with a yellow comforter and light brown pillows and one with a sky blue comforter and silver pillows. There were three mini-fridges (Hell yeah!) next to the beds, a walk-in closet that was huge, a flat-screen TV with Blue-Ray and a desktop computer with touch-screen. I smiled when I recognized my stereo system.

"This. Place. Is. AWESOME." Peyton said, putting his stuff down.

"Yup," I said, staring to place my clothes in the closet. I mean, seriously, you could fit a small bed there.

"Hey, Tom? Do me a favor and let Inferno out." I called out.

"Sure," Tom said and I could hear Inferno's meow and him jumping onto one of the bed. Part of me hoped that it wasn't mine.

I finished putting my stuff there, (I didn't pack a lot of clothes) and jumped onto the red bed.

"I call this one." Peyton said, pointing at yellow one.

"Tom, that's leaves you with the blue bed." I said; he was in the closet putting his stuff in.

"It's cool, I wanted that one anyway." I smiled, took out a Coke out of my mini-fridge and start to turn on the stereo. (And checking that the volume was low)

"I can't believe that we get all of this," Tom said, gesturing to the whole room.

"Yeah." Then I remembered something. "Tom? You did make up with Steph, right?"

Tom slapped his hand against his forehead.

"Danm it, no I forgot. I was gonna to but I head that explosion." I smiled sheepishly. "I better be going. See ya guys later." he said and left.

"Um, Kaz?" Peyton said. I looked up from just before placing one of my CDs in the stereo. "Yeah, wait?"

"Isn't Steph, like really pissed at Tom for not telling us about Lulu?"

"Yup. Alex and Sarah, I really don't think so. Those two aren't the type to be pissed off by that sort of thing."

Then I realized it. I hit my head on the wall. Hard. I'm pretty sure I'll have a bruise there later.

"Tom is so screwed."

Alex's POV

"Steph? Really you can't forgive Tom?" I asked. Steph shook her head, her black hair moving like a midnight veil over her head.

"Stephanie, you're being dumb. Just forgive him. I need to get my iPod back from him." Sarah said.

Okay, me nor Sarah were mad at Tom. Tom wouldn't lie to us because of two things (1) the guy can't lie to save his life and (2) if he could lie, why the hell would he kept that from us? It had to be important.

Well, Steph apparently couldn't see that. She was in one of her moods.

"Guys, I need to put on some music. That's helps me think." We both nodded as she went to the stereo system.

Our room was a beautiful swirl of silver, jade-green, hunter green, brown, light blue, and black. Their were three beds, one blue and silver, one dark green and brown, and one jade-green and yellow. There was three mini-fridges, a walk-in closet, a TV and a desktop computer.

"Steph, please. At least listen to the guy." I pleaded with her, doing my famous puppy-dog-eyes.

Steph (hee hee) caved. "Fine. Just stop with the eyes, they kill me," she said with a smile.

I smiled with her. She turned on the stereo system and placed one of my CDs in. "Paradise City" by Guns n Roses played.

I jumped up and down and squeak out loud. I was a major fan of Guns n Roses—but I still heart Paramore forever—and "Paradise City" was the first song I listened from them.

Take me down

To the Paradise City

Where the grass is green

And the girls are pretty

Oh, won't you please take me home

I sang along with them and Sarah and Steph rolled their eyes. I was sure that I could never be a singer as Steph was sure that Sunkist was the best soda in the whole world.

I heard a knocking. I didn't even noticed the song ending.

I want to go

I want to know

Oh, won't you please take me home

Yeah, baby

Yeah

Sarah went to open it. But, instead of being Tom (come on, you'll think it would be him right?) it was Luna.

"Luna? What are you doing here?" Sarah asked in disbelief.

"I, um, wanted to talk with um, Stephanie and … um … Alex? I found your CD case." she said in a small voice, holding up my CD case.

"Okay," Sarah shrugged and let her in.

"Thanks a lot Luna," I said when she gave me back my CD case.

Steph rolled her eyes. "Ever think about super-gluing that thing to your butt Alex?" she asked and we all laughed. I took a quick glance to Luna.

The sunlight reflected off of her stark white hair, turning it to silver. Her eyes were freakishly alike to Tom's and Steph's.

All in all, Luna kinda looked like some kind of angel.

Well, Steph actually looked happy to see Luna. A sadistic smile was on her face and her eyes were sharp with an edge.

Translation: I going to had fun hurting you.

Luna was screwed.

"Well, hello Luna. You look … fine. What can I do for you?" Steph asked, her voice sounding polite, but chilling at the same time.

"I'm fine. Listen, this was not Tom's fault that he didn't tell you about me." Luna said, looking calm, cool, and collected.

I give her ten points for that.

Steph went over to sit on her silver and blue bed. She looked like a queen looking down on a commoner.

"I would like to hear that from him, but since you're his twin, you're work."

Really Steph? Sometimes I get sick and tired from her acting. It's not bad—she's great at it—but I want her to act like herself.

"Well, my mom and dad are divorced, since we were little. I don't see Tom much, and vise versa, so we don't like to talk about it." Luna explained.

Well, this explains everything.

No wonder Tom didn't say anything.

Steph widen and they filled tot the brim with sympathy. Right? I wasn't so sure with Stephanie.

Her moods were like the ocean, forever changing. It was hard to tell what kind of mood she was in sometimes.

This was one of those times.

"I'm sorry," She said, her voice cracking. "I-I didn't know."

She looked away, not being able to look Luna in the eye. Me and Sarah looked at each other.

Steph was tough, but when it came down to family, she was soft and caring. Like a teddy bear (but don't tell her I said that). That's the real Steph.

"Aww,"

I forgot that door was open. Tom was at the threshold of the room, leaning on the wall, smiled cocky.

"How much did you hear?" we all said together in unionism.

Tom chucked, his blue eyes sparking.

"All of it." he turned his attention at Steph. "At least I don't have to face the wrath of Stephanie now. Thanks for saving my butt Luna."

Steph and Luna rolled their eyes.

"Really Tom?" Steph said. "I didn't know that you were coming. If I knew, I would had never went in here." Luna said.

We all laughed. "I like you," Steph said, smiling at Luna, which Luna returned.

"Okay, know that's cleared up, I need to go. The sun setting, and it would suck if I got in trouble for being on the scared girl grounds." Tom said and with a wave, he left.

"Well, I need to go too. My stuff is outside and, I'm right next to you guys, so I'll see you later," Luna said, hugged each one of us and left.

I looked out of the window we had. And danm, Tom was right, it sun was setting. It looked really pretty, with the light reflecting of the clouds.

"Steph? Didn't you think you're were a bit too forgiving?" Sarah asked.

Steph didn't answer her. She took out her iPod and looked around. Her eyes soon locked on to a bookshelf that was there and she took one out.

The title was in a reddish-pink and said "Chosen".

Steph opened the book and began to read. Sarah looked with me with a "WTF?" look so I rolled my eyes and pointed to the doorway. We both left.

"Okay, what the hell was that?" Sarah asked me the second we were out of Steph's earring range.

"Well, Steph nor Kaz knows who is their father, so the two are really sensitive to family things. Steph must had felt bad because of that so she wants to be alone. Steph is always that way with anything family." I explained in a matter-of-fact tone.

Sarah closed her and a took a deep breath. When she reopened them, they were a bit misty.

"I guess that makes sense. God, I must had sounded totally insensitive." Sara said, looking down at her shoes.

I shook my head. "You didn't know." I said, placing my hand on her shoulder. She looked back up, looking liker her old self.

"Come on, Steph isn't the type to hold a grudge," I whispered and we walked back inside.

Steph was still reading, but she looked up and smiled. See? Steph told me once that she has no time to waste on a grudge.

"Sorry, Steph." Sarah said.

Steph smiled and laughed. "I really did fool you guys!" she exclaimed.

Me and Sarah looked at each other and our mouths dropped.

And weirdly enough, we laughed.

Thinking about the famous Guns n Roses, I was really starting to think that Miami could really be Paradise City.

Me - Aw! I really do think that Steph and Kaz overreacted. But, that's over and it came to a happy ending. Later on in my story, that's going to become increasing scare.

Song - "Paradise City" by Guns n Roses

I finally decided that there will be three books to the series, one for each year that Steph and the gang are in school.

This one is called The Chaos Academy (duh), the second Heart of The Storm, and the last, Evanescence Memories.

I'm kinda sad that no one tried to figure out who was talking in the beginning of the last chapter. Please try. I really excited to hear what you think. Also, I noticed that everyone expect for ChaoticWriterCrazy and Ratchet Jr NO ONE gave me your OC's looks. Yeah, so just PM me or put it in a review so I know.

Also, look up Evanescence's meaning. I never knew it was really a word until I had wanted to look it up just for the hell of it. It's makes sense, thinking about the band Evanescence, it's meaning, and what Amy Lee sings.

Speaking about Amy Lee … AMY LEE VS. CHAOR!

Mmmmm … really good question who would win … REVIEW!