A/N: Hi again. I can't believe that I got 10 reveiws on my first chapter. And all of them were positive. I am so happy right now:)

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I hope that you will find this chapter entertaining, even if I'm not too fond of it...

And the DISCLAIMER: I do not own Kickin it.

Ok I think I said all that was on my mind, so I'm gonna let Jack take over from here since he did such a great job on the previous chapter...

Chapter 2

A tragic accident

Everyone's attention was fixed on the Principal that now stood by the podium. We braced ourselves to whatever he had to say. He cleared his throat.

"It is with great sorrow that I'll inform you that our school has suffered a great loss." He made a short pause, collecting himself before continuing." One of our students is no longer with us. Theresa Jane Greene was tragically killed in a car accident yesterday."

The words felt like a bucket of ice cold water just been thrown at you and they were hard to comprehend at first. Everyone was in a state of chock and the atmosphere got even heavier than before, which made it hard to breathe. I didn't know the girl (thankfully…). She was apparently one year younger than we and I hadn't been here long enough to recognize everyone yet, but still her death affected me in a way that's hard to describe. Death is something so far away, almost unreachable in our age, and yet here it was shoved right up our faces.

An image of a car wreck with a beautiful blond girl all covered in blood and broken glass in the passenger seat flashed through my mind. The thought made me feel sick. I tried to concentrate on the things Mr Burke was saying in an attempt to clear my head but my imagination had gone wild. The picture of the dying Kim wouldn't leave me alone.

I instinctively search for Kim's hand that was lying on the armrest between us. She jerked her hand away in surprise at first, but soon replaced it, taking my hand in hers. I squeezed it gently, making sure she really was there. I glanced at her sitting next to me. The sight of the real living and breathing Kim slowly brought me back to reality again. She met my gaze with a worried look on her face. Trying to reassure her that everything was fine, I gave her a faint smile. She turned her attention back to Mr Burke and his words finally started to reach me again.

"Our school therapist as well as Pastor Farrell will be here all week long. Don't hesitate to talk to them or any other adult at our school, if you feel that the recent event is affecting you in any uncomforting way. I now speak directly to Theresa's classmates. Pastor Farrell will visit you, answering questions and discussing thoughts about life and death, right after this ceremony. All the ordinary classes until ten o'clock have been cancelled."

Once again I was relieved that this hadn't happened to someone I knew. I really felt sorry for her friends. I couldn't imagine a world without any of my friends Kim, Milton, Eddie, Jerry or Rudy.

Mr Burke had ended the speech by lighting a candle in the memory of Theresa.

People started to get up from their seats and slowly heading to the exit. As the time came for us to rise I noticed Kim and I still holding hands. She noticed it too as she quickly let go, her cheeks turning a bit red. Was she blushing? Nha… I'd probably just imagined it. I decided not to take a second look at her to find out if she truly was though, cause that would mean exposing my own face, which I was pretty sure was red as a tomato by the way it was burning. So I kept my gaze at the floor as we walked through the exit, which wasn't such a great idea... My lack of attention caused me to bump into someone just as we reached the hallway.

"Hey! Watch were you going punk." An all too familiar voice said.

"Oh, I'm sorry" I apologized almost on reflex, but when he turned around and I realized who it was, I quickly added.

"On a second thought… I am truly not that sorry, Frank."

I could see his rage grow as he struggled to keep himself from attacking me. I tried my best to suppress a smile. It's always so fun to tease Frank for several of reasons. First, he's kind of stupid and it doesn't take much for him to make a fool out of himself. Second, he has a tendency to overreact. And third, he's part of the Black Dragon, the rivalling dojo, which basically means that we're mortal enemies… Plus I don't like him.

"Now if you'll excuse me, you're kind of in our way." I said gesturing for him to step aside. He didn't of course. Instead three of his friends from the Black Dragon lined up beside him in an attempt to block our way.

"Maybe you didn't hear him, Frank? Step aside you moron." It was Kim who's spoken.

The sound of her voice made Frank's expression soften a bit. I seriously think that he has a crush on her, which is both hilarious and disturbing. Poor Kim…

"I heard him perfectly fine." He said cockily. "It just so happens that I have excellent hearing but I choose not to do as he says for this is our part of the hallway and we are the ones making the rules here." He held out a finger as to making a point. I just rolled my eyes at him.

Kim was just about to say something when Mrs Palmer came by. Frank and his gang quickly scattered looking innocent. We saw our chance and walked past them. Not that we were trying to flee from them, it was just not a good time -considering the circumstances- to start a fight.

As Kim and I reached our lockers I noticed a bunch of girls sitting on a bench right next to the stairs that led to the second floor. They were in the middle of a conversation but went silent when they saw us. I could feel their gaze following us as we got our stuff. It was actually creeping me out a little. I wondered if Kim had noticed them too. But the fact that she hadn't dropped any comment to them yet made me realize that she hadn't…

"I can't believe it…It feels so unreal…" Kim said to herself obviously thinking about what happened to Theresa.

"I know. You never think that things like this is going to happen to someone you know." I said. "Not that we really knew her though…but still…"

She just shook her head deep in thoughts.

"Well at least something good is coming out of all of this."

I looked at her confused after her statement.

"What?" I asked.

"Since some of our lessons have been cancelled we have a lot more time working on your homework." She said, a bright smile spread across her face.

I threw my head back, letting out a deep sigh of frustration. I totally forgot about the essay again.

"Did you say homework?" Milton asked as he came up to us. "Is there any chance that we've gotten a new assignment?"

"Thankfully no" Kim answered. "Jack just forgot the one for today. You know the essay about our life in ten years from now, and I promised to help him with it."

"Oh, I see… Do you want any extra help with it?" Milton asked with enthusiasm. "I'll be happy to do it. All this extra spare time is going to bore me to death otherwise."

Kim and I looked at him as if he was some kind of idiot. Of course he's not. In fact Milton is a genius, smarter than anyone I know but sometimes he can be really weird.

"You are more than welcome to help." I said knowing that if he did it I would most likely get at least a B+.

"Great!" He exclaimed clapping his hands together. "First I'm gonna have to ask you some questions about your future plans."

"Okay, what do you wanna know?"

"What do you wish to be doing in ten years?"

"I don't know really…I'll continuing with the karate of course and the skateboarding… Maybe have a well paid job… " I answered truthfully.

"Mmm…So by looking at the average student and the percents that's most likely…" He trailed of in thoughts. Kim and I exchanged glances. Here we go… Milton's brain is working at full speed…

"You'll most likely end up in a small apartment with some friends. Maybe be dating someone but you probably wont have any real girlfriend, since you don't have your own place. You have a license but you can't afford a car, not as long as you working on Burger Kings anyway, therefore you'll be bicycling or skating anywhere you wanna go, which by the way suits your style since you wanna stay fit." He smiled pretty pleased with himself. "And to bring in some extra cash you'll walk other people's dogs on your spare time."

"Yeah, that's probably not the way it's gonna be." I said a bit offended. Didn't he think I had what it takes to be successful?

"Right, I forgot you were popular. That actually changes the outcome a bit…"

"Milton!" I exclaimed." No offence but I really think that I know better how my future is gonna turn out to be than anyone else."

"Well, suit yourself but I base my theories on science." Milton defended as we left our lockers to find somewhere to sit to work on my essay.

I once again had a feeling of being watched, I threw a quick glance at the girls who still sat on the bench. They were talking to each other again, unfortunate too low for us to hear what they were saying, but something told me that they were talking about us while they occasionally shot us glances as we walked down the hallway.

The day had been pretty awkward. The morning's event had sort of ruined the whole of it and we were not too cheerful as we waited in the dojo for our practise to begin.

"NO, I'm telling you mom, I'll never let him share my room." Eddie practically shouted in the phone and it looked like he was about to hang up but changed his mind and went silent, obliviously listening to her. "That's not fair." Eddie said after a while sounding a bit more desperate. He let out a big sigh "Okay. Bye mum."

"What did she say?" Milton asked curiously.

"She said that Austin is going to sleep in my room, which means that I'm gonna have to spend even more time with him."

"C'mon it can't be that bad." I tried to cheer him up. "You'll be in school all day and then after school you'll be here at the dojo so it's not gonna be that much time left to hang out with him anyways."

"I guess you're right. Maybe I am overreacting a little."

"You think…?" Kim said, raising her eyebrows. "You haven't been talking about anything else for the whole day."

The door to the dojo suddenly flung open as a latino boy ran through it.

"Sorry I'm late guys." Jerry said catching his breath. "But my sister was…"

"Let me guess" Kim interrupted him. "Your sister took her bike so you couldn't use it to get here in time."

"Yes but that was not what I was going to say."

It wasn't? We all looked at him, surprised that he was going for some other excuse than the usual.

"My sister Nelly goes in the same class as Teresa did and they were apparently close friends." He said.

I felt my stomach turn as I was reminded of the accident.

"Hang on…" Milton said. "Teresa was a friend of your sister and you didn't know her?"

"It's kind of hard to keep track of all of your siblings all friends." Jerry defended.

"True." Milton stated.

Well it was true, in Jerry's case anyway. He had quite a family…

"Anyway, Nelly's absolutely crushed. She cried for like an hour and talked about Theresa and the accident all afternoon, and guess who had to listen to it all." Jerry gestured towards himself. "I told her to go somewhere to get her mind of of things and to stop bugging me."

"How did that work out for you?" Eddie asked.

"Well she left me alone but she took the bike with her, so I had to run to get here."

"Poor Nelly." Kim said with sympathise in her voice.

"Good evening guys." We eyed the short man that now had entered the dojo. "I have a big surprise for you all. Or actually it's two surprises." Rudy said with a big smile across his face. "Now don't get too excited." He made a pause to hold the tension looking as if he was going to burst of excitement himself. "We are going to have an open house event on Friday."

We looked at him a bit taken aback at first. An awkward silence filled the room for a moment.

"Please don't talk all at once." Rudy said breaking the silence. "We're gonna do a small performance to show them what we can do and hopefully we'll get some new members to join our dojo. What do you think guys?"

"That sounds great." I said.

"Yeah, I bet there's gonna be lots of cute girls." Jerry said with a smirk.

"What are we waiting for then? We need to get to work if we're gonna impress them." Eddie said as he sprung to his feet.

"Wait, what's the second surprise?" Milton asked curiously.

"Next Saturday we're going to have a tournament against the Black Dragons. So the training is going to be more intense for these next two weeks. We need to be good if we're gonna beat them." Rudy said. "So what do you say guys?" He held out his hand. "Wasabi." We all stepped forward putting our hands on top of his.

"Wasabi!" we chanted in unison.

Well' this was the second chapter, nothing to get too excited about, but all this kind of needs to be there for the story to work in the end so...

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