Chapter 2

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Orientation was as boring as ever. Getting lectured on things we've heard a million times like responsibility, grades, college applications for seniors, and blah, blah, blah-you get the point. The whole time we were in there Gwen made snoring sounds like she was sleeping and comments about the speech we got. Shina and I were trying as hard as we could not to start laughing-unsuccessfully I may add-and got glares from Mrs. Canter to be quiet. When it ended the student body filed out and went to their first period classes. I said goodbye to my friends after we'd made plans on where to meet for lunch.

The days went by quickly until it was Friday already. Gwen and I couldn't wait to meet Shina's mystery boyfriend. Shina talked about him non-stop but didn't give us any specific details to give away who he was. The wait was killing me. I was at my locker putting my things away before I met up with Shina and Gwen for lunch. All of the sudden the hallway-which was always busy-got really quite. Then it started back up louder than before. I turned around to see who was causing this only to see Sesshoumaru Taisho and his friends.

Sesshoumaru Taisho belonged to one of the wealthiest families in the city or the country for that matter. His family owned tons of expensive hotels and businesses that ranged all over the world. He was 19 I think, around my age. His hair was a shimmery color more silver than white with gold orbs for eyes. He wasn't somebody you wanted to mess with.

This guy was known for violence. If you even looked at him the wrong way-or he thought you were-you might as well have dug yourself your own grave. Of course he'd never killed anyone-that I knew about anyways-but he has sent plenty of people to the hospital. Sesshoumaru and his friends were the exception to the school rules. Something went wrong their families would pay for the hospital bills and give money to the school and that was that.

They did what they wanted to whoever they wanted.

I didn't know much about his friends, just that they belonged to wealthy families close to Sesshouamru's and they grew up together. Jakobe with his jet black hair that was spiked, and hazel eyes was known as quite the ladies man. Ryo, followed right behind with his reputation being the same but had a different appeal with light brown hair that stopped right near his ears with bangs that looked like he'd just gotten out of bed with hazel eyes that leaned more towards green. Finally, Aoi had blue eyes and short blonde hair but she had never heard anything bad about him. Probably the worst thing being he was friends with the rest of them. Surprisingly though, he wasn't with the group today.

Turning around to finish putting away my things I closed my locker and was about to start walking to find my friends. Bang! Gasps rang out from the crowds in the halls. Looking over my shoulder I saw Sesshoumaru Taisho's books on the ground and the poor soul who had accidentally tripped trying to get past Sesshoumaru. I didn't recognize the kid, he must be a first year by the looks of it. Now I was completely turned around staring at the scene and walking closer to the front of a crowd of students who had formed a circle around them.

Not aware of what was going on the kid got up brushed himself off and picked up Sesshouamru's books. "I'm sorry... I didn't mean too-" He seemed to lose his voice as he made eye contact with Sesshoumaru.

Who just stood there with his friends and gave the kid a smirk that sent a shiver down my own spine. He took back the books and the kid started getting nervous looking around. The kids' eyes got really big when Sesshoumaru picked him up by his shirt with one hand. The smirk replaced with a vicious looking snarl.

What the hell? The kid apologized, the whole thing was an accident. Without thinking I opened my mouth. "Hey!" I yelled.

Now I was standing right next to Sesshoumaru and the kid he was holding with my arms crossed over my chest.

"Let the kid go. If you love to hurt people so much at least go find someone your own size," the words came out of my mouth so fast I almost looked around to see who'd said it. I felt the attention of the crowd, Sesshoumaru's friends, and Sesshoumaru himself turn towards me.

Sesshoumaru smirked and dropped the kid. My next thought was Wow this guy's tall…I had to look up at him since I only came up to his chest.

"Were you speaking to me?"

"Well I don't see any other skyscraper picking on a kid half his size. Don't you think that's a little pathetic?" I heard gasps ring out-I could have sworn I saw some girl faint out of the corner of my eye. What was I saying?!

Looking around Sesshouamru, I saw the kid he'd put down and said, "No offense to you kid. You better go." Sure enough the kid grabbed his things and ran like his life depended on it.

"You're becoming a pest. You had your hero moment, now get lost before I loose my temper."

"Excuse me, I'm somebody who didn't want to see some kid possibly get bullied right in front of me and had enough courage to help him." I looked around the circle of people to see some people hang their heads in shame and others shrug, they were just glad it wasn't them.

This wasn't like in the movies I reminded myself. One person stands up to the bully and everybody else follows their lead. In reality things never ended that way. You had a one in a million chance of that actually happening. Here's what happens when you stand up to a bully. One, the bully beats you up. Two, you fight the bully and win. Or three, you finally tell a teacher or parent and the bully gets detention or suspended from school for a couple of days. None of these options were looking good for me.

Sesshoumaru bent his head down to be at my eye level. "I don't hit girls, but I'm going to make you regret those words. By the time I'm done you'll have transferred to a different school pest," he said giving me one of his cynical smiles that might have made anyone else run but I held my ground stubbornly.

"We'll see about that now won't we?" I asked him not breaking eye contact until he stood up straight again.

"Somebody has forgotten their place. We'll have to remind her," he told his friends giving me one more look and then they walked away.

When the group was out of sight I was still standing there my anger replaced with fear. The crowd had exploded in conversation about what they thought was going to happen and sympathy remarks:

"You think they'll hire someone to kill her?"

"I heard the last person who stood up to them disappeared and was never found."

"Maybe they'll ship her off to another country or deserted island!"

"Poor girl, I feel so bad. She's so pretty too."

"Well I certainly don't feel an ounce of pity for her. I think she needs to learn a lesson in respect," a voice I recognized said loudly, quieting the crowd.

I turned around only to see Midori and her clones behind her with smug looks on their faces.

Great just what I needed.

"The Barbies don't send me their sympathy regards? How will I ever survive without it?" I said feigning hurt and copying one of Shina's dramatic poses. I put my hands on my sides and stared at them. "Oh wait, that's right, I don't care." At this point I was pretty pissed off. Gwen, Shina, and I had never called them the Barbies to their faces-it was our inside joke.

Midori walked towards me and we stood toe to toe. I saw just the tiniest bit of anger in her eyes-and jealousy?-before she smiled and said politely as she could, "I doubt anyone will miss you when you're gone. You're worthless, hardly worth Sesshoumaru's and the other's time. But I'll be there watching when they tear you down until your nothing." Just like that she was walking away with clones in tow.

"Ta-ta for now Kagome!" she called back with a wave.

They followed in the direction Sesshouamru and the others had gone. Midori considered Sesshouamru her property-even though he didn't pay any attention to her. Anyone caught flirting with him or even had his attention for a few minutes were considered her enemies. She'd stop at nothing to scare them away from Sesshouamru. That might be why I was now number one on her hate list but I had a feeling she just wanted to see me suffer until I snapped.

Whatever, I didn't have time to worry about the Midori's threats. I re-adjusted my bag and started walking to go meet up with my friends who were probably wondering why I was so late. Well it looks like I got wild and crazy anyways...too bad it back fired on me.

The cafeteria was circular and had to be big enough to fit the student enrollment population of about a thousand students, and had a high dome ceiling. Along the left and right of the walls were rectangular glass windows that looked out onto a manicured lawn and plants from the Garden Club. There were round white tables supported on metal legs and uncomfortable black chairs made of plastic spread around the room. When I got to the cafeteria I looked around the room for Gwen and Shina.

"Kagome! Over here!" Shina yelled from across the cafeteria. She was standing up waving both her arms in the air like she was trying signal to a rescue helicopter. Gwen was sitting down, smiling at the show Shina was putting on.

Glad to see them I felt some of the stress from what had just happened with Sesshouamru dissipate. Smiling, I made my way across the room to where they were sitting. I pulled out a black chair and sat down, putting my bag on the table.

"Hey guys. Sorry I'm late, dropped my stuff all over the hallway. Papers were everywhere and it took me forever to collect them all," I lied giving them a half smile. There was no way I was going to pull my best friends into something I started.

"Then the papers got kicked into all different directions because people just can't stop and help somebody out. Man, I hate that," continued Gwen not catching my lie.

"That never happens to me," commented Shina.

"That's because you're one of the prettiest girls in this school. Guys will do anything and I repeat anything to get a chance with you," Gwen said bluntly.

"Not true. They're just being polite, right Kagome?" she said looking me at for an answer.

"Sorry but, Gwen's right," I told Shina.

"I still think you guys are wrong but anyways; Did you here that somebody stood up to Sesshouamru and his friends? Jin Watin told me about it in math. Supposedly, it was today and that somebody stopped Sesshoumaru from bullying this first year and now Sesshoumaru has it out for them. Jin didn't have a lot of details about this person like gender or name. Which is stupid cause' if you're going to gossip at least have all the details. But still, isn't that crazy?" Shina asked.

"Wow, this person has some guts. I'm going to give them a high five when I find out who they are," Gwen said than took a sip of her flavored water.

I almost said "Well you might as well give me one now," but stopped myself. I took out my lunch and took a sip of my tea before saying, "I guess miracles do happen."

Shina giggled while Gwen smiled at me. "So you guys make sure to get online tonight before the party okay? I want to see your outfits and ask you about mine. Kagome you're picking us up and dropping us off right?" Shina gave me hopeful look and took a bite of her salad,

"Yup, I don't like drinking anyways unlike you two party animals," I teased. "Hey Gwen, you not eating lunch?"

"No, I forgot it when I rushed out of the house and I don't see anything I wanted to eat here."

"Mhm! Try these, they're delicious. My mom bought them in England for me," and Shina handed both of us a cookie that looked like it had nuts and raisins. We took the cookies and took a bite.

"Damn…these are good."

"Tell your mom to buy three boxes next time so we can all have a box," I added.

When lunch ended we went to our separate classes. Awhile later when final bell rang signaling the end of the day I grabbed my stuff and filed out to my car. When I got out to the student parking lot I saw a crowd around the area I had parked. It was never a good sign when there was a crowd.

The people were laughing and had their phones out taking pictures of whatever they were in front of. They noticed me and moved out of the way so I could see what they were laughing about.

Partially dried black paint was splattered over the car's original blue color-which I would find out later, was a bitch to wash off. Thankfully the windows were left pretty much untouched.

Lucky me I had left my car unlocked that morning, since I never had a reason to lock it at school. I opened the door and a huge pile of white shaving cream flopped onto the ground. The whole car was filled to the roof with the stuff. I heard people start cracking up in laughter behind me when they saw it. Phones started snapping pictures again. The pictures of my car would be everywhere.

"Alright people. Ha-ha-ha, hilarious," I said sarcastically, stretching out the last word, "You can leave now."

Eventually they did leave after more laughing about my futile attempt to push some of the shaving cream out. There was a note on the top of the car that read:

Enjoy your new and improved car. Not too late to transfer to a new school pest.

I crumpled up the note and threw it in the nearest trash can. I shoveled more shaving cream from the driver's seat to make room for me. I popped the trunk to put all my stuff in. I got in the drivers seat and already felt how soaked the seats were.

Knowing Sesshoumaru and his gang, they would probably be watching for my reaction so I scanned the area. Then I saw them on the roof of the school building, leaning over the railing. He was staring right at me with a smug smile on his face and I stared right back at him with defiance in my eyes.

You want to play this game? Fine I'll play. Game on. As if he'd read my mind his smug smile became a little bit bigger in amusement. He said something to the others without breaking eye contact and then they disappeared.

I knew I could just buy another car or get this one fixed but the whole concept was that it was my car. It had been an attack on my property.

I wouldn't let them get away with this.

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