The following week
Friday

Josh and Chloe had both survived their first week at school!

From what Mindy has told me, Josh has apparently gone down very well with the other kids at the school, as they all seemed very curious about a foreign kid, not just a new kid.

Josh, though, has not survived this week completely unscathed!

I had quite a few concerns, on that first day back at school.

This was not just a new school, it was an American school and I had barely got used to my last American school, before I ended up in a coma. It was a little easier having Chloe with me, so at least I knew somebody! Of course, there was also Abby, but I found her a little too weird at times! I met Chloe's other friends: Avery and Riley, who both seemed to go all girly, when they met me, which was a little bit embarrassing. Chloe seemed to enjoy showing me off to everybody! It was also a bit daunting meeting Kyle, Chloe's ex-boyfriend. However, Kyle seemed to be a really good guy, as he said that he understood about Chloe's feelings for me and he wasn't going to get in the way, but he still wanted to be friends with Chloe and also with me. Kyle is very popular around the school, so that has helped me greatly with settling in.

I have also made two friends of my own: Mike and Ethan. We seemed to have a lot in common, but I had to be careful when any conversation turned to vigilante's or Hit Girl and Kick-Ass! Mindy had threatened me with major bodily harm and permanent damage to my, currently non-existent, sex life if I breathed even a single word about Fusion! I wasn't alone, as I understood that Chloe had received the exact same lecture!

Chloe had also given me a very detailed account of what she would do to me, if I looked at any another girl, at school! I thought that Chloe had been spending far too much time with Mindy!

All in all, it had been a good week. My injuries had been explained away, as wounds from a building collapse, which had killed my father; the best lies are often the truth, at least that's what Mindy says!

Josh had gone down really well at school, this week and I loved the looks that I got from those bitchy girls that normally tried to look down on me! They usually have the hot boyfriends, but Josh is very desirable around school and he is mine!

I had also warned Josh, with some very graphical descriptions, of what would happen, if he even looked at another girl! Those descriptions were definitely worthy of Mark Millar! My Mom doesn't like me reading those comics, but considering what else I get up to, they are rather tame!

Mind you, Mindy went completely ballistic with Josh on Sunday.

She happened to see Josh getting changed out of his combat suit, after some more training. Josh had quite a few bruises on his body, which he had tried to explain away as the results of that day's sparring. Mindy, however, was not convinced, as the bruises were obviously a few days old and nothing that had been done, during sparring, would have caused that sort of damage.

Finally, after a few graphic threats from a very angry Mindy, Josh admitted to having used the motorcycle a couple of times last week, while Jack and Natalie were out. That was why he was so good, during the 'first' training session! I wasn't at the safehouse during this, but Dave was and I understood that he had had to physically restrain Mindy, from hurting Josh; Dave said that Josh actually feared for his life, again! Mindy was yelling and screaming at Josh about being totally irresponsible and a lying little bastard, among other, very colourful, descriptions of his behaviour.

Mindy ranted on, about Josh, for most of Monday, too! Finally, on Monday evening she had calmed down and driven up to The Farm. She then sat Josh down and calmly, well calmly for Mindy, talked through what he had done. Josh, I understood, was very apologetic and promised never to do something that stupid again. Jack, meanwhile, had also gone ballistic and grounded Josh, initially till he was twenty-one! Jack then relented and grounded him for the next two weeks, which meant that, outside of school, we couldn't talk, text or email, which sucked and made me really angry with Josh, too! Mindy said that she would have lots of exciting work lined up for Josh, on Saturday and Sunday!

Now, as with most schools, there are the usual idiots who liked to cause trouble.

In this case, we had three in our grade: Raymond Miller, who was the leader, Corey Davis and Paul Martin. Chloe explained that they enjoyed going around causing trouble and she herself had punched Miller, at least twice and he seemed to enjoy it, which just infuriated Chloe even more! I have learnt the hard way, that you don't want to infuriate Chloe, if you want to enjoy a pain free life. Chloe does not hit like the average girl!

I received a visit from this trio, who thought it would be good fun to pick on the new British kid. Chloe defending me, didn't exactly help my image in their eyes, either! I just ignored them and told them to fuck off, but I had a feeling that I would probably be hearing from them again and soon!

I'm currently in the bad books of Jack, Dave, Mindy and Chloe. Why? I kinda got a bit Jealous of Chloe riding that Honda, so I took a few rides around the field, when Jack and Natalie were out on Tuesday and Thursday. I came off a few times and once I landed badly, when the motorcycle actually landed on top of me, causing the heavy bruises that Mindy had seen. I was actually quite scared, when Mindy kicked off; she looked like that day when she tried to cut my throat. Dave had to physically restrain her and it really hit me then, what I had done. Mindy came to see me on Monday evening and I knew that I had really let her down, big time! I'd also let down Jack, too, which really upset me. Thankfully he wasn't as hard on me, as he could have been. The worst was Chloe; she was pissed, as I wasn't allowed to use my cell to communicate with her. She actually spent the next few days dropping 'grand theft auto' into nearly every conversation, which started to get a little annoying, after the first few hours, let alone two days later!

But I took it like a man, stiff upper lip and all that!

Now that Chloe and Josh were at school and Marty was at university, we had limited our Fusion activities.

We obviously couldn't have Chloe or Josh going to school on a Monday with lots of injuries that weren't there on the previous Friday! However, we would still have training each weekend and nothing during the week, as they would both have homework! Marty would help where he could, between his studies and would act as our technical support from his fully equipped apartment. Abby would also help where she could, of course. If an emergency cropped up, then we might call on everybody, but only in an emergency. Otherwise it would just be Hit Girl, Kick-Ass and Eisenhower, although Hawk said that she might come out some evenings.

The other problem with those two being back at school, was that Mindy was now bored during the day.

Take Wednesday for example:

"What's that?" I asked.

"Just making a list!" Mindy said, cheerfully.

I looked over Mindy's shoulder.

"Arrows?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm making a list of all the different types of arrows I will need," Mindy explained.

"You like the compound bow then?"

"They're really cool!"

I looked down the list.

"Interesting... Syringe... Okay! Flashbang... Listening device... Now they seem useful, but these... No... No... Hell, no!"

"I know some are a little unorthodox!" Mindy admitted, looking excited.

"Unorthodox! Where the hell do you get these, seriously warped, ideas from?" I asked, incredulously. "Ever heard of aerodynamics? A Katana arrow! Seriously!"

"Okay, jeez! Maybe I let my imagination get the better of me!" Mindy growled, in exasperation.

"There's no 'maybe' about it! I agree with some of them, maybe half a dozen, but the rest... They are just seriously messed up, Mindy! Plus, are you really going to be followed around by a truck, carrying all of these? Maybe get a trailer for the Ducati?"

"I was only having a bit of fun!" Mindy whined.