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It all felt like a dream. All she remembered was handing over the letter to her mum, hearing her mum screaming for another few minutes and then pulling her into the car. Then they drove through the grand gate of the school, well designed, carved and build, it can be easily seen how much it cost to build it. And they drove through the long path, with trees and all sorts of plants, also, with bunches of students with yellow uniforms walking in the side paths, laughing and chattering and with books in their arms. And they finally arrived at the main office, taking them more than five minutes to drive from the entrance of the school to the start of all the buildings. The lady simply looked at the letter, asked a few questions, made mum sign a few documents and then made me sign a few documents and then it was done. But for some random reasons, she had a really bad feeling when she signed the document, seemingly, all the benefits goes to her and her family, full scholarship, well prepared rooms and studies, it seemed like there was nothing for her to worry about, but the weird feelings was always upon her heart.

Then she was there, standing in front of a grand room, with sculptures and paintings everywhere alongside the corridors, the door of the room was at least twice of her height, too tall for her to reach or measure, also broad, as if it was designed for someone who’s extremely overweighted to pass through. And on the door it said, Class A.

She held up her shivering hand, warning herself with her self instincts that there was no other path to go, knocked on the door twice, and opened the door. The door was much heavier than normal doors, making seem like it was designed to protect someone from some mysterious beasts. As the door creaked open, all she could see is something shinny coming through.

And as she adjusts her sights, she finally got a better view of the room. The room was large, with 50 square metres at least, with about twenty pairs of desks and…umm…sofas. And at the very front, were four tables that were larger than the others, making it standing out a lot, one pink, one blue, one purple and one green, with the same design on it. And in front of those four desks stood two boys and two girls, about the same age as her.
The one that was half sitting on the navy table had a tall and slender body and had dark brown hairs, his eyes were dark and sharp, he wasn’t wearing proper uniform, with black pants and white shirt, making Annabelle thinking that he was glaring at her, she shivered. There was another boy on the green desks, wearing the same as the other guy and deep in his dreams, covering his face in his arms, breathing evenly.

The girl at the purple table wasn’t looking at Annabelle at all. She was tall and had long and straight brown hairs going all the way to her waist, her eyes feeling even colder than the first guy, wearing a purple uniform. Anyone would have noticed her as a great beauty. She wasn’t glaring at her, in fact, she wasn’t even looking at Annabelle, putting in no interest at all, but for some unknown reasons, this girl gave her the feeling of to never enclose her.

The last girl who sat on top of the pink desk, she was smiling sweetly, as if there was something that greatly caught her interest. She same had brown hairs that went all the way to her waist, with light coloured eyes and wore a pink uniform from top to the bottom with different shadings, she was considerably short comparing to the other girl, her smile was sweeter than anything Annabelle has seen, making her seem extra friendly out of the four.

And the girl with the pink uniform came up to her and said. ‘So, you’re the new student?’ seeing Annabelle frozen at the spot, she asked. ‘What’s your name then?’ no answer came out as well; she gave up, and walked towards the green desk.

She held up her wrist, and ‘bang’, she hit the boy in the head, who’s half dreaming when he screamed out of pain. ‘What the…?’ He looked up from his desk and looked at the girl’s smiling face. ‘What?’ he asked

‘So you’ve finally awaken, Matthew’ the girl smiled again. ‘I want the information of this new girl; the principal should have given it to you at the meeting last time.’ Her wrist was still in the air, always ready for a second go.

‘I was on a mission with Bella yesterday…and it went all the way into the night.’ Then his head grew alarm of the girl’s hand and reached into his bag and got out a whole stack of papers covered in words. Pushing the papers into the girls arms, the guy went back to sleep again.

The girl sighed and started reading through the papers. ‘Annabelle Newton, 15 years old, IQ 120, no specific skills?’ she murmured

As she finally worked her way through the papers, she walked up to the frozen Annabelle and starting introducing herself. ‘Well, I’m Leana, that girl over there with purple uniform is Isabella, the one sleeping over there is Matthew and the one glaring at everyone is Eric, we’re the class representatives.’

‘Four class representatives?’

‘Not exactly, but we take turns anyway.’ Leana replied. ‘Let’s see, you’re roommates with Christine, you think it’ll be alright for you to stay with her today? You two should have the same type of work anyway.’ She paused and gave Annabelle another big smile. ‘You are very welcomed to come to out class, hope you’ll get onto your work soon.’

What work? For another unknown reason, those words gave her a bad feeling, the same feeling when she signed the document. But seeing the smile of Leana, she sighed and held out her hand. ‘I’m Annabelle Newton.’

And that was the day when she started in Class A, in Diora College.

‘I’m Christine.’ A girl with blonde and curly hair, blue eyes and a tall and slender body said. Annabelle looked at the girl in front of her, and then she looked around, and then she looked at the four who sits at the front row.

Why?......Is everyone either pretty or handsome?

‘Is it alright for me to call you Anna?’ Annabelle nodded ‘well, as what Leana just said, I’m your roommate, and do you mind just sitting beside me before I finish my work?’ she pointed at a yellow desk at the back. Without waiting for an answer, Christine pulled her by the wrist, and sat her down at a sofa closest to the table. And then for the next thirty minutes, Christine took no notice of her. Anna moved closer to have a better view of the paper Christine’s working on.

‘To the power of 24th, the gravitational effect of 9.8…what the hell?’ Not understanding a single word of it, Anna decided to work around the classroom.

‘Are you bored?’ the sweet voice asked so sudden that it made Anna jump, and when she turned around, it was Leana, one of the class representatives whose slightly shorter than Anna in height, Leana eyes concentrated on her in curiosity.

Thinking through the question again, Anna nodded.

‘Wait a sec.’ Leana walks to her pink desk and pulls out a book with dates. ‘I’ve got five projects due tomorrow, four contest to participate, another three due the day after…’ she murmured, seeing that Leana has much more work than Christine, Anna guessed that she would have to walk around alone, but to her surprise. ‘Wow, there’s only this bit of work, maybe I was quite hard working last week, oh well…’ Leana closes her working diary and pulled Eric at the arm. ‘I’m free, and Eric looks free. We two shall escort the newbie around our ground.’ She exclaimed.

And without asking Annabelle for permission, Leana pulled both Eric, who’s still has no expression at all on his face, and Annabelle, who’s afraid of falling at any second, out of the door, and slammed shut the door.

The three walked along the corridors as Leana introduces the buildings to Annabelle, and with Eric falling behind, slowly following them. They walked past the boarding houses, the music building, the science building, some normal classrooms, the library and then to the main office.

Wow, this is big. ‘How many people actually use this place?’ Annabelle asked

‘About thirty official members’ Leana replied

‘Only thirty, are you kidding? This is like…Huge…for thirty students?’
‘Well, it’s one of the bonuses for us working hard. And you see, those place that we just went to are only for us, class A students, there’s another three equal sized places, for class B, class C, the last for about 1000 normal students.’ Leana answered calmly as if it was very natural of doing this.

‘So, what are you planning to work on?’ Leana asked.

‘Work?’ we have to work at school?

‘Didn’t it say anything on your contract? It would tell you what type of works to accept and work on or sometimes for you to decide.’

Trying hard to think of what she signed in the contract, but failed miserably. ‘I really know nothing about this.’

Leana looked at Annabelle with shock, and looked like she was about to cry. ‘How could you?...I work day and night for that damn baldy (the principal), and you know nothing, that’s not fair, Eric~~’

No offence, but Leana does sound like a kindergarten….

‘So what type of ‘work’ do you take?’ Annabelle tried to distract Leana with a different topic.

‘Well, it really depends. Mostly I take on designs, reports, experiments and government documentaries, which is already a lot of work as you can see. Sometimes I also take the role of escorting special guests, being a special guest of some random program myself, and more rarely, concerts.’ She paused for a second. ‘And I usually do a lot of lab works with him.’ She pointed at the back ‘Unlike me, his job is mostly on scientific researches. Bella and Matthew join with class B most of the time, and are normally out.’

‘The girl with purple uniform and the boy sleeping?’ Annabelle confirmed.

‘Yeah. Your roommate, Christine, mostly works on geographical researches. There are a few more professional singers, actors and actresses in the class as well, anyhow, we work, and we gain our living at school.’

‘Then what should I do?’ Annabelle sounded a bit worried.

‘Well, I have no idea at all. You might want to ask baldy yourself.’ Leana pointed at the principal’s office. They turned around and return to the classroom for it would be other classes’ fields if they cross over the main office.

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Leana, Bella, Matthew and Eric sat on the sofa of their shared house…umm…mansion, which is about 300 square metres, as grand and as broad as anyone could have possibly imagined. In fact, their room are much larger than other classmates for they gain much more for each job and therefore the baldy decided to put more money on them. And this mansion is one of lots bonuses they had.

Leana and Eric were in their pyjamas, one reading the results of one of their work and the other looking at the working diary making a schedule for the next day. While Bella and Matthew were dressed in full black, was checking their weapons to prevent any accidents from happening.

‘Are you two working tonight again?’ Leana looked up from her laptop

‘Yeah, tonight’s a formal party.’ Matthew answered while Bella drank another cup of water.

‘Replying that easily, I thought it was supposed to be top secret.’ Eric teased with not many emotions in his voice at all.

Matthew shrugged and got himself another cup of water. ‘Nothing to be too secret to you guys, if we can’t trust you, there are no one else we can trust.’

‘Why do I feel so loved?’ Leana laughed sarcastically. ‘Are you helping me with my experiment then?’ she asked with no hope at all

‘Nap, I’ll pass that.’

‘Matthew, it’s time to go.’ Isabella said as she walked towards the door. Matthew shrugged and followed. ‘Don’t miss me too much.’ He said before he left.

Leana laughed and said. ‘He’s still as funny as ever.’ She paused for a second and continued. ‘But for some random reasons, I always feel worried for them every time they go on a mission.’

‘Like what he just said, we four have no one else but we in this world, you and I might as well believe him.’ Eric closed his working diary and walked upstairs and turned right to his bedroom. ‘There’s nothing else we can do anyway.’
‘You’re right.’ Leana walked upstairs as well, except turning on her left for her own bed.

Oh well, there’s nothing to worry of anyway, right now, what I’m supposed to be more worried about is how I’m going to finish all my work in time.

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The next morning when Annabelle arrived at the classroom, Leana and Eric was fighting…umm…arguing over some sort of results, which Annabelle couldn’t understand a word of it.

‘I say that we add more hydrogen.’ Leana pulls the pen away from Eric.

‘It says nitrogen on the original planned results.’ Eric pulls the pen back.

‘But you yourself know how much those government people are assholes, and nitrogen is obviously not going to work, hydrogen is going to work.’ Leana pulls the pen again.

‘I know, but our work is to complete the result only, not finding the answer for them. They’ll have to pay more for that.’ Eric simply got another pen out of his pencil case.

‘Eric, we can ask for more paid. Why should we waste our precious time on false elements? We should just use the right one.’

And the argument continues…

Annabelle walked up to her seat and sat down silently, looking around, everyone’s doing some sort of work, only her, the newbie who doesn’t even know what type of work to start with, is sitting there….err…glaring at others papers.

‘Don’t we have any lesson?’ Annabelle tried to distract Christine from her work.

‘No, none of the teachers are able to teach us anyway.’ Christine didn’t even look up from her work. ‘If you need any information on anything, the library or the internet is much more useful.’ She finally finished that piece of work and looked at Annabelle. ‘Do you want me to take you to the library?’

‘Chrissy, are you going to the library?’ Christine nodded. ‘Then can you get me the chemistry dictionary from the library? I’ll have to send that to those stupid lab people of the government.’

‘Why? To prove that they’re stupid?’

‘What they need to prove their stupidity is a pair of eyes and probably a pair of glasses.’ Leana laughed. ‘No, I’ll just highlight it, and tell them to send another official document to us for the corrected part. Also, to pay more of course, or else Eric won’t let me do the right thing.’

Christine looked at her watch and asked. ‘Why don’t you go yourself? I’ve got a few more reports due tomorrow.’

‘Might as well do that.’ Leana shrugged. ‘Eric, you’re coming as well, it’s OUR job.’

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‘I can’t ride a horse.’ Annabelle shouted in shock when Leana and Eric both jumped onto a horse. Leana’s horse was tall and white; its hair going alongside the pale white skin, Eric on the other hand, rode a black horse that was a total contrast to Leana’s. The way the two horses stood together which seemed like an image that could only be seen in the Victorian period or a movie, which when Annabelle turns around and sees the little pony prepared for her.

‘The baldy insist for Class A students to use horses to move around, it’s not our fault.’

Hearing the words, Annabelle put her hands on the side the pony and tried to hop on but failed. And when she finally jumped on, the pony was obviously on a bad mood, it turned and Annabelle fell off again. Seeing that Annabelle really has no skill at all, Leana offered. ‘Well, we really have to get going; you can practice your skills next time. Why don’t you hop onto Eric’s horse for today?’

Eric jumped off his horse, pushed Annabelle on his horse and then hopping back on afterwards. Feelings his body pressing closely to her own back, Annabelle can feel her face blushing and her heart pounding. It’s never normal when an extremely handsome (also extremely emotionless) guy looks at you, for commoners, it’s always a pondering experience.

Finally, after all that practice times of riding and failing unsuccessfully, the three of them finally reached the library. Like the other buildings, the library was very grand, well decorated and design, which once again, made Annabelle sigh. She knew that everyone in the class are secretly calling her ‘commoners’, but only until now that she finally realize why, this place doesn’t belong to her, just like how she could not finish any of the job and how this place is simply too grand and beautiful for her. Leana jumped off her horse, and patted the horse by the side, while Eric did the same and offered Annabelle a hand after he got off.

The library was three floors, with no specific orders, which made Annabelle, wonder how they could find any of the books. Then she saw Leana sitting down in front of one of the computers and started searching for the books she wanted, while Eric simply stood beside her and read over her shoulders.

‘FZ29, TU34 those two are the ones that we’ll send. And can you pick up EF93 and BG15 as well for me?’ Leana smiled. ‘Please Eric?’

Again, with no expressions at all, Eric walked towards the sea of books and dug the books that Leana want out of it.

Copying Leana’s actions, Annabelle sat down at the computer and searched up for books that she would read and walked towards the shelf searching for the correct code number to appear.

And when she finally found the book that she wanted at the highest shelf of the side, even though it seemed impossible to reach it with her height.
Annabelle tried to jump and reach for it but missed it every time. She groaned and looked for chair she could stand on, then Eric walked by and pulled the book off the shelf and handed it to her. ‘The chair’s there if you need it.’ He pointed at the other side and without saying anything else; he walked to Leana, where Leana’s still typing something onto the library.

When they got out of the library, it was already four o’clock in the afternoon, time for all the students to return to their rooms, which Leana and Eric offered Annabelle a ride back to her room.

This time Annabelle sat behind Eric, she grabbed onto his shirt when the horse nearly tripped over something, and she could clearly smell the faint scent of his shirt, his back was broad, broad enough for Annabelle to lean onto it and gain warmth.

Why am I doing this? Annabelle asked herself, but couldn’t make herself leave the warmth.

‘We’re there.’ Leana said.

Annabelle finally made her body let go of Eric’s shirt and walked towards her room, and when she turned around, she saw Leana and Eric riding alongside each other, with Leana laughing happily and Eric with only a bit of expressions, but Annabelle saw the difference, even if only a little, he cared for Leana.

For a second, she wished that the one riding beside him was she herself.

This POV is split into parts, because it's the longest POV i've written by far, about 12 pages long. Other than that, have fun reading~

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Trees. Buildings. Trees. Buildings. Trees. Buildings. Guess what’s next? Yes, MORE FREAKIN’ TREES AND BUILDINGS! I’ve been walking around this freakin’ hell of a school for more than three hours and all I’ve seen is trees, buildings, trees, buildings, trees, buildings and…I think you get my point. Heck, I’m not even surprised if someone just popped out of nowhere and told me I’ve been walking around in circles for a whole three hours. How big is this goddamn school anyway? Where the heck did they get all the money from to create this labyrinth?
I glared down at the map for the umpteenth time. Yes, I know, my geography skills suck and I can’t even follow a damn map. But you just try following a damn map that seemed like it was drawn by a five-year-old! It literally looked like that, since this map was drawn with crayons and guess what. It had this scraggly cross mark in the middle and that was where I was currently standing and guess what this barren place was supposed to be… it was supposed to be an office! And no, I can’t see any office however guess what I can see. Well, if you replied trees and buildings, your half-right for I can see them at a distance but to be more specific I can see a fat humongous lake in the middle of nowhere!
That’s it, I give up, and I’m not finding this retarded office anymore! It seems like I’m doomed to stay here in front of a big fat lake for the rest of my life until I die, well so be it! I’m pissed and I swear I’m gonna kill whatever living creature walks here next! …I think I’m turning into a murderer...or a cannibal…
Throwing some stones into the calm lake to vent off some of my anger I then proceeded to climb onto a tree and wait for the victim I would vent my anger out on. A sudden moving brown blob caught my attention and… IT WAS ALIVE AND IT WAS THE PERFECT VICTIM FOR MY ANGER!!! The moving brown blob seemed to have no idea that I was up in a tree or if the blob did know, it ignored me, which was good for me. As the moving brown blob passed directly under the branch I was occupying I jumped down and landed exactly on its back. A grunt of surprise came from the blob which I now recognised was a girl. Hmm…something looks familiar with this girl, like I’ve seen her or something…
As I made my way to strangle her I felt a slight nudge near my head. I then realised that my victim’s hand had somehow moved and was now pointing a gun near my head - - WHAT THE HELL?! A FREAKIN’ STUDENT ARMED WITH A GUN IN THIS SCHOOL?!?!?!?!?!?! I was suddenly fearful of this student and this school. How I would give anything for my sweet peaceful days to return.

“Get off…” the girl said in an arctic tone.

Somehow that tone rings a distant bell in my memory but I still can’t remember where I’ve seen or heard her voice in this case. Somehow during the last second and this second my anger had evaporated into fear and I think this girl was about to kill me for jumping on her. Maybe it wasn’t a good move to vent my anger out on living things; maybe I should have just kicked a tree into the lake or something.
As a click from the gun sounded near my head and I was preparing to die, a cheerful and childish voice suddenly saved me.

“Stop, Stop, Stop, and Mind your gun please!!!!!!”

Looking towards my saviour I saw a blob of fast moving reddish-brown hair. The girl under me suddenly spoke out. “Get out of the way” I shivered slightly and oh yeah, I’m still on this girl, which is maybe why she’s still itching to pull the trigger on the gun.

“Please, Layla-chan, I’ll trade you something if you do me the favour…”

My saviour continued talking but it was in a hushed tone and it was obvious that it was not meant for me to hear but however it did stop the furious wriggling underneath for which I was grateful. Deciding now was a good time to make an escape since the two girls seemed to forget I was there, I gingerly got up from the girl with the gun and prepared to make a run for my life when I suddenly felt an iron hand grabbing onto my sleeves.

“Well, well, now that you’re afraid of me, are you gonna run away like a coward? And just as I was about to have some fun with you… sorry, but you’re gonna stay here until I shred you into pieces for jumping on top of me.”

Oh crap. This is NOT my day. When I find the damn principal of this school I’m definitely going to sue him for allowing his students bring guns into the school and for making this school so damn big. Well, that is if I ever find him alive. First, I’m going to have to survive this girl to do that.

“Layla…” Oh right, I forgot that my saviour is still here, hopefully she can persuade this maniac to give up this grudge.

“Fine, fine. Murder then.”

“That’s the same thing…”

“Drown?”

“No”

“Torture?”

“NO!”

“Fine, fine. I’ll leave her alone.”

Pissed, the maniac turned away and started shooting at the trees instead. Letting out a sigh of relief I got ready to run away, lest my saviour change her mind and let this maniac kill me instead. However, just as I was inching away, my saviour decided that she had spent enough time pissing off the maniac and now it was my turn for her undivided attention.

“Oh no you don’t! You’re not going to get away from me after I spent a good hour looking for you! We’re going to become friends whether you like it or not and if I have to use force to make you see me as a friend, then so be it!”

As if we’d ever be friends! I’d rather commit suicide before that ever happened! Racing away into the forest I heard her faintly shouting for me to come back.
I’d be crazy if I ever listened to her advice and go back to where TWO maniacs now awaited me. Going faster I caught sight of those buildings I had earlier hated but now loved the sight of. Putting more speed to reach my safe haven faster I almost rejoiced when I was about to set foot on safe land, then – BANG.

Gulping nervously, I looked to my right side and saw to my horror a bullet hole one centimetre away from my head. I couldn’t resist the shiver that racked my spine as I turned around slowly in the direction the bullet had come from.
There with her gun now trained on me, was the maniac from before whom I had oh-so-nicely-jumped on. She had this murderous aura on and looked like she was about to pull the trigger anytime. Murderous aura…I’ve seen that aura somewhere…somewhere recent…car incident…SHE’S ONE OF THE FREAKIN’ PEOPLE WHO DECIDED TO HIJACK MY CAR TO TOWN DURING THE WEEKEND! A sudden pressure around both of my hands suddenly caught my attention and looking down I saw my hands had somehow moved behind me and were now handcuffed. Glancing up, I saw the childish maniac had somehow caught up to me and had handcuffed my hands while I wasn’t looking and was now happily twirling the key around her slender fingers.
Great, what’s next? Me getting bound up with a rope?

Okay, maybe that wasn’t a good thought. The childish figure now had an evil smile plastered on her face and was now holding onto something that looked like a…rope. Before I knew it, we were both struggling on the ground. I was trying to get her off, while she was trying to tie me up with the rope.
However, it’s pretty hard trying to get a mad maniac off who’s keen on tying you up no matter what, when your hands are handcuffed. The only thing I could do to try and get her off was to kick like hell. And what was worse was that she was avoiding all the kicks and smiling happily like nothing was wrong while fighting with me and trying to tie me up at the same time. I gave up soon enough since the maniac with the gun soon joined the fight and stopped my kicking and squirming by pointing her gun at me.

After a few minutes, I was nicely bound up and the childish figure was still smiling. The maniac with the gun had retreated back to shooting the trees and the trees in this area were now half-dead thanks to the numerous gun shots they were receiving per second. Glaring up at the childish figure and wondering if she ever stopped smiling I decided to try persuading her to let me go.

“Hey, you know, if you really wanted to be friends with me, this isn’t the way to gain friendship. The first step to friendship is to let the other person have FREEDOM.”

She looked at me curiously and then smugly replied, “In my case, I just let you have the FREEDOM you wanted in that short 10 violent minutes and now, it’s time for some FORCE.”

“…”

She continued to smile sweetly.

Forcing my stupefied mouth open, I weakly replied “Force won’t do much to gain you my friendship. And plus, isn’t your FORCE option a bit too strong? I mean the handcuffs are already enough, but the rope…?”

“Not at all”

“What about we reach an agreement? You untie me and unhand cuff me and I won’t escape and I’ll stay and listen to whatever you have to say to me and I’ll even be your friend.”

“Just to let you know, I have no intention at all on releasing you any time soon. You know, you’re not a very believable person. But anyway, I better let you know your SITUATION.”

“…”

Seeing my silence as a sign of giving up to her cruel methods, she decided to continue on.

“What took you so long to walk to the office and why were you on a tree anyway?” Leana questioned.

Suspicious I voiced the question again in my head and deciding it was safe I finally answered. “I got lost on my way to the office and I decided to express my anger by crawling onto a tree and then killing the next living creature that walked past here.”

“So you decided to drop on Layla? Anyone will do, but Layla?”

Amazing that maniac who was shooting trees actually HAD A NAME!

“You mean that girl who wanted to murder me just then and the one who also hijacked my car yesterday was Layla?”

Suddenly perking up in interest, the childish figure asked suspiciously “What’s this I hear about Layla hijacking cars? Where did she go?”

“Town, didn’t you know about it?”

Suddenly her face contorted in anger and she muttered “That DAMN BALDY gave her permission to go out??? He refused me when I said I wanted to go shopping even when I threatened him with a gun! I’m gonna kill that damn Baldy today for doing that!”

“Baldy?”

Suddenly putting on a sweet smile, she sweetly answered “Oh I’m sure you’ll meet him soon enough. If he harasses you in anyway, you can tell me. I’ll help you torture – I mean punish him, since I’m your friend. It’s called special treatment for friends only. So you should be proud to have a friend like me!”

I was starting to think she had split personality, when I noticed the awkward silence fast filling the space. Deciding it was my turn to start the conversation, I asked the most basic question.

“So…who are you and why were you looking for me anyway?”

Looking at me for a second longer, she decided to answer my question. “Ok, let me introduce myself. I’m Leana Rasme, you can call me Leana. I’m from Class A, as you can see from my uniform. People in Class A have jobs, and I mainly concentrate on scientific research, textiles, products, inventing and some other things. Any thing else you wanna know about?”

Following on so far, I decided to ask her one question that had been on my mind since I entered the school.

“Um… Why is this school and its students so weird? Does it mean that I’ll turn weird eventually too?”

Laughing a sharp trill laugh, she smiled and answered “That’s because the principal encourages his students to be weird and the school houses some naturally weird students. Oh and don’t worry, you won’t be freaked out by the weirdness soon and we’ll soon be a big family since you’ll turn ‘weird’ soon enough and fit nicely among us.”

Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap.

…I need to get out of this school immediately…

Deciding I needed time to try and get my hands out of the handcuffs and then untie myself, I decided to ask her another question to keep her busy and not suspicious of me.

“So, um…Layla…. Who is she exactly?” Actually that was a very good question. What kind of ‘normal’ student carries guns around with them? Okay, if you answered ‘weird’ you might be right, but still, how could the principal allow this behaviour to go around like this in the school? Talking about the principal, I remember that Armellia told me the day she had hijacked my car that they learned their behaviours from the principal. In that case, I really need to get out of here no matter what…

“Hmmm…. You wanna know about Layla? Ok. I’ll explain it; let’s start with one of her most famous missions first. Have you ever heard of what happened to the ex-prime minister’s family?”

“Yeah, the entire family died in a room with the corpses hacked up. Then apparently the hacked up pieces got sowed back up, but onto different bodies in the room.” It was a story that had been around in the news for about 1 year and because of that the security for me and my family had been stronger and anywhere I went, about 30 guards followed me secretly or obviously. And thanks to that, I felt I was constantly suffocating in my family
Nodding, Leana continued on while I continued to struggle with the damn hand-cuffs.
“It was Layla who did the hacking and sowing.”

Shocked by what I heard, I stopped fumbling with the cuffs and looked at Leana with a look of disbelief. She looked back at me judging my reaction and expecting me to say something. However, my mouth was frozen and it took all my effort to say something in response. “I…don’t believe you…”

Sighing, Leana repeated the phrase again like it was no big deal.
“It was Layla. She eliminated the entire family by herself.”

Looking at her, I expected her to crack up laughing any time soon and say it was a joke. But nothing like that happened. Instead, she looked defiantly back at me and sighed once again.
“Do you still not understand? Class B if full of assassins, hackers and all types of people that conduct those illegal affairs. And as I mentioned before, Layla is one of the top assassins of Class B. Great luck you have, don’t you think? Jumping onto Layla like that… you should be grateful that you’re still alive in one piece.”

Oh my God… what had I gotten into? Not only was this school wacky, it was now a school full of murderers and the sorts. If I’d known earlier what I was getting myself into, I’d have ripped the invitation up into shreds the first instant I received it. Not sure I could take any more of this, a thought suddenly struck me and made me shiver.
“Wait, does that mean… no way, I can’t kill anyone, I’m not trained to do any of those things.”

Leana laughing at my foolishness quickly replied, “Weren’t you listening before, Charisma? I said you’re in Class A NOT Class B. You’re in the same class as me and I certainly don’t go around killing people. Now if you’re done asking me questions, can you promise me you won’t escape from me when I set you free?”

The one word, ‘free’, stuck out from the rest of the words and instantly I nodded my head. Heck, I would even kill someone if she wanted me to, only to get her to untie me. Not escaping seemed like a little thing compared to what I had in mind.

After releasing me from my bounds, she quickly grabbed my hand and started pulling me forward, leaving Layla behind.
“Good, now I’ll bring you to the office. After that, I’ll bring you to meet Baldy and then to Class A, where you officially belong from now on.”

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I was now nervously outside the principal’s door, wondering what he was like when a big booming voice told me to come in.

When I first went in, I almost drowned in the piling masses of empty ice-cream cartons. Sensing this was bad, I immediately slipped into my emotionless self once again. Glancing around, I finally caught sight of the principal. The thoughts that instantly came to my mind when I first saw him were:

Fat…

Bald…

Obsessed with ice-cream…?

Snapping back to reality, I saw the masses of fat threatening to burst out of his suit and between the masses of fat I saw two black beady eyes keenly observing me.

“So, you’re Charisma Astelle?”

Deciding to be polite, since he was the principal after all I decided to answer “Yes, Bald-, sir.” So much for being polite, if I wasn’t paying attention at all to my speech I would have said Baldy. I now understood why Leana had called him Baldy, but whether she called him Baldy in front of his face, I didn’t know and I definitely didn’t want to get expelled on my first day at school just for calling him Baldy.

“Did you just call me ‘sir’?” Oh crap. Was I not meant to say ‘sir’ to him? Was I supposed to say Baldy after all?

“So you’re polite as well. Just like that new student, Hira, I think she was called.” Letting out a silent sigh in my head, I continued to keep quiet.

“Pity, I shouldn’t have put him to this mission after all. Lucky him, he gets to spend all his time with a beautiful girl.”
Having no idea of what he was speaking, I just stared at him expectantly.

“Oh well, since you’re here right now, I’ll just ask you to do some favours. I can see that you have a nice figure. Would you be willing to model swim-suits for me every Friday afternoon? I’m sure they’d look great on you!”

Another thought entered instantly into my mind.

…Pervert…

Glaring darkly at him, I answered in the coldest voice I could muster “NO.”
No wonder Leana hated him. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if EVERYONE in this school hated him. Especially the girls. I’d have to tell Leana about this incident later and have her beat him up for me, since she did promise me that she would literally kick his a** if he harassed me.

“But…but…the bikinis…your body…” he spluttered

“ I. SAID. NO. YOU. FREAKIN. PERVERTED. BALDY!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Sighing sadly, he nodded in defeat before murmuring evilly, “You can go now, Charisma, I hope you enjoy your certain ‘surprise’. And if you ever change your mind and decide you want to model for me, you can come back anytime.”

Ohohohohohohohohohohoho. From now on, I’ll avoid your office at all cost and I’ll try to avoid all contact with you as much as possible, you damn pervert. Now to find Leana and get her to beat the crap out of him…

Walking into the classroom was no different than walking into a crowd of preying vultures. As soon as I set foot in the classroom, I felt all pairs of eyes swivel in my direction and I instatnly felt like I was being scrutinized. Leana had somehow disappeared and I wasn't bothered to look for her and it seemed as if any movement from me was not allowed while these vultures were eyeing me. So much for a ‘caring friend’.
However, just as I was about to walk out of the classroom tired of the quiet scrutiny, Leana suddenly re-appeared and suddenly every person in the room had a somewhat 'evil' smile on their faces.
Oh crap. Whatever is next isn’t going be good. Wishing someone would break the silence, I almost hugged Leana when she did, however what she said made me want to strangle her instead.
“Charisma, I think it’s time I told you something. When a new student comes, it’s necessary for her or him to show off whatever their good at. And as I told you earlier, most of this school’s students are your fans, so we decided for you, that you can sing one of your songs for us in the auditorium. And one more thing you need to know. Your singing will be broadcast throughout the school through the speakers.”
What was this I just heard? They literally decided WITHOUT MY PERMISSION for me to sing??? And what kind of gay rule was this, actually, a better question, DID THIS RULE EVEN EXIST???? Oh yeah, and might I add, LEANA YOU BLOODY BACKSTABBING GOOD FOR NOTHING SO-CALLED FRIEND!!!!!!!!!
Actually, was this the surprise Baldy had mentioned earlier in our meeting? If so, I didn’t care if I would have to face him again, but next time I saw him, I would definitely kill him for making up such a stupid rule.
Having no more time to think, everyone nodded eagerly and before I knew it, I was being pushed along with the crowd to the auditorium.