Chapter one

September? More like New Years. It's such a brand-new start new classes, new friends, new teachers, new clothes... This September I was entering a new school. Benjamin Rush High School. It sounds dumb I know, but I can't wait to get a fresh start maybe even get a boyfriend! Who knows.

"Hey, no sweat!" Jane, my soon-to-be-step-mom said. "you'll get used to it in no time- your breakfast is in the kitchen!"

I ran downstairs entering the only place where pure happiness takes place, the kitchen. Although I didn't really have time for a nice-sit-down breakfast, so I settled for something fast and easy. This time I grabbed my bagel on the go.

What is this raspberry ? Who on earth eats raspberry bagels.. never heard of it. If only Jane wasn't vegetarian.. Why does she do this to me. Dissapointing..

With my bagel in one hand I grabbed my car keys in the other and went out the door in a huff. I tried to jingle the keys around so I could property open the door without all of my crap going everywhere. I looked up hoping to see my dad's Ford Fusion left for me, unfortunately not.

You have got to be kidding me.

My dad and step mom expect me to drive the mini van to school. This is social suicide.

I stared at my reflection of long dark brown hair in the window. After zoning out for a couple seconds I finally got the courage to get into the van and head off to my new school.

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Not even one minute after I entered the school, I was immediately greeted by a blonde peppy girl. She must've listed off hundreds of extracurricular activities, before my head was going to explode. Apparently she was head of cheerleading and student council.. And a bunch more I didn't really get because she spoke so fast.

"I'm Amanda by the way." She said enthusiastically. I awkwardly shook her hand.

"Your first class is right here" she pointed at the door directly to the right of me.
"and if you're looking for directions don't believe people when they say there is a fourth floor!" Amanda continued. Then she turned around with her blonde hair bouncing over her shoulder, and was gone as fast as she first appeared.

Weird. People here are very weird.

I looked at my schedule- biology 1 course A. I walked into the classroom not really bothering to make eye-contact with the few people in the room. I walked to the back of the room and sat at the only empty lab table. Shortly after the bell rang and the teacher started to introduced himself.

blah blah blah.. Honestly school is horrible. I can't even pay attention and it's the first day of school. that's a bad sign.

Two guys walked in, right as the teacher called them out.

"Fukanaga! Reynolds! You're extremely late! Sit!" he shouted, the teacher was annoyed, clearly. But the teacher also didn't seem that surprised.

The two boys continued on in and looked around looking for an open spot.

Oh please not here. Please don't sit here. I chanted in my head

To my luck the shorter of the two noticed the empty spots next to me. They walked over and sat down across from me.

<One of the boys was really attractive, he had dark brown hair and perfect Olive skin. The other kept looking at me, like he knew me or something?

"Mike that's the new girl! she's cute right?" The guy with dark skin said obviously trying to whisper but clearly couldn't ..

"She can hear you." I said to him.

The guy named Mike smiled while elbowing the other guy in the stomach.

The other guy turned around while clutching his abdomen.

The teacher passed out some worksheets.

"These will be your lab partners for the rest of the year get to know them!" the teacher announced.

Well this will be interesting..

"I'm Owen by the way, and this is mike." Owen said in a trying to be charming.

"Sasha nice ta meet youu." I said and looked at mike.

Mike had a necklace with some kind of metal thing at the end. God he was so cute. He noticed me starting so I looked down at my paper quickly. I couldn't get the picture of his necklace out of my head. I looked up at him again.

"So what's your necklace? I've seen it before." I said looking at mike.

"Oh this? it's a Japanese mon." he said while taking it off and showing it to me.

"Uh don-" I touched it and a Shuriken popped out of it.

"Wow, aren't these hidden Shuriken necklaces old?" I said examinating it.

"Wow I didn't even know what a Shuriken was!" Said Owen.

"You still don't.." said Mike looking at Owen.

"Hologramps told me about 'the legend'!" Owen said raiding his hands while he talked.

"The what? said who?" I was so confused.

Mike glared at Owen then looked at me

"Nothing.. nothing. nothing. So we should probably start this worksheet!" Mike said smiling awkwardly.

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I got into my mini van, and started the car. I turned out of the school parking lot and started driving down the street. My car started making funny noises as then all of a sudden it just stopped.

What the hell?

My car had broken down and I'm not even sure where I am.

I stood outside and looked around a couple cars passed but nobody stopped.

For what seemed like hours I just sat on the curb.

Finally a car pulled up and the windows rolled down. it was Mike and Owen.

"Need a ride?" Mike said.

"Yes that would be great!" I said as I walked towards the car door.

I got in and sat down.

"So where are you going?" mike asked me as I buckled my seat belt.

"I'm like 40 minutes late to my martial arts class.. My instructors going to be so pissed!" I said.

"You take martial arts?!" Mike said leaning over his seat. he seemed really surprised.

"Yeah, I also take kicking boxing, tae kwon do, karate, and mixed fighting. along with those I did ballet gymnastics and rock climbing in my younger years." I said while looking at my phone.

"Mike took 7 years of ballet!" Owen said before Mike could stop him.

"I know a lot of embarrassing facts about mike.." Owen said while keeping his eyes on the road.

"Okay can you turn up here it's right on the left." I said pointing at the martial arts studio.

Once Owen parked I grabbed my bag, getting out of his car.

"Thanks for the ride. Hey if you guys wanna watch I'll only be here for about 20 minutes." I said holding my bag with one hand.

"Yeah!" Said mike.