Mika rested her head against her hand and sighed. She didn't want to go to school. That was the last place she wanted to be. She looked around the kitchen with a small sigh. Her mother was busy yelling for her brother to get ready for school. She rolled her eyes and pushed the toast that was sitting in front of her on the table away. She just wanted to get to school and get it over with. She wondered if any of her friends needed a ride or anything. She knew if they did that they would text her or call. She walked up to her room and grabbed her backpack and money for lunch. She had work after school so she took her bag with her work clothes in it. She thought about for her schedule for this week. Work, soccer tryouts, then work for the rest of the week. She didn't even want to think about the homework she would have too.

Alyssa and Nick walked out of the house quickly and walked down the sidewalk. Alyssa let out a long yawn as nick took her arm and dragged her along…Nick dressed in his favorite black skinny’s and a Bring me the Horizon tee shirt and his Black hoodie, and converse. His hair was neatly straightened and hiding some of his face…Alyssa had on a similar outfit, she wore blue jean skinnies, and a green Hollister shirt, and chestnut ugg boots. Her hair was straightened and teased a little; her makeup was in the ‘Smokey eye’ style.
Nicks black and white back pack bounced as they made their way to the school. Alyssa sighed and clung to her older brother and giggled to her self.


Their out fit-http://www.polyvore.com/alyssa_nick/set?id=20679900

Stratos tapped the fingers of his left hand on the table, one after the other. With his other hand he spooned a mixture of milk and cornflakes into his mouth, taking his time. The house was silent, the only sound being the rapping of digits and the clink of spoon and bowl. Stratos Frank Milestone lived on his own, without the supervision of his parents. The house was theirs and the money with which Stratos maintained most of his life was theirs. He had his own job, but that wouldn't cover the bills for his house. He, still silently, finished his breakfast and washed the bowl out before fetching his black, slightly tatty school bag. He set a pair of sunglasses upon his frowning face as he walked out the door. With the bag half slung over his shoulder he pulled a bundle of keys out of his pocket and locked the white stained door behind him.

The house he left behind as he wandered to the garage was a single story, three room, one bedroom, quaint house. The walls were the same wood and white as the door and the roof the common grey slate. Nearby, the garage was slightly decrepit on the outside, and the inside was just a mess. Full of tools and spare parts and numerous unrecognisable items. Light shone on this dark interior as Stratos lifted the corrugate metal door. Amongst the many parts scattered upon the floor stood Stratos's bike, it was a old machine. He had rescued it from a ditch, even paying the owner of the wrecked bike to take it off his hands. After four months of repairing it stood there in working condition. The teenager had only got it in working order the day before and this was going to be the first time he wouldn't have to walk or hitch hike to school.

He mounted the old BMW and, after inserting the switch he thumbed the starter trigger. There was a slightly wheezing for a moment before engine burst into a racket of nasty sounding grinding. Lightly cursing Stratos set the machine back up and reinvestigated the inner workings. He located the problem quickly but it took him up to half an hour to realign the gearbox. At this rate he need the bike to work all the way to school to be there in time. On the second try the bike started, sounding much more healthy. In a cry of success Stratos pushed the fresh motorbike outside the garage, closing the door behind him, and putting both his helmet and backpack on properly. He quickly set off, the sunglasses provided eye protection the helmet did not. They did not, however, provide instant cleaning and Stratos left home smudged with dirt and grease.

Alyssa heard a nosie from behinde them and looked back to see a boy on a bike.
"Isnt he in our class?" Nick asked.
She nodded while tjinking of his name
"I think his names Stratos?"She said looking up at her brother

"Dearest, wake up or you'll be late," Carlotta woke a slumbering lady under the thick covers.
"Unngghhh... five more minutes," someone said under the pile of comfortable sheets.
"But Ms. Lei your parents are already waiting for you at the breakfast table," the middle aged help continued to tug on the sheets.
Quickly it flipped and exposed Helena in a peach silk sleeping gown that reached her knees.
Helena or Lei, as most people address her, slowly stood up and slipped her feet into a pair of fuzzy bedroom slippers.
"What time is it anyway?" she asked with uber sleepiness in her voice then she yawned after.
Lei rubbed her eyes and went to her bathroom with Carlotta in tow with fresh batch of towel with her name embroidered in maroon thread.
She did her usual rituals as brushing her teeth and taking a quick shower and picked an outfit from her vast collection.
She picked out an ivory colored dress: http://www.bluefly.com/BCBGMAXAZRIA-ivory-floral-burnout-silk-ruffle-trim-dress/cat960160/307297101/detail.fly
and a pair of white string sandals.
She placed her hair in a bun and walked to the dining area with Carlotta still in tow.

She was welcomed in the room with her parents absorbed in reading the daily business papers.
"Good morning dad, good morning mom," she situated herself between the two busy people and bent down to both give them a peck on the cheeks.
Her father folded the paper, checked his watch, drank his coffee, stood up and walked out of the room without acknowledging anybody's presence.
Her mother answered a phone call and walked towards another room.
Lei was left to eat breakfast all by herself.
She gazed on the ceiling and the booming crystal chandelier loomed over the table.
So she stood up drank her milk and took a bite on her toast and grabbed her bag, Carlotta called the driver and escorted her until she boarded the vehicle.
Once she made herself ready, she took a very deep sigh and nodded as a signal for the driver.

She saw her schoolmates, one of them was on a bike that passed by a girl and a guy whose arms were linked arm in arm.
She looked at her phone, no message. So she made one for Mika, the first girl she met.

Little Helena is a new girl in town, her parents decided to move in this town because of a new business venture.

The message she composed read;
"Mika, Lei here. Meet me up b4 class @ my locker TC :)"
She placed it back into her bag next to the little gift for Mika and sh re-applied some lip balm as the car neared the school vicinity.
"Miss, we are here." Meeltos, the driver spoke.
"Thank you. I'll just call when I'm ready to go home later."
The driver opened the door as she boarded off and walked towards the school entrance.

A few guys smiled towards her but she choose to ignore them.
She waited for Mika.

Stratos arrived at school to calls from a multitude of students. It was a small town and no teenagers rode motorcycles to school. He parked the BMW on the footpath near some bollards and chained the back wheel to one of them with a short, heavy chain. He had just got it working, there would be no sense in getting it stolen. He wandered into school, ignoring the usual crowds. A large number of people who have either shunned or ignored Stratos, which was almost everyone, suddenly became more interested. It was surprising what having some independence brought amongst your peers, of course there was much jeering at his slightly messy appearance. For the entirety of it the boy ignored most people, he wasn't exactly interested in popularity.

He, knowing he was a bit greasy made his way to a bathroom. Just outside he noticed a new girl waiting by a locker. She was attractive, but Stratos had seen enough attractive girls, on television and real life, to be able to ignore their charms. He didn't find looks much of a value. He flashed her a smile, just for the sake of smiling and walked into the restroom. He washed his face and hands thoroughly, and when the were finally clean he left. The girl was still by her locker, so he wandered over. "You know you'll miss your lessons if you stay here much longer." He introduced himself with a amused grin.

Mika was still nowhere to be found.
Lei had been waiting by her locker for quite sometime when the guy on the big bike she passed by earlier smiled at her and went inside the comfort room.
He looked nice enough but something was more engrossing about his smile.
She checked her phone in case Mika sent her a text message but there was nothing. The guy came out from the comfort room and said,"You know you'll miss your lessons if you stay here much longer."
Lei gave him a shy smile and gulped and found her self asking him something in return, "Do you by any chance know Mika James?"
"I'm sorry I've been rude not to introduce myself, I'm Helena. I'm new here."
Lei offered her hand for a shake towards biker guy.

It turned out that Stratos's locker was actually near to Helena's. Not next to it but a few down and he stowed his helmet and organised his books for his lessons. While he did this he responded to Lei, he wasn't particularly interested in Helena but he wasn't about to be rude and ignore her. He paused a moment, thinking, before answering "Yeah, I know of her. Not personally though. I don't exactly get along with everyone." He said this in a offhanded sort of way, focusing mostly on the text and exercise books that he was placing in his locker or bag. He closed and locked the cheap metal container and turned to Helena as she introduced himself. He accepted her hand shake and shook it with a smile, "If you were rude, then I was ruder. I'm Stratos, probably the weirdest name in this school." He chuckled slightly and released her hand.

BRRIINNNGGGGG!
The bell rang and Helena was startled as Stratos released her hand from the shake.
She smiled back and headed towards her class.
So much for waiting for Mika. Maybe she'll see her later around school.

Lei jumped as the bell uttered its piercing noise all over the school. She left her locker, maybe she was waiting for someone but she obviously wasn't going to be late for her lesson. He chuckled slightly to himself at the thought and smiled goodbye to Helena as she wandered in the other direction. His first class of the days was mathematics, one of his more favourite classes. He made his way and settled himself at his usual desk in the back of the room.

Lei checked her schedule and found out that she has Math as her first class.
She checked the room number and asked a passing student which way goes to that class.
The student pointed at another hallway and a room at the end.
She walked towards the room and entered a door. She opened the door and scanned the room.
Since the teacher hasn't arrived yet, the students were everywhere. Few were chatting while some were throwing papers at each other.
At the back part of the room was Stratos, sitting quietly by his self.
Helena found a seat by the side of the window when a girl sat next to her and smiled at her.
"You're that new girl right?"
"Yeah. My name's Helena,"
"Hi I'm Brooke."
Just then a middle-aged woman entered the room. Laid her things on the teachers table and faced the class.
Lei took a single glance towards Stratos then faced the board again.

Mika got to school and hurried to class and saw Lei. She smiled and waved at her. In school Mika always seemed so happy but out of school was a different story. She looked at the teacher who was glaring at her. "Sorry I'm later. I nearly got in a car crash on the way here." It was such a lie but she was used to lying. The teacher narrowed her eyes at her but then sighed and simply told her to sit down. She sat down in a chair behind to Lei. "I am so sorry I was sidetracked and so forth and so on. I found this for you the other day. I totally thought it would look adorable on you." She laid a box which contained a heart locket. She looked over at Stratos and raised an eyebrow. "And who might you be?" She often forgot names of people she didn't talk to on a daily basis.

(@Elemental: Stratos sits a bit far from us, like a couple of rows behind from me. So maybe you could change your seating position at my back so you can continue with your storyline. Just a suggestion, you don't have to consider it :D)
"Hey! It's okay let's just talk about it at lunch. Are you okay? Good thing you didn't get caught in that car accident. Are you feeling any pain?" Lei asked Mika a question after another and had a very worried look at her face.
Just then Mika laid a box before her which contained a heart locket and said, "I found this for you the other day. I totally thought it would look adorable on you."
"Wow! You didn't have too. This is too much!" Lei gasped at the sight and blushed.
Just then the teacher eyed them sternly which made her sit up straight and face the black board.
She wrote a note for Mika.
Lei scribbled the following:
Mika,
Thank you so much. You shouldn't have bothered. Hope we can chat after this class.
I'm not sure if we have the same one after this. I'll be having Music.
Lei
P.S.
If in case we don't have the same one, let's just meet up by lunch xoxox.

But before she was able to pass it to Mika, her friend looked at Stratos and uttered, "And who might you be?"
Thinking all the people in this small town knew each other at least a little bit, got her confused.
But oh well.
So she passed the note towards Mika without letting the teacher see her and copied the notes at the board after.
Looks like she's gonna like this town after all.
She'll just have to keep that sneaky lil' secret to herself and everything will go smoothly, or will it?

A few more new students were present in the class so the teacher ordered Stratos to move from his occupied desk to a new position. He smiled and obliged, cheerfully and without comment. He settled himself in one of the few empty desks. The one he picked happened to have several obscenities carved into its weathered wooden surface and he carefully moved his books to block. A voice from beside him spoke, 'And who might you be?' He looked over, recognising Helena with Mika, who between the new girl and himself. He remembered Mika, he had a mostly secret crush on her a year ago but that was a short period of time and they had only known each other in passing. "I'm Stratos" He whispered across. Hoping that his singular name was enough to remind her that he had been in the same class for over a year.

"I'm Stratos", the whisper that made Lei's heart skip a beat.
She felt worried butterflies in her stomach as well as a little squeeze by her heart.
She tried to focus herself with the lesson but somehow a little thought kept on coming back to her.
It can't simply be. She can't be jealous.
She only met Stratos for less than an hour.
Lei gulped and made a quick glance towards Mika. She's a really pretty girl. Stratos wouldn't mind her if he weren't attracted to her, right? She took another gulp at the invisible lump in her throat.
She passed another note to Mika to erase her weird thoughts.

Mika,
Wanna spend some time hanging out at my place after school? Parents are gone for a week.
Lei

She slipped the paper towards Mika one more time.

Mika looked at Stratos with a small smile. "Oh yeah I remember you." She didn't care if the teacher saw her talking or not. By the end of the day she would probably already have one detention if not more. She sighed a bit and ran her fingers through her hair. She looked at the note that Lei had just passed her and shrugged a bit. She wasn't sure what she was going to do. She looked at the note and smiled a bit. She took out her pencil and wrote. How bout you come too? She handed the note over to Stratos. She waited to see what he would say or do.

Stratos was slightly surprised at Mika's familiarity, he didn't expect it. Even so he smiled back and turned his attention to the class. Out of the corner of his eye as he doodled on the side of his exercise book he spotted her pass a note to him. He read it and glanced at Mika questioningly. It seemed a bit odd her just asking him like this straight out of the blue and he delayed responding. He doodled some more while thinking about whether to be friendly or be sensible. In the end he choose the first. "Sure, I guess" he scribbled on the piece of paper, slipping it over the Mika while paying more attention to his work or doodle. Any onlooker wouldn't be able to tell which.

Out of the corner of her eye, Lei saw Mika pass the note towards Stratos. And without her noticing her jaw dropped out of shock. She sat up straight and tried to fix herself to take herself out of the uncomfortable situation.
She tried to act naturally, not wanting Mika to realize she was worried. She took notes but she was aware that Stratos still has the piece of paper that was for Mika.

"Ms. Klein, so what do you think is the correct answer?" The teacher suddenly called unto her.
Luckily she was paying attention earlier, she stood up and walked to the board and did the equation.
It took her half a minute to answer the problem which made her forget about the situation earlier.
When she sat down she whispered to Mika, "So?"
Wanting to know Mika's answer, she asked her personally instead.

She smiled at Lei. "Stratos said he'd come so this is totally gonna be like awesome! One of these days we need to have a party." She enjoyed having parties. She loved planning them cause it made her feel in control. She looked over at Stratos and waited till he looked up at her. She winked at him and giggled a bit. She was glad that she wasn't a shy girl. The teacher cleared his throat before calling her name. She looked up at him with a blank look and sighed when he told her to stop playing around. That only made her want to play around more.

Stratos did notice Mika's giggled response to Lei, although he didn't notice the brunette's surprise earlier on. He raised an eyebrow quizzically without looking up from his book, surely he wouldn't make it that interesting. He glanced over to throw a questioning look at Mika, and got a wink and giggle in response. He smiled at her, not sure what he was confirming and looked back to his work as the teacher turned his attention to the girl. He internally frowned as he watched her response. She seemed to have no respect for the teacher and Stratos didn't particularly like that, it gave him the impression that she thought too much of herself. He couldn't judge however, he didn't really know her all that well.

Soon the bell rang. But Lei's mouth was still hanging open out of shock. She didn't expect that Stratos would come. "Wait, what?"
"I don't know if I can have other people around, you see Mother and Father would be mad..." The worried look and her face grew more weary.
She glanced at Stratos, trying not to let him hear her. She didn't mean to offend him or un-invite him, but having another person can mean another one will get invited until it forms a house party. Not that their house couldn't accommodate the whole school but she knows she'll have her other foot in a grave if that happens.
"Mika..." she waited for her to say something in return about her concern. She bit her lip, either she looked cute doing it or she looked like someone's going to cut her life support.

When the bell went, Stratos was busy packing his freshly doodled books into his bag and didn't notice Helena talking to Mika. He stood and was about to leave when he noticed Helena looking slightly worried, biting her lip. The action was slightly cute but Stratos wouldn't fall for that. He walked around Mika's seat and crouched down to talk to the girl. "Do you mind?" He asked, meaning Mika's invitation of him. "I mean, its not really the right thing to do; inviting other people when you're the guest" He looked a Mika so she got his point before looking back at Lei and waited for her response "I wouldn't mind if you said no, I only have nothing else to do which is why I said yes. No offence."

Lei was taken aback when Stratos spoke his mind. She looked at him embarassingly and said, "I didn't mean it that way. And I think it would be okay if you can join us, come to think of it."
She then faced Mika again and spoke softly, "I'd be okay with a few people over, I'm just trying to prevent a party to happen. Maybe a couple more people aside from the two of you can join and that's it. So are you guys okay with that?"
She both looked at the eyes of the two looking and waiting for an answer and confirmation.