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Chapter 1
It was late and the lights would go out in 30 minutes. Mike was heading for his room. When he passed an empty chamber he heard a sound. He listened carefully. He heard it again, it was a soft whimper.
He opened the door and looked into the room; he saw that the room wasn’t empty at all. It was dark, but Mike could make out some furniture and in the middle of the room lay something that was probably a bag. On the bed sat a crouched figure, Mike couldn’t tell if it was male or female.
‘Who are you?’ Mike asked.
The thing on the bed stiffened before it said; ‘Go away.’ in a low voice.
Mike stayed cool and asked: ‘Why should I?’
‘If you don’t go I may rape you.’
Mike fell on the ground spontaneously, but stood up again quickly. He turned on the lights and saw who said the unusual sentence: It was a very little and skinny girl with long reddish hair and grey tearstained eyes.
Mike had to laugh, very loud.
‘I think it would be more likely if I raped you.’ He hiccupped.
‘I don’t think so…’ The girl said. ‘You’re gay.’
Mike stiffened, how the hell could she know!? Mike denied immediately: ‘I’m not! How the hell could you think something like that?!’
‘I don’t think it, I know it’s true.’ The girl grinned creepily ‘I know everything what’s happening in here.’
Mike fell silent, everyone in this centre was a bit of a creep, but she had just won the ‘I’m the creepiest thing in the whole world’ award!
The girl whimpered again.
‘What’s wrong with you anyway?’ Mike asked.
‘It hurts!’
‘What hurts?’
‘Everything! Now go away. Leave before I loose control!’ She gasped.
‘Do you really think I can’t handle you?’
At that moment Noah arrived.
‘You’d better leave Mike.’ He said.
‘Why.’
‘Because Saï may rape you, in this stage.’
‘That girl? She’s just 1 meter 55 max and she’s so skinny you can count her ribs! It’s more likely if I rape her!’
At that moment the girl called Saï moaned loudly.
‘It hurts.’ She whimpered. ‘Let someone please stop the pain.’
‘Saï calm down. It’s going to be okay.’ Noah called and he went into the room.
But before he could stop Saï, she tackled Mike. She sat on top of him, her face merely a few centimetres away from his. Mike noticed that he had underestimated her; she was skinny, but she wasn’t just 1 meter 55 tall, she was just a bit shorter than him.
‘You can stop the pain.’ She said.
Then she leaned forward and kissed him, her hand, which previously had lain on his chest, moved. Mike did not want to know where. He tried to push her of, but she dug her nails in his chest hard!
Noah pulled her of, but the shirt Mike was wearing was ripped by her nails and there was a long scratch on his chest. Mike was too perplexed to move.
Saï was yelling and was telling Noah to let her go, she struggled for her live, screaming that it hurt and then… It just stopped and Saï passed out.
Noah put her in the bed.
‘What the hell was that?!’ He heard a familiar voice say.
Mike turned his head and saw Ryan standing in the doorpost.
‘Did she kill someone?’ Ryan asked him, he looked hopefully.
‘No she didn’t’ Mike snapped.
‘Oh’ Ryan saw the scratch ‘Mike you’re bleeding! You’re loosing blood! You’re going to die!’
‘Ryan, Mike isn’t going to die.’ Noah said ‘Now you 2 go to bed.’
‘But Mike’s hurt.’
‘I’m fine Ryan!’ Mike yelled and he stood up.
Mike stepped out the room, told Ryan to sod of and went to his room. He pulled of his shirt when he heard the door open. He turned and found a timid looking Ray.
‘What happened?’
‘Nothing unusual,’ Mike said ‘but this time it wasn’t me who had an attack.’

Chapter 3
Ray felt very depressed when he walked back to his room. That new girl had kissed Mike and he hadn’t told him. Ray didn’t pay attention and just walked into his boyfriend.
‘Sorry Mike.’ He apologised blushing.
‘s’Okay.’ Mike said and he walked on.
‘Where are you going Mike?’ Ray asked.
‘Outside.’
‘Can I talk to you for a second?’
Mike turned to look at his boyfriend and Ray looked away.
‘Okay.’ He said.
‘Mike, why didn’t you tell me?’
‘Tell you what?’
‘Well, about what happened last night?’
Mike stiffened, ‘It wasn’t that a big a deal.’
‘Well why didn’t you tell me earlier then?’
‘… I don’t know.’ He looked away.
Ray fell silent.
‘Hey Ray, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about it okay?’
Ray cracked a smile, ‘Okay.’
There was an awkward silence, but that was broken quickly by (can you guess) Ryan.
‘Mikey!’ He glomped Mike.
‘Ryan, get of!’
Ryan ignored that, as always. Why did Mike even bother to tell Ryan to sod of, Ryan never really listened anyway. Mike was yelling at Ryan, but Ray didn’t listen anymore, even after the conversation with Mike he was still feeling awful.
He walked down the hall, it was Saturday and most of the kids got picked up by their parents. Not that it really mattered to him; the only ones he would really miss were Mike, Ryan and Matt. And they were all staying (Ryan’s parents couldn’t come that day).
Ray stopped paying attention to his surroundings again and tripped over something, to fall on his face. Ray got up and turned to look at the object he tripped over.
It turned out it wasn’t an object, but a human being; Matt to be more precise, who was sitting in the middle of the hallway.
‘Oh, sorry Matt, I didn’t look where I was going.’
‘…’
‘Did I hurt you?’
‘…’
Ray came closer and tried to see if Matt was hurt somewhere. He couldn’t find a thing, but asked if everything was alright. Matt did not answer, but someone else said something: ‘You know, I think you’re the only one who even bothers trying to communicate with him…’
Ray turned ‘round and found that new girl - what was her name again, oh right Saï - was standing almost next to him.
She looked at Matt for a while and smiled.
‘The first impression was that everyone has given up on trying to communicate with him, but I guess I was wrong: You haven’t and that redhead hasn’t either, but he’s just nutters so… Ah, what am I talking about; I guess I’m nutters too’
‘Well, you come over pretty normal to me.’ Ray said when he had finally found his tongue again.

Noah had, had a hard evening… When Saï wasn’t there for dinner he had to go and look for her, that wasn’t 1 of the greatest experiences he’s had.

*flashback*

He was walking down the hallway looking for Saï. He hoped she didn’t do anything dangerous… Ah, she’d probably just got lost, if she wasn’t very upset about something she wouldn’t… He didn’t finish that row of thoughts; he saw something glistering on the floor, it were little pieces of glass. It was everywhere and it seemed to come from the room on his right hand; the girl’s bathroom. He knocked.
‘S...Stay out!’ He heard someone whisper.
‘Saï! Saï is that you?’
‘…’
‘Saï are you okay? What’s going on?’
He heard something; it sounded like she was walking thru something… Glass! He opened the door.
Saï was standing in the middle of the girl’s bathroom, her hair was hanging in her eyes, her sweater (which was to big) was ripped and bloody, just like her skirt and socks, glass was surrounding her. It was the glass of the mirror; it was broken.
‘Saï did you do this?’
She grinned creepily ‘And what if I did…’
She kneeled down and grabbed a piece of mirror.
‘Saï put that down!’
Saï just looked at Noah and got up.
‘Saï!’ Noah came forward.
‘Don’t come closer!’ She said holding the mirror in front of her.
Noah stepped back. Saï lifted the piece mirror to her face.
‘Am I different?’ She asked looking at her reflection ‘Because I certainly don’t look very different from the rest of the people. Do I?’
She didn’t wait for an answer, but said: ‘Then why are people treating my different, even if they don’t even know me.’
She sighted and let tears flow for a time and then she continued: ‘And even if I’m different why… Why did they… Treat me like… Like they did? Is it that bad to be different?’
‘No it’s not. Saï everyone is different, but some people more than others…’
‘But than why? Why! Why did they do all those things? All those terrible things! And why… Why…’ Saï’s voice gave up; she fell on her knees sobbing.
‘You can’t do anything about the behaviour of people, some people behave like that, even if it’s terrible…’
Noah dared to come closer again, but that wasn’t 1 of his better plans. She had grabbed the piece of mirror and held it right in front of his eyes before he could say “quack”.
‘Who says you’re not going to do the things they did too?’
‘Whoa…’
Saï didn’t give him time to finish.
‘One word, one movement and I’ll stab you’re eye out!’
Noah didn’t do a thing; if he did, he would have lost an eye. Noah wished someone came in, he usually didn’t deal with this kind of things, Ryan had never used something to threaten him and he really didn’t know what to do right now.
One moment the thought passed his mind how silly this must have looked; Saï sat on her knees, red hair framing her face and even lay sprawled on the floor holding a piece of mirror like it was a dagger and him hovering over her, bent slightly with that piece of mirror right in front of his face. Noah didn’t know for how long they stood like that, but after some time Saï retreated the mirror slowly, holding a sharp eye on him even though she continued to cry.
‘If I can’t do a thing about it… Then why do I even bother, I could better just end myself…’ With that set the “dagger” to her wrist.
She was about to add some pressure when Noah intervened. He grabbed the hand that was holding the mirror and removed it from her wrist then he grabbed the mirror and threw it away, Saï was struggling against him heavily.
In the end, though he couldn’t remember how, he had dragged her to her room, bandaged her wrist and some other major wounds, made her change her clothes and then dragged her down to the dining room.

*end flashback*

And like that wasn’t enough for that day, Saï had issues with her make-up during dinner… Making the whole group inquisitive about her past, which she wouldn’t tell. And that just had to end in a war again. Sometimes he wondered why he took this job, but Noah kept it anyway.

Ryan shivered, this could get good, maybe Noah would hit something and maybe there would be some more violence. But he was also curious to what Saï had done; threatened Noah with a piece of mirror, how? Where did she come from and why did she threaten Noah? And most important of all; did it contain blood?
Ryan was practically drooling over the number of possibilities and continued listening.
‘Well Noah, maybe it is a reason for her.’ Kate said.
‘Oh yeah, I really don’t see how.’ Noah snapped at her.
‘Noah… That girl has been raped multiple times. Do you really think she sees everyone as innocent, maybe she was afraid you might…’
‘SHE THOUGH THAT I WAS GONNA…’ Kate cut him of by holding her hand in front of his mouth.
‘Yes she probably thought so,’ she hushed ‘but will you please keep the volume down… You never yell that much.’
Noah took a deep breath and whispered; ‘Sorry Kate, I’m just stressed at the moment, that’s all.’
Ryan had to bite his knuckles to keep him from yelling out like Noah did.
She was raped by someone! And multiple times too! That must’ve been horrible! He didn’t care how the story would continue; he had to check on Saï.
He might be seen as a weirdo and a freak, but he cared deeply for others. And he felt that he went into his rarely witnessed “serious mode”
He found her in her room, she was sitting in the dark on her bed and she was writing something down on a note block.
‘Hi.’ Ryan said, staying in the opening of the door.
She looked up and watched him intently.
‘Can I come in?’ He asked.
Saï blinked a few times and nodded.
‘Do you mind if I turn on the lights?’ Ryan asked, finding it odd that she was sitting in the dark.
Saï nodded again, but she didn’t take her eyes of him.
Ryan turned on the lights and sat down in the middle of the room, on the floor, studying Saï, while she was studying him.
After a while it seemed that she decided that Ryan was harmless and continued writing whatever she was writing. (A.N: err… weird sentence I know)
‘What’re you writing?’
‘That’s none of your concern.’ Saï answered in a hoarse whisper.
Ryan pondered for a while about how he was going to bring up what he was planning to bring up. (A.N: weird sentence, again, I know) Then he decided it was best for him to bring it straight.
‘Why are you here Saï?’ He asked.
Saï stopped her writing and her head snapped up, she looked him straight in the eye and it send a shiver up his spine.
‘Why do you want to know?’ She whispered.
‘I’m worried about you Saï.’
She seemed to ponder that for a moment and then said; ‘Well you shouldn’t.’
‘Why not?’
‘Because I never see the last ones that claimed to be worried about me anymore.’
‘Maybe they’ve got their reasons?’
‘They have: My family has just lied about that, Ethan is dead and Bridget is having her own problems right now.’
‘Who are Ethan and Bridget?’
‘They are my best friends… They were anyway.’
‘Why are you here Saï?’ Ryan asked again, since the subject was changing.
She sighed, put away her note block and whipped her way to long pony from her eyes. Then she took a deep breath and started: ‘I’m here because of a lot of things… I’m seeing things, I’m suffering from a light from of nymphomania, I’ve got attacks, I don’t know the name for those, and I’ve got anorexia. And because of my not so enjoyable stay in the last centre I’ve lived in I’ve become suicidal’ She closed her eyes and grinned; ‘I’m pretty crazy, uh?’
Ryan gaped at her; how could someone have all those mental disorders at the same time?
It was silent for a few minutes and then they heard some noise in the hallway.
They both went to check it out and looked around the corner of the door. (A.N: like in those cartoons, 2 heads above each other, Ryan on top)
Matt was sitting in the middle of the hallway again and Ray had tripped over him… Again. Mike was standing next to them.
Ray grinned at his own stupidity; ‘Looks like I tripped over you again Matt! I’m sorry!’
Matt stayed silent, like always.
Ray checked Matt like last time he tripped over him and decided that he seemed okay. Mike was staring at them for a while and then noticed Saï and Ryan.
‘What are you doing?’ He asked.
Ryan wanted to answer when Saï did, she opened the door and stood up straight then her raw voice said; ‘We were just looking what that noise was. Is that a problem?’ Again her voice wasn’t any higher than a whisper. Now that Ryan thought about it; she had never really showed some volume since she was here.
Mike didn’t answer and it was deadly silent for a few seconds and then Mike tilted his head.
‘Something’s not right,’ he said ‘you’re not glomping me.’ and he pointed to Ryan.
‘No.’
Again there was silence… (A.N: insert some chibi’s with dots in here)
‘Oh… Good!’ Mike grinned.
Ryan had stepped out of Saï’s room and Saï went past him and entered her room.
‘Was there something else you wanted to know?’ She asked looking solemn and sad.
‘Actually there is!’ Ryan said.
‘Oh, okay…’ She turned away her head ‘Come back in then.’ and she stepped aside so that Ryan could enter her room.
‘What’s this all about?’ Mike snapped.
‘Oh Saï was telling me why she is here!’
Ray’s head snapped up ‘Could I know too?’ he asked.
Saï nodded ‘Do you want to know too Mike? Matt?’
‘Ah well, why not?’ Mike shrugged.
Saï looked at Matt, he didn’t utter a word; he just sat there. Then Ray said he’d probably didn’t want to know. But then Matt got up, walked into her room and sat down on her bed.
Saï told Mike and Ray they should get in, then she looked around the hallway if there was someone else, walked into her room and flopped down next to Matt on the bed.
She told the other guys what she had told Ryan and then asked him what else he wanted to know.
‘Where you came from… The other centre.’
Saï seemed to shrink when Ryan said the last thing and she shivered.