"Evan... You can go with him" his mother softly said while standing near him.He slowly lifted his head and looked outside through the open window, his step-father was waiting for him inside the car.

　　He hesitated for a moment but finally shook his head. "It's ok... I'll go alone" he whispered before tying his shoelaces again.

　　"Ok! I'll go tell him," she said but he has another request to make. So he suddenly grabbed her hand to stop her. She was surprised by his sudden action but a smile quickly broke into her face.

　　"What is it?" She asked. Evan licked his lips nervously. The thing he is going to say might really hurt her but- "Mom...tell him-tell him not to tell anyone in the school that we are related" he finally said.

　　The smile slowly vanished from her face but she nodded anyway. "Ok"

　　Evan watched her walking away. His mom got married to a school director two months ago without telling him and last month they moved to their new house with his stepfather. Everything was so sudden for Evan. He doesn't know what to do. He suddenly became someone's stepson. At first, he was mad with his mom but then again she must have her reasons for marrying without telling him. So, he could only try to accept him as his father but at the same time, he needs time for that. He doesn't want anyone in the school to know because he doesn't want people to address him as the school director's stepson. He wants to spend his high school life without any trouble.

　　He abruptly looked up when he heard his mom's footsteps. She was smiling. " He said he won't tell. Don't worry dear"

　　"Thank you mom" He hugged her for the first time since she got married. She was still as warm as she used to be.

　　"Go" she kissed him on the cheek.

　　--

　　Standing in front of the yellow building Evan could feel his palm sweating and body heavy. His pale face took the colour of pink dust. His nose is slightly red because of the chill in the air.

　　He was nervous...He wants to make friends this time. At least one if not many.

　　He took a deep breath before rubbing his palm together.

　　"Ok! Let's go" he whispered to himself before stepping his foot inside the gate.

　　He got his things from the office and headed towards the locker room. The locker room was very crowded and noisy but Evan didn't think too much about it and enter it directly. What he saw next made his him froze on his spot. At the centre of the room, some people were fighting. No, to say it correctly, a group of students were beating one person.

　　Everyone was just standing at the side and watching. No one even tried to stop them and a few seconds after Evan entered, the room became completely silent.

　　What happened? Why did they become silent suddenly?

　　Evan slowly looked around and then he noticed. He was also in the centre.

　　"Enough! Go to your classrooms" Someone shouted suddenly and everyone started leaving the room. Evan gulped before turning around to leave too but he was just barely taking two steps when someone grabbed his bag from behind.

　　"Where do you think you're going?" That same voice.

　　"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt" Evan whispered and abruptly closed his eyes expecting a blow to come right across on his face.

　　But it didn't come. Instead, he heard a soft laugh. Evan slowly opened his eyes and looked at the person in front of him without blinking. Why does he look so scary and attractive at the same time?

　　The person in front of him was hard to describe... He was taller than him. The buzz cut hair suits on his oval shape face completely as if that style is only made for him. He has a pair of flirty chocolate brown eyes with long eyelashes... And a smirk around the corner of his lips... Yeah! He was breathtakingly handsome.

　　"Hi, beautiful"

　　Evan was taken aback by his sudden words.

　　"W-What?" He managed to ask.

　　"You're beautiful," the other person said again. "You know, this person-" he walked over to the person they had been beating earlier and gave a hard kick to him. "My girlfriend was cheating on me with him... Now I can't beat a girl, right? So he received double"

　　"He is bleeding" Evan whispered with fear in his eyes.

　　"I know... I'll send him to the medical later... You say, I did the right thing or not by beating him" he walked over to Evan again as if nothing happened.

　　What is this person?

　　His heart started to pound with fear when that person lifted his chin with his fingers and stared at his face with that same smirk. There's no way this person is normal...

　　"Answer me" his voice became deeper. Evan's heart started to pound louder.

　　"Ok you can answer to me later, My name's Derek Lee" he whispered before looking at Evan's Id.

　　"Nice to meet you, Evan Woods"

　　Little did Evan knew that he would never be able to spend his high school in peace after meeting Derek Lee.