No Time

China's school is basically the same as ours. Except it's a little more strict on rules and you have to wear uniforms. My mom and I went to the office led by Shui Jing. The head there was an old man who was pretty agreeable. He clearly had a toupee on...

I was arranged to be on the same schedule as Shui Jing. Pretty cool how they just let me choose.

My mom went away since she needed to report in for work, so I followed Shui Jing around as he showed me around. It really isn't some preppy school like I first imagined them to attend. Well, I guess they really are kind of normal in a weird way.

It was currently History cla.s.s for Shui Jing, so we went there.

Shui Jing politely knocked on the sliding doors and the teacher called from the inside, "Come in!"

Opening the door, Shui Jing first bowed a little and apologized for being late.

"Ah, teacher, I'm the new student. Shui Jing was late since he showed me around," I said as the teacher fixed her gaze on me.

"Oh, you speak Chinese perfectly! Great. Ok, introduce yourself to the cla.s.s," she told me.

I nodded and faced the cla.s.s. Woah, there's a lot of kids in just one cla.s.s. I couldn't count them all, but it seemed like about 40 something kids?

Ah, whatever, I'll just introduce myself first.

"Hey everybody, I'm Calix Nikos Cora. Just call me Calix. I'm from Greece. Nice to meet you."

That sounded ok, right? Did it sound too casual?

I must've looked a bit worried since Shui Jing gave me a rea.s.suring smile. He really is an angel!

"Ok, go sit next to the window over there. Since you don't have any of the textbooks yet, share with Shui Jing."

This teacher is quite straightforward...

For the rest of the cla.s.s, I learned about World War III. It was a little different from a Greek's point of view. But history cla.s.s is history cla.s.s, a bore.

After that, we went to Math.

It was all stuff I knew, so I got most of the questions right on the mini quiz.

Language Arts was an easy cla.s.s as I had the chip installed in my head. I still can't help but be amazed at the thing.

Art cla.s.s was fun. Shui Jing draws really good and mine... was c.r.a.p compared to his.

As we were transitioning to gym cla.s.s, I felt a chill as a cold breeze pa.s.sed by. I turned around to look and saw Shui Yu's back. That kid is seriously scary...

When I told Shui Jing, "Your brother is too scary," he smiled and told me, "Would a scary person give you chocolate secretly?" and took out half of a chocolate bar that

I warily looked at it and told him, "What kind of kid is a billionaire at this age?"

Shui Jing awkwardly chuckled and we hurried to gym cla.s.s.

We were a little late but snuck in behind the group of cla.s.smates.

The gym teacher was telling us the rules of dodgeball. He then described that a kid won the game by catching the b.a.l.l.s that were thrown at him and juggled them. That sounded pretty cool until he told me that the kid practically wiped out the whole arena according to the other kids in his cla.s.s. Um, maybe he's a little weird. But it turned terrifying when I heard the name of the kid who won single-handedly: Shui Yu. G.o.d, that kid is scary.

Shui Yu is just too perfect. Perfect beauty. Perfect physique. Highly intelligent. Too mysterious. Too vicious. Cold. Strong. His whole being is perfect and you can't even spot a small flaw. That's what makes him terrifying to me.

You can clearly see his face soften when he's around his siblings, but when it's everyone else, it's blank and unfeeling. And even though he gave me the name, Shui Fa, I think it was more to rea.s.sure his siblings than actually accepting me into his family. I really wonder why a child that should be bright and happy turned into an unfeeling monster.

I call him a monster because it's true. I talked to the others when Shui Yu was out shopping for groceries one day.

Xiao Lai really is a hacker and Xiao Bing is an a.s.sa.s.sin recognized as a thief. Although Xiao Lai said they were involved in the underworld because of him, I think Shui Yu has something to do with it. I mean, he's been saving up all the money he could and became a billionaire out of it. They said I was being too paranoid and that their second brother was the nicest and kindest person they knew.

To them, he may be, but to others, no way in h.e.l.l. Shui Yu, that demon, he definitely doesn't trust me. I am grateful that he isn't like what I expected as a slave owner, but more like a boss. He clearly signals this by calling me Calix and not letting me call him Xiao Yu. I feel like I'm his subordinate and he's my boss and the babysitter of all his siblings, even Shui Jing.

Their whole family is weird. Shui Jing is way too innocent, Xiao Lai is an international-level hacker, Xiao Bing is a thief a.s.sa.s.sin, and Shui Yu is... he's... just too hard to describe. And from their stories, their parents seem a little messed up too.

Anyways, let's get back to gym cla.s.s. Shui Jing got picked as one of the captains and started picking people. He picked me first which made my day a little better. People wanted to come to Shui Jing's team because he's extremely good at sports. Of course, what else would he be if he wasn't? He's an expert in martial arts and is better than Shui Yu! But I doubt that. What if Shui Yu was hiding his strength still?

Ah, I won't think about such scary stuff now. Let's focus on the game.

In the end, our team won and everyone on the team cheered. Shui Jing got a chocolate bar from the gym teacher and stowed it away for later.

The rest of the day was fine and school was finally over. Shui Jing waited for Shui Yu so that they could go pick up the younger kids. We walked back home together.

I went to my new house. It's really awesome how it's all modern and techno looking. The Shui siblings went to their apartment to drop off their backpacks. Shui Jing immediately came out and headed to his daily round of dojo visits. Xiao Bing bounced out of the house in a black outfit. She told me, "I'm going to my s.h.i.+fu's house to learn about poison!" I didn't doubt that those words were true.

10 minutes later, Xiao Lai and Shui Yu headed towards the warehouse. They're so lucky that they're so intelligent! Already done with homework so quickly...

Stuck in my home alone, I wondered what to do as I was finis.h.i.+ng up homework.

I guess I'll go visit the warehouse too.