"You took a photo of that part?!"

"Yep. Wanna see?"

"Nope~ I can't see! Gross!" Zoe said with a pout as she watched Daniel sit down. 'I wanna see! If only Daniel wasn't here!'

"Don't be so coy!"

"Oh my! What are you talking about? Boys!"

Daniel shifted uncomfortably in his seat, 'DON'T SHOW IT!!' He thought.

He felt a pair of eyes on him, which was nothing out of the ordinary, but Daniel needed a distraction at the moment.

He looked across the row of desks and saw

(Y/N), looking not at him, but the group surrounding him. Her usually lazily hooded eyes were slightly narrowed and sharpened. She paid no attention to the handheld system in her hands.

He watched as she shook her head in the slightest, then returning her attention to the game.

"Zack's punch is lightning fast, really."

"I couldn't see his fist."

Said boy leaned back in his chair, pleased with the praise he was receiving.

"Hey, Stop. I'm not proud of it." He said, glancing to the side to see what reaction he got from his peers. 'Talk a little louder! Louder!'

'Are they hearing this? Newbie? Mira? My strength!' He thought, picturing an imagined reality where Mira looked at him with heart eyes and Daniel cried to himself, unable to compete with Zack's scariness.

(Y/N)'s eyes nearly rolled to the back of her skull, and across the room another girl had a similar reaction.

"Ugh, I really hate that." Mira scoffed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Why don't you just go out with him? He's nice to you~" the girl sitting in the desk next to Mira asked.

The goons across the room continued their loud conversation.

"Fast fists!"

"Hot blooded!"

"He's always fighting." Mira said, folding her hands on the desk in front of her. "A while ago he invited me to a movie, but he got in a fight on the street again!" She explained, remembering Zack beating the helpless chubby boy where anyone could see.

"Geez- crazy. I'm not really shocked though." Mira's seat mate said cooly.

"What do you mean?" Mira questioned.

"You really don't know?" The other girl asked. "He..." she glanced over at Zack and lowered her voice to a whisper, making sure he couldn't hear, "was a rising boxer in middle school."

Back on the other side of the room, Zack ran a hand over his gelled hair. "Enough. As a boxer, I'm not proud of using a straight punch to leave him groggy. I should've thrown a jab." He said humbly, even though the pride coming off of him in waves contradicted his words.

"Wow~ What a pro~"

'Oh.. yeah. He was fast. Why do I have to sit next to him of all people?' He wondered, cursing his sadist of a guardian angel.

Two girls approached his desk, interrupting his mental shake-stick-at-god session.

"Hey... Daniel..." the taller of the two said shyly.

"Got a girlfriend?" The other jumped straight to the point.

Zoe looked over at the exchange and gasped, immediately jumping into action.

"Danny~ What's up? Let's chill~ With me." She said, standing in front of Daniel's desk with an arm crossed under her chest.

The two girls attempting to flirt with Daniel scoffed and walked away.

'Bitch! She's always prowling!'

'Geez!'

The rest of the class got a good giggle out of Zoe's antics.

"No one can stop her lol."

"She works hard hehe."

"Hehe."

Even (Y/N) had to bite her lower lip to keep herself from snickering at Daniel's confused expression.

The boy with pierced ears and blonde hair swept over his eyes remained silent, staring out of the window.

"Haha, come to think of it, that piggy's mom is probably a piggy too."

Daniel snapped to attention.

"Pigs are born from pigs haha."

"What if the piggy brings his mom? Lol."

Mira frowned, "Geez, they're gross..."

The widest boy in the group stuck his tongue between as he continued to insult Daniel's mother.

"I'm gonna strip them both naked, haha."

"You lunatic!" One of the listeners laughed.

"Was she happy after giving birth to him?" He asked.

"Haha, crazy ass."

"I would have had an abortion."

Daniel bit the inside of his cheek.

He remembered his mother working hard for every night meals, confronting his bullies and letting him change schools.

'When she does her best... if you want to insult, just insult me!'

"Hey, you guys..." the bullies looked to the new voice interrupting their conversation.

"You've gone too far."

The bullies flinched, and everyone in the class gasped, even the silent blonde had a reaction.

Zack was doing his best to contain his anger, not wanting to get upset in front of Mira again.

"And fun fact," (Y/N) began, earning another surprised reaction from the class.

'She never speaks up!!'

'That might be the first time I've heard her voice!'

'What's going on?'

The girl powered off her game system and placed it on the desk in front of her.

"You can't get an abortion after the baby is born and you've already seen it." She said as turned her head to look at the group.

"If that was the case, you lot of goblins would be rotting in some dumpster." She said calmly, tilting her head to the side as she gauged the reaction of the people in front of her.

The goons were speechless, staring at her with wide eyes as Zack growled.

'Again.. In front of Mira.' He thought as he grit his teeth, looking at the impressed expression on the girl's face.

He turned to glare at (Y/N), who was staring at him with amusement that was hidden under a bored expression. 'The first time she speaks to me in years, she insults me..'

Before anyone could completely process what had happened a desk went flying through the room, sending a water bottle zooming towards (Y/N)'s face, which she dodged with a roll of her eyes.

"Hey, you guys are fucking funny, you know that?" Zack asked as he stood up in front of Daniel's desk.

"Get up you fucking worm." He spat.

"Fight!" A classmate cheered.

Daniel gulped.

Around the school, word was spreading fast.

"Fight in the fashion department!"

"Let's go see!"

"They say it's the newbie!"

"With Zack Lee?" Asked a boy in a blue jacket to confirm.

"Holy!"

"Where is it?" Asked another student sticking their head out of their classroom door.

"Is he that handsome? Pretty boy?" One girl asked.

"Let's go watch!"

The crowd was growing to the point that people were watching from the hall.

"There's Zack Lee!"

"Lightning hands!"

Zack held up his fists from where she stood up in front of Daniel.

"And the new guy?"

"Where is he?"

Daniel hesitantly hesitantly stood up in front of Zack.

'He told me to get up so I did..' Daniel thought nervously, 'He's gonna hit me again.'

"Hey wuss. I told you to come at me!" Zack barked, 'Let's see if this guy knows how to fight..'

Another voice followed Zack's, breaking through the buzzing audience.

"Just leave him alone, Zack." (Y/N) said, standing in front of Daniel to look Zack in the face. "You have nothing to prove, everyone is here as an excuse to see Daniel."

"Who's that?" Someone in the crowd asked.

"Tell her to go away, this is getting good!"

"Is that (Y/N) (L/N)?"

"I thought she dropped out!"

"Whoever she is, tell her to sit down!"

"She's changed a lot!"

At this point, the audience was becoming impatient with the lack of fist throwing, and beginning to think that Daniel was just another pretty boy.

The blonde boy shifted in his seat as he listened to the fight and different conversations in the room.

Zack was observing Daniel from over the (Y/N)'s shoulder. 'His posture is poor. He's just a pretty boy? He must be, hiding behind a girl.'

He cocked his fist back. 'Nice! One punch knock out! Let's do this! No turning back, watch close, Mira.'

"Get out of the way, (Y/N). It's your fault if you get hit." Zack said, never taking his eyes off Daniel's

The girl in question shrugged.

Just as Daniel went to grab the girl's arm to pull her out of the way, Zack choked on his spit.

Somebody had a strong grip on his wrist. Zack turned to glare at the person who had stopped him from knocking Daniel's block off and saw the silent boy with dyed blonde hair.

'Who the fuck is he?'

The crowd began to whisper.

"What is Jay doing?"

"Wow... First time I've seen him step up."

Zack's arm began to shake from the effort it took to break from Jay's grip.

'He's usually like a fly on the wall. But his grip is incredibly strong!'

'Urgh.' He glanced across the room to look at the reason he even started fighting in the first place. 'Mira!', the girl stared with wide eyes, her lips in an o shape.

"Let go you dick!" Zack snapped, whacking Jay's hand away.

'Now you're dead meat!' He thought, sending his fist flying to Daniel's face, (Y/N) no longer in the way.

Daniel gulped and watched as the fist came towards his face in slow motion.

Zack and Daniel looked into each other's equally wide eyes.

Daniel had leaned to the side in the slightest, and dodged Zack's fist by an inch.

"He dodged Zack's fist."

"He's crazy fast."

"Amazing."

The crowd suddenly broke into cheers.

"Wooow!"

"How'd he do that?"

"Fucking incredible!"

"Did you see?"

"Who is this guy?"

"Wow!"

Everyone in the classroom stared with dropped jaws and wide eyes.

Including Zack and his three goons.

(Y/N)'s eyes were wide from her place beside Jay, whose lips were parted as if he had gasped.

Even Daniel couldn't believe what he had just done.