My parents and I had just moved from Chicago to this rink-a-dink town in Minnesota just because my dad's job relocated. And for the fact that my dad just had to take it even though we were fine in Chicago. On top of that, my parents didn't even let me in on this so-called decision in moving. It was just like, we're moving, and you have no decision in it.

When the car finally stopped moving, I looked out the window and saw that my 'new home' was gigantic. I'd rather be back in Chicago, I thought, I mean, don't get me wrong, the house is nice and all but something's just not right. Moving here, making mw leave all my friends and expect me to make new ones? I wasn't even allowed to say if I wanted to come or not. It was either come here or go to military school. Which would you chose? As we walked into the house, I spotted the stairs and I went straight up them to find a room suitable for me. It took awhile to find one since there were a lot of rooms to choose from. They bought a huge house, hopefully, I never get lost. Anyway, it seemed like my mom was calling me for about ten minutes. But, I couldn't hear her since I was listening to music meant to drown people out. So I went downstairs and said, "You move me here from Chicago to live in some rink-a-dink town. What more could you want from me?"

My dad looked at me and said, "First of all, I thought I taught you better than to talk to people like that?"

"Nope, not that I remember. But what I do remember you saying is to never talk to Ted or the grandma and grandpa like that. Please do continue."

"Secondly, we enrolled you into Eden Hall and you will be living in the dorms there."

"Okay, we just moved got here and your telling me that I have to go to some boarding school. Fuck, it seems like you just want to get rid of me. If you wanted to do that, you could've just left me in Chicago."

"Watch your language," my mom said, "You're going there and that's final. Now go upstairs and get packing, we will be dropping you off there tomorrow."

"I'm already packed, I never unpacked and I can't believe you dad, going along with what she's telling you. You used to be so different, what happened to you?" I said while slamming the front door. With nothing to do, I decided to walk over to this hockey store I saw on the way here. Just as I entered, a man appeared out of nowhere and said, "Are you new here?"

"Yea, just moved to town like two hours ago, I saw this shop on the way in, it looked pretty cool, so I thought I might stop by."

"Do you play?"

"Yea right, I wish. My parents believed that hockey is strictly a guy sport, so I just watch the Hawks play."

"You know about the Hawks?" he asked, "Or are you talking about the Chicago Hawks?"

"I mean the Chicago Black hawks. They've been getting a little better, not by much though."

"I'm Jan by the way. And you are?"

"I'm Chris Blackheart and why do you look familiar?"

"That because I worked with the Ducks and Gordon Bombay, who you may know as the Minnesota Miracle Man."

"That's cool, but I seriously need to get back to my parents, I kind of stormed off on them, not a good idea, see you some other time." I walked out of the store and saw that my parents were across the street, coming out a store. They spotted me and waved me to get over there. Once there, my dad said, "Get in the car and your grounded until you leave tomorrow, since that is when we're dropping you off."

"I'm grounded, yippee," I said dripping with sarcasm, "I can't wait to go to school tomorrow, it'll be so much fun." Once we got home, I went straight to my room and blasted my CD player. About ten minutes later, I faintly heard a knock on my door and yelled, "Its open." Of course, it was my mother, so I turned down the music. She sat at the edge of my bed and said, "Sorry we only just told you that we're sending you to Eden Hall, but we didn't even get the official word until early this morning."

"Nice try," I said, "I can't forgive so easily this time since you guys seem to be saying sorry a lot to me. But, please don't get offended by that. And could you guy please let me in on this 'family decisions' more often."

"Well, we'll try, now get some sleep since we have to leave bright and early tomorrow."

"Great," I said while she left. Great, now I have to go to this school. Might as well go to bed. Within ten minutes I was ready for bed and went to sleep

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What seemed like ten minutes later, my mother was waking me up saying, "We have to leave in thirty minutes and you aren't dressed or even showered."

"Why do I have to wake up now? It only takes me two minutes to get dressed and ten minutes to shower. Since you already woke me up, I might as well get showered and dressed. I'll be downstairs in 20 minutes." Twenty minutes later, I was downstairs dressed and ready to go. My dad took one look at what I was wearing and said, "Go back upstairs and change into something different. And would you take that cloth off of your head, huh?"

"Why should I? I want people to see the real me. Plus don't we have to leave already? I don't want to be late to school."

"We have time, I suggest you have some breakfast since you don't seem like you'll co-operate on getting changed."

"Okay," I said while sitting down and eating breakfast. Normally, I wouldn't have eaten breakfast, but for some reason, I was really hungry this morning, so I decided to eat. After I finished eating, we packed up the car and went to my new school. Once we arrived, I looked at the school and thought; this looks more like a college than a high school. Hopefully I don't get lost. When the car stopped, I got out while my mother said, "Be careful and don't get into trouble."

"I'm always careful mom. And I never get in trouble on the first day, so don't worry about it," I said while walking off to the office to get my schedule and my room.

As I walked in, I looked around to see, surprisingly, no one really there except for the lady behind the desk. I walked up to her and said, "I'm here for my schedule and room."

"Name?"

"Chris Blackheart."

"Here you are, you are in room 256."

"Thank you," I said while turning around. I ended up running into someone and falling on my arse. I looked up to see the guy was giving a hand to help me up. I grabbed the offered hand, got up and said, "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention and thanks for the hand."

"No, it's my fault, and no problem," he said, "So are you new here?"

"Yea, is it that obvious?"

"Just a little. Plus, you have a confused look on your face. And there's the fact that you don't dress like most of the kids here."

"Man, I knew this was a prep school," I said, "No offence, you seem really cool."

"Don't worry about it. So do you need help finding your room?"

"Yea, I kind of do. I'm in room 256 and I'm Chris by the way."

"I'm Adam. Did you know that you live near the Ducks?"

"Really, this guy Jan was talking about you guys. Are you guys any good?"

"You know him?"

"I met him briefly."

"Cool," he said, "And we were good enough to defeat the long time reigning champions, the Hawks."

"Impressive, now show me to my room please."