Chapter 1: My curse

Note: Italic = thoughts

I opened my eyes to see a lush green hill, and a bright blue sky. Then I heard a very feminine voice call to me. "Segador, come over here my love..." it called out. Seg, that wasn't my full name. It was really Segador Kasai. I was named that because my mother was swearing in Spanish and decided to curse the grim reaper of all people, and the doctor only heard that as a name. But only friends and my family called me Seg. And the voice was a very special friend her name being...

"Hey Lillian." I said and saw my girl my auburn head girlfriend. She laughed at my use of her full name. Then she took my hands and pulled me into a familiar place, and I stopped in my tracks.

"Come on Seg, let's go." Lillian, my own auburn haired beauty, laughed. Then there was a spark, then a flame erupted under her. Rachael screamed.

The fire grew and became wild. It lashed out and wrapped around my face, arms, and torso burning them. Pain seared into my flesh, then the flames died then the bandages that cover my body sprang out and wrapped me up, suffocating me. I felt the air in my lungs leave then darkness overtook my vision. I screamed then woke up. I jumped out of my bed and ran into my bathroom sink and washed water on my face, arms, and bare chest trying to quench the heat. I looked up into the mirror. Two years later of wearing this mask, two years since the accident, TWO Years since she died, but the nightmares make it feel like yesterday. i looked at the bandages on my face, arms, and chest. This is my curse. My eternal curse. I suffered an accident two years ago that killed the love of my life and scarred my face, hands, and chest to point the doctors require me to wear a mask for decency sake. I heard my bedroom door open I looked and saw my younger twin brother, Diablo Sabio Kasai, (again my mother was swearing in Spanish and just happened to call out the devil). Or what everyone calls him D or Devil. He had a look of worry on his face.

"The dreams happened again didn't they?" D asked. His face a painful reminder of the one I lost.

"No I'm fine. I just fell on my face." I answered, not allowing him to see me at my weakest.

"You're a terrible liar." he laughed, witch couldn't stop me from chuckling a bit. You see me and my brother where identical twins ( we have another brother but I'll get to that later), but are completely different people. The only we share, or rather shared was our faces. We had a Hispanic, Latin, Japanese, and French mix, but as strange as it sounds it gave us god like looks. However after that we completely polar opposites. For one thing while he has raven dark hair like our mother, I have natural white hair of all colours like my great grandfather, or that's what my dad says. While he would become friends with any person he meets, even some bullies and asses. We on the other hand would only be friends with a few good people. He has the whole optimistic attitude, that draws people in. I'm what most people would call borderline emo. Heck even our eye colours are different, he has golden eyes like our entire family. I have ridiculous purple eyes. Purple! Who the heck has purple coloured eyes! Even though we are complete opposites he's still my brother and I still love him, corny I know but it's true. He tossed me a clean shirt.

"Come on get dressed we have school in an hour." he replied cheerily. I sighed in exasperation I just remembered the date, Friday the 12th. The first day of school. The battle ground for everyone 18 and younger. Me and my brother were sophomores in the San Ramon high school. Though the place isn't a full battle ground, I have a few friends there. That same group of friends is what helped me get to meet Rachael. i guess you can pretty much see the story there. Guy meets girl. Girls meets guy. They hit it off, then they go out and become a couple. And... well you know the rest.

"Yeah give me a minute to get dressed." I answer and D leaves. I stand up to get my clothes when I trip over something. It was my King Shepard dog, Heartless. We had named him heartless as a puppy because of his jet black fur, and had a strange heart shaped fur mark on his forehead with an X going through it. "Heartless. Go away." I ordered. He just simply stretched his back, and started to lick himself. I swear he's part cat or something I thought then proceed to get dressed. I thought about for a minute then decided to just wear my usual black v-neck shirt, with dark blue jeans and grey sleeveless jacket. I checked in a mirror that the bandages were still secure and styled my hair in the usual way, so the front was all swept to one side while the top resembled a two demon horns. Then I went into the kitchen that doubled over as a dining table.

I saw my youngest brother Dues, and yes he was our triplet by only an hour difference, cooking and D waiting to eat. You see out of all of us Dues had it easiest. For one thing his name is in Latin, and it means spirit. Also he had some sort of genetic mix up or something cause he has silver hair that makes girls go gaga over, but he is ridiculously shy. Even though he is younger than me and D he is gifted at sports. While D had the charm, Dues had the muscle, I had the brains. He also, out of us,was a decent cook. For breakfast he cooked up a mountain of eggs, a blanket of bacon, and an army of toast. He distributed it among the three of us, then we all wolfed it down in a matter of minutes. After a while of reminiscing our meal my phone alarm went off. I checked it and said we had 30 minutes till school. I looked at my brothers they were getting there back packs in order, I grabbed my black and white messenger bag and grabbed my car keys off the table. We ran toward the garage and opened it. Then we all piled into my 1995 black and white camaro. We driving, D riding shotgun, and a complaining Dues was thrown in the back.

"Why do I have to sit in the back, were all the same age?!" Dues complained climbing in the back.

"Because I'm still technically older than you." D said cheekily.

"It's my car." I answered, then start up the engine. I pulled out of the drive way and drove over to Ciudad del Pecado's man road. You see the city of Ciudad del Pecado, or better known as the City of Sin is located in California. It's separated in three parts, mostly by money. There is the "Ghetto", yes a legit ghetto that is located in the down town part of the city and strange enough that's where most of my friends live. It also has a bunch of bars but it's the nicest part of the city. The middle class, which is where me and my brothers live. The middle zone or the "pass" is where the not poor and not rich people live. It's decent to say the least, and I'm not trying to sound cynical. It has a movie theatre and it's where the beach is located, it's also where the high school is. Now the finale part of the city is called the Green zone. It's called the Green zone because of two things, it's where all the rich people live and where you can find the most amount of corporeal that's where everyone jobs are. You can imagine the type of people who live in the "Green" zone though. Yup rich upper class people who don't care us middle and ghetto citizens. And here's the strangest thing about our city. It has only one school per education level. Yup one high, middle, and grade school for this metroplex of a city. I stopped thinking to hard about years ago. All I'm happy for is the fact that made it big enough for the cities' juvenile population.

I pulled up to the school parking lot and parked my car in a parking spot... just as another driver into the next spot and scratches my car. I open my door to and get out to confront the driver till I see who it is. It was a girl. A beautiful girl with beautiful dark brown hair framing her face like the angels have blessed her. Her figure was perfect and her eyes and face were her most dazzling features ever. They were a light blue, like a summer sky. I swear she looked like a...

"Hey Seg? Seg? SEG!" Dues yelled breaking me out of my gaze. In response I punched him in the face as an instinct. "GOD DAMMIT!"

"Sorry my bad." I answered still in a pre-daze. "Who was that girl?"

"I dunno. She didn't say her name, all she did was ranting on how sorry she was. You kinda scared her off when you just starred at her, and not speaking." D said helping Dues up. "Who do you think she is, 'cause I definitely would remember a broad like her." D smiled.

"Don't call her a broad!" I yelled my cheeks blushing slightly.

"Jeez Seg calm down." D says alarmed at my hostility. "Wait do you like car scratch girl?"

"N-no." I stammered. Great now I'm stammering and my brothers knew it.

"Ha! Liar you stammer when you lie." D and Dues laughed. Thank god for the bandages covering my probably seriously red face.

"C-come on let's get our schedules." I stammered again, not letting my brothers win. They just continued laughing and answered "ok" We got to the office to pick up our schedules and we bumped into our friends.

"WASSUP GUYS!" D yelled.

There were a lot of "hey guys" "wassup" and "how ya doing". Then my best friend a short black haired skater named Dean Cruz yelled "LEROY JENKINS!" We all laughed at Dean's craziness, while he just rants on how Greek and Latin aren't similar. Now let me tell you a little something about Dean. Dean is how you can say... thinks without his brain's consent. He naturally blurts out everything. He all was diagnosed with a mild case of insanity, now I know what you're thinking. 'OMG, insanity should not be taken lightly. But it's only a light case of insanity and I'll leave it at when he isn't speaking gibnerish he is a really great best friend. Then Dean's girlfriend, a dirty blonde named Julia giggled at him and kissed him on the cheek. Now Julia Forestburg is like Dean's anchor. Every time he would go off on a very strange episode she would be their to bring him out of it. She originally was his nurses' aid but later became something more after he confessed to her ( after a huge coaching sessions from the charismatic king Diablo.) two years ago back in fresh men year. And have been together ever since.

I looked at my other friends. Conner Cumen, Renee {1} Rios, Helga Kozlov, Dirk McPeeter, Wizard Wiseman, and Rafe Rios. Conner's a tall, pale skinned, blonde guy. He's kinda chubby, but that's a lie. He and Dues are rivals in a sense that they try to beat each other in every sport known to man. Renee is dark skinned, blue haired girl who always has a pair of headphones either on her ears or around her neck. She apparently wants to become a world famous DJ. She's shown us some of her mixes and I have to say, as a fellow music listener, they're very good. Helga is a blonde Russian exchange student. She's also a strong woman. I'm serious too, her biceps could probably crush an apple when she transferred last year Dirk is Renee's boy friend. He's Scottish and has lavender coloured hair styled so it covered his left eye. He speaks in a very light accent, but his strangest trait is the fact that he has an affinity for knives. He's always juggling them or flipping them out. The teachers never care, because it's not hurting anyone. But what they really mean is that it's above their pay grade.

Now Wizard, he's an odd one. He's Dean's cousin and he's kinda mad. Now when I mean mad I don't mean anger kind of mad, I mean like mad genius kind of mad. He's always tring to invent something, and for some strange reason he won't stop until it runs on a very high electric current. He's got black hair like Dean, but has white streaks from the amount of shocks he's had over the years, he styles it so it looks like a lions mane. Rafe, despite the name and appearance, is a girl. She's Renee's sister and has short dark green hair styled like a pixie. She's a tomboy that loves anything techno-logic. If you give her a new game or computer she will literally spend days memorizing each component and it's use. Since that always seems to happen she's really pale and wears glasses. Helga, Wizard, and Dirk lived in the Ghetto. Conner, Julia, Dean, Renee,and Rafe live in the pass.

Suddenly we were all enveloped in a huge bear hug, courtesy of Helga. "It's so good to see you guys." Helga cried. Did I mention she's a little overly emotional. Before we would all die from Helga's death hug Dirk intervened his girl friends actions.

"Helga love stop before we all meet the reaper." Dirk wheezed looking a little blue from oxygen loss.

"Dah. My bad." she said finally letting go. We all breathed in a deep breath.

"Hey Wiz where's your sister Marie {2}?" D asked Wizard. Marie is Wizard's sister and is D's girlfriend. She a petite looking pale girl with black red streaked hair. She's a little on brain's side like Wizard just minus the insanity. We haven't seen her yet and usually D and Marie were usually inseparable.

"She's sick." Wizard answered then yawned. Then shocked himself awake, Wizard likes to electrical shocks.

"Okay then..." D said really wanting to see Marie.

"So what's your class schedule?" Renee asked D, Dues, and me. We showed them our schedules. They looked at them for a while then Dean suddenly yelled "YES!"

"For once Dean's right." Renee starts. "We all have the same homeroom, Gym, history, science, and math."

Then as if Conner a light bulb goes off in Conner's head he says something something. "Hey guess what?"

"What?" we all ask.

"My step cousins is going to school here now." Conner states. "Her name is Lianna. And her parent's, my aunt and uncle, have sent her here to school 'cause there's too much drama going on at home."

"What's she like?" Wizard asked.

"Well she's kinda like-" Conner started before getting cut off by the school bell. "I'll tell you later she's in our homeroom class with us, and she's got the same schedule as you, Seg."

Same schedule as me? I thought then I recalled on my schedule; 1st period Homeroom, 2nd Shop, 3rd Math, 4th Spanish, 5th Lunch, 6th P.E., and 7th chemistry. She's a gear head and an science geek.

When we got to the class room, strike that let me explain. Since City of Sin has only one high school it stands to reason that it's should be pretty big to occupy all the students. Well it is, but the building constructor must've have strange sense of building expertise. The building interior were each to the size of a small two room house. So when we entered the room we weren't surprised to see a lot of people already sitting. We decided to sit in middle of the room. I ended up sitting in a seat surrounded by people, but they left when I sat down some of them whispering freak. I was used to it by now. So to make me feel better Dean and Julia decided to sit near me. Then the teacher entered the room.

The teacher was a tall, young, dark skinned man. Probably in his mid twenties. He wore his hair in dread lock kind of pony tail and he wore a white mask, like what stage performers wear. He also a wore very red coloured bandana around his neck and had black biker gloves on.

"Hello everybody." He said in a deep southern drawl. "My name is Landon M. Yumen, yall can call me Lan for short. I will be you home room teacher for this year. Now for roll."

Some of the girls fainted from his voice. I just sighed and thought thank god now the girls won't be ogling me. Ever since the accident girls have always wanted a piece of me,wanting to see underneath the bandages. Lan was taking role until I heard a faint knock on the class door. Lan seemed to have heard it to, because he walked over to it and opened it. "Well 'lil lady are you apart of the class to?" Lan asked the person, which I guessed was a girl since he said lady.

"Well com'on in and introduce yerself then." he says opening the door wide open to let the girl in. By now I've already lost my interest in this and decided to brood silently. That was until I heard her name.

"My name is Lianna {3} Ibarra." the girl says. My interest was peaked at this, Conner's cousin was named Lianna and he said she was with us in homeroom. So I just shrugged to my self and decided to look to see who this Lianna girl was. Man, was I surprised.

{1} Renee is pronounced like Ren-ay

{2} Marie is pronounced like Mar-ay