Chico bursted opened the doors to the canteen, the king dominion students glancing up to see the bloody, battered and bruised students being welcome by Shabnam.

"Come on everybody" he pushed his glasses up his nose, moving to the side to show his presentation stand. "Vote Shabnam for president!" He exclaimed as the AP black arts students ignored him as they walked past.

"I'll win with or without you." Lilith stopped with Marcus to see how confident Shabnam was to try and talk to the students, "but I'd much rather have your support." He looked into Chico's eyes, gaining his attention. "We need more nurses in the infirmary, we need stalls separating the group showers." Viktor and Chico watched Shabnam, as they looked around the group.

Lilith knew what was going to happen, as she knows how Viktor and Chico act. "If you put me in charge, there'll be..."

Lilith was right, as her and Marcus witnessed Viktor grabbing a trash can, throwing it on top of Shabnam's head, causing an eruption of laughter to fill the canteen. As Viktor walked past, Shabnam made sure to say one more thing to him with the bin on his head.

"Very funny Viktor." He said in a monotone voice. It was now Chico's turn to be rude to Shabnam, as he spat on him to show that he is at the bottom of the hierarchy, just above Marcus and the fellow rats.

Lilith sighed at the boys as they walked off leaving Shabnam to struggle with the bin. She began to fill conflicted as she wanted to help him, but showing kindness is a huge weakness at King Dominion. But she didn't feel nice not helping out Shabnam as all he was doing was being nice, however, being nice gets you hurt at this school.

Lilith looked over at Marcus as he had the same thoughts as her going through his own head. He decided however to take the nice route, not caring that it will show a sign of weakness towards him. As he lifted the bin off, Shabnam showed a faint smile towards the new rat on the block.

"Thanks." Marcus nodded his head as the placed the bin to the side,

"no worries." Lilith walked up to Marcus and Shabnam placing a hand her Marcus's shoulder.

"Um," Shabnam rubbed his name before placing his hand out to shake Marcus's. "Shabnam" Marcus took his hand to shake it, Shabnam giving Marcus a tape. "Rock out the vote."

"Hey Marcus." Lilith said, her hand still placed on his shoulder.

"I know what you're gonna say, kindness is a weakness." She smiled as he remembered her advice she gave him on his first day.

"Actually, no." an expression of confusion covering Marcus's face.

"I was just gonna say that I'm going up to the graveyard, go practice my shooting. So i was just saying see you later." A smile on Marcus's face took that confused expression straight off, as he took her hand off his shoulder placing it in his.

"Okay, I'll see you later." It was now her time to smile, as she took her hand away before anyone saw that she was being nice to the rat.

"Don't get into too much trouble without me." She winked as she backed up.

"Can't make any promises!" His statement causing both of them to laugh as Lilith walked out of the canteen, Marcus then walking over to the only table he was welcome at with his fellow 'rats'.

As he made his way over to the table, Petra gave him the rest of her food, "i don't want that shit." They both laughed as he sat down, pulling her tray towards him.

"U2, whalesnake, banana bloody-Rama." Marcus looked up at the Lex, to see that he was looking at the tape, shouting out the music that was on it. "And Def Leppard" Lex threw the tape off the table, hitting itself against the floor. "Sweet Lord Jesus" he placed his face in his hand as he shook his head at the bad taste of music.

Marcus looked up at the group, the blood on his face and uniform had now dried up, looking more of a dark red. "what happens to the kids who didn't make it through?" Lex took his face out of his hands as he leant back in his car.

"Are they..."

"Dead?" Petra interrupted him, as he nodded towards the girls answer.

"No gothic Oompa Loompa  monks revive the losers." Billy started saying, as he dabbed his knife into his food, "and whisked them back from whence they came." Placing his Food in his mouth.

Out the corner of his eye, Marcus saw Shabnam over at the canteen line grabbing his tray of food. As Shabnam saw Marcus looking over, he waved quickly putting his thumbs up towards the boy.

Lex sniggered making Marcus look back over to the table, "new pal?" He rose his eyebrow at the new rat.

"I'm not really into the hierarchy, and i don't normally shit on the physically unattractive." Marcus looked over at Petra sitting across him from, "but that dude and his crew are highly annoying."

"Crew?" Marcus questioned what Petra had just said.

"The goop patrol." Billy answered Marcus's question, "Banker kids, Mafia accountants, NASA"

"NASA?" The sense of surprise in Marcus's voice,

"Oh, there's a lot they're not telling you." Lex smirked at his words.

"Whatever, I'm not gonna watch some kid get bullied." His group of friends around him shaking their heads at his words.

"These animals," Petra pointed around her, "see kindness as a weakness." Marcus thought back to the advice Lilith gave him on the first day. "It's safer to be a dick." Petra continued, as Marcus nodded his head already knowing this.

"Everyone loves a dick," Billy joked, lightening up the atmosphere.

"Well some more than others." Lex joined in as he placed his fist next to his mouth moving side to side.

The group laughed at Lex's actions, not noticing that Shabnam was making his way over to their table. Silence drew across the group as Shabnam sat next to Marcus, opening his mouth immediately.

"Any of you guys seen the," Shabnam look over to Petra who was giving him the cut eye, making him uncomfortable, "uh, the new Spuds Mackenzie commercial?"

"You've bought a plague on our house." Petra said as she no longer gave Shabnam her cut eye, but now Marcus.

As Marcus was looking between Shabnam and his group, the boy began to speak again. "You know i hear they don't really give the dog beer, PETA or some left-wing baby would complain." The fun atmosphere that was once surrounding the group has been drained out by the new uninvited boy.

Lex interrupted the boy from speaking anymore, "do you know what goes great with people who love beer commercials?" He looked over to Marcus and Shabnam bringing two fingers to his head. "A bullet in the box."

Turning his body away from Lex, Shabnam ignored Lex's comment as he looked over to Marcus.

"Anyway Marcus," Marcus looked to the boy to his right, intrigued as to what he had to say. "My parental units are gonna be out of town."

"So me and the crew were thinking of firing it up the Commodore 64, a little castle Wolfenstein." Marcus looked towards Lex as he rolled his eyes, causing Marcus to smirk to stop himself from laughing. "A charcuterie plate." As the words came out of Shabnam's mouth, Lex brought an imaginary knife to his chest, fake stabbing himself multiple times.

Shabnam continued on with his words that were making the group go crazy. "My dad probably left some amaretto too."

The mention of the alcohol brought Marcus's attention to the boy once again, leaning himself forward so that his arms were resting in the table. "If we wanna get a little crazy." The boy began to move his body slightly swaying himself back and forth.

"We're in." Marcus said all too quickly, his sudden outburst of an answer making Billy cough on his drink.

"Come again?"

Marcus looked over to the green haired boy, "school is dry. You know, somethings better than nothing." Billy locked his eyes with Marcus's before raising his eyebrow.

"My dad was clear, just a few friends." Making eye contact with Billy, constructing a plan with each other silently.

"You can't win an election with just a few friends." Billy stood up from his chair, as he leant himself against Shabnam's shoulder. Petra smirked at the innocent boy, as the rest of the group latched onto the plan mentally.

"You need to connect with a proletariat." Lex joined in, waving his hand outwards as the group smirked between each other.

"It'll be a small gathering, we promise." Marcus leaned into Shabnam's face as the rest of the group looked upon the boy, all with their infamous smirks on their face.

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Lilith was sat in her room, looking through her old diary's of which she wrote during her first year attending Kings Dominion. "God i was an angry girl." She laughed as she skimmed through the book, seeing dots of blood throughout the pages.

Her attention was drawn to her door as the sound knocking travelled to her ears. "Whoever it is fuck off!" She shouted, normally her shouting those words would tell anyone on the other side of that door to leave and that they wouldn't disturb her further. But the knocking persisted.

"For fuck sake! Come in then" she grunted as she placed her diaries back in the box under her bed. The door swung open showing a different dress style for Marcus. He wasn't wearing his school uniform, but in fact a black jumper and jeans.

"Going somewhere Lopez?" She sat up on her bed as she Marcus closed her bedroom door.

"We're going somewhere." Her eyebrows drew together before scoffing at his words.

"Nice try Marcus." He shook his head as he went over to her wardrobe. "Um." Marcus's actions got Lilith to get up from her bed as she quickly paced herself over to where Marcus was standing. "What do you think your doing?"

"Looking for an outfit you can wear to the party." Confusion still stuck on Lilith's face.

"Party where?" She closes her wardrobe stopping Marcus from any further snooping.

"We got Shabnam to host a party, to help 'his chances at becoming president" he rose his hands, lowering his first fingers to show that he was air quoting his words.

Lilith laughed as she nodded her head. "Okay why would i go to this party?" He rose an eyebrow at the girl standing across from him, she was currently standing in joggers and a vest top, her hair tied up in a lose bun.

"Since when do you wear glasses?" Marcus pointed towards the eyewear on her face.

"Changing the subject Marcus." She smirked as she leant against the wardrobe.

Marcus moved closer to the girl, causing her to straighten out her posture. "Cause i think it would be fun if you came Grey." He smirked before placing a kiss on her cheek. "Here's the address." He lifted out a piece of paper from his back pocket passing to Lilith.

"See you there." He winked leaving her stood astonished, the tables turned as it was usually Lilith leaving Marcus shocked as she left the room.

Lilith sighed as she placed the piece of paper on the table next to her wardrobe. Opening the wardrobe doors, revealed the outfits Marcus was looking at only seconds ago. As she looked through the dresses on the hangers, she found the perfect dress. Before she came to Kings Dominion, her oldest sister, a precious student, gave Lilith one of her dresses for this scenario

"Wear this to a party, and everyone will he falling at your feet." Lilith smiled at the words her sister once told her, as she grabbed out the dress, carrying it over to her bed.

"Let's get this party started." Lilith smirked to herself as she grabbed her infamous black doc martins to go with her outfit.