Let's Be Friends, Okay?

1. How Are You?

I saw him standing in the darkest corner of the schoolyard. Very dark and far away from all the other students. In his right hand a cigarette. His left hand is hidden in the pocket of his cardigan. The hood is covering his face, which makes it very hard to figure out his expressions. He is standing all alone. Everyone is keeping their distance to this boy.

I kept staring at him for more than 10 minutes. But I saw that I wasn't the only one who was observing this dark dressed, mysterious and ominous looking boy. Many students kept watching him with suspicious expressions on their faces. No one knows what his deal is. All alone, aggressive to everything and everyone, skipping classes except for maths and physics which no one can understand why exactly this subjects. We all wonder why he is even coming to school or why hasn't he been kicked out right away. As I was saying. He is more than mysterious. Maybe the biggest mystery everyone at this school knows.

As I kept thinking what the f**k he was still doing here, someone was abruptly sitting down next to me. To motivated looking if you ask me. He is smiling all over his face which annoys me so hard at this moment.

"Heyo Ewan! How are ya this mornin'?

I let out a deep, annoyed sigh. I wonder why he can't read my mood from my expression. My eyes are glaring at him with a bit anger, sadness and depression but he continued smiling at me.

"Can you please, and I beg you of the life of Akito, please stop smiling like this? Unless you want me to slap it off of your sh*t face... Then keep going..."

"Whoa. Who sh*t in your shoes this mornin'?"

"Before you ask... No it wasn't Akito. Different than you, my dog is more than well potty trained..."

The boy next to me is grinning more and more. Why?! I just said that he should cut it off...

"Lemme guess. A lil' b*sh named Julia broke up with ya."

"Well guessed Sherlock... Is it that obvious?" I respond sarcastically.

"Well well. Ma heartbroken buddy is now processing the love pain of a break up. If I remember correctly... I was telling ya more than one hundred times that she was and ever will be a little-"

"Yes I got it, okay! Sorry that I believed that she was the right one..."

He throws his left arm around my shoulders and pulls me close to him. He strokes over my left cheek with his right hand.

"Shshsh. Ya will get over it ma boy. Very soon, ok~?"

I push him away from me.

"Can you please cut it off?! You're turning into my mom."

He first smiles like a maniac. Then he breaks out in big laughter. I roll my eyes... Annoyed as f**k. Before I could do anything to make him suffer, we hear the sound of the school bell. I let out a suffered sounding moan and stood up. Luca - the boy sitting next to me - alias my best friend since kindergarten alias the most annoying and biggest pain in my butt stands up as well. Again he throws his arm, 'gently' as always, around my neck. Together we kind of pass the dark spot where the boy was standing.

As we nearly reached the corner, he threw the last bit of his cigarette into a trashcan. With great strides he crossed Luca's and my way. As he passed me, I recognized the smell of the cigarette smoke which is following him.

"Holy cr*p. What sh*t is this boy smoking. What a strong smell."

My eyes are kind of burning. I coughed a bit. Even if I was smoking as well... My cigarettes are not even this strong as his. As he crossed our way I recognized aggressive dangerous sparks in the corner of this boy's eyes dangerously glaring at me and Luca. I felt cold sweat running down my back. Luca's face turning white like the walls of the school building.