The Gamer & The BookWorm

Chapter 1

        Shots fired, and yells of anger roared from my microphone as my fingers moved quickly around pressing buttons and moving the joystick. The characters moved around quickly hiding and ducking down from being killed. The game ended and the words Game Over now covered my screen as I threw my controller down in a fit of rage. Ughh I hate when I lose any type of game, I can be very competitive when it comes to gaming. I ran my fingers through my hair and leaned back into my gaming chair. I could hear all my friends calling for me through my mic all wondering where I had gone. I picked up my mic and put it back on. "Hey I have to go talk to you guys later bye dorks." I turned off my gaming system and crashed onto my bed.

        My name is Felix and I'm a serious gamer, like no joke. I play games like Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft, to even games like Pac-Man. Though my favorite game is Call of Duty: Black Ops and I can beat it everytime. I sighed in the thought of starting my sophmore year at my new school. The bad thing about it is that I can't game as much anymore since I have to try to keep my grades up this year. I slowly got up and jumped in the shower. After that I got dressed and went back to bed. Quickly falling asleep as I lay my head down on my soft pillow which was the shape of a controller. Sadly it felt like i just had fallen asleep when my alarm went off. I groaned as I smacked it so it could turn off. I slowly got up and got dress. 

        I grabbed my backpack and left for school. I grabbed an apple on my way out and started munching on it. After not that long of a drive to school, I parked and stared at the school with amazement. The school was really big so I hoped I wouldn't get lost though I knew I was going to anyways. I got out grabbed my stuff and headed into the school. I walked around not paying attention and ended up bumping into someone. I looked up and saw a girl with glasses on the floor and right next to her was a book about graphic design. I apologized and helped her up though she didn't say anything and just walked away.I watched her leave until I couldn't see her anymore and then I started walking trying to find where I was supposed to go. 

        "Hey man, You need help?" A guy asked as I turned to see him walking right next to me.

"Oh yeah, I don't know where to go." I said feeling like an idiot

        "Let me guess, new to this school?" He asked raising an eyebrow at me.

"Easy to tell?" I said frowning

        "Yeah, so what's your name?" He asked me 

"It's Felix, What about you?" I replied

        "Carlos, so I saw you bumped into bookworm." He said as we were walking through the hallways. 

"Bookworm?" I asked

        "Her name is Callie though she's known as bookworm since no matter what she has a book with her." He said as we stopped in front of a classroom.

"Why are we here?" I asked

        "This is the class you're in to get your schedule and i'm in the same class so go in." He said pushing me in.

        We both walked in and sat in the back of the classroom now waiting for the teacher to walk in. After 10 minutes the teacher came in and started talking about the classes, and then she started passing out our schedules. I looked and a smile slowly grew as I was looking at my schedule. I got every class I wanted which was game design and graphic design, and the other classes I could careless about. I asked Carlos what classes he had chosen and all of them were pre-ap and that he was taking French and ROTC. Soon the bell rang letting us know that it was time to go to first period which I hated. Carlos and I seperated since he had to go to Algebra, and I had to go to Chemistry, but we will meet each other at lunch since we had the same lunch period.

        I wondered around the hall until I found Chemistry and entered the room. I sat at the counter in the back and waited to see who my partner woud be. The bell rang and the teacher started talking about what we were going to start learning this semester, then the door opened and the girl Carlos called a bookworm walked in. She gave the teacher a note and the teacher pointed to the chair next to me. She slowly walked with her head down straight to the chair. She dropped her bag down and sat in the seat without even looking at me. She grabbed her bag and pulled out a book, but I didn't get to see the title. She didn't say anthing to me and she just stuck her face straight in the book.

        When the teacher called on her for answers seeing what we actually knew from last year, she would lift her head from the book, say the right answer, and  then stick her face back in the book. Chemistry went by with a blur, and I was already heading to my next boring class. Those classes didn't hold my attention very much, and then the class I was looking forward to came and it was game design. The teacher told us what were going to start doing and that we had a project due in two weeks. I was ready to get in action and show what I could do. I've studying game design since I was in 6th grade. The teacher saidthat we could begin working on it now and so that's what I did. After I started focusing for a while, the bell sadly rang for thhe period to be over. 

        Lunch was right now and I walked into the cafeteria looking for Carlos then I saw him sitting with a bunch of other people. So I walked towards him and sat down right beside him. 

"Sup." I said

        "Hey, How was your classes?" He asked eating his burger.

"Boring until last period." I said picking up one of his fries and eating it. I normaly don't eat lunch for some reason though I wanted something to munch on.

        "Oh so have you seen bookworm again?" He asked

"Yeah, she was in my chemistry class but that was it." I said munching on another fry. 

        I finished the rest of my classes after lunch and then went home. I ended up having the bookworm in my graphic design class and that was it. When I got home I turned on my console and started playing. I lost myself in the game and thought of nothing else as I was yelling in commands in my mic.