Run away to home

The backstory

You are probarly wondering how I ended up in this mess. Ill tell you.

I met John 2 years ago, at only 13 year old. I had just switched schools, and he was my first friend. We hung out everyday, and eventually we started dating. Th first minth went perfect. Well, as good as you can call perfect.

I mean, no one is perfect. Right?

Everyone knew about us. We werent popular, not at all. But we were well known. If someone mentioned our name, they would say "Oh, isnt that the guy who were dating her?". We were iconic. Everyone shipped us.

It was just a normal tuesday afternoon, and I was on my way to cross country practice. I was biking, becouse our car had broke down in the middle of the road and they didnt know what to do

I remember the day, clear as sky. It was a little cold, about 10 degrees. It was late fall, and the leaves were crunching wherever around me. I was almost there, 5 minutes away. I parked my bike and started to lock it. "Hey" i got scared as fuck and smacked the person across the face

It was a boy. I had never seen him before, but he looked weirdly familiar. "Omg I am so sorry!" I said and put my hands over my mouth in shock. He touched here he had been slapped and said "ow, why did you do that?". His voice was kind of calming, he didnt sound mad rather kind of shocked.

"Omg, im so so sorry. I just got scared and it was instinc-" I heard a big laugh . "No, I was just joking. Dont worry, it didnt hurt. Are you on the cross country team? Im new here" he said. "Oh yeah, I go there." He just looked at me and it became kind of akward.

"Well, um can you show me the way? I dont know where to go." "Yeah, of course follow me." I said and started walking. I looked at him. He was kind of skinny, and pretty tall. Like 5¨8 at most. "Wow, it really is pretty here." He said. "well yeah, you never been here?" I said. "Well, no. I just moved here, last week actually." He replied. "Oh cool, where do you live?" "I cant remember the adress but I am going to the hillsberry school." "Really? I go there! What grade are you in?". He was really easy to talk to. "Im in 8th grade, you?" "No kidding, me too!" "Wow!" He said and we small laughed. "Um.." he said. "What?" I asked. "Wasnt the training suppose to start half?" "Yeah?" "Well the clock is 35." "Shit" I said and started running. He quickly catched up to me. I could hear him breathing. He was quite quick. It was only about half a kilometer there, how could i use such long time.

We had ron for about minute, when I tripped. I fell face first into a puddle. Fuck. I got soaking wet, and I was covered in mud.i stood up, feeling the soaky mud cravling on my back. "Are you ok?" He asked."Yeah im fine." I said and nodded my head. I brushed off most of the mud, and we kept on running.

We had gotten there too late, and they had already started running. They would probarly be back in like 10 miinutes, for the warmup. "Where are they?" He asked Oh, yeah right hes new. "Oh, we came late. They already ran. Im sure they will be back in like 10 minutes. "

"You think? This was my first day, it was quite important. But thank you I guess." "Why do you get mad at me, it was you who distracted me !" "Oh yeah so im the problem here?" "What is your problem! And no one cares that were late, almost everyone get late atleast once, you dont have to worry geez"

There was a really uncomfortably long pause. Why would he get so mad? "Well, since they are doing the warmup, we could atleast go and run a little so we get warmup?" I asked. "Do whatever you want, I dont care." What an attitude. "You know you will probarly be punished or the trainer will be disapointed if we came late AND skipped warmup?" He rolled his eyes and waited for a secound, until he said "fine." He got up and we started jogging.

"So why did you move here?". "Oh, we moved here becouse my mom wanted to be closer to her relatives or something like tht. My brother also got bullied pretty badly at the last place, and he wanted to go somewhere else." "So you have a brother?" "Well, yeah actually I have 7." "7 BROTHERS?" "Well, yeah. Most of them have moved out, so were only 3 right now. I am the oldest, and my little brother who is 11, and the youngest who is

2." "cool." "And, I never heard your name" "yeah and I will keep it that way."

I heard him giggle lightly. "Well, my name is Isaac." "Well thats a nice name." "Thank you maam" "maam?" I said, trying not to laugh. "Tell me your name then." He said in a joking way. We kept on running, from what I have seen he does seem pretty decent at running. "So where did you live before?" "Montana." "You moved all the way from montant to here? Thats pretty far." "Yeah, I didnt mind. I didnt really have any friends there." "I see why." I said ironicly. "Oh shut up." He said and we both started to laugh

We had gotten back to the place we started. The rest of the group was there. "look whos late." The trainer said, obviosly irritadted. "Sorry, I couldnt lock my bike." I said, lying obviosly. "Huh. And you young man?" He said, and everyone turned our way. "Oh, im new here. She showed me the way here, and when we got here you were away so we just warmed up for ourselfs." I hit him in a way that meant shut up

"And this is true?" He said and looked at me. "Yeah bu-" "just come here and get started." We quickly ran over there. "So, today we are doing 5kmX2 Interwall. Around 25 time for thhe top group, and 28 for the mids, so it wont be that hard. Alright?" He said. "Ok, go and move your asses! Isabel and new boy stay here." oh god we would probarly get yelled at

"So, new boy. Whats your name?" "Im Isaac." "Well, nice to meet you Isaac. Tell me, have you done any running before?" "yeah, I used to run alot back home in montana." "Well thats nice. Do you have any recrods you wanna share so I can put you in a reasonable group?" "Well yeah, my 5k time is 20:30." "20:30! HOLY FCK YOUR QUICK." I shouted

"Isabel.." "sorry." I said. "Well, today you should just get to know some people, you can pair up with isabel, becouse you already know her." "Oh I dont know him that well-" "isabel" the trainer said. "Sorry" I said

"Oh and yeah Isabel. What have I said about coming late?" "That if we do we betetr just run home." "You didnt tell me that?" Isaac said. "Shh" I said, and he started to laugh. "Yeah, no flirting now." I blushed and so did he. "Well, Isabel you have to get here on time, and fix your additude. No rude comments whenever you feel like it. Ok?" "Fine." "And this is the 3rd time I have had to say this. If you do not get better at this, I will have to take you out of the nationals. "WHAT?" I shouted. "Calm down, just be nice and you will be fine. Now, go and run."