Aaron Drake: Icarus Academy

Jealousy & Bunking

Shane didn't like me anymore after I sided with Chris back in 6th grade. Surprise, surprise. Him and his three cronies, Omar, Michael and Doug, bugged me a lot. Derek would've been there too, but he switched schools after Grade 6. They made me sick, but I wish I meant that literally so at least I could've vomited on them. They were 4 and I was 2, Chris and me. And they bullied us for the sole reason that I chose Chris over them. My problem was solved later when they got switched to different classes in the second semester.

After that, I realized it was Chris' fault that I was going through this. I didn't mind, but then he continued with this annoying habit of his where he constantly called my name during class and yelled it out to tell me something random and stupid, and I suffered because the teacher would get mad at ME for talking.

So I decided to space myself a little from Chris. I stopped responding to him in class, which actually improved my grades since I was able to take notes and pay attention. I started talking to a lot more people after that, and I made some really good friends.

For some reason, Chris got jealous. I have no idea why, he still had Ahmed to talk to. He got pissed at ME for some reason because I wanted to talk to other people. It's really his fault, I don't owe him attention and he never tried socializing with others anyway, just claiming they were bad people. All he ever did was talk about Pokemon. He was one-track and that's bound to get old. Sounds harsh but it's true.

And it's not like I was mean to him or I shunned him. I just started making new friends. It's not a crime. Then, I talked to Ahmed. Turns out ever since Chris started talking to me, he had stopped talking to Ahmed and Ahmed felt left out. He told me that's the reason Chris had less friends, because he always ditched them for new people.

Ahmed invited me to his house for his birthday, where Chris got so pissed at me all of a sudden that he grabbed my leg and wouldn't let go. Ahmed's friends and him had to pull Chris off, and I just kept my distance from him from that point on.

But, that was the reason I made lots of new friends. It also paved way for a certain incident with Nami and Hanna.

Hanna transferred to Section A in second semester, and her, Nami and I became fast friends. They liked to sing songs together, so I wrote them a song with a little help from Silica. We went to the music teacher together, Mr. Ashen. We bunked the double club period, which was okay because Nami and I had Spanish Remedial, where we had the most boring teacher. We were stuck in Spanish Remedial with Selena and a few other kids while everyone else got to be in Drama, Debates, and sports. It wasn't fair.

When Club Period ended, we found out that every teacher was hunting for us. Hanna, Nami and I hid together. We went to the back of the 7th Grade section, and I went into the bathroom, Nami went into the teacher's book cupboard and I'm not sure where Hanna went. Eventually, we had to come out and we got caught and we got in huge trouble.

I'm usually such a good kid, and doing something bad like this was such a rush, such a thrill! My parents never found out fortunately, or they would've ripped out my skin.