stairs

chapter one

Andrew

"Andrew, hurry up! We're late again.", Rachel called, while she was running towards the school building. Rachel and I, we're always late. But I don't care. Even the teachers are so annoyed of writing down our names for being late to school so they stopped doing that.
By the way, they can't call our parents. We don't have parents. We already forgot what's the feeling to have parents. We're orphans. But we already left the orphanage. Because at the age of eighteen you don't need to live in the orphanage anymore.

With a little bit work in some shops and the funded money from the orphanage, two teenagers can live in a small flat.

I knocked at the classroom's door. Kira, on of the girliest girls of my school opened the door. "Hello Andrew.", she smiled at me. Jesus. I walked past her, lots of eyes followed every movement of mine. "What are you staring at?", I said with a annoyed voice and sat down at my table.
Rachel next to me.

"Thank you for blessing us with you presence, Mr. Collins and Ms. Nathanels.", greeted Mr. "Dickhead". That bold fat teacher with his too tight suit. I smiled at him. No, I tried. Everytime he provoces me so badly that it's very hard for me to calm down.

I heared him sighing. "Mr. Collins. We are in school, aren't we? So please take off your hoodie."
I did nothing. "Mr. Collins, should I send you to the director?", he walked over to me. "Andrew...", whispered Rachel and poked me. I took down the hood.

I'm glad to have Rachel. We've known each other for 8 years now. And to be honest, we know each others weaknesses, worries, problems and other important and not so important stuff.

I could not say she's like a sister to me. Rachel is a friend, a very good friend of mine. The best friend I've ever wished for.

After the last but not least lesson, the big break begun.

"Here, your lunch. Today I've made it, but tomorrow it's your turn.", said Rachel to me and gave me my sandwiches. We sat down on a small bench behind our school.
I laughed and said to her, " Tomorrow is Saturday, little girl." Her cheeks reddened. I smiled a little bit. "I meant Monday!", she corrected herself and bit in her sandwich. "Want to go to a house party today?", I asked her and lit up a cigaratte. "Could you please...", I cut her of, "... stop smocking? - No. So you wanna go out?", I asked her again and breath out the smoke between my lips. "Yeah ... Why not. It's friday.", she grinned at me and and put a red curlwisp of her hair behind her ear. "But first we have to go to the supermarket.", Rachel said and rolled her eyes. "Somebody just ate our food." She looked at me, she knew that I was the one who just ate the food. "Yeah, okay. After school?", I asked her and took a bit of my apple. "Yep."
I looked up, to look around, but the first thing I saw was Aiden. Yes, he was a fucking asshole. He's Rachel's ex-boyfriend. They broke up two months ago. Rachel saw him cheating on her with Kira, the girl who opened the door for me in the morning.
After that, Rachel felt like crap. She even stopped talking to me for a while. I promised her to punch that asshole right in the face.

Maybe, now would be the perfect moment?

He walked over to us - with our old best friend Christian...

"Oh hell no, Andrew. I'm out. Let's go somewhere else.", she whisperd to me and looked sadly away. "No.", I replied her. "Stay. If you go now, he'll see that he reached his goal - see you broken." I grabbed her hand and squeezed it. Rachel sighed and nodded.

"Oh look, guys. The awkward boy and that girl, sitting on our bench.", said Aiden without looking directly to us. "What the hell do you want, Aiden?", I mumbled with an annoyed voice.

"Just fuck off, AJ.", required Christian and took few steps towards us. "How about no? We were here before you came.", I said to Aiden and stand up. "C'mon Andrew, you truly want to fight me?", he laughed and continued, "Just go somewhere else with your simple unnecessary bitch.", Aiden said and called Rachel a bitch. I clenched my fist. "Don't call her a bitch, you fucking asshole."
Aiden laughed. "Look guys, he's protecting that bitch."
Ohh, this bastard is going straight to hell. I walked to him - wanted to strike him the decisive blow. I punched him right in the face.

It went so fast, someone shoved me and at the next moment I was laying on the cold dirty ground. "Andrew!", Rachel cried for me. "What the hell do you want?", I asked Aiden, Christian and the boys behind them, while I was standing up. I recognized one of the boy who was standing behind them. It was Bill and the boy next to him - Someone new again. Aiden is always searching for new members for his gang. And at some point every boy of the school will join his dumbass gang.

"Andrew let's go...", Rachel mumbled, grabbed my arm and pulled me behind her. Before I took a step, I spat at his feet.

Aiden and the others just laughed.

Revenge Aiden, revenge.