Doubled Up

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"Aiko, wake up. Hurishiki is waiting for you outside." my mom called up the stairs to me.

"Invite him in, I'm not ready yet." I yelled back half asleep still.

I, rather begrudgingly, forced myself out of the warmth and comfort of my bed to get ready for school.

I went to my closet to find something cute to wear. I choose a white blouse, that's a little tight and a skirt with leggings under it.

I sat at my mirror ready to brush my hair, when I was interrupted by a knock at the door.

"Is it safe to come in?" Hurishiki's voice called out.

"Yeah, come in." I answer.

The door opened and the 5'6, 110 pounds of lanky weirdness that was my best friend walked in.

"Good morning Ai, I brought you something." he said in a singsong voice.

"Well, it's not good to keep a girl waiting." I reply still foucused in my hair.

I look over in time to see him pull a Starbucks cup from behind his back.

"Sometimes I love this guy!" I thought as I thanked him and grabbed the cup

I took a large sip, he remebered how I like my coffee. I kissed him on the cheek.

"Umm, I hate to rush you but we need to go we're gonna be late." he muttered as he rubbed the back of his head.

I sighed, my hair was staying half done I guess, I grabbed my camera bag and walked with him to his car, a 2015 Honda civic, it was nice.

I got in the passenger side, he opened the door for me like a true gentlemen.

He got in his side, and we were off the the hell known as Blackwater high.

I grabbed the aux cord and played some Jay park from my phone, even though I wasn't very fluent in Korean I loved his voice, and he was super cute.

"Hey, Ai, are we still gonna got shoot today?" Hurishiki asked as we turned into the parking lot.

"No, huri, I just grabbed my camera for fun." I say sarcastically and rolled my eyes at him.

We parked in his spot and walked towards the door, I drank more of my coffee which was starting to get cold.

"Look! the Chinese are invading!" zack, the asshole, called out as we walked in.

"Fuck off." I say as we pass him and he bumps Huri's books out of his hands.

"I'll be thinking about you if I do." he said and winked makeing an obscene gesture with his hand. We will get back to Zack the Asshole later.

"You make me sick." I say feeling dirty and disgusted.

Huri had picked up his books and cought up at this point as we made our way to 1st period class, an advanced English class that focused on poetry. I didn't understand it at all but Hurishiki loved it and helped me through it, I returned the favor in our 3rd period art class.

We had all but one class together and pretty much always talked only to each other, we had other friends but the genral population of Blackwater were stupid and rude. The prime example was Zack the Asshole, I said we would be back to that prick, the sexist, raceist jerk who thinks all Asians must be Chinese. I'm Korean and Hurishiki is japanese. Me and him refer to him as Zack the Asshole for two reasons, 1. We have another friend named Zack who is a good guy. 2. He is just a creepy jerk who is obsessed with me.

At lunch I took my usual spot between Hurishiki and my friend Amanda. Amanda was telling us all the drama for the first half of today, when Zack the Asshole walked by and "tripped" covering my white shirt in water. Seeing how close principal James was Zack loudly said " im soooo sorry, let me help with that." before he tried to rub a paper towel on my chest where the water was starting to soak through my shirt. I pushed him back, I was fighting back tears, I was so embarrassed I wanted to die.

Hurishiki jumped up and shoved Zack the Asshole further away. Zack responded by throwing a punch that Hurishiki easily avoided, people started to circle around immediately, Zack tried again but as with the first Huri sidestepped this time thowing a hard kick to the stomach that dropped Zack to his knees cluching his midsection and gasping for breath, Zack held this position for a few seconds before fireing a right at Hurishiki's stomach that doubles him over, Huri grabbed Zack by the head then slipped his arm around his neck getting him in a choke, Zack was flailing around but you could see him fading into sleep, Huri took this opportunity to make his point clear, " from now on You do NOT talk to Aiko, you do NOT look or touch her ever again! I'm I understood?" at this point Zack the Asshole is barely able to even nod.

Principal James finally broke through the crowd of students and pulled Hurishiki and Zack apart which was rather easy due to Zack being asleep at this point. " someone help mr.Barns to my office." principal James ordered as he grabbed the collar of Huri's shirt and started dragging him, one of the other baseball players help Zack walk to the office. I followed behind, partially to get a New shirt, partially to hear punishments.