My Repair Boyfriend, Leo Valdez

Eclipse I

I was on my way to Aurora High, my high school. It wasn't the best school in Texas, but it was good enough for me. I was riding my black harley bike through the terrible traffic. It was raining outside, so that didn't help my spirits. I was expecting another boring day reviewing genetics in science, revolutionary wars in social studies, proportions in math, and going over stupid structured notes in ELA. I had World Music Drumming, and PE that day too. Those classes were usually the highlight of my day. There wasn't much that was exciting where I lived. In school, I didn't have any friends. I was better at fighting with people than making friends with them.

I liked PE because we were doing Capture The Flag. I loved that game. Although it would be more fun with weapons like swords and bows, it was kinda fun now too. I made great defense guarding the pin. Our coach decided he wanted it to be safer, so he changed the rules. Now there were 2 pins per team that the other team would try to take. We had these little belts with 3 pieces of either blue or green cloth attached to them, depending on what team you were on. If someone came onto your team's side of the gym, you could take their "flag" is what they called those belt things. And there were people on scooters that could take your pin from you and you couldn't even touch them to get it back. You couldn't even take their flag. To get your team's pin back, someone would have to go to the other team's territory and grab it out of the box and run and hope you didn't get your flag taken from you. If you got your flag taken, you had to go back to your teams territory and do 15 jumping jacks then you were back in the game. I never once got my flag taken or lost a pin while I was guarding. I made excellent offense and defense. Everyone wanted me on their team. But I usually went with the weaker team, so it was more fair.

I liked drumming because it gave me the opportunity to hit something and not get in trouble. It was how I got out my anger. My mom used to say I had ADHD and anger issues. And the doctor proved it.

I also liked Fridays, but not like any other kid at my school. I liked it, because from 3:20 until 4 I volunteered at the library and helped shelve books. The librarian liked that I was the only one in the whole school willing to help her because she had such a busy schedule and didn't have time to shelve all those books by genre and authors last name. So she gave me a piece of candy before I left. I volunteered because she needed help, and it gave me a chance to check out all the books. I mostly liked the Fantasy and Action books. I was that girl who read fanfictions of her favorite books and got in trouble for reading and not paying attention.

Anyway, I was stuck in traffic on my awesome motorcycle. People were honking at me, when there was nothing I could do. And I was yelling at them to shut up 'cause there was nowhere I could go. And that was me holding back my road rage. I put in my earbuds and turned on Livin' on a prayer by Bon Jovi. I loved that song. It blocked out the noise from the other cars. I turned around and saw a scrawny guy with black curly hair and an orange T-Shirt on just staring at me like he had just gotten tickets to see Imagine Dragons and he was still staring at them in awe. I raised an eyebrow at him and he seemed to realize he was staring and looked away quickly. Then the light turned green and I started driving towards my school.

When I finally got there I quickly grabbed my book and went inside before I was counted late. I wasn't counted late, so I was able to get in the building. I went to my locker and got my textbooks and walked to homeroom. We had about 20 minutes until actual class started so I sat down and started to read my book.

I was still reading when class started. I heard the teacher say "Ok. Today we have a new student." I looked up when she said new student because I liked their expressions in front of the class for the first time. "His name is Leo Valdez." she finished.