This Time

Ch. 5

Morning at Civic High was like every other morning last week. Clusters of groups gathered at the front main door. There were actually no nerds in this school, believe it or not. Every pupil was bright, athletic, and healthy. I was probably the most "nerdiest" if to compare to how much I study. Today, I had my soccer bag and my school backpack. People stared at me as I walked right into the building to my locker. Dropping my soccer ball and trapping it with my foot, I turned my locker combination and opened the locker. I stuffed my soccer bag into the back. You see, Civic High had some big lockers. I guess it was for the sports equipment or our study books. Anyway, I could stuff my soccer bag in my locker without it interfering with any of my other stuff. I unpacked my bag and took out the form that Kevin gave me. It ended up to be some kind of medical issues or something that I didn't have. I slipped that into my uniform pocket and closed my locker. That was when I noticed a guy standing a few feet ahead of me. I stared at him for a long time, then I remembered. It was the guy I had beat up on the first day of Civic High. At the bus stop. The guy with the gangster looking look, remember? And he was standing there, leaning against locker number 554, with his black hair covering one side of his eye.

"Got anything to say to me?"

He asked.

"No."

I replied and walked the other direction. He grabbed me by the shoulder and turned me around. My reaction, of course, was to kick. But he already knew my move and dodged it.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

He said, brushing himself.

"I don't know you, I have nothing to say to you, so leave me alone."

I said as I kept walking. I heard him snort in the background.

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"Where's Danny?"

Chris asked as he set his tray by mine.

"How should I know? And why do you keep sitting with me? Don't you have any sophomore friends?"

I said, taking a bite of my pasta. Yummy pasta, very yummy. I hadn't eaten all day today, and the pasta here was home made, so it was extra good, unlike all the other public schools down there in your town.

"Nah. It's all seniors and juniors here too, but none of my buds have lunch period with me."

Chris explained. Civic High had 3 separate periods for lunch, and mine was the second. Seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshman were all mixed, so it wasn't one period for the whole freshmen and one for the sophomores stuff like that.

"Hey."

Sophia came up to my table.

"What are you doing here?"

I asked.

"Sometimes, my friends are too obsessed with guys to hang out with. It's really not that fun."

She said, gesturing over to a table full of giggling girls looking at the football table. I went back to my pasta, eating it like a pig would. A very HUNGRY pig.

"Are you Jen's friend?"

Chris asked.

"Well, Jen doesn't like to use the term friends. I helped her out once, so I guess we're close buds."

Sophia laughed.

"Cool. I'm Chris Kim, second year. Jen's lunch buddy. There's supposed to be another lunch buddy, but I don't know where he is."

Chris introduced himself.

"Sophia. Leoman. First year."

Sophia introduced herself too.