Teamwork|| A.I

•Chapter 1•

11th grade

I was awakened from my dream by my alarm clock. Time for school. Shit. I still get bullied by Sydney and my friend(his name is Ashton) still gets bullied by his bullied by his bully. Who I later found out to be some kid named Michael. Michael had hair the color of fairy floss (cotton candy) but it changed very frequently. He had long legs and two friends that also bullied Ash. There was Calum who had black hair and Luke who had blonde quiffed hair and a black lip ring.

Sydney also built up an entourage. She had Callie, Bailey, and Stephanie. Yes, now I had 4 bullies. It was even worse that I had at least one of them in most of my classes. The only class I had without any of them was the only one I had with Ashton. But, Luke was in that class.

I hopped out of bed and got dressed. I put on my favorite Metallica shirt and some black skinny jeans along with my white high top converse. I went into the bathroom and brushed my hair and put in foundation and eyeliner. I went downstairs and poured a bowl of Cheerios. When I finished that I went and got my bag and left for the bus. My parents were on yet another business trip in America leaving me here with my bullies in Melbourne. I went out front and sat down waiting for Ashton's car to pull up to drive me to school. When I sat down I saw a familiar squad. Sydney's. I got up and ran back inside. I didn't want to get beat up this early in the morning.

They see me and run to my door and start pounding and trying to get into my house. I pull my phone out of my bag and call Ashton.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Hey are you almost here?" I ask with my voice shaking.

"Um, yeah are you okay?" He asks sound concerned.

"No, Sydney and her gang are at my door they are trying to get in and beat me up." I say.

"I'm almost there, don't worry." He says. I felt assured.

A few minutes later I her a familiar voice tell the girls that he will call the cops if they don't leave the property. Then he knocks on the door. I open the door and he pulls me into a hug.

"Are you ok Jordan?" He asks.

"Yeah I'm fine but now they know where I live and they will come and find me again." I say starting to cry.

"Hey hey no they won't. Would it make you feel better if I stayed with you?" He asks. This wasn't new at all. Ashton stayed at my house thousands of times and I stayed at his too.

"Please?" I plead.

"Ok, let me talk to my mom." He says.

The truth was, I wanted Ashton to spend the night not only to keep me safe, but because I had kind of a big crush on him. But I didn't want him to know. It might fuck up our friendship and I can't lose the only friend I have.

"Okay, when school ends we'll drive to my house and I'll get a weeks worth of clothes. I, staying all week because I don't want you here alone while your parents are gone." He says. This is great. I'll have him for a whole week!

"Okay, we should go to school." He says. I nod and we walk out of my house. The next thing I know it that I'm on the ground getting hit and kicked. I hear Ashton yelling and the kicking gets harder. I open my eyes and it's Sydney and her friends. Ashton runs up and grabs Sydney by the waist and slams her on to the ground while he yells at the other girls. When Sydney is on the ground he runs over and pushes the other girls down.

He pulls me up and we run to his car and drive off.

When we get to school Ashton and I are called to the office. When we get in there I see Sydney and her gang and Michael and his gang. Ash and I give each other a scared look and sit down.

"Now, it is to my understanding that you guys have been physically fighting each other. It that correct?" Principal Moore asked.

Ashton and I shook our heads no. And Mr. Moore just ignored us like our opinion didn't matter.

But the bullies just started shaking their heads indicating that there was physical contact. They weren't exactly lying.

"It says here that Bailey got a video of Mr. Irwin body slamming Sydney." Principle Moore said.

Ashton looked down. His eyes full of sorrow. I look over and know that we're all screwed.

"So I see that Sydney has some bruises and so does the rest of her friends. And I don't see any marks on you two." Principle Moore said.

"What!?! No! He didn't body slam all of them! You want to see marks!?! I'll show you marks!" I yell.

With that I stood up and showed him my arms.

"See this? This was 3 Monday's ago when I was just getting some lunch and those things came and started beating me! See this?.." And then I started point at all 49 marks that had been left over the past two weeks. Then, Ashton stoop up.

"She's not the only one!" He starts yelling. Then he lifted up his shirt to show multiple bruises and scars. Then he turned around and pointed to Michael and his friends.

"They have been bullying me since the 5th grade!" He yelled tears in his eyes. The boys were shocked.

"And those bitches over there? Yeah they've been bullying Jordan since 5th grade. Hell, that's how we met. She heard me sobbing in the bathroom and now we're here!" He was yelling. He was now yelling through his sobs. You could tell that this really hurt him.

"Jordan has scars and bruises that she doesn't deserve!" And well, to save done words he ranted even more.

"Mr. Irwin I think that you need to watch your mouth. You are not allowed to use profanity of any kind in this building." He said.

"And as for you Miss Mackintosh, you need to stop yelling and please pull down your sleeves." Moore said to me.

This isn't anything new. The school never did anything about bullying. Which I think is terrible. There are people out here who need to be acknowledged. Like me. Like Ashton.

When principle Moore was done with the meeting, Sydney and her gang left along with the Michael and his gang. And Ashton and I walked out with a week of detention.

This wasn't the first time I got detention. Ash and I were troublemakers. Like one time, we stuffed soap up the air vent in the bathrooms. So every time someone went to use the air dryer, they got covered in soap. It was great. Until we got caught.

Other than the soap incident, we've done much more. We were all each other had. No one likes us because the gangs were popular and told everyone terrible things about us.

Like the only reason I moved here was because I had slept with everyone in my old town, Perth.

And as for Ashton, they told the school he was gay and he had a huge crush on every one in Michael's little gang. (A/N just to let you know, I have nothing against homosexuals! Gay is Okay!)

But there was so much more. And people will always believe what they've been told. These people made our lives living hell. And we are the ones who get punished.