Taken

Chapter 1



The final bell rang and I ran out of school. I ran onto the bus and took my seat in the last seat of the bus. Panting I un-zipped my bag and took out "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban." I put on my headphone and nearly blasted the music.
"Hey," said one of my best friends Timmy after he pulled of my head phones.
I chaptered my book and turned to face him. "Hey," I replied to him.
"What were you listening to?" He asked and pointed to my head phones.
"Roger Rabbit by Sleeping with Sirens." I say.
"I love that song," Timmy states. I nod and look for ways to continue the conversation.
"So, what's up?" I say and Timmy shrugs his shoulders.
"Hey," says my other friend, Shane. He jumps over Timmy and sits down. I smile at him and wave. Shane takes out a pencil and stabs the seat with it. He stabs the seat to represent every dreaded day of school. He smiles at me and hands over the pencil. I stab my seat and hand the pencil back and smile at him. It will only be a matter of days before the bus driver yelled at us for stabbing the seats, but that's the future. As I like to say, 'live for now. Who cares about tomorrow?'
Josh gets on the bus next and sits next to me. "Yo," he greets us.
"What's up?" I say.
"Nothin, you?" He asked.
I shrug and say: "Same here." He takes out his head phones and puts them on. The bus starts and pulls out of the parking lot.
I take out my book again and put my headphones in, ignoring everything, everybody else in the world.


The bus is about to pull up to my stop and I shove my book and my iPod into my book bag.
When I get off the bus I sprint to the back of the house and grab the key from underneath the "welcome" mat then unlock the door.
I run up the stars and collapse on the bed. I close my eyes and think. Just think. Before I realize it I fall fast asleep.