Broken

Chapter 1

"-ith... Keith!" a familiar voiceyelled effectively waking him up from his trance.

He was standing outside his lockerstaring at his life science textbook, he turned his head to thevoice to see one of his two best friends, Heather. She was quiteshort, at least half a head shorter than him (of course he was shortas well), with long, brown hair which fell in two loose braids.

She was wearing a black tank top with apicture of a hamburger and fries, shorts that came down to hermid-thigh, and pink sneakers. She had deep brown eyes, and glassesthat she is only required to wear for long distance reading but sheinsisted on always wearing them because 'she keeps loosing them'.

"You've been standing there for aneternity dude, are you okay?" she asked with a worried expressionon her face.

He blushed with embarrassment andquickly replied "Yeah, sorry, was just lost in thought I guess.Let's just get to class."

They walked to class in relativesilence, with the occasional psychiatric prod from Heather to see ifhe was as fine as he said he was. At this point though Keith was gladto see his registration room, which gave him the opportunity tochange the topic. When they walked in he immediately spotted hisother best friend, Jamie, he was only slightly taller than Keith withperfect blond hair that always seemed tamed. He walked over to theboy who's shirt was for some reason completely covered with paint,Jamie answered before he could ask with a brief "Last minute artproject."

The trio sat at the back near thewindow and conversed about some show Heather was watching and how itso sad that the hero's brother died in the last episode, they wereinterrupted by their teacher loudly making her presence known byslamming the door shut. She took registration then start to talkabout something to do with safety, Keith wasn't listening, he alwaysfound it hard to concentrate on whatever that teacher said.

She was cut short by the bell ringingand everyone moving to first period, he shared only one of hislessons with his friends and that lesson was only after lunch. Hisfirst two periods was math and as far as he knew he was getting Asfor anyway so he allowed himself to sleep, as he made his way tohistory, he felt someone grab the back of his shirt and pull himback.

He quickly turned around to see Thomas,who was pointing one of his sickening grins at him.

"What is it Thomas?" Keith was notin the mood for his shit today, Thomas used to be this schools' topacademic achiever before Keith transferred a year ago, he's beenbitter about this ever since.

"Nothing much, just thought I'd checkhow my favourite punching bag is doing."

Thomas was quite a bit taller and moremuscular than Keith, which he often used against Keith. Thomas wasquick to push him against the wall and held his arm up to his throatwith almost too much pressure, 'Shit, too slow,' he thought.

"Did you think about my offer to cutback on the showing off?" he asks slyly

"I'm not going to stop being smartjust because you feel insecure," he said with as much confidence hecould muster with an arm against his throat. Which turned out to be abad decision as he was met with a fist smacking into his stomach,which was already sore from his father.

"I will come back to you at lunch andyou BETTER have an answer." he all but yelled before storming tohis next class. Keith slid down the wall to catch his breath andcollect his book bag, which he dropped during his one-sided fight, hefigured that he was already late for class so he took his timegetting there to try and look like he had some dignity.

It turned out to be quite the oppositeof that when he walked in stuttering a half thought-out excuse whilehis teacher just sent him to his seat with a stern look, he spent therest of the lesson thinking of ways to avoid Thomas at lunch and wasonly pulled out of his thoughts when the crackling of the intercomfilled the class.

"Attention school, due to...unforeseen circumstances... school will be ending early today. Yourparents have been notified,"

'What?!' Keith thought, shocked, 'Butthere has only been three lessons?'

"All staff members are to report tothe staff room immediately."

And with that, the bell rang with kidsrushing out the classroom with huge smiles on their faces. Keithcould only sit there as he felt his blood drain from his face andfreeze in his stomach.  

(A/N: hey guys, hope you enjoy the first official chapter, please comment, I would love to hear your thoughts (~ツ)~