Just Another High School Romance

Introduction

 Let me just start off by saying I'm a nearly sane 15-year-old high school student currently attending Klein Forest High School. To say I'm an average teen would be just a bit inaccurate. I spend more time playing video games than studying. (Pretty average). I've only had two girlfriends. (No surprise). I have sworn off dating. (It's up for questioning whether that was by choice or not). I am 5' 7 1/2" and weigh 160 lbs. (But if I take off my shirt then you'll see more jiggle than muscle). I have medium length black hair and a little bit more acne than I want. I was born with a stubby finger growing out of my thumb, it wasn't a normal finger but it had a bone, nail, and all that so it was considered a finger. It was surgically removed when I was one. The extra bone was not removed, it kind of just made itself at home and now I can't bend it like a normal thumb. I'm not really ashamed of it, but I still feel awkward when asked about it and I have to explain the story. I'm of Mexican descent and born in raised here in Houston, Texas. I was taught Spanish before English but now I struggle when speaking Spanish because I speak English substantially more than Spanish and I have developed a foreigner accent when speaking Spanish and I can't roll my r's. Every time I visit my family in Mexico I have trouble communicating with them and my cousins laugh and make fun of me when I try to say words with r's. Is it a wonder that I have self esteem problems?

 Here I am telling you all about me and not even mentioning my name, my name is Edward Andre Torrey Jr. (Translates to Eduardo Andres Torrey Jr.). I'm named after my father, I wish I wasn't. Not many people know about the "Jr." part of my name, I'd like to keep it that way. I don't like my name, and neither does my dad. My dad tells me that it's my mom's fault I have his name and she said she wanted me named that because I was their first son. They had two daughters before me but I swear my oldest sister acts like she was my older brother. Lara is my oldest sister and Clarissa is my youngest-older sister. Our family calls Clarissa by her middle name, Karla, but her friends and associates refer to her by her first name. 

 Currently, I am a sophomore. I have all Pre-AP classes except World History and Algebra II. My World History class is an AP class, so it is ridiculously labeled "WHAP". My Algebra II is a regular’s class, but I did sign up for Pre-AP. I was going to talk to my counselor but I got too used to it. Plus I had the best grades in the class during the 4th Six Weeks. I'm going to try for that again this 5th Six Weeks. I am currently failing three classes; English II, Chemistry, and WHAP. I could be passing but I'm what I like to call a "Master Procrastinator". Although I feel like trying now since school is almost over, there is only the 6th Six Week left of school. I signed up for Native Spanish class to help with my Spanish problem but I feel like it’s barely helping me. Maybe with pronunciation it is helping a little, but I still feel like I have the accent and I'm never sure where to put an accent when writing in Spanish. Well at least I'm passing the class. I'm also in a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), it is supposed to prepare you for college. I've been in AVID since 6th grade but I don't feel like it does much for me anymore and it takes up a valuable elective I could use for a class towards my future career, like computer science or video game design.

 I love computers and video games. I want to be either a computer engineer working for either Microsoft or I open my own little computer repair shop, or a video game designer working for Microsoft's video game design branch, more specifically 343 Industries which is the video game company that works on the Halo franchise under Microsoft Studios. See, one thing that any of my friends will tell you, is that I love Halo. I nearly dedicate my life to Halo and it is my dream to one day work on one of the future Halo games. 

 So now that you know the basics about me, let's get to the part of the book you came to read. Now bear with me because I have horrible memory, so the dialogue will be as close as possible to what was actually said.