A Decade and Two Fifths (Only prologue finished)

Prologue

"Hey, Damian! My man! Whats going on my dude?" "Hey Gabe. I haven't really been doing much I guess. I have been studying for our history exam that's about it. What are you doing here? I thought you were on vacation on Long Island?" "Naw, my sister, you know, my younger one Charlotte broke her arm. She needs to stay home, which unfortunately means, no vacation." "Well at least she has one hell of a story to tell. Me, I've got nothing." "Listen, Damian, I need you to do something for me." "Ok? What do you need me to do?" "Can you help me get out of after school study hall?" "What the hell did you do to get in there?" "The real question should be how many English essays I failed." "Lord, Gabe, you can't keep asking me to help save your ass every time you screw up." "Yeah well remember when I got you out of that detention room?" "Yes, but that was one time. You keep pulling this bull shit and end up getting yourself in trouble multiple times. I am not busting your ass out of this one. Figure it out yourself." "Come on Damian. I'll buy you icecream?" "I'm not a bail bond. Please shut the hell up." "Fine, suit yourself, I'll find someone else."

After he said that, he continued to talk, but his voice was too quiet and muffled as he angrily stomped away. Honestly there was no way I could help him. If i did that would be putting me on the line. I decided that Gabe was just being an ass hole and was trying to get me to bail him out of all his problems. He really needs to meet more people. I realized that we had been talking for almost five minutes. "Damn it, that made me late for social studies." I muttered. At this point, my social studies teacher had given up on me trying to make it on time. I can honestly see why.

There were only five for minutes left in class. I started to stare at the clock, memorized by its simple yet complicated mechanics. I was staring at the clock so intensely that I didn't realize that class was over. How ironic. I walked out of the class room. As I walked down the halls, i felt as if people were slowly moving off to the side, just so they wouldn't have to talk to or even make eye contact with me. Even though most people would have probably ignored this, it still made me slightly uncomfortable as I walked out into the bus zone.