One Hundred things to do when you don't exist

Chapter 5 Be the other guy (homestuck reference)

(Heath p.o.v)

What the hell was I thinking. Some how we ended up alone on the field, my heart was bursting out of my chest. I guess it started this morning.

I had decided to hitch a ride with my older brother and his girl Becky. About half way through the trip we picked up his piece of shit friends. They were already stoned. When they got in the car they handed the blunt to Becky then to my brother. They both took a hit and started driving. I fell asleep for a second or two and when I woke up the car was moving down the main road. Ron and Steven were hanging out of the open windows yelling out curses at the top of their lungs. I looked to see what s.o.b they were harrasing now, to my surprise I didn't recognize him.

A new Kid! we haven't had one since the Kimberlys adopted Chen back in fourth grade. The new kid looked limber, almost snake like. His skin was the color finished wood and his eye made you want to protect him. At the same time he seemed unaproachable. I soon realized that we had locked eyes for an akward minute. I turned my head and pretended to sleep, letting my blonde hair fall infront of my eyes to cover the embarrasment that they were showing. I couldn't stand to look back up even though we had already past him. When I first got to school I put on the jersey I had been sitting on for the car ride. A couple of my friends greeted me in the hall, Dave, my friend from preschool convinced me to cut the first three classes to help him pick up the "bitties". He was always trying to act like he was from the east coast and it had been getting on my nerves lately; infact everything about everyone was making me mad. Except the boy from before, he made me feel curious.

I decided to skip class but I only hung around Dave for first period. During second period I hooked up with Jade in the hallway. this lasted for about 15 minute incraments. During one of the breaks I looked around the hallway half hoping to see the new kid. I did. He was wondering the halls. I was about to introduce myself but jade didn't want to stop.

The period after that I wondered the halls aimlessly, just waiting to be caught by some authority figure and sent back to class. I was soon caught by the hall monitor and sent back to class.

I went to room 305 and took my seat in the back of the class room; the teacher put me here cause she thought that I would get less distracted if she isolated me but it just made dozing off so much easier. Plus it wasn't like I needed a good education, my future was so secure it was almost boring. My mother is an alumni at Harvard and my dad owned the firm that she worked at. The firm was in Des Moines, about five hours away. Needless to say, me and my brother spend a lot of nights alone or at parties when the house just felt to empty to be in.

I snapped out of my reverie when I heard the horrible shriek of the class representative. I looked up to see what she was going off about this time, and then I saw him. Time slowed like it does in the movies as he walked towards me. This is when my imagination started to get the better of me. He placed his hand on my cheek and starred at me with his golden brown eyes....

Am I gay. No way, just excited about a new kid, right?

The embarrassment caused by my day dream forced me to hide my face in between my crossed arm and fain sleep. The rest of the period was uneventful and I was excited to hear the bell ring, that is until I realized next period was bio chemistry. The substitute teacher acted like tight ass for no reason and was constantly calling me out for the stupidest shit.

When we got to the field I couldn't help but notice that he had a bit of a limp. The field was empty. All I could think about was this lanky stone faced boy standing in front of me.

Before I could stop myself I was firing off questions like there was no tomorrow. Right when things were getting good, mr. Valture shows up and sends me back to class.