the innocent boy | colby brock

one

COLBY BROCK

i walked into the doors of the hell hole people call school. it was friday, the last day till saterday. i got to my locker and not only did i get my fingers smash into the locker, i was pushed up against it.

"look, little innocent, smart boy, i have a paper due monday, get it done for me." sam golbach, the bad boy of the school shoved a piece of paper in my face.

i pushed him off me and fixed my shirt as he walked away with his posey friends. everyone was looking at me, most whispering and some laughing. i rolled my eyes and turned the paper around to see what sam had given me. it was a rubric to the paper he wanted me to write.

only a few more weeks of this, then summer, then freedom, then me, myself and i. no bullies, no sam, no teachers and rude kids, no homework, no throbbing fingers and bruises, just summer.

i opened my locker once more and put the piece of paper in the top of my locker. i then closed it and walked to the nurses.

"mr. brock, back again." nurse jackie said

"yeah, the same sam kid slammed a locker door on my fingers. he wants me to write his paper thats due monday."

"oh sweetheart, im really sorry, just wish kids would grow up."

"yeah me to."

she gave me an ice pack and i sat down on one of the beds she had. thats when none other than lexi, the schools popular girl, the most gorgeous girl of the school, the most rudest girl, and hardest girl to get and so on, walked into the nurses office.

"lexi." mrs. jackie said.

"hey nurse jackie, i was just wondering if i could get an ice pack for my toes, fucking, i mean, freaking, corey smashed them with his dang foot because he doesn't know how to walk."

"yes, i'll have to run to the office to get some more then, here." she said handing lexi the last ice pack.

lexi sat down on another bed and took her phone out. she rolled her eyes at something and shut it off.

she looked at me and i quickly looked away from her. shes probably going to fuck with me just like all her other friends.

"what happened to you?" she asked me.

i tensed up at the fact that she even decided to talk to me. i looked at her and she was starring at me waiting for an answer.

"oh, um, your friend, sam, he uh sorta smashed my fingers in my locker."

"god he can be such a dick. im sorry man, hes not the nicest. he wont apologize, so i will, so im sorry he did that."

"its fine, he did it not you."

"hey wait, you're colby right? you're the smart kid in my math class. yeah, yeah i know you. i used to copy off your test when we sat next to eachother. yeah sorry about that, i just really didn't like to study, but i found studying is very helpful."

she was making so many faces and she was thinking so hard about things while talking. even when she wasn't doing much, she was still gorgeous, thats why shes like the model of the school.

"hello.." lexi said waving her hand in my face.

"oh sorry." i said. "what'd you say?"

"i said, do you have a phone?" she smiled at me.

"yeah, let me just, ouch fuck!" i said.

"oh shit." she said and stood up from her spot. "wow he really fucked up your fingers didn't he." she said looking at my fingers. she sat next to me and grabbed my bag for me.

"just tell me which pocket its in." she smiled at me.

damn all those guys who've dated her are lucky.

"that one." i pointed.

she unzipped it and pulled out my phone. "hey we have the same phone" she said pulling hers out and putting it next to mine. she smiled at me once more and i smiled back. i thought lexi was this girl that was rude to everyone that got in her path, that she hated you if you weren't slightly popular. but she was more on the caring side and actually gave a shit about others.

"here, this is my number, if sam fucks with you, just give me a call or text me, im always on my phone so i will answer."

no flipping way.

"oh also, i dont give my number to most people because i get nudes and i dont really want to see that shit, and i get asked alot to send, not something i want to do, so please keep my number between us."

"yeah, yeah of course."

she then got up and swung her bag around her shoulder, "if you're still here when nurse jackie comes back, could you tell her that i'll bring that ice pack to her after final bell?"

"yeah." was all i said.