Love in the Spotlight

Journal #1-1: The Day After the Date

Well, it was a normal day. I just woke up, got ready, and went to school. It changed when I got to school though. Shaun came up to me and confronted me, but I was too tired to even hear him. I just walked away, but he shoved me into a locker. "What the hell do you want?" I yelled at his face. "Why did you take his girl?" he threw at me.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, YOU TOOK BENNY'S GIRL!"

"No, he is dreaming that she's his."

"Dude, don't start shit. You don't want that right now."

"How do you know what I want? How can I know you since you jumped me with your guys?"

"Fuck...Jake, you don't understand why I had.."

"Shut the fuck up Shaun. I don't know, and I don't give a flying fuck. You jumped me. I don't think what they have on you will save your ass."

"Dude, just listen to me, please? I want to.."

"Shaun. Just stop. Anything you say now will just make the pit you're in deeper. Just piss off."

"Fine...just...I'm sorry Jake...I'll be ready to talk whenever you are I guess."

As he walked off, I felt something I'd never felt. Loss. Not like the loss you feel when you lose like a family member, but losing someone who was with you because you were YOU. I wanted to run and actually talk, but I couldn't. I was frozen in place.

END OF SCHOOL

As I was walking to my locker, one of the fucks that jumped me shoved me into some lockers.

"What the fuck? Watch where you're going bitch!"

"Well, maybe it's your fault, fat ass. Maybe I hit you hard enough it fucked up your eyes a bit."

"What did you say to me you little pussy??"

"You. Fucking. Heard. Me. You need me to demonstrate?"

"You're dead!"

As he threw the first punch, I ducked under his arm and I heard a deafening metal clang as his fist hit the locker. He recoiled in pain spurting out a couple words that maybe aren't the most school appropriate. He drew back to throw another punch, and I guess another one of the pricks showed up and I didn't see them. I felt someone grab me and put me in a head lock. The other guy's punch connected right to the middle of my ribs. As it connected, I heard a crunch and felt a sharp pain in my chest. I guess the other guys heard the crunch because after that, they dropped me and booked it out of the school. All I know is that I was laying on the ground for however long. I saw a figure walking or maybe running towards me.

"Holy shit! Someone get some help!"

After that,  all I remember was blacking out...