Books of short stories

ungrateful

It was Monday morning, one week after Aaron started school.

as he's walking to school, he sees zealot, "Zealot!, Zealot!, he calls out to him

"Hey! Wait!" noticing he's not stopping, he starts to run, a few seconds later he catches up to him.

Zealot stops, "what do you want!?" zealot ask, with a bit of aggression in his voice, a little startled at his response, " I just wanted to say good morning," Aaron says, with an innocent smile on his face, "well, now that you've said it, I'll be on my way," zealot replies and began walking again.

Dumbfounded, Aaron stands there just staring at his back, till he's out of sight, and a few minutes later, he snaps back and starts panicking, realizing he might be late.

It's lunch at school, and like any other lunch break, zealot was reading his bible.

To show people they were not devil worshiper nor sinners, the people of yesteryear were more involved with god but to other doing this made them seem more guilty, this was more apparent for zealot, since his parent tattooed the cross on his back to prove their loyalty to God, which had inevitably label them fanatics.

As usual, he sat alone at his desk.

It had been one or two weeks, but Aaron had not made any friends, in exception of Carman, who constantly came into his class. which was awkward because she always just stared at zealot or talk a lot about him even if he was present,  which made Aaron very embarrassed. 

she seem to have forgotten what happened to Aaron on his first day of school.

After Carman leaves, Aron goes to his seat.

Feeling bad that zealot is alone, he tries to start up a conversation, "hey, so what chapter are you reading?" says Aaron, with a friendly smile.

zealot looks at him "what do you want?"

"is that all you can say,?" Aaron asks feeling a little irritated

Zealot calmly close and puts away his Bible, "you have my full attention if you have something important to discuss with me, now what do you want?" zealot say while looking him straight in the eyes.

Aaron's a little taken aback by his response, "I want to be your friend," Aaron says with a serious face.

"Mr. Bennett, I don't need your pity or friendship, so I hope you won't bother me in the future for these reasons," zealot says while smiling, and again Aaron has no response, he just turns around and zones out till lunch ends.

After lunch, the teacher Miss. Lucky comes into the class,

"today we'll be working on our first group project for the semester, form in groups of two or three," said the teacher

Everybody formed a group, excluding Aaron and Zealot, there were even odd-numbered groups.

Zealot raises his hands

"Yes?" the teacher response

"Is it possible to work alone?" zealot asks.

"No, because this is a Group Project, I suggest you work with Aaron,"

Says the teacher, he looks at Aaron and raises his eyebrows a little, "would you like to be my partner?" with a smile on his face, he asks.

Zealot had turned Aaron down every chance he got, but now he was the one asking, Aaron felt a sense of pride but also suspicion

"I will, but on one condition," Aaron replies.

"And what would that condition be, Mr. Bennett?" Zealot says, as his brows raise higher and his smile wider, Aaron felt suspicious, not quite convinced of his acceptance, nevertheless, he continued.

" stop calling me by my last name, call me by my first, and Be my friend," Aaron explains.

"Those were two conditions, and despite me asking you, we both share the same benefits, "

Zealot says, as his constant raise of eyebrows and smile shows his growing annoyance.

"Ok then, just call me by my first name," Aaron says, confirming his suspicion

" to this, I agree," zealot replies, evidently satisfied.

The teacher gives the deadlines, and after 3 more classes, school ended.

While on his way home, Aaron sees a big crowd gathered around a group of kids, he forces his way through the crowd, as he's he reaches the front, he sees Zealot with blood dripping down his legs as he covers his forehead.

He notices his clothes are worn out from the trash being thrown at him, but other than blocking his forehead Zealot just stands there, as he's mob.

He stands there staring in shock, realizing no one, gonna help him, not even the yesteryear students,
He goes up to the group of students who started it

"do you find this funny?" he said, looking very angry.

" yea, to me, it is," said one of the guys, while snickering

"Move!" said another, smirking, while looking zealot up and down, this boy looked like the leader of this little group.

There was a common similarity between these group of boys and Aaron, they were all dressed the same, and to the public, they looked like the group of students that always caused trouble in school.

Regardless if this was a Christian school, students like these never followed rules and were the main bullies at school, even the teacher fear them and the fact that most were pastor childrens

This could one of the reasons, the teacher was so antagonistic toward Aaron or why no one wanted to associate with him.

everyone could feel how intense the situation was getting, right then someone called out,

"Wait isn't that the watchman son?" someone said

"Come to think of it, what's his name again?" Another asked tensing up

"Aaron Bennett, his name is Aaron Bennett," The girl responded, all color draining from her face

This news was quickly passed to everyone in the crowded, realizing the consequence of being here, slowly but surely everyone left.

"So you guys are the bullies at school huh?" Aaron said, while clearly belittling them

"So you got a problem with that?" their leader responded, sneering.

after sending a sign to his friends, They all surrounded him, as soon as their leader is about to attack him, he's interrupted by one of his friends.

" sorry to say this, but he's the watchman son"

He stops, clearly caught off guard "you mean Thee, Aron Bennett," the leader asks,

"Yes, he is," the man says, clearly a little nervous

turning to look at Aaron, he's met with folded arm and a confident smirk,

"I'm giving you 10 seconds to leave this place if you don't want your little group expelled," Aaron says, look at them with disgusts

Their leader realizes it must be true, he and his bunch of goonies starts running, all in a big panic, completely forgetting zealot in the process.

"The Watchman" was the name given to Aaron father because any time someone tries to bully him or when Aaron needed help, his dad was always the first person coming to his recuse because even though Aaron had barely been in school for two weeks he had already face bullying, and his dad was friends with the higher-ups in the school helped stopped most of his bullies, thus his name.

After making sure they were completely gone, he walks up to Zealot and tries to help him after noticing his badly bruised leg but his hand is pushed away, feeling a little angry, Aaron ask

" I just saved you,  can't you even say thanks?"

" I never asked you to," Zealot looks up at him while saying

" I never knew someone could be this selfish, I was just trying to help you," Aaron say, getting angrier and angrier with every word.

"Well, I don't need your help and definitely not your pity, as I've said numerous time," Zealot said, while walking away.