My Filtered Life

Chapter 1

        First of all, being color blind is not being blind. People don't get it. People think it's the same thing. They don't understand. My parents understand. Theo and Hera understand. No one else thinks so. Hera told me it's cool to be color blind. It's like my vision is like a filtered photo. I've never seen a photo filter, all photos look the same to me.

        I was leaning against the walls of Hilton High, wil my buddies Hera and Theo. They told me Hera had blonde hair and green eyes, and Theo had orange hair and grey eyes. Hera and I were smoking and Theo was holding a sparkler. (Theo has a sparkler so he has an excuse to say, "pass me the lighter.") 

        "How can you smoke? It's not cool, just nasty." Theo complained.

        "We just can." I replied. "I know it's not cool, but I do it because I'm tired of the bull shit people give me when they find out I'm color blind."

        "What's your excuse Hera?" Theo asked.

        "It's cool." she said. (Author: It's not cool to smoke. Don't do it)

        We were supposed to be taking a tour around the school, but we've been throught it so many times, we're all sick of it. If we went, it'll be our 4th time taking it. 

        My parents didn't want me to stress about going, so my mom told me I could hang out with Hera and Theo, and the day came to be like this:

        Me: Why don't you smoke Theo?

        Theo: I can't and I won't it's stupid. I don't want to smell like smoke, and die in pain.

        Me: Well, I only smoke once in a while. Like a month or two.

        Hera: But when it's time, you always smoke a lot.

        Me: It gives me enough time for the smoky smell to go away.

        Theo: However, you Hera, you smoke whenever you like to.

        Hera: Yeah, so?

        Me: You take advantage of me so you can get cigs, because people think I have retinolastoma.

        I could tell Hera felt embarresed, but she didn't show it. She played it cool.

        Hera: Pssh. That's true, but does it look like I care?

        Me: Yes, it totally looks like you care.

        Hera: You're sucha prick sometimes. You know that right?

        Me: Of course.

        When I got home. I decided to watch a movie. Out of the selections, I chose Redwood Plunges. The movie is a mystery where a detective named George Hitlston tries to find out how had killed his father Joseph Redwood. Redwood died from falling of a cliff, and Hitlston is figuring out who pushed him of. Spoiler, the murderer is Redwood's brother Jacob.

        After the movie ended, my dad made me go shopping with him. Of course I told him no. He knew what I trying so he told me that she take away my cigarretes. So I "gladly" came with him. 

        In the car, there was an awkward silence. A boring one mostly. So I decided to spark up a conversation. "How's life?"

        "I don't know." she replied.

        "Hows you and dad?" He said nothing back. I assumed he was tired or something. I haven't seen my mom in a moth or two. My dad told me she was on a buisness trip in Chicago. I believed him.

        Once we got to the store, my dad told me that we should split the list to save time. I had nothing else to do so I accepted. I went for some eggs, apples and toilet paper. I went for the toilet paper first. 

        In the aisle, I saw this girl. This' hard far me to admit, but... she's my crush. Hannah Jenkins, is the most hot girl I've ever seen. She is so pretty. Well, I know from people she has black hair and blue eyes, but even with out color, she was still damn hot.

        I tried to approuch her, but I felt like I couldn't. She was too hot compared to me. According to my dad, I had brown hair and two different colored eyes, on yellow and one teal. My hair was always scruffy, and I was pretty pale. Not white boy pale, but pale.

        I sighed. I just decided to stare. Then some one touched my shoulder. I punched the person behind me.

        "What the hell, dude?" It was Theo.

        "Sorry, you scared me."

        "Are you staring at Helen again?"

        "It's Hannah, not Helen."

        "What ever dude. What're you doing? Stalking her?"

        "No, I came grocery shopping with my dad."

        "Cool. can I meet you outside when you're done?"

        "Sure."

        "Cool, seeya."

        "Seeya."

        

        I finished shopping and I did meet Theo. Theo had a sparlker and I had my cigarettes. I lit my cig and I lit his sparkler. "You're lucky you don't smoke." I said. 

        "Well, I don't smoke but I still have to go throught the bullshit you and Hera put me through." Theo complained. I decided to change the subject.

        "How's you and Beth?" I asked.

        "Oh, we're good. She's still hot." She is hot. She dyed her hair light blue and she had brown eyes. Well, according to Theo.

        "You want to go to the skate park?" Theo asked.

        "Only if you have a helmet and a skateboard for me too."

        He did. We skate to the skate park, which was only a few miles from where Theo and I were. Once we got there, it was crowded. It's a good thing Theo has incredible reflexes, however, I bumped into too many people.

        I bumped into this one guy, and he was all like, "What the hell, dude?" He had said that because he fell into the skating pit. He had scraped his arm and started to bleed. 

        "I'm sorry. Geez, don't be aggressive."

        "What's going on?" Theo asked. He had zipped by and was puzzled by the event.

        "What happened?" the guy yelled. "This douche shoved me into the skating pit."

        "Dude, chill!" Theo yelled. He whispered to me, "Just this one time." I get what he was going to do. It made me feel uncomfortable. "The guy has retinolastoma. You can't blame him!"

        "Then why the hell is he skating around!" 

        "He's trying to train his senses."

        The guy then apologized and we all moved on. It made me feel upset that Theo had to use my disability to get me out of the situation. Bet I ended up not caring. I had to, because he's my best friend.