The Slitherine

Chapter One

You know, just your classic day in high school. People probably trying to get a life set up, or making other's miserable. Bullies, and innocence. I'm pretty sure close to everyone has a crush around now. I do, but I never talk to her. I'm a shy dude, what do you expect? She sits diagonally to the right of me. With marks we both get straight A's, nothing but. I've studied her like a book, and yes, I know that's really creepy.

What? Want to know more about me? I am a 6 foot tall, green eyed, black haired high school student. My parents told me I had two brothers and one sister, although I have never seen them before. And whenever I walk home from school, I cross an alley. There, three boys around my height, or even taller, beat me up 'til I fall to the ground. Every day that happens, and I get scolded by my father. But today she walked with me and told off the guys, I never saw them again.

The next day the girl sat next to me in the cafeteria, and close to everyone was murmuring that the most famous girl in the school was sitting next-to a lame-o like me, but we ignored them. Then, I learnt that her name was Stephanie and we talked about the kids in the alley. She said that we should walk together through there more often, because she had enjoyed telling the boys off and we could talk in a more private place than at school, there. I obviously couldn't say no. From then on we've grown a closer bond, and I think she's beginning to take a liking to me as well.