Growing Better or Worse

Chapter 3

I start walking home and I hear "Tanga". It was T-Bone. I knew that it wasn't me but it was that the bullying got to him. I was so happy when I looked at him, that I could have jumped into his arms. I didn't see you at lunch today otherwise I would have sat by you," he tells me. Are you serious? That was the best lie he could come up with? "Are you kidding? I sat at the same lunch table. You obviously didn't want to get bullied again," I tell him knowing it was the truth. He has a weird expression on his face. "What are you talking about? I don't get bullied. I'm like, the coolest person in 7th grade. I'm so handsome. I can see it in your beautiful blue eyes," I cut him off. "You think I have beautiful eyes?" I say, blushing. "No I didn't, I never said that," he acts like he is ashamed. "Yes you did. I can't believe you think that me, a beaten orphan, is beautiful," I tell him so joyfully. I can't believe this is happening. "OMG. You act like it is such a big deal. It isn't so you can just quit it. Jeez," he is acting like he is mad. "It's just that, nobody has said that to me since my parents did. I guess you just wouldn't understand." He looks like he does now. "I'm sorry. I didn't know." 

        We walk around in the park. We learn things about each other. I found out that he has a big sister named Kendra. They all have such weird names, but I guess I don't have much room to talk. He finds out about my parents and my new guardians. He thinks that we should turn them in for that, but I said no. I've just gotten to a part in my life that I want to stay at. He thinks that there is something fishy that my wonderful guardians (I still don't know their names, we never bond) adopted me the day my parents die. How could he had known? It's like he had something to do with my parents death, but how. They were in a auto-wreck. They did have a lot of money so they could have wanted that. It was dark and T-Bone walked me home. 

"This is a pretty fancy house," T-Bone told me. "Too bad I've hardly seen it, I'm always in a closet or it is too dark." He shakes his head.  "That's not right how that happens to you. Maybe sometime you could stay with me at my house to get away from that," he tells me. I was in disbelief but I try to act like it is nothing new. "Yeah, I guess that would be okay." that sounded normal, right. "I haven't had to answer that question in so long. "Okay. See you tomorrow at lunch. I gonna show you how to get some girls to be friends with you. Not to be mean but you need some more friends other than me," he tells me. "Thanks a lot," I say walking into the house. I wave to him good-bye.

        I sneak in and I hear them talking. "This may not be that bad. We may be better without her." I now that that wasn't very nice, but I'm glad that they notice that I'm not there. 

        I walk past where they are and go into what looks like is the kitchen. Good because I'm starving. I've never ate here. I normally only get food at school lunch. The kitchen has so much food. I pig out. I'm stuffed after an hour. I climb into a bed hoping it wasn't my guardians. It must not have been because I woke up in the morning the same. I grab some breakfast and head to school, still never noticed. I hope I get some more friends like T-Bone said I was going to make.