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Chapter: 5

Well it's tomorrow and I couldn't be fucking happier. It's a Monday and that means school. Don't get me wrong, I hate school with everything in me, but I hate Greg even more. He came home drunk last night and beat my ass some more. All because I didn't cook him a 'proper meal'. Food is food to me and ramen is the best there is. I guess he didn't agree.

My ribs were in so much pain and my back that I could barely get out of bed. I'm surprised I even made it to the bathroom for a shower. Taking a quick shower and drying my short, dark hair, I put on a white tee-shirt and black jeans that had zippers curving on the side. I matched that with my white vans and my black bomber jacket.

Brushing my teeth and grabbing my skateboard from the corner of my room, I make my way to my bedroom door. Of course I was going to leave through the door but I had this feeling and checked my window. Of course he's here. There stood Aj, his arms wrapped around himself but smiling nonetheless. He's crazy indeed and still an idiot, I think to myself. Even with those thoughts I couldn't stop myself from smiling too.

I open my window and climb out.

"Be careful!"

"Ssh! My brother's still here" I tell him as I jump down. My skateboard went down first though, can't just leave it on my roof now can I? Aj clamps his mouth shut as if he got caught saying something he shouldn't be. I make my way over to him and nudge him with my arm.

"You can't get enough of me can you?" I say, teasing him. He blushes and looks away. Cute. Wait what? I mean cool. He's a cool person. A cool new friend of mine.

"I wanted to walk to school with you. Walking by myself is boring" he states as we walk along the street. We go to the same school? How come I never noticed him? Weird. Aj notices my confusion as he continues. "You always kept your head low, guess you never saw me before in school." That makes much more sense. I don't bother interacting with anyone which is why I keep to myself.

"Well I know about you now and not to sound rude but at this pace we'll make it to school by the time we're fifty five."

"What do you suggest we do? I have short legs, I can't take long strides like you do" he admits. Now that I'm standing beside him, he's short compared to me. I'm 6'1 and he looks 5'5. A thought pops up in my head and I smirk at him. He seems to know what I'm thinking since he moved away from me.

"I'm not getting on that death trap you call a skateboard."

"Why? It's not like you'll fly off and end up in a ditch full of spiders and other creatures" teasing him even more, Aj runs away from me. He's short as hell but fast. Laughing, I get on my skateboard and skate beside him as he runs, ignoring the pain in my body.

"Let's make a deal. Get on my skateboard and I'll do anything you want."

Aj stops running and looks at me with a sly smile. I may take back that offer. Who knows what he's going to do. I stop skating and look at him to see what's he's going to say.

"Anything?"

"Yes."

"Will you come to the park today and you have to give me a piggy back ride all the way to this ice cream shop." Technically that's two things but if it gets him on my skateboard then I'll take one for the team.

"Okay deal. Now get on grandpa." He walks over to me slowly and puts both feet on my board. Once he's on, I grab his hand and run down the street. He didn't actually have to skate, I was going to pull him the whole way. Of course he didn't know that, I just wanted to scare him a little. He wanted to be friends with me and this comes with the package. No backing out now buddy.  

"Slow down" he yells, over the wind. I come to a complete stop and Aj clumsily gets off my skateboard.

"I'm dizzy. You made me dizzy."

"Sorry" I say laughing. Was I really? No. He looked like he was having fun. Why would I be sorry about that?

"Oh and we're here."

Aj looks up and notices we're at the school building. He looks surprised that we got here so fast but who knows honestly. He could be thinking anything.

"What class do you have first?" I ask him as I pick up my skateboard. He walks alongside me while seemingly in thought.

"I have Mr. Richardson for English class" he remembers.

"Me too..seriously how could I have not noticed you? I don't keep my head down that much."

"You actually do" he argued. I roll my eyes at his remark and bump into him softly. He laughed and we walked into school together. People stared and whispered.

"Isn't that Blake Ollison?"

"What's he doing with Aj? He's smiling?"

"What the ducking duck is going on?" I snicker at that remark wondering who says ducking duck. Apparently Aj hears it too as he tries to hold in his laughter. One look at each other and we burst out laughing. Tears started to form in my eyes and Aj holds his stomach from laughing so hard. It wasn't that funny, but we laughed like the jokester himself told the joke.

The warning bell rings and my laughter soon dies down.

"I have to put my skateboard in the office, but I'll see you in class" I tell him, walking off in the direction of the office. Aj links his arm with mine making me look at him, shock written on my face.

"What are you doing?"

"Walking with you of course."

"Why?"

"Because I want to dummy."

"You like me don't you?"

"No, of course not! Now you can walk by yourself."

"No, no, no. I was kidding."

"That's what I thought" he says, linking his arm with mine again. I laugh loudly, a nearby teacher shushing me. I don't quiet down which earns me a glare. Eh who cares? If I don't like school, I definitely don't like the teachers. Especially teachers who act like Karens which is half of the school. Fuck that, it's half of the whole town.

Aj laughs quietly, not wanting to get scolded as we make it to the office. What we saw next, was fucking terrifying. I might need three tons of bleach for my eyes and Aj may need the whole fucking factory. I would've left my skateboard in my locker if I knew I was going to see this.

"What the..."

"Duck" Aj finishes.