Mike sits on the chair in the corner of his room. He takes his shirt off, his tan skin is glistened by sweat. It's not because it's hot but he just finished his dancing routine in front of the mirror inside of his room. For him, dancing is fun, but he never be able to show it off outside his room. Every time he tried to show it to his friends, he become so nervous and ended up freezing in his spot. It's not that he doesn't believe in his dancing ability, but dancing is consider as a pussy activities in his school, that means if your friends ever saw you dancing, they will consider you as a gay and kick you out from the community easily. He has to accept that dancing is not something cool in his group, so he can only fulfill his passion of dancing inside his room.
As he takes a bottle of water in his desk, he takes a glance of a picture that always in there. The picture of two boys and a girl in the middle of them. They share a wide smile, yeah, that was a happy day. He sighs and gulps his water as he rewind the memory that planted very well in his head. The picture was taken last year, right now it's not all the same. They're in high school right now and in high school everything is different. There's a rule, a rule of jock and unpopular kids that must be separated. He can't change that, but he feels suffered for loosing his best friends.
Yeah, his best friends, both of them. As the memory aroused, he grabs the picture and takes a seat in his bed. Tina and Artie. They've been together, he and Tina since they were in the middle school and Artie came in two years later. Shared their lunch during lunch hours, did their homework at each others house, it could be said that they'd never separated. But in high school, everything is different. As he decided to join the football club and be friends with what Artie and Tina called jocks, they start to avoid him. Well, sometimes they still met each other in the school hall, but just to say hi and they will separate, Mike in his own way while Tina's wheeling Artie to another direction.
It's not like he glad to keeping distance with them. He still managed to ask them out at Saturday to have a coffee or fro-yo or even watched a movie or played Halo. They would act as if there's nothing happened between them, and have fun for the whole Saturday. But after that, they will be back to the jock and unpopular kid situation as they back to the school. However, Mike is so grateful for having that Saturday because at least he can feel the warm feelings of a friendship although for one day. But that Saturday has long gone since the football season had started and Coach Tanaka seems so crazy for winning so he enquired the team to practice even in Saturday. Artie and Tina? Seems so much more faraway from him.
He also aware of their situation for being the unpopular kids, which means there's a day for slushy or thrown to the dumpsters. He's never being the part of them actually, but sometimes he noticed that his best friends had become the victim when he found that their outfits were different than the one that they wore when they entered WMHS halls in the morning and by the way they stared at him as if he's the one who'd thrown the slushy to them. His reaction? He will find whoever did that to them and make them paid what they did to them in the smooth way. He's not the type of boy who stands in front of someone and throw a punch on them. Not because he can't but his mom made him promised not to get into a fight. So instead of jabbing or punching someone, sometimes he will flat their car's tire and warn them not to pick them up anymore. Of course the jocks didn't like it, but they know better than put into a fight with someone in their team, beside his request was not the big one, just for them to stop picking Artie and Tina. But it doesn't mean they also stop to pick Tina and Artie up. They will slushy Tina or lock Artie in urinary, and warned them not to tell or walk pass him all day.
And that's how they'll spend their day at school. Mike will have his day wandering all around the hall to find any trace of Artie and Tina getting picked up by the jock meanwhile Tina and Artie try to avoid him, make sure they will not get into another slushy. Somehow he knows that their friendship won't be work out if things are still the same like this. He knows that if he wants his friendship with both of them get back to normal, he needs to take a step towards them. How? That's the question he needs to find the answer. As he takes a deep breath, he gets up from bed and goes to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready to school.