I walked up to the table that my friend was sitting at. I looked down with one earbud in. My friend leaned back and then sneezed, exactly at the same time as the person across from the table. They just kind of stared at each other, as I chuckled. I sat down, slinging my bookbag off my shoulder. "Hey, Bennet." His name isn't actually Bennet, it's David. Well, Bennet is his name, just his last name. There used to be another David in out class, and so we just started calling him that. It's like a nickname, but it's his last name.

"Hey, Charles." He said.

"So, do you want to show them how to down?" I asked him.

"No, I need to get this read." He said. He waved his book, Brave New World, slightly.

"Ok." I opened up my backpack and started pulling out my own book. I set it on the table, then I remembered something. "Crap! I have a vocab quiz today, I need to look at what words I'll be working with!" I put the book back and pulled out my binder.

"What's that for?" Bennet asked.

"World History." I sighed.

"So how are you liking Coach Michael?" Bennet asked.

"I like his dad better." I looked up one of the words, which was actually a person, not a word, on my laptop. "There's just a lot of different things that annoy me. We're starting our second movie today after the quiz. We haven't even finished our second month of this semester." I leaned back in the chair. "Oh, I need to eat my breakfast, forgot about that." I closed my laptop and put my binder away, then ate my breakfast.

"Hey, Charles." He grabbed my attention by tapping me on the head.

"Yes?"
"Ask me if BB is hungry."
"Bennet, I swear."
"Come on."
"Bennet," I breathed in hard, then let it out in a sigh. "Is BB hungry, and I swear, if you…"
"No, BB-8."
"I will murder your family." Then the bell for first period rang. I picked up my bag and headed for the stairs.

Classes were easy today. I had a test in math, so I was able to finish that off really quick and take a nap. Then in AP Chemistry we only took notes, so it wasn't super hard. There was that one thing, that was funny.

"Hey Charles, is there a difference between a carbon-hydrogen bond and a hydrogen-carbon bond?" He asked.

I smiled, and said with a little laugh, "Now that's a common misconception. Now because one is a bond between substance one and substance two, and the other is between substance two and substance one. So a lot of people think that they're the same, but they actually are." Me, Bennet, my AP Chem. teacher, Mrs. Myers, who is awesome, busted up laughing. But then, less than a minute later…

The girl sitting next to use asked Mrs. Myers a question. "Um, is there a difference between a carbon-chlorine bond and a chlorine-carbon bond?" She was completely serious, unlike Bennet who was joking. I couldn't stop laughing to give her the same explanation.

Then I had World History with Coach Michael, which is always… easy. I destroyed that vocab quiz. But then in the middle of third period, I had lunch.

I set down my lunchbox. I opened it up and looked in and saw that half of my lunch was gone. Why is, oh yeah. I usually eat most of my lunch before, so only half isn't bad. I looked up once Bennet sat down. "Let's show them how to down." We both pulled out our phones and got on a game called Pokemon Showdown. We played it every lunch for… quite a while.

I debated who to send out. He has a Flygon out right now. So, I'll send out my Alolan Sandslash. He's obviously going to switch out. So I'll just use Swords Dance and then… "What!" He used Earthquake and took out over half my health. "Why wouldn't you switch out! You're four times weak to ice."
"Yeah, but I'm faster." I chose an ice move, but he took me out before I could attack.

"That's stupid! That's stupid!" I dropped my phone onto the table and took a bite of my sandwich. "What if I had used an ice attack?"

"Well, that was just a-" He was cut off by was a person standing up in the middle of the lunchroom, holding a submachine gun. How'd they even get that into school? Then they fired. There were screams, there was chaos.

I was hit three times in the chest.

I was left on the ground.

Bennett tried to help.

I yelled at him and called him an idiot.

He ran.

I was bleeding.

I started crying.

I didn't want to die.

I just wanted to go home.

I wanted to be with my parents.

But we don't always get what we want.

This is the prologue for my rewrite of Thus the Jade Rose Scatters. I'm excited about this. I would like to thank two people. The first, Boyy2k. He's going to be my beta reader for this. Then, Gizmo Gear. We talked for a little bit while I was just starting out. We bounced ideas off of each other and he helped with some stuff that I'm changing. Like his weapon, and fighting style. He was a big help, and Boyy2k has been and will be, a big help.

Before I end, I want to talk about the 'I' die. I am not trying to make light of school shootings, the opposite in fact. School shootings and gun control/restrictions are very big and important issues that need to be talked about. One person who explained it very well, in my opinion, is a guy named itsAlexClark on YouTube. I would recommend his video on gun control a lot. There's actually a walk-out tomorrow as a memorial for a recent shooting, and as a protest for gun control. Which shouldn't be mixed, at all.

Sorry to get political on you there, I don't do that often. Back to the actual thing this is about. I hope you enjoy this new series!

Also, I've decided to try and put something about the original at the end of every chapter. I thought it would be something new and interesting to do, even though it might not last very long.