Here it goes. Stranger's Face. Was written on my original profile, so i made it a little better.
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I could only hear the buzzing of our Science teacher about how protons and electrons on found in an atom. It was an annoying buzzing, and quite frankly I wanted to tear my hair out. I just sat there. I smacked my head down on my book, sitting in front of me, on my desk. "Mr. Agni!"The annoying buzzing yells from the front of the classroom.
"Yeah?" I said, not lifting my head from the books.
"If you find my teaching so boring, maybe you would enjoy getting to sleep in the principal's office."
"Well sure!" I get up, grab my books and walk out of the room. I was not going to the office just yet. I went to my locker, dialed in my combination and stuffed my books in my bag. I took my bag out of my locker and slung it over my shoulder.
Alright Zuko, Now I think that you have had your fun. I start heading down the hallway to the office. I walk in and all eyes turn to me. I sit down in my chair that I have assigned to myself, sitting my bag next to me. "Can I help you with something, Zuko?" The lady behind the desk asks me.
"Mrs. Findo sent me up here."
"Okay, you know the drill: sit there and wait for him to be finished." Sad to say that she's right, I did know the drill, and I've been up here more than I can count. I just sat there and waited for Mr. Singh to be finished with his meeting. I laid my head back against the wall and begin to fall back asleep. Falling asleep became a normal routine for me in school. "Agni, get up!" I heard Singh yell at me across the way.
I lifted my head up and look at him. "What?"
He pointed to inside his office. I got up, grabbing my bag and heading to his office. "What'd you do now?"
"Mrs. Findo got pissed at me and told me to come up here."
"You had to have done something to make her mad."
"I was asleep."
"Why would you sleep in class?"
"Well have you heard her teach?"
"Watch your tongue." He warns me.
"Sorry." I put my head down and touched my scar on the left side of my face. My father had given me this scar when I was just eight years old. He gave me a choice, me or my mother. He said I wasn't good enough to be his son. I wasn't good enough to be in the sight of him. HIs power is much stronger than mine would ever be. I wanted to show him of the man I could be. He said I wasn't a man. I wasn't man enough. He burned me. He showed me what a real man was suppose to be like.
Him.
Mr. Singh allowed me stay up in his office for the rest of class and the rest of the day turned out just pure torturous. I try my best to stay awake, knowing it almost impossible. Mr. Singh had told me if I get sent up here one more time, he'll call my dad. I couldn't allow it to get that far. I need to stay awake. The day is just pure boredom, until seventh period. It was then that I saw beauty. She must have been new because I have never seen her around school.
"Class, I would like to introduce to you our new student, Katara Mizu. She comes to us from all the way from Hawaii." Our teacher, Mr. Kiro, says to all of us. I just sit there and stare at her beauty. Her mocha colored skin, her deep, rich, baby-blue eyes, her wavy, brown hair coming down to her shoulder blades. She's nothing but beautiful. She finally looks at me and smiles. I smile back. It's strange, I have only been in love once, but then again, she cheated on me with some dumb ass jock, that turns out to be my best friend. "Katara, if you would please take a sit next to Zuko in the back, we can go on with our lesson."
I know for a fact that she doesn't know who "Zuko" is, so I flip up my hand. She smiles again and walks swiftly to the back row to the classroom to the seat next to me. I gave her a crooked smile. She smiled back and looked towards the front of the class. I got back to my laptop and started playing a game. It seemed to be the only thing that can help me through the day.
I played for the rest of class, until I got interrupted by , standing over me. "Would you like to listen to me, or should I let you keep playing around in my class?"
"I would really like to keep playing, if you don't mind." I said, putting my earbuds back in.
"Oh, but I do mind." He said, yanking them out my ears. Ouch. "Get out of my classroom." He said, pointing to the door.
"I'm sorry? I really don't know what to say."
"Just get out." I shrugged, closing my laptop and grabbing my bag, as I head out the door. I did not want my dad finding out about this. And I really didn't need Mr. Singh yelling at me again, so I ducked as I passed the office window, praying to the gods that they didn't see me. We do have cameras, but they only really check them if someone brought a gun into the school. After I got out of eyeshot of the office, I ran for the parking lot.
I reached my car in the freezing cold, unlocked it and got inside. The 2008 Dodge Challenger lit up the white parking lot. I revved up the engine and turned on the heat. I rubbed my hands together, letting the fire run through my fingers, trying to heat myself up. Putting the car in drive, I pulled out of the parking lot. I turned down past the middle school, the elementary school, and all the houses of Ba-Sing-Se. I finally make it to my uncle's tea shop on the other end of town.
I get out and go up to the back door. "Uncle!" I call, coming into the kitchen. "Uncle, I'm here!" I call again. I start looking around, finding him in the back of the shop in the storage room.
"Oh, Zuko! Why aren't you at school?"
"I got in trouble."
"Zuko my boy, I have told you time and time again to behave in school. Those wonderful people are trying to give you a future and you won't take it. What's your father going to say?" He asks, handing me a box full of herbs.
"I don't know. I don't want him to know." I was most embarrassed to come clean to my Uncle. He had given me so much advice and was the only parent figure I ever knew after my mother disappeared.
"Zuko, I need you to start listening in class and stay out of trouble. Make a promise to me."
I nod. "I'll try." I can't bear to disappoint him any longer than I must. "Sorry, I know I must disappoint you."
"You do, but I know that you can be better than that. I believe in you." He hands me a apron. I put it over my head and tie it in the back. I get up and go to the front to attend to our customers. I grab a tea kettle off of the stove and start refilling their cups and handing them another tea bag. After a few minutes I glance up at the clock on the wall: 10 after 3. Schools out.
"Uncle, I got to get home before Azula and dad find out I'm not there!" I call, throwing the apron in the chair I was sitting in and head out the door. I get into my car and speed off down towards my house.
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