Never back down

Chapter 1

"Sean time for school, wake up." Wake up? Id been staring at the ceiling for the better part of an hour now, but I called back. "Ok, I'm up!" Anyway, I got up, pulled on my jeans and with a feeling that today was going to be one hell of an awkward day, I walked downstairs. I was the new kid, an outsider if you will, but maybe I was just over reacting and today would be ok. I mean how bad could school be? The nerves weren't nearly as bad as my first boxing match that was for sure. I nearly hurled the first time from nerves alone.

I sat beside Johnny – my younger brother - on the bus. Although I was older than him, in the last two years he had put some size on him, he was easily 200 pounds and 5 foot 11. He didn't want to move to Orlando; he had to leave the girls he was going casual with back home, as well as his best friends. I decided I'd talk to him a bit, help him adjust. "Hey Johnno," a grunt was my reply. "Can you not speak English?" I felt like punching the guy.

"What" I heard the irritation in his voice, and the look he darted my way were like daggers. He was always grumpy in the morning, especially with me.

"Just thought you should know there's this cute thing in the back off the bus looking at you man," That caught his attention.

He turned his neck so quick I heard it crack. "Oh man she's hot, look at them Babylon's." He sounded happy.

I took a closer look at the girl, damn was she hot, she had black hair, green eyes and a great body, but although she was good looking back, she seemed to know it to. "Johnno where here man."

We had just arrived at a large white building that was obviously a high school, there where loads of teenagers running around and hollering at each other. I started to feel the nerves now, unfortunately. My palms started to sweat and my mouth went dry, but I begrudgingly got off the bus with Johnny. "Here we go." I said it more to myself than I did to Johnny. He agreed with a stern nod of his head.

"Sean?"

"What Johnno?" I replied casually, looking from one teenage face to another. The place was practically packed!

"Why didn't Sarah and Jessica come on the bus?"

I answered as truthfully as I could. "Since Sarah learned how to drive she has just thought that buses are for peasants and if she drives to school she gets more time to lye in her bloody bed." I wasn't happy about that fact. I deserved my own bed more than my sister at times, heck most of the time.

"Damn she is annoying" We laughed and I felt my nerves ease a little. Only a little bit though. I was still in a hostile area, I was still an outsider. It felt as thought their eyes were trying to boar a hole in my back.

After going to the school office and picking up my timetable, I was totally lost and although I got to my first class which was history on time, the teacher made me introduce myself to the class, which was pretty awkward, but at least its lunch now and I am starving. I rarely eat breakfast. I follow the rest of the kids and assume there going to the Canteen. Boy was I wrong.

I see Johnny outside talking to the Girl we had seen on the bus and she appeared to be smiling. Ah baby brother following in my footsteps already… I smiled to myself, happy that his day was going well. Pity mine couldn't take a turn for the better.

"Hey man isnt that your girl talking to that Puto" I turn around to see three guys standing about two metres away from me. One is Latino the other two are Caucasian.

"Hey man there just talking it isn't a big deal" said one of the Caucasian guys who had dark black hair and a weight lifters build, but right then the girl Johnny was talking to gave him a piece of paper with what looked like her number on it and then flirtatiously touched his forearm.

The last Caucasian jumped to his feet and made a straight line towards Johnny, a look on his face which told me his exact intentions and although Johnny was a big guy, this guy was 6 foot 3 and had a lot of girth to him. He looked like he weighed at least 265 pounds. Wanting to avoid trouble I moved as quickly as I could without drawing attention to myself and stepped in front of this behemoth and asked politely "Hey man can you tell me where room 22 is please?"

He shoved past me moving quickly and I followed him. He reached the door and stormed out, closing the gap between himself and Johnno extremely quickly. I rushed forward and throw my leg out; and BOOM!! He went down faster than a cheap date!

The entire room went as silent as a tomb. If I thought their eyes bored at my back before, they were drilling now. Oh shit. What the hell am I doin'? This guy's built like a shit brick-house! He jumped up faster than I could've thought for a man of his bulk and turned bearing down on me looking like an angel of death, I froze heart pumping adrenaline running wild, crunch!! He hit me with a hard right hook, the hit bringing me back to my senses.

I simply stood their gaping a second, and then the anger took hold. I reacted…

BOOM! BOOM! My hands flew quickly, jab, jab, hook a short whoosh as I breathed out and inhaled again. His head flew back and his nose spurted blood. CRUNCH! My left handed uppercut connects, he staggers back instead of pressing forward and I hang back hoping he has had enough. I should have known better.

He gains control, blood dripping down his chin, my knuckles are throbbing, my pulse racing as the behemoth charged! I plant my right foot back and push my right hand forward, it connects but he has built too much momentum his arms catch my waist and we crash into a table, the occupants scatter in a mad dash to get away.

I'm half lying on the table; he is above me his arm flies back. CRUNCH!! My heads almost taken off my shoulders by his haymaker, I feel dizzy, nauseous, but I feel fear making me want to freeze and adrenaline pushing me to fight, planting my left foot in his immense gut I push hard.

He goes back and I charge forward, no longer doing what I was taught in boxing. I'm brawling, mad swings hitting his arms, chest and head. I back up and breathe, my left hand flies. BOOM!! I connect his jaw his head spins and the rest of his body follows.

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