Pika-problems

Chapter 1- School yard Shenanigans

Well, today I wake up to see the fat lard on the couch again. I roll my eyes and sigh.

"Can you at least try and get up today?" I asked knowing well what the answer would be.

"Go away give me another hour Grant," he groaned with hoarse in his throat.

He didn't seem like he was coming so I head towards the door.

I head along the path to school. I was always the odd one out, or maybe I was just plain odd. Considering the circumstances it was possibly the second one, I mean I was totally obsessed with pokemon but for some strange reason I more obsessed with pikachu. I don't know why but ever since I was little I always wanted to have a pikachu of my own.

Finally I arrived at school. I was lost so deep in thought that I had completely ignored the shadow sneaking up behind me but before I realised a sudden "GRANT!" had hit my ears.

"Wha..who…oh…hey Jess" I stammered.

The distinct sound of laughter caught my ears "Oh you should have seen your face! Ha ha…priceless" she said laughing until her face turned blue.

"Don't scare me like that Jess….jeez!" I said with a little bit of a stutter in my voice.

"But it was so funny!" She said with a bit of a chuckle.

"Ha ha I guess it was pretty funny….. I guess" I said.

"C'mon were late for class!" she said in a hurry

I looked down at my watch "Holy crap! How long were we out here!?" I said almost shouting.

"Well don't just look at me tell me what we have!"

"right, right," I said looking vigorously at the time table and said, "We have… sport" I said in a sink.

"Don't get bummed you only face planted like, seven times! That isn't bad." She said trying to cheer me up.

"maybe for you but have you forgotten who is the most unpopular kid within the entire school?"

"Oh come on your…"

" You know it just as well as I do that I am unpopular!" I said shouting at her.

Jess started to cry. "Jeez Grant you d-d-don't h-h-have to be a jerk" she said between sobs.

Now I felt bad. "Shh. Don't cry I'm sorry about how I just treated you and…" I stopped tongue-tied at what I was about to say.

Jess looked up no longer looking upset.

"And what?" she asked.

"Umm….n-n-nothing" I said looking away as I felt my cheeks getting red.

"Well OK then," she said with a puzzled look motioning towards the door.

We walked in.

We were up to the rope. The teacher motioned towards Jeremy who had just gone to the top and back down. "Now!" he started "I hope you all paid attention to Jeremy here on the correct way to climb this rope," he said. "Now Grant how's 'bout you show us how NOT to do it," he said emphasising the NOT.

"N-n-no I'm OK t-t-thank you" I said thinking of last time

"Grant! Now!" he said pointing boldly at the rope.

I shrugged my shoulders and got on it ignoring all the insults like " hold on this time idiot!" and "butter fingers why even bother!" but I pushed them away and started to struggle up the blasted thing, but to my surprise I shot up faster than a rocket and almost hit my head on the bell.

The room fell silent. They all watched in awe as I slowly made my way down to the ground.

"Woah G-G-Grant! H-h-how the hell did you do that?!" Jess said trying to comprehend what had just happened.

"I-I-I don't know" I replied trying to comprehend it myself.

"Well," she started "who is the worst person at sport now?"

But before I could reply the bell rang.

"Woohoo lunch!" Me and Jess said at the same time. We giggled and started towards our lockers. We soon split and I had just reached my locker when I heard the distant cry of someone. But that wasn't just anyone it was Jess!

I soon rushed toward the source of the noise to find Mason beating the living hell of of Jess. A sudden wave of anger hit me as I bolted at Mason and swung my fist into his face but instead of taking my usual punch that could barely hurt a fly he went flying across the yard before smashing into the wall of the nearby lockers. I looked up to see my arm was giving off a slight electric charge and I saw Mason out cold and hair frizzed up. "what is going on today?" I thought. Jess looked up at me; blood pouring from her nose and mouth and said "Jeasus Christ Grant how far did he go?!"

"I have no idea proberbly 10meters or more," I started "but why was he beating you up?"

Her shoulders rose and fell as I bent down to help her to her feet.

"He wanted to kill me because I didn't want to go out with him. And he…" she said with tears forming in her eyes before continuing " And he pulled a gun to my face and s-s-started b-b-beating me with the end of it and then pointed the barrel of it at me and then you came in with that amazing punch" she said starting to cheer up.

"Well I heard your screams from my side of the school and rushed over here as fast as I could and…well you know the rest," I said

Jess got up and gave me a hug. I blushed but happily retuned the hug.

"Jess," I said breaking the silence "we need to get you down to first aid" I said still seeing masses of blood still oosing from her mouth and nose.

"No, you don't have to do that," she said still weak from her attack

"But I want to Jess. I…I…I want you to be safe," I said with a blush starting to form

"Thank you Grant. You're such a thoughtful friend," she said with a blush.

"okay," I said "on three… One, two, thre…"

I was interrupted by her scream of pain. I looked down and saw on her leg was a knife about three inches deep into her skin.

"Uhh Jess?"

"Hmm?"

"Why ist there a knife in your leg?"

"Wait there's a what?!"

"a knife Jess, a bloody knife!"

Jess turned white when she saw the silver object jutting out of her skin.

"Okay I'll piggyback you there if you want," I offered

"Thank you grant that is very nice," she said as she slowly climbed onto my back and we started towards the nurse's office.

The nurse turned pail when I brought Jess in.

She quickly dials the paramedics and explains the state the student is in.

Within seconds the ambulance pulls up to the school and they place Jess on a streatcher. They rush to the ambulance with me by their side, as they reached the ambulance they asked "Want to ride with your friend? She has lost a lot of blood and she needs your support to get through. Are you up for it?"