"We can't do that to them, they are our priority!" She yells in desperation.
"Then how do you expect me to live like this?" He spat as she starts to cry.
"Certainly not the way you suggested! We already said that we wouldn't split up, so I don't understand why we are even having this conversation!"
"We fight more than we even talk to each other, do you want to have them live like that?" he screams in her face forcing her to defend her case.
"Why would you even say that?!" She yells back holding back tears.
"Because it's true!"
She feels tears roll down her already tear stained face. She looks at him with her face puffy and pink. But to her surprise instead of anger there is sorrow in his eyes. She tries to think of something to say but then realizes, that what she was doing in the first place was wrong. Her thought start to stumble and trip over themselves as she tries to put words together.
"Is there any other way?" she whispers making it hard for him to hear.
"I don't believe there is." He whispers sadly to her.
He grabs his car keys and takes a little boys hand into his.
"Good bye Martinez" he says as he walks out the door.
"Good bye _."
That was the end. The only thing I remember of him. That fight. I don't remember his face, his voice not even his name even though my mom called it out as he left. I never could remember my brother either. It's like he doesn't exist. but I'm fine with it that way.
My dad left when I was five. That was 11 years ago. Now I am 16, my name is Max. I have dirty blond hair a light brown eyes. I live with my mom in Arizona. She is a veterinarian and a waitress. She needs to work two jobs so she can pay for me, herself and the bills. Sometimes it is too much for her. I guess that is probably why I blamed him for leaving us. But now I know that it is the best thing for the both of us.
"You ready for the first day of school?" my mom asks flipping the eighty-fifth pancake she mad this morning.
"Mom I'm not five. It is just the end of summer vacation." I say a little disappointed.
Mom must have detected my disappointment because the next thing she said was:
"Awww is my poor baby sad that summer vacation is over?" she winces as she reaches for a hug.
"Yes, but this poor baby is also going to be late for school if she stays any longer." I wine back excepting her hug request.
My mom glances at the clock and pushes me into the living room.
"Go! Go! Go!" she exclaims as I hurry around trying to gather my things.
I Speedily grab my bag and run out the door to find the bus coming next to my driveway. I run down the driveway finding myself meeting the bus just at the right time. I climb on the bus as the bus driver gives me a dirty look. I ignore it and find the very last empty seat. Good thing I'm the last stop, I think to myself as I yank out a cord to my headphones. I plug in the headphones to my Ipod and listened to my scream-o hard core music.
I'm on the bus for around 30 seconds until the bus stopped again. I took out my left ear bud ready to listen to another lecture from the bus driver about sitting in your seat properly and not stand in the aslis. Instead I'm surprised with a kid climbing the steep stairs. I look confused on who it could be but to my surprise it was a new face. Someone I've never met before.
My quickest relation was that I never met him before and he just switched buses, but when I saw everyone looking at him dumbfounded I noticed that he is a new kid. He had black hair that covered his left eye. He wore a plain navy blue shirt with a black unbuttoned, button up over it. When i saw his dark skinny jeans they looked almost the same of what I was wearing, except my had a hole on the right Knee.
I didn't know why but he reminded me of something, I just couldn't put together what it was because my thoughts were drowned out by all the people in back screaming COME SIT WITH ME! At that point I knew he would turn into one of thoughs dough bags in the back of the bus. I put the other ear bud in that I previously took out and tuned everyone out once again. Only to be disturbed by someone touching my shoulder. I turn around to find to new kid at the end of hand. Oh so he's not only a new kid, but he's a stupid one to. Woop-dee-doo.
"Can I sit with you," he asks as soon a I take my earbuds out. He looked a little flustered.
"Sure," I reply scooting over to make room for him. I getting ready to put my ear bud back in just to be stopped by a loud voice coming from next to me. I didn't hear what he said so I looked at him with a confused look on my face.
"My names Fang." He said again.
"Fang?" I look at him in disbelief
"Yup, and your name is?" Fang urges.
"Max," I answer, waiting him to leave me alone.
He must have read my mind because he looked the other way and quickly shut up. Once again I put in my earbuds in and continued to listen to my music.
I look out the window and count in my head how many cars go by. I got to 62 once I felt someone looking at me. I turn to see Fang staring right at me, but he quickly looked the other way. I look at him intensely tiring to remember where I know him from. Finally I notice I've been staring at him like a dope for too long. I try to look away but I can't. I keep staring trying to figure out what is keeping my a gaze awkwardly attached to him. After a while I realize that hes is staring at me to. Quickly I break my lost puppy stare and try to understand what happened. Finally I realized that I needed to say something.
"Sorry, I was just trying to see who you were." I say awkwardly
Trying to see who you were what the hell! He's not a book moron, nice going.
"Huh?" Fang looks at me confused and gets me even more weirded out.
"Nothing just forget it."
All of a sudden I feel my face turn red. Was I really blushing! Oh hell nah! I'm shaking you of like I shake off Monday mornings. So I shake. My long blond hair whipped around like one of those swing chairs at Canobie lake park. As soon as I noticed that I looked like a total weirdo. I took out Fangs eye that wasn't protected by hair.
"Oh my god what is wrong with me today! First I stare at you like a puppy, now I shake my head enough to take an eye out. Jesus flipped the sun!" I scream for the whole bus to hear. Oh crap.
"Um are you okay?" I ask fang quietly
"I'm fine, But watch where you point that thing," Fang smirks and makes me want to blush again but I hold it back.
"Sorry I just... oh forget it." I stutter trying to make an excuse.
"So I was wondering if you could show me around the school. I'm suppose to find this room." He shows me a number written on a piece of paper. Its hard to make out but I deciphered the hieroglyphics written on the paper. Room 308, I look at it to make sure.
"It's room 308... Wait a second." I pull my bag up from under the seat and take out my paper telling me which home room I'm in as well. I take his and mine to see if they look the same and they did! We were in the same home room. Great now I get to see him not only on the bus but in home room too. This just keeps on getting better and better.
I just stay quiet thinking about this kind of creepy situation I was in, but was interrupted by a loud army of kids running for the bus door. Fang looks at me for a few seconds trying to get a few words out of me.
"We need to get off the bus,"
Wow way to state the obvious retard!
"Yup," Fang replies and stands to show how tall he really is. I knew he was tall be not taller then me! I'm like Five-six and he has at least two or three inches on me. We walk together off the bus and into the school. I feel weird being next to Fang since I'm so used to having nudge and Ella, and there midgets compared to me. We walk silently to our home room when I feel a tug on my shirt. I turn around to see them. My two and only very best friends. Fang looks at my noticing that I had a smile and not a death stare.
"Hey Max, when were you going to tell us about your new boyfriend huh?" Nudge says mockingly.
"Never, because I don't have one" I replied snidely
"Then who is this?" Ella exclaims pointing to Fang.
"I'm Fang, the new kid and Max was showing me to my home room." He says not even phased by the boyfriend comment.
"We are in the same home room guys okay. We are not together either. I mean, I would be running for the hills right now if I were him. I totally ruined any chance of relationship with Fang on the bus." I noticed how bad that sounded and waited for someone to cover for me.
"Oh no, what did you do this time Max!?" Nudge say smiling wide enjoying me being tortured.
"Ugh, It doesn't matter now let me just get to home room please." I wine trying to not forget what I was doing with Fang in the first place.
"Oh I know you want to go to home room with Fang." Ella says snidely.
Take Fang by the arm and start walking in the direction of our home room and yell for them to hear.
"I'm leaving."
Once we are around the corner I let go of his arm and keep walking.
"Sorry about that." I apologize as we walk.
"No its fine I can tell you guys are really close."
His voice is deep and dangerous. It is like talking to a grown man, But not. We turn to face a door to the right of a small hallway.
"Here we are." Fang say walking in. I follow to see a small room with five desks in the front the back and the sides makes a square around the room. Next to the white bored in the front of the room is the teachers desk. An old man with grey hair and glasses was sitting at the desk reading a book there was currently three people in the room. I look around to find that this is the science room with posters of planets and diagrams of the human body, which I thought was pretty gross. Fang and I sat in the back together just looking around. Once I've completely mapped out the room in my mind I felt eyes staring at me I look at Fang and he staring right at me.
"Can I help you?" I say confused
"Do I know you from somewhere. He asks still staring." I look at him blankly but answer
"I must because you remind me of something I just don't know what."
He looks at me for a little longer and finally gives up.
"Oh well," he says smirking
This time can't control myself and I start to blush but immediately shake it off without shaking physically.
The bell for first period finally rung and every one fled out of the room. Fang and I shuffled through our bags getting out schedules out he gave me his paper and I directed him to the writing classroom. Once he went inside the room I shuffled into the math room. I Look around trying to find a good seat in the back. That is where I found Ella and Nudge saving a seat for me in the very back corner. I start my way over to the seat they were saving me only to tip and fall right onto a desk. I look at person who is sitting at the desk. He had blonde hair like me and a few freckles. I look back to see what tripped me just to find Lisa with her foot out in the hall and looking at me devilishly. she is a strawberry haired bimbo that completely hates me. I calm myself down and stand up once again.
"Sorry I tripped," I lie
"No Lisa tripped you I saw it."
"Yeah I know I just don't want to sound like a douche," I whisper
"Well my name's Sam." He says smiling.
"I'm Max." We shake hands and I finally take my seat. A few minutes later the teacher came in. For once in a lifetime she was taller young and actually kind of pretty. She has chocolate brown hair and hazel eyes. I stared at her in awe seeing how pretty she was. Everyones jaw dropped including mine. I look around trying not to laugh only to find Sam staring right at me. He must think I looked funny or well he was just being a guy. I rubbed my itchy nose and Sam laughed I stuck my tongue out at him.
In the seat in front of him I see Lisa giving me the death stare. Well I gave her the tongue to. I loved making people who hate or strongly dislike me mad. It's fun to see their faces harden as they wrinkle their nose. Why Lisa has it out for me who knows. That girl is so complicated even the world best robot couldn't figure her out.
After class I walked with Sam to Fangs classroom where we all met each other and went to our next class. Me and Fang had this class together. It was once again pretty uneventful. But Fang and I are now assigned a seat right next to each other for the rest of the year. Yay or boo I don't know yet.
The next class I'm with Fang, Sam and Ella, And the last one 'till lunch is with no one. Both of those classes are run by old men and are pretty uneventful.
Finally it's lunch time and Sam, Fang, Nudge, Ella and me sit at a table near the fire exit. Ella is always paranoid about the worst things happening so we always sit here. The first day of school is always the day you chose where you sit for the year, so where you sit now is where you sit on the last day of school and everything in between.
"Hey Nudge so how is your day so far?" I ask not really interested but trying to break the awkward silence.
"Oh just horrible, first I found out that you had a boyfriend, but then you didn't so I was kind of relieved to know that I didn't have to share you. But then when I went to home room I thought That this guy was checking me out so I winked at him but turns out he was checking out Ella, so It was kind of awkward but I got over it when a guy said my dress looked good on me and that he would love to see more of me. Then I finally found out what he meant so I called him a molester then he got all weirded outandwalkedawaysowhenissawattheclassroomithoughtth..."
I smacked my hand over her mouth desperate for her to stop talking.
"Put the brakes on motor mouth." I say with my hand still covering her mouth.
We all laughed and went back to eating and talking about useless things.
The rest of the day was uneventful and boring. At the end of the day we all got our locker combos and numbers so we could put our things inside. Which by the way is a terrible tradition that the teachers make you lug your stuff around all day just to laugh. Fangs is three locker down from mine but are still pretty close.
When we all needed to get on the bus I say bye the Ella and Nudge and followed Fang in. We both stat next to each other in seat 12. We just had conversations about the stupidest things and laughed. I looked at him in the eye and began to melt like chocolate in somebodys pocket. I drifted for about 30 or more seconds to catch myself in a memory. It is the one when my mom and dad were splitting up
Why would you even say that!?
My moms desperate voice swims around in my head. Her face stained with tears. It made me want to cry. I fought off the tears and began to smile. At him like normal. He smirked and I flushed away as his white teeth glinted in the sun like one of though cartoons. The best thing about being last stop is that you're the first stop on the way back. So me and fang were dropped off first at the intersection of the houses We were almost neighbors he is three houses down, and walking distance. It will be nice for when we are partnered for projects. I say bye to Fang and walked home. I open the door to an empty house. I'm always home alone in the afternoon. I grab a bag of chips from a cabinet and chop them down. I turn the TV on and watch some walking dead as I eat. Half way through the episode my phone goes off indicating someone texted me. I look to see who it is but it is just an unknown number I get a little confused. "Nudge must have gotten a new phone." I look to see what it says:
Stay away from Sam or else!
I look at it in disbelief. Who would do that? For all I know, it's some jealous chick who saw me next to Sam. But if I were her I wouldn't threaten me. Great now I have a new neighbor/friend (not sure yet) that reminds me of something I still can't figure out, and a creepy jealous chick/ stalker that is out to get me because I was next to a guy that I barely new. All of these things are just too much for me to handle in one day.
All I can think about is that this year is going to be a long one.