He was never interested in fashion, ever.. But this jacket, it was different it caught his eye every time he walked past it in the shop window from school. It's certain colour screamed out to him.. so did the price £30.00!. He'd never pay that for a jacket. Ever. But somehow this one was worth it. His friends pushed him along to the next shop, a football store. Vince had never been a fan of football it just never appealed to him. He had to do it, so he could be popular or he'd end up like that moon kid in his class. He didn't want that.

"wow look at those boots" urged his friend, he read the tag £30.00

"yeah they're cool" Vince gave a fake smile to his friends.

"you've got the money ain't you Vince?" the tallest nudged him on the back

"they're so cool only the most popular kid would buy them" they all sniggered and walked away, knowing Vince wanted the jacket.

Vince stood there, his eyes set on the boots then flickering them over to the jacket, it was in his size and he always thought red was his colour. It was just coincidental he told himself. No, no it wasn't it was fate!

He took his eyes off both for a minute and looked over to his friends they were with that moon kid. They kicked him to the floor once more with his trumpet lying in a muddy puddle. He made sure his friends were out of site then slowly walked over to the boy.

"P-please don't h-hurt me, h-here!" he fumbled in his pocket and held out a 10p a button and a little trombone key ring "It's all I h-have, I'm sorry!" he cowered trying to tuck himself away.

Vince looked at him in shock is this how bad his friends were to people, is this how bad his friends would be with him if he helped- what was his name? He looked over at the young boys trumpet case Howard Moon. Howard.

Vince reached his hand out to the boy and Howard flinched as he saw the hand. After a few moments of silence he looked up to see the hand still stretched out. It was raining now, know one was about on the street the only thing visible were the two young boys in the pouring rain. Howard looked up at the brown haired boy, he slowly and wearily grabbed his hand. Vince pulled him up steady and picked up his trumpet and tried to wipe off as much mud as possible. Howard was waiting till he was knocked back to the floor again. But all he felt was a gentle hand on his back leading him under the shelter.

"Oy! Vince what are you doing pound his face in!" said the tallest of his friends who had just come out from an alleyway off the side of king street.

Vince stared at them, enraged. He looked at Howard who was cowering behind him, his hands trembling, with the cold and the fear.

"I'll come over to you if you let me ask the boy a question" he said in a calmer tone.

"Alright!" replied the tall boy

The boy looked at Vince trembling with fear, His body hunched up tight, and weeping into his hands

Vince bent down and soothingly placed his arm on Howard's back.

Howard shook wondering what Vince was going to say to him, he was just going to give him to the bully wasn't he? He was just like the others..

Vince spoke in a comforting voice which he knew would calm Howard down

"Is this expensive" he said pointing at the trumpet, Vince surprisingly shook his head from left to right and managed to fumble out the word "n-no"

Vince nodded got up and at a steady pace started to walk up to the tall boy. H eventually reached him, the street lamp shining on his face, and his hoodie soaked through. There eyes met each other. Before Vince had the chance to swing the tall boy stretched out his arm and punched him with his hard fist he fell back in shock and fell to the muddy floor holding his eye and trying to control his bleeding nose. Howard had never felt so enraged he looked at the young boy who had helped him earlier and ran straight towards the taller boy picked up his trumpet case and swung it as hard as he could until he felt the thump of it hitting the boys face, the boy fell but steadied himself and ran backwards away from the two boys left under the street light

Hi hope you enjoyed chapter one planning on doing quite a few chapters to this one. Reviews would be very nice as they let me know if I'm doing ok or rubbish hehe thank you for reading chapter 2 coming up shortly that is if you guys want a chapter 2 hehe. And sorry it's such a rubbish title, i'm no good at titles :D