Today I woke up in a good mood, I was smiling, which I can't remember doing for a long time. I had finally got a friend. A good looking one too. Even has I walked to school with Gregory and co behind me I wasn't fazed, I hardly paid them any attention. Just has Anna broke to go to her school she came over to me. I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, she was eight and me sixteen yet her head came just under my head.

"What do your parents look like?" She asked.

I looked at her not knowing what to say, why would she ask that. It didn't take long for Gregory to notice her. He stormed over to us and flung her over his shoulder and carried her to her school. Rudolph, who was just a bit taller than me despite him been eleven, just stood and stared at me.

"Rudolph!" Gregory shouted.

Rudolph jumped and ran after them. I looked after them for a while wondering weather they had been staved of human interaction or something then I just carried on my way to school.

At school, Todd wasn't in my first two lessons but we caught up with each other at break then he followed me to English. Just before we entered I turned to him frowning,

"I didn't see you here Wednesday."

"Err yeh…I was…ill."

A slow smile spread across my face. "You were skiving weren't you?"

He laughed looking at the floor. "Just a little bit, yeh"

While laughing I taped him in the stomach with the back of my hand then went to take my place next to Gregory. When Todd came in he through me a worried glance and nodded at Gregory. I smiled looking down at the table. Gregory snorted and when I looked to see what at I saw him glairing at Todd. He was a complete idiot.

In this lesson we read a passage from 'Much Ado About Nothing' then after we had to write about the characters relationships in pairs. I looked up at Gregory and saw he was going to make no move to help so I grabbed the peace of paper and began writing. Has I wrote I thought about how incapable this school was of doing anything in singles, it was always pairs.

When I had finished I pushed the work away, leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes. Not long after a peace of paper hit me in the head and I looked at Todd who mouthed 'open it' to me.

'What are you doing for dinner?'

'Eating, why?' I wrote back

'Oh ha ha, very funny. You gunner hang with me?'

I looked at what he had written back and laughed. A funny feeling came over me suddenly and I looked up at Gregory who was reading the note. When he saw that I had caught him looking he pulled a face then looked away.

'I thought so and yes, I may has well, I have no one else.' I wrote back.

'Oh I see, you're using me for company then when someone else comes along you'll be gone.'

'Got it in one.'

I looked over to him and was greeted by his cheeky grin which of cause made me smile.

Dinner went by a bit too quickly. We talked about our self, families and other random things. He told me about how his mother just walked out on him and his farther when he was two weeks old. His farther believed it was postnatal depression, but she never came back. In return I told him about the dreams and pills but I left out the jumping out of my window and Gregory. Today the dinner was the best dinner I can remember.

The next lesson, PE, I got the biggest surprise ever. They had decided to play mixed doubled tennis and I, once again was paired with, yes you guessed it, Gregory. We were playing against Todd and a girl I didn't really know. This lesson was about to make everything a lot worse. I couldn't play any sport, I was hopeless at all of them, I had absolutely no hand eye coordination. Every ball that was sent my way I missed. I fell and stumbled, I managed to hit my self on the head with my racket and I managed to hit Gregory. Just after I fell on my bum the whistle sounded to tell us it was the end of the match.

"What is wrong with you?" Gregory shouted, because I was on the ground he seemed to tower over me more than usual. "You didn't hit a single ball! All you will ever be good for is hitting the ground! You're hopeless!"

Fighting tears I stood and left for the changing rooms without so much of a glance to anyone 'specially Gregory. Just has I reached the changing rooms Todd grabbed my arm.

"Don't worry about him? He's not worth it." I gave him a shaky smile then he said. "You know, I know I shouldn't have, but when he said all you'll be good for is hitting the ground, I got a dirty image in my head."

I laughed at that and bowed my head blushing. His fingers grabbed my chin and lifted my head to meet his gaze. Has he leaned in he stumbled to the side, Gregory had knocked into him.

"Watch it." Gregory snarled.

"You barged into me." Todd pointed out.

"You were in the way."

I just rolled my eyes and went into the changing rooms. He had put a serious shit dampener on my happy mood.

The last lesson of the day was fine, geography. We sat in rows of fours, Gregory , me, Todd and Kurt so it was easy to block Gregory out and my mood lifted a little. Then Todd skated me home again and asked when we were at my gate,

"This may sound shallow but will you come down to the ramps and watch me skate?"

"Yeh, yeh I will."

"Sweet, I'll pick you up at twelve."

"Yeh , see ya."

I watched him skate away then has I turned away I saw Gregory glairing at him too. Rolling my eyes at him I turned and headed into my house. Mum was already home so I told her about my plans, she reminded me that god was watching then she turned into normal embarrassing mum wanting all the juice details.