Roach was shocked awake from his deep thoughts by Worms obnoxious voice.

" Hey Roachy boy! Take a moment from your boyfriends and come join the men!"

Roach looked up to the table in front of them to see Royce, Meat, and Worn, grinning.

Roach had managed to get away from them on the ride over, he should have know better to think he would escape their wrath in the diner. As Roach slowly stood from the table he noticed all the people staring. Even Ghost was looking up from his laptop.

" You don't have to go if you don't want to, don't let those bloody idiots bother you."

Ghost announced as he once again turned to his laptop. What the fuck was he doing that's so important he cant shut that thing for two minutes? Roach shook his head.

" No, its okay, I don't want to cause a scene or anything. Like Price said, I can handle myself."

Price just continued to sip his coffee as if nothing was happing and MacTavish gave a slight smile.

" Thanks Roach, like Ghost said, don't let those idiots bother you."

" Right." Roach mumbled as he shuffled his way to the next table and seated himself next to Worm. When the waitress came to our table the whole table ordered burgers, except for Roach, who just ordered a coke. He should have known better.

" Watching your girlish figure Roach?"

Normally Roach would have just laughed along with the others, but between his pounding head and the bright lights of the diner he wasn't in the mood. His silence only gave fuel to Worms fire.

" Ohhhh Roachy!"

This was seriously pissing Roach off.

" Piss off." he mumbled.

Royce smirked.

" You better watch that mouth of yours if you don't want to end up in another locker, Roachy boy." He gave Meat a high five. Remembering how scared he got while trapped in the locked made Roach shiver, but then brought on anger. Serious anger, worse than this morning. He was a ticking time bomb at this point. But, he kept control, until Meat said this.

" Man, this is just like high school for you, isn't it?

Roaches face turned from annoyance, to complete blankness brought on by the memories of high school. Terrible memories. The memories of constantly being terrorized, of being beat, of being stolen from. The memories of people just standing by as he was constantly hurt, even teachers. The memories of being an out cast, a freak. During these thoughts Roach didn't realize that his dog tags had fallen out from the neck of his shirt. They were in his shirt for a reason. Because between his two dog tags, was a small, hot pink jade heart. It looked gay, he was willing to admit, but it was special to him, it was his mothers. She died of cancer a few weeks after Roach joined 141. Meat noticed the heart and took the opportunity by the balls.

" Nice heart, you little flamer."

Everyone giggled. Royce followed Meats insults.

" Were did you get that?"

Roaches only answer was silence. He didn't need to explain himself to anyone, especially not these assholes. He cant lose his temper, he never lost his temper. Worm chimed in.

" Probably from that girl of his, or at least, used to be his."

Oh no, Roach thought, don't bring Allison into this, please don't. but they did, oh, they did.