Getting to know Austin and Seth and then, there's gonna be some drama coming up here...

Chapter 5: Interests

The next day came and Seth and Austin were walking to Whoville High with their skateboards and caught up with Jojo, walking to school. Jojo turns around and said 'hi' to them.

Austin said, "How's it going, Jojo?"

"Pretty good...if I can survive the second day of school."

"What happens on the second day?" asked Seth.

"Mostly some of the jerks at school like to mess with me, just because my dad's mayor of Whoville."

"Your dad's mayor here?" asked Austin.

"Yep. He can be a little weird and somewhat...expect high expectations of my future."

"Like what?"

"He wants me to be mayor of Whoville here and I really don't want to, because that's his hope, not mine."

"What do you want to do?"

"Make music and invent musical instruments."

"That's awesome."

"Morning, buds!"

Suddenly, Mike and Cody came with Marcus and Chad and they're all walking to school together. Mike asked, "How you guys doing?"

"Great." Jojo said.

"Up for another day at school?"

"Not really."

"Oh, yeah. That's right-revenge of the jerks at the hallway." Cody said.

"Take extreme warning, guys-Jojo gets ultimately bullied by stupid jerks who got too much time on their hands to torment him, because he's emo and goth and whatever and throws him down like crazy."

"How often does that happen?" asked Seth.

"Normally, everyday or whenever it happens." Jojo answered.

"That's rough. Back at WhatCity, we'd get beat up for so many reasons, because we're so different from everyone else."

"Really? Why?"

"They spit on our faces, throw us down the stairs or the ground or in the trash, punches us in every parts of our body and whatever, sometimes separately or together."

"What do they usually call you?" asked Chad.

"'Emo', 'Sissy-dark goth', 'Shrimpy-emo freak', etc."

"I've been there." Jojo said.

"You have?"

"And I still get called by that every stinking time."

"Me too. I'm usually hated by most people back at my school from where I'm from, jocks, popular cheerleaders, different cliques except for punks and skaters, cause they accept me." Marcus said.

"I didn't know that, dude." Cody said.

"Neither did I." Jojo said.

As soon as they entered the school, they went on their classes and a couple of hours later, they sit down at lunch together and Jojo asked, "So, Austin, Seth. What do you guys like to do?"

"Well, I like to write songs, draw, play guitar and piano and also just sing." Seth said.

"I like the same things Seth likes, only I write dark songs and poems and also, skateboard." Austin said.

"I skateboard as well."

"Luckily for us, me and my brother skateboard as well." Mike said.

"I skateboard too, dude." Chad said.

"Same as me." Marcus said.

"That's cool."

Suddenly, this group of tough guys came for Jojo, grabbed him by the arm and dragged him outside and then, punched him in the face repeatedly, shoved him to the ground and kicked him so many times. All of his friends went watched the whole thing go down outside and Mike steps in and stops them from beating up Jojo.

"Hey! Leave him alone!" Mike shouted.

"Stay out of this, punk!"

"Who do you think you're calling a punk, stupid?"

Mike comes in at him, but the guy pushes him down on the ground and continues pummeling Jojo. Suddenly, a soccerball from out of nowhere hits directly at the guys' head.

"Hey! Who did that?"

"If you want to know what's good for you, you'd leave my friend alone!" Misty shouted.

They soon find that it's Misty coming in and the guy got up in her face and asked, "And what are you gonna do about it?"

Then, she punched him in the face hard and then, slapped him in the jaw as well. All the other boys panicked when they saw Misty's amazing array of toughness. The guy trembled and said, "Okay, okay, I get the picture. We'll leave him alone."

"If I see any of you take him down, you'll be receiving these fists for an entire year."

They all ran away like little timid schoolgirls and went on their way. Misty came into Jojo's side and asked, "You okay?"

Jojo groaned and said, "I think so."

He looked banged up a little. His eye was punched, his face was a little scratched, but at least it wasn't serious. Mike comes in and said, "You okay, McDude?"

"Yeah, I'm cool."

"How often does this happen?" asked Marcus.

"The entire day."

"Ouch."

"Why do they do that to you?" asked Seth.

"Because of the way I am. It's kinda hard when they see you as an emo-freak. It's just the way I am and it's like I'm not being accepted because my dad's mayor of Whoville."

Seth and Austin seemed kinda scared to see that this might be what they're gonna deal with now that they're new at the school. They looked at Cody and Austin asked, "What will happen to us?"

"What do you mean?" asked Cody.

"That someone might mess with us. We've gotten bullied at our school before and because of what we just witnessed, we have this feeling that the same thing might happen to us here, because we are what we are."

Cody told them, "Don't even worry about it. We've got your backs before and we still have your backs now that you guys are here."

"I hope so."

"Hey, it's me. We're cool, remember? And we'll always be cool...cause you're one of us now."

Sounds like their inner circle is filling in quickly. Stay tuned for more!