Chapter 5
Oh Shit (timwood)
(shittimwood is a real word. I looked it up on Scrabble)

"And the male tribute is, Eko Fairdale!" No! Not my brother, anyone but my brother. A single tear escapes my eye before a voice rises up above the crowed.
"I volunteer as tribute" a male voice says from the boy's side. I look over expecting to see Sionn making his way up the stage, but instead he is looking around for the voice as well. Just then a boy steps out of the crowed and makes his way toward us. I know him.

This boy was in my second grade class. We weren't really friends, he hung out with one of the boys on his street and I with Tala, Eko, Sionn, Kane and Wests. His mother died when he was very young, he had a little sister and his father was a drunk. Some day's he would come to school with a black eye's. One day at lunch he was sitting with his younger sister and saw that she didn't have much in his lunch, he gave her all he had. When my friends where talking I walked up to him and gave him some berry's in my lunch.

"I saw you didn't have anything to eat, and I thought you might be hungry." I held the berry's out to him, after a second of looking at my hand and my face he took them.
"Thank you"

When I sat back down at the table everyone was looking at me. "What did you give him?" Tala had asked. I looked over at him and saw him looking back at me. I smiled and looked away, blushing a shade of red. "I had some berries that I didn't want and he gave his food to his sister."

In grade eight he and his friend where the school druggy's, one day I was walking home with my brothers and their friends, Tala and Sionn when the boy and his friends walked by. He had his arm around a skimpy girl, she had brown hair and dark eyes and she had on shorts that could have been mistaken as under-where. When we walked past them Skimpy Chick stopped me "So you have a six-some with your three brothers and your two best friends, right?" I looked over at her. "Three tings" I told her "One, who are you? Two, how do you know me and three, EWWWWW ARE YOU ON FUCKING CRACK?!" I asked her. Seriously though, who was she and how did she know me?

The boy looked over at me with a fake grin on his face. What the hell was going on? "What did you say to my sister?" Kane asked "What are you, a fucking hooker, let me guess you're bitchy because your carrying some married man's baby?" Wests said. Oh no, they were starting to get really mad. "Go crawl back into whatever fucking whole you came out of." Sionn said looking at the boy.

"Or what? You gonna go get your daddy? Beat me up? I'm stronger then all of you-" Before he could say anything else Eko jumped on him, taking him to the ground, he punched him right in the jaw, blood spread all on the front of the boys shirt. Skimpy Chick just stood there then after a second walked away. Once I got over the shock of seeing my twin brother beating the shit out of some punk I moved into action. "Eko stop!" I said loudly, he ignored me. "EKO WOULD YOU GET OFF OF HIM?!" I looked over at my brothers and Sionn for some help, but they just cheered Eko on. Well the, looks like nobody's gonna help me, I thought. I ran up to Eko and just as he was bringing his fist back for another punch, I grabbed hold of his arm. He looked at me, rage in his eyes, then when he saw me, he let go of the boy.

When I helped Eko up, I looked down at the boy, to see him to be looking at me. I offered my hand and after a second he took it.
"Are you okay?" I asked the boy in a soft sad voice. "Well let's see, my date just left me and your boyfriend just beat me up, so yeah I'm just peachy."

"That was my brother and I'm sorry that he beat you up. Do you need some help getting home?" I asked him quietly. He gave an angry sigh and walked away. Well, I guess he doesn't need help.

After that we all went home that night and acted as if nothing had happened. After awhile I forgot about him. And I forgot about him until today.