A/N: Ignore my mistakes.

School life is not fun for everyone, however, for Julio going to school is the best thing or he just pretends it is. Julio is in his 11th grade, and he is the type of person who has many friends. He will call anyone who talks to him his friend and trust them. This is his weakness; his best friends always remind him not to open up to people who just talked to him once. Being an A student, many of the other students take advantage of him. Most of the time, other classmates make him do their homework or steal his assignments, and all this in the name of that they are his 'friends'.

Julio had to change his school in 9th grade as his family had to move to a different city. He has always been soft-spoken and introverted. He is the type of person who would cry if he killed an ant accidentally. In his previous school, he had few people who were his friends and really cared about him. He called them his 'best friends', while he called others his 'friends'. No one was able to take advantage of Julio when he was in his previous school because of his friends. However, when he had to leave, it was the most excruciating thing that Julio had ever felt. He couldn't say anything to his friends, he just cried and cried.

"Take care, dear Julio." Said one of Julio's friends, she was sobbing.

"Stay in touch with us, we will always call and message you." Said the other while the other three nodded their heads, tears in their eyes. Julio was crying and was just agreeing with everything they were saying.

This was the beauty of Julio, no matter how hard you tried to hate him, you could not. Those who knew him and those he was open to loved him like he was their actual sibling. He never thought ill of anyone and expected others to treat him like he treated others. However, it is human nature to prey on good and vulnerable things and ruin them. Same with Julio, he is so innocent that people, especially his classmates believe that they can make him do anything for them.

It's his third year in his new school, and his old friends still contact him every single time and often come to visit him. But Julio hasn't been able to make a single best friend. By now, his other friends at the new school have caught up to the fact that they can use Julio for their own gain, and he will not say anything to them.

A/n: Here term 'Friend' or 'Friends' is used for those who are just Julio's classmates as he considers all his friends. The term 'Best Friend' is used for those who actually are considered his friends by Julio.

One time in the 10th grade, one of Julio's friends forced him to do his entire science assignment which was 30 pages long.

"If you don't do my work, I will tell everyone to not be friends with friends." Said a boy to Julio mockingly. Others around him giggled and smirked.

"No there is no need to do that." Replied Julio in his soft voice. The boy looked at others and passed a sarcastic smile.

In the same grade, one time Julio had to complete someone's else notebook in just 2 days. On many other occasions, Julio had his homework and assignments snatched by his friends before he could submit them.

This troubled Julio a lot, but he never showed it to everyone. He may look like a student who loves going to school but every night he cries to sleep. Thinking and praying to God that the next day at school will be much easier and no one will ask him to do anything. Every morning he puts up a façade, a smile so that his parents don't suspect his unwillingness to go to the school.

Why Julio doesn't say anything about all of this to his parents, best friends or teachers is still a mystery. He is stressed but he does not let his academic performance go down. When he is doing other people's work, he likes to think that it's just extra revision for his subjects. This fact brings a little joy to him although it is wrong at all levels. He just bottles his feelings in his heart and keeps them hidden in the trenches of his heart. He has so much stress on his shoulders and not sharing it with anyone makes this pain even more painful.

The clock hits 6:30 am

Julio turns in his bed to lay on his back, his chest feels heavy with the guilt of going to the school and going through the trouble. He puts his hand on his chest, sighs, and lies down for five minutes thinking about how this day will go on. At last, he wakes up, goes to shower, and gets ready for school. He goes to the dining room, where he greets his mother and father and eats his breakfast. He hardly talks to his parents anymore while being with them, only answering them when they ask him something. He finds it better that way, his parents turning a blind eye to the fact that their sun hardly talks anymore. In their defence, Julio has been a silent child for the entirety of his life, but his parents are not realising that he is even more silent than ever before.

"Let's go, son, you will be late." Said his father while eating the last bite of his bread rapidly.

Julio who was already done with his breakfast, nodded and got up to get his back. While sitting in the car, Julio loves to see stray animals and birds outside. Their carefreeness and independence make him jealous; he thinks these animals can go anywhere, birds can fly anywhere, and no one is there to bother them.

The car stops at the front gate of the school.

"Ok, son see you later."

"Yeah Dad" replies Julio and he gets out of the car. He was standing in the place he hated but he had to put on a smile. He is greeted by his friends; he smiles back at them. He can hear them laughing at him from behind, but he doesn't pay any attention to them. He goes to the class, there is always one girl there to whom he has never talked before.

The girl has been in his class since the day he came back here. She observes him carefully since the day one and Julio never thought of talking to her. She doesn't bother him at all and Julio is thankful to her for it but he never says it aloud. But today as Julio sat in his seat, the girl got up and started moving towards him.

"Hi." She said. Julio thought that his perception of her is going to change as she would definitely ask him to do something.

A/N: I was able to write after a very very long time. Moving to a different country, working, and stuff has kept me busy. I had recently started reading my old fanfiction and reading them has inspired me to write again.

Hope you guys will love this story as well. It is kind of very personal to me and I want to write and convey this story as beautifully as possible. However, the plot of the story is entirely fiction.

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