Junior year.. I say as I get dressed, wearing my skull hoodie and ripped jeans. "Hurry up Elijah! You're gonna be late!", my mother shouted from downstairs. I might need a haircut soon, I think to myself as I put my hair up into a braid. "Almost ready Ma!" I say as I grab my shoes and backpack and head downstairs. "Are you sure you don't want me to drive you today?" My mother asked. "I'll walk today since school isn't too far from here," I kiss her on her forehead as I head out the door. "Stay safe hunny!" My mother said from the doorway as I grab my skateboard and head out to school. 

  As I'm skating down the sidewalk I check the time. 7:06 AM, that's a bit early. I'll get myself something to eat and drink at Circle K, I thought to myself. I arrive at Circle K and walk in. "Morning," the cashier said as I walked in. I say morning back. I walk towards the shelves of food. Frosted donuts, brownies, a bunch more junk food..I'm gonna get a sandwich, I thought as I searched the shelves for a decent breakfast. I went and got myself a sandwich and a bottle of water and checked out.

   I eat my sandwich outside on the bench outside Circle K. Someone sits down beside me eating what looks like a frosted donut. As I was about to get up to throw my trash away the person said, "hey, are you new to this area? Because I have never seen you around before,``''yeah, I just moved here last week," I replied. "You go to Crossover High?" The girl asked and I nod. "I'm Elijah," I say. "Mika, nice to meet you," Mika says holding out her hand. She's wearing grey sweats with a panda print on her hoodie. I shake her hand and her light blues eyes glint in the sun as she smiles. She checks her phone, "it's 7:19 AM, let's get to school" she says as she grabs my arm and heads to school.

   We arrive on campus before 8 o'clock. "This is where we part Elijah, sorry I couldn't stick around to help you out a bit but I gotta get to my friends," Mika said as she hurried away like a stray cat when a human got near it. Now I'm all on my own, I thought as I walked into the building. I bump into a kid. "Sor-" I start to say but gets cut off by someone yelling at me to watch where I was going. I sigh as I walk away while they are yelling at me. I felt someone grabbing me by my braid and put me to the floor. "Ow! What the hell man?!" I say as I sit up rubbing the back of my head where I fell on. "Don't walk away from me when I'm talking to you! Do you not know who I am?!" The guy yelled, causing everyone in the hallway to look in our direction. "No, and I don't care to know who you are," I say as I stand up. I know that pissed off the dude but I really don't care if I hurt his ego.

   "Look, I gotta get to the front office to get my schedule man," I say as I start to walk away. "GET BACK HERE!!" The guy screamed at me as he grabbed me by my arm and yanks me to him. "Unhand me," I say as calmly as I can. He started to squeeze my arm, my patience was starting to run thin. "Let me go, now," I stared at him in the eyes. Only to get the response of him punching my in the face after letting me go. That didn't really hurt, I thought as I grin at the guy. "What was that? You hit like a girl," I say scoffing at him. "Like you can do any better with those skinny ass arms," the guy laughed when he said that. This guy is really trying me right now, in the middle of the hallway where there are a lot of eyes on us. I can easily take him down, I sigh. "Lets not get too cocky now," I say but it seems like this guy only uses his ego, idiot.

   "You don't tell me what to do," he said as he rolled up his sleeves. He really wants to fight, I sigh loudly to show that this is boring. "You're supposed to be scared of me, little man," the guy said smirking. "As if I'm scared of a guy who only uses his ego because he thinks he's better than Everyone," I start to laugh. That ticks him off even more. The students in the hall start yelling that there's going to be a fight. Annoying. I felt that the guy threw his fist towards me so I dodged it. I did a dramatic yawn when the guy tried to get his posture back to normal. "Too slow," I said and the guy growls. Is he an animal or what? I start laughing. "Try to land a hit on me big man," I say as I smirk. 

   He swung at me at a total of 5 times and I've dodged them all. "Done yet?" I ask, getting bored. The people on the left started whispering. "Oh my God. Is that who I think it is?" A girl asked her girlfriends and they started nodding. "Something wrong ladies?" I asked fully knowing what they're talking about. The girl was a bit hesitant,"you're Elijah from Green Stone High School, right?" I nod smiling. The girl started squealing, "oh my God! You're known for your ability of something, I don't remember what it was but you're like, popular in my area!" She said getting excited. Fan girls already..ugh.. 

   A teacher came up to us and tried to stop the guy. “Carl, it’s already the first day this year and you just go and start fights again like you always do. If this behavior continues, you will be expelled,” the teacher exclaimed, and Carl rolls his eyes as he gets lectured. The teacher turned towards me, “and you young man, you shouldn’t be starting fights either,” he said. “He didn’t start the fight Mr.Watson, he was just walking by and accidentally bumped into Carl and tried to leave before the situation got worse.” a guy spoke up from the crowd. He was wearing dark grey sweatpants and a black tank top, which was a bit tight because it showed the outlines of his muscles.

   “He bumped into me on purpose!” Carl yelled as he glared at me. “I did not.” i groaned, clearly not wanting to be here. “Yes you did!” he yells. Clearly blinded by his anger, he went to swing his fist towards me but his focus was off balance so the other guy was going to be the one with a fist planted in their face. Out of instinct, I ran in front of the guy, but I didn’t have time to stop Carl’s fist so, I got punched in the face again. After I recovered from the force, I look right at Carl.