Author's Note

Yes. It's back. New title, new chapter. Sorry this took so long. I want to thank Plushy, AKA PinkieLunaShy for helping me out with my struggles. Anyway, let me know what you guys think of the new chapter an the new title name.

"Welcome" home.

Well that day could've gone worst. My first day of school, what was suppose to be a day of making friends and getting good grades, turned into a complete piece of crap! What the hell. It started I gym class, whit that damn girl. Aria Blaze. I didn't know much about her, nor did I do anything to her. I went to go talk her, and BOOM! She hits me with a dodge ball. And why?

Why is it that I keep coming back to her and wonder...what is it about her that makes me so interested with her. Is it her mysterious behavior. The way she looks at me? Is how she dresses? Why am I so insisted to be her friend? Eh, I don't, maybe its just me. Maybe I's just being an idiot. Still, I need to make peace. Some way. Well enough of that, I'm here. Home, Sweet Home. I'll finally get some peace to forget about all of this and think of a way to apologize to Aria. Plus, I've been dying to play my new Fallout 3 game.

"Mom! Dad! I'm home!"

As I entered my house and walked into the living room, out of no where, without a warning, I suddenly felt my father's hand coming down and smacking me square, right in the back of my head. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN SCHOOL, SON!?" he barked. Great, as if the Dodgeball thing wasn't enough.

"AH! WHAT THE HELL DAD! WHAT KIND OF "Welcome home, son" WAS THAT!"

"DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT YOUNG MAN! YOUR PRINCIPLE CALLED!"

"What?"

At that point, my mother walked in and pulled my father aside. "Arron" she said softly, "The principle called us a while ago and told us something had happened." Knowing where this was going, I rolled my eyes and groaned.

"Oh for the love of...YES! OKAY! I GOT MY ASS HANDED TO ME BY A WOMAN!"

"ARRON!" my mom said surprisingly. She had never heard me curse like that before.

"HA! SO YOU ADMIT IT!?" yelled my dad.

"YES! OKAY! I ADMIT IT! I WAS Knocked OUT WITH A DODGEBALL, BY A GIRL!!" I yelled in anger.

Mother pulled my father aside and asked me to sit next to her on the couch. Shit, now I got to talk about what happened. As my mom and I sat down together, my dad took a seat in the chair right across from us. He was staring at me like if I was caught with drugs. Jesus Christ dad, I was knocked out by a girl with a dodgeball, not caught in the locker-room smoking pot.

"Arron" mom started, "Would you like to tell me what happened?" she asked.

"NOTHING! We were playing dodgeball and I took a dodgeball to the face. End of story!" I said.

"LIES!" my father shouted. "YOU DID SOMETHING TO PROVOKE HER!"

"OH MY GOD DAD!"

"ELLIE!" mom grunted. "Just ignore him Arron. Just tell me what happened before that. Okay? Did she have anything against you, this woman?"

"No" I reassured, "We were playing DODGEBALL! And I TOOK a Dodgeball...TO! THE! FACE!"

"Are you sure. You didn't do anything to her? Because principle Celestia said you provoked her in someway." my mom replied.

"AH!" frustrated and angry, I began to burst with rage. "NOTHING! OKAY! NOTHING!"

"Arron, sweetie, there's no need to yell."

"DAMMIT! YOU WANNA KNOW! OKAY! I ASKED HER IF, I SAY, I ASKED HER IF SHE LIKED ME! SHE WAS BLOWING KISSY FACES AT ME AND I ASKED HER IF SHE LIKED ME! YOU HAPP MOM! I GOT KO'D FOR BE GORGEOUS!! THERE, I SAID IT!"

After I had my little temper tantrum, all went silent. Mom was just sitting there with a blank emotionless face. My dad was shocked. I swore, he doing the Bad Poker Face. Dad slowly got up from the chair and slowly walked over to the kitchen. At that point mom slowly took a deep breath in and turned to me. "Arron" she said. She was about to finish her sentence when all of a sudden, we heard dad's voice screaming out from the kitchen.

"I KNEW IT! MY SON'S A SOCIALLY AWKWARD FREAK!"

I quickly got from the sofa and went to my bedroom. Well that was sure as hell was the most awkward and disturbing "Welcome Home" I ever got from my parents. I didn't even let my mom finish talking to me. "Arron, wait. I need to tell you some-- ." She was cut off as I walked out of the living room and went upstairs. As I threw my backpack on my computer chair, took my sweater, and jumped on my bed, I began to think about her.

Aria Blaze. That one name that can't seem to leave my head. What was it about her that made her so...appealing? What do I see in her. What makes me comeback to every time? I mean, she's a dick to the whole school. She has some weird rivalry with that rainbow haired lesbian tomboy girl at school. And since I first met her, I was scratched, and now, she pounds in the face in the dodgeball, after she punches me in the upper chest. Still...there was something...just something about her that makes go back.

What is this feeling, so sudden and new? I felt it that moment I laid eyes on you. My pulse is rushing! My head is reeling! My Face is Flushing! GOD DAMMIT, WHAT IS THIS FEELING! I guess the only way I'm going to get some answers is if I get some sleep and confront Aria in class tomorrow. I highly doubt she'll talk to me, but, it's worth a shot. I sure just hope that no one in school will bring up the dodgeball thing.