as i sat in class and stared out the window into the courtyard, i couldn't help thinking that my life was pretty boring. all thought out mr. grings class i daydreamed. he never seemed to notice or if he did he didn't care. im sure he knows history of calcotz is very boring. i look over at a desk 4 seats away from me and see my best friend, cadence making weird faces at my. i early kept myself from laughing. i checked the clock for the thousandth time. five minutes i rejoiced in my head. i held up five fingers to cadence since she didn't have a good view of the clock. she made her "im about to explode with happiness" face at me.
history of calcotz was our last class of the day. i was just happy that we didn't have to learn, after that i had no where to go. me and cadence always told our selves that we would get out of this stupid school one day and explore the world of calcotz together. i was speed walking out of the building and cadence caught me by the shoulder. "why do you walk so fast?" she demanded. "its not like we have any where to go." she had a point. we were stuck here. "i don't know, it just feels like we have to be somewhere." i said looking cadence straight in her bright yellow eyes. everything was bright about her. she had bright yellow eyes, bright pink hair, and a bright red bow on a head band that she always wore. she also wore skirts or something like that. we were the strange friends. she was bright and happy and i was kinda dark. cadence was good for me. her positive attitude helped me when i was have a bad day.
as they walked down the sidewalk of the school people seemed to move quickly out of my way. it had been like this for a while. like something about me just scared people. cadence is sympathetic so of course she is my friend, but there has always been this guilt that hung with me. i feel like i prevented cadence from having other friends or a boyfriend.
we walked for a little while longer and we drew close to a group of boys. they were our age. one of the boys, bronx was his name, glanced at me quickly. one of his friends caught this and i knew that was bad news for me and possibly him. his friend turned to me. "hello you little ray of sunshine." he laughed. a few of the boys laughed at this, probably cause they didn't want him to beat them up. i tried my best to act like i didn't hear what he said and walk past the group. cadence mimicked me. the boys stepped infant of me. most of them taller then me. "where do you think your going?" asked one. i stopped and looked at him. "what other insults would you like to say? im all ears." i said giving him the coldest look i had in me. putting people on the spot always worked because they didn't have enough time to react and if they took too long to say something they just looked like an idiot.
"little miss attitude." called one. "can we go now? im sure you look so cool insulting someone for no reason but me and cadence have to be somewhere." i asked with the same coldness. the boys parted to my surprise. as i was walking one if them tripped me. i acted as fast as i could and grabbed his shirt pulling him down with me.
i ended up ripping my jeans and skinning me knees badly. i got up and dusted my self off. i looked at the boy who i pulled down. he was holding his wrist and his face was the picture of agony. blood dripped off my knees the longer i waited. "know you know not to mess with aria and me!" cadence barked at them. "she's all bark and all bite. unlike you loitering dummies with too much time on their hands!"
we left the scene as quickly as we could. bronx came up behind us. "im really sorry." he said whole-heartily. "their idiot boys and you knees look terrible and i didn't do anything to help.... i give you my permission to hate me." cadence smiled at him. "thank you for that apology but really you don't have too...."
her voice trailed of because i was leaving. i knew something bad was going to happen but that wasn't it.
