I slept a bit restlessly, but that's not too rare. But, I did have a pretty weird dream. Danny was in it. I don't remember why, but I seemed mad at him. But I didn't want to be mad at him. We were yelling at each other. Actually it was more like he was yelling at me. Something in my body told me to scream back. It thought he was about to punch me. It was really out of character from the interactions I had with him yesterday.

But whatever, it was only a dream. Dreams don't matter. I hopped out of bed when I heard my alarm blaring. Unlike most people, I don't need a cup of coffee to wake me up. I'm a morning person, I just always have been.

I hopped out of bed. Ow, I forgot about yesterday. I took a deep breath and walked towards the kitchen. I turned the stove on. I took a frying pan. I set them on the stove and rushed over to the fridge. I grabbed three eggs and cracked them over the frying pan. I grabbed some frozen french toast from the freezer, I popped two slices in the toaster. I looked over at a clock, it said it was 7:25, cool, school starts at 8:00. So I had a good while before I had to get there. The eggs were perfect, I like to make my eggs sunny side up.

I looked for a spatula, once I found it, I snatched it and sprinted to the frying pan. I spun around remembering I needed a plate, I grabbed it and put the eggs on my plate. I got a fork, sat down and started eating.

Ding. Looks like the French toast was ready. I got the plate, stood back up and tried to put the French toast on my plate. But they were too hot, they burned my hands. Right, they did just pop out of the toaster. I gave them a couple of seconds and put them on the plate.

I sat down again and started to chow down on the food. Once I finished, I started washing the plate. I rinsed it, scrubbed it and rinsed again. I put the plate back where it went.

I went to check on my mom to see if she had work early today. I found her asleep in bed. Her blankets all over except on her. I grabbed a couple of them and tucked her in. I knew she liked being warm in the mornings. I leaned down and gave her a quick peck on the forehead.

I grabbed my backpack and started heading out to school. It was about a fifteen-minute walk and I had twenty-five minutes.

Lucky for me, the walk wasn't interesting. I mean, that doesn't sound good but it means I didn't get attacked. I walked in with seven minutes to spare.

I sat down on a bench, I wasn't sleeping, I was just resting. Mentally resting and really just being more chill than usual. What I wasn't expecting was to have someone start patting my head. And then it became patting and stroking my head.

What I was expecting even less was for it to be Calypso.

"Um... excuse me?" She didn't reply she just kept going on. I mean, it felt nice but I was still confused.

Finally, she broke the silence, "Hello."

"Uh, why are you doing this?"

"I've always thought saying hello to people was expected in life."

"No, I meant the patting my head."

"Oh, I thought it would be appropriate. Was I wrong?"

"No?"

"Okay then," Calypso was definitely an interesting person. But I mean it was good, I'd hate for her to be boring.

To my misfortune, the bell rang. I headed off to English, I really wasn't in the mood though. But as I walked in, a smile crept across my face, I saw Danny. I almost forgot I had English with him. I made a decision, a stupid decision. Instead of sitting in my seat where I'm invisible, I decided to go and sit next to Danny. In the front. Of course, this didn't go unnoticed by Mr. Drake.

"Oh look at that, Justin's moved his seat, to sit next to Danny. Do I smell something?"

I saw Danny, look uncomfortable with all the attention that was placed upon him. I saw him, try to shrink further and further into the chair. I saw myself faced with two options, I could either say nothing and let Mr. Drake go on resulting in Danny feeling even more uncomfortable. Or I could speak up and take a stand.

I somehow managed to choose neither, or at least I chose something in the middle of both, "Shut up," I mumbled. I said it barely loud enough for anyone much less Mr. Drake to hear.

"What was that, loverboy?"

I was done, I was tired of Mr. Drake pissing me off, "I said shut up! Or are you too old to hear me?"

"I am your elder, you will respect me!"

"In this world, the young thrive. The old die."

"Son-"

"I am not your son, old man."

"One more word and you'll have detention for the rest of this semester."

If actions speak louder than words, then me storming out of the classroom would get me detention for the next two years. I slammed the door behind me.

Well now that I've royally screwed myself, where would I go? I can't go home, my mom was still there. The only thing I could have done that would have ended worse was if I pulled the fire alarm or something. Actually, that might not be such a bad idea. No, what am I thinking that's crazy. Whatever, I can just miss this one class. So I went over to a tree sat down and started to relax. I pulled out The Book Thief and started to read.

"I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain..." My eyes started to droop, slowly I started falling asleep. The book started slipping from my hands, and then I was out.

I woke up to someone shaking me vigorously. I looked up and saw Calypso.

I sort of grumbled, "What do ya want?"

"It's lunch," she stated simply.

Holy shit, fuck I missed three classes. What was I going to do? They had to have called my mom. I was in for hell later. So, I stood up, my stomach started to grumble. I forgot to make lunch this morning. Shit, this day couldn't be going any worse.

"Well, Godda-"

"I told you I don't like cussing." I jumped up and looked behind me, seeing Danny. A smile planted itself on my face.
"Hey.'

"Hey."

"So?"

"Thanks for what you did in class."

"No problem, I saw you were uncomfortable. I had to something. I couldn't bear the sight of you being so agonized."

I think he started to blush? He looked at me, "So-so can I have lunch with you?"

I don't think it's possible to smile wider than I was in that moment, but I had to be cool and collected, "S-sure, I mean as long as Calypso's fine with it."

Calypso looked at the two of us. She shifted her eyes and lifted her eyebrows and said, "Oh, I don't think I'll be joining you. You two have fun, just make sure you use protection." And with that, she ran off.

Danny snorted, which led me to burst out in laughter.

"Your snort is very beautiful. It sounds like a flute being played by a three-year-old."

"At least I don't sound like a cackling hyena."

"I didn't say it was bad, in fact, I'd say that kid is a prodigy."

"Well, I didn't know how angels sounded until I heard you laugh."
I felt my cheeks flush, "Why you flatter me," Unfortunately, school wasn't as kind to me as Danny was. The bell rang and forced me to go to Spanish. But hey two more periods and I would have chemistry at least I'll have Calypso.