Ned's pov

Ziniba had been acting different lately and I was so alone.

She was fitting in. I wasn't. She had friends. Without her, I didn't. Sometimes I was so alone I would find a secret place to cry and think.

But what really hurt me is what she said the last time we talked.

"Really?" Her words would echo through my head "Then why do you look like you just got picked out of the gutter on the Isle?"

It felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest.

I was so alone.

I didn't have a crush on her but she was the closest thing to a sister that I ever had. We had been through so much together and she suddenly just threw it away.

Why?

One day I was walking along when I heard Ziniba's voice say: "He was just a childhood crush."

I looked up and saw Ziniba's makeup had been wiped off her cheek and Chad had Ziniba's journal in his hand and was keeping it out of her reach.

"Why didn't you tell us you had a scar? How did you even get it?" one of the girls asked.

Oh no she did not!

"M-my sister." Ziniba jumped for her journal but Chad pulled it away and she fell over.

I was in front of Chad in an instant giving a good punch in the jaw sending him spinning backward. I picked him up and punched him again and when he fell over I hopped on top of him and proceeded to punch him again.

I'm sure I would have hurt him a lot more had someone not ripped me off of him.

"Don't you ever talk to Ziniba again you low life scum! You hear me? Never!"

I pulled myself from the people who were holding me in their grasp and ran to my dorm.

I slammed the door and laid down on my bed.

Someone handed me a wet handkerchief.

I looked up at my roommate Tony son of Tiana and Prince Naveen.

"You have blood on your fist."

"Thanks," I said taking the handkerchief and wiping the blood off.

Maybe black people are just made to be more friendly than white people. I thought.

"What happened?"

"I got in a fight."

"Did you win?"

"It was with Chad."

He smiled and said: "Say no more!"

I laughed.

I knew I was going to get in big trouble but I didn't care. Nobody talks rudely to Ziniba and gets away with it!

However, I knew I wouldn't get away with this either.