I awoke that morning with a sense of, I guess you could call it apathy. The world felt very, uninteresting. As if everything and everyone was just following a set track on the ground that controlled all of their movements. Nothing felt organic nor real. Everything felt, monotonous. I got up, ready to head to school, it was nearing the end of my ninth year of school, or if you prefer my first year of high school. My birthday was just a couple months away, the only day that didn't feel monotonous because of the unpredictability of what my parents were going to get me. I took a shower, like I usually did. Standing underneath the hot water, I stood there unmoving, my thoughts shooting from “Just another boring day” to “I wonder if anything interesting will happen, maybe I'll get into a fight.”
Honestly, while I was quite, interested, in writing I much more preferred to give some arrogant ass a nice pounding. My family didn't like it, minus my brother and father who constantly told me to take up boxing, which I did. Though that didn't last long after my mother found out, after around two weeks she forced me out of it after one of my sparring partners got in a cheap shot and knocked me silly for a moment. I still beat him, but the incident caused her to get really upset. At school though, I was a rather nice target for the bullies. Since whenever I fight back, my mother hounds me and grounds me for a week. I don't like making her upset, so I refrain from giving them a good fight. Instead I mostly let them do what ever they had in mind. Though that doesn't stop me from stopping bullying. Doing that still got me in quite a bit of trouble, but at least I felt good about it.
After getting dressed and packing my bag, I left to head to school. With my sense of apathy unwavering, I continued along my way. I arrived at the school and went inside. As class started, Ms. Cross came in, her arms were overloaded with papers. I stood up and helped her out, handing me a stack of papers she told me to hand them out. I went in between each row and gave the papers to each student, some of them gave me a dirty look, as if they were mad that I was voluntarily giving them tests. Grabbing the last piece of paper and handing it to my friend Alexis who looked up at me, slightly blushing and smiled. “Thanks.” I smiled back and walked to the front of the classroom.
Handing back the papers, Ms. Cross blushed at me and gave me a peck on the cheek. “Thanks sweetie, now sit down.” Sasha, another one of my friends laughed a little, as I sat down she leaned over to me, “It's been a year since that bet and she is still doing it.” I laughed remembering the contents of the bet. That bet had to be the most interesting thing that had happened to me.
The classes passed by quickly as lunch drew closer. The last class before lunch ended and we began to leave the room. Before I left, Alexis grabbed me by the sleeve and pulled me back. She smiled and blushed looking at me. “Hey Ace...” I groaned slightly, “Stop calling me by that nickname...” she shook her head and continued to smile.
“Listen, do you think we could maybe,” she fidgeted slightly and then smiled at me, “stop by that cafe place, ya know, that one that just opened up?” “Yeah sure. I got some money on me.” I had remembered a couple of days before it opened, Alexis wanted to try going to a cafe for once. “Awesome, I'll wait for you by the pillars outside.” she smiled and walked out of the classroom.
I began to walk towards the lunchroom when They showed up. Bob, Marley and Jim. The three biggest bullies of the school. “Just my luck, what do you three meat heads want?” they smiled and pushed me against the wall. “Nothing much, just wanted to know what Alexis wanted with you.” I sighed slightly, “She wants me to explain Schrödinger's cat to her.” I joked, hoping that would confuse them enough to leave me alone. “What?” I sighed, oh great they don't even know that.
“Nothing...” they didn't like that answer very much. The pulled me back slightly and slammed me into the lockers again. “Do you guys really get off on this? I mean honestly, don't you think it is your repressed homosexual urges you have for me that is making you want to pick on me so much? I mean, I am flattered you find me so attractive, but I don't really-” before I could finish, they punched me directly in the middle of the chest, knocking the wind out of me. “Shut up homo. Let's get out of here before his gayness gets attached to us.” they threw me to the ground and walked off.
Honestly, they were quite annoying, but I guess I could have just kept quiet when they cornered me instead of trying to smart mouth them, maybe then they wouldn't have punched me. But their anger at the joke really speaks volumes. After quite a bit of time on the ground, trying to regain a normal breathing pattern, I picking myself up just as the bell rang, lunch had already ended, “Another day, another missed lunch.” I sighed slightly and walked to the next class. I had gotten used to this and learned to keep a cereal bar in my backpack.
School ended, the three bullies left without doing anything more to me. So I left and found Alexis by the pillar outside. “Hey,” I said walking up to her, “ready to go?” she nodded her head and we left. After some walking into town, we arrived at the cafe, we walked in and talked to the bartista. After ordering our drinks, we got a place at one of the tables outside. “Ya know, I'm surprised there are still cafes. I guess the hipsters do need a place to hang out at and act non-mainstream.” I joked, Alexis in front of me gave a weak laugh and leaned back.
“Listen, Ace-” “I said-” I stopped myself before finishing the sentence, she stared at me with fierce eyes. It felt as if, if I finished that sentence she was about to reach across the table and strangle me to death. “Listen, Ace... I wanted to ask you... do you... want to maybe go on a... ya know... a... date?” “Huh?” “N-nothing...” “Oh no, it's just I was taken back slightly... Yeah sure... I would love to go out with Miss Idol herself...” “Don't call me that... It's embarrassing...” “Haha, alright. But ya know... We kinda are on a date...” “True...”
I wasn't really looking for a girlfriend. But she asked and I agreed to it. She was nice and all, but wasn't really my type. Now Ms. Cross on the other hand, oh yes lovely, lovely Ms. Cross, is more my type. The cool, stoic snarky Ms. Cross. Who was always so nice to me. Her buxom body, lovely curves and wonderful personality. She was the one I really wanted to date. But sadly that was a love that could not be, at least not until I was at least eighteen. I mean, she is twenty-three and I'm fourteen. If we did go into a relationship, it would be statutory rape. Sometimes, I loath the law. I felt quite bad about this, but it was better than waiting all of those years for a girl who would probably forget about our bet and get a boyfriend or married.
After we finished drinking our coffees, I walked her home. She lived fairly close to my own home so it wasn't much of a walk, which in turn wasn't very far from the new cafe. After dropping her off at her home, she gave me a kiss on the lips and ran inside blushing and smiling. I turned around and began to head home. When I walked by a cute, little kitty on the side of the road. It was sitting there, staring up at me, I knelled down and petted it slightly. “Hello, Ace.” a voice rang through my head, the kitty stared at me, unmoving. “What... was that...?” I said, looking around to see if someone was messing with me.
“Ace, oh Ace, I have a proposition for you.” “Who's talking?” I continued to look around for the voice. “It is I, the cat. And my name is Louis.” I looked down at the cat, I laughed slightly. “I'm going insane aren't I?” I said as I petted it's head, laughing weakly. “No, no. You see, I came to offer you something, a wish, to be quite blunt about it.” “A wish...?” I looked at the cat and lifted it up a little bit. “Yes. A wish. I can bend the laws of the universe to my will, I can recreate the world with a thought. I am giving you a chance to use those powers at your own accord.” “... This is bullshit.” “No, I can say quite honestly it is not. Do you see a bull anywhere nearby?” “There's a ranch a couple of miles out-of-town...” “Do you see any of the said bovines excrement?” “No...” “Then it is not Bullshit.” “... Alright... ” I thought about it for a moment and smiled at the cat, “I want to be like a hero, like one of the ones from a video game. The guy who saves everyone by defeating a powerful enemy. That is my wish.”
I heard a faint laugh in my mind. The cats eye's glowed. “Your wish shall be granted, when the moon is risen directly into the sky, gaze upon it and watch as the world is recreated. Watch the sky and be astounded by the changes.” I smiled slightly at the thought, even if it had just been an insane hallucination, a small inkling of hope scratched at the back of my head. I was much too old to be asking for such a juvenile thing, why couldn't I had wished for Ms. Cross to date me or something less risky? “This new world of yours, will be most interesting.”
