Devotion

1. The Start

Pulling me into your blameless games infuriates me Steve. Steve, I know that you want me gone. I know that. But, getting rid of me isn't simple. I'm just a regular high school student and I'm in my Junior year. Frightening isn't it? High school will suck you in and break you down like a fragmented diamond. You are just a freshman, don't get ahead of yourself.

A bash of music hits my room like a concert in the middle of the morning. I get up lazily and sleeplessly, refusing the fact that school is.. in a couple of hours? I look at my phone, the brightness blasting at my face, that the time screams, "5:00 AM." Staggering to my window, I look out as neighbors rush to see what that awful music was causing. 

"Hey Mike! What's up?" A black silhouette waved at my window. 

I squint at the figure and closed my window shutters.

"Come back! Hey!" Then I heard smacking on the windows, that I could careless about.

I roll onto my bed and let out a huge sigh, "School is in a couple of hours.." My summer wasn't awful, but the struggle to be a regular human was impossible. "Human" as in keeping my sanity intact. Poor Steve doesn't know what's going to strike him when he hits the first day of school. I mean, he doesn't know what's going hit him. Perhaps seeing the true reality of a high school life isn't preferable, it's a constant struggle. I couldn't care less, even though he is my friend. Steve.. isn't a regular person.. It was either a disease or his stupidity of getting into high school that is dramatically changing him. Either way, this is Steve.

As countless minutes pass by, my alarm finally rang and pushed me out of bed. I stare out of the window to see if the blaring idiots are still outside. To see that they are not on the road anymore, but on my front house, I was completely pissed off. I stagger off to my front door, to see that my parents already left to work and left me to my own manners. My house in clean tidy places, without dust to be seen. As I walk to the door, slowly to confront it, the window breaks into shattering crystals.

"Hey man! What's up!" Steve stuck his head through the window. He was shaking his head enthusiastically and jamming out to the music. He stuck his hand through the close quarters of the window.  The lights lightened up my whole house and I couldn't even see his face. I rolled my eyes and looked at the cars that are on my lawn. Steve was completely oblivious, but screaming caught his attention behind him. He pulled out of the windows, and my house was full of blue lights.

"What are my parents going to say about this..?" I massaged my temples as I open the door to talk to the police. Steve was hanging out with college students, that I've never seen before. The police gave them a fair warning, and didn't charge them for breaking my windows. I quickly headed upstairs to prepare to school, it was only 6:40, and school started 7:40. Quickly cleaning myself up, my brown coiffed hair, and my freshly shaved chin. I headed downstairs to grab some breakfast, and realized that there was no food, or even any slight piece of crumb that I can feast off of. Turning around, a shock through my spine sent me biting my tongue, and flailing to the floor.

"Ha ha, Mike, you're so gullible." I look up at Steve's baby face and got up. Short as he can be, most of the girls in high school was taller than him. He was blonde, his personality is completely all over the place, and hes easily tricked. He went about talking about the first day of school, walking towards the door, and how he's in high school now, that I could care less about. As a Junior high school was typical, boring, and completely too easy. Everyone likes me. Me. Out of all people why me? I might be great at sports doesn't mean that I'm awesome to hang out with. Well.. Maybe the fact that the most popular girl in the school, Miranda, got dumped by me. I wasn't hated, she was put down, everyone loved it in fact.

 Steve jumped in front of me and caught my attention, one word, "Sister."

"What about a sister?" I rolled my eyes. Knowing him, he probably begged for another younger sibling.

"She's a Sophomore,  and she's moving here. She wants you to show her around you know?"

"I could careless. You're family is full of psychos and witches."

He gave a hefty laugh and he shook his head, "She's cute.. in your sense.. I guess."

I rolled my eyes and gave him a dead glare, "I'm not interested."

Steve always tried to hook someone into something. He wasn't the smartest, but it does work for some idiots.

"How about this... She's really nice, okay? She's really shy and really, really awesome. You'll like her definitely. Although... Dad kicked her out of the house, because she's "crazy" but that isn't the case.. Maybe you can change her to be more.. Humane?"

"And you're telling me, that your Dad hasn't kicked you out of the house?"

"He likes me a lot."

I rolled my eyes, "Changing someone isn't that simple."

"Its easy to change you."

I sighed and I slammed my front door shut, clicked it shut. Hopefully someone won't steal anything, from the open window.

"You like technology right?" Steve raised his eyebrows at me and I shook my head. 

"I only use my phone. Technology isn't my thing. You're talking about your sister right? She likes technology?"

He kept quiet and ran up ahead, reaching the top of the hill faster than me, and the school's teacher welcoming me back to school.