Love at First Sight

The Meeting

        "God I hope no one notices this" he says to himself as he gets dressed. He starts looking for a long sleeve shirt that's long enough to cover his scars. He walks into the living room where his parents are eating breakfast. "You better hurry your ass up or you going to be fucking late" says his mother. He just says "I'm not hungry" then he walks out the door to the bus. As the bus pulls up he hopes that there is a seat open for once. As he gets on the bus, he keeps his head low so no one can see the scars and bruises left on his face. He looks around trying find a empty seat but the only one that's empty has a very beautiful, shy, emotional girl. "Can I sit here?" James asks her. "Yea, sure" she says without looking at him. "Thank you" he says as he is sitting down. She looks over at him and ask "What's your name?". Looking down he says "I'm James, what's your name?" She looks back out the window "I'm Midnight". He smiles under his hood. I think she may be the one. She's cute. No she's not. How can she love you!! Your nothing. Yea that's true. I'm nothing. How could she love this mess? I'm not even worth it. "James? James it's time to get off" Midnight says. He looks up seeing everyone getting off. "Ok ok." He says as he gets up. "Hey are you ok?" Midnightsays. She's not interested in you. Your a loser who is a waste of space. Shut up. You dont know that. "Yea im fine, let's go before we are late" They get up and walk off the bus to the school. "How old are you?" She asks. She doesnt care. Shut up i said! "I'm 15 almost 16, how old are you?" James replies. "I'm 15 turning 16 next year." Midnight says with her head low. They walk side-by-side in to the school building. They enter the school doors that leads into the main building. As they walk down the hallway to the lunchroom, one guy comes up to James and says "Where is my money you stupid fuck?!" He reaches into his back pocket and pulls out the money he earned from that weekend. It was a daily thing for him. He wasnt bothered by it anymore. He just never understood what he did to this guy but he handed him the crumpled $20. Without even looking up at the guy. "I'll see you next week" The bully says as he shoulder checks James and walks off laughing. "Why do you let him just do that? Stand up for yourself!" Midnight says with anger. "I can't," He looks at her with the bruises and scars on his face. He points to the scars and says "This is what they do to me if i dont pay them" Right then the warning bell rings meaning they have 5 minutes to get to class. "I should go to class, I'll see you at lunch James. Take care" Midnight says as she runs to class. "I'll see you later I guess" James whispers as he slowly walks to class.