People say I had the perfect life. My mother was a doctor that still made house calls and my father was a plastic surgeon to the stars. We lived in a mansion on the edge of the city in the nicer part of town and I drove a BMW while my parents drove matching Range Rovers that they often got confused. In the end they decided on getting his/hers keys made to know the difference between the two. My parents rented the whole side of one street, so no one was allowed to park along the same side of our cars and that was because we didn't own a garage. Our house was a mansion, but it was on the edge of a big city which meant no driveway and they didn't want to add on a garage. Property value or something.
So as I said in the beginning my parents were doctors, so you would have thought I got the whole science genome down, right? Guess what? I didn't. Instead I was passing math with a solid B while I was failing to keep it together in science. Whenever I would look at the board in any of my science classes it seemed as if someone was writing in German and I didn't take German! This chica took Spanish and she was definitely getting an A+. Anyways as I sort of mentioned before, brains just weren't my thing. My thing was sports. For as long as I could remember I was running. Not being rude, but I don't mean like Forest Gump either. I mean actually running so fast that by age three I was in the Guinness Book of World Record for being the fastest toddler in the world. I bet you didn't see that coming. And as you might of expected as I got older I got faster, but my parents refused to let the fame of running go to my head and they slapped me right into privacy of a private school.
At Saint John's Private Academy you had to have top notch grades or be a top notch athlete to get in... Or your parents just have to make a lot of money. For the first nine years I had all three. But somewhere along the way math gained symbols and science required math which then added equations and I just couldn't understand why the world needed and had all of these chemicals and it sucked! Sucked so bad that I wound up failing chemistry big time. Which in return caused an even bigger problem with my parents. So many problems that during my junior year they pulled me from the Olympic tryouts and all of my extracurricular sports activities.
Out of both parents my mother was the one who drew the short stick on being the one to give me that long awkward speech. She made one statement that almost shattered my entire existence. She said that, I needed to focus more of my time and attention on my studies and college because that's what was really going to take me places in life, Hearing that was hard. It was even harder because it felt like my parents didn't understand. I couldn't remember a time when I wasn't running...
As I mentioned before I failed chemistry big time, but that was aslo the first and last time my parents had to pay for summer school. That's when I first met him. Not for the first time, because we've been in the same school for 9 years, but the first time since high school that we were formally introduced.
"Eve!" I turned around as I heard someone shout my name on the first day of my summer class. It was a girl named Dawn Reily. She some times hang out with the girls, but most of the time she hung out with boys if you know what I mean. She kind of had a name for herself.
"Hi, Dawn," I said sounding full of surprise.
"Hi Eve. Don't you look beautiful as always. Doesn't she Nick?" Dawn asked stepping to the side a little. I saw these dead brown puppy eyes staring at me.
He lifted his head up and our eyes met. His light brown loose messy locks of hair flopping on his ears. "Who?" He asked looking up at me.
"Eve." Dawn repeated and he looked confused. "Class president, Eve?"
"No."
"Key club president?" Dawn asked again.
"No."
"Future Business Leaders of America President?"
"Hmm."
I was in utter shock at this point. How could he not know who I was? He was Nicholas Alvarez he was school clown and I say school because no one else in any grade dared to pull half the stunts he pulled. During the end of freshman year he quit varsity football, started acting out and got pulled out of school three weeks before the end of the year. That didn't stop him from attending football games and being noticed though. He was that kid that did anything for attention. Oh yeah, he also has an identical twin brother and he is also asinine.
