WHY ME?

[Chapter-IX]

                         C O N N O R

"B-But the school's too far." I stuttered.

"Does it look like I care?" Elliot growled. "Walk!"

Maverick shoved me to the ground and went to get into the car. "Leave him, Elliot!" He yelled, as he got in his car and drove off.

"Walk to school by yourself! I'm not gonna let you sit in my car!" Elliot said furiously, as I quickly stood up.

"I d-don't even know t-the way." I mumbled, clutching my backpack tighter. He let out an irritated sigh.

"Sit!" He ordered, like he was talking to a dog. "I'm only driving you today, cause you don't know the way, but from tomorrow I'm not going to. Got it?" I nodded and jumped into the backseat.

When we reached the school I quickly got out of the car, to see everyone staring at me, again.

What's their problem?

I walked to my locker and took out the stuff I needed for the first period, when a familiar person slammed their locker shut, next to me.

"Hi!" I turned to see Cameron standing beside me.

"Hey!" I whispered.

"Come on, man. Can you speak a bit louder?" He chuckled slightly.

"Hey!" I said a bit louder, as I locked my locker with my combination. He laughed a bit more.

"Cameron!" I turned to see Lucas and Shelby running our way. As soon as they got here they crushed Cameron in a big bear hug.

"Jeez, didn't we see each other yesterday?" Cameron laughed.

"Whatever." Shelby rolled her eyes. I giggled, as Lucas waved at me.

"Should we give it to him?" Shelby asked Cameron, who nodded in response.

I watched as he took out a bracelet from the side pocket of his backpack. He grabbed my wrist and put the bracelet on. I looked down at the bracelet to see it was that is has light blue patterns running through it, finished with a purple outline.

"Welcome to our group, Connor." The three said in unison.

"Thank you!" I said, giving them a full-hearted smile.

"Look, we have one too!" Lucas giddily said.

They all showed me their wrists. Shelby had a red one, Lucas had purple and Cameron had green.

"Wow. It's so pretty." I said.

"Shelby gave it to us in grade 1st." Cameron chuckled.

"You guys have been friends since the grade 1st!?" I asked in shock.

"Yeah. Lucas has been my bud since kindergarten and we met Shelby in the grade 1st." He answered and I smiled.

"We've never taken them off and the whole school knows about it." Shelby told me.

The bell rang and all the students began to rush up and down the stairs, or to their lockers. I began to walk to my first class, American History, when Lucas grabbed my wrist.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"To the class." I replied.

"What do you have for first period?" Cameron asked, as he shot me a bright smile.

"American History." Shelby let out an annoyed groan.

"I hate that subject." She sighed. "Come on, I have that too." We waved at Cameron and Lucas, before we hurried to our first class.