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i hate my only friend

Hi, my name is Ash. And my life is kinda crazy, you see I am a tall, skinny back haired and blue-eyed thirteen-year-old boy with a jawline,( all the ladies want this year, too bad I am gay) I live in a world where each person is classified by an emotion there is: joy, sadness, anger, fear, rebellion, peace and the last one is the most hated, depression. It is the most hated because it is the rarest and it isn't "normal" as people call it. " Ash, get up honey." my mom said. "Hm," I grumbled as I got out of bed and did my morning routine. I went upstairs to the kitchen and saw that there were waffles for breakfast, I internally squealed.

I put on my shoes and headed out the door, as soon as I did I felt eyes on me. I put my hood up and put earphones in, to block out the whispers. I walk to school, now you must be asking what emotion am I? Well, your answer is, I am depression. Big surprise right, yea.no. that's why people avoid me like the plage, I walk to my first class after being pushed around a little. " ok class today we have a new student, meet James Sky" the teacher says. I look up and there is a guy that is a joy, that sucks he was a little cute, with his green eyes and brown hair. There is a law that if you date a person of a different emotion you will pay a fine of eight thousand dollars, crazy right?

As I make my way to the cafeteria for lunch I get stopped by no other than James, " Hey, I saw I was sitting behind you and decided to say hi!" he cheerfully said. " umm, hi" I awkwardly say back, I tug my arm out of his grasp and head towards an empty table. I sat and stared at my food, suddenly I see him sit down across from me. " what are you doing?" I ask him, " we are table mates, soo we should get to know each other" he exclaimed. At this point i knew he was going to be hard to get rid of.

I look back down and he sits down behind me, I try to start eating but he stops me and says" first of all what emotion are you?" this makes me tense up and I reluctantly tell him " depression, you?" "I am joy," he says, yea no crap. He keeps rambling while I eat my lunch, why isn't he affected that I am depression? I finish my lunch and I am about to go to the fountain but James gets up and follows me, here we go again. I stop when I get there and look him straight in the eyes" hey, just go away. I don't like people and people don't like me so buzz off" I say, he looks offended but then his face shifts and looks even more determined. "No," he says " fine," I say and then I take off, I am pretty fast so I lost him eventually. The only problem now is........... Where am I? Oh no, I am lost. I look around and I see a pagan church, some houses, and a grocery store. I am still in Chicago, I think. I take out my phone and........... it's alive! I check the GPS and I am still in Chicago, I call my mom and send her my location, I wait a little bit until I see my mom's car but...it looks like a man is driving it. I pull out the camera on my phone and zoom in on the car.

It was a man, maybe in his thirties with blonde hair and a muscly body coming at me sixty miles an hour, well crap. I put my phone in my pocket and run as fast as I can to find a place to hide. I see the forest to the right side of me so I decided to hide in there. As I zoom past, dodging trees and jumping over stumps I find a nice climbing tree to climb on. So I start heading up the tree when I hear footsteps behind me. I go faster up the tree and find a good branch to sit on. I look down and there the man is, looking around and confused, after another minute or two he finally leaves and gets back in the car, I decide it is best to just stay up here for a while. 

Nightfall came quickly and I dig in my lunch kit for something to eat, I end up finding an apple and eat half of it and save the rest for another time. What am I supposed to do? I am in a tree with only an apple to eat and its night. "I guess I will just fall asleep" wait, did I just talk to myself. I need to sleep. Big surprise I didn't get sleep last night, I climbed down the tree and looked around, I started walking in an unknown direction, then suddenly I got a call. I looked at the number and accepted it." hello" I say, "hello there" says James, and I am almost tempted to hang up, but I don't and ask " how did you get my number?" he replies with" I looked at the phone book dummy" oh, i feel stupid. " alright but do you have a bike or something?" I ask, " yea" iI have a motorcycle," he says " good, I am in old town Chicago, can you come and pick me up?" i ask. " ummm alright but you are explaining on the way home" he replies " that's cool" and hang up.

I hear a motorcycle and I let go a breath of relief, " hey" says James, "hi" I reply. " sooo, before we go you gotta explain why I am here and why you look like a drowned rat" he suspiciously said, oh shoot I agreed to explain everything " umm, first..... it's a long story and second, i lept in a tree and am starving. So I don't care where I go just take me" I replied. " alrighty then," James said while smirking, I hopped on the back of the motorcycle and he started driving. The next thing I know I am at a house that I am guessing is the Sky household.

" Here we are," he says. I get off the bike and I walk up to the front door with James by my side. I would've just walked home but I am in debt, tired and hungry, James took me up to his room and I lay on his couch. " So what is the story?" he asks " well I ran away from you, and then I got lost. I ended up calling my mom but when I saw her car, a man was driving it. So I ran and hid in a tree" I say " and you slept there?" he asks " basically" I replied. " alright, you need to shower" says James" yea, I do" I say. " Alright" James said as he tossed me some clothes " the shower is that door right there" he says.

After I shower and get dressed I ask him" why were you so determined to talk to me?" " Well, I saw that you don't have any friends so I wanted to help you" he replies " you realize that everybody will hate you if you hang around me," I say. I don't have a problem with friends, but nobody ever comes near me so this is new to me. "why should I care if i get bullied, at least we both have a friend!" he happily exclaims. How can he do that? I wonder. " Anyway, I guess you can hang with me, just don't annoy me" one friend won't hurt, I don't think.