“There is no such thing as love. Love don’t exist. It’s just a fake thing that people believe in. It’s all fake.” Robert Luxton, a 15-year-old thinks to himself as he looks at himself in a mirror. “My parents believed in the fake thing and got married. Now look at them. Those two are separated now. We just moved in this house while my mother stays in an apartment out of town. What a bitch.” Robert sighs and leaves the bathroom. Robert’s younger brother Ronnie was in the hallway.
“Done out of the bathroom?” Ronnie asked his older brother.
“Yeah.” Robert went to his bedroom while his brother went into the bathroom. “I will never fall in love. I won’t because love don’t exist. It’s all fake.” Robert grabs a pair of shoes and was putting them on. He then left the bedroom and went to the kitchen. Bryan was at the table having breakfast with their father.
“I don’t want to go to school today.” Bryan said upset.
“You have to go to school. Today is the first day of school.” Brice, the boys’ father said to his son Bryan. “I have to get to work. Robert, can you and Ronnie take Bryan to school? Also will you two go to school too?” Brice asked. Robert sits down at the table.
“Yeah, yeah.” Robert replied and takes a bite of his toast. Brice gets up and picked up his dishes, he then takes them to the sink.
“Alright, I’m going. Remember, the school is just down the street, so it should be okay walking there.” Brice said and leaves the house. Ronnie came into the kitchen.
“Where’s our dad?” Ronnie asked and sits down. He pours a cup of milk for himself and takes a drink of it.
“He went to work.” Robert tells Ronnie. Bryan stared at them both. They both were sitting across from him.
“Can I skip school today?” Bryan asks.
“No. You can’t.” Robert answered Bryan.
“Oh come on. Why can’t we all skip school?” Ronnie asked and then laughed a little. “We can all just stay home and smoke dad’s cigarettes.”
“No. Bryan doesn’t need to smoke.” Robert said glaring at Ronnie.
“Uhh…ew. Bryan said grossed out. “I don’t want no yucky cigarettes.”
“What time will dad be home?” Ronnie asked Robert.
“I am not sure. Maybe late. He usually comes home late.” Robert answered. Robert finished his food and got up. He was putting his dishes in the sink. Bryan got up and was trying to take his dishes to the sink. Robert takes them from him.
“Hey! I can do it myself!” Bryan glares. He didn’t want Robert to baby him.
“it’s fine.” Robert puts Bryan’s dishes in the sink and began cleaning them.
“We need to get to school.” Ronnie said and gets up and takes his dishes to the sink and sits them in the sink.
“I really don’t want to go.” Bryan says looking down. He didn’t want to go to school. He didn’t like school.
“There’s nothing we can do about it, runt.” Ronnie jokes. Bryan didn’t like the joke.
“I am not a runt!” Bryan yelled at his brother. He didn’t like being called that. Robert finished cleaning the dishes.
“Let’s go to school.” He tells his younger brothers. The brothers had made it to the school. The elementary school was next to the middle and high school. The middle school and high school were together. Bryan went into the elementary school building. Robert and Ronnie walked into the other building.
“Look at them weirdos.” A guy whispers.
“Yeah. They dress weird. Is those emos?” Another guy whispered back to his friend.
“Seems like it. I hate those type of people. Their so weird and ugly.” Robert and Ronnie didn’t like hearing that coming from two guys they didn’t even know. On their first day, and already being made fun of.
“Just ignore them.” Ronnie said trying to get his brother to come with him and walk away. Robert was glaring at the two guys that were talking about Ronnie and him. Robert and Ronnie began to walk away from the two guys. “I can’t stand people like that.”
“Neither can I.” Robert thought to himself. He didn’t say a word to his brother though and kept quiet. “it was like that at our old school too. People always saying rude things to us.” Robert thinks to himself. He made it to his classroom. The first classroom he had to go to. Ronnie and him had class together. They both got into the classroom and found their seats. Which was next to each other. The two guys in the hall that were being mean came into the classroom. They laughed as they stared at Ronnie and Robert and then sat down.
“Just ignore those assholes.” Ronnie said glaring at the two guys. Robert didn’t bother staring. He was trying his best to ignore them but felt like they were getting to him. The teacher than came into the classroom.
“Alright everyone, sit down and I’ll do roll call. Then I will discuss the rules of my classroom. Robert was thinking the class was boring as he sat there. He looked out the window and began to just think to himself.
“I have better things to worry about then some two stupid ass guys.” Robert thought. After some classes had passed, it was lunch time. Robert and Ronnie were getting their food and putting it on a tray. The two guys came over.
“Hah. Look at you.” One of them said and laughed. “You all wear black. Is your life really depressing?”
“Yeah. Weirdos.” The other said. Robert just shot an evil glare and walked away to sit down. Ronnie sat down next to Robert.
“Why can’t the first day of school ever be good for us?” Ronnie asked Robert.
“Because a lot of hate exists in this world.” Robert replied and took a bite of his mashed potatoes that was on his lunch tray.
“In our last school, there were rude kids too.” Ronnie says and opened his chocolate milk. He takes a sip of it. “Always saying something just because were different.”
“Yes, that was true. There was mean kids in our last school too. Assholes that couldn’t take people being different. I guess they have their own problems and are just taking it out on us.” Robert thought to himself. He didn’t really feel like eating. The kids disgusted him and ruined his appetite for him. “I’m not hungry.” Robert said sitting his spoon down.
“I’m not either. Want to go to the bathroom?” Ronnie asked. Robert nods and they both get up. They both leave the cafeteria and go into the boys’ bathroom.
“I need a cigarette.” Robert complained as he stood against the wall.
“Me too.” Ronnie agreed. Both boys didn’t have no cigarettes on them. They were young, but hooked on them already. “Dammit kids get on my nerves. Ronnie puts his back against the wall. Feeling like he didn’t want to go to his classes anymore. Robert felt the same way. Didn’t want to go to the classes. He rather ditch them.
As they both were leaving the bathroom, they saw the two boys again that was picking on them. “Look, it’s the ugly weirdo emos. What were you two doing in there?” One of the boys asked.
“Probably getting lovey dovey.” The other joked. They both were laughing. Robert and Ronnie were not amused. In fact, they hated it. Robert and Ronnie both felt like they wanted to hit the two boys that were making fun of them. Robert couldn’t hold back his anger anymore. He swung his fist at one of the boys. Punching him in the face.
“What the hell?!” The other boy said confused.
“Don’t you dare say anything more about Ronnie and me.” Robert says coldly to the boy that he punched. The principle was coming over to the commotion.
“What’s going on?” He asked. Robert and Ronnie knew right then and there they would be blamed.
“He punched me” One of the boys said holding his face.
“Yeah! He did and threatened him!” The other said.
“You two, to my office now!” The principle was not happy. Robert and Ronnie didn’t say a word. They both went quietly to the office. The principle closes the door and sits down at his desk. “I want to know what that was all about in the hallway? Why were you two fighting those boys?” The principle asked. Robert knew if he tried to tell the truth the principle wouldn’t believe him. In his old school, something like this happened before and when he told the truth no one believed him.
“The other two guys started it.” Ronnie blurts out.
“Those two that you both were hitting? I don’t think so. It looked like to me you two were hitting those boys for no reason.” The principle said already believing what he wanted to believe.
“That’s not true!”
“No. Ronnie, he won’t listen to us.” Robert says to his younger brother.
“I am listening, but you are lying Ronnie. That’s it. I am calling your parents.”
“Actually, you can only call our dad. Our mother is not living with us right now. But our dad is at work.” Robert tells the principle.
“I don’t care. I am calling him. This is both your fault.” The principle was calling on the phone to Robert’s and Ronnie’ dad’s phone.
“I really don’t want to be here right now. I always get into trouble.” Robert thought to himself. “Dad probably has a lot on his mind right now to really deal with us.” The principle hangs up the phone.
“Your father isn’t in a good mood and is coming over right away. You both are suspended from school for three days.”
“Suspended?! For what?!” Ronnie shouts angrily. He wanted to just punch the principle. Robert sat down in the chair and made Ronnie sit down by him on the other chair.
“Ronnie, don’t yell.” Robert said. Ronnie still was glaring at the principle.
“I don’t care. We get in trouble for something stupid we didn’t do. This is bullshit.” Ronnie was furious.
“You make more of a fuss and I will add more days. Or would you rather be expelled?” The principle asked rudely to Ronnie. Ronnie looked the other way and didn’t say another word to him. Brice, the boys’ father arrived at the school an half an hour later.
“Robert, Ronnie, you both are in big trouble. You two are grounded. Why were you two fighting in the school?” Brice asked in an upset mood already. “I had to get off work to get you. That’s coming out of my paycheck.”
“But dad! Those boys started it!” Ronnie said standing up.
“I’m sorry about this. I’ll make sure they’re grounded and know better not to hit people.” Brice tells the principle.
“Yes. Hooligans like them really need boot camp.”
“They’re suspended for three days?” Brice asked.
“Yes. That’s the rules.” The principle responded.
“Let’s go.” Brice said to Robert and Ronnie. The three of them left the principal’s office. Robert and Ronnie went to get their things and left with their dad out of the school. They go to the car and get in it.
“Dad, those two guys started on us and we couldn’t take it anymore.” Ronnie tries to explain.
“If they did, it doesn’t give you a right to punch them.” Brice responded and was putting his seat belt on. Robert was putting his on as he was in the passenger seat with his dad. Ronnie was sitting in the back. They made it home. When they got there they got out of the car and into the house.
“You two stay here and don’t go outside. You two are grounded.” Brice tells his sons. “I have to get back to work.” Brice left.
“Well, we get a break from school for three days. Who’s getting Bryan from school when it’s over?” Ronnie asked and sits his backpack on the floor. He then sat down on the sofa.
“I will.” Robert sighs and sits down on the sofa next to his brother. Robert sits his backpack on the floor next to his brother’s. “What is there to do here for three days and no school?” Robert asked himself.