Dull Daze

[asd]

There comes a time in every persons life where they need to step forward and do something that they don't wanna do. It might be that fate has thrust itself upon you urging you to take action. You might just be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or you might have to wake up at the crack of dawn to catch a 7 AM bus to the hellhole known as public school. School sucked, you go there almost everyday and sit there for hours on end listening to adults teach you things that you really have no use for. To top it all off when you get to go home you have to work on schoolwork. After spending all day at school who wanted to come home to more schooling? Did you want to come home from your job only to work some more? No you didn't. But that doesn't matter in this case because if you are in school you are a kid, and if you are a kid you don't matter as far as the world is concerned. After all what could you know? You are still in school. You don't have the experience that an adult does. Yet if you gave the average adult and the average teenager a quiz guess which one would do better?

As if things were not bad enough we now had transfer students to deal with. Big tough guys that thought that they were all bad ass and what not. Well whatever. Sure most of them could probably kick his ass but he was a lover not a fighter. Well sorta but in a less over used way. He didn't even have a girlfriend. Not that he was trying to find one really. Most of the girls in the school just seemed to leave something to be desired. To put it bluntly they were boring. Hell, he was bored all around. Nothing to do around here for him unless he started trouble and he had just gotten done with detention for his little tapioca stunt last week. As if he was supposed to know that Mr. Mathew's was allergic to Tapioca. It wasn't a big deal they got him to the hospital just fine. He didn't see the point in punishing him. It had just been a harmless little prank. Well whatever just another case of adults throwing their power around at kids because they couldn't do anything about it.

So what was a kid like Andrew supposed to do? He went to class. He couldn't think of anything better to do and he didn't feel like ditching. At least not until he had a plan on what he wanted to do. So like the rest of his first period class he would file in to the room shuffling his feet as he did so trying to keep every moment of freedom he could, even if he didn't have anything better to do then be bored in class. He would take his seat which happened to be in the middle of the mass of half asleep students and he would pull out his notebook and a pencil. The notebook was just a cover though to make it look like he was taking notes. Really he was drawing on the desk. Nothing in particular just seeing what his brain came up with while he thought of a way to spice up the day.

[bane]

A scrap of paper slid onto Andrew's desk. On the paper, in blue pen, was a tic-tac-toe grid and an "X" located in the top right-hand space. A boy of fairly average height with brown hair that stopped just above his eyebrows sat smiling and twirling a writing utensil that matched the colored ink on Andrew's paper as he waited to see if his challenge would be accepted. Challenge was the appropriate word too, as the japanese character for "shiai" (sometimes used to challenge someone to a duel to the death, though in this particular setting, it appeared such a challenge was unintended) was clearly scribbled into the bottom left corner of the page.

His pensive blue eyes looked Andrew over, peering amusedly through his frameless glasses. The teacher hadn't seemed to notice, and didn't appear to be worried about little things like notes and tic-tac-toe death-matches seeing as there were several games of bloody knuckles, thumb wrestling, and even texas hold-em which were of slightly higher priority to disperse.

The boy raised his eyebrows in a mock-challenging manor, although a playful smile was clearly creeping at the edges of his mouth. It isn't like either of them had anything better to do.

Go ahead... make my day.