Welcome friends to another rant about the stupid, boring life of Ashton Crawford a.k.a me.

The day started off horribly, if you ask me. I woke up ten minutes late, I almost ran out of toothpaste, I remembered I didn't do my Chemistry assignment, I accidentally got my shampoo on my eye, I was out of ingredients for making my lunchbox, I forgot to charge my phone and worst of all, my dad forgot to lend me allowance for emergency purposes.

I let out a frustrated sigh and left the house after eat a bowl of cornflakes. I began walking to the direction of my school and as usual I saw that red SUV that passes by everyday, stopping at two house. I didn't know who the driver is but that person's got some serious anger issues. He or she stops in front of the house next to Chase's and another house and blows the horn really loudly for a long time, until the person comes out that is.

I saw Chase sitting on the doorstep of his house, his crimson eyes showing signs of annoyance because of the car as he held his face with his hands.

I knocked on the dark window of the front seat of the car and the window lowered, revealing a teenager with blond hair which was extended to his neck and some strands of it clipped to the sides of his face. Wait a minute-

"What the f*ck do you want?" Will Hemmings asked with an angry look.

"You?" I said, surprised.

"Yes, it's me. Thought I was some hot chick you could flirt to? Sorry pal, but that's disgusting," he said, coldly.

"Could you please stop with horn? You're disturbing the neighbours."

"You think I give a damn sh*t about the neighbours?"

I noticed a girl with short brown hair and light green eyes looking me with an apologetic look. I think that's Jennifer Kingsley, Will mentioned.

"Look, I don't wanna fight an a#*hole like you first thing in the morning and if you don't want me to do my thing, tell that b*tch Aria to come quickly," Will said.

"Rule number one of b*tching, Will. Make sure the person you're talking about doesn't hear you." An angry voice said from behind me. I looked at the owner of the voice and saw Aria Benson standing behind me. She wore a normal black coloured shirt and a white skirt and her long hazel hair was neatly tied into a ponytail.

"Tsk!" Will clicked his tongue, looking away.

"Good morning, guys," Chase said, after he came over to us.

"Mornin'," Jennifer said, smiling.

"F*CK OFF!!!" Will shouted, angrily. "Aria!! Are you gonna get in or not?"

"Sheesh, you don't have to be that short-tempered," she said. Look who's talking?

Will drove away after Aria got in the car and Chase patted my head.

"You did the right thing. I'm so proud of you," he said, smiling.

I shrugged and began walking to school.

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I sighed deeply in annoyance as I saw my English teacher, Mr. Barrett, cry his heart out in front of our class. His wife left him a few months ago and he still cries every time someone mentiones 'love', 'marriage' and other lovey dovey words. Sometimes, it can come to great use like today we had a test on something and to get it cancelled, we ask him how is wife is without him and it works all the time.

"This can get so annoying sometimes," I heard a female voice say, groaning.

I turned and saw Jennifer Kingsley sitting behind me.

"Don't you mean all the time?" I said.

She let out a laugh. "I agree," she said. "He's being a bit too over dramatic about his divorce."

"Tell me about it."

"What's your name?"

"Ashton," I said, smiling.

"That was stupid of me. We met a few day ago," she said, smiling. "Ya know, when you pushed Aria."

"I was spacing out, that's why I didn't know what I did."

"Sorry about what happened this morning with Will," she said, apologetically. "He may be grumpy and short-tempered but he's a kind dude on the inside."

"You mean like a tsundere kind of person?"

"YOU WATCH ANIMES?!!" Jennifer asked me, excitedly.

"Yeah, why?" I asked.

"I watch them too!!"

"Really?" I asked with a surprised smile.

"Yeah!! What kind of animes do you watch?"

"All kinds, to be honest. Mostly slice-of-life, fiction and school. You?"

"Rom-com, romance, slice-of-life, school and my personal favourite, shonen ai," she said, smiling proudly when she said the genre.

"What's the last one?" I asked, not understanding what the last one was.

"BL."

"Full form?"

"Boys' love," she said, nodding her head as the proud smile reappeared on her face.

"Wait......" I said when realization struck me.

"If you judge the LGBTQ, I swear to you, Ashton, I'll kill you!!" she said in a scary, threatening tone.

"No, no!! I support it!!" I said, fearfully.

"Good boy," she said, patting my head with a sweet smile.

I nodded slowly, pursing my lips. "Hey, do you know the anime 'Rubbed'?"

"Yeah, the one with a dude who goes to the past and he solves crimes to save his mom from dieing?" Jennifer asked me with a smile.

"That one," I said.

"Do you watch romance animes?" she asked me.

"Does Japanese ghoul count?" I said.

"Nope, there's barely any ships. I live and breathe romance animes," she said, placing her hand on her chest dramatically. "Especially shonen ai."

"I did watch one, what it's name again?" I paused and thought for a second. "It's a shoujo anime but I don't remember the name though."

"Its okay," she said, smiling. "Some names are Japanese so its natural to forget, but in my case..... I never forget."

"Right."

"What other animes did you watch?"

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Our conversation continued from that period to recess. I should say, she's a great person to talk to. She even allowed me to call her 'Jenny' instead of her long name. She's really hyper, optimistic, hopeless romantic and really, really interested in shipping ships. She's also really good at storytelling.

"Then, what happened?" I asked, eagerly.

"Then, the hero guy took a knife and cut off the villain's fingers," she narrated with a lot of hand gestures.

"That sounds scary," Chase commented.

"Yeah, she forced to me to watch it and it was f*ckin' boring so I stopped it on the 3rd episode," Will said, annoyed.

"Hey!!! There was a bit of Shonen-Ai, okay? That's why I watch it and you know what, I like it" Jenny said.

"Am I the only one here who doesn't watch animes?" Aria said.

"I don't watch it either," Chase said.

Jenny began to tell me the story of an anime she watched recently and I found it interesting and her storytelling extended till lunch break. So now, Jenny, Aria and Will are sitting on our usual place because I told Jenny that I wanted to hear the rest of the story. I don't think the others are getting along well, though.

"Aren't you guy gonna eat something?" Chase asked with concern.

"I'm hungry," I said.

"I'm not. The food they serve here is sh*t," Will said with a disgusted look.

"You shouldn't say things like that about food," Chase said.

"Can you shut the f*ck up?" he said, angrily.

"I'm gonna get something to eat," Aria said, standing up from her seat.

"I'm coming too. I forgot to make my lunchbox again," I said, before following her.

We each took a tray and stood in the long line for getting our meals. I let her stand in front of me because I don't wanna be considered selfish or anything.

"Hey, Ashton?" Aria said, not looking at me.

"What?" I said.

She turned to face me, her purple eyes meeting mine. "Remember a few days ago, you bumped into me and asked for my name instead of helping me up?"

Why is she bringing that up? "Yeah, I'm sorry 'bout that," I said, smiling nervously.

"Why did you shout out 'Bria Anson' when I told what my name was?" Aria looked me with a challenging smile and I began to stammer like a crazy person.

"You see..... I like.... uh.... collecting names!! Yeah!! That's all," I said, nervously.

She showed her tray to the lunch lady, who began to serve something on the tray.

"I know you're lying, Crawford," she said, smirking at me as she walked forward after the lady was done serving.

I let out a small laugh. "As if I'd tell you the truth," I said.

"I guess I'll have to find out why you said that on my own," she said in a fake innocent tone.

"Fine," I said, confident that she'd never find out.

We walked over to the others and Will seems a bit more angrier than usual.

"YOU THINK I'M A WEIRDO OR SOMETHING?!!" Will shouted angrily at Chase.

"No!! I think it's a nice hobby," Chase said, panicking.

"DON'T YOU DARE LIE TO ME, YOU A$*HOLE!!"

"He didn't even say anything bad about your drawings!!" Jenny said, angrily at Will.

"What the hell, Will?" Aria said, sitting down. "Didn't I tell you not to freak out everytime you mention your drawings?"

"He gave me a judgeful look!!" Will said, pointing at Chase as if he was a lawyer pointing for accusation.

"I did not!!" Chase protested.

"What are you guys even talking about?" I asked, getting annoyed.

"Now he's gonna judge me," Will said, folding his arms as he leaned back on his chair.

"Will has a book filled with his own fashion designs," Jenny explained.

"That's nice," I said with a small smile.

"HE WAS BEING SARCASTIC!!!" Will shouted.

"NO, I WASN'T!!!" I protested.

"You should really learn how to appreciate compliments," Chase said.

"Tsk!" Will clicked his tongue.

"Hey Chase?" Aria said.

"Yes?" Chase said.

She glanced at me with a smirk before speaking. "Who's Bria Anson?"

"Don't tell her, Chase!!" I said, loudly.

"Why not? She seems nice," he said.

"SHE'S THE PURE DEFINITION OF EVIL!!"

"Watch your mouth, Crawford," she warned me. "Tell me, Chase."

"It's just a character from the story he's writing," Chase said.

"NOO!!! YOU CHEAT!!" I shouted.

"What's there to be secretive about?" Jenny asked. But then realization hit her hard. "YOU WRITE STORIES?!!"

I gave Chase a quick glare and he gave me a nervous smile. "Yes, I do," I said, forcing a smile.

"That's cool," Aria said, casually. "I think you should make names yourself instead using others names."

"I always tell him that," Chase said.

"I suck at names," I said.

"I wonder what else you suck," Will said in a low voice as he coughed.

"HEY!!"

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"NO!!!" Will shouted desperately as he gave Jenny a pleading look.

"Don't be that cruel!!" Jenny shouted back angrily.

"It's alright," Chase said, awkwardly. "We can just walk home."

Jenny still hasn't finished telling me the story so she wants us to join them in Will's car so she can tell me the rest of the story. We usually walk home and I'd rather get a ride in his car than walk home because I'm super lazy.

"I DON'T LIKE A BUNCH A§*HOLES GETTING IN MY CAR!!!" Will shouted.

"Just get in," Aria said to us.

"Okay," I said, getting in and sitting on the front seat next to Will, who was giving me a dagger-shooting glare.

"Sorry, man," Chase said, sitting in the back seat of the car and Will could do was nod.

He started to drive after Aria and Jenny got in and it was awkwardly quiet for some reason.

"Aren't you gonna tell the anime story?" Will asked Jenny.

"Yeah..... about that. I kinda finished narrating the story," she said.

"It wasn't even completed yet," I said.

"I only watch that much of the series," she said, laughing nervously.

"Right," Will said.

"Hey, why don't you guys join us like this every day?" Aria asked. "It's actually boring with just the three of us."

"The more the merrier," Jenny said, smiling.

"I don't mind. What about you, Ash?" Chase said.

I glanced at Will. "Sure," I said. "You guys don't have any problem or anything, do you?"

Will remained silent and cleared his throat before speaking. "I'm okay with it," he said, looking straight forward while driving. "But where do you guys live?"

"Chase lives next door to me," Aria said.

"And I live about to 8 houses from there," I said.

"Alright," Will said. "I live a bit close to Ashton so I guess it wouldn't be a problem."

"Then it's settled," Jenny said, happily.

"IF ANYONE OF YOU BECOMES LATE, YOU'LL F#CKING PAY!!!" Will shouted.

"Cash?" I asked, confused.

"YES!!"

"Can they join us for Fridays too?" Jenny asked. "They're really fun to hang out with."

"What's there on Fridays?" Chase asked.

"We go out to eat after school," Will said. "And.... we take turns for who's gonna decide where to eat and that person has to pay. If the person can't decide, we eat at our usual burger place."

"Then I'm totally in!!" I said, excitedly. "Nothing's better than free food."

"I agree but you do know that you have to pay for your turn, right?" Aria asked.

"Right," I said, pouting sadly.

"Anyways. Here's our stop," Aria said. Will stopped the car in front of Aria's house.

"Bye guys," Chase said, getting out of the car with Aria.

"Bye," Jenny and I said.

"Thanks for the ride, Will," Chase said with a smile.

"F*ck off, sh#thead," Will said, annoyed.

Will started to drive again after Chase closed the car door.

"Where do you live?" I asked Jenny.

"I live a bit further from here," she said, smiling brightly like she always does.

"Right," I said.

"Get out, grandma," Will said, coldly when he stopped his car in front of a house which I think is Jenny's.

"I TOLD YOU A MILLION TIMES NOT TO CALL ME THAT!!" she shouted angrily.

"Bye," I said.

"Bye, guys," she said, before leaving the car.

Will began to drive a bit further and he asked, "Where's your house?"

"That one," I said, pointing at my house which was a bit far away. "Where's yours?"

"I'll show you tomorrow 'cause I just passed it." Will stopped the car in front of my house and I got down from the car.

"Uh..... Thanks for dropping me," I said, awkwardly. "Wait a minute. You always pass by my house."

"Shut up and leave, will ya?" he said, giving me a slightly annoyed look.

"Okay," I said, closing the car door and walking to my house.

I began to search for the keys which I kept inside my bag and I glanced at Will's car which didn't leave from its place. The car had it's windows lowered a bit and I saw Will looking down with a cigarette between his lips as he lit it up and breathed in the smoke and exhaling it out. Isn't he under-aged?

I shrugged it off and entered my house, locking the door behind me. I went directly to my room, kept my bag aside and began to make dinner for my dad, who comes home late after working. He works extra time everyday since we're currently in a need for money and we're having money problems and stuff like that.

When I finished making dinner, I ran over to my room, excited to finally start the story I've been eager to write. I took an empty 80 paged notebook and my pen pencil and started writing, letting my imagination run free through my handwritten words.

-To be continued-

Will Hemmings