Slade's POV

The roars of the crowd fueled my being, making the punches I threw come down harder, leaving permanent marks on my prey. I had a few on my face, but they weren't those which left scars. Just a few days, and they would be gone.

Mark, the reff took me off of the man I'd just beaten up and pushed me to the other side of the human circle that had been made around us. As he looked at the now unconscious boy, I raise my fists in triumph, and the crowd went wild, which was all I wanted from them. The power to manipulate them into praising my strength.

"And the winner by a knockout, Slade!"

I smiled when I saw Wanda, my girlfriend at that time, run to me and jump on me, giving me a hug before she kissed me. When the crowd saw our makeup session, they yelled their applause with a couple of whistles.

"That was amazing, babe. How about we go do something at my place?"

"I thought you'd never ask."

I led her to my motorcycle, and we drove off together into the night.

Yeah......life was good.

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I wore a black hoodie today for school, because I didn't want the teachers being all over me. Apparently, my parents saw me with bruises a few weeks ago and they thought that something was happening at school. They told the principal, who ended up telling them about my behavior, about how I was rude and all that. I honestly couldn't care less. It was my life, after all.

People in the hallway made sure to always make way when I passed, because they knew that it was not good for them if they were in my way. I took my books in the locker and went to class. My boys, Kendrick, Jimmy and Dan were already there, making their crazy noise as usual.

"Slade! My man!! What a fight yesterday!"

I put my bag on the table and sat down, facing them.

"Oh, that? That was nothing. Literally child's play."

The teacher, Mr Winchester, came in, with a handkerchief in his hand which he used to wipe his bald head with that was sweating profusely all of a sudden today. That was probably because he was late for the lesson, since the bell had rang a long time ago.

"Kids. Open up your books where we left off yesterday."

And that was how my morning began.

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It was lunch time, and the line was crazy long when we got to the cafeteria. Luckily, my boys and I didn't care about the line. We just cut it and went to the front and no one dared to say anything.

What can I say? The perks of being the most feared.

Just as we'd taken our seats, I was about to eat when I saw a girl walk in. She was a ball of color, wearing a red skirt and neon green t-shirt. Her blonde hair was tied into two ponytails with a red and a neon green hair ties.

She looked around the cafeteria, and her blue eyes just passed by us as if she didn't see anything. After spotting her friends, she ran off to them and they began to talk animatedly, laughing like maniacs every now and then. Just then, Wanda came to the table with her food, and the bright colored girl was soon forgotten.

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After the very boring long day was over, students were walking about in the hallways getting out of school, wanting to escape that prison of knowledge and learning. A head of blonde hair with red and neon green hair ties caught my attention as it passed by not a few feet from us.

"Who's that girl?"

Jimmy, who was busy on his phone, looked up for a second to see who I was talking about. He focused back on it again, as if he hadn't seen anything.

"That's Emilia Carter. She's a grade lower than us. Why you asking?"

Why was I asking?

"She's colorful."

He looked at me then.

"Riiiigghht......... Let's go man. The others are waiting."

I closed my locker and followed Jimmy to the car and as we drove down the street, Dan and Kendrick followed behind us. Jimmy hadn't told me where we were going, but I was cool with wherever we went, as long as it was a cool destination.

He parked the car in a parking lot that had a lotta cars parked in it.

"Where are we going, bro?"

Jimmy took out his wallet, and yelled.

"We're going to eat, bro! On me!!"

I hooter as I stepped out of the car and the other two came to us and we got in and had our food. Fast foods can be very delicious, but I had to work out to get them out of my system later. And when we were through, we drove out of the parking lot and hit the road.

"There's a friend of mine who's turning 21, and he invited me to come to the club to have some fun. He's cool with the people there, we'll get in easy."

He seemed to have talked in my language, because I loved parties, with a passion. I obviously agreed to that, and half an hour later we were in that club.

Beers, wines, champagnes, you name it. It was all there too. We'd drank all that we could, and we were drunk after an hour. Jimmy left us for a little while, and I thought that he'd left us there, when all of a sudden, he brought pieces of chocolate cake to us.

We munched onto it like there was no tomorrow. Everyone was happy, until I began to experience a feeling I'd never felt before. I felt light and fluffy like a ....... soft kitty....... I felt euphoric.

"What was in the cake, bro?"

He wobbled about, at least that was how i saw it.

"The good stuff."

The music got louder and more blurred, but i liked it that way. All I remembered when I woke up was me dancing around in the club, taking my cup and putting more of that cake in it, and walking out in the middle of the night, trying to find my way home.

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So, my first chapter is usually small, but I promise they'll get bigger. Just my little introduction of our main character.