Chapter 15: Mike

Date: 29-05-2015

After my fight I got a notorious reputation which had both positive and negative effects. Everyone in the class was afraid of me so it made handling them a lot easier but on the contrary some people stayed away from me. Before the incident everyone was friendlier to me but now it seemed the situation was different. But it didn't bother me that much. Sometimes someone would ask me where I learned to fight but I didn't answer to make it a mystery. For some reason Keya seemed more friendlier than before so I guess it was alright.

Like that months went by and we had our midterm. I ranked second again. But this time I didn't care. Fifth grade was pretty much boring. Still I remember that I met the first girl I had sex in fifth grade. Obviously it didn't happen during fifth grade.No it was during high school just like a normal boy. But I got my first proposal in fifth grade. So what happened was my parents are very religious so they sent me to a religious school every afternoon. It started after I made a mistake during a religious ceremony. It wasn't like a formal school or anything like that. Instead it was a volunteer school where local religious men would teach little boys and girls about the religion like how to read religious books, how to pray, how to do ceremonies etc. Every afternoon I would go to our local religious center for this. It had mostly about 50 students. Most of them were younger than me. There were only nine students my age. Among the nine only two were boys. That was me and Mike. Among them was Maria she was beautiful. She had fair skin, black hair and black eyes. She was a little taller than me. The three of us hit it off. We sat next to each other every day. Me and Mike would do dumb things and Maria would scold us. It was a fun time for me. So one day I was early so I was just sitting there when I noticed some of the girls looking at me for some reason. Whenever I looked at them they would avert their eyes. So I got a little suspicious. But I didn't care so I focused on what I was doing. One of the girls came up to me and said that her friend Lisa liked me a lot. I looked at her and the other girls then I noticed that some girls were holding on to a girl with tears in her eyes. When she noticed my gaze she got up from her seat and started running away while crying. I was both confused and flustered. I mean no one proposed to me before so I didn't know what to do. Then again it was her friend who told me so maybe that's why she cried. Her friends were laughing. I went to her and comforted her by saying things like it was okay, everything was alright, I wasn't angry etc. After she calmed down I went back to the class. Mike and Maria made fun of me for weeks after that. I got angry one day and told Mike that,"At least a girl liked me with your ugly face I don't think any girl would like you." That hit Mike hard. He was depressed the whole class.

I don't know the reason but Mike was a genuine friend to me. I have other friends but I wasn't that close to any of them. I always felt a barrier between them and me. But I didn't feel it with Mike. We did stupid things, I made fun of him, he made fun of me. It was fun hanging around with him. But it was short lived. Three months later one day we were together but Mike seemed sad. He was silent the whole class. After class to make him loosen up I told him that he was like a wet cat. But that didn't work instead he said that it was his last day and that's all I had to say to him. After saying that he left. I thought he was just angry so I let him go. But he didn't come the next day or the day after that. So I went to his apartment and rang the doorbell. An old lady showed up and I asked where Mike was. She said Mike's whole family moved away to another city. I walked back home feeling empty inside.