CHAPTER 3
The Boyz

Part 1: Seth Williams

The next day, back in school, Kiyan avoids the crowd in the hallways and reaches the stairwell in front of his classroom. Luckily, all of his classrooms are located in front of the same stairwell in different floors, so all he needs to do is walk up or down the stairs and he reaches his destination. Kiyan sited on the stairs in front of his classroom, and waits for Jake to show up. However, instead of Jake, it was Fabio to walk towards him:
“Hey Kiyan. How you doing?”
“Hi. I’m ok. Hey, have you seen Jake around?”
“Jake? Last time I saw him, he was with you, after school. You two are like brothers or somethin’?”
“Best friends.”
“Oh, cool. Ok, if I see Jake around, I’ll tell him you’re here.”
“Thanks Fabio.”
As Fabio walks away, a boy runs down the stairs in a hurry and almost hit Kiyan on the way. The boy stopped in front of his classroom and spoke with a girl in class. After a while, the girl seemed angry and slapped the boy in the face and walked away, towards the other girls. The boy walked towards the stairs and after climbing up for a bit, he just turned around, sitted down and kept his head low. Kiyan stood up and sited next to him, not too close, but not too far either:
“You ok?”
“What do you think!? You saw that, didn’t you?! She hates me!”
“What happened?”
“She’s mad at me cuz we just started hanging out and last night, we were supposed to go to the movies, but I couldn’t be there, and I didn’t tell her. She watched the whole movie, waiting for me to show up and I didn’t!”
“Oh… And she broke up?”
“Duh! Of course she broke up! She’s like, the popular girl in 9th grade! I bet she’ll now go after that other popular guy in our class! I hate that guy!”
“W-why?”
“Why what!?”
“Why do you hate him?”
“… Ya know what? Forget it, I just wanna forget all this crap… Who are you, anyway?”
“Kiyan Roberts. 9th Grade.”
“Hi… Seth Williams. 9th Grade as well.”
“Nice to meet ya Seth.”
“Thanks for listening to my lame life..”
“Huh… No problem…?”
“Well, I better get going. I’ll see you around Kiyan.”
“Yeah… See ya.”
Seth stands up and climbs the stairs to the upper floor, into the classrom. When Kiyan got up, he saw Jake speaking with Fabio. Kiyan rushed there and said hi to Jake, who didn’t seem to be in a very good mood.
The kids went to the classroom, and everyone sited on their desks. Kiyan and Jake were, of course, in the same desk, next to the window. During class, Jake didn’t seem to be smiling and refused to look at him:
“Jakey, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing. Just pissed off, is all.”
“What about?”
“How long are you friends with Williams?”
“Williams..? Oh! You mean Seth?”
“Boys! Be quiet!” said the teacher looking at both Kiyan and Jake. After the teacher continued the class, Kiyan whispered:
“You mean Seth Williams?”
“Yeah.”
“I just met him. He seems cool…”
“He’s not! Stay away from him! He’s bad news!”
“Boys! One more time and you’re both sent to the principal.” Said the teacher.
“Sorry, Mr. Robinson.” Said Kiyan.
After the teacher continued class once again, Kiyan spoke to Jake:
“What do you mean, bad news?”
“Just promise me you’ll stay away from him.”
“What’s so wrong about him?”
“Everything’s wrong. Just stay away from him. He’ll get you in serious trouble before you know it.”
“All right… If you say so… But I still think he seems cool.”

Part 2: Gary Robinson

After class, Kiyan went to the stairwell, and Jake was still surrounded by girls, like yesterday.