Falling For My BestFriend

Kevin watched with a heavy heart as all the other kids in the playground played and laughed together. After some time of watching everyone have fun he decided it was time to stop watching and try to join. Slowly he approached the boys who were playing soccer. "Can I play with you guys?" He asked one of the boys and just as he was about to agree someone decided to cut in. "No! We don't want a loser like you to play with us." Luke glaring at Kevin, making him feel hurt and angry. "I'm not a loser!" Kevin yelled with clenched fists. "Loser, loser, loser!" Luke taunted and some of the kids around Luke started laughing. "You're a bully! You're rude and mean and I hate you!" Kevin yelled as tears threatened to spill from his beautiful black eyes. "What did you just say, loser?" Luke hissed and grabbed the soccer ball at his feet and threw it at Kevin's face. Kevin was not expecting that to happen and so he had no time to protect his face and the ball hit him straight on the cheek. He stumbled a few steps and almost fell when someone caught him from behind. He turned around to see a boy his age with adorable glasses staring at him with anger in his emerald green eyes. "Are you okay?" The boy asked and raised his hand and brushed it across Kevin's now bruised cheek. Kevin flinched at the pain in his cheek but nodded with teary eyes. "Who are you?" Luke said and the boy turned to face the bully. "Did you throw the ball at him?" The mystery boy asked, ignoring Luke's question. "Yeah so what?!" Luke said confidently while continuing to laugh at the teary Kevin. He didn't know that his action would only fuel the anger in the young boy. He didn't know the boy would let go of Kevin's shoulder and approach him. He certainly did not know that the boy was going to throw a punch right at his cheek. The kids around them gasped in shock and one ran to get a teacher as the situation got worse. "What the heck!" Luke yelled, cupping his cheek. "Don't ever bother him again." The boy said glaring at him and returning to the now wide eyed Kevin. "That was so cool!" Kevin exclaimed with a wide smile, forgetting his pain as he admired the boy in front of him. "What's your name?" He asked. "James." James replied with a small smile, glad that Kevin wasn't on the verge of crying anymore. "What's yours?" "Kevin!" Kevin chirped with a wide grin. "Can we be friends?" He asked James with hope shining in his eyes. James nodded and was about to say something when a new voice cut in. "What happened here?" A teacher screeched and Kevin winced at her annoying voice. "He punched me!" Luke yelled pointing to James who only blankly stared back at him. "That's because Luke threw a soccer ball at my face!" Kevin immediately came to his new friend's defense. "You three! Follow me." She said and entered the school just as the bell rang signaling the end of recess. The teacher brought them to their teacher's office and waited till the teacher arrived. "What happened?" Miss Amelia said as she entered the office, shutting the door behind her. "Your students have been fighting." The annoying teacher said with her screechy voice and Kevin rolled his eyes with a pout. "We did not!" He muttered and James smiled at his adorableness. "James, this is your first day and you're already getting into fights?" Miss Amelia said with a hint of disappointment in her tone. "James was only defending me! Luke started it!" Kevin defended, crossing his arms across his chest and stomping his foot on the ground to get his point across. "Did not!" Luke said. "Did too!" Kevin replied, glaring at his bully. "Not!" "Yes!" "No" "Yes!" "Enough!" Miss Amelia'a voice boomed in the small office making the boys wince. "Miss Lora you may leave I will handle this." The annoying teacher scoffed and left the office. "James tell me what happened." "Luke and Kevin were having a disagreement when Luke suddenly threw a soccer ball at Kevin's face and then I punched him." James said and pushed his glasses up which Kevin found adorable but couldn't understand why. "Luke, is this true?" Miss Amelia asked and Luke stubbornly shook his head. "I also saw Luke pestering Kevin during class and no one did anything about it." James added and glared at Luke. "He was probably bullying Kevin for a while now." "Kevin, is this true?" She asked and Kevin nodded while looking down. "Yes." He meekly replied. "Luke is always mean to me and never lets me play with others. And he always calls me a loser." "Okay I'm going to call your parents and we will discuss this situation." She said, "I don't tolerate any kind of bullying in my classroom so this will stop." She added and left the room but made sure to keep the door open in case they started fighting again. "Snitch." Luke said and Kevin rolled his eyes but made sure to stick out his tongue at the boy. "You're going to regret this." Luke fumed with heated eyes and Kevin bit his lip and looked down at his sneakers, losing his earlier confidence as memories of Luke pushing him to the ground after school arose in his mind. He felt someone grab his hand and looked up to see James giving him a reassuring smile. "Don't worry he won't do anything. I'll always protect you." He said Kevin felt his fear wash away as he stared into James' beautiful green eyes, he could see that the boy was telling the truth. James would always protect Kevin. "Promise?" "Promise."