the hybrid mate

am I crazy

Zola

Many people asked me why Axel and my friendship ended. I get why they asked for Axel and I were the best of friends since we were kids. We did everything together, from playing in the park to sharing our deepest secrets. People thought that our friendship was unbreakable and so did I. Maybe I was crazy to break out friendship over what had happened. I knew that Axel probably thought I was as only 4 hours ago I ran out of his house.

To embarrass myself more when I ran out I nearly got hit by a car. You see I ran out onto the road when I heard the screeching of tires and the blaring of a car horn. Before I could even react, a car came speeding towards me, narrowly missing me by a few inches. My heart was pounding in my chest as I stumbled back onto the sidewalk, my legs shaking from the close call. I took a deep breath and tried to compose myself, but the adrenaline was still coursing through my veins. I looked around to see if anyone had witnessed the near-accident, no one had what saved me from feeling more embarrassed. I ended up walking home, where I was greeted by my parents.

It was back to school the next day. You can call me a nerd if you want but I enjoyed school so I was excited to be going back. Right now I curse that excitement as my alarm didn't go off meaning I was running late. Running toward my history class, I knock on the door, peaking in. "Come on in, you are late Ms Cater" my teacher said as I walked in.

Before I could talk she started to talk again "I just finished parenting people for this year, you are with Mr De-King".

I was partnered with Axel 's**t' I thought I didn't want to be partner with him. You see my history teacher at the start of ever year choose a partner for everyone. the partners would do the assessment and other tasks together for the year. So you could guess that I didn't want to be with Axel for the whole year. "Ms Cater please sit down" Mrs Smith said her voice was higher than before.

Not too anger her, I sat down next to Axel. "Here, he syllabus for this year" Axel said handing over a small handmade book.

"Thanks" I said, looking down at the booklet.

Mrs had always made the booklets with a design the front with sign. These sign told you what you were learning that year. So as I looked at it I took in all the detail. Rome, it had something to do with Rome.

"Okay students now everyone is here, I would like to start by saying that this year will be an important year for you. All of you will have to put hard work into every assessment and task given to you. In saying that this will also be good and I believe that most of you will like the subject" Mrs Smith stated, smiling as she looked around the class.

"The topic we will be starting with is the main core everyone does. Vesuvius cities: Pompeii and Herculaneum, can anyone tell me what they know about these cities". Ms asked pointing to one of the boys in the front that put his hands up.

The lesson continued with ms asking questions and breaking down the syllabus to us. Finally the bell went, most of the students were packed up already so they just left as soon as the bell left.The rest packed up when the bell went. As I left the classroom I looked down at my timetable to see what I had next, I groaned advanced english. Don't get me wrong I did love english I just knew that Axel, Kai and Lucas would be in that class. You see as long as I knew those three boys despise their reputations were the top of nearly all the class. But I couldn't worry about that now. I headed toward english rooms and sat down at the front. The lesson from then seemed to fly by and suddenly it was lunch time.

"Hey, Zola" screamed a voice as I walked into the cafeteria.

Lexa stood in the line waving me over. "First thing first it would be rude for me to push in and second mum made me lunch when she made dad's".

You see my dad was the most amazing cook but he never had time to with his work. See my grandfather started this law company when he was thirty. It started small but now it helps with children's cases around the world. So when dad is home and not travelling mum decides to cook him lunch, I think so she can practice for work. My mum is a famous chef and she also runs a couple chain restaurants.

My older brother was studying at college to be a lawyer, following in my dad's footsteps. Since my brother Nate was little all he wanted to do was be a lawyer. I had tried to argue with him and say that he could be anything else but he said it was his dream. Actually he said sure I could be a firefighter or a doctor they help people but that is just one time. They may have an impact in a person's life but so will I, without putting my life on the line and without spending so many hours studying. I could never study as long as a doctor.

But in the end my family had always been there for me even though I didn't know what I wanted to be.

"Hey are you paying attention" Lexa snapped her fingers in front of my face.

"No sorry, I zoned out for a second. What were you saying".

"I asked if you were doing anything this weekend. Emma and I were thinking about going to the lake".

The lake was beautiful and not a lot of people went to it as it was in the middle of the forest. Most of the adults said that the forests around here were haunted. I believe it is just to keep the kids from going missing. There had been a couple animal attacks but that was years ago.