Holding On Forever by Hillary NGO (english novels for students .txt) 📕

things again and more of Andrew's basketball team members came and sat down at the table and introduced themselves. I started laughing at some of the stories they were telling me.
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"Hey Shay!"
I entered the cafeteria with my tray of food and heard my name, so I looked around seeing Justin hollering out my name and waving me over. I walked over to the table and dropped my tray onto the spot right beside Justin and scooted my chair out and sat down. I looked around the table and saw the usual guys and girls. Football players and some cheerleaders.

I was talking to the guys about our upcoming game on Friday when suddenly I heard a familiar laugh behind me. I twisted my head around and saw a few tables away, her. Aqua!

My body filled with rage as I saw her flirting with the whole basketball team. What the heck does she think she's doing?

I started to see red and my knuckles were turning white from holding the table too hard.
"Dude. Are you okay?" whispered Justin.
"Fine," I replied through clenched teeth.
"You don't look like it."
"I'm fine."
Justin turns to the direction I was looking at and replied, "Is that her?"
"Yes. I believe so." I answered clenching my fist harder than before.
"She's with Andrew and his group."
"No duh."
Before I could think of anything, I found myself taking a clump of my spaghetti and aiming it at Andrew's head. It misses him by a few inches and lands on Aqua's head instead. The whole cafeteria went quiet. She stands up and takes the clump off her head and throws it onto the ground. Andrew and his teammates gets up and looks right at me. They know I did it.

Andrew reaches for the bowl on his tray but before he could do anything else, some girl with a black skrillex haircut shouted something out.
"Are you freakin' kidding me?!? Do you want to DIE!?!" The skrillex girl screamed with her eyes wide open at no one in particular.
Andrew drops the bowl in his hand back on his tray and motion his teammates to get up like the basketball captain he was. He's coming.

Justin yelled at the football players to get up and they followed his order. The team and I walked right up to Andrew and his team and we stared at each other face to face. Football captain vs basketball captain.

The students in the cafeteria start to chant "Fight, fight, fight, fight!"
I threw the first punch and before it could hit Andrew's chin, Aqua ran up and got in the way. My fist connects with her cheek and she falls to the ground holding her cheek with both of her hands. I pulled my hand back quickly. The whole cafeteria gasps. Oh, what the heck did I just do?

Aqua rolls over and shows her bloody cheek. Two girls rushed to her side and helped her up. They took her arms, wrapped it around their shoulders and carried her out of the cafeteria. Before they left, the two girls turned around and looked at me with anger in their eyes. Oh dang, they have that devil look glistening in their eyes.

Chapter 8: Football vs. Basketball

Once the door of the cafeteria slammed shut from Aqua and her friends leaving, Andrew throws a punch at me but I managed to dodge it. I then grab him by his shirt and slam him to a table and I hear a sickening snap. Good. First blood.

After seeing me and Andrew throw the first punches, our friends decided to join the fight and after a few curse words and punches, all hell broke loose. The crowds of students started to jump out of their seats and rooted for the team they believed would win. After many punches and kicks later, the school's security finally came in and pulled us apart. I looked around at my guys as one guard pulled me away from Andrew and saw that some of my guys came out with a few bloody noses and a couple of bruises, but they looked fine. On the other hand, some of Andrew's guys were badly injured with some of his teammates lying on the ground clutching their hands and face. I was dragged out of the cafeteria and heard murmurs of the students talking about the fight. I was taken to the office and I seated myself at one of the sofas in the corner. Before I knew it, I was found in the principal's office with a very furious mother.

Chapter 9: What's Wrong With You?

Oh shoot! My mother's here and boy does she look angry.

Her blonde hair was short and messy from all the stressing out she's been doing and her crystal blue eyes were swollen and red.
"What is wrong with you Shay?!?" She half screamed half questioned.
"I don't know," I replied.
"Shay, you could get suspended from this behavior! You're suppose to be a role model to your little brother Ty and look what you gotten yourself into!"
"I know, but..."
"No buts. When you get home I want you to talk to your father."
"He's in Asia though, visiting his side of the family."
"I know, but this is far to important for him to hear once he comes back."
"Fine, I'll call him when I get home."
Just then the principal cleared his throat and looked straight at me. He rubbed his bald head and spoke in a clear thundering tone.
"Young man, do you know how much trouble you have caused today?"
"Yes sir."
"Okay. Now let's get this thing straightened up. Andrew's parents called the school already and they are not pressing charges on you or the school. However, Shay you will be spending your time in detention for the next week or so and if you show a better attitude you can play in the football game this Friday. But if you show anymore attitude like today, you will be suspended for a week. Do I make myself clear?"
"Of course sir."
"Good. Get to class then."
I walked out of the office and headed for my next class: physical education. I opened the gym door and found myself surrounded by my teammates from the football team.
"Did you get suspended? Is coach going to bench you? How will we play without our captain? What was the fight all about?" they all questioned me.
"Shush. I'm not suspended or anything like that. I just have to serve a week or so of detention and then I'm good. I can still play Friday's game but I have to keep my attitude down or I'll get suspended."
The guys nodded seemingly understanding what I just said. Then a 5'8 guy stepped closer to me. He had caramel colored eyes with a light brown 'Justin Beiber' type hair cut making his bangs flop to the left. His name was Austin, he was our school's best running back and he was one of my best friends including Justin.
"Man. What was that fight about? I mean it wasn't rough or anything for me, but we usually never pick fights with the basketball players."
I heaved out a big sigh and signal the guys to leave us alone for a minute.
"Okay, so this is what happened. I 'accidentally' threw my spaghetti at a girl sitting at Andrew's table and he got all angry and started to call up his group and that's when the fight happened."
"Wait. Why did you put curve your fingers up when you said accidentally?"
"I was actually aiming for Andrew's head, but I missed."
Austin started laughing. "So you mean I got a bruise on my 6 pack all because you threw spaghetti at this girl."
"Well it was that and also because I punched her and she started bleeding."
"Dude! That's what happened. I thought the cafeteria went quiet from Andrew's bone snapping or something."
"Where is our star basketball player anyways?" I laughed.
"You didn't hear? He was taken to the hospital. You must have injured him pretty badly because the last I heard, he broke his arm."
Before I could reply, coach whistled for the guys to huddle up. While coach was instructing the guys what to do, I jogged to the boys' locker room and open up my locker. I quickly changed into the school's gym uniform and ran out and joined the rest of the guys. We were playing soccer outside on the field when I saw Aqua sitting on the bleachers alone with an ice pack attached to her face. Why did I do that to her?

She looked up from the ground and saw me. A scowl started to form on her face but all I could do was look at her. She leaped up from the bleachers holding the ice pack to her face and left with the other girls as they started to head back into the girls' locker room.
Then coach blew the whistle and all the guys rushed quickly into the boys' locker room. I quickly changed back into my regular clothes and sprayed some fancy cologne my dad sent me from China and rushed outside the locker room. I saw Aqua sitting on the gym bleacher playing with a lock of her hair alone, so I went up to her.
"Hi, remember me?"
She scoffs at me and replies. "Of course, you're that jerk who threw spaghetti at me and left me with a bloody cheek and a huge bruise."
"Look, Aqua I'm sorry..."
"I don't care. Don't go near