Class Rebel (Part 13)

Jason just looked away. Sam sighed and looked aggravated. "You shouldn't be getting drunk like that! What would have happened if something had happened to mom! Yeah Jason you're an idiot. I could understand you being stupid if dad was home, but he's not. So it won't kill you to be responsible for once." Same said meanly to Jason. 1

"Why do I have to be the responsible one. I'm the one that always has had a job, and actually helped mom. You just screw around and party all the time like you're cool or something. You're really not that great so you might as well give up trying to be the cool kid, and grow up. You mess up all the time and do stupid crap, and I never get pissed off at you. But the second I do something you complain about it. It was one night and mom is fine!" Jason argued.2

"What if she wasn’t? Yeah then you'd be screwed Jason. I don't party every night I actually have work I have to do, and it's not my fault I can't afford college and helping you guys out at home. I have enough going on in my life without having to make sure you act right." Sam shot back.3

"I act fine you're the one that makes a joke out of everything. If something happened to mom you would probably just sit here, and laugh like an idiot since that's all you ever do." 4

"Oh please Jason shut up. I'm not a freaking jerk like you think I am." Sam said.5

"Yeah you are. Do you ever see how you treat mom? You don't ever talk to her you just act like you don't care anymore. You're like dad, and have to go off and try to be all cool. And I at least stay around instead of trying to join the army and get myself killed." Jason raised his voice. Sam's ears turned red, and I could tell he was pissed, but neither he nor Jason would stop arguing. We all sit there kind of shocked. Neither one of them were usually really mean to each other.6

"I'm just going for it, so I can pay for college and then I'll have some freaking money to help you guys out. And it's not like I'm going to go over for sure anyways. You need to stop acting like a baby, and realize I'm trying to help." Sam said.7

"Still you don't need to go get yourself freaking killed in the army. How is that going to help our family?" Jason argued.8

"Jason just shut up. Well I gotta go to work I'll see you guys later." Sam said as he stormed off. We all looked over at Jason. He was red, and looked really pissed off. The bell rang and we all had to go to class. Jeremy and I had P.E. together and we talked on the way there. P.E was in the other building so we had to walk a long ways to get there.9

"Do Jason and his brother always fight like that?" Jeremy asked. I shrugged. 10

"All the time, but over stupid things like who gets what? But they never fight over serious things like that." I told him. "I mean they do sometimes, but they usually don't go off in front of me or anyone else like that." 11

"I thought me and my little sister fought badly, but I guess not that bad." Jeremy said. 12

WE got to class and the coach wasn't there. Some kid said he had to go home, because his kid was sick or something. Coach was a funny guy, and didn't act old. It was kind of hard to believe he actually had kids and a wife. A few of us just sat down in on the bleachers in the gym and chilled out. A lot of the guys in my P.E class started grabbing dodge balls and throwing them at everyone.13

I got pelted with about four or five at once. Then I was ready to start something. I grabbed all the balls and hucked them and Vance and Lawson as hard as I could. Lawson jumped out of the way, but I hit Vance. He ran after me. I didn't get why he was running it was dodge ball you were supposed to throw the ball. Jeremy stuck his foot out sneakily, and tripped him. Vance wasn't paying attention and fell hard. Jeremy sprinted away, and stood on the other side of the gym with me. We got a lot of dodge balls, and started throwing them and Vance. It took him the longest time to get up, and start fighting back.14

I didn't think of it as much of a fight, but more of a game. I was very competitive. There was no way I could let the other kids win. Jeremy and I teamed up taking people down one by one. We took down Lawson pretty quickly. Then Vance, and some other guys I didn't know started throwing a lot of dodge balls at us. I could barely stay standing there were so many balls coming at me. Finally I caught a ball, and started throwing balls back at them. 15

The dodge ball game went on for a long time. I was getting really tired from running around so much. The other guys seemed to be getting tired too. I wanted to sit down to catch my breath, but there was no way I was going down with out a good fight. Soon we started climbing the bleachers and throwing balls at each other. Lawson tripped me, and I face planted it on the ground. My face was bleeding instantly, and really bad. Lawson looked kind of grossed out. Blood was running down my chin, and shirt. 16

I used my shirt to stop the blood, and kept throwing the ball at them. My chin really hurt. I was mad and I was fighting even harder by that point. Vance wasn't cutting me any slack either. He kept trying to push me down on the ground. He seemed to want a real fight, but I had already gotten sent to the office enough that day. If I didn't have so many detentions I would have beat the crap out of him. None of those guys were really strong by themselves. 17

Finally the bell rang. We all ran out of the gym to get to our next class. Man I really wanted to keep our dodge ball fight going. I went to the bathroom to wash my face, and clean my shirt off. At least I chose a good day to bring my hoodie to school. I didn't want to look like an idiot all day. 18

I went to last hour and was bored. Jason was pissed off, and didn't say anything to me. Nothing at all. It was really boring. I always talked to Jason in class, but I knew he was upset so I tried not to be so annoying for once. I waited slowly for school to be over with. 19

When the bell rang I realized I had detention. Jason did too, but I didn't know if he would come since he had to work. Maggie would come and hang out with me in detention I figured. I got a piece of paper out, and started drawing. I had a lot of homework, but I didn't want to do it. I would get to it someday. Maggie showed up, and sat next to me. She looked annoyed. 20

"What's wrong with you?" I asked.21

"I have last hour with a bunch of nasty preps. What isn't wrong about that. I have a headache." She complained.22

"Well get over it Jason isn't talking, and I need a detention buddy. Maggot wake up!' I poked her over and over until she got mad and slapped my hand. I gave up and sighed. Well I could use some sleep. I fell asleep quickly, and woke up to Jason smacking me in the face with a ruler.23

"Jason what the hell?" I complained. He sighed.24

"It's time to go." He said quietly.25

"Why did you hit me with a freaking ruler?" I asked. I rubbed my face where he had hit me.26

"You were having a weird dream, and talking in your sleep about beer." Jason told me. Well that was embarrassing. All I could do was laugh the things I did when I fell asleep in class. 27