Today was the second to last time Joe would be an elementary school kid. At least he hoped so. He went his way towards the classroom. He was actually looking forward to this. That little shit Jared was going to get what was coming to him. He even started singing. "Classroom 303! Classroom 303! Ah here you are!" He was about to go in when... "Take that back!" Joe heard yelling and the sound of punching and kicking. "Take that back!" What was going on? I went into the room and saw what the commotion was. It was James. And he was actually beating up Jared! "Holy crap!" James kept yelling. "How dare you?! You think just because you play good boy, you can just do that?! Are you serious?! No way! Don't you even dare!" He was attacking him really hard. Even Jared's cronies were in shock. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" That's all Jared could say. "No, you're not! No you're not! NO YOU'RE NOT!!!" James was about to kick really hard, but I grabbed a hold of him. "Hey,hey, hey! I hate him too but you're gonna kill him. "Let me go! Let me go!" "Geez dude! What's gotten into you?!" James calmed down somewhat , but he was still quite pissed. "Jared... He told Ms. Mason we teamed up on him." What? Wait. What? "He beat you, but he didn't bruise you. But you did. That's why he was getting away with it. No one denied it." Joe looked around. What the hell was wrong with these people? Jared was groveling on the floor. "...You... Damn you.... I told you what would happen if you got..... in my way." What was that supposed to mean? "I don't care. I don't care anymore. Do what you want. I don't care." It seemed James understood what he meant though. "What's going on in here?!" Joe heard Ms. Mason's voice. Now we were in trouble.
We were outside the principal's office. The teachers were talking with Jared and his friends. No doubt telling them what happened, both truth and lies. James was looking down. "Um..." I tried to say something, but James cut me off. "You know... I don't know who my dad is." Huh? Wait? What? James continued. "Apparently my mom didn't mean to have me you see. But she did." Wait a minute. I was stunned. James was telling me something people never usually know. "Somehow Jared found out about that. I don't know how but... he threatened me with that. Said if I did anything to him, he would tell the whole class. So that's why he called me accident boy back there." It all made sense now. James didn't like Jared and he clearly didn't like how he was treating John. But he also didn't want to do something about it. Until today that is. "James..." "So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." James had told me something big. Something that John should have know instead. I don't know what John would do here but... I lightly tapped him on the shoulder. "Idiot. What is there to feel sorry about? I get it." "John..." "I'm the idiot here." In more ways then one. "James! James!" A woman came running up to James. "Mom?" So that was his Mom. "Oh sweetie. What happened? Are you hurt?" Did she know what had happened? If so, she didn't act like that at all. "I'm sorry.... I'm sorry Mom." That was all James could say.