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She gave me a big smile. "I know karate too. I practice it since I was 10. What style? Mine is Shotokan." she said with pride.

"Same." I smiled at her."We should practice together one time. We can do that in my basement. I've got a gym there and the ground it's covered with tatami mats**." I said and wiggled my eyebrows at her.

"Deal!!" she said excited.

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After our karate conversation, Mrs. Arnold came into the class and we learned about Ancient Rome. Let me tell you something. It was completely boring, but don't think that I'm some kind of student that doesn't give a fuck about school, because I do but it's just that I alredy know this things. I learned them in 8 grade in Latin class or how we used to call it torture hour. I don't understand why I need to learnd a language that nobody is speaking in this moment! Whatever, who am I to judge the learning system. Anyway, the point is that this hour was boring and so was Calculus because we recapitulate what we did last year. I tried to talk to Sparky but Mrs. Eliot was about to sent me to "take some fresh air" so I had to stop.

RIIIIIING

"Thank God." I mumbled but Sparky heard me and chuckled.

"I want you to try to resolve page 11 and 12 for tomorrow. Now, you can leave and I hope tomorrow some of you will be more quiet." Mrs. Eliot said and shot me a look. I hold back an eye roll.

I took my backpack and left the classroom. "What the hell is her problem? God, she was looking at me like I killed her puppy." I said and rolled my eyes.

Sparky chuckled. "That's Mrs. Eliot for you. You don't have to kill her puppy to make her glare at you. Last year I dropped my pen during a test. She said I did it on purpose to distract other students."

I started to laugh. "Oh my God. She's crazy! But at last we have no homework."

"Lighty, sorry to break your bubble, but she gave us 2 exercises." Sparky said as a matter of fact.

"Actually, she said we can try to solve them." I said with a smirk.

She rolled her eyes. "Really? Are just 2 exercises. I don't think you'll die if you solve them."

"But what if in that moment, when I'm concentrate on those exercises, a fire starts but I notice it to late? I could die."

She looked at me probably doubting my sanity. "I promise that it will never happen something like that when you're doing your homework. But if it does and you die, you can come back as a ghost and haunt me."

"Sorry, I can't risck. I still have things to do and fuckers to beat. Now now, what do you think about eating outside because I don't really like eating in the cantenee." I said when we arrived at our lockers and took the food out of the.

"Yes, I think it's a good idea. I know a place where we can stay and eat." she said and we made our way in the schoolyard, where was a big tree. His leafs where dried and alredy on the ground, gathered in a big pile.

"This place is beautiful. I used to do piles of dried leafs when I was little." I said and looked at the colors of the leafs. Some where red, yellow and some of them where still green. I always liked autumn because of this beautiful view and the not-so-hot wheather. I love rainy wheather.

"I used to do that too, back to the good old days when my parents where home and know they have a daughter." Sparky said and looked down at the pile of leafs.

I smiled. "Then we should start that tradition again. That one and the one with snow angels. Last time when I did one was when I was 12 maybe? I don't know but I remember that it was fun even if my butt was frozen."

Sparky started to laugh. "Yes that was really awesome too. Now let's eat." she said and we both sat down in the pile of leafs.

We ate in silence. Of course, after we splited the food in two again. This was the kind of silence I liked. A peaceful one. Usually, when I stay in silence is a awkward, or a suffocating one when all your thoughts are messed up in your head. But this time it was a nice one. Maybe the view helped too. The yard was covered in multicolor leafs and it was empty and calm. The wheather helped too. The autumn breeze casually hitting my face and ruffling my hair. But of course every beautiful moment, thing or person has an end. This moment end was that idiotic bell.

"Sparky, après vous. Lead the way to the French Revolution!" I said and gestured for her to go first.

She rolled her eyes but went first. "Please stop with the French jokes. It's alredy bad that I must stand Mrs. Bourdou speaking the whole hour just in french and I don't understand a thing."

I laughed at her frustrated face. "We'll see how bad is she." I said when we arrived in class and take a seat in the back.

I looked around to see if we have some familiar faces. Sam and Sky weren't here thank God, but the jerk was here. He and his still red nose.

I started to laugh at his red nose and pointed my finger at him when Sparky looked at me puzzled. When she saw him she started to laugh too and the whole class started at us including the jerk, but he glared at us. Our laugh died when Mrs. Bourdou entered the class.

"Bonjour les élèves. Aujourd'hui nous avons une nouvelle élève, Si'l tu plaît parle de vous." she said studying me.

"Bonjour madame! Je m'appelle Shadow Light Thunder. J'ai 16 ans. Je suis romain et je m'ai déménagé ici avec mes frères." I said the basic things she wanted to know.

"Très bien. I see that you know some french and I'm happy to see that. Do you have certificate d'une alliance française?"

"Yes I have A2, B1, and B2." I said and smiled at her.

"Oh là là ! Finally someone who knows what I'm saying. Well if you have a B2 this class is pointless for you, so you can do something else but if I ask you a question you have to answer me." she said and smiled at me.

I smiled too and seat down next to an shocked Sparky. "Why didn't you tell me that you know french? And that you know it so well?" she said and slapped me.

"Calm down! I didn't think that it's important." I said truthfully.

"Noo it's not important that my best friend it's a freaking bilingual! I have an A2 too but I can't talk like you." she said and glared at me.

"Actually I know 3 languages: Romanian, French and English. Stop glaring and you know freaking Irish!" I said and glared at her too.

"Good point." and with that she ignored me the whole hour. And the whole chemistry hour, but there wasn't her fault. Mr. Cast gave me and Sparky two extra sheets to complet today because we skipped yesterday. Nice.

Now we are heading to the gym to fight with the next Cast of the day. I hope he won't chop my head off when I'll ask him where are the uniforms. Yes, we have a gym uniform, sad but true.

I walked on the field and spotted him. Okay God please don't let him kill me.

"Hello Mr. Cast! I'm Shadow Thunder. I'm a new student and can you please tell me from where I can take my gym uniform?" I asked him, his back faceing me but not for long because he turned around and stared me down.

Wow he was sooo tall. And I was expecting an old grumpy man but this was a young man. Maybe 30 years old, well built, tall as hell and quiet good looking. Keep calm I'm not in older guys.

"So you finally decided to attend my hour? Don't tell me you felt sick and left home early yesterday." he said and glared at me.

"Actually, I was running from the canteen when I tripped and hit my head. And I kinda black out sooo my frined Sparky had to take me to the hospital." I said the standard lie I tell the professors when I have an attack.

He eyed me then said. "Let's say I believe you but you and O'Connor still have to make 2 more laps than the others for skipping without me knowing. Your gym uniform is in the locker room in the first locker on the right. Now go."

I didn't said anything. I just sprinted the hell out of there. I went into the lockers room and found my uniform. It was a pair of black shorts with a purple line in lateral and a black t-shirt with the emblem of the school on it. I changed in them and I started to made my way back to the field. I need to tell Sparky about the extra laps. But when coach Cast saw me blowed his whistle and said:

"Now, that we all are here first I want to present myself again since some of you skipped my last hour. I'm Mr. Andrew Cast and no I'm not related to the other Mr. Cast. You can call me coach to be more simple. Second, I wanted to inform you that we will take the resistence probe like in the other years so today we are going, sorry, you are going to run 2 laps except Thunder, O'Connor and the football team. Thunder and O'Connor will run 4 laps because they skipped yesterday and the football team will run 4 laps too because they had to. Now you can start your laps." he finished his mini speech.

I heard some teribble gym music blowing through the speakers. I have an idea. I run to the coach.

"Coach! Do you really expect us to run on this kind of music?" I said and looked at him puzzled.

"What has this music Thunder?" couch asked not very curios.

"It sucks and kids could fall asleep while running and injured themselves. And I don't think you want that." I said as a matter of fact.

"Thunder and what music from which band or artist do you recomand?" he said in a sarcastic tone but I answerd him anyway.

"Well I think Bring me the horizon Throne could go well."

"I was being sarcastic Thunder! Now go and run before those 4 laps turn into 6." he said grumpy.

"Fine." I said and started to run.

Don't get me wrong, I like running and I'm pretty good because for karate I need resistance, and I was running every day this summer and I'm  still working out to keep in shape, but now it's just that I really don't feel like running. That's all. And I'm bored because Sparky was across the field and all I can do is to make funny faces at her. I looked at the group in front of my. It was formed of 5 bulky guys one of them being the jerk. So they are the football team. By now I ran 2 laps and the rest of the kids were spread on the grass trying to remember how to breath.I chuckled when I saw them. As I started my third lap suddenly in the speakers starts to play Throne from Bmth. I grinned and looked at the coach to see him smirking at me with a face that said Let's see you now. This is exctly what I did. I slowed down to wait for Sparky then we started to sing together.

Remember the moment

You left me alone and

Broke every promise you ever made

I was an ocean

Lost in the open

Nothing could take the pain away

Until now we were running normal , singing and beaminig our heads on the beat but when the refren came we speed up and started to make some dance moves too.

So you can throw me to the wolves

Tomorrow I will come back

Leader of the whole pack

Beat me black and blue

Every wound will shape me

Every scar will build my throne

We speed up so much that we passed the football team and kids were videotaping us how we run and dance.

The sticks and the stones that

You used to throw have

Built me an empire

So don't even try

To cry me a river

Cos' I forgive you

You are the reason I still fight

At this verses we looked at each other dramatical and tried to reach for each other with one hand the the other on our hearts faking that it hurts.

So you can throw me to the wolves

Tomorrow I will come back

Leader of the whole pack

Beat me black and blue

Every wound will shape me

Every scar will build my throne

Now we were still looking at each other but we were pretending to scream and punch each other.

I'll leave you choking

On every word you left unspoken

Rebuild all that you've broken

And now you know

I'll leave you choking

On every word you left unspoken

Rebuild all that you've broken

And now you know

Every wound will shape me

Every scar will build my throne

Here we were slowed down and walked into slow motion until the beat starts to raise again.

So you can throw me to the wolves

Tomorrow I will come back

Leader of the whole pack

Beat me black and blue

Every wound will shape me

Every scar will build my throne

When the song came to an end we finished our laps too. After we stopped and scream the last verse we fall on the grass face first because we were out of breath.

"Good job, Thunder and O'Connor. I bet if I would've told you to take 7 laps you two wouldn't have." my eyes were about to poop when I heard that me made 7 laps instead of 4.

"What do you think about joining the track team?" coach adds when he saw our big eyes.

I smiled. "Sorry I'm loyal to my way of life."

"Yeah. Me too. Sorry couch." Sparky said and smiled too.

Coach looked puzzled. "So you are practicing another sport?"

Me and Sparky smiled and said in the same time.

"Karate isn't just a sport. It's a way of life."