“Huff huff." “Please Henry come back you need to hear me out please,”

I yelled while catching my breath.

“No never, What you say can’t be true it’s impossible! Please just do

yourself a favor and stay away from me, I’ll only end up hurting you more if you

find out,” Henry said.

Oh no, I am so sorry, we are having technical problems, That is not

supposed to come first. Why don't we start from the beginning? My name is

Aiden Peterson, and this is the story of how my life turned upside down. It all

started on the first day of senior year. I was on my way to the first period being my

clumsy self, spacing out and I bumped into Henry Smith the biggest trouble

maker in the whole school.

“Oh, I am so sorry I did not see you there,”

I had just dropped my books all over the floor and started apologizing while picking them

up.

“Yea, you should be sorry, what kind of kid is spacing out while they are

walking. You know you could of trip me over and made me break my leg,

honestly, you should watch where you’re going,”

He said while looking at me with a face of disturbance and anger.

“Yes I know I am very sorry it won’t happen again,”

I said.

I was trying very hard to make it sound like I was not mad at him for what he just said because what he said was pissing me off. I know I was half at fault but you could have moved and you were not paying attention as well you were looking down at your phone. I thought to myself. Honestly, I was starting my day at a bad start and already made someone hate me.

“Ya that’s right it is your fault you should be saying sorry,”

He said while two boys were calling out for Henry.

“Henry are you coming we have to turn in our group projects before the bell rings and were not getting F’s because of you,” they said yelling across the hallway.

“Anyway, I gotta go bye... tweeb,”

Henry said pausing to think of what to call me.

“Did he just call me a tweeb? What a guy, all I did was drop my stuff an bump into him. Ugggh that guy gets on my nerve.”

I whispered to myself.

Later that day I saw him again walking home alone. Now that I think about it I never saw him with any other people except one time last year he was with a girl walking home but after that, I’ve never seen him with someone other than group projects and teachers. So I did the stupidest thing ever in the eternity of stupid things. Which is I walked up to him and asked him

“Hey, henry want to walk home together?”...

I can’t believe the words that just came out of my mouth...

“What?!” Henry yelled in confusion and surprise.

“Well, you always walk home alone and I thought, well you might want to walk home with someone,” I said in a calm, low and very worried voice.

Henry looked like he was going to punch me after what I just said.

 “Are you taking pity on me?” He asked with his voice starting to turn into an angry tone.

 “Uhhhhhh, so which way is your house?” Avoiding the question because I was taking pity on him... well sort of.

From that day on, me and Henry started walking home together every day after school. After that, we started to have a love-hate friendship, but in a way, it was like we were close friends. People thought that it was weird because he had a short temper, always picking fights, and was rude to people all the time. While I am the soft, kind, apologetic, clumsy type but even with that, we made being friends it worked, or so I thought. It had been four months since henry and I became friends and got to know each other more, but I would soon find out that that is not the truth. Later around 4:00-4:50 pm school had just ended and Henry and I were on our way home.

“Hey so now that we’re friends and we walk each other home every day after school maybe I could stay at your house for tonight?”

I said hoping that he would say yes. I had never been inside Henry’s house. He was very protective of his things and would not let anyone near his bag or locker at school. Because of this it made me think what his house looked like but I didn't think of it much then.

“Are you ok? You've never asked me to …. Stay over before?” Henry said with a worried expression like something was really wrong.

I look at him with a face of confusion and said to him,

“well you know I just kind of wanted to see what the inside of your house looks like and have a sleepover with you like friends do,”

 I answered trying to make a good point for him to agree by using a sad puppy dog face. I know it might sound weird for a troublemaker but Henry really liked animals and could not say no to them so I thought this would work, or at least help him say yes.

“who said we were friends, and anyway what’s a sleepover?” Henry looked at me with a confused face.

 I was so stupid that him saying we weren't friends at the time rushed by my mind all I could think about was how he asked what a sleepover is.

“WHAT are you kidding? You don’t know what a sleepover is?! Now you have to let me stay over at your house," I said surprised that he did not know what a sleepover is.

“Ok ok fine but, when you come into my house just know that it's a little different from other houses. It’s because of my uncle and brother, not me though,” Henry said while trying to calm me down cause people were staring.

"Thank you thank you thank..... wait we're not friends?"

I started to feel like a bouquet of arrows just stabbed me in the back. Why was I so attached to this? Why did those words hurt me so hard? Of course we were not friends yet we've only known each other for a few months but, why did I get so sad then. That doesn't matter now, what matters is that I am going to show him that we can be friends.

“Well we barely know each other, how could I say we are friends but that's not important right now ok,” Henry said.

“You know sometimes I can't stand you,'' I said to Henry in a joking way.

“Ha ha, very funny,” Henry said.

I noticed what Henry had said about how he said his house is different but I ignored it and thought it was something about his culture or religious beliefs if he was even in one but I would see that was not at all what he was saying.

I was so pumped to do everything that people do in sleepovers. I love sleepovers but my sister said sleepovers are only for girls, and that boys don’t do them. And on top of that my parents were no help. They just said that they were for babies and little kids and that I am too old for that kind of stuff, but today I am going to prove her wrong. In a few minutes,

“So Henry, what is your house like?”

“Not much I guess it's just different, just don't freak out when we get there,” Henry said worried.

“Come on it cant be that bad I'm sure it's not that bad,” I said to henry.

“Just you’ll see when we get there,” Henry said, confident that I was wrong.

 we had arrived at Henry's house and by the time we got there it was already past 5:15 pm

"Ok, so you wait here while I go see if my brother and uncle are home, got it,” Henry said.

“Ok, but do you know how long that will take,” I said worriedly because it looked like it was going to rain.

“It will only take a few minutes I promise just, don't go anywhere,” Henry said.

Henry started to walk inside the house and a few seconds later, crash, bang, boom, clang. A bunch of loud and crazy noises had just come out of the house.

 “HENRY, are you ok in there do you need help,”

I was so worried if he was hurt but didn’t even start to think of what made all that noise in the first place.

“NO don't come in here. I mean I’m fine there's no need,” Henry yelled out of the house in a strange voice.

“You sure that sounded like broken glass,” I said to Henry.

Honestly I’m really worried about him and didn’t want anything bad to happen to him that would cause him to be hurt but if he says he's fine then I'll let it go.

“Well ok but be more careful and also I don’t mean to be rude but could you hurry it up the sky is getting darker,”

I looked up at the sky, the clouds were getting way closer and darker to us and I didn’t want to get wet.

"OK so my uncle and brother are here, but they said they're fine with you staying with a helpful nudge," Henry said to me.

"OK that's great so can I come in before it starts to …..,"

A loud bang of thunder interrupted me and then it started to rain.

“looks like I jinxed it,” I said while holding my backpack over my head so I wouldn't get wet.

“Ok sorry about that but you can come in now,”

I started to walk inside the house. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Henry’s house was very different from what I was expecting.