Young Writers Society

Chapter III: My new crew.

The next day (Thursday) was expected to be the same thing all over again for Seiji, or like Tom and Tyreese nicknamed him “Forever Alone”. Seiji did all his typical morning things. Then he got into the bus in order to go to college. At the moment of getting there, surprisingly, there was Tom and Tyreese were waiting for him at the gate. Seiji recognized them at first sight but he did not care about them; he just ignored them.

“Hey man, where are you going?” Tom asked.

“What? Seiji asked”. “What do you mean by “what”?” Tom asked.

“We are classmates, right?” Tyreese said.

“Affirmative, but that is not a reason of trying to establish a conversation with me, so I might see you some other time guys,” Seiji said.

Seiji did not want to have friends because he liked to be alone. He literally rejected Tom and Tyreese’s attempt of friendship. Nevertheless, something really good was about to happen to Seiji. Seiji’s History teacher assigned him an indeed difficult task. Seiji was completely breezy about it; he did not think that the homework would make him work. As long as he was doing the homework, he realized that it was not as easy as he thought. The problem was that the assignment was in groups of three; he did not pay attention to that whatsoever; and he was doing it by himself. Suddenly someone called at his door, the doorbell rang 3 times, and due to the noise that it made Seiji got mad; he needed to change his attitude. At the door, he was very surprised because the person who was calling at the door was Tom and beside Tom, there was also Tyreese.

“What are you guys doing here?” Seiji asked.

“Did not you hear that the homework is in groups of three? And we are just two and we thought that you did not have anyone who to work with yet, so we decided to come and ask you to join us,” Tom said.

“Did the teacher establish that?” Seiji asked.

“Yes, he did. I told you Tom, he did not know about that,” Tyreese said looking at Tom.

“Will you join us anyways?” Tom asked.

“If that so, I have no choice, I will join you guys then,” Seiji said.

After that talk at the door, Tom and Tyreese asked Seiji if they could come in. Seiji hesitated but let them go inside anyway. Tom and Tyreese were checking the house out and asked Seiji for something fresh, something fresh to drink.

“There it is,” Seiji said pointing to a bunch of tools.

“You have got nothing” Tyreese said.

“Yes, I know that,” Seiji said.

His X-fly nothing was! He had not even begun with it. However, something was wrong there; Seiji was not the kind of person who liked to do with others but alone. But why was he being that confident with those guys? Seiji felt very comfortable with them; it seemed that they were getting along pretty good. When they finished their grouped homework, they started to talk about their lives and both Tom and Tyreese talked about their lives as well as they heard about Seiji’s.

“Now we understand why your behavior is like this,” Tom said.

Seiji told them about his entire life. He told how he was always by his own. His mother always working, how his father abandoned him and his mother; and how he had no one to whom he could share stuff with. Tom and Tyreese were amused when they heard about Seiji’s life. A while later, they talked about stuff they liked and stuff they did not like. They had different liking, nothing in common.

“Let’s make a pact”, Tyreese said.

“What kind of pact?” Tom asked.

“Okay, this is what we will do, we are never going to be part; we are going to be friends from now on, what do you think?” Tyreese said.

“It sounds pretty cool, Tom said”.

“Are we going to be friends? I have never a friend and I think that it would not be a problem,” Seiji said.

They continued chilling out at Seiji’s place until it got dark. It seemed like a new stage was about to start in Seiji’s life. He was about to go through a phase where he had never been in. That night Seiji barely slept because he was doing a lot of thinking about what had happened in his house earlier. When he fell asleep, there was a big smile drawn on his face.