I walked back home from school, with a conscious to tell me to keep on looking behind me to see if the strange boy in my class was behind me. I sighed for the 5th time, when I saw there was no one that was behind me.

What he said to me this morning left me a little angry. Who was he to tell me that he preferred he liked long hair better on me? A hair stylist? An alien? And not to mention the alien part... he was so weird!

He kept on tapping on my shoulder, and when I turned my head to look at him, he made different funny faces at me every time I turned his way. What I found was even stranger about him, was that he hung out with Rap Monster and the boys at lunch!

Not any ordinary new boy at my school would gain so much popularity to hang out with those boys. I couldn't even believe it when I saw him sitting with them, laughing and talking with them like he was friends with them for awhile.

I scoffed, seeing how boys can handle it fine. If it were a girl... the story would end by other girls killing her to death with jealousy and hate. I soon arrived to my rest place, the neighborhood playground.

It was where I would always go when my parents aren't at home when I come home from school, and besides, it's also one of my favorite childhood places to go.

I walked through the park towards the gates of the small empty playground, and came towards the swings where I placed my backpack down at the base.

I sat down, and began to swing my legs back and forth, and began to swing. The soft breeze felt good on my skin, and I closed my eyes for the most of the time as I swung back and forth, remembering the other times I've come here in the past few years doing the same thing since it relaxed me.

But, there was a sudden interruption that caused me to open my eyes. There was a crunch, of someone's foot stepping on some dead leaves and twigs, and I looked up and saw he was already looking at me.

My eyes w