In the first two semesters I worked hard to bring home good grades. I cared mostly about school and worried deeply about my grades. I mean, that's what I was expected to do, right? I was in higher level ed, somewhere only the mature, smart, and gifted children could go.
In the third semester my friend offered to ditch school with me. I've wanted to ditch school for a while now because.. all the cool kids were doing it. The first time I ditched I gained a couple of new friends, the cool kids. I was actually already friends with this girl named Lilin, everyone called her Lili. I, of course, had to be out of the pack, I always called her Lil.
Lili and I wanted to fight at first because of some jealous rumor someone had spread about me being rude. We made up quickly after that, people would probably think it's unreal how fast we got over it.
I don't know how it happened, but all at once, I became like the kids I envied. Popular, social, and known as a bad kid. Don't even come close to asking me why I envied these people, I just did. They were so known, and little by little, they were popular for the smallest things.
After a while of ditching school, smoking, drinking, running from cops, and doing bad just for the fun of it, we started to make our efforts smaller. We would leave school in the most obvious ways and not even care about anyone catching us. We would be caught and run in front of cameras just to have a bigger issue later. Trouble never looked so good.