As I was laying there on the floor, looking at the crowd that surrounded us and the guys who came to fight me.
I knew I don't stand a chance, because no matter how good you are at martial arts the amount of people can overwhelm you. But, I didn't show that I was overwhelmed, so with my hands on my knees as support, I stood up.
I look at the guy who brought the people to fight me and said, "I don't know who you are, but if I did anything to harm you without my knowledge I apologize."
He smirked and replied, "I am Watson Myers, my father is one of the richest in the country, and you seriously thought I would let you off with a simple apology!? No, no, I will make you my very own personal errand boy."
I replied whilst laughing, "Your father is rich, you are not. Make something of yourself, don't hide behind your father's name, Watson."
I was sure that I pissed him of more, but I said, "See I don't want to fight, ok? That too on the very first day, so let's all just forget this happened and move on shall we?"
He and his friends started laughing and insulting me, by saying, "He is pussy cat bro, he is not a man at all." I actually don't mind people making fun of me, I will laugh it off...
"You are a son of a b***h"
But when they insult the people I care about I don't hold back.
So without thinking, I ran forward and punched one of his mates in the face, the others came on to me, I evaded a few of them, but still got hit a few times.
Then out of nowhere, Noah came behind me and started to fight beside me.
I was startled, to be honest, I didn't think he would come, that thought never crossed my mind, because I always fought my own fights, nobody comes to fight beside me before, so when he came to fight for me, I was shocked.
That was the moment I started to trust him. Yes, we did talk to each other but I didn't trust him, but when he stood beside me and fought for me I started to trust him.
I don't trust anyone except my family and myself, due to my past experiences, but after a long time he was the first person I trusted to have my back and consider him as my true friend.
So, we both were fighting them, suddenly a loud, deep voice, was heard by everyone present there, "STOP THIS AT ONCE, I WILL NOT BE REPEATING MYSELF AGAIN!!!"
Every student present there was utterly scared, it was visible in their faces, we all stopped to fight and were looking at the direction of the voice.
I saw a tall man around my height, with a blue vest on, black pant and rectangular glasses. There was a badge which was on the vest with gold-plating, I couldn't read what there was engraved on it as he was quite far away. Some students tried to run, but the teachers nabbed them and the man said, "All of you in my office, NOW!!!"
That made it clear for me about who it was, The Principal, we all were escorted to the principal's office by the teachers.
On the way, I asked Noah, "What's the principal's name?" He replied, "Well his name is Henry Jefferson, he is the grandson of the person who founded this school, it's not like that the principal will be from the Jefferson's family the previous principal was someone else, he has actually worked hard and topped his class every year and got the position by his talent and effort."
When he said that I thought, "Damn, he has worked for it, I admire him."
Then inside the principal's office, he asked all of us, "What's the issue, why were you all fighting? Except these 2 you all are bleeding, why were you fighting?"
The 2 people he mentioned was me and Noah, it's not like we weren't bleeding, just not on the face, except that our elbow's, fists, and knees were pretty badly hurt.
Then Watson said, "These 2 came charging at us for no reason and started beating us so to protect ourselves we fought."
Again the 2 mentioned here is also us.
Noah stated, "We didn't start the fight, they pushed Alistair down and insulted him, then Watson insulted his mother, so he fought, he is my friend and I can't let him fight alone against 16 people so I too joined and fought him."
The principal said, "I don't believe either of your stories, I need evidence and proof before I take any action, so until then each and everybody of you get detention."
Then he looked at me, "Who are you? I have never seen you here."
I replied by saying that, "I am Alistair, joined the school 3 days back only."
He replied, "And in the 1st week of you joining you have fought and in my office, GREAT!!!"
I then said, in a confident tone, "I have no regrets about fighting them, Watson insulted me, I kept quite but he insulted my mother, so I fought them. If you don't believe me, you can check the CCTV footage in that area, before I charged at them, I looked if there where CCTV cameras, and there was, so if any problem like this happened, I will have evidence and the CCTV camera you have record audio too as I recall. So, you can check the footage if required. Thank you."
He then checked the footage and said the 16 people including Watson, "Call your parents, I want to meet them by today evening and you are suspended for 2 weeks."
He then looked at us and said, "Clever work done, after I meet their parents I will make the students to apologize to you. And you both seem like good, smart and strong kids, I have high hopes for you both, you can leave and by the way I will remember your name Alistair."
With that we exited the principal's office and continued with the classes, due to this issue almost 2 periods after recess had got over.
After school the students apologized to us.
A week later Sarah came to speak with me, "I'm sorry about how my friends treated you both and would like to be your friend."
I replied, "I accept your apology but you are not my friend, 'cause I don't trust you or anyone for that matter except Noah in this school, but Noah I don't mind you being friends with Sarah an Sarah I won't mind you hanging out with us, just that you aren't my friend."
Noah said to me in a husky voice, "Bro, that was rude." And I replied, "I don't care bro, I spoke my mind, she is their friend, she hangs out with them, you think she might not be like them, you are who you surround yourself with."
Noah then said, "Sarah, you can hang out with us, sure." I thought to myself, how could he trust a person so easily that too a person who is friends with the people who tried to beat him up.
She started to hangout with us from the very next day, I don't treat her any differently than Noah, I just don't trust her, and Noah told me that he has feelings for Sarah, good for him.
I treat everyone equally, but it depends on trust at the end, like who I call for help, who I tell my problems to, who I am willing to fight for and for who I will stand beside them when they need me.
After a few days of Sarah hanging out with us, she introduced us to another new student that year, apparently she came to class a few minutes before I did. Her name was, Emily.
Emily was 5'8 or 5'9, with a curvy body and she too seemed to come from a rich family, everyone seems to be from a rich family in this school, she was fair and wore hexagonal spectacles, it seemed actually different instead of the usual round or rectangular spectacles, she had purple lipstick on, a red shirt and a jean jacket on, wore denim skirt and silver shoes.
Noah then looked over at me and said, "You can have her mate." I said, "No, thanks. You can have both."
Then Emily asked all of us, "Let's share each other's Instagram Id's, so we can chat even outside school and make plans." Sarah exclaimed, "How did we forget to that, that's basic. Ok give your Id's"
We shared each other's Id's, then at night 9 PM I got a notification from Instagram, that Noah created a group for all of us. In which Noah and Sarah started chatting and making plans to go out to the movies on the weekend, as they were making the plan Emily joined the conversation as well, I was just spectating about what was going on.
Then another person messaged me privately...