Sam stared cross-eyed at the kids in the cafeteria. Watching silently, staring past his best, and only friend, Kaila, to look at the teenagers eating, drinking, and having contests to see who can throw what trash in the garbage. Kaila blabbed on about her Art assignment as he turned to stare her in the eyes.
"-Sam... They're staring at us... They're probably making fun of us again," she looked down, suddenly not in the mood to talk. Sam felt mad, but kept it in control as he put a rough, calloused hand on her shoulder,
"Hey, it's okay... They can't find anything better to talk about so let them talk about us, look at us... We're practically stars" he smiled reassuringly. She smiled back and started talking again. 'I don't understand why it matters if people makes fun of us... ' he thought blowing his smooth, black hair out of his face.
He pulled his gloved hands out of his pockets and checked the time, "Sorry Kaila, I gotta go in for my sister, I need to pick her up for her dentist appointment," he bit his lip, picked up his bag and ran. He ran a couple blocks down to his sisters middle school, suddenly stopping as he spotted his seven year old sister with her teacher. Strolling into his siblings view, her teacher walked inside nodding to him. Mika, his little sister, screamed as she ran up to him. He chuckled and got down on one knee opening his arms, embracing her in a warm, brotherly hug.
"Sammy!!!" She giggled as he stood, lifting her feet high off the dirty ground. He chuckled and put her on the ground,
"Come on Mika, time to go to the dentist so they can clean those tiny teeth of yours," he picked her up and put her on his shoulders as some guys from his school passed. They gave him a weird look and he glared at them harshly. Turning around as if Sam and his sister can't hear them, they start talking about 'Sammy'.
"Sammy? What are they saying about you? Why are they talking about you?" His sister commented as they calmly walked past them.
"That's simple, Mika, I'm a star. They can't think of anything else to talk about, because I'm just so awesome and spectacular!" He over-exaggerated 'awesome' and 'spectacular'. The boys glared as they walked away,
"Sammy?"
"Hm?"
"What does spectacular mean?" Mika asked with a curious face. Sam chuckled and reach his arm up to ruffle her hair.
"Kid, the definition of spectacular is me. Your awesome and charming big brother."
Mika giggled, then laughed. Sam joined her. They then walked down the street laughing ignoring the rude comments made to them.
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