The next day all the friends were at the bus stop and Cory hasn't arrived yet.

He was busy wrapping a bloody cut on his arm. His dad got mad because he was told by his boss that he had to take away some off days from him. In his rage he threw a knife at Cory and it grazed his arm.

When Cory was finished, he rushed out the door and went to his stop.

    When he approached everyone's head turned his way as they smiled. He did a slight wave and stopped a few feet away from them.

    "Hey you know you can walk closer." Stated Nick.

    "Yeah, we don't bite." Laughed Tommy.

    Cory shouldered his backpack. "It's fine. I don't want to intrude."

    "It's fine with us. Right guys?" Dawn asked looking at his friends.

    Jon gave a thumbs up. "It's fine with me!"

    Ashlie nodded. "Same here."

    "Of course she's fine with it." Nick snickered.

    She gave him a death glare. "What was that?"

    "I said of course it's fine." He smirked.

    She narrowed her gaze. "That's what I thought."

    Uni was trying to hold in his laughter. "Yeah, it's totally fine with me."

    Tommy burst out laughing. Cory looked at him weirdly. "Is he okay?"

    He caught his breath. "Totally dude!"

    The bus came up and opened its doors. Everyone got on.

    Cory sat in the same spot. To his surprise Nick sat next to him. He noticed his gaze and smiled.

    Tommy sat behind them, Jon and Dawn sat across from them with Ashlie and Uni.

Cory looked down. "You guys don't have to change your seats just because of me. I'm not worth it."

    Tommy jumped up to hang on the back of this seat and shrugged his shoulders.

    "If you don't feel comfortable with us being here we could always go back." Offered Uni.

Cory looked out the window with an empty expression. "You can do whatever you want to do."

    They didn't move and started talking. They tried to involve Cory, but he just answered their questions and went back to staring out the window.

    Jon whispered into Dawn's ear. "This isn't working."

    Dawn tried to think of something. "What are your classes Cory?"

    Cory told them and they looked him in surprise. He was confused. "What?"

    "Your in my class!" They yelled.

    "Okay." Cory said still confused.

    Uni looked at him. "But on the first day we tried to find you but we couldn't."

    "Yeah, we thought you weren't in any of our classes." Jon added.

    Cory just shrugged. "I am very unnoticeable."

    "You'd be good at playing hide and seek cause you can hide in plain sight." Exclaimed Tommy. Everyone rolled their eyes.

    Once they got to school they went their separate ways to get to their lockers.

He had advanced English first, good thing he remembered all of his classes and their location.

    Once he got there he sat in his seat in the back. Cory looked down at his desk waiting for the teacher.

Then he noticed Nick about two seats in front of him. He sighed and tried to ignore the stares of other students.

They were taking a test to see where they are with their knowledge. That took up the period and he went to his next.

That was basically how his day went, pretty smooth. The only classes he didn't have with those kids were his music classes. He sighed up for choir and orchestra. He always wanted to learn how to play the violin since he already knew piano.

After the school day was over he went to his locker to go home. Suddenly he was slammed against them.

"Aww, did I almost crack your lens freak?" He heard a familiar voice sneer.

He turned to face Ched Damson. He calmly closed his locker and locked it up and shouldered his backpack.

Cory was shoved to the ground by Tony. "Hey! When he's talking to ya you say something back!"

Cory sighed. "What should I say?"

The three bullies stopped and stared, not knowing what to say. This caused Cory to escape and rush to his bus without being noticed.

He smiled slightly. What a wonderful day. "I can't wait to go home." He thought bitterly.

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