I was at ACE today (I failed my second semester English 9... it was my teachers fault! Honest!). Being in a class full of rich snobby kids (ACE cost $$$ to go to so you don't go to summer school, I coughed up money so I could go to marching band), they saw that I had books and like to read them for fun. After class they decided to "have a little fun" with me. They tried to beat the crap out of me and take my books and burn them. The burning of my books is fine cause I have about 3 copies of those books, but beating me up isn't, seeing as how I can't deal with all the physical pain caused by my own movement during marching band conditioning. At first they pushed me down (5 of them vs 1 of me) and took my books and made a small bonfire and forced me to watch them start going up in flames. Then they started to pummel me. I got free briefly and crawled over to and picked up my English textbook (The only one that I didn't have a copy of, heh) and while it was still on fire slammed it into someones head. I guess they saw me wielding a flaming textbook and saw their friend with a heavily bleeding nose and his hair scorched and ran (it isn't as epic as you are probably picturing it).
The worst part? I dropped the book and helped the guy that I hit get up, and helped him get to the school (he was bawling) so the nurse could check him out. The 4 other guys had come back and said that I had started the whole thing and burned my books and was crazy. On account of the fact that I gave the guy a really bad nose bleed and burned some of his hair off his head, they threw me out of ACE and I am suspended for my first week of actual school. I also have to pay for my $80 text book. I found out that the actual reason they suspended me was that I came back. They didn't believe the other people until I showed up helping this guy out. I narrowly avoided getting kicked out of marching band though, which is good I guess. The band is a school function but run by the group of parents, so the school can't kick me out of it. Good thing my parents are in the group that runs the band and they believed me. Don't you just love the educational system we have?