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Chapter 1:
Like Any Other Kid

AJ walks into the locker room, taking long, quick strides as he always did. He towered above everyone else. He unlocks his locker, making sure that no one sees his combo. He pulls his clothes out: a pair of black jeans and a tight black T-shirt. He quickly pulls them on and walks back out the door, shouldering his pack.
AJ sits on a bench, alone, and waits for the bell to ring. He stares around at the other students who are walking around in shirts that cost fifty dollars and 'hanging' with their friends, ranting on about what they're going to do over spring break.
Why? He thinks, Why not me?
The bell finally rings, signaling the end of first period. AJ walks toward his next class: Yearbook.
Why did I want to take yearbook, again? He asks himself silently as he weaves through the crowd.
He opens the door to his next class and steps in. AJ puts his pack next to a computer and sits in a chair. He immediately starts colorscheming a page in a yearbook, with colors like black and blue.
A blonde boy walks through the door, laughing. He looks at the page AJ is working on. "AJ, not again. Give me that!" He takes the mouse from under the boy's hand and starts replacing the black and blues with red and orange. AJ stands up and looks around the room. He sees people playing games behind the teacher's back, people working hard, and people hardly working. AJ sits down and folds his hands.
He waits, silently, for forty-five minutes while the rest of the class works.
The bell rings, signaling break. AJ walks out and sits at the lunch tables outside. He notices the weather for the first time all day: clouds covered the sun making the air cool. Most of the clouds were dark, and he hoped that it would rain later on.
"What's up, AJ?" a familiar voice from behind asks.
AJ turns around and finds his life-long friend, Andrew, standing there.
"Hey, An," he answers, pulling raw pop-tarts from the front pocket of his backpack. His long brown hair hangs in strands as he leans over.
He opens the package and takes a bite of one of the pop-tarts, which turn out to be strawberry flavored.
"How's your day been so far?" Andrew asks.
"Alright," AJ answers.
The day passes quickly, and the final bell rings. The students run out from their classrooms, ready for spring break to begin. AJ walks out with the same quick strides. He meets Andrew in front of the office and they walk to AJ's house. As they pass a car, AJ hears a song. The lyrics ring clearly in his ears: 'And the sun sinks into the ground..."
He hears enough to figure that the song is called 'Vampires Will Never Hurt You'. The friends walk the half mile to AJ's house and, as soon as they arrive, put their packs down in the boy's room.
AJ picks up his laptop, a 2000 model Mac Clamshell, and searches for 'Vampires Will Never Hurt You'. He discovers a fairly new band by the name of 'My Chemical Romance'. He listens to samples of a few songs and then puts the computer down.
The friends listen to some music and then AJ turns to Andrew. "An, one day, we're going to leave California behind. We'll be huge. We won't be able to find anyone who can't remember the names 'Romalfangin' or 'Smeith'."

Chapter 3

The months pass, years, even. AJ and Andrew stay friends for the entire time. AJ stays the same, and My Chemical Romance becomes his favorite band. The Black Parade is released, and AJ is one of the first to buy the album. He begins to listen to it on his old CD player as soon as he arrives home.
He stumbles upon the song 'Cancer'. It makes him think back, makes him remember. Short clips of his life flash through his mind: AJ is lying on a couch, watching TV. And old woman walks into the room and sits on the couch next to him. She looks down at him with brown eyes the color of dark chocolate through sparse strands of grey hair. Then, images start showing the same old woman lying in bed with all her hair gone.
AJ can't do anything but sit on the floor and cry. He hugs his legs and utters one word: "Grandma..."

This sounds good.