Noughts and Crosses

Jacks POV

I'm a Cross.
Always have been and always will be.
I maybe white but I would rather be a Cross than a Nought any day.

"Jack get up." Mum said and walked into the room I shared with my older brother, Kyle.
He was still asleep. Luckily bastard was all I could say.
"I'm up." I said quietly and sat up.
Mum left the room and I put this shitty uniform on what I had to wear for the school I was going to.
"Well who looks like a pretty boy then." Kyle said.
"Fuck you Kyle." I said and walked out the room.
I went out to the tiny kitchen and looked at what we had but didn't fancy anything to eat.
"Sweetie you have to eat." Mum said quietly as she followed me to our tiny sitting room.

Our house was really small. It only had two bedrooms.
Which was a pain when my sister was alive as me and Kyle slept either on the sofa or on the floor in the sitting.
But since she was killed we moved to the bedroom which we had to share.
I lived with my mum, dad and brother.
And my sister, Lucy, before she was killed by another Cross but I'm not going to talk about it.
So it was safe to say our house was really crowded.

"I'm not hungry." I said and pulled on some trainers, which was black so it shouldn't matter that much.
Kyle came into the room and looked in the cupboards for something to eat.
"Have you been eating my food Jack?" He asked.
"Why would I want to touch your food? It's disgusting what you eat." I said.
I was close to Kyle, but not really close like I was too Lucy.
I got up and picked my bag up.
"Good luck sweetie." Mum said and kissed my cheek.
"Give them fucking hell Jack! Stupid daggers." Kyle said.
"Kyle! Don't speak like that! We are Noughts as well but chose to live as Crosses." Mother said.
"I'm not a Nought and I'll never will be." Kyle said and got his food and sat and started to watch TV.

I met with my mates and we walked to school.
"We'll show them daggers we ain't stupid." Tom said.
He was a proper Cross.
"If anyone gets any shit, come to me, I've come armed and ready to stab the bastards!" Morgan said and being deadly serious about it as well.
"But Jack will fit in just fine since he's a dagger as well." Someone spat.
"I'm not a dagger! I'm a Cross just like you. Never compare me to a dagger. It'll be the last thing you ever do." I growled and looked at them making sure they knew what I meant.
"Steady on there Jacky. Safe the fighting talk till we get to school." Tom said.
"I have plenty of that." I said quietly to myself.
We walked to the school in silence.

We got there and the whole school was pretty much stood at the front of the school.
The whole place went quiet.
"Well at least this is a warm welcome." Morgan said quietly as we walked up the steps.
Someone tripped one of us up.
"Stupid niggas." Someone said.
"Go back to where you came from!" Someone else shouted.
"We have a blanket lover on our hands!" Someone else said loudly.
I cringed at the name they labeled us with.
Someone stood in front of us.
I looked at the person and didn't recognize them.
I knew that there was one person in this whole school I did know and I could spot him from a mile away.
Alex.

But I was pulled from my thoughts by the person saying something.
"Eeny, meena, Mina mo,
Catch a nigger by the toe;
If he hollers let him go,
Eena, meena, mina, mo."
His finger landed on someone.
He walked down the steps. "No nergos allowed." He said quietly and pushed him hard down the steps.
We looked at him in shock at what he had just done.
"You fucking dagger!..." Morgan said and moved but I stopped him.
"Leave it. The dagger bastard will get what's coming to him soon." I said quietly and looked him straight into his eyes.
"Blanket lover turning against his own." He said loudly.
"I'm not a Nought and I'll never will be one." I growled and barged my way pass him.

There was only 3 of us left by lunch.
After everyone else got beaten up or got fed up with the raciest remarks we was getting.
After countless spit balls and loads of remarks being said I was glad to actually see who else was left.
We sat on one table while everyone looked at us.
"The fuck are they all looking at fucking daggers!" Morgan said.
I chuckled.
"Bet your fitting in just as well." He said and looked at me.
"Since I said I'll never be a Nought I've been getting exactly the same treatment as you all are getting." I snapped.
"Look we have to look out for each other." Tom said being serious.
"Which is why when..." We was stopped by someone.
"That's it you fucking terrorist you plot to blow up the school. You won't get very far with it." Someone said loudly.

For some reason I recognized this voice.
It was a voice I haven't heard for 10 years.
I turned round and looked at the person who said that.
It was Alex.
He was sat on the table smoking and looking hard at us.
"Alexander put that cigarette out and the school is a no smoking place." A teacher said.
He got up and walked over to us.
"Fucking filth." He said with vemon and put his cigarette out in Morgans food.
"Your gonna fucking pay dagger!" He said and got up but Alex had him pinned down on the table.
"Now listen here Niggas. You are not welcomed here. You will NEVER be welcomed here. While your here you lives will be hell. Don't try and fight me you fucking wog. I can beat you down quicker than anything." He said in a low voice.
He looked at me and something in his eyes changed.
He spat in my food and went back to the table he was sat at.
Have to say he has gotten a whole lot cuter since I saw him when we was little.
But I had to pull them thoughts out of my head as being gay was against the rules, even in Cross world.
"Do you even have a clue who you just tried and pick a fight with Morgan!?" Tom hissed at him.
"Why would I know who the dagger was?" He asked confused.
"His name is Alexander Gaskarth. His father is the leader of the Nought world." I said in a low voice.
They both looked at me.
"I was a dagger once. But not anymore." I growled and pushed my food away and went somewhere.
All eyes where watching me.

I had history next and I was sat at the back when someone walked in.
"Nice to finally see your face Mr Gaskarth take a seat next to Jack." The teacher said.
"I ain't sitting next to no blanket lover." He said in a low voice.
"You either sit next to him or get out my class and fail this class." He said and looked at him hard.
"Fine! Don't blame me if I get some Nigga illness." He spat back and sat down but sat as far as he could away from me.
I understand why he was being like this. I was a Cross in his eyes and I should get everything what everyone else is getting.
"Oi blanket lover!" Someone said loudly.
I ignored them and carried on with my work.
"I'm speaking to you Nigga!" Someone said and slammed there hand on the table.
I looked put the corner of my eye and saw Alex looking ä the dagger.
"Get out this class and never come back." He growled.
I looked up to him.
"I'm not going anywhere dagger!" I spat.
They looked at me shocked at what I just said as I barely said anything all day.
"What did you say?" He questioned and got in my face.
I stood up and got in his face and see how he liked it.
"I'm not going anywhere dagger." I growled and spat in his face.
"I better not get any disease from you!" He said loudly.
"Now you know how I feel when I get you filthy germs spat all over me." I said quietly and looked him hard in the eye.
He got up and went back to his seat.
"Stupid white trash." I muttered and sat down.
The rest of the day was unexciting.

I got home.
"How was your day?" Dad asked .
"Well fucking shit but I'm not going to let it get to me." I said and got a drink.
"I have tons of stuff to do so I'll see you in a bit." I said and went to my room.
Kyle was sat on the bed smoking.
"How was your day then pretty boy?" He asked and sat up
"Don't you fucking start Kyle I have had a whole day of insults thrown at me and I DON'T want any from you!" I said loudly.
"Chill your beans man, I'm just messing with you." He said with his hands in the air.
"Whatever just fuck off and leave me alone." I said quietly and tried and do my work.

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