Noah was in his fifth period class with Liam, American history. They were already done with their work so they were chatting with each other. Then the principal Mr. Brandese, walked in.

"Hello students, good to see you again" he said, "We have a new student at the school, his name is Clifton. Give him a warm welcome, everyone."

The new student was brunette, with Brown a eye. No, that was not a typo, I said eye in singularity because the students could only see one of Clifton eyes. His other eye was covered by an eye patch, with a crude looking anime eye on it.

"PIRATE!" Noah immediately yelled.

Clifton stood there in confusion. Liam just laughed.

Noah walked up to Clifton and examined him closely. Noah was obviously, yet obliviously, scaring the new kid. Clifton probably thought that he was about to get bullied. Well in all honesty, that's pretty much what was happening.

"Umm... I'm not a pirate." Said Clifton.

"Yes you are! Look at the way you're dressed!" Noah replied.

Well he wasn't wrong. Clifton was dressed in a brown vest and underneath he was wearing a white, long sleeve, shirt with puffy sleeves. He also had on rugged brown pants that looked very worn. And again, Clifton was wearing an eye patch.

"What about the way I'm dressed?" Clifton was very confused.

"You're dressed like a pirate!" Noah said. Liam walked up next to Noah.

"You gotta admit, you do look like one." Liam said, putting his elbow on Noah's shoulder and leaning on him, to show that he was on Noah's side.

"Oh, well I just kinda threw this on this morning." Clifton said. Now Noah and Liam were confused.

"Why would you even have this in your closet? Or at least wear the long sleeve by itself. Why would you need the vest? It makes you look fucking dumb." Well damn Noah, I didn't know you were the fashion police.

"I-"

"So what? Are you just some type of asshole appropriating pirate culture?" Noah accused.

"Huh? No!"

"I'll have you know I'm a volunteer for the pirate culture association."

"I… I don't believe you."

"No he seriously is. He's got over 142 hours of community service." Liam chimed in.

"Are you in a prison sentence?!" Clifton was starting to tear up a bit.

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"Not any of your fucking business!" Noah crossed his arms.

"I can't help but feel like you're a complete dick." Clifton said, not completely wrong.

"Nope, I'm a Noah!" Noah said as he reached out his hand, to shake Clifton's. Clifton took his hand and shook it.

"And I'm, Liam!" Said Liam.

For the rest of the day Noah and Liam, instead of going to their regular classes, followed Clifton around school while asking dumb questions.

"Do you know Johnny Depp?" Liam asked.

"Uh… who?" Clifton was in the middle of eating a sandwich.

"You know, the hot movie pirate." Noah said.

"I don't think I've ever seen a pirate movie."

"Is it because you think they're offensive to your culture?" Liam asked.

"No? I just prefer mechs."

"Mech? You mean like the anime robots?" Noah asked.

"Yeah."

"I thought pirates hated robots." Liam whispered to Noah.

"Me too." Noah whispered back.

"I can still hear both of you." Clifton was getting tired of the pirate talk.

"Where'd you come from?" Noah asked.

"California."

"California?"

"Yeah."

"Like Hollywood?"

"No, San Diego."

"What part of the sea is that?" Liam asked.

"Are you serious? It's a city, not in the sea."

"Sure, got it."

"Are you two normally like this?"

"No." Noah answered.

"Yeah not usually, but we've never had a foreign exchange student before." Liam chimed in.

"I'm not foreign!" Clifton had just about enough of them both.

"Anyways, do you want to meet our friends?" Noah asked.

"Huh? You really want me to meet your friends? Like you guys aren't just going to bully me, beat me up, and then strap me to a large log and light a fire underneath me, and then continuously turn me around on that same large log so that I get evenly cooked? Like what happened in middle school?"

"What?"

"Nothing. I'd love to meet your friends." Clifton took a bite of his sandwich.

******

So after school, just like promised, Noah took Clifton to go meet his friends and his brother.

"Why the hell do you look like a pirate?" Jayden asked him.

"I'm not a pirate, I just look like this, okay?" Clifton said.

"You sure as hell look like one."

"You remind me of your brother."

"Fuck off."

"Will do." Clifton was done talking to Jayden. He turned to the others. "Nice to meet you guys. I'm Clifton."

Clifton reached his hand out to shake Jason's.

Jason was confused by his outfit, but he still shook his hand.

"Nice to meet you too." Benjamin said.

Clifton seemed to fit in with the guys, and was happy about that. So he decided to say something that he should have never said, in order to save his sanity.

"Hey guys, I get the feeling you're cool, and definitely won't appoint me prom king only to cover me in extremely hot tar and then feathers in front of the whole school, then push me off stage and leave me stuck to the floor while you all continue dancing to the hokey pokey."

"Oh my god, did that actually happen to you?" Jason was very concerned.

"no, and I don't want to talk about it. Anyways my family rented a boat and we are having a costume party, wanna come? There's going to be a barbecue and games." Clifton said.

"You have a fucking boat?!" Exclaimed Noah.

"What? No we don't have a boat, we rented one. Was the only word you heard 'boat'?"

"Hell yeah! I wanna go!" Noah looked back at his friends who nodded in agreement.

The guys followed Clifton to his family's rented boat. Now I hope you weren't expecting a fancy boat like a yacht. If you are then stop it. Because It's a goddamn pirate ship. Like a whole pirate ship. Noah lost it over this.

"Dude you're a pirate! Don't even lie to me!" Noah said, though tears of joy.

"Why are you so emotional about this?" Clifton was kinda worried about what he got himself into.

"It's beautiful!" Noah ran up and hugged the boat.

"You shouldn't have invited him." Jason said to Clifton.

"Yeah… probably." Clifton already seemed tired.

The boys walked on the boat. Clifton waved to some of his family, a couple of them came up and hugged him. They were all dressed like pirates and had chests full of gold. Probably fake gold though.

"They're all pirates! Look at their clothes!" Noah started pointing at people.

"Yeah, it's a costume party." Clifton pointed out.

"Dude, that guy has a pegleg!" Noah exclaimed.

"He's a veteran dude. He lost his leg in war." Clifton said kinda disappointingly.

"Noah, you can't just say random crap about his family whenever you want!" Jason Scolded.

"Don't you dare tell me he's not a pirate! He has a fucking eye patch!" Noah yelled. People started looking at him.

"I just wear this cause I think it looks cool." Clifton interrupted. He lifted it just to prove he still had an eye underneath.

"Shut the hell up!" Noah snapped. The others stepped back, in fear. I'm scared and I'm the one writing all of this. Noah continued. "Like come on, you have to know that it doesn't look cool!"

Two large men dressed as fancy looking pirates, grabbed Noah by the arms and carried him off the boat as he tried to squirm and break free.

"I'll bring you a plate of food!" Jayden yelled after him.

"I'll kill you! I'll

kill you all." Noah screamed as he was dragged away.

"He's going to kill me over this?!" Clifton looked very scared.

"You shouldn't have invited him." Was all Jason could say