Noelia was waiting downstairs, he looked at the cloxiously. He grew impatient from all the waiting. Noelia wondered what his children were doing. He called them with a loud voiake them speed things up.

  "Sofia! Julio! e on, yoing to be te for school," said Noelia.

  "Alright padre!" Sofia and Julio replied as both childre downstairs for school.

  "You kids be good at school, don't get into fights, especially you, Julio," said Rosa.

  "Okay abue, I won't get into fights,” Julio replied.

  Rosa turo Sofia then told her to watch over Julio as well and Sofia nodded. Sofia and Julio said goodbye to their grandmother as they were driven to their school. They arrived and were dropped in school, Noelia said goodbye and the kids waved bad said goodbye as well.

  Noelia watg his childreering school, he felt proud to see his childreing education to be used wisely for their future. Noelia then remembered Maria and said, “I wish you were here to see them.”

  "Alright Julio, don't get into fights, okay? Words from abue," said Sofia.

  "Yeah yeah I got it, hermana," Julio replied.

  Julio and Sofia ehe school, Julio went into his css and sat down at his seat o his friend. He almost fell asleep during mathematics, it was a good thing that Nond was there to wake him up.

  The recess bell had rang and all the studeed their css. Julio met up with Nond, they walked together to the school yard then they sat down below a tree.

  “How was math?” Nond asked.

  “I don’t know. I almost fell asleep, I’m not good with math but at least I could keep up with it,” Julio replied.

  “Oh yeah, I want to show you something,” said Nond, pulling out something from behind.

  Nond showed Julio a ic book that he wao read together with him. Julio agreed to read as well. When they were about to read, some kids went to them and it wasn’t a friendly approach.

  “Hey Juan Shakespeare, what do you have there with your little friend?” said the kid.

  Julio hated that niame, he was never a fan of it. But Julio decided to ighem and just tinued reading with Nond while also telling him to ighem too. The kid named Donova offended, he forcefully took the ic which made the two furious.

  “What the heck, Donovan?! Give it back!” said Nond, trying to reach his ic book.

  Julio felt angered and disgusted seeing them pig on Nond. He wao hit them but he remembered his grandmother’s words. However, they were already getting on his nerves so he had no choice but to fight them.

  “Give that ba,” Julio firmly said.

  “Or what? What are you going to do, cry?” said Donovan, ughing at the two along with the others.

  Julio immediately punched Donovan in the nose and a fight broke out betweehe kids went to help Donovan, Noo help Julio. The two were outnumbered, they got beaten up. Julio was elbowed in the back, it hurted badly but Julio kept fighting.

  Sofia was hanging out with her friends and when she saw her little brhting, she rushed to stop the fight. Sofia called them out and threateo call the teacher. The kids were afraid, so they ran away.

  “You’re lucky to have a hot senior at your side! I’ll be back for payback!” said Donovan running away.

  “Hot senior in your dreams…” said Julio.

  Although Julio and Nond were covered in bruises, they were fine as they also inflicted some damage to those kids. They were both lucky as Sofia stopped them or else it could be worse.

  “Abue just said don’t go into fights this m and here you are!” said Sofia.

  “They started it!” Julio replied.

  “How are you going to expin to the teachers and padre?” Sofia scolded. “Why ’t you just stop fighting childishly?”

  “They were pig on us, you wouldn’t uand! Everyone here likes you just because you’re the pretty girl here even that Donovan seemed to have a crush on you!” said Julio, raising his voice. “He probably doesn’t know that you’re my sister.”

  Julio calmed down and turo Nond, he said, “Sorry I got you into this, Nond.”

  “It’s fihey were bullying us, so you did the right thing,” Nond replied.

  “Although we were losing, I’m grateful for you having my back too,” said Julio.

  Sofia sighed and said, “Let’s get you guys patched up. Wouldn’t want to see you guys like this, especially in front of your parents.”

  Sofia brought Julio and Nond to the school nurse and had them patched up. The nurse wasn’t surprised to see them with injuries and already suspected them of being in a fight.

  After school ended, Noelia went to pick up his children. His face was stuo see Julio. He ran up to Julio and said, “Did you have a fight again?”

  Julio stood quietly embarrassed and didn’t want to admit it. Sofia took the initiative and said that Julio did it in self-defense from kids who were pig on him and his friend. Even though Sofia defended him, Noelia was still not pleased with it. As expected Julio was scolded by his grandmother.

  “Anht? Julio! This is getting out of hand! What were you thinking?!” Rosa asked.

  “The bullies started it! They were pig on us, I had to beat them up!” Julio replied.

  “Julio…violence doesn’t solve anything, you should rethink your behavior,” Rosa scolded.

  “It was to defend my friend!” said Julio.

  “Julio, that’s enough!” said Rosa, raising her voice.

  “Alright fine…” said Julio, accepting his fate.

  Julio went into his room, he stared at the wall pting on himself. He kept asking himself why he always gets into fights. He didn’t want to but the situation made him forced to fight. He heard his elder sister knog on the door.

  Sofia opehe door to check up on him and asked, “Hey Julio…Does your injury still hurt?”

  “Sort of…” Julio replied.

  “Alright, get some rest for school tomorrow, good night!” said Sofia.

  “Good night,” Julio replied, going to sleep.