A Generalized Story Idea

Dear Eighth Grade, Why ME? Part 1

Why 8th grade? Out of all people, you pick me, Theodore Conners, 8th-grade misfit. I guess it would be best to start off at the end of 7th grade. End of the 7th grade comes and the school's out. I'm off to Portland and then back home to my friends. Portland was a bore but it was nice to be back home. I spent the summer with my friends Nikolai Hunt, Uzamaki Ashikaga, and Leon Tremaine. We spent hours on bikes, in pools, and in dingy basements gaming.

"Dang, missed again!" Uzamaki called, laying in Leon's basement. "Gotta get that point." We were all playing Battlefront 5, hot of the presses. Nickolas and I were watching the screen, just as intent, but Leon was in the corner with his girlfriend Caroline Hemsworth talking. "Guys, would you keep it down?! I'm trying to have a conversation here." Leon hollered. "Dear, calm down. They're boys, they aren't dating anyone yet, so they're incompetent little sods." Caroline chided quietly. Unfazed, Uzamaki focused on the game and then promptly fell in a gouge twenty feet deep. "Dang it!" Uzamaki bellowed, throwing the controller at the T.V which broke right away. "Oi, keep it down, you little gits!" Caroline roared, completely oblivious of the fact the T.V instantaneously combusts right in front of her. Twenty minutes later, Leon's house was burning. The house managed to stop after an hour or two. "Dang, well. That sucks." Uzamaki said nonchalantly, "I'm just gonna leave now, so bye!" Uzamaki raced off towards his house. So, we started summer with a bit of arson, nothing big.
I guess I should start off with how the whole gang met. I guess you could say it was a stroke of fate, I say that it was pure dumb luck. Meeting Leon, Uzamaki, Nikolai and Emilio probably was a pure accident. I knew Nikolai and had met Uzamaki. I

Next week, Leon had invited us to the local pool club, Allen Poe. "Hey dudes, check it." Uzamaki had gotten/stolen a chemistry set. "I've got some charcoal and solar flares, let's see what happens when I mix them together and set it off." Uzamaki did just that, that day we learned that mix enough charcoal and pour it into a solar flare, it'll make a big boom. He had swum under the water and placed it over the filter. Just to prove his intelligence, the lit it and swam up. "Clear the pool guys! It's gonna blow!" Emilio sprinted out of the pool followed by me and Leon. Nikolai stayed in the pool, big mistake. Two seconds later, Nickolas stumbled out of the (now empty) pool, covered in scabs and burns. So, we got in trouble for the second time in a week and Nikolai would spend the rest of the summer in the IT room of his house. Yep, all our parents have their own weird quirks. Nikolai's parents are obsessed with safety, Emilio’s collected guns, Leon's are normal, Uzamaki's watched anime and collected swords, and mine was fairly normal.