“I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.”
Julius Erving

Hello, my name is Riley Oliver, many of you won't know me few will, but we can get to that later. Today was the first day of my senior year, and for my journalism class we have to keep a journal of our final years in high school. So here we go.

September 15th The year is 20fucking80 and in less than 4 days I will be 18, all my shit years behind me; 2 more months of high school and I’m finally off to college. My high school years flew by, after winning the world tournament for chess my freshman year it’s like everyone suddenly needed to know me, not like they wanted to know me the first 14 years of my life, but now I was different since I was always on television and sponsoring the newest watch or the next coming up brand and how could I forget about all the new gadgets, basically what I’m saying is whoever was my friend got all the shit I didn’t want which to be honest was 90%. Because of my sudden fame I always had some sort of plans, one lame ass thing after another, shopping, movies, dinner, bowling, sleepovers and really all I wanted to do was spend some time with my crush, too bad she never even noticed me before. Sometimes I wish I was invisible to everyone like I was to her.
Cynthia, hair that didn’t quite meet up the popular short standards of today, a bright blonde, almost white flowing like a waterfall as it falls off her shoulders as she walked passes me without even blinking. Her eyes were so blue you’d almost drowned in them if you gazed too long, always looking for an adventure it seemed. She was a shy girl the one most people over looked, like me before the incident. I just wish she’d talk to me, and I know what most of you are thinking ‘Why don’t you just ask her out Riley?’ Well let me tell you why, once in 11th grade I tried to talk to her and she just walked away???? Like what the hell am I supposed to do now. So I gave up and just look from a far. My one real friend Michael says I’m a pussy but I don’t see him going to talk to any girls.
When I got home today no one was home, not like I expected them to be. My dad finally opened his 4,000th store today so they are probably out at some party where they are just going to get drunk and stay the night where ever they are. In 2038 my dad opened the first Oliver’s, it was a huge hit. After Supermartz shut down in the 30s there were no really shopping centers, but with his lifesavings my dad, Richard Oliver, opened 3 Oliver’s over the state of Delaware. And because you probably shop at one you can only imagine how it went. My parents are new home, always off busy doing whatever they do, I enjoy the time alone but sometimes I wish I have real friends to hang out with.
Abraham made me dinner; he’s one of our servants but really more like a father to me, we ALWAYS eat super healthy which is annoying because I just want some chips and dip for dinner, but Abe’s never down for that. “How are you every going to stay in shape when you eat like that Sir Riley?” First off let me tell you, I’ll stay in shape because we have a gym in our house, which I must use for 2 hours a day after chess practice so that how Bram. But he never listens I know it’s not his fault he’s just trying to keep his job. My mom fires maids left and right but I won’t let them get rid of old Abe, and when he gets too old to work he will just live with me. For Christ sakes the man changed my diapers.
I skipped Chess practices today I told Abe that I felt sick and had tons of first day homework which wasn’t all lie, I did how homework but not that any of it mattered I could get into any school I wanted to and do whatever with me life.
I guess that’s really all I did today; wow my life is so eventful. Anyways good night world.

September 19th
The worst thing happened today, in 6th period history class Ms. Upshaw partnered me up with Cynthia. Now I know most of you might think that this would be good opportunity to get to know her but again, WRONG. Getting to go to someone’s house to work on a project is the worst time to get to know a potential date, because if all you talk about is the project you get no ground work done and if we neglect the project there go my grades. Now grades aren’t really important to my overly attached parents and I don’t need them for scholarships because money has never been an issue, they are just something I take pride in. For 13 years I have never gotten anything under an A, all those test where everyone but that one kid fails, I’m that one kid.
I asked Mr. Upshaw to change partners and of course being her favorite student she let me, but what she didn’t do was let me pick who I switch with and let me tell you that should have been a requirement because damn Zack is the dumbest kid in the entire senior class, no scratch that the whole school. Why oh why couldn’t I have had his twin brother Johnathon who was 2nd in his class, right behind me of course. Whatever I’ll just do all the work while he sits in the corner and gets high.
After I got home from school, I went up into my office and cleaned up and waited for Zack to come over. He said he’d be there at 4:00 but we’ll see. I made some pizza rolls, took a shower and finished all my other homework. I use to have chess practice after school in Tuesday but I quit going in 11th because I was too good for the teacher and he kicked me out, I think it was a stupid decision there was a lot I could have taught him but whatever I go to the park and play with stranger for money sometimes. Anyways where was I, at 5:55 I heard my door bell rings so I took the stairs and welcomed Zack to my house. The only thing I hate more than wearing pants is having people come over to my house; the school I am zoned to everyone’s annual income is about $35,000 and when your dad is worth $144.7 billion you grow up in a little different life style. My parents grew up in this city and that why we still live here.
I live in a house that we had built for $65.8 million and put on about 601 acers of land. My dad bought up a bunch of neighborhoods and built this way to big house, with two tennis courts, so many pools and slides it looks like a water park, racing track, horses, really anything a kid would every dream. My parents have more money than they know what to do with. And you can’t forget about the craziness of everything inside, I always feel ridiculous bring people over to my house, every room looks like it straight out of a catalog my mom does interior design as a hobby so my house is always changing. But since we couldn’t go to Zack’s house for reasons he wouldn’t say here we are. Sitting in my living room looking at my television, it takes up the whole wall; we had to have to room custom build around it. Sometimes it’s too much but I would never tell my father that he would be so betrayed.
Zack and I go into my study and set up for our project, it’s over the great war of 2035. What an easy topic, we finished the 9 page essay slideshow in 3 hours. So at 7:30 I order a few pizzas and a soda for us. His mom was picking him up at 10. Did she really think it would take that long? Oh well, Zack ate a whole pizza to himself, I barely finished 3 pieces. Abe always says that I have a tiny stomach because I never eat. But I know he’s wrong because the stomach doesn’t really shrink. I gave him the night off; I thought it would make it worse with Zack to have a butler following us around. Zack and I ran out of food around 8:15 so we just went to the movie rooms and did you know he has never seen the ninja turtles, not the original from 1990, although I have copies of them all the quality is shit. We watch the most reason one from 7 years ago; I’ve seen all 15 ninja turtle movies and every cartoon. It’s my guilty pleasure. I called up Michael to see if he wanted to come over and hang out since we had hours to kill but he didn’t want to hang out with “Zack the gross kid” To be honest, I kind like Zack, he’s funny and we like all of the same things. Michael should just give him a chance.
Zack’s mom got there 5 minutes before 10 which was nice because

Michael is a fake fuck friend and is sleeping with Shane, Zack and Riley become good friends, Cynthia has a fake crush on him, but she’s really a gold digger and tries to kill his parents.