I look at the calendar, January 24th. I pull my backpack strap over my shoulder, and head out the door for school. The snow blows in my face,and through my brown hair, I flip my jacket hoodie over my head. Once, I reach inside school people flood around me and talk and laugh, but I ignore them.
"I hate being the popular kid." , I mummer. My friend, Dany , slides through the crowd and by my side. Dany has the same hair cut as me, same clothes, but not same face features.
"Hey, bro." ,he says punching me softly in my arm, "Why aren't you happy, your popular!?!"
"Well maybe if people weren't in my face all the time, I'd think I'd love it."
"Well sure, but isn't that the best part, everyone is actually talking to you and not about you?!" , Dany yells, mostly in my ear.
"Nah, then your personal space is really invaded." , I star , right as a kid with braces and tons of books in his arms pops up,
" Wow, i-isn't it awesome being popular, and getting so much attention?!" ,he spits. I wipe my face.
"Oh sorry." , he smiled awkwardly.
"It's ok." , I said.
A few people whisper,
"Eww, that is so disgusting!", they say, "No wonder he isn't popular."
I search for an entrance through the crowd, and push through people.
The bells rings and everyone rushes into the school. I head for my class, girls giggle as they pass me. The teacher walks into the classroom. Dany sits next to me and grabs out a sticky note and pen and tosses it on my desk. I unfold it. It says, 'Some girls in the back of the classroom are talking about you, and then giggling! Haha!!', I look at Dany and he nods. I scope out a trash can in the room and I was way too lazy to get up, so I threw it across the classroom, it hits the rim and rolls around it as everyone watches it intensely , it rolls in, and every yells " OHHHHHH!!!!!!" The teacher whips around and eyes me down,
"MARK DANLISH JOHNSON, AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION." ,I wave my arms in confusion.
"I was just, throwing away a piece of thrash!" ,I whisper.
"YEAH!!" , most of the class says.
"EVERYONE HAS LUNCH DETENTION!!" ,the teacher yells.The class moans. After class, I head to my locker. Dany stands at my side.
" I wasn't trying to be cool when I threw the piece of trash, sorry I got you guys in detention."
" What are you talking about how that was awesome!!" , Dany exclaims, " Now your even more popular!"
"Everyone now thinks your so awesome!!"
I sigh and shut the locker door.
I walks down the hallway, and it seems as everybody chants,
"MARK, MARK, MARK ,MARK!!!!"
A girl shouts,
"Mark, marry me!!!!"
I was now running, I raced to the closest door, and locks it behind me. I peers around, the room is full of doors.
"Woah." , I exhale.
I walk to the closest door to the right, and open it, it is full of papers. My shoes tap the ground as I walk around and looks at a paper it says.
'School Rules' , 'Oh,' ,I think as he reads more.
'Every student that fails their grade will be KILLED. It is school rules that when children are taught so much and , fail they must be killed.'
Shoes tap on the floor behind me, I jump behind one of the piles. As, the janitor walks into the room. I looks up and his hand slips off the paper giving me a paper cut, the stack falls over. The janitor stares down at me.
"BUSTED! Mark what are you doing over here!?" , he pulls me up by his sweater's front, he pulls me out and into the hallway, he takes him to the principals office and closes the door.
"WHAT DID YOU SEE?" ,he yells.
"W-w-what do you m-m-mean?"
"SIR, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!"
"Those papers?"
"YES!!" , he screams.
"HAHA, DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING!!!!" , I lie through my teeth.
The principal squints his eyes as if he was staring straight through me.The fan spins above us blowing his blonde hair.
"One week suspension." , he smiles at me.
"Ok.", I say, not understanding.
He whispers barley loud enough for me to hear as he clicks a button on a telephone.
"We will need a kill and return. Do it this week he is suspended. Or the other way around."
I walk out the room. Mostly, confused.
"What happen?" ,Dany says out of nowhere.
"I will tell you later, as in after suspension!"
"You got suspended!?"
"Guess so."
After school, I walk home, and greet my parents with a wave.
"So, son. I hear you got suspended.",my dad says.
"Umm, well, some stupid person, broke a window and blamed it on me." , I smile nervously.
"Ok, well we can have you home, it is ok, what you learn in class is pretty useless."
I walk out the door at 7:10. I walk for ten minutes in the snow, it is a little freezing. A kid runs into me crying, I fall on the floor, he runs past me, a hear a trucks wheels screeching, I swing around, I sigh, a sigh of relief seeing the kid didn't get hit. No one is around to see, but me. He talks but no one is there, I stand up and walk back home. I jog up the stairs and flop in bed ,going to sleep
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Hunted
FantasyEvery year, at least two students fail the grade, and two weeks later two people die. One day Mark, runs into a room full of millions of doors, one of them are full of papers, he didn't read them all, but the first one is titled, 'School Rules' , no...
