The-Short-Story

von Andrew Feeney (Copyright)

Sean turned the corner outside school dreading that Alex, the school bully was not sitting there waiting for his prey. Slowly Sean approached, trying not to make much noise. “Awww look who it is,” said Alex in a dangerous way, “looking for your mummy, are you.”

“LEAVE ME ALONE!” said Sean in a brave voice.

“Not until you give me your lunch money,” said Alex

“NO, NEVER!” said Sean and then ran like a cheetah.

“I’ll get him next time” said Alex disappointed.

As the day went on Sean could not stop without thinking that Alex is going to end up hurting or injuring him. As he walked down the corridor to class a spider fell on to his red school sweatshirt and landed on the old, dusty lino floors below him. He was so depressed and upset that he took no notice at all. He continued on down the corridor where he met his only friend, Tony. They had been best friends since 3rd grade and had only fallen out with each other once. They both made their way into their biology class and sat down at the back of the room as Tony went to take a seat and his head hit off one of the skeleton models which hung from the ceiling.

Their teacher was quite sneaky, he would ask the goody two shoes of the class to keep an eye on everyone until he returned and then report to him and tell him who misbehaved, when he returned he would send the child who didn’t behave to Mr Ferson’s office, this was a child’s worst nightmare Mr Ferson was the most strict head teacher you’d ever seen.

At the corner of Sean’s eye he noticed Alex… outside? Sean thought to himself that Alex must be ditching school. So Sean left his seat and approached the window, he unhooked the latch and opened the window fully. Alex saw Sean gaze at him; in an instance he ran and hid behind a fence clear of sight. Sean thought he was just imagining things; Alex should be at class he said to himself.

As the teacher opened the brown, rusty classroom door he stumbled upon a note which was stuck to the sole of his foot. It said our teacher is very boring and stupid and he is as daft as a rock from Sean. At this point Sean’s neck hairs stood on end and almost snapped, he didn’t write this letter, he must have been set up, and he had a pretty good idea who done it. He turned his head only to find Alex lying in the middle of the muddy playground killing himself laughing.
SEANNNN!!! GO TO MR FERSON’S OFFICE IMMEDIATLY. Screamed the teacher. “Bbbuu…” said Sean nervously

“NO BUTS,” YELLED THE TEACHER “NOWWW!” Sean opened the classroom door drooping his head whilst his other classmates looked on with empathy. He walked down the corridors slowly trying to stall for time but it was no use, Mr Ferson was bound to find out one way or another. Sean scuffed his black polished shoes along and kicked the clumps of mud and dust off the floor. There he was right out in front of Mr Ferson’s office where every man dreads of going at their time in high school. He took a deep breath and summed up just enough confidence to knock on the door. “COME IN!” said a loud voice on the other side of the door. Sean swallowed his heart and opened the door. “Eeehhh…Sir… well you see my teacher found a note on the ground and it said things about him and it said that the note was… from me and I got all the blame for nothing”. After Mr Ferson stopped talking about how important honesty is he let Sean off with it. He gave out a sigh and Sean’s heart went back to sleep.

As Sean walked back into the corridor the sunlight sliced through the curtains and light took over the whole area. Ahhhh what a lovely day Sean said to himself and continued on, not noticing that a policeman and policewomen were leaning against a wall talking to Alex’s teacher. Sean’s mouth dropped to the ground he couldn’t believe what just happened did Alex get caught? He thought to himself, no he couldn’t have been. As he got closer he noticed the policeman was holding on to Alex by the arm of his dirty, red school sweatshirt.

Sean’s organs turned inside out, how could this be? Alex has never been caught in his whole entire lifetime. He has lit fires, punched kids, set off the fire alarm and still never got caught. Maybe this will be his first time.

As the day went on Sean became really depressed he still could not stop without thinking about Alex getting back at him if he told the teacher that he was being bullied. Also he did not want to be made fun of by his classmates for being a grass bag. But then he thought otherwise…If I tell the teacher, I can get revenge on Alex for everything that he has done to me, he thought to himself.

“Yes that’s what I’ll do,” he said out loud. So he strolled back into class and approached the teacher…”eh…emm.” He said nervously remembering Alex was only a classroom away. ”HURRY UP I DON’T HAVE ALL DAY!” Yelled the teacher in anger. “Well Alex has been bullying me for the past couple of years now, and this is the first time I have had the confidence to tell you… would you be able to do something about it?”“WHAT!!!” roared the teacher. ” OH I have had enough with Alex and his silly gimmicks this time he’s going down!” said the teacher in a revengeful way. The teacher was going red with anger; she looked like a volcano about to erupt.

She stormed out the classroom grabbing Sean by the collar, and went to see Alex’s teacher. As Sean walked into Alex’s classroom, Alex saw the teachers talking and was getting suspicious. He tried to listen in by pretending to go over and sharpen his pencil, but by the time Alex had even stood up he already knew this was to do with Sean. After Sean had told Alex’s teacher the whole story she almost exploded her face was going from blue to red and even purple. She called Alex over and almost blew her lid with him, it was too hard for her to handle so she sent him to Mr Ferson’s office.

As Alex was walking down the corridor he burst into tears, Sean had never seen him do this before he always thought Alex was a tough man. Soon Alex got to his office and opened the door. His heart was pounding like a drum and his veins were about to snap in fear. “I was expecting you…in fact I have been expecting you for many years, I was wondering if you were ever going to own up… but no, you didn’t and now you are in even more trouble than you started with!” said Mr Ferson.

After the discussion Alex got the belt four times and got suspended for eight months. After that Alex never went near Sean again.