King Kong Song

Chapter 1

Stockholm, Sweden
Spring 2018

Gabriel Svensson is a typical teenage boy and a total nerd. He was a typical straight A student and was totally awkward. He was sitting in his room watching the morning news as loud knocking can be heard from behind his bedroom door. There was no doubt that it was his mother who was knocking. He had also been texting someone on his phone while watching the morning news.

TEXT MESSAGE CONVERSATION

Oscar: You got it?

Gabriel: Got it.

Oscar: Old abandoned studio in 20.

END OF TEXT MESSAGE CONVERSATION

With that being said, Gabriel freaked out and rushed to finish his history report. It wasn't really his history report, it was someone else's that he had been paid to do and was just about done.

"Gabriel, honey?" Angela, Gabriel's mother, asked as she barged into her son's bedroom.

"Mama," Gabriel sighed as he turned to his mother. "What did we say about the knocking?"

"I'm late for work," Angela replied. "Are you going to your father's after school?"

"Yeah probably," Gabriel replied.

"Don't forget your EpiPen," Angela replied as she handed her son his EpiPen as he had food allergies.

Gabriel had a peanut allergy in particular and because he had bad anaphylaxis whenever he'd eat peanuts or something with peanuts in it, he often carried around an EpiPen. He was also always very forgetful and therefore, he often genuinely avoided eating anything with peanuts to avoid having an anaphylactic episode whenever he didn't carry his EpiPen around with him.

"And please remember," Angela replied as she began hugging and kissing her son goodbye and began walking out the door. "The world is a terrifying place. Be careful of everything. I love you more than life itself. Bye! See you Sunday night!"

"Ok!" Gabriel exclaimed as she left.

With that being said, Gabriel got his things together and headed off to school. He wasn't necessarily looking forward to spending the weekend with his dad, Peter, at his place. It wasn't that Peter and Gabriel didn't get along, it was just that Gabriel had a hard time accepting that his parents were now divorced and it was still taking him time to get used to. But for now, Gabriel continued the walk towards the large high school in Stockholm.

Meanwhile, another teenager named Oscar Lundgren was also getting ready for school. Unlike Gabriel, Oscar was one of the most popular kids at school and was the captain of the school's ice hockey team. Not to mention that Oscar was a typical high school jock and was a ladies man who also didn't like doing homework. And this explains why Gabriel had been doing Oscar's history report for him and it explained their text messages this morning. Oscar was paying him to do it after all. But right now, Oscar was getting ready to leave the house.

"Later Mama," Oscar announced as he grabbed his coat and backpack and kissed his mother, Greta, goodbye.

"Eat something before you go," Greta said as she gently warned her son.

"I can't," Oscar replied as he put his coat on. "I gotta go meet Gabriel."

"Gabriel Svensson?" Greta asked, sounding confused.

"Yeah Gabriel Svensson," Oscar replied as he put his backpack on and began heading out the door. "He's been tutoring me. He's been helping keep my grades up."

"I love to hear that," Greta gushed. "Little Gabriel Svensson."

"Yeah," Oscar replied smiling as he turned to his mother once more.