Sirens. Lots of fucking sirens. Police calling out my name. I didn't mean to do it. As far as I'm aware, it wasn't meant to be green. It also wasn't meant to explode.. I don't think. Either way, half of the engineering department is blown up and now, their after me.
This can't be good.
-earlier that day-
The day hadn't been great. Daniel was being a menace to both me and the rest of society, mainly me. But luckily I have Ezra. Ezra is a strange one, to say the least, he never wears anything other than long baggy trousers, even in the "blazing summer heat" of England.
Now because no public schools within this county and any county within reasonable distance will actually take me, because of problems, I go to a strange private school. There's no uniform and everyone is either posh or a danger to society. Speaking of, I need to ask Ezra if I can borrow some money for lunch.
Finally, 4th period. Engineering. This has always been my favourite subject. We get to fuck around with woodwork, electronics, metalwork and just a load of machinery. This has always been quite a fun and also rather easy subject for me. I used to build toy cars out of "scraps" of metal lying around the house, my mum never seemed to pleased to find less forks in the draws every day.
The class got ready to start working on our current project. I chose to do a fully functional alarm system, it's a little bit Challenging, but what's life without a few challenges?
It got to halfway through the class. I was working with a piece of bronze for a trigger piece in the system.
This, this is where things started to go wrong. I was soldering it into place when I burnt my hand, nothing all that out of the ordinary for me, but this time, the watch around my wrist caught on fire. I took it off as fast as I could and threw it down to the floor. Green flames started spreading, I stood in shock as the fire alarm was pulled. We got outside, the fire brigade and the police where being called. I was being watched by the head and deputy head teachers.
Then, I started running. I didn't even have time to think, I just started moving, I climbed over the fences, out onto the streets people where chasing me, but they weren't nearly fast enough.
-present time-
And that's how I got here. Running from the police. A 12 year old boy being a danger to society. My mum won't be happy when she finds out. I'll be arrested. They'll go to the house, looking for me. I can't put danger on my mum like that.
The most rational thing to do in this situation, would be to stop running from the police, but according to my brain, that's not an option.
Instead I pull out my phone and call Ezra. "Ez! You know that camp you're always on about? Is it still open!?"
"Yuki? What's going on?? Where are you?" Ezra called back to me. His voice filled with panic.
"Ezra! Is it still open?" I desperately asked.
"It's open all year!"
"Meet me by the cow fields! We've got a camp to get too!" I hear him shout something and I assume that's confirmation on the meeting point. I hang up and start my run to the fields.
How did such a normal day end up like this?
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The Engineer's Child
أدب الهواةso.. the gods are real? Yuki Lockwood is a seemingly normal teenager. Although, things seem to change when they accidentally blows up the engineering department while messing with what seemed like normal bronze. There will be quite a bit of sweari...
