Something Exciting

Distracted

**Toby's Point Of View**

Charlie wasn't in maths, she had completely gone. It shook Taylor up though, everyone she loved was leaving so I make it my duty to stay.

"You're a little distracted there Toby" Mr. Bayes says sitting next to me

"Just got a few thing on my mind"

"You haven't even got the title down, must be something pretty big"

"I'm just not feeling it today"

"You need some time out?"

"No its not, its not that."

"Mr. Bayesss, can you help me out?" Jordan asks

"When I come back I at least want one paragraph done, okay?"

I mumble a reply, I wasn't really in the mood. Noah leaving and Charlie going a bit insane was really taking its toll on me. I almost felt betrayed by them both, just up and leaving, especially charlie because this isn't something that she would do. She wouldn't just leave without reason and okay, people up and leave for specific reasons but Charlie would quite easily give a reason, thats who she was.

"Oi, bellend. You know your fight with Theo Jax? You got him excluded for a week" Ari says along the desk

"That's cool" I mumble

"You're the one who should have been excluded."

"For what? He punched me in the face more times than I can remember"

"Stop being so queer and act like a man"

"Do you want a punch? Because you're going that way" I growl at him

"Toby get out" Mr. Bayes says staring at me

"You're dead" I threaten

"Toby, Now!" Mr. Bayes says as I leave the room.

I wanted to go home. Stop being so queer and act like a man It's not the first time I'd heard that, why was it such a big deal? Was that just how far his vocabulary stemmed? Queer? I was fed up, sick and tired of the world and the way everyone got treated. Like Dan, everyone's talking about what happened to him in Science. I mean you wouldn't cheek an autistic kid for being autisticnow would you? So why the hell do people, including teachers, feel it necessary to downgrade and mimic kids who are that little bit more unique than everyone else. It annoys me, it really does.

"Toby, what was that?!" Mr. Bayes asks me walking out the room and shutting the door

"He said I was the one who should've been excluded, not Theo"

"But Theo sent you to hospital...?"

"Exactly"

"Look, Toby I understand that today really isn't your day but you can't go around threatening people and getting worked up about it."

"I'm sorry for defending my honour"

"Here" Mr. Bayes says walking into the classroom and grabbing a book then giving it to me, "You'll enjoy this more than you think. You'll escape into it. Come back when the bell goes for lunch"

"Fine" I say taking the book and sitting outside in the warm air whilst watching the P.E lessons go ahead.

The History Boys - A Play By Alan Bennett.

Lets give it a go.

**Ollies Point Of View**

I've been down here for the entire morning and I was bored. Kobe is being annoying and won't stop trying to antagonise me, I was ready to hit him. Darren was asleep on the desk next to me, so he wasn't being annoying.

"Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie Ollie" Kobe chants like its some sort of ritual

"What?" I snap

"You're gay."

"Congratulations, do you want a medal?"

"Wait, you're actually gay?"

"Yeah, what of it?"

"Thats so gay"

"Ironic that huh"

"Ollie do you need to go upstairs and get your lunch?" Mrs. Smith asks me

"I'm going home at lunch."

"Not according to this you're not"

"Mr. Andrews can shove it. I've sat down here for half a day and he wants me to do this again tomorrow. If I have to sit in here for another two hours with an imbecile like Kobe i'm going to hit him so hard he's going to be knocked out and then, and only then, will they have a decent enough reason to expell me."

"Ollie can I have a word outside?" She asks calmly

I get up and follow her outside, I wasn't staying in the rest of the day; no way.

"Look, I know this makes your job 10x harder but I'm pissed off with Andrews, I'm going to hit Kobe if he doesn't shut up and I'm pretty 100% sure that I'm either going to kill or break something if I don't get out of that room in the next 10 minutes"

"Ollie, go and enjoy your lunch. I want you back here when the bell goes, I really do, but it's up to you where you go with this and how far you want to annoy yourself and Mr. Andrews."

"Sod Mr. Andrews"

"Ollie, go and enjoy lunch. Stay out of trouble, please?"

I smile and walk off down the corridor then upstairs to my locker where I grab my hoodie and bag with Noahs skateboard attached. I was going out at lunch, I wasn't staying in school and I'm pretty sure if anyone tried to stop me I would attack them without hesitation.

"Ollie, where'd you think you're going" Mr. James, one of the art teachers, says to me as I walk upstairs to the office "Shouldn't you be in ISO downstairs"

"Don't please"

"Ollie, slow down I want to talk to you"

I stop in my tracks and turn around, Mr. James walks up to me and smiles "What?"

"Where are you going?"

"Home, away from here" I sigh

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"There's nothing to talk about, Kobe is a person I want to hit and Mr. Andrews is second in line."

"So you're going home for lunchtime before you do, lash out"

"Yeah"

"Okay, I'll leave you to it but make sure to be back here when the bell goes ofr lessons to start again."

He moves out my way and lets me walk up the stairs, I show my card and leave the building; park, here I come.