judged

judge

CHPT. 1

I stared out the window of the car. It was snowing. The snowflakes were settling on the outside of the car. It was too foggy to see anything outside of my window. So, I sat back in my seat; we were almost there. I pulled out my earphones and hit shuffle, why did I have to leave my friends for the entire winter holidays just to go skiing? I didn't even like skiing. "SHIT"- I look up from my phone and see a car barrelling towards us. Its brakes were squealing and steaming. Begging to find some traction on the icy ground. It slowly began to career sideways. Their side doors were staring into our windscreen. I could see the screaming faces of children in the car. I screamed at dad to swerve but he was already turning the wheel as far to the side as it went. The last thing I remember was my dad yelling "IT'LL BE OKAY LUTE, DON'T WOR- "before several tonnes of metal crashed into us. I don't want to remember this.

CHPT. 2

It's almost winter break, I've been waiting for this for months. I'll be free to sleep in 'til late and walk around in warm cozy blankets. The only damper on my plans is that my best (and only) friend is on holiday until we get back. But oh well, I'll have a self-improvement holiday. By this I mean Mario Kart and sleeping. A poke to my shoulder and a "hey wils" takes back to reality. I turn in my uncomfortable metal chair to look at my friend, classmate, and best bud: Lute. Technically his name is Luthor, but he always associates that with the superman villain, so we just call him Lute. He loves to butcher my name, willow into shorter versions. His longer Kurt Cobain style hair is partially covering his face. His deep eyebags can sometimes give him an almost scarier look when he's not grinning like an idiot at some dumb joke he made. He's nodding his head towards the teacher who's currently staring at me. "Too busy thinking about what you'll be doing tomorrow rather than focusing on class?" Ms reeves clicks annoyedly. Nooooooo? I say, rather unconvincingly. "Right, sure" she says, very unconvinced. Its basically the end of the year and I think she's kind of phoning it in with me at this point. I've managed to either lose, not do or forget to cite my sources for almost every piece of homework I've ever done in her class, and she's just done. The bell rings and we all collect our books and go to our lockers. Its home time. I talk to Lute as I pack away my things. "Hey Lute? I know you're leaving tomorrow but are you by any chance able to come over to mine right about... now?". He stares at me for a second before he chuckles softly and says, "yeah alright. I've packed enough for this lifetime and I'm not eager to start my holiday homework". We head over to mine, walking slowly through the snowy streets. "You going to be lonely without me in the holidays?" jokes Lute teasingly. "Yeah right" I snort. "We both know you're only here for comedic relief, whereas I am the main character". He feigns offence and curtly says "well if that's how you feel maybe I should branch off and make my own show". "Good luck with that" I laughed. "You couldn't get an acting job to save your life". "rude", "I would make a bloody amazing actress and you know it... wait that's not right". We pause and I stare at him for a second. He stared back at me, both of our faces blank. Then we both start heaving with laughter. In-between gasping breaths I quip "my humblest apologies madam". Which sends both of us into even heavier gut-wrenching laughter. We continued to chat until we finally get to my house. We take off our shoes at the door and I immediately jump onto the couch and get under a blanket. "Hey, come on, it's my last day here and you want to sit on the couch?" he moans. "Not just sit on the couch my friend, sit on the couch and play games" I say while I grin from my blanket. He sighs and sits down on the couch next to me. "Alright but if we're playing Mario kart, I want toad." "Hey no fair! Using toad is an important part of my Mario kart strategy!" I screech while spamming the on button to the console. "I know, that's why I like him" he laughs. "I hate you" I say, glaring at him. "How could you possibly hate such a lovely being such as myself?" "Am I not the love of your life?" he kids at me. "Oh, hell no" "I'm sorry oh suitor of mine but it's a no". we continue to kid around as usual while we play a few more games of Mario kart but eventually we both get a bit bored and decide to watch a movie. "Ooh lets watch the Simpsons movie" I gasp. "Noooo, Star Wars is so much better" he groans. Eventually we just settle on a movie neither of us have seen "the hitman's bodyguard". It's a tad graphic but we both laugh a tonne. Near to the end of the movie he turns to me, looks me in the eye and says. "I am seriously going to miss you while I'm on holiday wils". I sigh, me too. I wish you didn't have to go. He kind of looks like he wants to say something, but he turns back to watch the end of the movie.

CHPT. 3