Fablen

Chapter 1 - In Control

Clock ticking, anticipation. The wait dragging on, the seconds lasting for hours. It was all about to end, the moment was near, yet it seemed like it would never come. Skylar, a fifteen year old boy sat in his class waiting for the teachers lesson to end. His friend, right next him staring at the ceiling above them while turning on his wheely chair counted all the dots on each of the tiles.

¨Where are you at now?¨ Skylar asked Dezz as he turned his head away from the ceiling.

¨I think one thousand, but I'm not sure. I lost count at two hundred,¨ Dezz explained. Skylar put his elbows on the table in front of him brushing his hands through his dirty blond colored hair. Dezz with blond hair also, went back to counting the tiny dots that were scattered like stars in the night sky. Skylar looked up and tried to concentrate on what the teacher was trying to teach them. With kids on their cell phones, others chatting with nearby buddies and some just lost in their own world he was surprised she even stood for teaching the class.

¨I swear the second hand on the clock never moves. It's like some nasty little creature glued it into its place so the bell would never ring,¨ Dezz said lifting his watch on his arm to check the time.

¨Ẅell, if you would stop checking the clock every minute.¨

The teacher stopped talking and stared in his direction. ¨Skylar do you have something important you would like to share with the class?¨ She asked glaring at him from the top of her glasses.

Skylar jumped out of his chair, almost falling to the floor losing balance. ¨Hm? What? Um no Mrs. C, just um, taking notes is all.¨

¨May I see these notes?¨ She asked holding out her hand and walking toward his chair. Skylar scrambled for a piece of paper in his backpack. Searching he found a piece of lined paper that had some words on it from another class.

¨Ya this should do it,¨ he whispered to himself from below the desk. Pulling the wrinkled paper out of his backpack he rubbed it against the edge of his desk to straighten it out for her. Once she arrived at his desk she held out her hand in front of him for the paper. He laid the paper on the palm of her hand and she gripped the top of it pulling it up to her face to see.

¨I like the notes Skylar,¨ she told him looking at him from the edges of her black rectangle glasses. He cracked a smile, his plan had worked and he was proud of himself. ¨If I were your math teacher, she finished frowning at him. She ripped up the paper and took it to the closest trash can dumping it into the round tin.

¨In my defense the second power of x can be very helpful when finding the angle of a good literature book,¨ Skylar said hoping to get off the hook.

¨I'll see you after class is over,¨ and with that she continued on with her lesson. Some of the kids in the class were chuckling at him giving him signs that he ignored as if they weren't even there.

A big muscular kid to the right of Skylar leaned over to him. ¨Could of been worse,¨ he whispered, ¨I could've been the one blaming it on you and getting away with it.¨ he laughed to himself as he straightened back into his chair.

Everyone knew the kid as Brent the super football player at their school. Skylar watched Brent for a minute as he was picking into his teeth with his pinky finger and rubbed off whatever came out with it onto his shirt.

When the bell finally rang all the students in the class booked it out the doorway into the maze of students in the hallway. Skylar started to head for the door but Mrs. C called him back over to her desk.

¨Explain to me what you and your friend here were talking about in the middle of my lesson today Skylar,¨ she asked.

¨I was talking to him and he was just answering my question.¨ Dezz jumped in behind Skylar.