Chapter 2 “day -8”
I wake up at around 5am I' still exhausted but at least the way I got a night of freedom. The walk to school was pretty uneventful I get to school at 7:38 its open now but there are only 5 people there and 3 of them are janitors. I go to my locker where I keep a change of clothes I keep in my locker and my back pack for my camping pack. I walk over to the boy’s locker room it’s rarely locked and when it is it’s easy to pick. I reach for the door and... damn is locked picking it only takes about 2 minutes now but still this is my only time of peace. The days when it’s a black eye are the worst. I take a shower and use it as a chance to think. There are cameras all over the school but people only check them when something gets stolen or vandalized, so they don’t bother me for using the showers every once in a while. I leave the showers and dry myself off, then I grab the toothbrush from my back pack and brush my teeth, when I look up at the mirror I find out the black eyes worse than I thought, this is definitely going to make people talk but luckily the rest of me looks the same, thin-muscular build 6’1 blue eyes short(ish) dark blond hair and my strangely white fingernails, they have been like that since birth and I don’t know why. Not that people would notices that changing
When I'm done getting ready it’s just a little after 8am that means I have 20 minutes until the buses drop off the masses and then another 25 after that until school starts. This means I have time to go see Tyler
It takes me 15 minutes to get to his elementary school, up here there aren’t middle schools, but that means he goes to a school a lot closer than me so he walks. It takes him five minutes to get here
“Hey Will, what are you doing here?”
“Had time after getting ready so I came to see you”
“How were the cliffs?”
“There were great it’s getting a lot warmer maybe in the summer I can take you”
“Yea I would love that, do you know what you want to do for your birthday on Saturday?”
“I think you know”
“Something that got get you put in prison” he says with a sad look on his face. I’ve joke about killing dad for a while now but whenever I do I get this look, he knows there’s truth in it. I plan to do it but not know if I get caught (like most 15 year old murderers do) then there would be no one to take care of Tyler we don’t have any other (living) family members. Once I’m able to support the both of us I’m taking him but until that were stuck with dad.
“I don’t know maybe Vic will want to do something but if dad’s away I’m staying home”
“Go out it’s your 16th birthday, go party”
“Never been much of a party-er, but maybe I’ll talk to her about it (anything to get her off the topic of the black eye) I have to go now I’ll see you when school is over”
Only five minutes until class starts by the time I'm back at school. I go back to my locker to get my gym cloths and Vic's waiting there
“What the hell!” great she’s mad
“Good morning”
“What happened this time?”
“I f..” she interrupts me
“And if you say you fell you'll be getting another black eye” I know well enough that she’s not kidding so I tell her
“I got in a fight with my dad” I still don’t like telling anyone about dad (on whisper in the wrong ear and Tyler is gone and all the bullshit I put up with would be for nothing) but I have talked about it before to her and she’s keep her mouth shut (for now)
