No gets away with murder

chapter 6

The rope slowly drops the white coffin into the hole. A slow sad song that I am unfamiliar with plays in the background. Calum's mother Grace Cage and his father Oscar Cage sob. Grace presses up against me and looks as if she was about to pass out, I grab her shoulders as I steady her. "He didn't deceive to die" she cried, her face full of pain. I nod slowly, but don't say anything. The priest words sounded like mumbling. The wind blows against us, "who could have done this" Grace sobbed. "I don't know, but when I find them I'll make them pay" I said against the howling wind.

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I sit on the blood red thermal blanket and start to remember the day he died. It was a hot summer morning, "Up yet" I typed hastily on the laptop. "Yep, what u got first period" replied Calum, I reach into my bag and pull out my timetable. "Biology" I type, "u". After a few seconds Calum types back, "Sport studies". I check the time it's 8:00, "K, see u at school", I type as I grab my school bag and rush out the door, where James waits for me. Yes that happened me and James are friends now, I thought it would never happened but here we are. He stopped being a dufus, not long after Calum left. But now his little brother Jake has taken his place as world's worst, self-orientated, annoying, dufus.

"What took you so long" He asked a bit irritated. "I was getting ready" I lied; I must be a good liar because he dropped it. "My first subjects biology, you" He asked taking a bite into his mince and cheese pie. "Same" I said, taking a bite out of his pie, "I hope Jake doesn't have bio too" I moan. A warm sensation spread across my tongue, "Mmmmmm" I say, eagerly licking my lips. "No more" he says frowning and holding his pie closer to him.

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The bell rang in my ears, "why is the bell so loud" I moan. "At least it's not that ridiculous song" James broke out into song "Because I'm happy; sing along if you feel like a room without a roof..." He grabs my arms and starts dancing all the way to class.

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"Okay pupils today we are going to have a pop quiz" Mr Smith said, "Yay" everyone said sarcastically. Mr Smith slammed papers on our desk; it had a number of questions;

1. Ordinary table salt is sodium chloride. What is baking soda?

A. Potassium chloride

B. Potassium carbonate

C. Potassium hydroxide

D. Sodium bicarbonate

I frown and circle D.

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I was on my last question;

79. Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy, Corynebacterium diphtheria causes diphtheria and Vibrio comma causes

A. tetanus B. influenza

C. cholera D. typhoid

I shrug and quickly answer C.As the alarm rang and Mr Smith snatches our sheets of us. He studies my face "didn't cheat, did ya" he said in his British accent. "No" I mumbled, "No, sir" he said in a stern voice. "NO SIR" I said as they do in the military. The bell rang, "Class dismissed".

"Did you find the test hard" asked James still in deep thought. "Yey, "don't you think teacher should actually teach us this stuff before they expect us to get 100 percent" I said. He nodded quickly in agreement, "oh god, here comes my brother Mr all the girls like me" James groans. Jake strolls down the hall like he owns the place, followed by a crowd of love sick girls.".....but I strived on even with my broken leg I still got on to the field and bold over all the big dudes and got a try, and that's how our rugby team won" Jake finished with a big smile. The girls started to shriek and fanned their faces. "Actually you broke your pinkie and you cried and you were playing ultimate freebee" James said unhappily. The girls held back laughter, Jake gives James the evils. And walked away with girls at his side. "If I ever have to have another class with Jake just shot me" I said to James. "I can't believe he dropped it so easily" James said frowning "I have a feeling he's going to get me back". "I can't believe I used to be like that" He scowled to himself.