Sket | Minizerk

1 - Josh

I trailed along the pavement looking straight down at the ground and my tatty navy P.E. bag bashing against the jagged stones. I was covered in mud.

I hated P.E.

Well, except for football..

But I had no other choice than to pretend to be enjoying myself unless I wanted to get knocked in the head.

At my school if you're not a stereotypical heterosexual manly cis-guy or in the popular group then you're automatically entered onto the kill list.

It's basically like The Hunger Games but with more people and a potential outcome of no survivors.

Absorbed in the world of my thoughts, I ended up walking directly into someone.

They stumbled back, still managing to remain on their feet.

I looked him up and down, concluding if he was a threat. Outcome: I'm a bigger threat to him. This guy was familiar. It was Simon.

I had known Simon since Year 1 (Kindergarten) and we were best friends until Year 5 (4th Grade) when the popular gang recruited me into their group. I'd seen him around school before but hadn't payed too much attention to him before. Mainly because I wasn't allowed to. He was wearing some plain white cheap headphones and he too was in our school's yellow and navy themed P.E. kit.

"Watch where you're going, sket."

He looked at me and rolled his eyes before carrying on walking. Does this kid know what I could do to him because of this?

Of course, I wasn't going to mention anything to JJ, leader of the bullies. I don't even know why I'm friends with him anyway. Sometimes he looks like he doesn't know how he got himself here either.

I wish I could leave the gang but out here on the streets your brothers could be holding you between life and death. That's just how it is here. "I'd die for my boys and they'd die for me." That's what the other guys said.

Hey! Sorry the first chapter was short, the second one is a bit longer. Feedback and constructive criticism would be gladly appreciated :) Hope you enjoyed! -F