Legends Never Die (Amourshipping)

Legends Never Die# 7 - Shrink

Ash had always been in mixed schools, but West Road was all boys. The lack of girls gave the place an air of menace. It was noisier and everybody in the corridor pushed harder than at his old school. It felt like something could go off any second.

A Year Seven got a hard shove from a Year Ten and knocked into Ash. The kid went down and yelped as the Year Ten stamped his hand. The kids were all heading somewhere. Ash had a map that made no sense whichever way he turned it.

'Nice tie, girlie,' somebody said.

Ash thought it was aimed at him. The tie was a wreck. He decided to steal one from some weed the first chance he got. The bodies were all disappearing into classrooms and within a couple of minutes Ash only had a few late arrivals for company.

A couple of nasty looking Year Ten kids blocked Ash's way. One of them had spiked hair and a Metallica T-shirt under his blazer. Both were wearing menacing-looking steeltoe-capped boots with fat laces dragging behind.

'Where you going, bitch?

Ash sighed and looked up at them, he really didn't want to kick the shit out of a bunch of kids on his first day so he decided to play it cool and stared right at the Metallica kid with his Intense auburn Chocolate eyes

'Registration,' he said calmly

The Metallica kid snatched the map out of Ash' hand.

'Well, you're not going to make it,' Metallica said.

Ash braced himself to beat the shit out of them.

'Try using the side of the map that says main building, not annexe. It's over there.'

Metallica turned the map over and handed it back to Ash. He pointed at a yellow door up a corridor on the left.

'Thanks,' Ash said.

He hurried off. Metallica shouted after him: 'Take that tie off.'

Ash looked down at the tie. He could see it was tatty but why all the fuss?

*

Ash handed his form teacher a note. All the kids in his new class were staring at him as he looked for a seat. He sat at the end of a row, next to a black kid called Lloyd.

'You one of the little orphans from the council home?' Lloyd asked.

The kids sitting around Ash laughed. Ash knew first impressions counted. If he said nothing he'd look soft. His reply had to be sharp, but not so nasty it started a fight.

'How'd you know?' Ash said. 'I suppose your mum saw me when she cleaned our toilets.'

The group of kids laughed. Lloyd looked angry for a second, then he laughed too. 'Like your tie, sister,' he said.

James had had enough with the tie. He pulled it off and looked. Then he looked at Lloyd's tie. It wasn't the same colour. Nor was anyone else's.

'What is this tie?' James asked.

'The good news, orphan,' Lloyd said, 'is that you have a West Road tie. The bad news is, it's from West Road Girls School.'

Ash laughed with the others. These kids seemed OK. He was angry Kyle had tricked him, though.

*

Ash left at lunchtime to see the counsellor. Her office was on the second floor of Kanto house . It had spider plants branching off everywhere. The counsellor, Jennifer Mitchum, was a rake, barely taller than James. She had veins poking out of her hands that Ash didn't want to look at and she sounded really posh.